The man in black had not broken his word. After he left, a heavy, suffocating tension—like a mountain storm about to break—engulfed the entire Wu Family. Meng Li and I shared a silent understanding and simultaneously heightened our security, throwing the whole estate into a state of full combat readiness.
Yet, what was bound to come arrived all the same.
Scarcely three days later, just as night fell, the heavy sound of rushing wind tore through the stillness. I jerked my head up to see dozens of dark figures plunging from the sky like hunting falcons, heading straight for the main hall of the Wu Family.
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