Chương 120: Shadows and Whispers

As Xiao Mingliang was en route to the meeting, a man sat cross-legged in his study, having listened to the entire conversation of the Xiao family. He chuckled slightly and said, "I need you to keep an eye on them. I want to know everything they are planning."

His right-hand man, standing next to him, nodded. "Yes, sir."

The man drank up his glass of whiskey and continued, "I don't like people who question my authority, and it seems like I have been too lenient on the Xiaos."

"Would you like me to take action on them, sir? Teach them a real lesson?" his subordinate asked.

"No, not yet," the man replied. "Let's just watch them dig their grave. This will be a lesson to all the mafia families that if I say my word is law in the underworld, I mean it."

His right-hand man nodded again. "I will send men now to surveil them."