Chapter 141: Before one wave subsides, another rises!

Just when the Shen family, including Shen Linglong, thought Shen Miaoyu would soften her stance, Shen Miaoyu’s next sentence made them realize how delusional they had been.

"I'll hit her myself. I'm afraid you don't know your own strength and might kill her."

Shen Miaoyu sneered, "What if my hand is too gentle?"

Before Shen Linglong could even react, Shen Miaoyu let go of Chu Fei's hand and delivered a fierce slap.

The blow sent Shen Linglong spinning around in circles on the spot, and she barely managed to keep herself from falling by grabbing onto a nearby table!

Chu Fei was quite satisfied with Shen Miaoyu's performance. Standing off to the side, he gave her a mental thumbs-up.

This was the kind of woman he admired—absolute zero tolerance for bleeding-heart naivety, and decisive action when the time called for it!

With her cheek red and swollen, Shen Linglong suppressed the raging fury in her heart and managed to choke out through gritted teeth, "Can Big Sister forgive me now?"

It would have been better if she had kept her mouth shut. The moment she spoke, Shen Miaoyu struck her with another backhand slap.

This time, the blow knocked Shen Linglong flat onto the floor, making both sides of her face symmetrically bruised and swollen!

Shen Linglong finally learned her lesson. Half-crawling on the ground, she didn't dare to get back up, nor did she even have the courage to meet Shen Miaoyu's eyes.

Seizing the opportunity, Old Mrs. Shen cried out, "Miaoyu, well slapped! Now that you've vented your anger, the Myriad Cities project should still be handed over to us. After all, we're family!"

Completely ignoring Shen Linglong's pathetic state, she could only think about the Myriad Cities project. At that very moment, Old Mrs. Shen's selfishness and greed were displayed in their entirety.

She was nothing more than a thoroughly money-grubbing old hag. She didn't care about family ties or blood relations in the slightest; the only thing she cared about was profit!

"What family?" Shen Miaoyu blinked her eyes. "Weren't I just a bastard child in your eyes? The bastard child you all kept talking about!"

Old Mrs. Shen never expected things to backfire on her in such a humiliating way. She tried to think of something to explain, but Shen Miaoyu gave her no further chance. Turning to Chu Fei, she shouted, "Do whatever you want with the Shen family. Even if you blacklist them starting today, I won't have a single objection!"

These words undoubtedly pushed the Shen family straight down into an abyss of eternal damnation.

With the strength of the Chu Corporation, crushing a mere Shen family was as easy as turning over a hand. With just a single word from Chu Fei or Meng Ziyi, not a single soul in Dragon City would dare to do business with the Shen family ever again!

"Miaoyu, you can't do this to us!" Shen Qiushan dropped to his knees in front of Shen Miaoyu and pleaded, "Even if you don't share our blood, at least we raised you to adulthood!"

"As long as you let bygones be bygones, we can hand the position of the Shen family head over to you! From now on, you will lead our family, right, Mom?"

Old Mrs. Shen hastily nodded in agreement, "Yes, my good granddaughter! I am willing to pass the position of family head down to you!"

The other members of the Shen family also began professing their loyalty.

However, Shen Miaoyu had already seen through their true colors. Every single word these people uttered now only made her feel even more nauseated.

Looking expressionlessly at Old Mrs. Shen, she said coldly, "Don't call me that, Old Mrs. Shen. Your Shen family is far too grand and noble for someone like me; I could never hope to match up!"

"No, Miaoyu, listen to Grandma explain!" Old Mrs. Shen tried to reach out and grab her.

Chu Fei immediately stepped in and blocked her path. Glaring at the old woman, he snapped, "For Miaoyu's sake, I'll spare your mangy lives. Now, vanish from my sight this instant!"

The Shen family was completely finished. Chu Fei couldn't even be bothered to kill them himself, fearing it would dirty his own hands.

Daring not to talk back to Chu Fei, Old Mrs. Shen could only look toward the frosty-faced Shen Miaoyu and continue begging.

"Did you not understand human speech?" Secretary Jin sneered with utter contempt. "Do you really need us to force you out?"

"Miaoyu, your grandmother is begging you on her knees, won't that do?!" Old Mrs. Shen dropped straight to her knees. For the sake of profit, she had completely thrown away any shred of human dignity.

Yet even so, it still failed to win back Shen Miaoyu's heart.

"I gave you all chances, but you were just too utterly useless to seize them!" Shen Miaoyu said without a shred of pity. "Since you love kneeling so much, then kneel here until you drop dead, just so I can see your sincerity!"

Realizing that begging was completely useless, Shen Linglong suddenly remembered something. "The contract! Your Chu Corporation already signed a contract with our Shen family!"

Reminded by Shen Linglong, the rest of the Shen family members suddenly recalled that this was indeed true.

In other words, if the Chu Corporation unilaterally breached the contract, they would have to pay astronomical compensation!

"Are you referring to this contract?" Secretary Jin produced a document and tossed it right in front of Shen Linglong. "Take a good look and see what kind of contract you actually signed!"

Shen Linglong picked up the document and looked at it. To her horror, she discovered it was a completely one-sided predatory contract.

It explicitly stated that regardless of which party breached the Myriad Cities project agreement, the Shen family alone would bear one hundred percent of all losses and damages!

To put it simply, with this contract in hand, not only would the Shen family not receive a single cent of compensation, but they would also be required to pay damages back to the Chu Corporation.

Given the sheer scale of the Myriad Cities project, liquidating ten Shen families wouldn't even be enough to cover the penalty!

Even Meng Kaiwen, who thought he had taken advantage of the situation by demanding fifty-one percent of the Shen family's shares, would be inextricably dragged down into this quagmire!

All of this had long since been calculated within Chu Fei's plan. What he wanted wasn't just to humiliate the Shen family in public, but to utterly ruin them beyond any hope of redemption.

With this contract tightly in his grip, whether the Shen family went bankrupt or not depended entirely on a single thought from Chu Fei!

"You plotted against me!" Shen Linglong shrieked like a lunatic as she charged forward, only to be dragged away by the security guards Secretary Jin had stationed nearby.

The rest of the Shen family members met the exact same fate—with the sole exception of Jiang Mei, who was, after all, the only person in the Shen family who had truly treated Shen Miaoyu like family.

Realizing that the situation was entirely irrecoverable and that he was now saddled with a crushing astronomical debt, Meng Kaiwen didn't try to stop them. Instead, he stared coldly at Meng Ziyi.

"Meng Ziyi, I will report this matter truthfully to my father and grandfather. Since you dared to trap me like this, let's see how you plan to explain it to them when the time comes!"

Meng Ziyi didn't care in the least. "I trapped the Shen family, what does that have to do with you? Or are you admitting that you acted like a smartass and tried to steal their shares behind the scenes?"

This deliberate question struck Meng Kaiwen like a vicious slap across the face, making him profoundly realize that Meng Ziyi had been fully aware of his schemes all along!

The pretense between them was now completely shattered.

Meng Kaiwen no longer had the face to stay. Before leaving, however, he left a harsh threat, swearing that he would make them pay it back a hundredfold sooner or later.

Chu Fei didn't take his threat seriously in the slightest. In his eyes, dogs that barked the loudest always had the least backbone.

After hesitating for a moment, Meng Xinghe ultimately chose to leave with Meng Kaiwen.

Meng Ziyi didn't say much to stop him. Meng Xinghe was already an adult and ought to be capable of making his own choices. As his older sister, she had already done everything in her power; if this still wasn't enough to wake him up, he only had his own supreme stupidity to blame.

After they departed, the banquet resumed as normal, with everyone treating the Shen family as a massive joke. Not only had they failed to secure the partnership, but they had also dragged their entire clan down into ruin.

Throughout the entire Dragon City business community, this was an utterly explosive piece of news!

Numerous guests stepped forward to offer congratulations to the still-dazed Song Yalán.

Unable to fully recover from the dramatic spectacle that had just unfolded, Song Yalán could only offer absent-minded, polite pleasantries before finally walking up to Chu Fei.

"Well, well, Chu Fei! Leaving me completely in the dark is one thing, but you were actually plotting right under my nose the whole time, weren't you?!"

"I told you the truth ages ago, but you refused to believe me. What else could I possibly do?" Chu Fei spread his hands helplessly.

Song Yalán was left speechless. Chu Fei had indeed repeatedly emphasized that he was the chairman of the Chu Corporation. It was just that she had stubbornly refused to believe it, even going so far as to make a wager with him. The mere memory of the stakes involved made her face flush red with embarrassment.

Sensing her thoughts, Chu Fei leaned in close and whispered seductively in her ear, "I remember someone saying that if she lost, her body would be entirely at my disposal. Which one of you should I claim tonight, I wonder?"

Quickly changing the subject to hide her fluster, Song Yalán turned excitedly toward Meng Ziyi and asked, "Meng Ziyi, is the partnership you mentioned earlier for real?"

"Of course! I announced it publicly, do you think I'd go back on my word?" Meng Ziyi nodded, then pointed toward Shen Miaoyu. "I'll be heading back to Capital City in a couple of days. The Myriad Cities project will be left in the hands of you two!"

Knowing her own family, Meng Ziyi was certain that they would summon her back very soon to demand an explanation.

That contract served as her crucial bargaining chip when negotiating with her family, especially since Meng Kaiwen was deeply implicated in it. If her family tried to pursue the matter maliciously, Shen Miaoyu wouldn't mind using that contract to drag Meng Kaiwen into court as well.

By then, it would be anyone's guess as to who would be begging whom!

"Will there be any trouble?" Chu Fei asked. If trouble arose, he was fully prepared to accompany Meng Ziyi back to Capital City.

"What kind of trouble could there possibly be?" Meng Ziyi replied dismissively. "With that contract in hand, they wouldn't dare do anything drastic to me."

"At worst, they'll just yell at me for a bit or ground me for a few days. They're hardly going to murder me, are they?"

Once the banquet finally drew to a successful close, a group of men in uniform suddenly forced their way into the venue.

The bald-headed man leading the group held out an arrest warrant and thrust it directly in front of the crowd.

"Who is Fan Ren? Come with us!"