"Don't bring that up again!"
At that, Assistant Liu was irked. He had paid people to harm Victoria Talkington, and though they failed, he hadn't gotten a single cent back.
Most importantly, the police were conducting such intensive investigations that he risked being thrown in jail for the slightest slip.
He had heard that the demon-like Chu Da who was under suspicion by Chu San, was pursuing the criminals involved too.
Assistant Liu, in order not to be double-crossed by the two men, reluctantly asked them to leave C City and take shelter elsewhere.
Surprisingly, those two men, being no paragons of virtue themselves, took this opportunity to extort a large sum of hush money from Assistant Liu.
Or else, they threatened, they would expose him for hiring them to harm Victoria Talkington.
Assistant Liu's plans fell through and he ended up penniless.
