The notorious tragedy that transpired in the Victory Banquet that shook the upper society and the entire country was still a hot topic even after a month had passed.

Every businessman, the people from upper society down to the last citizen of the country was discussing this huge incident.

Despite the four families' continuous effort to hide the whole truth of the matter from the public, and burying any related news to them, the curious public still managed to dig in some important information which caused the infamous scandal to escalate.

How many people were taken? Who are they?

How many casualties did both parties suffered?

Was the mastermind, Ming Zhi Yi, caught? If so, where was he now?

Was it true that a figurehead died? Which family does the deceased come from?

There were many speculations regarding the matter. Related articles in the media from different people and platforms spread far and wide.

Some people with connections said that an important figure died in the kidnapping. But who the person was remained unknown. This gave more heat to the already burning news.

Thus, even a month had passed, the tragedy in the Victory Banquet and the fight at the foot of the Qian mountain was still trending.

It caused the four families' surnames to be repeatedly mentioned. The successful kidnapping of many important figures in their own territory caused them to lose face and suffered many setbacks.

No matter how much the four families tried to bury the matter and shut the mouth of related people with money and threatening remarks, they could not bury the shame they had faced and the humiliation they had suffered.

While the whole world pitied, and laughed at the four families' incapability and chose to blame them for their own incompetence to catch one man, the situation of the four families was getting worst.

Ming Zhi Yi's last struggle did not only bring them many deaths and devastating blows to their reputation, but the aftermath of the incident caused their powerful masked to be torn off.

The upper society who was more informed than the public could tell that the power of the four families was slowly losing its influence.

Especially now that even though they captured the instigator, their heirs were marked with humiliation and the head of the Lu family even died.

It was indeed a tragedy, but it was great news to them.

If the four families lose their power, they could take advantage of this situation and seize the market that the four families monopolize.

Specifically, this was the perfect time to crush the wounded Lu family.

The head of the Lu family was gone. The head butler who loyally served beside the head also died on that Victory Banquet. It was said that the heir was still recovering. For such a tragedy to happen in the young lad, there was bound to be problems to him.

Thus they all knew that the Lu family was done for. Those families who were waiting for an opportunity sneakingly attacked the weakened Lu family.

However, before they could chomp off a part of the Lu Empire, a powerful company suddenly blocked their way.

The famous IHZHI who grew at an imaginable speed was helping the Lu Empire to maintain its connections and influence. If the businessmen pull out their investment in the Lu empire's subsidiaries, IHZHi would come to help and invest in their place instead.

This made those families speechless. They thought at first that IHZHI was like them and wanted to take advantage of the disordered Lu empire. But IHZHI acted in a way that benefit the Lu empire.

Aside from the Lu Empire who suffered greatly because of the loss of their head, the Tan empire was not doing any better. The great incident happened in their territory which caused many people to lose trust in them.

In just a span of one month, more than half of their shareholders, business partners, and even overseas deals pulled out from their empire. Causing the Tang family to lose many things in one breath.

But before the upper society condemned them further,? the black horse SC company whose influence and net worth are not any less than an empire back up the Tang family. The five kings who were connected to SC helped out the Tang and the Lu family as well.

With their backing, no one would be able to attack the weakened lion and tigress.

On the other hand, the Guan family who was already weakened before the incident was not greatly affected like the Lu and Tang family. Still, they were suffering from prying eyes who also want to take a bite of them, especially now that Gua Gu Ri was still inactive and recovering.

But the two distinguished companies, SC and IHZHI helped them to stand on their feet and protect them as well.

The two companies stood strongly at the front and protected the four great empires who once ruled the land and were now at their lowest. With the two powerful companies guarding the four families, they have no choice but to withdrew disappointedly.

This was now supposed to be the new era where the four families should be losing their power. But now the two uprising companies who were hard to offend were guarding behind the four families.

But what can they do? Both companies might be less than a decade but they were powerful as both not only had great net worth, they also have strong influence around the world.

The Xiong family was the one who stood stably despite the humiliation they suffered. But even so, Xiong Mei and her brother flew to the country to expressed support to the main family.

For a while, the news was about these four great families were occupying the top search bar.

There was no accurate news about the people who were kidnapped or about their situation. There were no funerals in news. The people who experienced the tragedy firsthand were also silent. So the angle of discussion only turned towards the current happenings in the four empires.

It was only the people in upper society who had enough connection knew that SC and IHZHI were containing any leak-outs.

But a question still remained in the mind of the public.

What happened to the captured criminal? How come the news about him was so silent like the bottom of the cliff?

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