It was a day and a night later that Xu Lizhi regained consciousness.

He opened his eyes and saw his mother, who was supposed to return home at the beginning of next month, sitting next to his bed. Her eyes were red and she stood up excitedly: "Li Zhi, you finally woke up."

"……Mother."

The man looked pale and a little weak, his voice was hoarse, he frowned, and struggled to sit up.

Xu's mother is a pure French woman with dark brown curly hair tied back at the back of her head. She has an elegant appearance and temperament, deep facial features, and is tall. She has a pair of silver-gray eyes that are exactly the same as Xu Lizhi's.

At this moment, these eyes were filled with tears of heartache because of seeing his son's appearance.

She quickly stopped Xu Lizhi's actions.

"Don't move. Just lie down. I'll go call the doctor." As he said that, he opened the door of the private room.

…

The attending physician came over and gave Xu Lizhi a simple full body check-up, then told Xu's mother that there was no need to worry too much. Apart from some skin injuries, the main thing was to take good care of herself and there would be nothing serious.

Only then did Xu's mother feel relieved a little, and then she asked someone to prepare some light meals and send them over.

Xu Lizhi barely drank half a bowl of rice porridge.

Hearing his mother sniffling, he gently placed the bowl on the table and comforted her, "Mom, I'm fine."

Unexpectedly, Xu's mother collapsed and covered her face, shaking her head, her tone full of fear: "It was almost, it was almost your father and I would never see you again..."

"I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect why they would be so cruel. They want to kill you, Li Zhi."

Hearing the unsophisticated words, Xu Lizhi frowned and asked: "Mother, what is going on? They? Who are they referring to..."

“…”

"It was your fifth uncle and his friends." Mother Xu calmed herself down and raised her red eyes. "The two people who caused you to have a car accident were sent by your fifth uncle and his friends."

"Fifth uncle?"

The Xu family's decision to move back to Beijing was not a whim, but a plan that Xu's father had been planning for more than ten years. The Xu family's influence in France was complex and there were constant infighting within the family. Since the end of Xu Lizhi's grandfather's generation, the family had gradually split into many camps.

Father Xu is tired of the family infighting, where the side branches can fight fiercely for a connection or political resources. On the surface, the brothers are friendly and respectful, but in fact, there is constant chaos inside. They are just restraining each other and are in a stalemate. All they need is a fuse.

And the fuse was Xu Lizhi.

Xu Lizhi's grandfather had always favored Xu's father's generation, and most of the decision-making power over the development focus of the family business was in Xu's father's hands, thus neglecting the side branches. The side branches had long been dissatisfied and unwilling to accept.

Although he had used many obstacles, they were just minor ones, done secretly, and nothing serious had ever been done. After all, Xu Lizhi, the only son of Xu's father and the eldest grandson of the Xu family, was a person who devoted himself to filming in the entertainment industry.

From childhood to adulthood, Xu Lizhi, as the first heir, has never interfered in the affairs of the family business. The side branches thought that although this eldest grandson was excellent, this might be his life. He would only focus on making some crappy movies, bringing home a few worthless trophies, and living on some pitiful dividends for the rest of his life. He would not pose any threat, and the family would eventually return to them.

But until recently.

At the Xu's board of directors meeting, the will of Xu Lizhi's grandfather was made public, and Xu Lizhi was designated as the eternal first heir. No matter what he does in the future, as long as he wants, he can return to the company anytime and anywhere to take over family affairs.

The side branches exploded.

How could this blatant favoritism not cause envy and hatred? Xu Lizhi had directly become a time bomb. The side branches would not allow such a threat to exist...

Plus Father Xu's plan to return to China -

The side branches are facing the loss of inheritance rights and the prospect of being kicked out and thrown away. They will never give up no matter what. Even if Xu's father is afraid of the bad guys and chooses to endure and "pay compensation and cede land" and give up many dividends, they are still not satisfied and their ambitions are astonishing.

…

Xu Lizhi’s car accident was planned long ago.

The two murderers were desperate criminals who had been lurking at the domestic border for a long time. They were sent to Beijing at a huge expense. Even if their crimes were exposed and caught one day, it would be impossible to trace their origins and to get any evidence from the people behind them.

He came here absolutely with the intention of taking Xu Lizhi's life.

The whole plan was flawless. They followed Xu Lizhi for a full half month and figured out his travel patterns thoroughly. They knew that Xu Lizhi had no habit of bringing bodyguards with him and was only surrounded by two weak assistants and a driver. This made the bounty mission much easier.

So, that night became a perfect opportunity to make a move.

In fact, they were just one step away, just a little bit, and these two people would have succeeded completely.

But none of them expected it.

A Cheng Yaojin will appear halfway.

What they didn't expect was that this 'Cheng Yaojin' brought with him ten well-trained professional bodyguards, leaving them no room for resistance.

He even had a knife hidden in his trouser leg. He wanted to pretend to be ambushed, but he couldn't even take it out. Just because he swore a few dirty words, he was beaten so badly that his parents didn't recognize him and he was vomiting blood.

…

When Xu Lizhi was sent to the ambulance, his mobile phone was picked up and placed on the bedside table next to his bed.

The afternoon sun slanted in through the white blinds of the private ward.

There were two white pillows placed on the man's back. There was a scabbed abrasion on his forehead. It was unknown if it was because of the injury, but the light in his silver-gray eyes was not as cold as it seemed in the past.

Xu Lizhi held the phone in one hand.

I turned to the chat box with my cousin Xu Wenxiu that day that had no ending.

The photo that could not be loaded due to signal blockage on that rainy night was now in high definition and appeared in the dialog box.

The scene frozen in the photo.

This is the scene when the crew of "Glory Family" was filming in the club that day

And in the picture, the girl riding on the horse, the one my cousin Xu Wenxiu mentioned as someone from the "Beijing aristocratic family circle"...

Almost at the same time as the answer that was about to come out in my heart, there was a voice message under the photo that was also not loaded completely.

In a voice message of less than three seconds.

The familiar voice of my cousin came out——

[Oh, by the way, cousin, her name is...]

【My name is Sheng Yuan.】

Sheng Yuan...

If it weren’t for Sheng Yuan, he would die.

(End of this chapter)