The tension in the opulent villa was thick enough to choke on, a suffocating miasma of barely restrained fury and simmering resentment. At the eye of this gathering storm stood Yang Bojun, the late patriarch's imposing illegitimate son, his towering frame seeming to loom over the assembled Sun family members like an indomitable monolith.
Where Sun Weilong and Sun Lixia regarded their half-brother with undisguised wariness and contempt, Yang Bojun met their piercing gazes with a look of thinly veiled disdain, his eyes glittering with an unmistakable hunger that sent a shiver of primal unease down Li Chen's spine.
It became increasingly apparent that the enigmatic giant harbored ambitions of his own – ambitions that seemed to extend far beyond the modest five percent share bequeathed to him by the late patriarch's final wishes.
