But no matter how much he disbelieved it, the facts were right before his eyes. Liu Chengyin had no choice but to accept them.
"You brought this upon yourself." Old Jiang Ba looked deeply at Liu Chengyin, his voice, though aged, was so heavy it almost suffocated the other man.
Liu Chengyin staggered, and if it weren't for someone supporting him, he would have collapsed.
He was no fool. What Eighth Master referred to as 'attention' from the various Wealthy Families was clearly a death sentence for his business. A single, simple sentence from Eighth Master could effortlessly plunge him from the middle class into destitution overnight.
Sometimes, death isn't the most terrible thing. It's falling from a mountaintop into an abyss, losing everything you once had with no hope of ever rising again. This vast psychological and financial chasm was enough to destroy a person's sanity.
