Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Her Subtle Fragrance
"My mother is Xin Wenqing, and my father is He Chuan. My father founded Morikawa Clothing in 1998, and I'm their only biological child for the past 26 years. Morikawa Group has grown from a small garment factory in the suburbs to a leading enterprise with annual revenue of tens of billions, and I'm the only recognized legal heir to this company in its 26 years of existence."
"Are you particularly proud? Being recognized with such grand ceremonies, being favored by the whole world, being compared to a loser to highlight your own composure and excellence, thinking that the status of heir to this wealthy family is already secured?"
"After all, if it were someone else, knowing they were useless, how could they dare to resist? They would just cry, make a scene, and even threaten to commit suicide, which would only make them even more annoying. In the end, they would just have to watch you take away their position."
"What a shame. That was someone else, not me."
Xin Tong straightened her hair, straightened her back, and stood calmly in the middle of the banquet hall.
The overhead light shone brightly on her. She crossed her arms and spoke word by word.
"Others might give in and compromise, but I, Xin Tong, will never."
"No one can take away what belongs to me. It belongs to me for the rest of my life."
As soon as the words fell, the huge banquet hall fell silent.
No one spoke for a long time. He Tianqi tried to calm his breathing. A crack appeared on his flawless expression, but it was forced down. He had never thought that the good-for-nothing who was laughed at by everyone in Wucheng would dare to say such words in public.
He clenched and unclenched his fists in his sleeves, his Adam's apple rolled, and just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted again by a clear and firm female voice.
"Didn't you say he was your son?"
His tone was calm, and he changed direction, this time aiming at his biological father, He Chuan.
"That's perfect."
"I am your daughter. He is your son."
"Who you choose to give your company to depends on your own ability."
The thunderous words were spoken, and the three people present were shocked.
Xin Wenqing stood up suddenly, "Tongtong!"
"Managing a business is incredibly complex, let alone one as large and complex as Morikawa. It's incredibly difficult. How could you possibly be capable of such a thing?" Xin Wenqing tried to dissuade him in a low voice. "People should know their own limitations and avoid wishful thinking. You don't have the ability, and Mom and Dad love you just as much..."
"Sister." He Tianqi finally spoke at this time, his voice seemed to have regained its previous calmness, "You don't have to force yourself to prove anything. After all, everyone knows that you..."
"Are you calling me trash again?"
Xin Tong interrupted him with a sneer. Despite having a pure and classic face, her words were shocking. "If I kick you in the crotch right now and turn you into a eunuch, will you also become a crippled waste?"
...He Tianqi's face froze instantly.
The blunt and somewhat obscene words hit him in the face, and he pursed his lips.
There was a hint of embarrassment in his eyes, as well as shock at Xin Tong's careless and thoughtless words.
I was shocked not only by her casual vulgarity, but even more shocked by the fact that she could deconstruct the definition of "waste" from ability to body in just a few words, leaving everyone present speechless to refute.
…For a moment, a bizarre idea suddenly came to my mind.
He suddenly felt vaguely that perhaps he and everyone else had underestimated this vulgar, lustful, stupid, and foolish sister.
"It all depends on your ability?"
Suddenly a low voice came from the side.
It's He Chuan.
The chairman of this huge business empire had an extremely ugly expression on his face at this moment, staring at his useless daughter who was disobedient and wanted to overturn the table.
He Chuan said word by word, "Whatever you want to do depends on your ability."
Before Xin Tong could speak, He Tianqi next to him suddenly spoke.
"It seems like my sister wants to prove her ability in front of everyone."
His tone was gentle, his voice low and clear, as if he had suddenly thought of something, and his tone changed. "I heard that the women's suit line called Kelly under the Morikawa Group has been losing money for years, and Dad is at a loss. How about-"
"Let me give it a try."
After hearing these words, He Chuan and his wife were both stunned.
Kelly is a women's suit brand under the Morikawa Group. It is a new clothing brand established by He Chuan for the development of multi-brand and functional directions.
It was originally an ambitious work, but the market response was unexpectedly sluggish, and it was unable to make ends meet for a long time. Even changing strategies two or three times could not save it. In the end, it could only shrink gradually, and now it has become the only loss-making sub-brand of the entire Morikawa Group.
Morikawa's development momentum has been getting stronger and stronger in recent years, and many of its sub-brands are doing better and better, but only Kelly is running at a loss. Even the person in charge has changed two or three times, and now no one wants to take over. It is clearly a mess.
"Tianqi!"
Xin Wenqing reacted quickly and objected, "That line has been through three managers and hasn't been able to recover. It's already lost hundreds of millions of yuan and they're planning to shut it down next year. How is your sister going to do that?"
After being reminded, He Tianqi lowered his head and smiled in a gentle voice.
"Yeah, that's right, I didn't think it through. Sister, if you can't do it, don't force it. Just pretend I never mentioned it."
“…” Xin Tong almost wanted to laugh.
She finally saw clearly that He Tianqi appeared to be calm, rational and polite. Anyone who saw him would say that he was young and promising, but in fact he was two-faced and had a dark mind despite his young age.
In the eyes of others, compared to Xin Tong, a second-generation rich man who lives a muddled and drunken life every day, He Tianqi, who exudes an elite aura, is more suitable to be a businessman.
——It’s a pity that Xin Tong never cares about what others think.
In her world, the only standard is herself.
"Stop talking nonsense."
She raised a lazy smile, which was a little naughty.
She accepted all the dark thoughts without hesitation, with an astonishing openness, revealing the lawless arrogance of a devil. With a touch of stupidity, a little arrogance, and a resolute determination that nothing is impossible.
"I know you're trying to provoke me, but I, Xin Tong, have always been fearless since I was a child."
“There is nothing I cannot overcome, nothing I cannot do.”
She met He Chuan's shocked and complicated eyes and said with a smile, "Dad, what would you do if I did it?"
She watched her father turn around and take a few steps. His well-cut, handmade suit, ironed to perfection, now had some annoying wrinkles. Turning back, He Chuan looked up at her again, and Xin Tong returned his gaze with a carefree and frank expression.
——This is forcing him to express his position.
Chairman He finally lost the silent confrontation with his good-for-nothing daughter.
"Do you really think you can do this?"
The voice was like a bell and the tone was deep.
"If you can make the Kelly line profitable within a year, something that so many professional managers can't do, I'll give you 10% of Morikawa's shares."
It was quiet all around.
He Tianqi didn't show it on his face, but the clenched fists in his sleeves had already betrayed his inner feelings.
The authoritative representative of the family finally spoke, which was equivalent to the final word.
He Chuan was the largest shareholder of the Morikawa Group, holding 46%. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, upon his abdication, this 46% would pass entirely to the next successor. And now, He Chuan had actually agreed to give Xin Tong 10% as a stake.
He raised his eyes and glanced at the opposite side.
The young girl seemed to have not yet realized what the chairman of the Morikawa Group's 10% promise meant, and stood there casually with her arms crossed.
The haute couture dress made her skin look delicate, bright and charming. At this critical moment, she was still lowering her head and admiring the colorful nail art inlaid with huge diamonds on her fingertips out of boredom.
——A complete piece of beautiful waste.
He Tianqi blinked gently, and his breathing calmed down.
He suddenly felt like he was being paranoid. Even if He Chuan had promised 10%, so what? Expecting this clueless woman to make Kelly profitable within a year was a pipe dream.
If he guessed correctly, He Chuan himself should have thought so too. One could naturally bet on a promise that could not be fulfilled, as it would all be in vain in the end.
He was thinking alone with his head down, but was interrupted by a young female voice.
"Dad, in fact, you have never understood me for so many years."
The beautiful loser withdrew his gaze from admiring his manicure, looked up again and looked at He Chuan with a bright smile.
"Once I want it, I want it all."
"I want you to inherit all of your 46% shares."
"No one has the qualifications or the ability to compete with me."
…
The banquet hall of Wucheng Empire Hotel returned to silence.
Everyone had left, the overhead lights were bright, and Xin Tong was the only one standing alone in the empty hall. Her bare shoulders made her look thin and slender.
"Hey, did you just overhear? There's a fierce internal dispute over the family property in Morikawa's He family."
"He adopted a son, and his biological daughter forced the emperor to abdicate. He Chuan just left with a gloomy face."
"More than that! His daughter even said she wanted to prove her ability, and if she completed the task, she would let He Chuan give her all the family property."
"His daughter? ...Is she the Xin Tong who I heard spends all day hanging out in bars and making dinner?"
"She's the only one who wants to take the family fortune? What a boast!"
"He Chuan actually agreed?"
"What's the use of agreeing? Xin Tong won't get it anyway."
"Forget it, what does it have to do with us? Let's just watch the fun."
"Keep your voice down! No one's left yet! Just standing there! You don't want your job anymore!"
Xin Tong turned her head slightly, and the waiters hiding behind the pillars behind her quickly fell silent, and all the tiny noises disappeared in an instant.
The footsteps sounded a bit hurried, and it seemed that they had disappeared in an instant.
...Now, she was the only one left in the hall.
The light from the crystal chandelier overhead looked more and more like diamonds, making her dizzy. The surroundings were empty, lonely, and silent, with the cool air from the air conditioner gently stirring her hair.
It was hard to describe her feelings at the moment. The strong confidence she had just shown gradually disappeared. She felt as if her strength was slowly being drained away. Fatigue surged from the depths of her heart, seeping through her body like ants.
tired.
How could a son who had left his country return to China and the first thing he did was not to have a big meal to comfort the pain of having to eat only white people's food in the past, but instead to rush in with high heels to grab the family property?
Her brain was overloaded. What happened in these two days?
Just like that, she had a younger brother, just like that, she found out about her parents' plan to train an heir, and just like that, she angrily took on the task of solving the mess, and the battle for the family inheritance officially began.
After the noise, everything is empty and a sense of emptiness slowly takes over the mind.
She wanted to go back and lie down for a while, like a frost-bitten eggplant, but suddenly she heard a sudden chuckle from the left side behind her.
Very low and very light.
It was not easy to detect, but the hall was quiet and deserted, and the laughter floated clearly into her ears.
She paused and turned around.
The next second, he met a pair of careless eyes.
In the empty banquet hall, in the right corner,
At this moment, there was actually a man standing there.
He wore a black beanie, with a few strands of messy golden hair spilling out from the edge and hanging down beside his ears. He was wearing loose clothes, with his hands in his pockets, standing against the wall in a very casual manner.
He had a small head and a narrow face, and his pair of distinct black and white eyes were pressed under his three-dimensional brow bones, staring straight at her.
...Xin Tong stood there in a daze.
A large and quiet banquet hall, a glittering and dazzling world of fame and fortune, and a dazzling starry sky ceiling.
No one spoke, just the two of them, standing at a distance not too far from each other.
"Why are you here?!"
She blurted it out without thinking.
After a few seconds, he realized something was wrong. His appearance here meant that he was invited to the party.
He is Yu Chengjin's friend and a well-known dancer. I think they are in the same circle, so it is not surprising that he appears here as a guest.
So, what she should ask most at this moment is...
"Why are you still here?!"
It has been more than an hour since the banquet ended and the guests left!
How long had he been standing in the corner, watching so carelessly?
Xin Tong looked at the empty hall on both sides, realized something, and couldn't believe it.
So, he had been among the crowd since the very beginning of her "Cold White Moonlight" plan.
He witnessed himself pretending to be a big shot and falling down in public, trying to show off in front of his father but being scolded, accepting his parents' decision to train another heir after the guests left, and finally, acting ruthlessly in front of his stepbrother to grab the family property.
——Did he see all these scenes with his own eyes?
From just now until now, no one noticed that he was left alone.
Xin Tong could even imagine his leisurely look. It must be the same as that day on the second-floor platform of Yu Chengjin's villa, indifferent and leisurely, observing all her embarrassing moments.
She felt a slight tingling sensation on her spine, and when she came to her senses, she realized that it was only at this moment that she felt a little warmth on her cheek.
“…”
Xin Tong stared at the nonchalant BKing look of the man in front of her, and felt so angry that her teeth itched.
"Why do you want to stay?"
She quickly lifted the hem of her skirt, and before the man could react, Xin Tong had already taken a few steps in front of him.
Stare at him.
"To come and see me? To laugh at me?"
"Isn't it just that I mistook you for a male model before?"
"What a vengeful person!"
"You saw everything? ...All of it, everything?"
"You saw it when you fell after your shoe got stuck?"
"You saw it even after being abandoned by my parents?"
"Did you also see him say he was going to turn He Tianqi into a eunuch?"
“…”
Problems come one after another.
So noisy.
Jiang Chongyan lowered his eyes and looked at the furious man in front of him.
She was wearing a dress and light makeup.
Her pupils were clear, but her eyes were evasive. She frowned slightly and glared at him.
The two were standing very close to each other at this time.
He was a head taller than her, and their shadows were entangled, wrapped in the thick, soft ivory curtains in the corner of the banquet hall.
A gust of air from the air conditioner blew by, and the faint fragrance of her body came over, a light floral scent.
…
Xin Tong was still furious, but she didn't expect the man in front of her to quickly withdraw his gaze from her, put his hands in his pockets, turned around and left without saying a word.
Only a cold back was left for her.
"Hello!"
Xin Tong opened her eyes wide and watched the man's back as he quickly withdrew and walked away without any reluctance.
"……baffling!"
She cursed in her heart, what a weirdo!
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