All Chapters of The Return of the God level Son in Law: Chapter 11
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Chapter Eleven: Ghosts Beneath the Steel
The world didn't need truth. It needed spectacle. So when the news broke,when every major network flashed Li Tian's face across a dozen time zones with the word "fugitive" beneath it,the world didn’t ask why. They asked how long he’d been hiding it. And that’s exactly how the Circle wanted it. They didn’t just want to destroy me. They wanted to rewrite who I was. **** 6:00 AM : Jincheng Central News Network The anchor wore an expression too calm for the words she was reading. “Breaking this morning: Jincheng’s newest billionaire, Li Tian, founder of Dragon Holdings, is now under international investigation for alleged involvement in global arms trafficking and illicit asset laundering. Sources suggest his rise may be linked to off-grid military operations in North Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe…” They rolled the clips: stockpiled crates, black-market weapons, edited footage of foreign ports. Most of it fake. All of it convincing. Then came the final blow: “Aut
Chapter Twelve: Beneath the Ashes, a Spark
Some wars are won with bullets while others are won with silence and the people you buried before anyone knew their names. That was the war I had prepared for. **** Northern Jincheng in an Abandoned Industrial Sector The old textile plant hadn’t operated in over two decades. Broken windows gaped like empty eye sockets. Rusted conveyor belts sat buried under dust and poison ivy. But beneath its hollow bones was something else. A bunker. Built by my hand. Funded with money that had never seen a bank. Coded with biometric locks that only five people on earth could open. Two of them were dead. One had betrayed me. The last stood beside me now, Zhang Xue’er, no longer just a heiress, no longer a pawn. But a witness to everything. **** We entered through a false wall of crates, descending a spiral staircase carved into concrete. The deeper we went, the more the city faded. The noise. The fear. The name they’d plastered across the news like a curse. Here, I wasn’t “Li Tian” or
Chapter Thirteen: The Betrayer Among Us
Some betrayals come from your enemies. The worst come from those who once stood beside you in fire,Swore loyalty in blood, And waited years to slide the knife in. I built this war with ghosts. But one of them had already died inside me. **** At the Eastern Ridge The snow hadn’t reached the mountain yet, but the wind came cold and sharp like knives cut from memory. We stepped off the train of the Dragon’s Spine beneath a steel hatch, concealed beneath an overhang of boulders and moss. From the outside, it looked like a forgotten military station. Inside, it was something else entirely. A war room. A sanctuary. A tomb. “Is this one of your old bases?” Xue’er asked, pulling her coat tighter. I nodded, leading her past armored doors and motion-triggered lanterns. “Project Solstice used it during winter campaigns. We used to run satellite disruption and smuggling intercepts out of here.” “How long since you’ve been back?” “Not since the night I burned our records.” We pass
Chapter Fourteen : The Devil’s Ladder
Some routes are chosen while others are forced upon you.The Devil’s Ladder was the kind of path you only took when every other option had already been sealed by fire, blood, or betrayal. It wasn’t an escape. It was a gamble. A coin toss in the dark where heads meant you lived long enough to regret it, and tails meant they never even found your bones.****Dragon’s Spine : North Wing, 03:45 HoursThe generator room still smelled of ozone and fear. Anzu was cuffed and unconscious, dragged to the far wall by Jiang and Duan Yu. His detonator sat in my palm, warm from the heat of his grip.“You really think this place can hold another hour?” I asked Jiang.“Systems are holding now, but the EMP fried half the auto-turrets. If Han’s people breach before we move, we won’t have perimeter defense.”Ember’s voice cut in from the comms. “Then we move now. We’ve got three junctions already in Han’s control. If he gets Junction Seven, the only way out is through the Ladder.”I looked over at Xue’
Chapter 15 : Ice and Knives
The ice shelf wasn’t a place for human beings.It was a frozen wound in the side of the mountain, the kind that never healed. A fifty-meter crawl along a ledge no wider than a coffin lid, with nothing but wind and gravity waiting to collect your bones if you slipped.Jiang was still pale from his near fall. His breath steamed in short bursts, each one a reminder of how close he’d come to being a memory. Xue’er kept pace beside me, not saying a word, but I caught the way her gloved hand never strayed far from her harness buckle. Once bitten, twice ready to save someone again.Ember was behind us. I didn’t have to look to feel her presence.The thing about suspicion is that once it’s in your blood, it becomes a kind of fever. Every sound she made, every pause, every hitch in her breathing felt like an answer to a question I didn’t yet know how to ask.The wind howled through the chasm, carrying flecks of ice sharp enough to sting through the mask. My visor blurred with frost. I wiped it
Chapter Sixteen: Shadows in the Glass
The city was never quiet. Even before the wheels of the chopper touched down on the private helipad, I could hear it — the hum of traffic, the drone of construction, the heartbeat of a place where every breath was a transaction and every streetlight doubled as a spotlight for someone’s ambition. After days of ice, stone, and silence, the noise hit like a wave. We disembarked in staggered order. Jiang and Duan Yu went first, both carrying the stiffness of men who’d left too much of themselves behind on that mountain. Xue’er followed, her scarf pulled high against the wind, eyes darting across the skyline as if she wasn’t ready to believe we were home. Ember was last. She didn’t speak. She just stepped down, the rotor wash snapping her hood back, revealing eyes that didn’t match the calm in her face. She scanned the rooftop perimeter, every shadow, every vent, as if she expected Han’s men to crawl out of the HVAC. I knew that feeling, the mind still stuck in enemy territory long a
Chapter seventeen: The fire
The city never gave you the courtesy of a slow morning.By the time I reached the office at dawn, the skyline was still painted in streaks of copper, but my phone had already burned through six calls and a dozen encrypted messages. Three were from Zhao Wei, two from ministries that pretended not to be ministries, and one from a man I hadn’t spoken to in years.The first message mattered most.Warehouse fire in the South District. One of ours.The words were simple, but the implications weren’t. The South District was where we stored defense-grade composites under shell companies and subcontractors. A fire there wasn’t just bad optics it was a declaration.I dialed Zhao Wei as I walked through the glass doors.“Casualties?” I asked.“Two. Both security detail.” His voice was rough from smoke; I could hear it in the way he coughed between syllables. “But the blaze didn’t start natural. Accelerants everywhere. Someone knew what they were hitting.”“Police?”“On paper, yes. In reality, t
Chapter eighteen"
The city doesn’t sleep, but it does change masks.By the time Zhao Wei had gathered the others, the skyline had traded gold for steel. The night was alive with neon veins and the low thrum of engines going too fast down wet asphalt. It was the kind of night when the city whispered secrets to anyone reckless enough to listen.We met in the war room. Not the polished boardroom where shareholders pretended to hold knives, but the basement beneath my central tower. Concrete walls, reinforced doors, a table big enough to seat an army but small enough to remind us this wasn’t about comfort.Jiang came first, his limp heavier than usual, mountain wounds not yet forgiven by his body. He didn’t complain; he never did. He just sat with his back straight, eyes burning with a soldier’s loyalty.Duan Yu arrived next, smelling of cigarettes and city smog, his leather jacket damp from the rain. He flicked his lighter three times before pocketing it, a nervous habit that told me he already knew the w
Chapter Nineteen: The syndicate
The Syndicate didn’t just declare war. They sent me an invitation.Ember’s face on that screen wasn’t submission, it was a map. The way her eyes tilted at the end, the brief pause before she spoke, the cut of the light on her cheek, none of it was accident. She knew I’d be watching closer than anyone. She knew I’d read what others couldn’t.But even if I trusted the signal she’d left, the fact remained: the Serpent Syndicate had her in their den. And they wanted me to come looking.Fine.I’ve never been afraid of walking into a serpent’s nest. You just have to remember to bring a bigger knife.****Zhao Wei’s trace gave us a location. Not exact, but close enough to draw blood. The video’s signal bounced off a relay in the industrial quarter which was the old textile mills, most of them abandoned, now used for everything from counterfeit liquor to human trafficking.By noon, we had a plan.Jiang would take a small team through the sewer line that fed under the mills. Duan Yu would han
Chapter 20 : The plan
I came back to headquarters with my coat heavy from soot, my hands still shaking from the adrenaline that never quite left me after a fight. The kind of shaking that comes from knowing you danced close to a switchblade and the music stopped when you wanted it to. The rest of them moved around me like planets around a star ,almost like familiar gravitational pulls, small adjustments when I passed. Jiang clapped me on the shoulder so hard it hurt; Duan Yu tried to hide a grin behind a bandage on his knuckle; Zhao Wei didn’t take his eyes off his tablet. Xue’er looked at me like I was an accident she hadn’t authorized.“Status?” I asked, because motion answers anxiety.“Viper vanished,” Jiang said. “His men retreated. Losses are heavy on both sides. We tapped the Syndicate comms and there’s chatter, they are angry and wounded. They’re regrouping.”“And Ember?” I asked.Jiang’s jaw tightened. “She’s with us. She saved your life, but we still need to sort out why she was in the Syndicate’