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"Finally, we've come to this step..."
In the eastern half of the district, a man in white looked around with a complex expression while a tall man stood beside him, his gaze vacant, his movements stiff like a puppet. Who else could it be but Hou Nanfeng?
Who would have thought that the future head of the illustrious Hou Family would become someone else's puppet?
"Did you plan this from the beginning?"
Within the man in white, a faint voice spoke up—it was Chen Qing!
"No, the plan formed after you showed up," the King of Qin laughed. "I didn't expect things to go so smoothly. You've been better than I imagined. Because you showed such high value, you tempted Zhang Zhengyuan and the higher-ups to take a risk, which gave me my chance."
