The group of thugs brought by Zhao Hongming had all been beaten to the ground.
All of this had happened in the blink of an eye.
No one saw what had happened. Zhao Hongming and Lin Yixin only saw the result of the thugs lying on the ground and groaning…
Chen Xiao was in a good mood today, so he was merciful. He didn't take the lives of the thugs directly, only severely injured them, rendering them incapable of fighting.
But even so, it was enough to shock Zhao Hongming and Lin Yixin.
"Zhao Hongming, you wanted to kill me, didn't you? Come on, I'm standing right here waiting for you to kill me!"
Li Ziqing looked at Zhao Hongming with disdain, lifting her chin provocatively.
"Li Ziqing, don't you get too arrogant with me!"
Zhao Hongming gritted his teeth, his jaw bulging, each word seeming to be squeezed from between his teeth. "Don't forget, this is the Imperial City, not a place for you to be arrogant!"
"So what if it's the Imperial City?"
Chen Xiao, who had been silent all along, finally spoke. "Is the Imperial City that amazing? I've heard of the reputation of your five great families in the Imperial City for a long time, but honestly, you've disappointed me. You're all just overrated scoundrels, nothing to brag about!"
Lin Yixin looked at Chen Xiao in disbelief. Who was this person? How ignorant could he be to say such a thing?
"Hahahaha, you brat, you're not old but you have a big mouth. Li Ziqing, is this the man you found? I didn't expect your taste to be so bad!"
Zhao Hongming suddenly burst into wild laughter.
Although the people he brought had all been knocked down by Chen Xiao, he was not flustered at all.
He even felt that he had the situation firmly under control.
Because he believed that this was the Imperial City, the territory of the five great families.
Even if the sky fell, the elders in the family would hold it up, and it would never crush him.
"Brat, I admit you're a good fighter, but what's the use of you being so good at fighting? Have you heard of Xiao Tian Ce? Is he a good fighter or not? In the end, wasn't he played in the palm of the Song family, one of the five great families?"
"Someone like you, I can find ten or eight with a single phone call!"
"I'm telling you, it's not too late to kneel down and apologize to me now. Otherwise, when I call for people later, you won't have a chance!"
Hearing these words, Chen Xiao's only thought was that Zhao Hongming had been excluded from the core circle of the five great families.
Because if he were still within the core circle, he wouldn't say that Xiao Tian Ce was played in the palm of the Song family.
After all, Song Anbang, who represented the Song family, was already stone cold.
And Zhao Hongming clearly did not know this news.
"You still want to call people, right? Fine, go ahead and call. I really want to see what kind of experts there are in the Imperial City."
Chen Xiao said with his arms crossed, his expression calm and collected.
Lin Yixin's eyes were practically rolling to the heavens.
She really couldn't understand how Li Ziqing, who always considered herself shrewd, could have found such an arrogant man.
Even if Li Ziqing was just using him, wasn't she afraid of getting into trouble because of his blind arrogance?
"Brat, you're really arrogant. Maybe you're a big shot in your hometown, but unfortunately, this is not your hometown, this is the Imperial City!"
"In the Imperial City, you have to lie down if you're a tiger, and coil up if you're a dragon! Otherwise, you won't even know how you died!"
Zhao Hongming said with contempt.
In his opinion, the other party was clearly just a vulgar brute who was arrogant because of his strength and didn't need to be taken seriously.
Chen Xiao smiled: "I really can't imagine how I died, but I know that if you don't call people soon, you'll die from talking too much!"
As he spoke, Chen Xiao rotated his fist.
Zhao Hongming's eyes sharpened, because he knew that with the strength Chen Xiao had displayed, killing him was not difficult.
"Brat, give me your name, and today I'll let you die knowing why!"
Zhao Hongming intended to use the experts from his family.
But as Chen Xiao had guessed, Zhao Hongming was just a marginal figure in the Zhao family, long excluded from the core of power.
If he didn't even know who he was dealing with, the experts in the family would definitely not be willing to help him.
"My name is Chen Xiao."
Chen Xiao said his name faintly.
"Hmph, Chen Xiao… Wait, you're that Chen Xiao?"
Zhao Hongming was disdainful at first, but then he remembered that there was someone who had been gaining a lot of attention recently, and his name was also Chen Xiao.
"Perhaps… I might be the Chen Xiao you've heard of."
Chen Xiao looked at Zhao Hongming with a playful expression.
He knew that given what he had done, even if Zhao Hongming had distanced himself from the core of power, he couldn't possibly not have heard his name.
Zhao Hongming's expression shifted from disdain to shock, then to fear, to panic, and finally to bewilderment…
Noticing Zhao Hongming's unusual expression, Lin Yixin also realized something.
She asked softly, "Brother Ming, who is he? Is he… is he very powerful…"
"My brother, Zhao Hongyuan, was killed by him…"
Zhao Hongming swallowed and his teeth chattered.
Lin Yixin's face changed drastically. She wasn't stupid; on the contrary, she was often smarter than most people.
Zhao Hongyuan had been dead for several months, and she knew this.
But the Zhao family had not avenged Zhao Hongyuan, so there was only one reason… the person who killed Zhao Hongyuan was someone even the Zhao family feared.
That meant that this person, whom she considered unbearably arrogant, was someone even the Zhao family feared.
Thinking of this, Lin Yixin's vision went black, and her body swayed, almost falling to the ground.
Now, she finally understood where Li Ziqing's confidence came from.
She also knew why Li Ziqing dared to come to her for revenge alone.
No, that wasn't right… Li Ziqing wasn't alone at all. The man she brought with her was comparable to an army of thousands!
Someone that even the Zhao family feared, saying he was worth a thousand troops was not an exaggeration.
For a moment, Zhao Hongming felt like crying.
He had just received Lin Yixin's call and thought he could get revenge, but he never expected that in the end, he would lose his wife and soldiers.
Not only was his most embarrassing secret exposed by Li Ziqing, but he had also provoked someone he couldn't afford to offend at all.
"Alas, so be it…"
Zhao Hongming sighed, "I was blind today. Li Ziqing, you are indeed ruthless. You played us all in the palm of your hand back then, and after so many years, I'm still no match for you. I accept my fate. From now on, I will never bother you again. Let's settle our grievances and part ways!"
Saying that, Zhao Hongming turned to leave.
Chen Xiao was stunned and asked incredulously, "You don't think you can just leave like this, do you?"