After a pause, he slowly added: "Also, Lina's dowry is two oil pipelines in Country Y."
Several family elders exchanged glances, and some had already begun to consider taking sides.
"And I..." The old patriarch coughed twice, "I won't live long. Whoever marries her will be the next patriarch."
Fernando's cigar burned his fingers, but he didn't notice it at all.
Eric put down his knife and fork, his knuckles white.
Renault stared at the steak in front of him.
He should have refused.
But at this moment, Fernando's sinister smile and Eric's hypocritical mask flashed through his mind...
Rather than letting these scumbags get Lin Na, why not...
The banquet ended and Renault walked out of the castle gate.
In the darkness of the night, Fernando leaned against a black sports car, turning an ancient silver coin between his fingers with a sinister smile.
Behind him stood the poisonous scorpion.
A thin man, playing with a dagger between his fingers.
"Sixth brother," Fernando grinned, "you killed more than twenty of my men. This debt... should be settled tonight."
The scorpion suddenly attacked, stabbing the dagger straight into Renault's forehead!
"Bang--!"
The sound of gunfire pierced the silence.
“Dang—”
The dagger fell to the ground, a bloody hole exploded between the scorpion's eyebrows, and it fell down with a bang.
Fernando's face turned pale, his fingers gripping the car door tightly. "You... you dare to shoot and kill people in front of the castle?!"
Renault blew away the muzzle smoke, his eyes as cold as ice.
"Have you forgotten your clan's teachings?"
“Survival of the fittest.”
"He doesn't deserve to live."
In the distance, a Bentley was approaching slowly.
Renault opened the car door and drove away.
Inside the banquet hall.
The crystal chandeliers went out one by one, and the waiters quietly removed the tableware.
Eric sat alone at the end of the long table, slowly wiping his gold-rimmed glasses.
"Is everything settled?" he asked without looking up.
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