CH 85

The envelope bag was opened and a sheet of paper with a large red official seal was taken out.

The front of the page was facing the crowd, and Su Chi said in an unhurried tone, “A notarization of household transfer. It states that the time of moving out of the household was in the year he turned eighteen.”

The whole venue fell instantly silent.

The crowd’s eyes staggered back and forth across the room: Damn, at eighteen years! Why was it only announced now when he had been moved out so early?

“Can you see clearly?” Su Chi turned to Wei Lao Er, “Do you need me to put up a projection for you?”

Dozens of gazes fell on Wei Lao Er. His face was instantly on fire and his breath was stuck in his chest.

A short distance away, Zhou Qingcheng let out a sigh of relief: it turned out that he had moved out long ago …… Shit, that scared him to death.

Since they were not brothers, it was completely reasonable to have a secret relationship under the same roof.

On the ceremonial stage, Su Chi finished solving the issue of the household register and exchanged a look with Su Jitong.

The latter understood and interrupted the exchange of gossip below: “There is one last announcement to make. The second branch of the Su Group will henceforth come under Su Huanyi’s name and become his asset!”

The words fell, and the room was in an uproar!

What did this mean? It meant that the Su family was treating Su Huanyi as equally as their sons.

Amidst the noisy chatter, Wei Lao Er’s expression was gloomy.

He crossed the crowd for a moment to look at his other collaborators for a moment, then took out his mobile phone and turned around to leave the venue.

Heh! I’m still happily dividing your family fortune.

After a long period of encroachment, the Su family’s huge company is going to fall apart today!

Su Jitong did not seem to care how big a ripple his words had set off in the circle. He finished his words and turned to his wife and son and said, “Let’s go ……”

Yu Xinyan nodded and followed Su Huanyi to her husband’s side. They walked down the ceremonial stage and went to the second floor.

Su Huanyi’s tense body relaxed a little after leaving the sight of the crowd.

As soon as the four of them entered the corridor, Su Jitong called out to Su Chi, “Eldest, come with me for a moment.”

Su Chi didn’t ask any questions. He only nodded and followed Su Jitong to the preparation room at the other end.

Yu Xinyan took Su Huanyi back to the waiting room. The door closed behind them, and the room was quiet, leaving only mother and son facing each other.

Su Huanyi was a little uneasy, “Mom, are you angry?”

“Of course I’m angry.” Yu Xinyan looked had a rare expression of seriousness.

Su Huanyi quickly hung his head and admitted his mistake, “I’m sorry, me and big brother…”

Yu Xinyan slapped her thigh violently, PA! The sound interrupted his words, “Those people dare to say that about you, and still have the nerve to come to our house to eat and drink! I’m so angry.”

Su Huanyi: “…”

He found that Yu Xinyan’s brain circuits overlapped with his to a high degree.

He immediately threw away the small apprehension he had. He sat next to Yu Xinyan and scolded them with her, “That’s right, I also saw a person drinking our champagne.”

Yu Xinyan’s beautiful eyes widened, “That is too shameless!”

The mother and son scolded loudly for five or six minutes before exhaling a suffocating breath.

Then they collapsed on the sofa at the same time, like two salted fish.

The two salted fish waited for a long time without their lovers returning. The younger salted fish finally couldn’t resist speaking up, “Mom, what do you think about me and big brother?”

The big salted fish sighed quietly, “To be honest, I thought the eldest was going to end up alone every time I heard him talk.”

Su Huanyi: “…”

Yu Xinyan reached over and patted his small arm. The force of the patting showed her relief. “Fortunately, I have you.”

Su Huanyi sighed in his heart: his mother’s concerns were quite practical.

Not long after, the door of the waiting room was pushed open. Su Jitong and Su Chi walked in one after the other, and the two salted fish immediately sat up straight.

Su Jitong walked toward Yu Xinyan, “Madam…”

Su Chi walked up to Su Huanyi and asked, “Should we go down?”

Su Huanyi looked at Su Jitong, and the latter waved his hand at him, “You guys go meet the guests. I’ll come down with your mom later.”

“Okay, dad.”

After leaving the waiting room, the two walked downstairs together.

Su Huanyi turned his head slightly to look at Su Chi. The corridor lights overhead were two metres apart, and Su Chi’s side profile was calm and clear against the background of the alternating light and dark corridor.

“Big brother, you asked Xiao Qin to go to the police station just to get my notary certificate of household registration relocation?”

“Otherwise, to beat the drums and cry out injustice?”

Su Huanyi was a little excited, “You already expected the opposite side to say it was an emergency relocation!”

“I can’t confirm that, but I had to take all the possibilities into account.”

In the space of a few words, they had exited the corridor and walked to the second staircase. Su Chi boldly stretched out his hand to reshape the small crown that had collapsed somewhat softly on top of his head.

The eyes from downstairs were instantly focused on the two of them. Su Huanyi was a little embarrassed, but he felt that Su Chi was enjoying the process, so he didn’t avoid it.

Su Chi paused his action for a moment and looked at him with downcast eyelashes, “What’s with that expression?”

“I’m thinking, big brother is so powerful!” Su Huanyi said as he held the small crown that had re-erected, “Could this be the legendary ‘I predicted your prediction’?”

Su Chi chuckled a little.

The crowd downstairs, who were secretly watching: Damn! Su Chi burst into a smile without mockery, it’s true love!

The two went down to the hall on the ground floor, and Su Yu walked over with Zhou Qingcheng and the others.

Su Jianchen was still angry, “Big brother, you should have explained a bit more!”

Su Chi: “There’s no need.”

Su Huanyi apologized to Zhou Qingcheng, “We have to first go around the hall to say hello.”

Sun Heyu nodded, “You guys are busy; don’t mind us.”

“Then I’ll come and look for you after I’ve said my greetings.”

Su Huanyi turned and walked with Su Chi towards the center of the hall. The waiter followed them with a tray, ready to replace their drinks at any time.

As the glasses lightly knocked, the neutral gazes of those who had been watching the show before disappeared.

Some of the guests even had a bit of sympathy: it was not a scandal in the first place, but it had led to a business war which was a disaster for the Su family.

Will the Su family be able to pull through this time?

Su Chi and Su Huanyi seemed oblivious to people’s feelings as they clinked their glasses and left together.

After they left, there were small chattering voices in the crowd: “They only explained the move out of the household register, but they didn’t deny their relationship. Is this a tacit acceptance?”

“Isn’t it obvious? It must be true that they’re hooking up. But what’s the use of explaining this now? The Su group is still being suppressed!”

“Su Chi is also missing the point. He only solves the surface problem, but the essential reason is the competition for interests between the groups. So what if they are in a normal relationship, will their rivals withdraw their capital and let them off the hook?”

“Alas, he’s still too young and doesn’t see things deeply enough.”

On the other side, Nie Yihu looked at the two figures holding hands and walking side by side with slightly wrinkled brows.

He had understood the relationship between the two from the moment he saw the notarized certificate – the unwillingness was there, but there was another point that concerned him more.

If it wasn’t a scandal, then why didn’t they clarify it from the start?

Instead, they gave rivals a handle and were jointly suppressed by all parties. The internal and external turmoil went downhill overnight.

This was not in line with the usual practice of emergency public relations.

Nie Yihu glanced at the center of the hall where several of the Su family’s rivals were still glancing down at their phones from time to time, looking vaguely excited and anxious, as if they were waiting for something big to happen.

He stayed in place for a moment, then took a cocktail from the waiter next to him and turned towards the corner of the hall.

Behind everything that defied common sense, there was a hidden minefield.

He had to get away from it!

Su Huanyi and Su Chi had just replaced their empty glasses from the waiter’s hand when Wei Lao Er approached from across the hall.

“You two are really carefree.” Wei Lao Er stopped in front of them with a bad look, “How is Mr Su’s company?”

Su Chi answered him with grace, “It’s okay…”

Wei Lao Er sneered, “That’s right, it’s almost handed over to someone else, I’m sure it will do better when we take over.”

Su Huanyi’s gaze fell on the tall glass in his hand, “Isn’t the alcohol degree low?” He’s starting to talk nonsense.

Wei Lao Er: “…”

After exasperating Wei Lao Er once again, Su Huanyi and Su Chi walked toward the next guest.

Su Huanyi sighed in the interval, “He comes to provoke every time, but he ends up angry. Why does he still come back for more?”

“It’s a gambler’s mentality.” Su Chi answered from a professional point of view, “The more you lose, the more you put in because you want to win.”

He added, “So once the bait is laid down, it’s easy to take the bait.”

The two stopped talking temporarily as they were now in front of the guests to be greeted. After a few clinked glasses and pleasantries, they moved on to the next place.

Su Huanyi continued the conversation, “What kind of bait did big brother drop?”

Su Chi said in a flat tone, as if stating the weather, “The Su group.”

“…” Su Huanyi, “Does dad know?”

Su Chi’s fingertips grazed the mouth of his glass, and he did not speak.

Su Huanyi looked at him in awe.

Twenty minutes later, they had finished greeting all the people in the hall. They were about to go to Zhou Qingcheng and the others when Su Chi’s mobile phone rang.

He stopped and took it out to take a look, then turned to Su Huanyi, “Let’s go to the second-floor balcony.”

“What happened?”

“Nothing, it’s just that the view is wider there.”

Su Huanyi understood his subtext and hurriedly followed, “Is it about to start, big brother.”

Su Chi held up his wrist and looked at his watch, “Five more minutes.”

Su Huanyi’s heart fluttered: Oh, there’s still time!

The second floor of the banquet hall was for the guests to rest and recuperate. The banquet had just started and no one had gone up there yet.

They walked up to the second-floor balcony and immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the hall.

Curiosity, inquiry, sympathy, malice …… all sorts of emotions were mixed in with the tiny murmurings below.

Su Huanyi could now act like no one else was around. He only cared about how his big brother managed to do an explosion with such precision.

“Big brother, how can you control the cash flow of so many companies at the same time?”

“Because their cash flow all goes through the same gate.”

Su Huanyi kept quiet for a few seconds in contemplation and suddenly looked up, “A capital pool?”

His head shook. The magnitude of the information was so big that the little crown collapsed. Su Chi turned to face him and reached out to carefully shape it for him.

The two were standing in the middle of the balcony at the moment, and it was like a gaping hole had opened in Su Huanyi’s mind. A steady stream of information poured in and he was completely oblivious to the dozens of stares coming from downstairs.

With two minutes to go before the explosion, the vast amount of information was finally arranged in a neat logical chain in order.

Su Huanyi woke up with a start and couldn’t resist saying, “Holy shit”!

The expression on his face was so readable, and Su Chi didn’t lower his hand after fixing his style, “Have you figured it out?”

Su Huanyi was now completely dumbfounded by Su Chi’s layered plan. He could only respond with an “mmm.”

“You don’t seem stupid.” Su Chi brought his head down to a position next to his head, “There is one more minute.”

Su Chi’s reminder pulled his attention back to the scene.

It was only then that Su Huanyi realized how ambiguously intimate they were. He felt countless gazes landing on them, and he could even see Su Jianchen walking up the stairs to the second floor.

Su Chi asked him in a low voice, “Su Huanyi, I want to kiss you right here. Is it okay?”

Here, in front of everyone, declaring his sovereignty in the most straightforward way possible.

Su Huanyi looked at him, and his eyelashes trembled slightly.

Slender fingers brushed his ear, and the second hand on the wristwatch tapped, pointing to the full hour. Su Huanyi’s heart beat faster as the second hand pulsed.

The background around him became blurred at this moment, and the only thing that remained in the focus of his vision were Su Chi’s burning eyes.

Su Huanyi said softly, “Yes…”

He was willing to declare himself Su Chi’s sole owner in the spotlight.

Several exclamations suddenly came from below.

Under the bright lights of the hall, the two stood in front of the second-floor balcony. Su Chi held Su Huanyi’s face and lowered his head to kiss him.

Everyone in the hall on the ground floor was stunned. Five or six steps away from the second floor, Su Jianchen faded and solidified.

After more than ten seconds of lips and teeth fitting together, several text notifications rang out in the middle of the quiet hall.

Wei Lao Er snapped back from the scene in front of him. He fumbled for his phone and picked it up, “Hello?”

The secretary’s anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, “Mr. Wei, the company has a cash flow problem, all the projects that are moving forward cannot be started!”

“What? How can that be? I was… this morning..” Wei Lao Er turned his head in exasperation and his voice suddenly stopped.

Across the crowd, far and near, several people who had joined forces to suppress the Su group were all holding their phones, their faces ugly.

Two others picked up the phone as well, their voices coming his way, “What do you mean the funds are frozen?”

“No money can be withdrawn from the account; it’s impossible!”

On the second-floor balcony, the two men’s lips parted. Su Chi retreated a little and looked at the situation downstairs.

The sudden series of changes stunned the crowd attending the banquet, and a sense of disbelief lingered in the entire hall.

Wei Lao Er hung up the phone and looked up to meet Su Chi’s eyes.

He instantly understood. He clutched the phone and shouted angrily, “What did you do?!”

Under the eyes of the crowd, Su Huanyi and Su Chi stood together with interlocked fingers. Su Chi looked down arrogantly, taking in everyone’s changing expressions.

“As you can see, we are indeed together. Thank you all for your congratulations.”