Chapter 2933 — Atonement by Death
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"He is no brother of yours! Drugs—dealing drugs—is that supposed to bring glory to the Liu family?! Divine Physician Lin entrusted the pharmaceutical company's business to our Liu family to manage, and this is how we managed it! How am I, with this old face of mine, supposed to face Divine Physician Lin?" Liu Zhenhu shook with fury; what Liu Tianli had done was beyond anything he could bear!
"Perhaps he was deceived?" Liu Tianyi offered cautiously in his brother's defense.
"Deceived? If there had been no greed in his heart, how could he have been deceived?" Liu Zhenhu gave a cold laugh, then thundered: "Don't think I don't know how he's always thought! He never approved of our family's cooperation with Divine Physician Lin—he believed the Liu family was merely clinging to Wei Zhao, and that if Wei Zhao ever fell, the Liu family would fall with him! But under pressure from you, from me, and from Jingjing, he had no choice but to go along. Give him the slightest chance, though, and he would certainly want to turn the company into an enterprise that could run without Wei Zhao!"
"That..." Liu Tianyi could not help but smile bitterly. "But wasn't he also thinking of the Liu family?"
"His thinking was flawed from the start! Wei Zhao is perfectly fine, and he's the one who's finished!" Liu Zhenhu snorted. "If he had even half of Jingjing's strength of character, the company would never have come to this!"
"Yes..." At this point Liu Tianyi had nothing left to say and could only nod in agreement.
"Tianyi, call Divine Physician Lin. Tell him the Liu family has failed him—that Tianli and I will atone with our lives! I cannot face Wei Zhao with this old face of mine any longer, nor do I have the face to go on living..." Liu Zhenhu sighed and made his decision.
"Father... how can you die?" Liu Tianyi was startled, his eyes wide. "If you die, what will become of the Liu family? Let me plead with Mr. Wei Zhao—from now on the Liu family will serve like beasts of burden and do all we can to make amends..."
"Isn't the Liu family left with you?" Liu Zhenhu shook his head and said calmly: "Do you think Divine Physician Lin's anger can be appeased without a death? More than five billion—that is no small sum. And the damage done to Guan Dafu Pharmaceuticals cannot be measured in money. Rather than eke out our days under Divine Physician Lin's future suppression, better that Tianli and I atone with our lives. You, Tianyi, will still have a chance to rise again—because your relationship with Wei Zhao is the best of any of us!"
Hearing Liu Zhenhu's words, Liu Tianyi fell silent too. Yes—even if Wei Zhao spared the Liu family out of regard for old times, he would never again favor and trust them as he once had!
And even if Wei Zhao did not suppress the Liu family himself, there was no guarantee that the other great families and subordinates around him would not. When a wall falls, all push—when the time came, each would trample them once, and the Liu family would never rise again!
If Liu Zhenhu and Liu Tianli atoned with their deaths, then Wei Zhao might well continue to employ Liu Tianyi, and the Liu family would endure and not fall! These thoughts were not beyond Liu Tianyi—but what he wanted even less was for his father and brother to atone with their lives for the sake of the Liu family!