CH 47

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After that, he left, still holding his wine glass. When his back was turned, a sinister smile crept up the corners of his mouth. And yet, he missed the meaningful exchange between Ji Nan Feng and Mo Li Xin.

“Fei Fei, do you want to spend more time with Brother Zi Hang? Or go back to the room with mummy?” Mo Li Xin asked as she tapped Fei Fei’s little nose.

Fei Fei pondered seriously, pausing and looking at Ji Zi Hang.

“Can I play with Brother Zi Hang for a while more?”

“Of course, but remember not to run about. You must remember to listen to Brother Zi Hang.”

Mo Li Xin instructed before returning to the suite arranged by the hotel with Ji Nan Feng.

“Will he really take the bait? Wouldn’t he realise that something is off? Also, have you found out about the situation regarding Fei Fei? Why did Luo Fan target Fei Fei’s parents?” Mo Li Xin fired multiple questions at Ji Nan Feng. He only sighed before pressing her down to sit on the sofa. 

“You just need to look after yourself. Regarding everything else, you need not fret. Luo Fan hid deeply. If it wasn’t for that day where Fei Fei disclosed that she saw her parents die in Luo Fan’s hands. And we decided to look into it, we would’ve never found out that he was the mastermind behind all this. 

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And why did Luo Fan bring Cai Lang today? They even entered arm in arm. From the looks of it, Cai Lang’s position had risen from when they initially met. The first time Mo Li Xin saw them together, Cai Lang always followed a step behind Luo Fan, but today, she was walking beside him.

Mo Li Xin was suspicious but she did not put too much thought into it. After all, when tonight came to an end, these people would be finished. The grudges of both lifetimes would finally conclude.

“Li Xin, having been classmates with you through our four years of university, I never would’ve thought that you would be the young Miss of Mo Family and your husband would be the Third Young Master Ji. I really underestimated you,” wearing a sexy, backless, black dress, Cai Lang taunted as she sauntered towards Mo Li Xin. 

“Indeed, you’ve really underestimated me,” Mo Li Xin was not humble in her reply. Either way, Cai Lang would always think too much into her answers. Thus, it was better to just go with her words. 

And as expected, Cai Lang faltered. Before raising her eyebrows, “you’re really lucky. Didn’t you get kidnapped last time during Bai Sha Exhibition? Somehow you still managed to escape.”

“Thanks for the compliment. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be finding my husband now. After all…” She cast a pointed glance at Luo Fan who was surrounded by beauties of every kind. 

She continued, “after all if I’m not beside my husband for even a minute, he would not be happy. Unlike you… who can be so free.”

After saying that, Mo Li Xin turned her back and left. Who did not know how to throw jabs? It was just a matter of who gets irked first.

Cai Lang naturally understood the hidden meaning of Mo Li Xin’s words, and almost snapped the wine stem in anger.

But remembering something, Cai Lang leisurely lifted the wine glass to have a sip, “let’s see who’ll have the last laugh. Today shall be the death anniversary of your Ji and Mo family. That old bag of bones despises all of you to the core. He had already planned your downfall for the past year. And when he succeeds, it doesn’t matter how large your businesses were. You will be but a fish on the chopping board. Without money, and without power, you will be nothing.”  

Luo Fan might not have been a native of Country A, but his influence was not small. He dabbled in many industries during his short one-year stay in Country A. Whether it be jewelry, real estate, food industry, animal husbandry, and even agriculture, he had dipped his hands in all of them. Hence, the people that wanted to socialise with him came wave after wave.

“Boss Luo is so venturesome! In just one year, you managed to build your prosperous empire in our country! If we have the opportunity, we must go down to have a look and gain some experience. I wonder if we’ll have that honor?” A balding, obese man boisterously joked as he gave him a toast.

“You exaggerate. I’m just lucky enough to ride on Ji Family’s coattails. It’s all thanks to Ji Family’s help that our collaboration could proceed so smoothly. And I managed to barely have a firm foothold in this place where talents are in abundance,” the corners of Luo Fan’s eyes only left a slit as the crow’s feet surrounding his eyes crinkled as he smiled. He jollily downed half the red wine in his glass. 

The people surrounding him all exchanged glances with each other. They were not aware of the collaboration between Ji Family and this Boss Luo, who appeared out of nowhere.

But in fact, that was not the case. At least, there was no collaboration up until a month ago. Luo Fan just made it up for his own motives. Besides, no one would go digging into their collaborative background.

“Boss Luo and First Young Master Ji are collaborating? This is news to all of us, it’s no wonder…” The crowd nodded in expectation. With the support of Ji Family, wanting to gain a foothold in Country A was not impossible.

“Recently, in production of cosmetics and its research and development, I have the honors of partnering with Ji and Mo Family. Surely, the outcome will be outstanding,” Luo Fan commented.

“There’s also the Mo family? Incredible! This is incredible! Boss Luo, it seems like you’ll achieve great things in the future!”

The man was already in his fifties. What ‘future’ could they possibly be referring to? Those were just words of flattery. What could they do since he had deep connections with both the Ji and Mo Family? Everyone’s thoughts fell along those lines. But this flattery was most likely useless. Since the source was great, but the connection, linked to the source, was not ideal. 

At that moment, Luo Fan’s phone suddenly rang. He stood where he was,  amongst the other prominent figures, and picked up the call. The venue was noisy, so people could not catch the conversation. But they watched as Luo Fan’s expression changed drastically as if he suffered from shock. The other party might have hung up because Boss Luo lowered his phone. Or to be more accurate, his hand seemed to have lost strength and was flung down to his side.

Immediately afterwards, he lifted his hand to support his head. Disregarding everyone, he searched frantically through the crowd, as if looking for someone. Until he finally found the hosting party, Ji Family’s First Young Master Ji. 

Then Boss Luo pointed accusingly at him and yelled in anger, “I originally thought that you, Ji and Mo Family, were decent businessmen. I never expected that you would resort to using such unscrupulous means! What a bunch of snakes and rats! Really disappointing!”

Luo Fan bellowed so loudly that everyone unconsciously turned to watch. After all, his behavior could be described as ‘audacious to the extreme’. This mentality could not be helped since many present dare not offend Ji Family. And this person even lambasted Mo Family too.

‘Wasn’t Boss Luo a calm person? Why did he?…’ 

‘Did he suffer from some provocation?’

The crowd was buzzing among themselves when suddenly someone shouted, “look at the latest news!”

Piquing everyone’s curiosity, everyone took out their phones. This was indeed breaking news. On the real-time hot search list, nearly half of the top ten articles were denouncing Ji Family, Mo Family, and Luo Corporation. 

Article 1 [Ji Family’s vicious enterprise – Drugs detected in cosmetics production.]

Article 2 [The Mo’s are unscrupulous, powder that kills.]

Article 3 [Luo Corporation – A Brainless Corp.]

Article 6 […]

Just as everyone was speculating, the entire banquet hall was suddenly surrounded by the police.

Luo Fan raised his eyebrows and muttered to himself, “what is to come, will eventually come. It’s time we end this once and for all.” 

‘What’s going on?’

‘Ji Family’s banquet. Who has the guts to storm in like this?’

‘Unless, it is as what we’ve seen?’ 

‘Ah… then this is terrifying. Before coming tonight, I applied their cosmetics. Can’t be a problem with it right? But I’ve been using their products for so long and there has never been an issue.’

‘Eh, eh, eh… stop chatting and look. Isn’t that General Lu? Going by his horrible expression, did something really happen?’

Various voices at the reception were in heated discussions. Everyone was speculating what was really going on.

“General Lu, what is this regarding?” an elderly man stepped forward and asked.

Lu Xing Yan furrowed his brow and looked directly at the approaching First Young Master Ji, “we suspect some to be possessing contrabands and producing hazardous products. This operation is to apprehend them.”

Just then, Luo Fan approached, “General Lu, this time, the ones who’ve committed a crime belong to your brother’s family. You wouldn’t just let them off right?” 

His motive for carrying out his plans tonight was specifically because he wanted Lu Xing Yan to be pressured under the scrutiny of the crowd to arrest Ji and Mo Family. He wanted to see their nest overturn, and their own people arrested each other. 

As for himself, as long as he could get his revenge, nothing else mattered. Moreover, with careful calculations, his judicial responsibility was minor and at most, he only needed to pay monetary compensation. 

Thinking up to this point, he felt ecstatic.

Who would have expected that Lu Xing Yan would raise his eyebrow and step toward Luo Fan, “when did I state that I was here to arrest people from Ji and Mo Family?” 

After the words fell, Luo Fan was momentarily dumbfounded, “wasn’t it clearly stated in the news? In addition, my company just called and informed me that there was a problem with the assembly line which the two families were responsible for. They maliciously added narcotics to the recent batches of cosmetics products, hoping that users would form a reliance on their products. But they miscalculated and overloaded the drug into the product. So if you’re not here to arrest them, then who else?” 

Luo Fan had a bad premonition, causing him to lose his previous calm and confident demeanor. 

The attendees at the banquet were all waiting to watch a good show.

“Who said that we used narcotics? Outsiders who don’t know the situation might babble nonsense. But you… as an insider, what qualifications do you have to say that?”

“Why wouldn’t it be your responsibility? Obviously you tampered with the products during production. One just needs to investigate to find out the truth,” after blurting those words, he knew he had spoken irresponsibly.

The author has something to say: I have to explain. I don’t know how many people are reading this book. But I know that this book is not good enough and there are many issues. When I was writing, I found that every word was difficult to pen down. So, I’ll be ending the story in fifty chapters. If there are people who really read it genuinely, all I can do is apologise. I couldn’t continue and wanted to give up, but whenever I think of the handful of people that might read my story in earnest, I persevered. Overall, I’ve written two books. And in all honesty, I think the first book might’ve been slightly better. But regardless, I still finished this. Thank you for your support. After this, I’ll be writing a new book and I hope everyone will support it. The next one will be completely different from this one, so you can rest assure when reading it.

The translator has something to say: Sigh, as an earnest reader and even investing time to translate the novel, this was pretty disappointing but I feel… many readers have also already felt it coming (before this, can tell that author-sama’s heart wasn’t into it anymore) >< 

P.S. I really debated if I should translate her author’s note, but I guess everyone has a right to know, right? 

P.P.S. Don’t fret my lovelies, I’ll finish translating this for those that still want to read to the end.