Ruan Chen felt dizzy and lightheaded when she woke up the next day because she stayed up too late the night before.
She washed her face with cold water and went to check her phone.
Su Jin made a call, but when she didn't answer, he didn't call a second time. Instead, he left a message: "Reply to me when you're done."
"What is it?" Ruan Chen asked while brushing her teeth.
There was a commotion on Su Jin's side. Ruan Chen frowned and asked again, "Your extraordinary shareholders' meeting isn't over yet?"
“We’ve had three rounds of voting, and things are getting really chaotic,” Su Jin said into the microphone, stepping back a bit. “The second branch of the Ruan family is making trouble again, demanding that Ruan Yunhan step down. I don’t know what the third branch is thinking, but they’re now siding with Yunhan. The first two rounds were tied, and now it’s the third round. I’d like to ask for your opinion.”
“Let her keep going,” Ruan Chen gargled, then continued, “If she steps down, where are you going to find such a useful puppet?”
Her words were blunt and merciless, causing Su Jin to frown. "Ruan Chen, don't say things like that again."
As their relationship grew closer, Su Jin gradually tested Ruan Chen's tolerance level. He found that as long as it wasn't a matter of principle, Ruan Chen was quite easy to talk to.
"Okay, I know you have feelings for her, I won't mention it again." Ruan Chen said easily, "How's the public relations situation going?"
"What else can we do?" Su Jin's tone was one of resignation and helplessness. "Press conference, apology, bowing, donation—all done in one go."
How much to donate?
"Thirty to fifty million, I guess."
“I’ll give you another 50 million,” Ruan Chen said casually, as if it were just five dollars, not 50 million. “You can donate it in your own name, making it a total of 100 million. Round it up, it sounds nice.”
Su Jin was somewhat stunned by the large pancake that fell from the sky.
"You...you're not setting me up, are you?" he asked tentatively.
Ruan Chen sat down at the computer, quickly opened it, and began to check the operation status and feedback of "Lingtian"—while she was sleeping in, the press conference had already ended, and the large-scale VR online game "Lingtian" had already entered trial operation.
"Take it or leave it," Ruan Chen said in a good mood today, and was willing to talk to Su Jin a bit more. She said in a half-joking tone, "We're related after all, so just consider it as a favor to Su Ze."
"What are the conditions?" Su Jin was quick to understand and immediately realized that Ruan Chen's fifty million was definitely not a free gift.
"Your wife publicly humiliated the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Clan yesterday. You can use this 50 million to set up a foundation in the Spirit Clan. It can be for medical care or education, you decide. I won't interfere anymore."
Why don't you do it yourself?
Ruan Chen lazily looked at the comments on the download page of "Ling Tian" and casually replied, "If I donate in my own name, it would be too much of a target; if I donate anonymously, why don't I do you a favor? Mr. Su?"
Ruan Chen hung up the phone, squinted, and casually wrote a small program to capture keywords from the comments section of "Ling Tian" to see what the feedback was like.
At this moment, at the Prince Hotel in the Northern Islands, Ruan Yunhan's face was ashen as she listened to an audio recording repeatedly.
This was a suggestion from her third uncle some time ago. He said that men become bad when they have money, and he encouraged Ruan Yunhan to take some measures against Su Jin to prevent him from playing around outside.
They even enthusiastically recommended several "experts" to Ruan Yunhan.
Ruan Yunhan wanted to win over her third uncle, so she agreed, never expecting that these people would actually harm Su Jin.
Who knows if it was just a lucky guess, but someone actually planted a bugging program on Su Jin's phone.
The company hadn't contacted her, and Ruan Yunhan assumed it was due to the time difference. Since she had nothing better to do, she somehow decided to listen to the eavesdropping program.
The program was installed half a month ago. For the first few days, Ruan Yunhan listened with great interest, but Su Jin was indeed honest and straightforward, and Ruan Yunhan gradually lost interest.
She listened selectively for a few days, but the conversations remained as bland as ever, consisting of either business matters or stories about her two children.
Just as Ruan Yunhan was about to exit, a new listening record was suddenly created in the program.
Ruan Yunhan hadn't saved that number on her phone, but she knew it all too well—it belonged to Ruan Chen.
Ruan Yunhan heard their conversation clearly.
She was trembling with anger. Clearly, that persistent slut Ruan Chen had gotten together with Su Jin again.
And what about the board of directors? They haven't contacted me at all, and they're actually holding an extraordinary general meeting to try and force me out? I'm Nguyen Chinh Duc's biological daughter; only she is qualified to inherit the Nguyen Group's wealth!
And in recent years, hasn't the Ruan Group gradually returned to its former size under her leadership? How dare these people ask her to step down?
Especially my second uncle. When my father was in the company, he was always thinking about seizing power, and he's still restless now!
Su Jin, Ruan Chen... these people who betrayed and schemed against her will pay the price sooner or later!
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Ruan Chen created his own account, brought his equipment, and entered the newbie village.
This game is truly amazing; the VR scenes are incredibly realistic.
[It seems the developers personally visited the Northern Islands to scout locations; the realistic modeling is naturally impressive.]
Ruan Chen glanced at the ID that was speaking; it belonged to an internal staff member, assigned by the marketing department.
She also spontaneously became a fan, commenting, "Speaking of which, does the Spirit Race really exist? I don't think I've ever heard of it, but the setting is so realistic."
[Yes, there really are. We had a classmate who was half-human and half-elf, with reddish-brown hair.]
This is somewhat of a worldview upside down.
[Upstairs, you must live in a central city, right? We all know that in our city, along the northern coast, there are places where these people congregate.]
Are these settings true? For example, the Eldar cannot leave the Northern Islands, they possess mysterious, predictive powers, and pure Eldar are born with spiritual strength far exceeding that of ordinary people...
[I'm not sure about the first one, but it seems a bit weird. The second and third ones are real. In our class recently, during the mental strength screening, the mixed-race students all scored exceptionally well.]
[I'm so envious! I want to improve my genes through a marriage alliance. By the way, is there a route for the Spirit Clan's Holy Maiden? I want to do it.]
[There's also the route for conquering the Holy Son, are you going to do it?]
Ruan Chen almost spat out his water; Song Cheng really had a perverse sense of humor.
In the otherwise harmonious world chat interface, someone suddenly typed a question: "Hey, do you guys think that since the Eldar's settings are all real, could the settings of the technical filter also be real?"
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