Scheming

Chu Li sipped some tea and smiled. "What did Lady Xiao plan to do with Gu Litong?"

"Lady Xiao doesn't care about him." Su Ru twitched her red lips and scoffed. "Lady Xiao felt that Master Xiao wasn't wrong for kicking him out of the Public House. If it wasn't for Master Xiao's continuous pressuring, Lady Xiao would've punished him long ago!"

"But at the end of the day, he's still a talented one," Chu Li said. "Did we really have to let him go like that?"

"What else could we do?" Su Ru tilted her head and looked at him. "Unless you want us to be ruthless with him?"

Chu Li smiled as he shook his head.

"Wouldn't that be too much?" Su Ru did not believe him as she stared at him unsatisfyingly. "He's already in a bad situation. Moreover, he's as good as useless for the rest of his life now and even then, he won't be appearing in front of us anymore — that's no different from being dead."