Chapter 52: Liu Yan: I Beg You, Take Me Out of Northern Myanmar

Bai Yangshu delivered a fierce slap across Bai Xiaoxiao's face. By this time, cold sweat was already streaming down his face, and his complexion had turned ashen.

Liu Yan stood there dumbfounded, utterly unable to comprehend Bai Yangshu's behavior, her gaze turning vacant and blank.

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

"Zhang Fan is the one who killed so many members of the Bai family!"

"He has already built the picon-scale photolithography machine and lost his usefulness. Even if he died in northern Myanmar, so what? The Bai family won't be in any trouble."

Bai Yangshu's expression twisted into something terrifyingly ferocious.

He had always doted on Bai Xiaoxiao, but at this moment, having angered the Zhu family, he had no choice but to treat his second son as a discarded pawn to protect the Bai family.

Liu Yan's words only plunged him into a fit of rage. He turned his head and glared at her with a deadly stare.

"You have no idea whatsoever what kind of existence you've made my son provoke!"

"This lady from the Zhu family only needs a single phone call, and not just my Bai family, but the entire northern Myanmar would be reduced to a sea of fire."

"You idiot! If it weren't for you, how could my son have offended Mr. Zhang Fan and the eldest young lady of the Zhu family? After today, I will never spare you!"

Liu Yan felt as though she had plunged into an icy abyss.

What on earth was going on?!

That new wife of Zhang Fan possessed such immense influence?

Not only could she wipe out the entire Bai family, but she could even obliterate the entire scam syndicate network of northern Myanmar?

No, that couldn't possibly be true, could it?

That would require the power of the Chinese state itself to accomplish!

Liu Yan couldn't wrap her head around it, but Bai Yangshu's towering rage made it clear he wasn't joking with her.

At the mere thought of her own tragic fate to come, Liu Yan collapsed onto the ground, her expression turning entirely vacant.

Bai Xiaoxiao found it equally hard to believe everything he was hearing. Like a drowning man clutching at a straw, he frantically grabbed his father's trouser legs.

His voice trembled violently.

"Dad, you—you must be messing with me, pulling my leg, right?"

"How could such a terrifying family possibly exist in this world?"

"Even if Zhu Qing'an holds a noble status, you can't just kill me just because I offended her! Dad?!"

Bai Yangshu looked calm on the outside, but inside, he felt as though he was about to explode.

Once Zhu Qing'an made a single phone call, the entire Bai family would be completely wiped out overnight!

Such a behemoth of a family was definitely not something he, Bai Yangshu, could afford to provoke.

He bit his lip hard, his face sinking, and suddenly kicked Bai Xiaoxiao squarely in the face.

The kick sent blood spurting from Bai Xiaoxiao's nose as Bai Yangshu roared at him.

"Don't call me dad! I don't have a son as stupid as you!"

"From this moment on, we are no longer father and son!"

"Are you going to end your own life, or should I help you along?"

Bai Xiaoxiao felt as if he had been struck by lightning. Like Liu Yan, he collapsed flat onto the ground, his mind completely blank.

No matter what, he simply could not imagine that his own biological father now wanted to kill him.

Just because he had offended Zhang Fan's wife.

His own father was going to kill him!

Pain was etched across Bai Yangshu's face, but he knew very well that a short sharp pain was better than a long-drawn-out agony.

If he didn't kill Bai Xiaoxiao, then for a long time to come, it wouldn't just be simple pain.

The entire Bai family would face total annihilation.

They would cease to exist!

Decades of painstaking effort and enterprise would turn into nothingness!

Drawing a deep breath, Bai Yangshu closed his eyes, refusing to look at Bai Xiaoxiao anymore, and spoke in an icy, ruthless tone.

"Dig a pit and bury the second young master alive."

"Yes!"

Several burly men immediately grabbed Bai Xiaoxiao by the arms.

Although they also found it utterly unbelievable, anyone who could make the family head this terrified was definitely, absolutely, definitively not someone they could afford to cross.

Therefore, not a single one of them dared to even glance at Zhang Fan or Zhu Qing'an.

They dragged Bai Xiaoxiao away instantly.

Outside, the sound of digging started almost immediately.

When the soil reached his ankles, Bai Xiaoxiao began to struggle frantically, but he was pinned down by the men beside him, leaving him capable of nothing more than screaming at the top of his lungs.

"No! No! Dad, I am your son!"

"There's an old Chinese saying: even a fierce tiger won't eat its own cubs. How can you kill me?"

"No! Don't! Dad!"

Bai Yangshu's body trembled violently.

Had he not been driven to absolute desperation, how could he ever have committed such a despicable act?

Yet he had to kill him!

If the Bai family wanted to survive, this was the only way.

As for killing Zhang Fan and Zhu Qing'an right here?

Bai Yangshu didn't even dare let such a thought cross his mind.

If the two of them really died here, there wouldn't even be any need to investigate who did it.

The entire northern Myanmar could just sit back and wait to be bombed to dust.

Bai Xiaoxiao's screams gradually choked off as he lost his breath.

Before long, the dirt completely buried his head.

All sound from Bai Xiaoxiao was cut off entirely.

Liu Yan, Zhang Fan's ex-wife, had lived up to her name—she was stunning and alluring.

Yet watching this cruel spectacle, she was so terrified that she lost control of her bodily functions, her heart feeling as though it were about to burst from fear.

This wasn't real!

This couldn't be real!

How, how could this be?

Just how terrifying was Zhu Qing'an's background?

It was enough to terrify the dignified head of the Bai family, Bai Yangshu, into burying his own youngest son alive!

All just to preserve the Bai family?

Absurd!

This was far too absurd!

No matter what, Liu Yan found it hard to believe her own eyes.

Yet all of this had happened right in front of her.

Like a stray dog, she collapsed limply on the ground, unable to move a muscle.

Then, mustering every ounce of strength left in her body, she slowly crawled toward Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan did not look at her at all. Instead, he gave a slight nod to Bai Yangshu.

"You know what's good for you."

"With the resources I currently command, it might be impossible to single-handedly destroy the entire scam syndicate of northern Myanmar."

"Let me offer you a piece of advice: you'd better turn yourselves in to the authorities sooner rather than later."

Bai Yangshu kept his head lowered in silence, cold sweat still streaming down his back, praying only that he wouldn't invoke the wrath of Zhang Fan and Zhu Qing'an.

"I understand."

"Your instruction is engraved in my heart."

Not until Liu Yan crawled all the way to Zhang Fan's feet did Zhang Fan finally cast a look of feigned surprise down at her.

"Oh my, my dear ex-wife, Ms. Liu Yan, why have you soiled your pants like that?"

"Are you sick or something? Do you need me to have someone carry you to the hospital?"

"Get up quickly, don't kneel before me. I really can't afford to accept such a kowtow."

Liu Yan's legs were completely jelly. Just like Bai Xiaoxiao, she was unable to stand up at all.

Her face was as pale as snow, and she knew full well that Zhang Fan was her only remaining chance to escape northern Myanmar alive.

Remorse gnawed fiercely at Liu Yan's heart as her voice trembled.

"Zh-Zhang Fan, please, forgive me!"

"From the very beginning when I cheated on you, right up until now, everything I've done has been utterly hateful. I know I was wrong, and I will never dare do it again!"

"I—I just want to survive. Please give me a chance to live."

As she spoke, Liu Yan burst into tears, her face smeared with a messy mixture of tears and snot.

There was not a shred of sympathy in Zhang Fan's eyes. Instead, a mocking sneer appeared on his face as he shook his head repeatedly.

"No, no, no. I'm just here in northern Myanmar for a vacation."

"What trouble have you gotten yourself into? I haven't the slightest idea!"

"Besides, you haven't done anything wrong, have you? Darling, let's go."

With those words, Zhang Fan took Zhu Qing'an by the hand and, under the escort of Tian Xiao and the others, prepared to leave.

Liu Yan let out a heart-wrenching wail, crying so bitterly that her throat grew raw and hoarse.

"Zhang Fan, for the sake of the time we spent as husband and wife, I'm begging you! I'm truly begging you!"

"Take me with you! Please! I'm begging you to take me with me!"

"Northern Myanmar is no place for a human being. Please take me away..."