Given Nan Yi’s vindictive, never-let-anything-slide personality, if Third Chicken ran into him and pissed him off, there’s no telling what Nan Yi might do.

She couldn’t bear to see such a beautiful Beloved Concubine of hers get hurt.

Third Chicken was very depressed.

#I want to show off in front of my hubby but hubby doesn’t seem to need my protection what do I do#

The news that the Tianlang Warriors had been wiped out reached Xia Yongxuan’s ears and scared her so badly she broke out in a cold sweat.

Tianlang had done a lot for her, killed a lot of people, and had never once failed.

An organization like that, and it got wiped out!

And of all times it could have happened, it just had to be when she sent Tianlang to kill Xia Weibao—those two things were definitely connected.

That made Xia Yongxuan very afraid—afraid that person would turn around and come for her.

She cowered in her room for two days, too scared to even step over the threshold.

It wasn’t until the day before the third-round competition that she finally steeled herself and came out.

She went to find Xia Jingmin to discuss countermeasures.

Before, she’d thought Xia Weibao didn’t know medicine, so she’d been extremely confident in herself; even if Xia Weibao advanced to the third round, she definitely wouldn’t be her match.

But now that she knew Xia Weibao was Dr. Weiliang, someone whose medical skill surpassed her own, she no longer dared entertain any wishful thinking.

Especially since Xia Yunping’s illness had been cured by Xia Weibao, and she’d lost the Xia Chuyan card!

Worse yet, Xia Chuyan had been completely, utterly pushed over to Xia Weibao’s camp.

So she could no longer afford to take this lightly; she had to be fully prepared!

Xia Jingmin’s face was etched with worry. "What else can we do now? The competition starts tomorrow. Xia Weibao has Summer protecting her—are we supposed to just kill her?"

Just hearing talk of killing Xia Weibao gave Xia Yongxuan lingering fear.

There was no way Xia Weibao could be allowed to live, but she also didn’t dare hire anyone to kill her again.

Xia Jingmin’s expression suddenly turned grave. "Yongxuan, why don’t we play our trump card and force that old bastard Xia Jinsong to step down!"

Xia Yongxuan’s face shifted slightly. "No way!"

Her biggest trump card, of course, was that she had secretly poisoned all the top political figures in The East and the power-holders of the major factions.

However, that card couldn’t be played!

At least, not yet.

Those poisons were fundamentally unstable; she had no confidence she could control that many people at the same time.

And then there was Xia Weibao!

Xia Weibao could neutralize that poison. If the matter was exposed, it would definitely spark public outrage; those people would never let her off!

They’d definitely kill her first, then go to Xia Weibao for the antidote.

So Xia Weibao had to die first!

That way, no one would ever be able to cure this poison. Even if those people found out about it, for the sake of their own lives, they wouldn’t dare act too aggressively.

Xia Jingmin suddenly hurled the cup in his hand to the floor. With a bang, water splashed everywhere and the porcelain shattered into pieces.

"This won’t do, that won’t do—what the hell are your poisons even good for! What’s the point of all our years of plotting then!"

He’d thought this daughter was some formidable player; never imagined that in the end she’d be overshadowed by some bastard brought back from outside! 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Now they’d been driven into such a corner, gotten nothing out of it, and only stirred up a whole mess for themselves!

Xia Yongxuan’s face went cold. "If you’re so capable, you go then. Go blow this whole thing wide open and see if you’re still alive to greet tomorrow’s sun!"

Those people were all top big shots in The East—did he really think they were that easy to threaten!

Those poisons absolutely could not be brought into the open; they could only be used in private, one by one, when someone needed to be dealt with.

Otherwise, if you offended that many big shots all at once, if they didn’t kill you on the spot, what were they saving you for, New Year’s?