"I have a lot of research data on hand, and I would like to ask you to help me publish some of it online, to the extent that it can be published simultaneously across the entire internet," Zuo Baixuan said.
Jiang Lingdan immediately grabbed Zuo Baixuan's hands: "Little Zuo, you've been by Luan Yenan's side for so long, have you been collecting evidence of her crimes!"
Jiang Lingdan thought she had found the answer.
Zuo Baixuan was amused by Jiang Lingdan's reaction and momentarily forgot her heavy and complicated emotions, laughing out loud: "What are you thinking about?"
Isn't that right?
“But you…” Jiang Lingdan was thinking about Zuo Baixuan telling the Qin family about the company’s secrets. She glanced at Zuo Baixuan, but hesitated because Chen Huanyu was present. She didn’t know whether she should say it directly.
In Jiang Lingdan's opinion, Senior Chen should be helping Luan Yenan.
Right, the senior should be on good terms with Luan Yenan, so why would Xiao Zuo ask her to betray Luan Yenan?
But isn't selling company secrets and harming Luan Yennan's interests an attempt to deal with Luan Yennan?
Jiang Lingdan felt like a complete idiot, unable to think clearly about anything.
Chen Huanyu gave the correct answer: "You should attack the Qin family, no, to be precise, attack Ji Liangquan, the person in charge of this Qin family bidding project."
Zuo Baixuan gave a wry smile.
really.
Chen Huanyu found out.
Luan Yenan also found out.
Luan Yenan must have found the clues in the stories he told in Jiangcheng.
She must have been curious about what would happen next, which is why she let herself go.
What a crazy woman! She risked her company's future just to watch a good show.
The image of Luan Yenan with a slight smile on his lips, his narrow eyes filled with laughter, whispering "interesting" in her ear flashed through Zuo Baixuan's mind.
Zuo Baixuan's lips curled up slightly, then fell back down.
“Luan Lizheng has been competing with our company recently. This time, taking advantage of Anan’s illness to place her under house arrest was something neither of our mothers expected. I don’t know what kind of impact this will have if I do something like this. I don’t want to ruin everyone’s hard work over such a long period of time because of me. So in terms of public opinion, I only want to focus my attacks on that person.”
Jiang Lingdan was still processing the limited information after listening.
It took her a while to realize one thing: the name that Zuo Baixuan avoided talking about—Ji Liangquan—was Zuo Baixuan's biological father.
In Jiang Lingdan's memory, Zuo Baixuan mentioned this person when she was a sophomore. She invited Zuo Baixuan to change dorm rooms and discovered that Zuo Baixuan's family was exploiting her part-time job wages.
"They are my adoptive parents. I was abandoned after my mother passed away."
They weren't adopted, they were abandoned.
"One character in my name was taken from his name. I really wanted to change my name when I was little, but they wouldn't allow it. Now I'm used to it, and my name has nothing to do with him."
The character "白" was extracted from the character "泉" in his name!
Jiang Lingdan closed her eyes with difficulty, trying to feel Zuo Baixuan's experiences from childhood to adulthood.
But no matter how she tried to imagine it, it was hard to believe that Zuo Baixuan had hidden too many stories that others didn't know.
No one can truly understand how Xiao Zuo Baixuan endured all that suffering and became numb with grief.
It is precisely this unimaginable situation that has shaped Zuo Baixuan's current personality and her desperate desire for revenge.
“But, does Xiao Zuo really have to go this far?” Jiang Lingdan looked at Zuo Baixuan with concern.
Even if such revenge succeeds, can it really bring happiness?
Or he might fall into another bottomless abyss—the company's projects would be destroyed, his reputation damaged, and he might even be accused of abusing his power for personal gain and manipulating stock prices. There was also the possibility that Luan Lizheng would overtake him and destroy all of Luan Yenan's hard work.
If this had happened when Luan Yenan had just married Zuo Baixuan, Jiang Lingdan believed that Zuo Baixuan would have done this without any psychological pressure.
But now, regardless of whether Zuo Baixuan has real feelings for Luan Yenan, she has worked tirelessly day and night on the project, which must have required countless hours of effort. Is she really going to ruin all of that for a man like that?
Zuo Baixuan smiled with difficulty: "I learned it from Luan Yennan."
"?" Jiang Lingdan wondered if Zuo Baixuan had gone mad. Even Luan Yenan wouldn't do something like this, right?
Chen Huanyu nodded and said, "Luan Yenan used 'blockchain' to quickly attract public attention and create a huge social impact. It's quite similar to how you are now using 'Yituan's' listing and signing a cooperation agreement with the Qin family for the 'Smart Living' project to attract social attention."
“But Luan Yenan later used his social influence and the share of the pie to secure cooperation agreements with the government and opportunities to work closely with various families, thereby strengthening the background of ‘One Group’. That’s completely different from your self-destruction now!” Jiang Lingdan tried to bring Zuo Baixuan back to her senses.
“Qin Yuancheng is his backer, and Qin Yuancheng is very satisfied with this obedient Alpha. If things aren’t serious enough, Qin Yuancheng can suppress them with his connections. But I want him to pay the price for everything he’s done,” Zuo Baixuan said through gritted teeth.
She knew she was obsessed.
He's been obsessed for a long time!
She never considered herself strong; she had simply accumulated resentment for fifteen years, and she relied on this obsession to persevere whenever she encountered difficulties.
Everything that is etched in my heart and soul should be "repaid" in full.
Zuo Baixuan couldn't reveal the past, but she could talk about the present: "The ridiculous thing is that he contacted me during this period with Qin Yuancheng's authorization. Qin Yuancheng knew that Anan would not make any concessions on the project, but Qin Yuancheng wanted absolute control over the project, so he sent him to negotiate with his daughter who had abandoned him for more than ten years."
“In their eyes, I naturally became someone who married Anan through scheming and wanted to gain a foothold in the Luan family by relying on the Qin family. In their view, no fool would give up wealth and glory for a childhood obsession.”
Jiang Lingdan had absolutely no desire to persuade Zuo Baixuan, that fool.
She didn't even dare to imagine how much guilt Zuo Baixuan felt every time she showed a genuine smile to Luan Yenan.
If Zuo Baixuan's painstaking revenge plan, which involves sacrificing her happiness, fails, Jiang Lingdan will unleash the most vicious curse, causing the world to be destroyed.
"Even when Qin Yuancheng heard that Anan was sick and hospitalized, he didn't send any condolences or make any intention of visiting her in the hospital. He just told me to take advantage of Anan's 'rest' to prepare the contract in advance. He must be really looking forward to the clause in the contract about compensation for damaging the project's image," Zuo Baixuan said with a smile. "I'm looking forward to it too."
Jiang Lingdan swallowed hard, momentarily hallucinating, wondering if the person in front of her was Zuo Baixuan or Luan Yenan...
This couple is really scary!
She unconsciously exchanged a glance with Chen Huanyu.
When Chen Huanyu saw her gaze, she shrank back and her cheeks flushed.
Jiang Lingdan thought to herself, "Senior Chen is still the best. Waaah, Senior Chen is just better at studying. As an otaku, she has surprisingly good stamina, but even at her craziest, she is still soft and cute."
...
In the following days, Zuo Baixuan became the spokesperson for "Group One" and completely controlled everything in the company.
Everything is proceeding smoothly.
The project contract has also been signed.
The press conference arrangements are also fully prepared.
The stock price continued to soar.
Zuo Baixuan acquired the shares from Luo Yun as agreed, and also gave everyone in the company an opportunity to sell their shares.
Those who urgently needed money sold some of their stock.
Everyone else laughed and said, "With such a good company, only a fool would sell!"
The press conference was the next day, and the company was filled with the joy of being able to receive bonuses after this busy period.
The employees breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems the boss can rest without any problems. With the boss's wife around, that's enough!"
"Hahaha, shh, you're making it sound like the boss's wife has seized power. This is just a temporary measure!"
"No way, didn't you see when you were claiming the shares? The boss's wife has 26% of the shares, which is more than our boss."
Wow, they can even show off their love when they're not together!
The loving relationship between the couple remains a favorite topic of conversation in the office.
Zuo Baixuan sat in Luan Yenan's office, looking out through the semi-transparent glass.
Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.
Zuo Baixuan couldn't even imagine how many people would leave and how they would curse her.
She sat at her desk and opened her planning notes.
The pen tip poked into the ink blot that had spread outwards, and the ink continued to spread until it touched half of the character, constantly swallowing up the strokes.
...
Luan Yenan grabbed Luan Yecha's neck and asked him a few questions. When he got a little tired, he ordered Luan Yenan to hold on to his neck himself.
Luan Yecha squatted down on the spot, tears streaming down her face, clutching her neck with both hands, too afraid to move.
Luan Yenan glanced at the clock on the wall; an hour and a half had passed.
Su Bai should be back by now, after finishing his individual hot pot meal as instructed.
She said to Luan Yecha, who was squatting on the ground, "Now, close your eyes and count aloud from one to ten thousand. If you stop in the middle, you have to start counting from the beginning. Begin."
"What?" Luan Yecha sniffed, unable to understand.
"You have a problem with that?" Luan Yenan narrowed his eyes.
"No, no! Cousin, I have no objection!!!" Luan Yecha hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, fearing that Luan Yenan would give her another pheromone suffocation treatment.
He didn't want to smell the vodka mixed with the smell of hospital disinfectant alcohol anymore; his near-death state made him yearn for the beauty of the world.
He knelt down and began to count: "One, two, three... fifty, fifty-one..."
Luan Yenan remained silent.
Instead, the unusually noisy chatter of the bodyguards could be heard from outside.
Luan Yecha opened her eyes.
He saw Luan Yenan staring at him with a sinister and eerie look. He hurriedly and consciously knelt down and turned his head away, burying himself in the sofa and pressing his eyes firmly into the sofa cushion to show that he was not peeking.
"one two three……"
Luan Yecha even consciously started counting from the beginning, when he heard Luan Yenan's chilling laughter coming from behind him.
But Luan Yecha breathed a sigh of relief; at least, she wasn't angry.
Then he shouted out all the focus he had used for studying since he was a child: "Ten! Eleven! Twelve!"
Amidst the counting, Luan Yenan removed the IV, took two inhibitors from the drawer, and opened the balcony window.
She had roughly observed Luan Yecha through the window before she arrived.
The building isn't too tall; you can see the tree branches from the outside. Looking at it now, it really isn't that tall—it's only the fifth floor.
The balcony next door isn't too far away, and you can see the potted plants on the balcony of the next ward from the bed.