Chapter 2396 — Divine Physician Kang's Analysis
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"Naturally, I understand that!" Xiao Ben nodded. "Don't worry, Brother Kang!"
Kang Guifeng hung up the phone and recounted what Xiao Ben had said to Divine Physician Kang, Kang Cuipu, and Kang Jinglong. Kang Jinglong and Kang Cuipu were quite agitated; they felt this absolutely could not be let go—it was a slap in the face, and they had to win back their pride.
"Father, this can't be let go! Wei Zhao bullied us before, and we had no backing, so we let it pass. But now we have powerful backing—are we still to let him bully us?" Kang Jinglong had long since regarded Wang Xinyan as his private property. When Wei Zhao had sabotaged the Divine Physician Kang Pharmaceutical Company, Kang Jinglong had already been stewing in resentment; now that Wei Zhao had taken his woman, even he—cunning and deep as he was—could no longer quite hold himself back.
Yet Divine Physician Kang's expression remained utterly placid. He waved a hand at the hopping-mad Kang Jinglong and said, "Zhaolong, don't lose your temper yet. There's no telling what good intentions the Xiao family really has in this matter!"
Snobbish as Divine Physician Kang was, he was also a crafty and sinister man, and so he had at once caught a certain whiff of something in Xiao Ben's phone call. For the Xiao family to call at this juncture, their intentions might not be kindly at all.
"Oh? Father, what do you mean?" Kang Guifeng asked, slightly taken aback.
"The Xiao family is really trying to maximize its own interests. If Wang Xinyan goes to Wei Zhao, it does the Xiao family no good at all!" Divine Physician Kang said. "The Xiao family and Wei Zhao are also mortal enemies, with little chance of reconciliation. So if Wang Xinyan goes to Wei Zhao, the relationship between the Xiao family and ours will rupture—for them, the harm outweighs the benefit. But they don't quite dare provoke Wei Zhao either, so they kick this ball to us and then work you up over the phone, so that our Kang family will lock horns with Wei Zhao…"
"This…" Hearing Divine Physician Kang's analysis, Kang Guifeng finally grasped some of the issues at play. "Then shouldn't we sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight—stay out of it?"
"Of course not. Wang Xinyan is, after all, the wife our Kang family has settled on. If she's snatched away by Wei Zhao at this point, the loss of face for the Kang family would drag Zhaoming's name through the mud, and the hidden You family would mock us as well!" Divine Physician Kang waved a hand. "As things stand, the Kang family's face is of the utmost importance! If any unfavorable rumors get out and reach the Xuandan Sect, they could very well block our path to becoming a hidden family!"
"Then Father means we should go head-to-head with Wei Zhao? But our current strength doesn't allow for that…" Kang Guifeng asked cautiously.
"Head-to-head is naturally out of the question. Setting aside whether we have the strength for it, even if we did, for the time being we must still keep a low profile!" Divine Physician Kang said, waving a hand.