A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1512 Save Yourselves Some Dignity

Wei Luo was very satisfied with Xu Lei's reaction.

If Ye Fan and Xu Lei didn't know how powerful the Wei family of Zhonghai was, then it would be meaningless for him to act like a big shot.

But he had been worried for nothing after all.

"During this time, the Xu family business has been running into problems again and again, across all industries. Billions of dollars' worth of goods have been stuck at the Zhonghai ports. So if my guess is right, your family's the one who's behind all of this, right?" Xu Lei continued to ask as she frowned.

Now that this Wei Luo turned out to be from a powerful family in Zhonghai, everything that happened before this made sense to Xu Lei.

It was no wonder that so many families in Yanjing had suddenly started distancing themselves from her.

And it was also no wonder that many of her expansion plans had run into issues.

The most pertinent of all was the fact that the goods that Xu Lei had ordered from overseas got stuck at Zhonghai by the authorities, and they still hadn't been released yet.

At that time, Xu Lei was under the impression that she had missed some paperwork, so she had run around trying to settle this matter for a long time.

But everything was clear now.

Missing paperwork was merely an excuse.

The real reason was that the Wei family was the one holding up the goods.

Wei Luo merely smiled at Xu Lei's questioning. "Miss Xu, you are indeed a lot more intelligent than others. Without any hints from me, you put two and two together so quickly. That's right, Miss Xu. All the issues you've run into lately are all my doing. But that's just an appetizer for you. The good show has only just started.

Next, I'm going to let all of you witness the birth of a new king in Yanjing."

Wei Luo made this declaration with great arrogance and confidence. He even looked disdainfully at Xu Lei and Ye Fan. He was like a king looking down at ants.

If someone else said these words, Xu Lei might have just scoffed and felt that the other party was spouting nonsense.

But because these words were said by Wei Luo, Xu Lei did not think he was kidding.

Her eyes were filled with solemnness and grimness.

"Miss Xu, is the Wei family of Zhonghai very powerful? Are they even more powerful than the Xu family in Yanjing?" Ye Yu-Yan couldn't help but ask Xu Lei when she saw that Xu Lei had paled. She couldn't help but feel a little curious and worried.

Even though Ye Fan was considered one of the most powerful people in China, there were still some people he couldn't afford to offend, like Sword Saint and the God of War, since they were the leaders of the martial arts circle.

But of course, besides the martial arts world, there were some really powerful figures who controlled a lot of areas in the mundane world whom Ye Fan could not afford to simply ruffle their feathers.

Xu Lei nodded in response. "No matter how powerful the Xu family is, the best we managed was to become fourth place among the four great families of Yanjing. There were other families like the Mo family and Xur family, who have great military and martial arts backing. In any case, the four families had to essentially share Yanjing."

"But the Wei family is different. Zhonghai is so huge, but the Wei family controls the whole place by themselves. They are the leader of the entire region. They have connections and people in every single aspect of Zhonghai." "The person I talked to about my goods getting stuck in Zhonghai was also connected to the Wei family. No wonder nothing moved. The people who were targeting my family turned out to be the Wei family themselves," said Xu Lei in a grim voice. There was worry written in her eyes.

At her position, there were very few factions of power that Xu Lei was wary of within the country.

However, the Wei family of Zhonghai was exactly one of those few factions of power.

Zhonghai was the most prosperous region of China.

One family had managed to gain control over the entire region and make everyone else bow to them. It wasn't hard to imagine how powerful this Wei family was.

In all of China, the only ones who could possibly fight the Wei family would probably be families like the Lu, Xur and Mo families who were descendants of true blue aristocratic families.

The Xu family had become a powerful family only because they had made a lot of money.

Unfortunately for them, money and physical assets were nothing in the eyes of the truly powerful.

That was also why the Xu family lost to the other families in terms of prestige and power within Yanjing.

CLAP CLAP!

After Xu Lei finished explaining all this to Ye Yu-Yan, Wei Luo started applauding.

"I knew it. The ones who know you the best are your rivals. Looks like this old saying is true. Miss Xu, I suppose you've researched hard on the Wei family before this. But that sounds about right. Our families have clashed a few times over the past two years, haven't we? I remember you tried to expand your business into Zhonghai two years ago, and my family blocked your move," Wei Luo smiled faintly.

Xu Lei frowned even more deeply.

Wei Luo was right about that.

She had been trying very hard to expand her business over the past two years.

Yanjing's economy was not doing as well as Zhonghai's, so Xu Lei put in a lot of effort to open a branch in Zhonghai so that she could enter its market.

But her plans were stopped very quickly by the Wei family.

She had tried to fight the Wei family then, but of course, she had failed miserably. She even had to give up her expansion plans, and agreed with the Wei family that neither side would attempt to expand into each other's territory from then on.

Because of that, Xu Lei's Zhonghai expansion plan was shelved, and the billions she had invested went down the drain.

"Since you've brought this up, I want to ask you then - I made an agreement with the head of your family to never cross each other's paths again. Why didn't you keep to it? I didn't attempt any expansion into Zhonghai, so why are you making trouble in Yanjing?" Xu Lei questioned him coldly.

Wei Luo laughed. "Miss Xu, don't you think you sound very silly? That's an agreement between the heads of both families. But you're no longer the head of the Xu family. If anybody wants to challenge me on that agreement, then Feng should be the one raising this question. You're not qualified to do so."

"Alright, I've said everything I've supposed to, so let's cut the crap. You've been chased out of the Xu family and I can let you go out in one good piece. But first, you must kneel before Feng and apologize. If you don't do that, then you, and that little lover boy of yours, aren't going anywhere today," said Wei Luo in a commandeering voice as he sneered at her.

Xu Lei fell silent.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally looked up and said in a low voice, "Fine. I can apologize to Xu Mei-Feng, and I can give up the position of being head of the Xu family. But my only condition is that you do not touch the Xue family."

Ye Fan relied on herself and Xue Ren-Yang to control Yanjing.

She had fallen from grace, so if the Xue family was dragged down with her as a result, everything that Ye Fan had built in Yanjing would vanish.

She didn't want everything that Ye Fan had built and schemed for so many years to go down the drain because of her.

But Wei Luo shook his head at her request. "Miss Xu, wake up and look at the situation you're in. You're not in a position to negotiate with me now. Hurry up, my Feng has been waiting for a very long time now. Call that lover boy of yours along to kneel down and apologize to Feng now. Save yourselves some dignity if you can, don't make me get my subordinates to force you to kneel."