Free Web NovelChapter 758: Cannon Fodder in the Real World (Part 4)
"My brothers wouldn’t just stand by and watch such a large family business fall into my hands."
"Isn’t your dad being a bit unreliable with this decision? Since he’s decided to give the company to you, why does he still focus on grooming his sons? Just to cause trouble for you?"
Jiang Lai smiled.
"My mom got nothing except the status of being Dad’s wife from the main house.
As for the other women, they got everything except for status.
Money, children, love.
Jiang Xunshan likes these women and naturally likes the children they bore.
The will Grandpa left before he passed is one thing; whether it can be enacted is another.
All in all, I was born into a battleground, a hellish start. It’s been quite a feat surviving until now."
Little Buding seemed pensive.
His understanding of these wealthy family feuds comes from literature, and his direct impression is that Jiang Lai’s firm tactics and calm demeanor in these feuds feel like child’s play.
Anyone coming before Jiang Lai is nothing but trash.
But now, after seeing those five men with their own hidden agendas, Little Buding suddenly admired Jiang Lai for surviving until now.
"You’re now... twenty-one, right? In half a year, you can inherit the company."
"Yeah."
"Then find a place to hide, and when you’re twenty-two, you can come out."
"Do you think when I turn twenty-two and come back, I’ll find a woman who looks exactly like me announcing she’s abandoning her inheritance rights in front of reporters?"
"..."
Is there no justice in this world?
"Can’t you hire a bodyguard to protect yourself?"
"I did, but the bodyguard ended up dying horribly. Ah... he was such a handsome fellow."
"...That’s terrifying. Maybe you should just give up your inheritance rights. We don’t need these empty titles; you’ve enjoyed so much already, it’s not like you need it this time."
Jiang Lai yawned, casually saying.
"This is the gift Grandpa left me. If I don’t want it, I can’t give it to anyone else."
With that, she lay down on the pillow beside her and closed her eyes to sleep.
The familiar scent at her nose almost made her forget. When she smelled it again, she realized how much she missed it.
Jiang Lai inexplicably began to miss her deceased Grandpa.
When she was little, the family already had three older brothers.
They treated her very well, always bringing her the best food and toys first.
Whatever it was, she’d be the first to enjoy.
So Jiang Lai’s childhood was very happy.
Except for the occasional unhappy times spent with Grandpa.
Because he’d force her to memorize some obscure and difficult things, among which Sun Tzu’s Art of War was the simplest, but also the text her Grandpa made her recite the most.
So as a child, she didn’t like Grandpa.
She preferred playing with her brothers, who would do whatever she said, even if it meant being ridden like horses without a single complaint.
Later, there was a time she fell into the water by accident.
She was playing on a swing by the lake, and when she swung high, one of the ropes suddenly snapped.
Just like that, she was thrown into the lake, struggling and calling for help, and she saw her three brothers standing by the shore.
They stood there, indifferent, watching her struggle in the water.
In that moment, Jiang Lai understood many things.
From then on, they still were the best siblings, playing and studying together.
To this day, whether outsiders or family members look at them, their sibling bond makes others envious.
Jiang Lai hasn’t changed much, except for her attitude towards Grandpa.
Initially, she’d secretly call him senile; later, when he truly was senile, he still remembered her clearly.
The year after he passed due to illness, her eldest brother became the acting general manager of the company, her second brother became vice manager, the third brother oversaw the entertainment subsidiary, and the remaining two brothers joined the company as interns after graduating from college.
The public knows the Jiang Family has six children.
Three brothers with extraordinary minds, inherently talented in business, and a sister, the sole heir to the conglomerate, who hasn’t even graduated from college, dropped out, stays home unseen any day, does nothing, and doesn’t care much about the company affairs.
Because Jiang Xunshan publicly claimed all the children were birthed by Jiang Lai’s mother.
Some sharp-minded ones naturally don’t believe this.
But most people believe it and can’t comprehend why, with so many sons, the company is being entrusted to Jiang Lai.
But understanding it doesn’t change anything; the chairman at the time had already divided up the company’s stock ownership.
He was just partial to Jiang Lai.
So Jiang Lai kind of misses that old man.
Thinking about this, she fell asleep.
When she woke up again, it was dark outside.
She sat up with a heavy head, looked around, and didn’t see her phone.
In the entire room, never mind the phone, there wasn’t any communication device.
The only computer wasn’t connected to the internet.
"Damn, are they planning to imprison you?"
Outside the door, there were two bodyguards keeping watch, ready to block the door as soon as Jiang Lai made any move.
Jiang Lai waved her hand.
"Forget it, aren’t you kind of like a computer? Help me log into my social account."
"Right, I almost forgot I have so many functionalities."
Little Buding happily helped Jiang Lai log in, then said a sentence and operated.
"In the dropdown list, do you see a group?"
"Lots of groups, which one are you referring to?"
"The one with no chat records."
"Okay, it’s open, what next?"
"Send a message asking them to send me the financial reports for the quarters I’ve been absent."
As Little Buding typed, he curiously asked.
"Do you still have the authority to look at financial reports in the company?"
Right after typing, the group immediately sent a compressed folder.
Little Buding skillfully uncompressed and opened it, then transmitted it to Jiang Lai’s brain.
"Someone actually sent it to you! Didn’t expect you had spies in the company!"
"Shut up."
Jiang Lai closed her eyes and quietly looked for a while. freёwebnovel.com
"Tell him that the major cooperation partners for the next quarter are some emerging technology companies within the country. Don’t be greedy; first acquire the shares of these companies."
"Step two; after buying the shares, remember to focus on investing in IoT projects and node video development projects."
As Little Buding typed, he curiously stared at the four avatars in the group.
One was Jiang Lai’s.
The other three, one black, one white, one blue, with no personal information visible.
Moreover, the software Jiang Lai used he had never seen before, it seemed to be a self-developed chat software with high privacy. Had it not been for his advanced access rights, he wouldn’t even have logged into Jiang Lai’s account.
