Letting out a cold hum to Duan Lengyan, Wandong bade Wang Tianbiao in a cold voice, "Now you go and admit your guilt to your immediate superior and resign as a director. Then you can return home to take care of your mom and your child."

"Ah, no! Childe Xu" Wang Tianbiao groaned. It grieved him to resign, as a director of the Yunzhong Management Administration could wet his beak as much as he wanted because there were loads of people lining up to bribe him for their own purposes. Hence, he hated to let it go.

"Son of a bitch! You even stayed an incorrigible at this moment! You're damn hopeless!" Wandong had a fit.

Wang Tianbiao shuddered on sensing Wandong's fury and hastened to say, "Childe Xu, please cool off. IIwill do as you say." Undoubtedly, he could tell the significance of his life outstripped that of his official title.

Then he kowtowed to Wandong three times and extended his gratitude for his magnanimity to spare his life. Head downcast, Wang Tianbiao left to see his immediate superior in low spirits.

"It has never crossed my mind that it would end up like this. Childe Xu is even a harder nut to crack than Miss Three," Pi Xiong thought to himself.

"Big brother, is it way too lenient to give him such a light punishment? You know, he had done quite a few dark deeds," Wu Yang said in an unsatisfied tone, casting a glance at Wang Tianbiao's figure.

Wandong merely let out a grim laugh as a response. Then he looked back at Duan Lengyan and said, "Well, my martial granddaughter, you see your martial grandad has been standing here for a while. Why don't you invite me in?"

Having lost to Wandong, Duan Lengyan's face was already twisted out of rage. She made an outburst when Wandong held her to ridicule, "What did you call me?!"

Ignorant about Wandong's tactics, Wu Yang and Leng Yuecui went startled, looking at each other with bewilderment.

Faced with the rampant Duan Lengyan, Wandong stayed poised and added with a smile, "Is that wrong? Your martial master is my disciple, then you are certainly my martial granddaughter. Well, any idea where my old and dumb disciple is? How come he didn't show up to welcome his visiting master?"

"Xu Yaoting, what are you trying to do with that? Don't you remember you promised that you wouldn't bring up that issue again in the Palace of Dingshan? How could you chop and change?"

Wandong grinned and said, "You missed one point. As far as I remember, it was because you expressed your will to give me one thousand kilos of gold as a present that I promised to let it go. However, you haven't offered me the gold yet. It is you who chop and change."

"You" Duan Lengyan went lost for words.

"What? Stop mincing the words. If you don't cash my cheque promptly, I'll keep speaking out and let everyone know that," Wandong said with a teasing smile.

Duan Lengyan finally came to realize that she would never get an upper hand in a duel of intelligence with Wandong.

Duan Lengyan didn't calm down until she took a couple of deep breaths. Then she pulled a long face and said, "The preparation of one thousand kilos of gold and the

blood steel gemstones was long concluded. Come in with me."