Winner Takes All Chapter 533-534

Chapter 533

After a night of rain.

The air is fresh with a hint of earthiness after being washed by the rain all night.

It gave the whole city an aura of peace and tranquillity.

Only, as a heavy detail swept through the city.

The city, which had been peaceful and tranquil, and which was gradually being given a new day of life, was bombarded by a nuclear bomb.

[Hongtian Real Estate, withdraw from the city today!

This news, like a storm, swept through the city in a very short period of time and was known by everyone.

What should have been a calm day was suddenly filled with a storm.

For a while, there was shock, disbelief and confusion ……

In the streets and alleys, the sudden withdrawal of Hongtian Real Estate from the city became the talk of the town at breakfast.

The news broke extremely briefly.

What had happened to Hongtian Real Estate?

What was the reason for the sudden exit?

In just over a month’s time, it had taken on the leading local real estate company several times and had become a force to be reckoned with.

It is not too much to say that it is a rising star, but in just over a month’s time, it is like a meteor that has fallen.

What is the secret of this ……?

The whole city is wondering, the whole city wants to find the answer.

But when someone went to the Hongtian Real Estate building, they were appalled to find that the doors of the Hongtian Real Estate were locked, just like a confirmation of the withdrawal.

At the same time, the city was in an uproar.

Inside the Lijin Hospital, it was a different story.

Last night, Chen Dong did not return to the Tianmen Mountain Villa after leaving the “Qingmei Tavern”, but went straight back to the hospital to accompany and take care of Gu Qingying.

Early in the morning.

Fan Lu cooked the congee and brought it over. Chen Dong spoon by spoon blew each mouthful of congee until it was ready to be eaten, then fed it into Gu Qingying’s mouth.

It was serene and peaceful, warm and cozy.

“Aiya, I can’t eat anymore.”

Gu Qingying wiped the watery stains left on the corner of her mouth and pouted, “Can you stop eating?”

“Eat some more, you’ve lost so much weight, you can’t afford not to eat more.”

Chen Dong continued to bring the porridge to Gu Qingying’s mouth and said with a gentle smile, “Eat well and grow meat.”

Fan Lu and Elder Long and Kunlun on the side looked at each other with blank faces.

Who would have thought that the son of the Chen family head, the heir to the Chen family, would say something so “mushy” as “grow meat”?

I guess if people saw this scene, they would definitely drop their jaws and get goose bumps, right?

“No, I don’t want to, I won’t look good if I get fat.” Gu Qingying muttered, opening her mouth to drink the porridge despite saying it reluctantly.

Chen Dong smiled gently, “Your fatness and thinness, again, has nothing to do with me liking you.”

On the side, Kun Lun really couldn’t listen any longer.

He muttered with an odd expression on his face, “What the young master said is really mushy, it doesn’t sound like a big man’s words at all, in case word gets out, others will definitely not believe it.”

And yet.

Slap!

Fan Lu slapped Kun Lun on the shoulder and snapped, “What do you know? Even a cold person can always meet someone who can break the ice for him. Where is the young master getting tired of saying this? He loves Little Shadow and is willing to put aside all his character, yet face Little Shadow, this is called love, which is unlike you, Iron Bean.”

“What’s wrong with me?”

Kunlun looked puzzled.

Fan Lu raised her eyebrows, a little annoyed, turned around and walked out of the ward.

Kun Lun froze in place, a dumbfounded look on his face, “Why did she suddenly get angry?”

Chen Dong and Gu Qingying looked at each other with odd expressions.

On the contrary, Elder Long walked up to Kun Lun, smiled strangely and lightly patted Kun Lun’s shoulder, “Kun Lun, do you know why you have been single for decades and are still single now?”

“It’s because I’ve crisscrossed the sands, bent on the glory of being a mercenary king, delaying my good years and not being able to talk about my children’s love, that’s why I’m single until now.” Kunlun fussed and analyzed in a serious manner.

But as he spoke, after seeing the odd smiles on Chen Dong and Gu Qingying’s faces.

Kun Lun asked with some hair on his face, “What I said is not right?”

“What you said is bullSh*t!”

Elder Long said nonchalantly, “When you were a mercenary, didn’t you ever meet a girl who said to you that she wanted to watch the sunrise with you? Wanted to go into the dusk with you? Wanted to ask you if your porridge was warm in the morning and your body was cold at night?”

Kunlun smashed his mouth for a moment and nodded, “Yes, but what does it matter? When I was on a mission, I didn’t sleep for three days and three nights, so which one of them hadn’t seen the sunrise and dusk?”

“Pfft!”

Chen Dong and Gu Qingying completely couldn’t hold it in, and the two of them put their heads together intimately and laughed.

Pah!

Long Lao slapped a slap on his head, “You’re not single without a reason, you Iron Bean.”

After saying that, Elder Long kicked on the body of the dumbfounded and bewildered Kunlun, “Why don’t you go out and apologise to Xiao Lu?”

“I’m right, why should I apologise?”

Kun Lun looked at Elder Long with a puzzled face and rounded eyes.

Elder Long looked solemn: “You have stayed with Old Master and Qin Ye for so long, but you have not even learned a tenth of our kung fu, so you are still talking nonsense, go out if you are told to, even if it is to stay with Xiao Lu.”

Kunlun looked bewildered, but after looking at Elder Long’s solemn face, and glancing at Chen Dong and Gu Qingying who were laughing uncontrollably, he scratched his head and turned to leave.

In the sick bay.

Chen Dong and Gu Qingying burst into laughter.

Elder Long was also helpless for a while, picking at his scalp.

However, because of this little episode with Kunlun and Fan Lu, Gu Qingying was much better behaved when she ate, taking big mouthfuls of food.

After the meal was finished, Chen Dong cleaned up the dishes but did not see Kunlun and Fan Lu return, and did not rush to look for them.

Kunlun really needed to practice a bit more on the matter of flirting with girls!

When Elder Long saw that Chen Dong had finished cleaning up, he gestured for Chen Dong to go outside the ward.

After walking out of the ward, Elder Long said, “Young Master, Hongtian Real Estate has withdrawn from the city, and this has become a big deal throughout the city.”

“As big as it is.”

Chen Dong shrugged his shoulders and said with an indifferent expression, “More deeds will kill you, if that dog Zheng Qiu was competing in business properly, with Chen Tianyang’s funding of Hongtian Real Estate, it would be a big stumbling block for us at Dingtai, he had to go out of his way to make a cocoon of himself.”

Elder Long nodded, followed closely by, “Just now Lin Lingdong sent Wu Junhao to come over and wanted to meet you to explain last night’s matter face to face.”

“How did you get back?” Chen Dong asked.

“My old slave knew of your connection with Lin Lingdong, so he refused back.” Elder Long said.

Chen Dong rubbed his nose and laughed lightly, “It is actually something from the past, when that incident with Wang Nan Nan happened, Lin Lingdong also laid out his attitude to me, I am not so disgusted with Lin Lingdong.”

“Then meet one another?” Elder Long asked.

Chen Dong shook his head dryly, “No, I want to spend more time with Xiaoying in the next few days, besides if they come again, just tell him that I won’t count on what happened last night, he is a smart man, I can understand what he did last night and the attitude he gave me, I probably guessed that he was being calculated.”

“Good.” Elder Long nodded his head and was about to leave.

Chen Dong suddenly called out to Elder Long.

Scratching his head, Chen Dong said somewhat helplessly, “That Elder Long, about Brother Kunlun and Sister Xiao Lu, why don’t you and Qin Ye take some time to teach Brother Kunlun a couple of hands?”

“Pfft!” Elder Long stumbled and said with the corners of his mouth twitching, “Young master, not so much, it’s embarra*sing.”

Chen Dong rolled his eyes, “Come on, when you and Qin Ye exchange techniques, you also share techniques, ah, it’s always you two who engage in technical barriers, Brother Kunlun will probably have to be single until he’s old.”

 

Chapter 534

“No?”

Inside the hotel suite, Lin Lingdong’s brows were lowered and he was a little lost.

He had invited Zheng Qiu over this time, and his main purpose was Chen Dong.

Befriending Chen Dong would do him no harm at all.

In the matter of Wang Nan Nan, he had also made his attitude clear at the beginning, and what Wang Nan Nan and her mother had done had indeed touched his bottom line principle.

This time, he also wanted to clear the air with Chen Dong.

He had been set up by Zheng Qiu in the “Plum Blossom Tavern”, which added another gap between him and Chen Dong. If he hadn’t reacted quickly last night, he might not have been able to settle his grudge with Chen Dong.

Before dawn, Lin Lingdong had sent Wu Junhao to invite Chen Dong.

But the result now made him frown with apprehension.

“Boss, I didn’t see Chen Dong, I only saw the older slave of Chen Dong.”

Wu Junhao frowned and said, “The old slave should have known about the grudge between you and Chen Dong, so he balked.”

Lin Lingdong pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled a little bitterly.

“Go again and make sure you see Chen Dong.”

“No need for that, if he wanted to see us, he wouldn’t have let his old slave meet him.”

Wu Junhao said with a frown.

Lin Lingdong raised his eyes at Wu Junhao and smiled, “He is a smart man, with our attitude last night, he can guess what really happened last night, but the purpose of our visit is not about last night, but to ice the matter with him and befriend him.”

Wu Junhao nodded his head and turned to leave.

Lin Lingdong’s gaze turned deep as he looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window and murmured softly, “Still haven’t let go of the grudge from last time?”

At the beginning, even if the attitude was made very clear in the matter of Wang Nan Nan.

But afterwards, Lin Lingdong was still worried about incurring Chen Dong’s wrath, and it was only after a long time of painstaking caution that he was rea*sured.

At the same time, he also understood that his relationship with Chen Dong was not as rigid as he had imagined.

That was why he had the intention of befriending him now.

Stretching his back, Lin Lingdong got up and left the room, heading to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.

Early in the morning, people were coming and going in the restaurant, and most of them were still a little sleepy.

Lin Lingdong chose a few breakfast items, took his seat and ate them.

As he was eating, an old man, wrapped in a black trench coat and wearing a duck-tongue hat, sat down opposite Lin Lingdong.

Lin Lingdong was slightly stunned and looked up and around.

There were still many empty seats in the hotel, not so many that strangers were sitting together.

He surveyed the old man for a moment and lowered his head as he continued to eat.

The old man ate quickly, and compared to Lin Lingdong’s speed of eating, it was like a wind swept away.

Soon, the old man finished eating and left.

Lin Lingdong tugged at the corner of his mouth and smiled, but his eyes noticed a wallet left behind on the old man’s seat.

He immediately turned around to call out to the old man, but in the blink of an eye, the old man had already walked out of the restaurant and only a silhouette could be seen.

Lin Lingdong wiped the corner of his mouth and hurriedly got up to pick up his wallet and chased him out.

The rooftop of the hotel.

The morning breeze was brisk, carrying with it the slightest hint of autumnal coolness.

When Lin Lingdong arrived at the rooftop, the old man was standing on the edge of the rooftop, looking out into the distance.

Even when Lin Lingdong pushed open the iron door at the stairway and made a noise, the old man remained motionless.

Snap!

Lin Lingdong’s gaze flickered for a moment, his left hand patted the wallet in his hand and laughed strangely.

It was then that he raised his hand and threw the wallet at the old man’s feet, turned around and walked away.

“You’re leaving now?”

The old man called out to Lin Lingdong.

Lin Lingdong did not even turn his head back and said with a self-deprecating smile, “I wasted my good intentions, I could see that you were disguised and wearing a face, and now even your voice is fake, hiding your head, but you still lured me here with a broken wallet.”

“Heh! You are observant!”

The old man slowly turned around, under his duck-tongue cap, his old wrinkled face was outlined with a smile, his eyes were deep as he gazed at Lin Lingdong’s back: “Even my disguise could detect the clues in a short time, so you have a keen eye.”

“I’ve seen a lot of disguises in my line of work.”

Lin Lingdong’s face was calm and he still didn’t turn around, “But you are also the best disguise artist I’ve ever seen, I was still a bit unsure, but after I arrived at this place, it became clear to me.”

“Won’t you ask me what it was that brought you here?”

The old man’s voice was hoarse, like fine sand sharpening his throat, giving it an extremely laboured sound.

“Molesting me?”

Lin Lingdong gave a strange laugh.

The old man: “……”

“Bye-bye to you.”

Lin Lingdong raised his right hand and waved it in a dashing manner, lifting his feet to go downstairs.

However, the old man’s words caused Lin Lingdong’s raised right foot to freeze in mid-air and then fall back into place.

The old man said calmly, “There are people who want to kill you!”

“There are many people who are trying to kill me.” Lin Lingdong narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled, “But by and large, I have killed them all.”

“This time’s is different.”

The old man shook his head, “You have offended the wrong people, and the people behind Zheng Qiu want to kill you.”

Lin Lingdong’s face, which was wearing a smile, finally appeared grave and his smile faded away.

He slowly turned around and looked at the old man, “The person behind Zheng Qiu, who is he?”

Since Zheng Qiu had founded Hongtian Real Estate, he had tried to invite him to raise the banner three times.

He had even subtly mentioned to Lin Lingdong that there was someone behind him.

But the identity of that person had always been kept secret.

Even when Lin Lingdong had Wu Junhao investigate carefully, he came up empty-handed.

But …… now there was a real need to find out!

“Someone you can’t afford to mess with.” The old man said.

Lin Lingdong’s face flushed with depression, “You led me here just to remind me, and now that you have, you don’t say who it really is? Is that funny?”

“I saw that you were a good candidate, so I reminded you.”

The old man turned around and continued to look at the distant scenery, seemingly murmuring to himself, but also seemingly advising Lin Lingdong: “In fact, Chen Dong is a good brother, he is righteous enough.

Chen Dong?

Lin Lingdong’s eyes suddenly shot out a sharp aura.

He looked straight at the old man and said sternly, “Who are you again?”

“I am your father!”

Lin Lingdong’s face flushed with anger.

The old man turned and smiled playfully, “You can denigrate the old man as molesting you, and the old man can’t denigrate you as my son?”

Jairus!

“Petty!” Lin Lingdong said no more, turned around and left.

It was just as if the old man’s appearance was a thorn in his heart, making it impossible for his mind to remain calm any longer.

Back in the hotel room.

Lin Lingdong, however, was frowning, sitting in front of the window and smoking a cigarette: “The person behind Zheng Qiu, who is it?”

Throughout his career, Lin Lingdong had climbed out of the pile of dead people.

Lin Lingdong has long since developed a style of acting that takes life and death lightly, and it’s not that he hasn’t experienced a*sa*sination before.

But when it comes to the a*sa*sination of the man behind Zheng Qiu, it would be a lie to say that he is not afraid of it!

A person who could quickly support the puppet Zheng Qiu to the top in a short period of time, control the multi-billion Hongtian Real Estate, and arm-wrestle with the city’s leaders Zhou Yanqiu and Zhou Zunlong.

Such an existence could definitely make Lin Lingdong look up to the mountains and look at his back!

The room was silent.

The cigarette in Lin Lingdong’s hand rose up into a curl of smoke, leaving a long ash that did not fall off.

Knock, knock!

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

The ashes on the cigarette in Lin Lingdong’s eyes exploded and finally fell onto the carpet ……