Chapter 2734 — Getting to the Bottom of It
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At this thought, Xiao Ben was suddenly filled with bitterness, yet he did not dare fly into a rage. After all, the Kang family was no longer a height the Xiao family could aspire to reach—they could only look up at it now.
"Young Master Kang, what is the meaning of this...? Was the matter of our two families' alliance not settled long ago? You cannot call off the engagement simply because your younger brother has risen in the world, can you?" Xiao Ji was blunt by nature and could not hold his tongue. He asked point-blank, for if he was to die, he would die knowing why.
Xiao Ben cursed inwardly that his elder brother had no grasp of tact. Now that you have spoken everything outright, is that not the same as leaving no room to maneuver? At this rate, the engagement would have to be called off whether they willed it or not.
"My younger brother has risen in the world?" Kang Jinglong gave a cold laugh. "Do you think our Kang family would do such a thing? The misunderstanding from before has already been cleared up. Would we make the same mistake a second time?"
"Then you are..." Hearing Kang Jinglong say this, Xiao Ben realized it did not seem to be because Kang Jingming had ascended to high position and gained a background at the ancient level that the Kang family had cast off the Xiao family—it was for some other reason.
At this, Xiao Ben actually felt somewhat grateful for his elder brother's rash bluntness. Without that remark, he feared he would not even have gotten to the bottom of the cause. Only by knowing the cause can one prescribe the right remedy; without knowing it, one could never understand where Kang Jinglong's towering rage came from.
"See for yourselves on the phone!" Kang Jinglong flung his phone down in front of Xiao Ben and said with a cold snort.
"Ah? This..." Xiao Ben picked up Kang Jinglong's phone, at a loss as to what Kang Jinglong wanted him to look at, so he asked in some bewilderment, "What is it you want me to see?"
"The video on the phone!" Kang Jinglong snorted.
Xiao Ben, none the wiser, opened the video folder on Kang Jinglong's phone and played the first video in it...
"Ah... ah... ah... ah..." A woman's moans came from the phone. Xiao Ben and Xiao Ji stared at the video in astonishment. In it, Kang Jinglong was lying atop a woman, rising and falling. And the woman was screaming wildly...
"This... Young Master Kang, you have us watch this... do you mean that you have taken a liking to another woman and no longer care for our Xinyan?" Xiao Ben truly could not figure out what Kang Jinglong meant by showing him this self-recorded video, so he could only guess.
"Ahem... not that one, look at the last one!" Kang Jinglong's face reddened. This was filmed when he had hired a prostitute. Every day he had to watch Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan billing and cooing, and Kang Jinglong had no outlet for his fire, so he vented the frustration in his heart upon the prostitute.
The one filming had been You Panhu—the fellow was rather fond of playing with his phone and taking self-recorded videos. At the time Kang Jinglong had not paid it any mind, but now that Xiao Ben had played it, he felt abruptly rather embarrassed.
"Uh..." Xiao Ben shut off the video and selected the last recording to play.
In the recording, Xiao Ben saw a car. The car was parked before the gate of a villa, and the door opened. Wang Xinyan and a group of people got out of the car and walked into the villa. Among this group, Xiao Ben saw several familiar faces, among them none other than the Xiao family's great enemy, Wei Zhao!
As for Wei Zhao, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben hated him to the marrow of their teeth. The Xiao family's backers had one after another gone over to Wei Zhao—from the Wu family of the mundane world, with whom they had first been on good terms, to the hidden Pi family afterward. It was the same in every case!
"Wei Zhao? This video is...?" Xiao Ben pondered a moment, then asked cautiously.