“Young Master, Xuan Wei is dead.”
Xuan Lang’s eyes lit up, and his face immediately turned serious. He asked, “When?”
“Two minutes ago.”
Xuan Lang pondered for a moment and said calmly, “Understood. Keep monitoring.”
“Young Master, aren’t you going to take a look?”
Xuan Lang said softly, “Going now would arouse suspicion. I’ll wait for them to notify me.”
After hanging up the communicator, Xuan Lang called his secretary and said, “Convene a meeting of all shareholders and senior executives.”
…
In the vast, bright conference room, sixteen leaders of the Hecheng Corporation gathered.
Xuan Lang sat elegantly at the head of the conference table, propping his chin with one hand, looking ahead with disdain.
“Who do you think you are, Xuan Lang!”
“Someone who has fallen out of favor with the Xuan family, what qualifications do you have to sit at the head of the Hecheng Corporation?”
“A greenhorn monkey, do you know how to manage? Do you know how to read reports? Do you know the responsibilities of each department?”
“Don’t think that just because you have the Xuan surname, you can do whatever you want. Who among us doesn’t have a background in the Xuan family? It’s too easy to deal with you.”
“I heard you’re at Dongyong Gulan Academy, right? Go pilot your mecha and stop pretending to be a clown here.”
“So what if you can pilot a mecha? How much money can it earn?”
“Isn’t your mother just a damn mecha mechanic? They called her the number one female war god of Caihua City, and yet she was poisoned to death in the end.” A man with a bloated body and a protruding belly said mockingly.
Xuan Lang’s expression turned grim. He put on a pair of black gloves, slowly stood up, and walked behind the person who had just insulted his mother.
“You seem to know quite a lot,” Xuan Lang leaned down and said in a low voice, “What else do you know? You might as well say it all, let everyone hear.”
This bloated man cupped his buttocks like a pig and lewdly said to Xuan Lang, “Your mother was really hot. Too bad she’s dead. If she had been divorced, I would have visited her often.”
Instead of getting angry, Xuan Lang smiled and stood up, speaking loudly, “Your thousands of personal videos are truly spectacular. Do you want to show them to everyone!”
“I must say, you have a good eye for women, and you even have some senior executives present… their lovers.”
As soon as Xuan Lang spoke, there was a clamor below.
The pig-headed man’s eyes widened in shock, and he broke out in a sweat.
“It’s a shame that your livelihood…” Xuan Lang extended his left hand, curling his index finger and thumb to indicate a width, “is only this long! I feel anxious for you!”
“Xuan Lang! You!” This pig-like man instantly became enraged and tried to stand up from his chair, but Xuan Lang firmly pressed him back down.
Xuan Lang glared and said, “You’ve played with women so much that your brain is numb! You unfilial son! Go back and look at your mother’s grave! The grass has grown as high as a person! Can the old lady rest in peace in the afterlife!”
“Xuan Lang!” This pig roared, trying to stand up.
Xuan Lang grabbed the pig’s head and violently slammed it onto the table. With a “crack,” his nose bridge broke.
Blood mixed with saliva splattered from his nose and mouth, creating a blood splash on the table.
Xuan Lang let go and shouted sternly, “I have already obtained all your dirty deeds, each and every one of you, and every department.”
“Finance Department! While my brother was ill, you exceeded your authority and misappropriated company assets amounting to hundreds of millions of Baixing coins! The turnover alone was tens of millions, what nerve!”
“Human Resources Department, how many parasites have you stuffed into the company? Do you have any self-awareness?”
“Mecha Research and Development Department, a bunch of useless drunkards, only playing with old technology. You can’t even build a mecha motorcycle, what use are you!”
“Gene Biology Department!” Xuan Lang suddenly paused and said, “What’s going on with the clones?”
The head of the Gene Biology Department suddenly froze, his eyes wide with terror as he looked at Xuan Lang.
“I’ll deal with you separately later,” Xuan Lang said viciously.
Next, Xuan Lang shouted, “Security Department, impressive! You’re stealing while on duty, selling company secrets, really playing fancy!”
“Data Department, the reports you produce are like something a dog gnawed on, colluding with other departments! Full of loopholes!”
“Marketing Department, you are the most shameless! Maliciously manipulating market prices, selling goods privately, is the company yours?”
“Publicity Department, impressive! You are the biggest traitor, sneaking in your own agendas in advertisements, boosting the pride of other nations! And diminishing the glory of our Xianxia!”
“And some miscellaneous small departments, I won’t name them.”
“Don’t think I’m just spouting nonsense. I have leverage on all of you.”
“It’s a miracle that the Hecheng Corporation has lasted this long under the hands of trash like you!”
As Xuan Lang spoke, everyone below became restless, their faces showing distress, beads of sweat streaming down their faces.
“Hmph, that Ling Ling is just a puppet you guys elected,” Xuan Lang said contemptuously, “and she even betrayed the Hecheng Corporation.”
Xuan Lang returned to his seat and shouted, “Half an hour ago, Xuan Wei died. Now, I officially take over the Hecheng Corporation.”
“Every single one of you present, go back and clean up your act, and prepare for a thorough company investigation.”
After Xuan Lang finished speaking, the conference room door was suddenly burst open, and a group of men in black suits rushed in.
They worked in pairs, apprehending one senior executive each.
Those so-called senior executives, like puppets whose strings were cut, with weak legs and limp limbs, as if facing imminent disaster, were dragged away.
After doing all this, Xuan Lang lowered his head and covered his forehead with his hands.
In the vast conference room, only he remained.
After a long while, a drop of tear fell onto the table, and Xuan Lang murmured, “Mom…”
…
“Xiao Lang, look!”
Xuan Lang still couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly. Her face was always blurred.
“Doesn’t that cloud look like a mecha?”
The woman said cheerfully.
“Mom, I want to be a mecha pilot when I grow up! Just like you, soaring through the sky, killing enemies!” Little Xuan Lang shouted happily.
The woman smiled and said, “Do what makes you happy. If you are happy, Mom is happy!”
Suddenly, the world spun, and the clear sky turned into a dark room.
The woman lay on the bed, dying, and weakly asked, “Xiao Lang, are you happy doing these things?”
Xuan Lang knelt by the bed, staring at her blankly, but couldn’t see her face clearly.
“Mom, for you, I am willing.”
The woman smiled and said, “Mom knows, you are not happy at all…”
Suddenly, the woman’s body stiffened, and she breathed her last.
“Mom!”
Xuan Lang sat up abruptly in bed, gasping for breath.
After a long while, Xuan Lang got out of bed, his eyes venomous and determined.
He picked up his wristband, dialed a number, and said indifferently, “Tomorrow night, the proletarian alliance community in the lower city, capture Ling Ling.”
…
During the day, Wuhe City was bathed in clear skies.
Xuan Lang took a hovercar to his elder brother Xuan Wei’s home.
Inside the luxurious castle-like villa, white lanterns were hung high, mourning couplets were displayed, and the silence was absolute.
All the servants moved about quietly with their heads bowed, so quiet that even their footsteps could not be heard.
In the solemn mourning hall, all relatives wore black, standing on either side of the aisle, some whispering in groups of two or three, others sitting alone in chairs, lost in thought.
Xuan Wei’s wife sat closest to the crystal coffin, her head bowed, her face covered with a white silk scarf, sobbing softly.
Her two young boys stood obediently on either side of her, staring ahead, silent.
Xuan Lang walked quickly forward, laid a bouquet of white flowers, bowed three times to the coffin, and then turned to the woman and bowed deeply.
“Sister-in-law,” Xuan Lang called softly.
The woman raised her head at the sound, her swollen eyes looking at Xuan Lang.
Looking at his sister-in-law’s pathetic appearance, Xuan Lang felt a surge of nausea. This woman had long been having an affair with another man behind his brother’s back.
His brother knew before he died, but he was on his deathbed and had no energy to deal with such matters.
“Xiao Lang!” The woman stood up and grabbed Xuan Lang’s hand. “I have shares in Hecheng Corporation. Even if your elder brother passed Hecheng Corporation to you, you should still give mine back to me.”
Xuan Lang gently pushed her hand away and said, “Sister-in-law, the will clearly states that Hecheng Corporation belongs entirely to me. You signed it too.”
“I know…” the woman nodded and sat down again, saying softly, “Let’s discuss this in detail.”
At this moment, a commotion arose from the relatives around.
Xuan Lang looked over at the sound.
He saw a man wearing a strikingly red, unusually styled loose robe, with shiny brown-red hair, obscene patterns tattooed on his face, multiple earrings on his ears, and a pair of black boots on his feet, striding into the mourning hall.
He was followed by two slender women and a group of men in burgundy suits.
This was Xuan Lie, who was criticized by the family.
Xuan Lie casually bowed before the coffin and found a seat to sit down.
The two women sat next to him coyly, their posture alluring and their expressions ambiguous.
Xuan Lang glanced at him coldly and then ignored him.
Third Sister Xuan Wei had not yet arrived, but Xuan Lang no longer wished to stay here.
He excused himself to his sister-in-law, citing busy company affairs, and left in a hurry.
As soon as he returned to his office, Xuan Lang was apprehended by a group of men in black.
Before he could even see their faces, he was blindfolded with a black hood and put into a hovercar.
The hovercar sped away from the company, heading towards the upper city.