As an assassin whose hands are stained with countless blood, Li Yan asked himself that he hadn’t been cruel to Liu Yuyang. For his initial bribery and warning, it was just a precautionary warning. Even when he called two martial artists to attack people, Li Yan solved it himself without seeking revenge; another provocation was handled with a small lesson from Wang Jiaqi, an old friend.

Since he was accustomed to life and death, he did not casually take lives. Instead, he felt that Liu Yuyang’s behavior was beneath his notice. But Liu Yuyang didn’t stop; instead, he hired a killer! To kill him and had already injured his friend!

At this point, if he doesn’t act, he would be behaving like an ostrich. Now, Liu Chen undoubtedly would not reflect. He hadn’t seen through the bitter world due to loss but instead chose to retaliate against everything.

Not to mention he had already set his plans in motion; based on those few words alone, Li Yan could no longer allow him to exist in this world!

...

Thinking about it, Liu Chen wouldn’t tell his whole plan just facing a photograph. Li Yan felt there was no point in continuing to listen; he had achieved most of the purpose of coming here. It was time to use Heart Demon to control him and learn about all his arrangements before proceeding.

However, listening to Liu Chen’s words just now made his heart difficult to settle. The rage was unstoppable! Just as Liu Chen didn’t want him dead but wanted him castrated, to watch his loved ones and friends facing real misery, Li Yan also didn’t want Liu Chen to die painlessly like his son. He wanted Liu Chen to suffer continual mental anguish for vengeance!

This notion was as tempting as a devil’s whisper, making Li Yan restless; unless he vented face to face, he was extremely uncomfortable.

Thus... he emerged from behind the screen, and in Liu Chen’s disbelief, swiftly confronted him.

"You... You are... Yuyang!"

Li Yan was almost stunned with anger! Liu Chen was shocked upon seeing him and immediately mistook him for Liu Yuyang!

It wasn’t that Liu Chen was trying to mock him, provoke him, or play dumb. His home was well protected, and he couldn’t believe anyone could enter. Even regarding his son’s death, he suspected it was done using Witchcraft or that his son was drugged or hypnotized before returning home, which led to his suicide. He never considered someone had entered his home to kill his son.

Staring at a word repeatedly, no matter how familiar, it becomes oddly alien, seeming unrecognizable. Staring at a photo of a person, even if familiar, there will be an overwhelming strangeness and unfamiliarity. This is something ordinary people experience due to visual overload impacting memory impressions.

Earlier, Liu Chen was staring at Liu Yuyang’s photo, and now he still was. Looking too long inevitably creates a distortion, coupled with his anger and intense emotions; suddenly seeing a man of similar age in the study, his first delusion was thinking, is this my son? Has he sensed my words and returned in spirit to see me?

"Liu Yuyang? Wasn’t he killed by me long ago? Didn’t you know?" Li Yan sneered.

"You... You..." Liu Chen shook his head, looked at the photo again, and realized, though the person seemed familiar, it wasn’t his son. Coupled with Li Yan’s words, he quickly reacted; this sense of familiarity wasn’t because this person looked like his son but because throughout these days, it’s the one he kept thinking about – the enemy Li Yan!

"I killed your son, isn’t that too much? Why don’t you think it was your son who first wanted to kill me?" Li Yan kicked him to the ground, stepped on his chest, and said angrily, "It just happened to be me! If it were someone else, they would have been murdered by your son’s hired hands long ago! So other people’s sons aren’t human? Do others also have the right to castrate your son and slaughter him in front of you?" (To be continued, for further developments, please visit www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, support legitimate reading!)