Ceo And His Empress.. - Volume 2 Chapter 217 214. Cue..

Guan Li, who forced himself to continue standing, saw her like this and the smile on his face widened!

He never thought he will have such a beautiful meeting!!

But it didn’t stay like that for long.

The two exchanged fists and kicks, both were at their limits and were already panting from the sheer exhaustion… both knew this would be the last round of exchange.

If they had been exchanging pure skill till now, from now it was just brute strength.

Well, Meilin wouldn’t lose to that usually, but she was not at her peak, but every part of her body was trained to attack, on the other hand, Guan Li had visibly more strength but his style was essentially self-taught and Meilin could still see some holes…. they were equally matched.

They both felt like they were fighting their nemesis, someone who could use their weakness against them…

Still, they had to win!

PAK

Their fists met in mid-air as the force made the two, step back.

By this time, even the adrenaline rush was dying out on them and they could finally feel the pain that couldn’t all this while… sweat trickled down their body as their steps slowed down… the exchange lasted for half-an-hour, but no one surrounding them dared to move; they didn’t want to e a casualty of their battle.

PAK

SMASH

Meilin suffered from a severe punch to her stomach as she smashed a cross to his face…

One spat air while the other blood…

Their legs were trembling and it became hard to even move…

Guan Li gave her a evil smile and said, “You… really are…. the… best!!!!”

It acted as the final battle cry as the two stepped towards the other–

Everything happened in a flash–

Guan Li raised his left hand for a jab, Meilin blocked it with her right as she used the momentum to pull his head and raised her knee, Guan Li saw through it and countered with his own; Guan Li used this second to use his dominant hand to land a straight punch…

Meilin dodged but it still landed on her right shoulder and she had to take a step back as she saw him raise his left leg this time.

Meilin couldn’t counter it and took it straight…

It felt like the match was over as Meilin’s body fell to the side as his leg followed the same trajectory.

Nobody dared to breathe as ZiXuan’s body reflexively stepped forward to catch her–

Anyone could have won this match and the pure awe reflected in the eyes of the surrounding people, as no one dared to make a move on the other side, displayed it all…

Guan Li saw her fall, her eyes dazed and couldn’t help but feel an unprecedented pleasure running through his body… but–

Meilin who had taken his kick head-on had expected it, but the force still made her pass out for a second…

When she finally opened her eyes as she instinctively felt Guan Li loosen up at a point… and even though she didn’t know what was going on, her brain went into full alert… it marked this man as her enemy.

Well, Man was the most vulnerable when he had won a battle, right?

Her fingers twitched as she raised her hands to lock his falling led and swerved her body to latch onto him as she effectively made his body turn because of her pull… she twisted his leg before dislocating a bone with a–

CRACK

…as she put all her weight on his body… Guan Li fainted from the sheer pain and fell head first…

Meilin pulled his leg hard for a moment before having realised that the body under him wasn’t moving…

It felt anti-climatic… but in the end–

Meilin had won!!

“Linlin!!!”

Meilin raised her head to look at the incoming man as her mind went blank, she felt like she had lost something important just now…

Her heartbeat quickened, she couldn’t understand whatever was going on, she again tried to look up at the man but her sight darkened as she thought–

‘Who…?’

But before she could voice it out, she fainted on spot.

…

Mu Tianluo hadn’t given up; even though he thought that the young woman was very strong, he never thought that she could win against Guan Li… Well, he himself had never been able to control that man and after he saw him act like this today, he was also sure that, controlling this man from now on became even more difficult.

For better or for worse, he had never liked men under him who were stronger than him… from what he saw today, Guan Li had definitely become just that.

So, even when he saw him win for a second, he couldn’t relish it, as a result, the moment he saw him fall, his feeling became ironic…

That woman had fallen as well and her people couldn’t attack him, he guessed that they were a part of C-country’s military and their job was to take back these two rather than harming them.

He felt like he won the gamble–

He didn’t believe in anyone except himself and his son; everyone else was a pawn in his game… even Guan Li who had followed him for a two decades already… to protect himself and his family, he needed absolute control over the gang and so, Guan Li couldn’t continue to exist.

As for the marriage proposal, well, he could only give up…

He gave ZiXuan a look as he thought, ‘..he has become an integral part of the Qin family… he will let him go for now… his value had increased a lot… With Qin under his control, the Ivanov family were not needed….’

In the end, he had won this bet!!

From the start, he had planned it all… if Guan Li won, he would get the contract, but towards the middle, he could also accept him losing as he did a cost-profit analysis.

He got to the conclusion that even when Guan Li lost, he would still be the one to benefit from this…

He will lose his right-hand man, but he better discard it that be devoured by it in the future, on the other hand, if he let ZiXuan go, he could still use his connection with the Qin empire in the future.

If ZiXuan knew what he was thinking, he would have definitely scoffed, ‘this man still thought he was under his control… even after all this happened?’

But he was at the moment, tending to Meilin–

He checked her pulse and breathing before finally relaxing a little, it seems that she had just fainted.

Well, she had done her job and now, it was his turn to continue.

“Mr Mu, I would take over her..”, he said as he princess carried her.

Mu Tianluo who was relishing his victory heard him and shouted, “What–”

“Did you forget? Meilin won and so, this place and the gang are under her as of now or, are you going to go against your words?”, he scoffed.

Well, he never trusted this man’s morality… all he could see was himself and nothing else.

“Do you think you alone can take over me? The men behind you can’t use their arms and the sniper thing was just a bluff… Do you think you can walk out of this alive?”, Mu Tianluo spoke in a deep voice, one could even find a trace of amus.e.m.e.nt, as if, he was talking down at a clown of a worm than a human being.

ZiXuan gave a look at the people behind him who were definitely rattled by him.. except for her own guards who were not many, to begin with, it was like everyone was against him… or so thought Mu Tianluo.

ZiXuan, on the other hand, was still relaxed…

He was at core a calculative man… there was no way, he simply came to this den unprepared.

The only reason he had been going through all that was that he still needed some more time; well, in the end, he was indeed a bit affected in the middle, but in the meantime, all the preparations were done…

Just like that man had said, the men that Meilin brought, indeed couldn’t use their arms… but they weren’t the only people with arms in their hands, now were they?

He was aware that this man used every single one of these people like pawns and anyone who took even a step over the limit would only have one end; DEATH…

He remembers the first time he had seen a man being tortured to death by Guan Li… he had indeed betrayed the gang, but the reason behind it was very simple; Mu Tianluo had betrayed his trust first.

Later when he himself killed that woman, he found about it from the small talk they had…

He never thought much about it back then, but as time passed, he thought that it was indeed something to give a thought on.

Well, it was indeed a huge whole in this system that man had created and with time, he simply used it…

He gave a look to the man standing by Mu Tianluo’s side, though his eyes were hidden under his black shades, if one remembers well, one could see some similarity between his features and that of the man who was murdered that day–

His glance acted as the cue and–