coobybook Chapter 12 Who Kneels Before Whom?
Chapter 12 Who Kneels Before Whom?
Xiao Chen walked towards Xiao Yichen step by step.
Xiao Yichen stared at him intently, his face ashen.
"Want to mess with me? Ha, do you dare?" Xiao Yichen looked confident and still contemptuous.
"Don't forget, Lin Youyou is in my hands. If I lose a single hair, she'll be dead without a trace!"
"Kneel down! Kneel down and beg for my forgiveness!"
Xiao Chen's lips curled into a sneer.
They really are a family...
Although Xiao Yichen is not of the Xiao family bloodline, his arrogant and domineering manner is no different from Xiao Yiyi's.
Both men wanted him to kneel down, to trample on others and thus demonstrate their own superiority.
“Kneel? You should kneel…” Xiao Chen said slowly, his eyes sharp.
"Then why don't you kneel down before me!" Xiao Yichen sneered.
"You're the one who should kneel!" Xiao Chen shouted coldly, his murderous aura surging.
"Your Majesty!"
The five Netherworld Guards roared in unison, their voices like thunder.
This imposing aura made Xiao Yichen's face turn pale, and he felt his body go weak, so he couldn't help but want to kneel down.
"Make me kneel before you? Don't even think about it!" he said through gritted teeth.
"boom!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than he was kicked hard in the leg by the Nether Guard, nearly breaking his bones. The intense pain forced Xiao Yichen's knee to bend, and he crashed heavily to the ground, bleeding.
He let out a painful howl, but he couldn't get up and knelt down in front of Xiao Chen.
"what……"
Xiao Yichen roared and howled, his face filled with humiliation and resentment.
He was forced to kneel before a piece of trash he had once trampled on at will, a humiliation that made him want to die.
"You'll regret this! I want Lin Youyou dead! You'll see her corpse soon!" he roared.
Xiao Chen chuckled softly, took out his phone, and showed Xiao Yichen a photo.
Xiao Yichen glanced at it and his expression froze.
The photo showed two dead people lying on the ground...
It was the two people he sent to capture Lin Youyou.
"Impossible... How could this be..." Xiao Yichen said in disbelief.
His subordinates had clearly reported that they had captured Lin Youyou and used her hairpin to threaten Xiao Chen.
"Those hair clips cost a dollar each at street stalls," Xiao Chen said casually.
Xiao Yichen's eyes widened.
It turns out this was Xiao Chen's trick; he'd fallen for it!
Xiao Chen's expression was mocking.
In her previous life, due to her negligence, Lin Youyou's family was captured by Xiao Yichen's men. Lin Youyou had one hand cut off, and her adoptive father became a vegetable...
He was threatened into handing over the Hades Decree, imprisoned, and years later forced to commit suicide...
The tragedy of my past life is still vivid in my mind; how can I repeat the same mistake now?
Xiao Chen had already dispatched experts from the Underworld Palace to secretly guard Lin Youyou's family 24 hours a day, precisely to prevent this.
"Xiao Chen, what do you want!" Xiao Yichen's expression was ferocious. "I am the true son of the Xiao family, while you are nothing but a jinx. If you touch me, the Xiao family will go crazy! I don't believe you would disregard the lives of your own family!"
Xiao Chen's expression hardened slightly.
In his previous life, after being imprisoned, he was forced to hand over the Underworld King's Decree only because his biological parents threatened to commit suicide...
Xiao Yichen was right. The Xiao family would grant any request for him, the son of a true dragon, and would even be willing to sacrifice themselves.
Looking back now, it's utterly ridiculous.
What did I get in return for all my hard work for the Xiao family?
No one is grateful to him, only cruel betrayals!
"Kneel down to me first," he said calmly, looking at Xiao Yichen.
"What?" Xiao Yichen frowned, and the next second he was forced to kowtow by the Netherworld Guard.
"Bang!" The bang was a solid, resounding blow.
"This head is what you owe me," Xiao Chen said indifferently.
Xiao Yichen was arrogant and dissolute, attracting a lot of trouble. To avoid implicating the Xiao family, Xiao Chen did a lot of behind-the-scenes maneuvering. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Xiao Yichen's later actions were a case of repaying kindness with enmity.
“These three heads are what you owe Lin Youyou’s family,” he added.
"Bang bang bang..."
Xiao Yichen was forced to kowtow three times, his forehead becoming a bloody mess.
Even as he roared in fury, he was powerless to resist; he was so angry he felt like he was going to faint.
"Next, it's your turn to owe the Xiao family," Xiao Chen said calmly.
He was, after all, from the Xiao family, and Xiao Yichen, that ingrate, had let down all the members of the Xiao family.
The sound of his forehead hitting the ground echoed repeatedly; Xiao Yichen had nearly lost his life from kowtowing.
The ground was covered in his blood.
After kowtowing countless times, Xiao Yichen was finally able to catch his breath.
"Now, tell me who you are, what faction you belong to, and what your conspiracy is?" Xiao Chen asked in a deep voice.
Xiao Yichen was consumed by hatred, his expression filled with resentment and venom, wishing he could devour Xiao Chen alive.
“I don’t know anything, and even if I did, I wouldn’t tell you!” he said viciously.
"He does have quite a backbone..." Xiao Chen said calmly, glancing at the Netherworld Guard beside him.
The underworld guard understood immediately and suddenly grabbed Xiao Yichen's arm and twisted it.
"Crack..."
The intense pain made Xiao Yichen feel like he was dying, and he howled like a pig being slaughtered.
"If you don't talk, I'll cut off your hands." Xiao Chen said coldly.
He still remembered how Xiao Yichen cut off Lin Youyou's hand and presented it to him in his previous life, and how his eyes were bloodshot with rage.
She was only eighteen, in the prime of her youth, when she lost a hand and became disabled.
So he wasn't trying to scare them.
Xiao Chen wished he could tear Xiao Yichen to pieces right now, but it wasn't the right time yet.
The mysterious person behind him has not yet surfaced, and Xiao Chen wants to eliminate him completely.
Xiao Yichen was just a pawn; the real culprit is still hiding.
Xiao Yichen finally couldn't take it anymore.
“I said…” he said in a trembling voice.
"All I know is that I was sent to the Xiao family by someone, and that Mr. Tang was also sent by him..."
“I’ve never met that person. They told me that as long as I behaved, they would support me to take control of the entire Xiao family and make me a superior person…”
Xiao Chen frowned upon hearing this.
He could sense that Xiao Yichen wasn't lying.
The mastermind behind the scenes was undoubtedly very cautious, never meeting Xiao Yichen in person, but only sending people to deliver information.
If there is any risk, the person delivering the information will take their own life to avoid the leakage of intelligence.
Even Xiao Chen, the Lord of the Underworld, found such a person troublesome.
"What did those people make you do?" he could only press.
"No... they just want me to be a good young master of the Xiao family. I don't need to do anything; they will eliminate all obstacles..." Xiao Yichen replied.
Xiao Chen paused slightly.
Does this mean it's not the right time for them to take action yet...?
The scheme behind this must be quite significant, and Xiao Chen felt it was most likely related to his family in the capital.
After all, the Xiao family in the capital is a super-powerful family with a well-known reputation throughout the entire Xia Kingdom.
The family has a rule that all contemporary young members have a chance when selecting the head of the family, but the specific decision-making factors are known only to the core members of the family.
"Your Majesty, someone has gone to the Xiao family to report the news," the underworld guard reported, interrupting Xiao Chen's thoughts.
Hope appeared on Xiao Yichen's face.
Xiao Chen smiled slightly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
"Let them do it..."