Chapter 63 The Price
As the day went by, the heat could no longer be suppressed. When public opinion reached its peak, Sheng Zhao released a lot of negative information, including that the rich son of the Shen family bought drugs to frame others, that the shareholders of the Shen Group were corrupt, bribed officials, and that there was collusion between officials and businessmen.
Of course, Sheng Zhao did not think that a young man's drugging could seriously harm the Shen family, but this incident could obviously serve as the beginning of public opinion. When public opinion and attention reached the peak, Shen's negative information would be released. Even if Shen had extraordinary abilities, this kind of public opinion could obviously not be controlled.
She had long wanted to drag the high and mighty Shen family into the quagmire.
At that dreamy wedding that was the dream of countless young boys, the Shen family's superiority made her eager to see the Shen family's demise.
This incident also took advantage of the popularity of other stars. If there hadn't been an information gap and fans hadn't been told which stars were at the celebration party, these fans wouldn't have been so worried and tirelessly asking whether other stars were safe, and using the popularity of other stars to continue to amplify this matter. Even if the Shen family was extremely powerful, how could they silence the fans?
Almost at the moment when all the negative information was exposed, Shen's stock price fell all the way, and internal turmoil also occurred. Many companies stopped cooperating with Shen at the instruction of Sheng Zhao. After all, Shen was in big trouble now, and they might be implicated. Sheng directly took over the remaining business for free, so naturally many companies were willing to cooperate with Sheng Zhao.
What followed was the unilateral announcement of the cancellation of the engagement.
When the fire of Shen family was about to spread to Sheng family, the announcement of breaking off engagement was directly issued. Everyone knew about the engagement banquet of the century, and the focus had long since shifted from the focus on Mr. Shen and Sheng Zhao to the two groups of Shen and Sheng. Even if the engagement was broken off, everyone could understand it.
However, Sheng Zhao's unilateral announcement of the cancellation of the engagement at this time obviously added a lot of light to the blazing flame.
Perhaps it was the great victory that made Sheng Zhao in a very good mood. He sipped the juice and looked at Shen Jiaoye's contact information who kept opening his phone with a smile, and then turned it off directly in an unpleasant manner.
It was strange. The tall and beautiful woman stood in front of the French window overlooking the busy traffic. Her slender white fingers pinched the goblet and shook it gently. In the goblet was not red wine that symbolized victory and pride, but ice-cold orange juice.
The moment Sheng Cehan pushed the door open, he saw Sheng Zhao drinking orange juice in a good mood, his eyes slightly narrowed, and his thin red lips curled up, like a cat stealing some fish.
On the desk was a contract for a corporate engagement partnership.
Sheng Cehan paused, walked over and read the contract word by word in disbelief, his lips trembling.
——It has his name on it.
"Zhao Zhao, this...this is...no, are you going to marry me off?"
Sheng Cehan almost choked for a long time before he found his voice, his eyes filled with extreme panic.
Sheng Zhao pushed the contract out and chuckled, his eyes deep as a pool of water. "I've already told you, if you do anything unnecessary, I'll marry you off—"
"It's not me!" Sheng Cehan suddenly looked up, his pale face flushed with excitement. He grabbed Sheng Zhao's clothes almost madly, "Zhao Zhao, it really wasn't me. Brother wouldn't be so vicious. Brother really didn't let others drug Li Ji. No, it wasn't me. Don't abandon brother, please..."
"Please, Zhao Zhao, don't marry me off. Let me stay by Zhao Zhao's side, okay? Zhao, Wu Zhao... please..."
His voice changed from a broken explanation to a choked plea, and his usually cold eyes were filled with tears.
Sheng Zhao paused, and hooked his Adam's apple with his fingertips as if teasingly. He watched with satisfaction as the man's Adam's apple trembled for a moment, then looked down at the man who was kneeling and holding his trouser legs, and said with pity.
"But according to the chain of evidence, it was you who asked Shen Moyi to buy the drugs, and it was also you who asked Xie Huaining to give the drugs... What should I do, brother?"
Sheng Cehan was trembling all over, almost shouting, "It wasn't me! I asked someone to give Xie Huaining plastic surgery. I was supporting him, but I didn't ask him to drug him. I didn't know that idiot Shen Moyi would buy drugs!"
He knelt on the ground, his face pale and trembling, tears sliding from his neck to his collar, and finally flowing into his chest and disappearing.
"Brother is really a good brother. Since what Zhao Zhao said last time, I haven't thought about taking action against Li Ji. Really, I only support Xie Huaining so that he can seduce Zhao Zhao and seduce you back from Li Ji, because he was with you for so long before - please Zhao Zhao, you know, you know you are not your brother, don't, don't let brother go, okay?"
He begged, trembling.
Sheng Zhao lowered his eyes and murmured with regret, "But I want to arrange a wedding for my brother. This family is well-off, so what should I do?"
She divided her life into multiple tasks, just like when she saw Sheng Cehan's pitiful appearance as a child, she arranged a script for him to redeem the poor guy. In the script, he should play the humble and pitiful good brother, and she is a good sister full of love and affection - and then marry him off, hold a century wedding, and play the role of a perfect pair of brother and sister.
The feedback she wanted was gratitude for redemption and the fluency of the script, from the world—"You're so kind to him even though he's not her biological brother. I heard he was an orphan in the countryside."
"I'm so lucky! I really hope that Miss Sheng will pick me up and take me home in my next life."
"President Sheng must be very emotional after seeing my brother's wedding. I'm about to cry."
…
Something like this.
However, Sheng Cehan went too far and deviated from the script, making the last step impossible to complete.
Sheng Zhao sighed, listening to the man's almost humble plea, stroking his chin with his fingertips as if teasing a dog, thinking in the man's increasingly desperate eyes. Before Sheng Zhao could figure out the result, the office door was suddenly pushed open.
Shen Moyi, with tears on his face, rushed in almost frantically, shouting, "Sheng Zhao, what on earth did you do?!"
He was shaking with tears and couldn't help himself. "Sheng Zhao, is it you? Is it you? You clearly said that you would help me as long as I gave you some information about the Shen family. Why did you dig out all the internal information of the Shen family!"
"Are you using me?!" His voice was hoarse. The usually arrogant young master burst into tears and murmured, "I didn't want to become like this. I didn't want to destroy the Shen family. Why, why did it become like this..."
His eyes were dim and without light.
Sheng Zhao took advantage of his desire to escape from the family's control and asked him to steal and reveal some information about the Shen family in exchange, but obviously, following that little bit of information, all the dirty laundry of the Shen family, including bribery and collusion between officials and businessmen, was dug out.
Perhaps it was because the young master was crying so miserably that Sheng Cehan stopped begging for mercy and just stared at him in shock.
After a pause, the young master seemed to have thought of something and suddenly pointed at Sheng Cehan, "And you! And you! You asked me to go abroad to buy medicine and said you wanted to drive Li Ji away from Sheng Zhao! You said Sheng Zhao would belong to me!"
Shen Moyi's voice was hoarse, "You brothers and sisters set a trap for me, bastard, bastard, bastard! Sheng Zhao... Sheng Zhao..." He suddenly collapsed as if he had vented all his emotions, grabbed the corner of Sheng Zhao's clothes, and begged while crying, "Don't go on, are you trying to vent your anger on Li Ji? You can do anything to me, but don't attack the Shen family anymore..."
Sheng Zhao sighed, lowered his head and stroked his hair. Compared to the way he had just teased Sheng Cehan like a dog, his actions and expression now were gentle.
She leaned down, as if to comfort him, gently and compassionately, "Shen Moyi, all failures and successes in the business world are the result of success or failure. Just like your sister and mother have always wanted to use you to win my heart, and finally hand over Sheng's to me."
"The fate of the Shen family is not up to you. Even if the Shen family goes bankrupt, I will ensure that you will have enough food and clothing in your next life. Just like I promised, I will help you escape the control of the Shen family..."
Her voice was gentle and persuasive, vicious yet compassionate, as if to deceive people.
"You won't be held accountable for this matter. I'll send you abroad, and you'll still be a spendthrift young master."
"—You will not be married to an old woman by them, nor will you be restricted from your freedom."
"That's the price."
She narrowed her eyes and her voice was hoarse.
Shen Moyi stared at her blankly, tears streaming down his Adam's apple. He then dropped his eyes in a daze, muttering to himself like a madman, "No, no... This is not what I want, no..."
Sheng Cehan was watching from the side and suddenly felt a chill all over his body. He looked up at Sheng Zhao, who was still in a good mood, with an expressionless face, and then slightly pulled the corners of his lips.
Who had used his name to get Shen Moyi to buy medicine, using it as a pretext for male jealousy, ultimately becoming the fuse for the Shen family's demise? And also the reason to kick him out of the Sheng family and get married?
The shivering chill and numbing current that ran from his tailbone to his spine made Sheng Cehan's body a little limp. He chuckled rarely, his face flushed as he looked at Sheng Zhao. Even though he knew that he was also a link in the interconnected chain, and even though his back was still cold, he couldn't help but laugh out loud in ecstasy.
He murmured, and lay on Sheng Zhao's legs again, hugging him tightly, imprisoning him, "You want to use this to get rid of brother, right? You want to use my crime as an excuse to marry me off, right? Brother knows - knows who did it, I know the truth... So you can't throw me away! You can't throw me away! You can't throw brother away!"
From the foolish murmurs at the beginning to the hoarse shouting at the end.
When Yu Shiyun walked in with orange juice, she saw Sheng Zhao and two crazy men in the same room.
One of them collapsed on the ground, muttering something about not crying like this, and the other one said in a hoarse and ferocious voice that he could not be abandoned.
Sheng Zhao looked at Yu Shiyun with some helplessness. Yu Shiyun paused for a moment, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, handed over the juice, and ignored the strange scene. He said, "Mr. Sheng, Mr. Li said he wants to see you."
She was really fed up with Chen Jiaoye's constant messages and texts, so now it was Yu Shiyun who contacted her.
Yu Shiyun glanced at Sheng Cehan and Shen Moyi with a slightly cold look, acting professionally, coldly, and competently as a secretary. "This young master Shen who broke in without an appointment... Mr. Sheng, I will contact security to handle it."
Sheng Zhao didn't answer. He raised his hand and took away Yu Shiyun's glasses. He looked at his cold yet charming eyes with interest and chuckled, "You still look better without glasses."
Yu Shiyun paused.
Lowering his eyes, he said coldly, "Boss Sheng really owes you so many debts of love. Now he's using the unspoken office rules to tease his secretary?"
Yu Shiyun's eyes were indeed beautiful, her cold phoenix eyes were slightly upturned with a natural charm.
Sheng Zhao didn't respond to his usually venomous words. He just chuckled and continued, "These glasses are superfluous..."
She paused, walked toward the door, and whispered, her voice suddenly cold in the air, "Just like what you did."
When Yu Shiyun came to his senses, only the three of them were left in the office. He stared at Sheng Zhao's departing back, put on his glasses again, and concealed the emotions in his eyes.
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