Chapter 87 - Not a worthy opponent.

Chunhua stood glaring at Wen Honglin's back with killing intent as he sat down in her senior sister's former office with an air of indifferent superiority, checking his emails through his phone. After the scene he caused in the boardroom meeting this meeting, it had taken them a good amount of energy to convince those old geezers not to inform their father about it until Chunlan arrived to settle the matter.

She had a feeling that their father would kill Chunlan if the rumours turned out to be true so she had tried her best to conceal the matter. She walked to the desk to face him as she sat down behind the desk. "Our Tang family has always known that your family has always been ŀusting after our power and wealth like sharks after blood. What we didn't expect was your ridiculous attempt in order to weasel your way into our company like this, using this pathetic excuse in order to enter our company. What a shame."

Honglin ignored her taunting words even though he put down his phone to check the time on his watch. He could feel the suppressed rage she had and on the other hand, it really amused him. "Chunhua, just admit it. You are attacking me because you are still sour over the fact I chose your senior sister over you, aren't you?"

To his surprise, Chunhua laughed mockingly at his ȧssumption shaking her head as she looked at him with pity in her eyes. "I am afraid that a person like you isn't qualified to marry a daughter from our family. Our disparities are clear as day and I am sure that my senior sister had always known it all along. Isn't that why she left you?"

His amused face quickly darkened at her cutting remark. At first, he had taken her sudden change of behavior as a drastic measure she had employed to gain his attention but as time passed by, he had concluded that she really hated him, a feeling that was born out of love only to end up in resentment. "You really do have a sharp tongue, Chunhua. I will remember it when I take my revenge."

Chunhua leaned into the table to maintain eye contact with him, letting him see her cold emotionless eyes that could no longer to tolerate him. "The only reason you are sitting in this office and not out on the streets is because I don't want my staff to get affected by your mierable streak of failure so once my sister gets here, I want you out of the place immediately."

Wen Honglin felt that he would burst a brain vessel from too anger at the imprudence that a young girl five years younger than him had. He had seen her when she was a baby and he had always spoiled her to gain Chunlan's favour and now it seemed like she had suddenly become a phoenix looking down on her subjects.

Before he could implode, the door suddenly opened by some bodyguards to reveal Tang Huizhong entering the room with his daughter, Chunlan who was holding onto his arm. His majestic and overbearing aura was enough to make him and Chunhau to stand up, giving him the first seat as he strolled towards the place.

By the time he sat down, the room was so quiet one could hear a pin drop and no one dared say the first word as the two sisters glared at Honglin like and enemy invaded their territory. However, Tang Huizhong's eyes were as calm as the sea, the hidden depths revealing a meaning and dangerous light that could make any ordinary man tremble. He directed his gaze to Honglin, making the man shift uncomfortably with one sentence. "Wen Honglin, you dare?!"

Wen Honglin recognized that this man was no longer the person who had raised by him, the one who had always offered him a smile and encouraged him. The man before him was the head of the six families, the one who had stolen the title from his own father and had managed to keep it even though he had three daughters and no male heir. This man was a dangerous one. "Father, let me explain...."

Tang Huizhong's glare cut him off at the word 'Father' so he kept quiet and watched thean turn to face his eldest daughter. "Chunlan, explain yourself."

At this point, Chunlan knew that she was done for. She wouldn't dare tell a lie in front of her father but she knew that the whole truth would also earn her a sound beating. "The truth is....."

Tang Huizhong already had a bad feeling about this, his heart stopping for a few seconds at the hestitance of his daughter. "Don't waste my time."

Chunhua at the background shivered at her father's growl and she silently prayed that her senior sister could get through this safely. Or else....

"What he said is true. I offered him half of my shares as your successor in exchange for the ownership of a Japanese company called Starlock." Chunlan knew that Honglin surely had the documents with him so there was no need to lie any longer. However....

"You see, Sir that I was telling the truth about this incident. I am sure that she wanted this company since it belonged to Jihai's family and as her fiance, I agreed to it to make her happy..." Wen Honglin sighed in pretense when he saw Tang Huizhong's face darkened. "You raised me all this year's and taught me everything I know about the business world. As a shareholder, I will make sure I will not disappoint you and will do my best to help you lead the Tang company into glory."

He could bȧrėly hide the ecstatic feeling from his face at the fact that he had just become the second most powerful shareholder of Tang company, tying only with Chunlan herself. With this position, it was clear that the Wen family now had the upper hand in the fight for the next head of the six families.

Tang Huizhong frowned darkly with a confused face. "But..." His eyes became filled with enlightenment all of a sudden as he laughed heartily, his eyes filled with mirth as he looked at Chunlan. "Is that the reason you asked me to halt the transfer of all your shares on the day of Jihai's funeral?"

Wen Honglin's face fell as his eyes wondered between the both of them. "What do you mean you halted the transfer of shares? What is going on?"

Tang Huizhong stood up with an air of finality, clearly done with the whole situation as he said. "Chunlan has no shares, Honglin. I was supposed to transfer the shares of the position of successor but she asked me to split them in between her two junior sisters which means you were duped. I am just realizing now that I nearly made the mistake of making you my successor. You are not worthy of being an opponent of my daughter."

Chunlan smiled.