Chapter 402 Huo Zhizhou, let me out!

Chapter 402 Huo Zhizhou, let me out!

"I'm in Jingzhou." Jiang Ruan focused her attention, trying to hear if there was any other background noise on his end. "Would it be convenient for us to meet and talk about something?"

"Just say it." Huo Zhizhou said coldly.

He's completely different from before. Apart from the time he deliberately made things difficult for me during my divorce, he's always been very gentle and gentlemanly since we met.

“This can’t be discussed over the phone.” Jiang Ruan didn’t want him to act impulsively and give Huo Sinian leverage over him. “Can we talk in person?”

Huo Zhizhou refused decisively: "No."

Jiang Ruan wanted to say something more, but he hung up the phone directly.

"It seems he's determined to get to the bottom of things this time." Gu Shixi frowned slightly, his heart burning with anxiety. "Do you know of any other hidden locations he might have?"

Jiang Ruan shook her head.

Huo Zhizhou never explained these things to her.

The two never thought about breaking up when they were together, so naturally they never publicly listed their assets. Not to mention her, even Huo Zhizhou wouldn't remember what he owned if he didn't check.

"I'll call Assistant Jiang again," Jiang Ruan said.

The moment the call was made, Jiang Yu walked up to Huo Zhizhou with her phone in hand, her face showing only a work-related attitude: "Boss, it's Miss Jiang on the phone."

Huo Zhizhou's dark gaze fell on his phone screen.

Jiang Yu asked, "Should I answer it?"

Huo Zhizhou was silent for a moment: "Hang up."

Jiang Yu did as instructed.

Considering that Jiang Ruan rarely calls the BOSS but calls him instead, he couldn't help but ask, "What if Miss Jiang really has an emergency?"

“It’s nothing urgent,” Huo Zhizhou said confidently. “It must be that Gu Shixi or Huo Sinian said something to her.”

If she has an emergency, she will tell him as soon as the phone connects.

Even if they are divorced, there's nothing they can't say over the phone.

Seeing the BOSS's certainty, Jiang Yu didn't say anything more. He knew very well that if anyone in the world understood Miss Jiang the most, it would be their BOSS, even more so than Miss Jiang's mother.

"How's Huo Cheng doing?" Huo Zhizhou changed the subject.

"I still insist that Shan Mu'an's matter has nothing to do with him." Jiang Yu is following up on everything. "I'm telling you to let him go back, or I'll call the police to arrest you."

Huo Zhizhou didn't say a word, and started walking towards the basement of the villa. He suddenly stopped when he was about to reach Huo Cheng's room.

Assistant Jiang stopped as well: "What's wrong?"

Huo Zhizhou thought about the phone call he had just received, and Jiang Ruan's image automatically appeared in his mind: "Have someone check and see if something really happened to Ruan Ruan."

“Okay,” Assistant Jiang replied immediately.

Huo Zhizhou nodded and continued to see Huo Cheng.

He was willing to gamble on everything, but he dared not be careless about anything else, especially when it came to his soft and delicate body.

Pushing open the leftmost door to the basement, Huo Cheng's haggard face came into view. Upon seeing Huo Zhizhou, he said angrily, "Huo Zhizhou! Let me out!"

"I'll take you back to the old house whenever you tell me the truth." Huo Zhizhou sat opposite him, his spotless coat a stark contrast to Huo Cheng's disheveled appearance.

"I've told you everything I need to say," Huo Cheng vehemently denied. "I know nothing about what you're saying!"

Huo Zhizhou exuded an inherent sense of pressure: "Is that so?"

Huo Cheng answered without hesitation: "What good would it do me to lie to you?"

"My patience is limited." Huo Zhizhou looked over with his dark, calm eyes. "If you haven't told the truth about what happened back then by the end of the month, I will give Shan Mu'an's family an explanation in my own way."

"What do you want to do!" Huo Cheng's face panicked.

"I'll do to you what you did to them," Huo Zhizhou said calmly. "Don't worry, I'll turn myself in to the police after this is all over."

Huo Cheng looked at him in disbelief: "Are you crazy!"

Huo Zhizhou pursed his thin lips slightly.

He's gone mad.

If he hadn't been thinking of Ruan Ruan and Sui Sui, he would have grabbed Huo Cheng and jumped off the building where Shan Mu An jumped the moment he learned about it. The only reason he didn't do that was that he still held Huo Cheng back.

"Don't forget your surname is Huo, not Shan!" Huo Cheng's face was ashen. "How can you treat your own father like this for an outsider? Have you lost your conscience?!"

"Father?" Huo Zhizhou repeated the word.

Huo Cheng looked at him.

My heart skipped a beat for no reason.

"I don't have a father like you who treats children like commodities." Huo Zhizhou never acknowledged him, "and I certainly wouldn't acknowledge someone like you who kills indiscriminately for profit as my father."

When he was a child, he had to learn whatever other children could do, and he had to compete with dozens or even hundreds of children around him.

He wanted to focus on learning step by step, but they made him learn this and that all the time in order to compete with him, and even more so, they called him a child prodigy out of vanity.

As a "child prodigy," one must be able to do everything: compose a poem in three steps, write a chapter in five steps, compose music in seven steps, and so on...

He became a commodity to be compared with, a tool to satisfy their vanity. If there was anything that he couldn't understand even after studying for a whole class, he would be called a piece of trash or an idiot.

Back then, I was young and stubborn; if I didn't know something, I simply didn't know it, and I got beaten up a lot for it.

If it weren't for Shan Mu'an's appearance, he really would have gone crazy or become depressed in that environment. After all, his living environment only consisted of a serious grandfather, vain parents, and an invisible brother.

Besides that, there are a bunch of courses that are taken to satisfy their vanity.

"You unfilial son! You ingrate!" Huo Cheng was truly enraged. He hadn't expected his painstaking nurturing to yield such a result. "Don't forget who taught you everything you know now!"

Huo Zhizhou replied calmly, "I learned it myself."

Huo Cheng was angry: "You!"

Huo Zhizhou countered, "Isn't that right?"

Huo Cheng wanted to refute but couldn't.

This kid is indeed self-taught in business. He has always been proud to have such a talented child. If he had known he would turn out like this, he should have done his best to cultivate Si Nian!

"If I had known you were such an ingrate, I shouldn't have handed the Huo Group over to you in the first place!" That's what he thought, so he said it.

“You have no choice.” Huo Zhizhou has been intelligent since childhood and has always known what he wants. “If it hadn’t been handed over to me, the Huo Group would have changed its name long ago.”

Huo Cheng retorted, "Then give it to your brother!"

Huo Zhizhou: "He couldn't have handled the crisis at that time with his abilities."

Huo Cheng opened his mouth, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't come up with a single rebuttal.

Si Nian was raised as the heir to the Huo Group from childhood, and was instilled with the concept of managing a company. In the end, he was still not as good as Huo Zhizhou, a self-taught kid.

Sometimes he wonders what he would be like now if he had been trained through the same process as Si Nian.

"Do you remember how you made Shan Mu'an jump off the building?" Huo Zhizhou's emotions remained exceptionally calm throughout, as calm as the calm before a storm.

Huo Cheng remained defiant: "I told you it has nothing to do with me!"

Huo Zhizhou stood up: "Then take your time to think about it. Whenever you remember, have someone bring you food."

Huo Cheng was starving: "I'm your father, what right do you have to treat me like this!"

"Didn't you teach me this?" Huo Zhizhou looked exactly like a calm madman at this moment.