Chapter 204: A Great Victory
The Lin Family??
Lin Xinghe, Hua Yao, and Lin Ruoxi found it hard to believe. They all turned to look at Zhang Han.
Zhang Han looked at Cheng Yuan as if he were a monster. "Mr. Cheng, it turns out everything was under your control. My loss was well-deserved! And the Lin Family’s loss will be well-deserved too! You were right. It was Lin Xingyu who found me. He gave me three million and asked me to put on a show!"
Cheng Yuan wasn’t the least bit surprised by this.
But Lin Xinghe, Hua Yao, and Lin Ruoxi were trembling with rage!
Lin Ruoxi was so angry she was on the verge of tears!
"Unbelievable! They’ve gone too far! To avoid conflicting with the Huanyu Group’s pillar industries, I already compromised enough. I gave up the jewelry business, which I was familiar with, to start an auction house in a field I knew nothing about! But the Lin Family has never cared about our ties of blood! Not only did they open the Huanya Auction House to compete directly with us, but now they’re resorting to such despicable tactics! Can you even call them family?"
Cheng Yuan gently pulled Lin Ruoxi into a hug and comforted her softly, "Ruoxi, it’s precisely your constant concessions that have fueled the Lin Family’s arrogance. They think they can walk all over you! Only by hitting them where it hurts, by making them fear you, can you gain the right to speak! This world has never had sympathy for the weak. Only by becoming strong can you control your own destiny! Ruoxi, you can’t back down anymore!"
Lin Ruoxi suddenly lifted her head, her gaze fixed on Lin Xinghe and Hua Yao.
"Mom, Dad, the Lin Family has resorted to such despicable tactics. They’ve completely disregarded our family ties. I’ve decided to go to war with them! Will you support me?"
Lin Xinghe supported his daughter without a moment’s hesitation. "Ruoxi, your father supports you completely! Go all out! Start preparing the jewelry company now! And we need to start getting the pharmaceutical company ready too! Within five years, we must build two major groups in jewelry and pharmaceuticals!"
Lin Ruoxi gave a wry smile. "It’s easier said than done. When it comes to jewelry, I’m confident I can crush the Huanyu Group. But for pharmaceuticals, I don’t even know where to begin. Even in the best-case scenario, we’d just be an even match for the Huanyu Group."
Lin Xinghe and Hua Yao let out a soft sigh. They were reluctant to admit it, but they had to: when it came to the pharmaceutical industry, the Lin Family had done very well! They were one of the top five pharmaceutical groups in Dongshan Province!
How incredibly difficult would it be for them to start from scratch and catch up bit by bit?
"Then let’s make it a ten-year plan! We’ll have the jewelry group surpass the Huanyu Group within five years! During that time, we’ll slowly accumulate resources in the pharmaceutical sector. In the next five years, we’ll go all-in on developing the pharmaceutical business!"
"That’s the only way."
Lin Ruoxi’s family of three didn’t have much confidence in the pharmaceutical side of things. In ten years, who knew what the Lin Family’s pharmaceutical group would have become?
Cheng Yuan smiled faintly. "Ruoxi, if you’re serious about going to war, we can crush the Lin Family on the pharmaceutical front right now! Take a look at this."
With that, Cheng Yuan handed a share transfer agreement for the Wang Family’s Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory to Lin Ruoxi.
Lin Ruoxi instinctively took the share transfer agreement, then couldn’t help but gasp in shock!
"Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory? Oh my god! This is the share transfer agreement for Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory? Honey, when did you get your hands on it?"
"Just in the last few days."
Cheng Yuan said it casually, but Lin Ruoxi’s heart swelled with immense happiness!
So, Cheng Yuan had been secretly laying the groundwork for her all along. He had just kept it under wraps because she hadn’t wanted to oppose the Lin Family.
This was a wonderful surprise!
"Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory? Is it the Wang Family’s Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory?"
Lin Xinghe and Hua Yao took the share transfer agreement to look, and their eyes widened in utter shock as well!
"The Wang Family’s Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory is the largest pharmaceutical factory in Dongshan Province! It controls half the market in the Dongshan Pharmaceutical Community! If we have Bauhinia Pharmaceutical Factory, we can absolutely crush the Lin Family in the pharmaceutical industry!"
The two of them exchanged a look, a mix of excitement, relief, and other emotions flooding their minds. Thank goodness they hadn’t broken up the happy couple and had accepted Cheng Yuan as their son-in-law!
Otherwise, where would they be today?
Ruoxi might have been forced to marry someone she didn’t love, living every day in misery.
And they, at best, would have become unimportant branch managers by selling off their daughter, never able to enter the Lin Family’s inner circle.
But now, they had the capital to look down on the Lin Family!
"Xiaoyuan, you really know how to keep your cool. Your secret-keeping is top-notch! Why didn’t you tell us about such a huge surprise sooner?"
Cheng Yuan grinned. "My mistake. Next time there’s a surprise, I’ll be sure to tell you and Dad in advance."
Hua Yao suggested, "Since we’re going to war with the Lin Family, why don’t we call Reporter Wang and those internet celebrities over? We can have Zhang Han publicly announce the Lin Family’s crimes. Let them face the condemnation of public opinion, and the value of their businesses will surely plummet."
Cheng Yuan smiled and shook his head. "Mom, netizens have short memories. If we announce now that the Lin Family is the mastermind, the public will find out the truth and curse them for a few days, but the hype will die down quickly. In less than a week, the whole thing will be forgotten. Only by leaving them in suspense will the hype be sustained. Besides, we can also use this to strike at the competitors who slandered and suppressed us, helping Yuanxi secure its top spot in the antique circle. Why wouldn’t we want to kill two birds with one stone?"
Lin Ruoxi added, "Mom, there’s something else Cheng Yuan didn’t mention. If the mastermind isn’t revealed, the Lin Family will be lulled into a false sense of security. By the time our army is at their gates, they might not have even reacted! If we expose the mastermind now, the Lin Family will definitely make thorough preparations and be ready to fight us to the death at any moment! The losses would be too great."
Hua Yao nodded in deep agreement. "Xiaoyuan, Ruoxi, you two are much more thorough in your thinking. I really did oversimplify the problem!"
Zhang Han, listening on the side, was somewhat dumbfounded.
’Does this family have eight hundred schemes up their sleeves?’
’How is Lin Xingyu supposed to compete with people like this?’
Zhang Han was even starting to feel a bit of pity for the Lin Family. How did they manage to provoke a family like this? They were just waiting to go bankrupt!
"Mr. Cheng, Miss Lin, the Lin Family was the mastermind behind all of this! I was just a guy they paid to do a job. I can return the whole three million to Yuanxi! Consider it compensation for Yuanxi! You two are magnanimous people, so could you just... let me go, like you’re breaking wind?"
Cheng Yuan snorted coldly. "Let you go so you can go scam other people? You’re suspected of fraud involving an especially large sum. The sentencing should start at ten years, maybe even life in prison! You can spend the rest of your life behind bars!"
The words had barely left his mouth when the conference room doors were pushed open. Wu Mengyao strode in with several patrol officers.
"Mr. Cheng, did you just report a case of fraud?"
"Yes. Someone just tried to defraud us of forty million, and they severely damaged Yuanxi’s reputation. They must be punished heavily! It would be best if they never get out!"
"Rest assured, Mr. Cheng, our Patrol Office will handle this impartially! Take him away!"
Wu Mengyao waved her hand, and several ferocious-looking patrol officers rushed forward, seized Zhang Han, and hauled him out of the conference room.