Chapter 2734 — Getting to the Bottom of It

At this thought, Xiao Ben was suddenly filled with bitterness, yet he did not dare fly into a rage. After all, the Kang family was no longer a height the Xiao family could aspire to reach—they could only look up at it now.

"Young Master Kang, what is the meaning of this...? Was the matter of our two families' alliance not settled long ago? You cannot call off the engagement simply because your younger brother has risen in the world, can you?" Xiao Ji was blunt by nature and could not hold his tongue. He asked point-blank, for if he was to die, he would die knowing why.

Xiao Ben cursed inwardly that his elder brother had no grasp of tact. Now that you have spoken everything outright, is that not the same as leaving no room to maneuver? At this rate, the engagement would have to be called off whether they willed it or not.

"My younger brother has risen in the world?" Kang Zhaolong gave a cold laugh. "Do you think our Kang family would do such a thing? The misunderstanding from before has already been cleared up. Would we make the same mistake a second time?"

"Then you are..." Hearing Kang Zhaolong say this, Xiao Ben realized it did not seem to be because Kang Zhaoming had ascended to high position and gained a background at the ancient level that the Kang family had cast off the Xiao family—it was for some other reason.

At this, Xiao Ben actually felt somewhat grateful for his elder brother's rash bluntness. Without that remark, he feared he would not even have gotten to the bottom of the cause. Only by knowing the cause can one prescribe the right remedy; without knowing it, one could never understand where Kang Zhaolong's towering rage came from.

"See for yourselves on the phone!" Kang Zhaolong flung his phone down in front of Xiao Ben and said with a cold snort.

"Ah? This..." Xiao Ben picked up Kang Zhaolong's phone, at a loss as to what Kang Zhaolong wanted him to look at, so he asked in some bewilderment, "What is it you want me to see?"

"The video on the phone!" Kang Zhaolong snorted.

Xiao Ben, none the wiser, opened the video folder on Kang Zhaolong's phone and played the first video in it...

"Ah... ah... ah... ah..." A woman's moans came from the phone. Xiao Ben and Xiao Ji stared at the video in astonishment. In it, Kang Zhaolong was lying atop a woman, rising and falling. And the woman was screaming wildly...

"This... Young Master Kang, you have us watch this... do you mean that you have taken a liking to another woman and no longer care for our Xinyan?" Xiao Ben truly could not figure out what Kang Zhaolong meant by showing him this self-recorded video, so he could only guess.

"Ahem... not that one, look at the last one!" Kang Zhaolong's face reddened. This was filmed when he had hired a prostitute. Every day he had to watch Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan billing and cooing, and Kang Zhaolong had no outlet for his fire, so he vented the frustration in his heart upon the prostitute.

The one filming had been You Panhu—the fellow was rather fond of playing with his phone and taking self-recorded videos. At the time Kang Zhaolong had not paid it any mind, but now that Xiao Ben had played it, he felt abruptly rather embarrassed.

"Uh..." Xiao Ben shut off the video and selected the last recording to play.

In the recording, Xiao Ben saw a car. The car was parked before the gate of a villa, and the door opened. Wang Xinyan and a group of people got out of the car and walked into the villa. Among this group, Xiao Ben saw several familiar faces, among them none other than the Xiao family's great enemy, Wei Zhao!

As for Wei Zhao, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben hated him to the marrow of their teeth. The Xiao family's backers had one after another gone over to Wei Zhao—from the Wu family of the mundane world, with whom they had first been on good terms, to the hidden Pi family afterward. It was the same in every case!

"Wei Zhao? This video is...?" Xiao Ben pondered a moment, then asked cautiously.

"This villa belongs to Wei Zhao. After school, Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan returned to this villa together. What that signifies in there, I need not spell out, I think?" Kang Zhaolong said with a cold laugh. "My fiancée is living under the same roof as another man. If I do not call off the engagement, what else am I to do?"

Kang Zhaolong had come here to make a scene precisely to seize the initiative and preserve his own face. Whether he made the scene first or was forced into making it was an entirely different matter. If he made the first move, the Xiao family would do everything to make amends. But if the affair were spread first and he then made a scene, he would merely look shrill and desperate.

"This... I fear there must be some misunderstanding in all this?" Xiao Ben said. "This video shows a group of men and women going to a villa—perhaps they were paying a visit or having a party?"

"What party? An orgy?" Kang Zhaolong glared. "That is Wei Zhao's villa to begin with. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu live there. And now Wang Xinyan has followed them into the villa—what are they playing at? Moreover, this morning I saw Wang Xinyan being carried into school in Wei Zhao's arms, and once at school she slept the whole morning. Clearly she had not slept all night. What did she do all night? Can you guess?"

"Uh..." Xiao Ben was stunned, his expression somewhat ugly. Though in his heart he had already confirmed something, he still said, "Young Master Kang, do not be hasty in this matter. Perhaps it is a misunderstanding. Allow me to go and ask just what happened?"

"Fine then. Go and fetch her. I will be waiting right here. I want to see whether there is any misunderstanding in this!" Kang Zhaolong plopped himself down on the living-room sofa and said with a cold laugh.

"Very well, Young Master Kang. Please rest a while, and I will go fetch her at once and get to the bottom of this!" Xiao Ben said as he walked toward the inner rooms.

Watching the direction in which Xiao Ben departed, Kang Zhaolong gave a cold snort. He knew Xiao Ben meant to find Wang Xinyan and get their stories straight, but he did not care. If there truly was nothing between Wang Xinyan and Wei Zhao, then he would naturally keep pressuring the Xiao family to make Wang Xinyan be with him.

And if there was something between Wang Xinyan and Wei Zhao, then he would likewise force Wang Xinyan to be with him—but once he had grown tired of playing with her, he would cast her aside, and in so doing humiliate Wei Zhao. So no matter how things turned out, Kang Zhaolong had thought through his countermeasures on the way here, and he was utterly fearless.

After Xiao Ben reached the room in the inner quarters, he quickly dialed Xiao Qinlin's number. When he went to find Wang Xinyan, he feared she would ignore him and give him no pleasant face, so he could only reach Wang Xinyan through Xiao Qinlin.

"Second Brother, is something the matter?" Xiao Qinlin asked after picking up. Though her relationship with Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben had eased somewhat of late, it was only on the surface. She had never stopped brooding over the matter of Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben forcing Wang Xinyan to marry Kang Zhaolong.

"Qinlin, Wang Xinyan has landed herself in trouble! Great trouble!" Xiao Ben tried to frighten her outright. "The Kang family now wants to wipe out our Xiao family, and as for you and Wang Xuben over there, they certainly will not spare him either!"

"Ah? What do you mean? What trouble could Xinyan have landed in? And why would the Kang family want to wipe us out?" Xiao Qinlin was startled and somewhat dazed, not knowing what had happened.

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