Cruel.
Tyrannical!
This was the most direct feeling of the vast majority of people at the scene who personally witnessed Li Qianfan suddenly lash out and brutally strangle Ma Hongshan to death in public, and then hang his corpse above the Ma family's main gate.
Li Qianfan did this to refute Old Master Ma's excuse of a staged car accident to attack the Ma family: "If I want to kill someone from your Ma family, do I need an excuse?"
Yao Yao, however, was full of regret, as she loved to get her hands dirty the most.
A certain female bodyguard, however, was surrounded by an even stronger sense of security.
When Li Qianfan, whose eyes were filled with murderous intent, stared fixedly at Old Master Ma, the latter actually developed a severe speech impediment.
He suddenly became unable to speak.
Li Qianfan ignored him and instead grabbed Wei Shifang by the hair.
Wei Shifang, who had been scared silly, snapped back to reality.
She collapsed on the ground, desperately wailing, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
*Slap.*
Li Qianfan slapped her across the mouth.
Wei Shifang immediately fell silent.
Li Qianfan dragged her to Wang Jian.
Wang Jian was very nervous.
Li Qianfan took Wei Shifang's mobile phone from her pocket and used her big face to unlock it and open the phonebook.
He found Yao Yao's incoming call number in the call log.
He turned to Yao Yao and said, "Yao Yao, come here."
Yao Yao understood and walked over with her phone.
Li Qianfan handed Wei Shifang's phone to Wang Jian: "This number is the one Du Junlin dialed to Wei Shifang's phone after we rescued Ma Qiang from the car, according to the phone number he provided."
Wang Jian understood.
After Wang Jian screenshotted the call log, Yao Yao dialed Wei Shifang's number again.
The same number!
Li Qianfan looked at Wei Shifang: "If you don't want to die, then tell the special services and all the onlookers with your own mouth what you said when you received Du Junlin's call and rushed to the scene of the car accident."
He was one hundred percent sure that after Wei Shifang witnessed his cruelty, she would not dare to lie.
Indeed.
Ma Hongshan's corpse was still swaying in the wind over there.
In extreme fear, Wei Shifang could only rely on instinct and truthfully recounted everything she had said after receiving Yao Yao's call that early morning and rushing to the scene of the car accident.
She didn't dare to omit anything.
She certainly didn't dare to twist the facts.
She was absolutely telling the truth.
As she was recounting, Wang Jian's subordinates were filming Wei Shifang with their body cameras.
Not a single sound came from the hundreds of onlookers.
"It is I who deserve to die! I should not have confused right and wrong because of my indulgence of Xiao Qiang! And I should not have spouted nonsense because Xiao Qiang coveted Du Junlin's beauty."
Under the threat of death, Wei Shifang stopped caring about anything else.
She only kept begging Li Qianfan to spare her.
The onlookers then suddenly realized the truth.
Their gazes towards the Ma family members had long since shifted from sympathy to disgust.
Many even directly uploaded the video of Wei Shifang's confession to the internet.
Some even angrily exclaimed, "Betraying kindness and twisting facts, they deserve to die!"
As for Ma Benyong and the others—
What were they looking at?
With Wei Shifang's confession, the conspiracy theory they had previously concocted was completely overturned.
This incident had nothing to do with Su Nanyin, who represented schemes and tricks.
In the crowd.
President Jiao San, disguised and mixed in, secretly curled her lips.
She had advised Li Qianfan not to kill anyone.
But Li Qianfan didn't listen to her, and after only a few words, he turned Ma Hongshan into a dead man and hung him at the main gate.
He had completely scared Wei Shifang into confessing everything in public.
Li Qianfan's actions were far better than Jiao Yin's suggestion!
This made Jiao San feel very uncomfortable.
But when she thought about how she had eaten everything she wanted, drunk everything she wanted, and had even gotten used to calling him "the man of the house," Jiao San felt inexplicably comfortable again.
This was enough to prove that no matter how powerful a woman was, she would feel comfortable if there was a more powerful man behind her.
Li Qianfan no longer paid attention to Wei Shifang.
He walked up to Ma Benyong and said slowly, "Old man, I don't believe Wei Shifang and Ma Hongshan wouldn't have told you the truth about the car accident when they got home. Since you already knew the truth, yet you still put the blame on Su Nanyin. Heh, do you know this is a path to death?"
Ma Benyong trembled all over.
But he forced himself to shout, "Even if we made a mistake first! We don't deserve to die, do we? You killed Ma Qiang first, and now you're killing Ma Hongshan. Do you have any respect for the law?"
"The law? You're talking to me about the law?"
Li Qianfan nodded and asked, "Are any members of the Yuan family here?"
The second son of the Yuan family trembled and forced himself to step forward: "I am a member of the Yuan family."
Li Qianfan looked at him and asked, "Is it your Yuan family that is behind the scenes, guiding public opinion online to condemn Su Nanyin?"
No!
The second son of the Yuan family instinctively wanted to shout this, but as soon as his mouth moved, he closed it again.
He was truly afraid that if he argued, this scumbag who killed people at the slightest disagreement would also hang him at the main gate to keep Ma Hongshan company.
Didn't he see Du Yao Yao taking out another nylon rope!?
Although he didn't argue, he didn't admit it either.
Li Qianfan didn't ask further, but instead opened his phone, found an audio file sent by Bai Ziyan, and played it on the spot.
This audio file—
It was the content of the multiple phone consultations between Ma Hongtu and Chief Editor Yuan to concoct a scandal of a certain empress being secretly pregnant with a certain young heartthrob.
The second son of the Yuan family's face changed drastically!
"If I can find out about this, I can also find out who is behind the scenes, guiding the current public opinion to attack Su Nanyin and smear her."
Li Qianfan said slowly, "Yuan Er, I'll give you one last chance. Is it your Yuan family, relying on your control of the major media outlets along the coast, that helped the Ma family guide public opinion to attack Su Nanyin? You can say no. But if I find out."
Before Li Qianfan could finish, the second son of the Yuan family, who had witnessed his cruelty firsthand, hurriedly shouted, "Yes, yes! It's our Yuan family!"
Holy crap—
The onlookers at the scene immediately let out a unified roar of condemnation.
People have the confidence that "my opinion is the most correct."
Therefore, after being misled and thinking they were attacking Su Nanyin from a righteous standpoint, they suddenly realized they had been used, and they would hate those who manipulated the narrative intensely.
Because this would make them feel like a fool being led by the nose.
"Given that the Yuan family has twice slandered Su Nanyin on behalf of the Ma family without reason, causing enormous reputational damage to her and to me."
Li Qianfan coldly stated his demand: "Ten billion yuan in compensation for reputational damage, delivered to Suite 1801 of the Great Wall Hotel within 24 hours. If it's overdue, members of the Yuan family will die!"
The second son of the Yuan family's face turned ashen.
But in his heart, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Ten billion yuan in compensation for reputational damage was indeed a staggering sum.
But as one of the seven wealthy families, the Yuan family could still gather this money within 24 hours.
The key was that no one had to die!
The second son of the Yuan family decisively turned and left: "Mr. Li, within 24 hours, our Yuan family will definitely deliver the money you requested with both hands."
Holy crap.
In the blink of an eye, he made ten billion yuan!?
The onlookers were all stunned.
Yao Yao, on the other hand, excitedly picked at her toes, calculating how much she could get.
A certain female bodyguard was calculating, "Hmph, I'm going to get the lion's share this time!"
As the second son of the Yuan family left, all the members of the Yuan family also hurriedly departed.
As for the earlier statement by the second son of the Yuan family that they would stand by the Ma family through thick and thin—
Alas.
Can't people just change their minds?
Li Qianfan put away his phone and looked at Ma Benyong: "Old man, I killed Ma Qiang and Ma Hongshan because I disregarded the law. Then, may I ask, after Ma Hongshan and the others repaid kindness with enmity and twisted facts, and you let the Yuan family use public opinion to maliciously attack Su Nanyin, does that count as illegal?"
Does it?
Or doesn't it?
From the perspective of the public, the act of repaying kindness with enmity is even more unacceptable than intentional homicide!
Facing Li Qianfan's questioning, Ma Benyong's lips trembled uncontrollably.
But he couldn't utter a single word.
Heh heh.
Li Qianfan sneered.
He turned and lightly leaped onto the hood of the blue car.
Everyone looked at him.
Li Qianfan, facing the ever-increasing crowd, loudly appealed: "I believe that the vast majority of you present are ordinary people! If, hypothetically, you were in my shoes and encountered a car accident this morning, and after rescuing Ma Qiang, disregarding the danger of the sports car exploding at any moment. Not only were you not thanked, but your girlfriend was also snatched away by Ma Qiang! What would you do?"
"Kill that surname Ma! Such trash deserves to die!"
A woman's sharp scream immediately rang out in the crowd under the sunlight.
Li Qianfan looked down. It was Jiao San.
People have a herd mentality.
All those who were guided by Li Qianfan's words and quickly empathized with the situation followed this woman, raising their fists: "Kill that surname Ma! Such trash deserves to die!"
More and more people were infected and shouted to kill that surname Ma.
Ordinary people may not envy others for being rich or powerful, but they certainly hate those rich and powerful people who abuse their power and commit evil deeds.
Even several of Wang Jian's subordinates raised their fists and roared, "Kill, kill, kill!"
Li Qianfan was very satisfied with this.
Does only the Ma family know how to use public opinion as a weapon?
Almost everyone at the scene was recording videos, posting on their Moments and Weibo.
It was certain that with the upload of these videos, especially with the change in the Yuan family's attitude, no one would be foolish enough to attack Su Nanyin anymore.
The members of the Ma family were all as silent as cicadas in winter.
The current situation was something they had never dreamed of.
All their previous plans had become a joke.
What they had to do next was to see how Li Qianfan would retaliate against the Ma family!
Li Qianfan raised his hands repeatedly, gesturing downwards.
The shouts of killing and anger at the scene gradually subsided.
Just as he was about to jump off the car—
"Hmph!"
Chen Er, who was standing beside him, suddenly let out a heavy snort, attracting everyone's attention.
Ma Benyong also looked over.
Chen Er's face was filled with shame and anger at being deceived by a villain. He loudly said, "I really didn't expect that the Ma family would do something so ungrateful and despicable! Fortunately, our Chen family of Modu, after being deceived by you, still wanted to seek justice for you!"
"Brother Chen is right."
Kang Er and Zhou Er also spoke up.
Each of them appeared indignant, looking at Ma Benyong with deep contempt.
The other members of the seven wealthy families along the coast, except for the Ma family, began their act of kicking a man when he's down.