"In addition, due to advanced age and declining health, medicine has proven ineffective."
Zi Xi withdrew her hand, her tone calm yet carrying an undeniable authority.
"I can cure this poison."
Zi Xi smiled and swept her gaze over the shocked crowd, finally landing on Old Master Yun's excited and hopeful face.
The fish has taken the bait.
*
The world, now shrouded in darkness, has been reduced to only black, white, and gray since that rainy night.
He did not immediately attempt suicide, nor did he show any obvious resistance.
The day after he announced his intention to die to his grandfather, a detailed document about Li Zixi was placed on his desk.
The paper is cold, and each word is like a knife.
A life deliberately rearranged.
He was considered a burden by his adoptive parents, and was constantly beaten and verbally abused, and often went hungry.
Finally, it was thrown into the Dark Abyss, that demonic cave, like discarded trash.
Before he met her, the pure and innocent little fool he cherished had already been treated so cruelly by the world for more than a decade.
A feeling deeper than despair began to grow and spread in the depths of his lifeless heart.
Am I going to die now? No.
Before that, he wanted to make all those who had bullied Xixi, betrayed her, and pushed her into the abyss disappear.
Shen Li efficiently and quickly took over the family's core business.
He is no longer the cynical and rebellious teenager he once was, but has become a truly ruthless business machine.
His business tactics are downright insane.
In one bidding process, a rival company used underhanded tactics to steal Shen's reserve price.
Everyone thought Shen Li would be furious and take legal action.
However, he did not. He used a more secretive and powerful force.
Within just one week, Shen Li uncovered evidence of financial fraud committed by the founder of a rival company in its early years, and even evidence of a serious, undisclosed safety incident.
However, Shen Li did not make it public, but instead threw it directly onto the other party's chairman's desk.
The next day, the company withdrew from the bidding, and its founder had to leave the country urgently due to health reasons, causing the company's stock price to plummet by half overnight.
Shen Li crushed his opponent without bloodshed, in the most brutal way, and made people in the industry fully witness his ruthlessness and unpredictability.
This is not just business competition; it's the beginning of his cleanup of the world.
Any existence that is dirty and unscrupulous reminds him of the suffering Xi Xi has endured, and all of it should be erased.
On another occasion, a highly decorated veteran within the group, who in recent years had become somewhat arrogant and attempted to challenge his authority, openly challenged him at a board meeting.
Shen Li remained silent throughout, only recounting in a cold tone at the end the detailed chain of evidence showing that the elder statesman and his relatives had abused their power to transfer benefits.
It's even accurate down to every single account and every related company.
The elder statesman was utterly devastated on the spot, and less than an hour after the meeting, he submitted his resignation. All his illegal gains were recovered in full.
This is not just about internal cleanup; it's about clearing away all possible obstacles and filth to pave the way for his larger cleanup plan to follow.
Shen Li is like a peerless weapon without a sheath, leaving a trail of blood wherever he goes.
They don't care about profits or reputation, or even the future of the Shen family.
He was simply venting, using this destructive method to take indiscriminate revenge on the world that had wronged him and Xixi.
And that document about the Yun family.
The files on the family that had switched Xi Xi's life and allowed her biological son to usurp her place were lying quietly deep in his drawer.
That will be the next major target on his cleanup list.
However, he behaved almost normally in front of his maternal grandfather, Grandpa Qin.
He would attend family meetings on time, listen to reports, and even give precise but cold advice on certain business matters.
No longer arguing back, nor showing any obvious emotions, like a perfect but empty sculpture.
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