Qi Mingyuan's face flushed crimson. How dare this unfilial son threaten him with his reputation, something he cared about the most?!

Qi Shengzhi said that he would surrender himself at the wedding banquet, which meant that he would slap Qi Mingyuan in the face in front of all the important people in Ning City. The Yue family, with whom he was married, would also become his enemy. How could he hold his head up in Ning City in the future!

"What kind of bullshit are you talking about? Do you really think I'm going to send you to jail?"

Qi Mingyuan was extremely distressed. Could it be that there wasn't even this basic trust between them as father and son?

He just wanted Qi Shengzhi to be obedient, draw a clear line with his bad friends as soon as possible, come back to him earlier, and follow him to do serious things.

Unexpectedly, his painstaking efforts were met with a hostile response from Qi Shengzhi, like an enemy.

Qi Shengzhi's expression was indifferent, and he was not moved by the sadness on Qi Mingyuan's face.

"You won't, because you said that if I go to jail, it will also bring shame to your Qi family."

"But my brother will live in fear all his life because of me, never knowing when he will be thrown into jail."

Looking at Qi Mingyuan with a gloomy expression in front of him, Qi Shengzhi suddenly thought of Yue Jialiang.

As both are businessmen, why is there such a huge difference in the love that Yue Jialiang and Qi Mingyuan have for their children?

If Qi Mingyuan could treat him half as well as Yue Jialiang treats Yue Feiying, would their relationship not be like it is now?

Seeing that being a father and son had led them to this state, Qi Shengzhi suddenly felt a little sad.

He didn't want to continue to argue with Qi Mingyuan, so he took a breath.

"I've already done what you asked me to do. Don't worry, I will definitely get married. Even if it weren't for the evidence you have, I can't let an innocent girl bear the reputation of having her engagement broken off."

"Also, if you think what I'm doing will have a negative impact on your reputation, I won't do it anymore. I'm withdrawing from several business lines one after another. If you still have any trust in me, I hope you can burn everything you have."

"I don't care, at least, let my brothers go free..."

Qi Mingyuan was a little surprised by Qi Shengzhi's sudden change of attitude. Qi Shengzhi's attitude in front of him had always been either aggressive or nonchalant. It was rare for him to act like a human being like now. He was a little uncomfortable with it.

Could it be that Qi Shengzhi really admitted defeat this time?

Qi Mingyuan was naturally happy when he thought that he had finally tamed this rebellious son, but what about the conditions Qi Shengzhi proposed to him...

"I will definitely do what I promised you. After you get married, don't be idle like before. You should take over some of our Qi family's business affairs. Isn't it better to do something casually than getting up early and going to bed late all day long like you do now?"

Seeing that Qi Shengzhi didn't talk back as usual, Qi Mingyuan felt relieved.

He cleared his throat, suppressed the corners of his mouth that wanted to turn up, and continued to lecture:

"If you want me to destroy the evidence, you have to take concrete actions to prove that you have truly changed. But what about you? You haven't even spoken a word of truth yet. How can I trust you?"

Qi Shengzhi frowned:

"What do you mean by that?"

Qi Mingyuan sneered, feeling that Qi Shengzhi's tricks were not good enough in front of him.

"Do you think I'll believe you if you just say you're not going to do it anymore?"

"If you're withdrawing from several lines one after another, where do all these new goods on the black market come from?!"

He opened the drawer, took out two packs of cigarettes and threw them on the table.

One was a blue cigarette with a golden horse soaring into the sky, and the other was a big red cigarette with a golden city towering above it. The only thing they had in common was that both cigarettes were printed with "Produced by China Shanghai Cigarette Factory".

Qi Shengzhi's pupils trembled. The Shanghai Cigarette Factory... was the Hudong Line that Lin Tianlu was in charge of!

But he had clearly informed Lin Tianlu and others a week ago that they would only collect payments and not ship new goods. How could there be new goods on the black market now?

Qi Shengzhi was in a state of confusion, but he pretended to be calm and said:

"Impossible! There's no way new goods from Shanghai are available on the black market right now. You're trying to rip me off with your old goods!"

Qi Mingyuan snorted coldly. The things were right in front of him but he still wanted to quibble. It seemed that Qi Shengzhi was far from being honest.

"I warned you before that smuggling cigarettes is a path that has more disadvantages than advantages, and that it's a murky business. But you refused to believe me and even thought you had the guts to take on this business with a few young men."

"How much profit is there in smuggling cigarettes? Do you think you're the only smart person in the world who's brave enough to do this? I'm telling you, there are many people smarter and braver than you!"

"Your previous mischief was minor, so forget it. My friends on the street gave me some face and I won't bother with you kids. Just treat it as pocket money for my nephew."

"But you're just pulling and tugging at all the strings. What are you doing? Are you planning to cut off everyone's financial resources? How can anyone tolerate you?!"

Qi Shengzhi's face became more and more worse. He had always thought that the gray business of smuggling cigarettes was a path he had worked his way out of step by step through untold hardships, but he did not expect that this matter was actually under the control of Qi Mingyuan from beginning to end.

Suddenly, he felt that all the beliefs he had built up before collapsed in an instant.

All his efforts to be independent and to prove himself were actually like a child playing house seriously in Qi Mingyuan's eyes?

When he was feeling proud and complacent about earning his first money, in Qi Mingyuan's eyes, it was just some pocket money given to him by someone else?

Qi Mingyuan originally didn't intend to say so much to him, especially at the time of the marriage with the Yue family. He didn't want to create any more trouble. If Qi Shengzhi really listened to him and stopped early, nothing would have happened today.

"How do you think these two cigarettes came to me?"

Qi Shengzhi came back to his senses from his trance, and when he heard Qi Mingyuan's tone, he suddenly felt a little nervous.

Qi Mingyuan looked at him deeply, unpacked the Pegasus, took out a cigarette and lit it. His voice was erratic in the rising smoke:

"Your people went to Jin San's territory to deliver goods and were caught. They were about to be killed to silence them, but that guy was smart enough to directly give my name and said he was working with my son."

Lin Tianlu!

Qi Shengzhi's pupils shrank instantly, and he stood up suddenly:

"Where is he now?!"

Qi Mingyuan saw that he looked nervous and frowned unhappily, and felt that he cared more about an outsider than his own family.

"Jin San passed on the news to me, and I came forward to protect him. Don't worry, he's not dead. He just had surgery at the People's Hospital yesterday..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard the door slam shut with a loud bang, and there was no trace of Qi Shengzhi in the study.