Internal strife

Lu Yushi didn't focus his gaze on anyone. All 16 people present, plus Gu Nan, knew perfectly well who the rebuke was directed at.

Gu Nan held the lunchbox, her expression frozen, a surge of anger stuck in her throat.

All that mental preparation she did was for naught; even if she caused trouble, someone would have to appreciate it.

She lowered her gaze, strode over to Lu Yushi, placed the lunchbox on the table, and said in a low voice, "Your mother asked me to bring this over to you."

After saying that, he turned and walked out, closing the door behind him. His gaze swept slightly across the bracelet, and his eyes narrowed as if he had been pricked by a needle.

He held the doorknob with his left hand and didn't push the door open again.

As she went downstairs, she ran into Sun Qian, who quickly came to greet her: "Miss Gu."

The female employee next to him nodded and greeted him.

Gu Nan kept her eyes straight ahead, and as she passed Sun Qian, she kindly reminded him, "You're finished."

The people in the group didn't know about her relationship with Lu Yushi. They knew they would definitely stop her from going to the conference room. Lu Yushi didn't need to guess much to know that Sun Qian had told her.

But she was in a so-so mood and had no interest in answering Sun Qian's questions. After saying that, she raised her hand to hail a taxi.

The car exhaust fumes lingered, and Sun Qian, disheveled and bewildered, asked, "What does this mean?"

Soon, Lu Yushi came downstairs.

"If you have any objections to the employee handbook, you can go to the human resources department to process your resignation."

Sun Qian was completely bewildered. He glanced at Lu Yushi. Although he rarely saw any change in expression on Lu Yushi's face, after spending time with him, he could still discern whether he was happy or not from the subtle details in his eyes. It seemed that Lu Yushi was on the verge of exploding in anger.

He lowered his head silently, not daring to reply.

Only after the back door closed did the female employee breathe a sigh of relief and whisper, "Brother Sun, it was indeed inappropriate to send someone to the conference room to deliver food."

Sun Qian opened his mouth, thinking to himself, "I know, but the key is that the person is Gu Nan."

He tacitly allowed her to act as Lu Yushi's girlfriend, rushing to Xuncheng to support him, and giving Gu Nan a bracelet for protection during the most dangerous time. Now he tells him that the boss actually doesn't like Gu Nan.

Is it his problem, or the boss's problem?

Before getting into the car, he replied dejectedly to the female employee's kindness: "I understand."

Fortunately, Lu Yushi was just saying it casually in his anger and didn't really mean for him to pack his things and leave. He gave his work instructions in the afternoon as usual and left work in the evening as usual. He apologized to Gu Nan in his heart countless times. If he hadn't deliberately guided her, Gu Nan wouldn't have rushed into the meeting room with a lunchbox.

There were no other assistants or lower-level staff in the meeting room at the time, so he had nowhere to ask what had happened inside. But judging from Lu Yushi's attitude towards him, he could roughly guess that Gu Nan's situation was not optimistic.

I edited and edited the text in the chat box before sending it.

Ms. Gu, I'm truly sorry about what happened at noon. I hope I didn't cause you any trouble.

Wan Yi massaged Gu Nan's shoulders, glanced at the messages, and his brow twitched: "Lu Yushi's assistant?"

Gu Nan didn't want to reply. She turned her phone face down, popped a grape into her mouth, and casually asked, "Do you know me?"

"I've heard that. It seems that he got into big trouble not long after returning to China with Lu Yushi. I heard he had to pay two million in compensation? It's been so long, I guess he's already paid it off."

Gu Nan scoffed, "Two million? Is Lu Yushi that stingy? One of his watches alone is worth more than that."

"I don't know, let's not talk about him anymore. Are you... in a bad mood?" Wan Yi asked tentatively.

Gu Nan vehemently denied it: "How could that be? Your old man is fighting with the Shen family, I'm overjoyed."

Although Shen Manman deleted her WeChat Moments, the screenshots had already spread throughout the major families. Shen Manman had also asked her several times if she had any information about Yun Ting's identity.

The 15 failed products put Wan Ye, the Shen family, and Lin Jianye on high alert.

Of course, the most uneasy one was Lin Jianye. Others might hesitate, but he knew better than anyone that the craftsmanship of the 15 failed products was clearly from the same master as his, but his master had only taken him as his apprentice before his death. Unease and fear enveloped his heart, and even the sound of the servants coming and going made him extremely irritable.

Lin Haoyu pushed the door open and impatiently waved away the servants, saying, "Manman said she doesn't know."

"I don't know, I don't know," Lin Jianye's face turned red. "Couldn't you ask one more question? Where is Yun Ting's private residence? What's the security like? How many bodyguards are there? Can't you use your brain?"

Lin Haoyu was thoroughly humiliated by the insults and retorted, "Manman finally gave me a kind look."

Is that all you ever think about?

"Who told me to beg and plead to please Shen Manman? What, now I shouldn't be able to get along with her anymore? I don't know what you're thinking. What am I to you? Is Shen Manman a dog that I can summon and dismiss at will? You can't just have her come and go as you please!" Lin Haoyu was furious, and his voice became more and more agitated as he spoke.

"Enough!" Lin Jianye was also furious with his good-for-nothing son. "If you were even slightly useful, why would I be running around at this age? Is straw carving really that difficult? My apprentice started learning more than ten years later than you, and his skills are now many times better than yours."

"Then let him be your son, I have no objection." Lin Haoyu slammed his fist on the table, the teacups clattering loudly.

Lin Jianye clutched his chest, breathing heavily: "You!"

Lin Haoyu sneered: "He's such a good person, yet I haven't seen you teach him your best skills. You're keeping them all to yourself because you're afraid he'll learn them all?"

The housekeeper rushed in and separated the arguing father and son.

Lin Jianye leaned over, gripping the edge of the table, and squeezed out a single word: "Get out!"

"I don't want to..."

The old butler pulled Lin Haoyu back: "Young Master, please say less."

Lin Haoyu flicked his sleeve and walked out with a cold face.

Lin Jianye pointed at his back, his fingers trembling, biting his back teeth and closing his eyes.

"Get the car ready, I'm going to Wanjia."

The old butler pondered for a moment and advised, "The Wan family and the Shen family are at odds, and the young master is still pursuing Miss Shen. Going there now might make the Shen family think too much."

Lin Jianye's face turned cold. At this point, how could the Shen family compare to the Wan family?

"Get the car ready!" The voice became louder.

He was in a bad mood, but Master Wan was even worse, his face cold and unapproachable: "Isn't Shen Manman your family's chosen daughter-in-law? What does she mean by posting on her WeChat Moments?"

"Perhaps it was unintentional?" Even if he had many thoughts in his mind, he dared not say them out loud and displease Master Wan.

Back then, Master Wan was an important middleman. As long as Master Wan didn't betray him, he could live a worry-free life.

The tension between Master Wan and the Shen family hadn't subsided when Lin Jianye became the perfect scapegoat.

"Wu Xin? Lin Haoyu is a good-for-nothing. He hasn't even been able to win someone over in all these years. He was about to get engaged, and someone still managed to ruin it. Have you investigated what that girl's identity is? Yan Yi's apprentice? I remember you and Yan Yi are very close friends. How could you let her apprentice cause trouble at such a critical moment?"

Lin Jianye was also angry. Ever since he learned that Su Wanting was Yan Yi's apprentice, he had been unable to contact Yan Yi. Several months had passed, and the people he sent out had not found any trace of Yan Yi. It was as if the person had vanished into thin air.

Seeing his pale face, Master Wan understood and sneered, "You had someone set you up? You think you're so great. Yan Yi has so many chess geniuses he won't meet, yet he prefers to play against an old man like you with mediocre skills. How dare you?"

Lin Jianye gritted his teeth and endured it. If he didn't need someone's help right now, he wouldn't have let others scold him so harshly.

Her palms were clenched until they were red, but she tried to remain calm and forcefully changed the subject: "Back then, the Shen family took half of the money, how dare they break ties with you?"

"Do you have any evidence? They saw you set the fire with their own eyes. Do you have evidence that they took the money, or do you have evidence of where that money came from?"

"Me." Lin Jianye's throat tightened, and he swallowed the anger that was choking him. He continued to steer the conversation toward serious matters. "I had someone investigate Gu Nan, and there were no problems."

Master Wan stared at him for a long time as if he were a fool: "Gu Nan is fine, but what about Lu Yushi? Can Gu Nan alone cause all this trouble? Who do you think is behind this?"

Lin Jianye swallowed hard: "What happened back then has nothing to do with the Lu family."

"What about the Shen family! Lu Yushi has already set his sights on the Shen family. The Shen family either strives to become the boss of Beicheng, or they will be slinked out of Beicheng. What do you think he will choose!"

After he finished speaking, Lin Jianye's face turned ashen.

If Lu Yushi discovers that the Shen family was behind his master's death, he will inevitably use this to threaten the Shen family. The Shen family will naturally not sit idly by and wait for their doom. The best way is to take drastic measures and find a culprit to commit the crime.

With a knife constantly hanging over their heads, no one can sleep soundly.

"I...we..." Lin Jianye's lips trembled, and he panicked for a moment. "Should we go see that person?"

Master Wan dismissed him with disdain: "You don't need to worry about it. The Lu family will release the fourth-generation Tianyu Intelligent System in Xuncheng next week. I don't care what methods you use to make it happen."

Lin Jianye knew his place; he couldn't even get into the press conference, so how could he possibly cause trouble?

Master Wan gave him a disdainful look, picked up his phone and tapped it a couple of times, saying, "This is internal data from the Tianyu Intelligent System. There are five days left. Find a way to get it launched ahead of schedule."

He narrowed his eyes, his gaze warning, and said, enunciating each word clearly: "Even if it's just a minute earlier, this matter absolutely cannot have any problems. Do you hear me?"

Lin Jianye held his phone, nodded repeatedly, and staggered out of the house.

Behind the door, a middle-aged man strode in and said, "Give it to him? Lin Jianye isn't very capable. If something goes wrong, wouldn't it be a waste of such a good opportunity?"

Master Wan didn't take it seriously: "He wouldn't dare to make a mistake."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Whether it was a mistake or not is not important. Now that we have the Lu family's internal information, Lu Yushi will not let him off the hook no matter what."

Master Wan flipped through the report materials, which detailed every step, making it easy for them to copy it verbatim.

"Given to you by Shen Ming?"

The middle-aged man said, “This matter cannot be entirely blamed on Manman. Yunting is indeed very popular, and we didn’t know he had any connection with the Xue family. Shen Ming knew you didn’t want to see the Shen family, so he specifically asked me to bring him over. In my opinion, your two families have been good brothers for so many years, what deep-seated grudges could you possibly have? Don’t let anyone with ulterior motives stir things up.”

"It's their problem if others instigate things. Didn't the Shen family ever think about kicking me to the curb?" Master Wan sneered. "I may be old, but I'm not stupid."

The middle-aged man smiled and changed the subject: "We can talk about our business later. Right now, the most important thing is to see how much Lu Yushi knows, whether he plans to target you or use the evidence to negotiate with the Shen family. Don't forget, we haven't found that videotape yet. If it falls into the hands of the Shen family, we'll be in trouble."

Master Wan said with a stern face, "I know that if this batch of data is indeed true, I will go to the Shen family again."

The middle-aged man nodded with a smile.

"As for Gu Nan, she's too much of an eyesore."

"We've already sent someone over."

A figure flashed past outside the wall, and the shutter clicked, the sound disappearing into the wind rustling through the treetops.

The person squatted in the corner, sent out the picture, and also sent a message.

[Boss, you're amazing! Someone really came looking for Master Wan. They left through the back door very mysteriously, making sure to look around carefully before leaving, afraid of being seen.]