Chapter 955: Who Really is to Blame

Watching Deng Jinhong take his last breath.

Everyone in the living room turned pale.

Although none of them thought Deng Jinhong deserved to live.

Seeing it in front of them still gave them a sense of sorrow.

Now, they understood.

Deng Tianwen called them here today for two reasons: to kill Deng Jinhong publicly with justification.

And to send a warning, making an example out of him.

After all, Deng Jinhong wasn’t the only restless one in the Deng Family right now.

“Take him away, find a good place to bury him. After all, he was still a Deng.”

Deng Tianwen waved his hand, signaling the bodyguards to take the body away.

The group relaxed visibly.

Deng Tianwen’s mix of toughness and gentleness kept everyone firmly in line.

Killing Deng Jinhong in front of everyone was clearly meant as an example.

Yet he couldn’t be too ruthless.

The truth is, too much of anything is never good.

“Uncles, I am deeply saddened and angry by what Deng Jinhong did, as a fellow member of the Deng Family!”

“A billion! He was willing to raise a blade against his family and his brothers for just a billion! Were we ever that desperate for money in the Deng Family?”

“I want this to be the first and last time something like this happens. I don’t want to see any more family members die by our own hands.”

With anger and exhaustion on his face, Deng Tianwen rubbed his forehead in frustration and waved his hand, “It’s getting late, uncles. Go rest. I don’t feel too well; I’ll head to bed first.”

He left them with a defeated silhouette as he slowly ascended the stairs.

For a moment, everyone had complex emotions.

One had to admit, Deng Tianwen’s acting kept improving.

Indeed, as his status rose, so did his talent for performance.

Hou Xiaoyan was waiting for him at the bedroom door.

“Tired?” Hou Xiaoyan leaned against the doorframe and asked.

Deng Tianwen chuckled indifferently, “I barely even went to school, yet here I am dealing with problems even Ph.D.s and master degrees struggle to handle. What do you think, am I tired?”

“Everyone suffers. The poor have their troubles, the rich have their worries. Life is hard for everyone. Let’s just sleep.”

With that, Deng Tianwen embraced Hou Xiaoyan and led her into the bedroom, pushing away the chaos of the day.

Meanwhile, at the hospital.

After Zhao Chen’s successful surgery, he was out of danger and finally awake.

The moment he regained consciousness, he urgently called for the nurse to bring his father, Zhao Lianghe.

“Dad, what happened to Deng Jinhong?”

Zhao Chen asked anxiously.

“Calm down. Don’t stress, or you’ll reopen your wounds. Don’t worry, Deng Jinhong is dead. Poisoned by the drug you gave him.”

Zhao Lianghe quickly reassured his son.

“It’s over, Dad… How could you… You fell right into their trap!”

Zhao Chen looked regretful. What he feared the most had come true.

“Dad, did you think I got shot because of Deng Jinhong? I’ve been in contact with him for so long, I know him inside and out. He would never do something like that!”

Zhao Lianghe, an old fox himself, immediately understood and his face darkened, as if he had swallowed something vile.

He had been outsmarted by the younger Deng Tianwen.

Not only did Deng Tianwen get his son hospitalized.

He also managed to eliminate an ally of the Zhao Family.

Seeing his father’s gloomy expression, Zhao Chen sighed to console him, “Dad, don’t blame yourself. It’s my fault for being useless. If I hadn’t been injured, you wouldn’t have been too worried to think clearly and make mistakes.”

Zhao Chen believed that without his injuries, his father’s wisdom would have caught the trap.

The bad decision was simply a consequence of urgency and concern.

“That Deng Family boy has truly become formidable!” Zhao Lianghe muttered, but his eyes turned cold immediately after. “Then we must crush him before he rises any further!”

Deng Tianwen’s growing power was starting to make him apprehensive.

What worried him most was that Deng Tianwen was much younger.

Once he’s dead, no one in the Zhao Family would be able to fight him.

So, it had to be done while he was still alive and able.

Zhao Chen felt guilty, “Dad, it’s all because me and my brother weren’t up to the task. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have had to work this hard.”

Having recently gone through life and death, Zhao Chen hadn’t fully reached enlightenment but had definitely realized and understood a lot more.

“Ah, well, I’m your father, aren’t I?”

Zhao Lianghe sighed, holding Zhao Chen’s hand in his, showing a father’s deep affection.

In a way, neither he nor Deng Tianwen were wrong.

As a father, he was simply fulfilling his role, striving to create a stable future for his children while he still lived.

Thus, he had to suppress the Deng Family.

Deng Tianwen wasn’t wrong either. He was working for his ideals of reaching the top and restoring the Deng Family’s former glory.

That’s why he used every means possible to take control of the Deng Family and fight the Zhao Family to the bitter end.

The frightening thing was that despite many people dying as a result, neither of them were actually in the wrong.

So, who was wrong? Were the ones who died wrong?

………

“I’m not wrong!”

Xu Shaochen stubbornly said to Jenny.

“You’re not wrong? Society’s falling apart! Crime cases involving enhanced humans who’ve used the Genetic Serum are piling up, and people are panicking!”

Jenny was furious, her face pale. She had pushed hard for the production of the Genetic Serum to stop, but Xu Shaochen refused.

The other women exchanged nervous glances, none daring to intervene.

“Panic?” Xu Shaochen sneered, “They’re only panicking because the government is restricting the Genetic Serum, and they can’t get it. Once the restriction eases, you’ll see, they won’t be panicking anymore.”

“If there were no Genetic Serum, none of this would’ve happened.”

Jenny retorted coldly.

Xu Shaochen laughed in anger, “Every groundbreaking creation is met with controversy at first. But time will prove that the widespread use of the Genetic Serum is the right choice.”

“That’s because you don’t suffer from it!” Jenny angrily shot back.

Xu Shaochen didn’t deny it, “You’re right. I’m a beneficiary, so why would I deny my own plan?”

“You should reflect, Jenny. Fighting with your own man over strangers doesn’t make much sense.”

“I…” Jenny was rendered speechless, unable to argue.

Meanwhile, Xu Shaochen looked at the TV, where an enhanced human was robbing an armored truck. His eyes gleamed with ambition.

“The chaos is just the growing pains of a new era. Once the time is right, Xu Corporation will reinvent itself and make the world tremble!”