The hospital rooftop.

When they arrived, the gun in his hand was pressed against the head of Zhuang Zhihao's wife, Lan Yue.

Lan Yue was clearly terrified; even sitting in the chair Zhou Haoran had prepared, she was visibly trembling.

"Zhihao".

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Zhou Haoran pressed the gun down on Lan Yue's head and pulled the safety.

"What exactly do you want? Zhou Haoran, we haven't even settled accounts with you yet, and you've come looking for trouble first. Do you want to die?"

"Of course not. Since I came to you, I naturally want to live."

Shen Jize asked, "You probably never really cooperated with us from the beginning, even though it was your own suggestion to go undercover for Jiang Hesheng."

"Yes, I wanted to use the Shen, Zhuang, and Jiang families as stepping stones to make the Zhou family rise rapidly. I thought I could do it."

But he didn't expect that the waters of these three families were too deep, and the Zhou family simply couldn't bear it. Even if outsiders saw the Zhou family's glory as many times greater than before, the inside had long been completely hollowed out by these three families.

The Zhou family is completely unable to afford it.

“Zhou Haoran, Zhihao and I have never robbed your family. If you had cooperated with us properly, you would never have ended up like this. I tried to stop you when you suggested going to the Jiang family, but you insisted on doing it your own way.”

Zhou Haoran suddenly shouted, "Don't you have any illegitimate children? Weren't you using me for that hot deal?"

Shen Jize was puzzled. "When did I use you? I did want that business deal, but even without you, I could have obtained it in other ways, it would just have been a bit more complicated."

Hearing this, Zhou Haoran became even angrier. "What I hate most is your self-righteous attitude. How capable do you think you are? In the end, you still have to cooperate with the police. So, Shen Jize, Zhuang Zhihao, have you become the police's lackeys too?"

“We are good citizens, and times have changed. Don’t be so old-fashioned. You don’t still have the same mentality of wanting to dominate the area as before, do you, Zhou Haoran? Go out and see for yourself. Back then, everyone would stop and greet the arrogant Boss Chen. She’s older than you, but at least she’s a good citizen on the surface.”

Zhuang Zhihao argued.

But that's not the point today. "No matter what happened, my wife is innocent. Release my wife first."

“My family members are innocent, why haven’t they released them?”

Shen Jize asked in confusion, "No one has bothered your family. We've only been looking for you from the beginning."

Zhou Haoran knew, of course he knew, that the people causing trouble for his family were actually from the Jiang family.

But he couldn't stop it, and even his wife and children had already—

Thinking of this, Zhou Haoran raised the gun and fired several shots into the air.

At the same time, a command came over the walkie-talkie: "Sniper, open fire."

'Bang'

With a gunshot, Zhou Haoran coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground.

Seeing this, Lan Yue ran towards Zhuang Zhihao.

But Zhou Haoran hadn't completely died. He raised his trembling hand and placed it on his waist, as if pressing on something—

"This guy might have a bomb strapped to his head, let's run!"

They hadn't taken two steps when a loud bang rang out behind them, and all three collapsed to the ground unconscious.

-

Fortunately, the location was a hospital.

After emergency treatment, Zhuang Zhihao and Shen Jize are out of danger.

Lan Yue was so frightened that her baby was born prematurely. The 7-month-old baby was in the ICU right after birth, and Lan Yue was in a coma for three days before she slowly woke up.

When she woke up, Lin Wei had already brought the child to the port city.

If she hadn't been unable to get through to Shen Jize and hadn't pressed Xiao Zeng for answers, she wouldn't have known they were in such a dangerous situation.

She couldn't stay in Jiangcheng any longer, so she bought a plane ticket for the same day and flew to Gangcheng.

When she arrived, Shen Jize was still unconscious.

But it wasn't anything serious, and he woke up a few hours later.

Lin Wei was furious about this.

But when he thought of Lan Yue, who was still in a coma, he suppressed all his anger.

Fortunately, everyone is alright.

“We had contacted the police earlier, and the snipers were already in place. We were waiting for their orders to avoid alerting the enemy.”

"Unfortunately, we were one step behind. We didn't expect him to be aiming to kill us."

Zhuang Zhihao was still somewhat unwilling when he said this, "If only I had brought the gun with me, if I had opened fire..."

At this point, he glanced at Lin Wei and continued, "That will definitely not happen."

Lan Yue thought differently. "If you want to clear your name, you should trust the police's capabilities. If Zhou Haoran had found out you had guns, he might have gone even crazier. Everyone is fine now, so this is already a good result. It's just a pity for my child, who is only 7 months old. I don't know if he will survive."

"They can definitely raise them. People who are only the size of a thumb have all grown up, haven't they? By seven months, all their organs are fully developed. With careful care, there will definitely be no problem."

That was all the comfort Lin Wei could offer.

After several busy days at the hospital, Lin Wei was also exhausted. Seeing that the person had woken up, the two of them took the child and went home together.

"Are you going to tell me everything again? Is there anything else?" Lin Wei asked sincerely.

"It's alright, it's really alright. This was an accident. Just the day before, Zhihao said he would do something to you and Xixi. I told him you were in Jiangcheng and nothing would happen to you, and to protect his wife. But he was too confident."

That's right, it's just that he's too confident.

This could have been avoided.

Having a family means you need to think things through more thoroughly than before.

"He didn't expect to come to this level. After this experience, he'll know what to do in the future."

-

The situation is somewhat special now. Not to mention Lin Wei herself, Shen Jize also doesn't dare to let her stay here for long.

The next day, they put the mother and daughter on the plane.

Zhuang Zhihao was reluctant to part with them. "It's safer inland. If Yueyue weren't unwell, I would have let them go with me. And what happened yesterday... I'm still not satisfied."

"That's easy. The Zhou and Jiang families have been around for too long. It's time to make them disappear."

The pursuit by the Shen and Zhuang families officially began at this moment.

The Zhou family was nothing but an empty shell; within just two months, the Zhou family ceased to exist.

Although the Jiang family is facing some difficulties, it won't be long before they do.

But speaking of this, with little Shen Xi about to start elementary school, Shen Jize suddenly doesn't really want his child to study here anymore.

“I still think Jiangcheng is safer. We both went to school in Gangcheng, so why don’t we let Xixi study there?”

Ah~.

Lin Wei really didn't expect that the first thing Shen Jize did after returning here would be to talk about this.

"Ah, aren't you going to university in Hong Kong?" Shen Xi looked at Shen Jize with a big question on her face. "Why?"