Chapter 146 - The Collaboration

Hearing the different address from Lei Xing Yi, Yu Yan turned her head. Should she participate in this?

She had just submitted her resignation letter not long ago because she wanted to learn from Long Ying how to survive in the underworld. But now that her cousin asked her to participate in the business again… Yu Yan was hesitant.

Does she want it?

That was obvious. With her little cousin starting the company from scratch, Yu Yan's position would be high. Not only that, she would be able to participate in everything that Lei Xing Yi decided since they would work together.

But…

"I'm going away for the next few months, Xing Yi." Yu Yan smiled bitterly. "I won't be able to help you directly even if you want me to help you."

Lei Xing Yi's eyes widened. She then looked into the distance. "Because of your husband?"

"Hmm?"

"I tried to investigate him." Lei Xing Yi flashed an apologetic smile. "Since it didn't seem likely that he'll just be an ordinary unemployed man. There are some things that didn't match up and I can guess he's keeping his identity a secret, so I don't know the truth.

But… in the early stage, I would need your help. There'll be a lot of deals involving large number and a lot of business asking for cooperation should the news break out." Lei Xing Yi's eyes flashed. "I won't be able to handle everything on my own."

Yu Yan sighed. "If you don't mind me only helping online, I might be able to help."

"Thank you, I'll sign the company and give you the share." Lei Xing Yi furrowed her brows. "You'll get 30%."

"…What?"

"Do you really think that I'll be able to handle it on my own?" Lei Xing Yi smiled. "I'll need your help a lot, Sis Yan."

The two women looked at each other and smiled once more. Yu Yan felt a bit funny inside. She had just lost a job because of her determination to train in the underworld and right afterwards, she got another job from her little cousin. Fate truly worked in weird way.

She would never have expected this to happen.

"What's the name of the company?"

"Xingyan." Lei Xing Yi grinned. "That's the name Grandpa had decided in his will for me. For the time being, I'll use the temporary house I have for the company but in the future, I'll built a large company."

"Not directly?"

"I want to catch my parents unguarded. The business field will be similar and if they found out that they have competitor early on, they might try some underhanded methods. I'll make sure that they can't do that by disguising the company in my house first whilst recruiting some people."

Yu Yan nodded. She could guess that Lei Xing Yi had already made the plans for the things. However, she felt that there was something amyss.

"Xing Yi, when you have finished everything, make sure that you calculate all the expense and send it to me. I'll check it for you."

"Great! Thank you, Sis Yan!"

"It's going to be my company too, right?"

"Yes~."

When Long Ying and Manager Wu came, the sight they see was the two women laughing with each other. It seemed that just in the past hour, the two of them had grown much closer than the few years they spent in their grandfather's residence. That was odd.

"Is it done?" Yu Yan asked.

Long Ying nodded. "It's done. I don't need to do anything else here since Manager Wu here already make all the preparations."

Manager Wu laughed. "Don't worry about the profits. I always do things fairly and will not pocket them myself. Anyway, Miss Lei had already made the arrangement too for the leftover that's not within the contract for some companies."

"I trust you, Manager Wu."

"Alright, now that things are settled, I'm going to make some amendments and recruiting. Come with me, Manager Wu."

"Wait a moment, Miss Lei."

Yu Yan watched amusedly as Lei Xing Yi led Manager Wu out. She glanced at her husband and said, "I'm going to be Xing Yi's financial advisor for her new company along with being one of the shareholders. For the time being, I'm going to work through internet or in other words, far distance."

Long Ying looked at Yu Yan and shook his head. "You might not have the time."

"Eh, it'll be that hard?"

"Yes. In the early stages, you might not even have time to rest." Long Ying had asked his subordinate regarding the schedule for Yu Yan once she headed there. Obviously, it couldn't be too hard nor could it be too easy.

Yu Yan sighed. "Fine."

"Let's go, we'll head to City C today and then depart to the island tomorrow."

City C?

If Yu Yan was not wrong, City C located at the very east of the country and was one of the few port cities there. It was quite a distance away from the capital city but it was also a bustling city. After all, trades through seas were still quite common even though there were also air method now.

It seemed that Long Ying also had properties outside of City A and Capital City…

At the thought of that, Yu Yan's lips twitched a bit. She didn't seem to know the limit of her husband's asset.

Long Ying watched his wife by his side. Since it would take them a few hours to reach City C from here, he might as well talk about some things with her first. There was something that he was curious about.

"Yan'er."

"Yes?" Yu Yan replied.

"You mentioned that your parents tried to sell you out. What is it about?" Long Ying's eyes were dangerously cold. He had investigated the matter in the Yu Family for some time but he hadn't noticed anything like that.

Yu Yan was stunned. She felt a bit awkward when seeing Long Ying's prying gaze but there was indeed something that occurred. Slowly, Yu Yan began to speak. "It's like this…. uh, have you ever read some cheesy novel online?"

"…Do you really think that I'll read that kind of thing?"

The driver, Lan Huo, was even more speechless. It would be a miracle if he saw his Boss reading that kind of novels. He had seen San Xia read them from time to time during her free time, though. As for why she liked it, he would never understand.

"Well, I'm not exactly favored in my family and my mot…Mrs. Yu wants to strengthen Mr. Yu business with some deals. She set up a meeting and my sister try to drug my drink." Yu Yan was trying to explain but even then, she felt awkward.

It was quite the common trope seen in the opening sequence of novels. The only problem was … how many bigshots would 'coincidentally' stay in the room next door?

Long Ying's eyes were cold. There were some times when Yu Yan came with her parents for some dinner party or sometimes with her sisters. However, he didn't see anything that shouldn't happen.

"I figured it out since the medicine didn't dissolve completely in the water." Yu Yan's lips curled up to form a cold smile. Recalling that day, she felt glad that she checked her glass before she drank. The residue left of the pill was there, so she didn't dare to take even a sip. 

From that incident, she never trusted her parents nor her sister anymore. If they even dared to pull her into a scheme like that, she knew that they might repeat it once more in the future, creating a scene.

Yu Yan shrugged. "I have a fallout with my sister that day and I recorded our conversation. I sent it to some of my friends in decrypted code which I ask a hacker to help. I just need to decrypt it using the application that he had prepared in case I want to publicize it."

It was actually not as impactful as the cheating video and there might not be many people who wanted to pay attention to her matter. However, it was still an action that could easily make people hate her sister.

She just kept it in case she would need it. 

Besides, it was also thanks to this recording that her sister didn't dare to confront her directly. 

"You have me now." Long Ying pulled Yu Yan to his embrace as his eyes glinted in coldness. If Yu Yan was not wary enough, that day might even spell disaster for her. He was not in the vicinity at that time, so it would be impossible for him to help her.

Just thinking about Yu Yan's sister made Long Ying wished that he could kill them directly right now. If not because he knew that Yu Yan only wished for their family destruction and not their lives, he would be the one to make a move and no longer waited.