Chapter 226

• “Kid, you even played me.” Julian sighed. “I fell for it right alongside that fool, Sun Dongjie.”
• “I didn’t mean to set you up. At first it had nothing to do with you—I was going after Sun Dongjie.” Francis let out a breath. “That guy’s like he drank nuclear wastewater. If he hadn’t swaggered around showing off, I wouldn’t have dug a pit for him.”
• Julian nodded, feeling it in his bones. “Seems like that was the only way you could handle it…”