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Chapter 14 I Disagree
Chapter Fourteen: I Don't Agree
That said.
Gu Ziqi paused deliberately.
Yet her pause made every heart stop along with it.
Huangfu Hai instinctively puffed out his chest.
Xiao Rulong held his breath, every nerve braced for what was to come.
In fact, they had just been feeling a little worried—after all, Ye Fusheng had entered alongside her. What if she chose Ye Fusheng?
But upon hearing words like outstanding, wise, and exceptionally talented, one could tell it certainly wasn't Ye Fusheng — he had just gotten out of prison, nothing but a criminal, and such words had absolutely nothing to do with him!
Still, one would be chosen from the two.
"Who is he, then?" Gu Ziqi still refused to say, smiling as she glanced toward where Huangfu Hai and Xiao Rulong were seated.
That gaze sent both their hearts surging with emotion.
"It must be us, it must be us!" Jin Lanzhi couldn't help muttering under her breath. Even though she had just offended Miss Gu, the Xiao family had offended her far more gravely.
"It's us, it's us!" Xiao Tianyou's face flushed red with excitement. Though she had just offended Miss Gu, she had also demonstrated her loyalty — and Miss Gu might very well choose the Xiao family for that very reason.
"He is a young man…" Gu Ziqi added.
Swoosh!
Xiao Tianyou felt the blood in his entire body grind to a halt. He stared blankly up at Gu Ziqi — not the father, but himself? Happiness had arrived far too suddenly!
Xiao Rulong's face was also flushed with elation; he shot an excited glance at his son. They had succeeded!
First become partners, then become the other half — the Xiao family is about to soar!
Huangfu Hai gritted his teeth and stole a glance at his daughter. Could it possibly be Qingqing?
Gu Ziqi continued, "He is…"
Mid-sentence, his gaze suddenly shifted toward Ye Fusheng: "Ye Fusheng!"
Squawk!
Xiao Tianyou was dumbstruck.
Xiao Rulong's smile froze.
Huangfu Hai stood there, jaw dropped and eyes wide.
Jin Lanzhi looked as though she had seen a ghost.
Huangfu Qing, it feels like something has been lost!
How was this even possible? A worthless lowlife who had barely walked out of prison had somehow reinvented himself as Miss Gu's business partner?
Splash.
Thunderous applause erupted through the banquet hall, and every eye turned toward Ye Fusheng.
"Ye—Mr. Ye, I've been working with Miss He…" Manager Wang looked as if he'd lost both his parents, scrambling to invoke personal connections, his regret mounting by the second.
Ye Fusheng hadn't heard a word Director Wang said. He stared at Gu Ziqi in disbelief. *I'm here to call off the engagement, not to become a business partner.*
Gu Ziqi smiled and said: "Fusheng, hurry up and get on that stage! Yes, you had a betrothal and still got driven out, looked down on by everyone — but I believe you are a piece of gold. One day you will shine, and show every last one of them."
"I have decided to entrust you with full authority over the Gu family's investments in Jinhai — even I will not interfere with your decisions!"
As the words fell.
The banquet hall fell into a deathly silence; even the last of the great figures to arrive stood there dumbstruck.
He makes the decisions? And Gu Ziqi doesn't interfere?
This is the Gu family's investment — not a billion or two, but reportedly fifty billion at minimum. As for the upper limit, no one can even guess. And all of it goes to Ye Fusheng?
"It's over…" Huangfu Hai's face had gone ashen.
From Gu Ziqi's words alone, it was plain that she harbored deep resentment over the broken engagement — Ye Fusheng surely harbored far greater resentment still. And should Ye Fusheng leverage the Gu family to pursue revenge, there would simply be no way to withstand it.
"What are we going to do?" Jin Lanzhi's voice trembled as she spoke.
Xiao Rulong was more frightened than any of them, for his son had also ordered Bald Liu to cripple Ye Fusheng. Should that ever come to light, it would spell utter ruin for the Xiao family.
"Dad, what do we do?" Xiao Tianyou panicked as well, terrified that Ye Fusheng would retaliate.
But the question he had asked — what to do now — was one Xiao Rulong could not answer.
"Alright!"
Ye Fusheng hesitated for a moment, then stepped onto the stage anyway — mostly because he didn't want to make Gu Ziqi lose face in front of all these people.
"I disagree!" Xiao Tianyou summoned his courage to speak. He knew that once Ye Fusheng seized power, retribution would be inevitable — so it had to be strangled in the cradle.
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