Waiting for the time when the phone was connected, Matt's heart was beating rapidly, for fear that anyone would pass by and discover his abnormality.

Although he had agreed to cooperate with Xiao Qingyun secretly, he was not brave enough. He would inevitably panic when he did such a dangerous thing that was related to his life.

Especially under the suspicious Stephen's nose, once he discovers the clues, his family will die without a place to die.

But now he has reached this point and he has no chance to go back on his word.

Otherwise, Xiao Qingyun would not have let him go. As long as Xiao Qingyun and Stephen complained, regardless of whether he had any problems, Stephen would kill him.

In fact, the waiting time was only ten seconds, but it was a long time for Matt to feel that one century had passed.

He felt so nervous that he was about to have a heart attack, and he seemed to die in the next second.

Finally, the phone was answered, and Xiao Qingyun's gentle voice came from his cell phone, "Hello, Mr. Matt."

"Hey, Mr. Xiao, something happened..." Matt trembled and told Xiao Qingyun about Stephen's decision to destroy the island with as concise words as possible.

After saying that, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead because of nervousness, "Mr. Xiao, what should we do now?"

However, he received no answer, and there was a long silence on the other side of the phone.

It was so long that Matt almost thought the phone was disconnected.

"Mr. Xiao?"

A few seconds later, Xiao Qingyun's voice rang out on the phone: "Mr. Matt, I understand this. You don't have to do anything for the time being. Just act according to the previous plan."

Matt immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay."

This is the answer he wants most.

He was always afraid that Xiao Qingyun would let him do something risky because things changed.

Fortunately, Xiao Qingyun is quite calm.

Sure enough, Stephen was right. Although Xiao Qingyun valued King, what is a woman in the face of the overall situation?

Only a fool like Huo Yaochen would beg for a woman and go crazy about all his wealth and life.

...

Shadow Castle.

After the call ended, Xiao Qingyun stepped back and stayed alone in the room, and remained silent for a long time.

After hearing the phone call, Matt said that Stephen planned to give up using Chu Yunxian to exchange with him and decided to destroy the island.

At that moment, many impulsive thoughts flashed through his mind.

Let's go to save her immediately, or disrupt the original plan and kill Stephen in advance, or give up everything he is planning now, and directly hand over Lin Shen to Stephen so that he can't destroy the island and let Chu Yunxian go

Life Road...

But in the end, all these thoughts were denied by him one by one.

He had no idea of ​​the location of the island. Even if he set out now, he could not find where she was. The far water could not save the near fire.

As for the early action to kill Stephen, this hasty action without deployment is impossible to succeed, and the result will only expose all the people he is in the hidden current.

In fact, there is only one feasible way, that is, to exchange Lin Shen for her safety.

But in this way, Shadow will completely lose the initiative.

All his careful layout will be in vain and there will be no second chance.

Moreover, once Stephen comes to his senses from the pressure of the Cloud Flame Alliance, he will find out what he has done in secret.

With Stephen's narrow-minded personality, the entire Shadow may be in crisis at that time.

So he can't do that.

He is the Lord of Shadow and the only successor of the Xiao family.

His father was assassinated. Before his death, he grabbed his hand tightly, leaving a will to him to take back the power of the shadow and protect the Xiao family's century-long foundation.

There are countless people following him in the shadow, and his life is all his responsibility.

He cannot ignore the lives of his father's last order for his own selfishness and the lives of these brothers who follow him.

It turned out that between Shadow and Her, he really could only choose one.

It turned out that what she said was right back then. Maybe he loved her, but what he loved the most was his rights, and he would never give up everything for her like Huo Yaochen.

It turns out that he and her are destined to be out of fate.

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