Gu Qing’s question caught Shen Guangji off guard.
He raised a hand and scratched his brow bone with a thumbnail, a look of difficulty crossing his face as his brows knit together involuntarily. Before arriving, he had indeed vaguely sensed that the disappearance of Gu Qing all those years ago was far from an accident; it was highly probable that it had been a calculated conspiracy, deliberately orchestrated from the shadows. However, he hadn't yet had the chance to delve deeply into those thoughts.
Now, with Gu Qing asking him so directly across the table, Shen Guangji felt a sense of belated realization and sudden awkwardness, at a loss for how to answer. After all, as the controller of the underground forces in Nancheng, he made plenty of enemies in his day-to-day life. To say nothing of the rest, it would be no exaggeration to say that all of Nancheng was practically crawling with people who held a grudge against him or the Shen family. Seen in this light, it could only be the latter.
Chapter 296