284 If I Ruined Your Fun by Breaking Your Toy...

"By the time I received the news, it was too late. He'd gotten shot twice, once in the chest and once in the thigh. Huo Tingxiao and I dispatched all our bodyguards to escort him back. His grandfather was furious when he found out, and of course his uncle adamantly denied his involvement. But the old man wasn't stupid, and he deposed the uncle. His family is now second in the line of succession. And, although everything seems peaceful on the surface, there is much internal conflict going on underneath. Jiang Chenghuan is quite ambitious, and he has established some very powerful connections in just a few years. He is very shrewd as well."

Yun Xi nodded. She was surprised. She hadn't expected him to have such an interesting background story.

She had thought that he had either been seriously injured or seriously ill. She had had no idea that internal family drama was involved.