Fu Ling slowly got out of his shadow but he seemed to have changed somehow.
At the funeral, he stood at the back. They weren't many people. Just Fu Ling's mom, Wei Hong Yi and s few other classmates.
He watched the coffin being lowered into the ground and left. He couldn't answer to Gu Lian now. He'll come back after avenging him.
So then, the upper circle witnessed a terrifying phenomenon. The impenetrable Luo family started to have problems. From small problems at the grass roots that weren't managed in time, to huge problems that involved lives.
The Luo family would solve one problem and another one would come up. It didn't take long for everyone to notice that someone was targeting the Luo family.
The Yu family gets involved and Fu Ling remembered the grudge from high school and simply let them suffer together. Other families who were thinking of helping silently retreated.
Everyone was scared of getting involved. After all, to be able to hold influence for centuries, there must be a few cockroaches in the cupboard. These people all had their own fears so no one went forward to help so their own families black history will not be made public.
Things went like that for a week and the attacks suddenly stopped. The Luo and Yu families were relieved. While bearing grudges with all those who refused to help, they started an in dept investigation on who might be behind the attacks.
Before they could even find that out, protests started against the Luo and Yu families. People who had bought defective products from them but we're shit up after trying to report, those who lived in buildings under the Luo family and almost lost their lives or had family members who lost their lives because of the construction materials that were below standard, and others who were wronged in one way or the others.
After that, top executives were arrested one after the other for various crimes. Tax evasion, embezzlement, accounting fraud, insider trading, and so much more. Basically everything immoral, they were involved in it.
In the Luo family house, everyone is seated and the atmosphere is tense. From uncles, aunt's, cousins. Everyone who had the blood of the Luo family was forced to attend.
Old man Luo sat and looked at these group of descendants in disgust.
"Which one of you offended someone you shouldn't?"
Everyone was quiet but the wheels in their head were turning. They also understood the severity of the situation. If they were not able to make a turn around, the Luo family would be lost.
Luo Xing Jie was among these juniors. He didn't feel like he had offended anyone powerful but he had an ominous feeling. Sure enough, grandpa's assistant walked over and whispered something in his ear then grandpa turned to him with angry eyes.
"Unfilial grandchild!!"
Old man Luo threw away his cane and everyone who was standing close to Luo Xing Jie immediately gave him space.
Luo Xing Jie gritted his teeth
"I don't understand what you mean grandpa."
Old man Luo was completely annoyed by him
"You stand here pretending to be innocent. Has your heart been eaten by a dog? Think carefully what did you do in this period?"
Luo Xing Jie thought to himself that he didn't do anything worth thinking of. Only— he quickly denied the thought. That person doesn't have that much power.
Old man Luo looked at his expression and knew he had something in mind.
"Quickly spit it out!"
Luo Xing Jie became more relaxed
"It's just a small problem between former classmates. Grandpa that person doesn't have much identity he's just an unflavoured son."
"Idiot!" Grandpa Luo bellowed
Luo Xing Jie's smiled froze on his face
"It is that unflavoured son that is dragging the whole Luo family to hell now. Think about how to fix it."
Luo Xing Jie was stunned when he heard the old man's words. He could not imagine that Fu Ling whom he had always looked down in could have the power to drag down the Luo family to this point.
Old man Luo told them all to go back to their own things and Luo Xing Jie watched as all the people who usually flattered him acted like they could not get away from him fast enough. A cold light flashed in his eyes.
He left the old house and took the initiative to call a number for the first time.
"Hello auntie, yes I'm fine. It's like this... Well, thank you auntie."
Luo Xing Jie smiled and put down his phone. Ever since he could remember, Fu Ling's mother seemed particularly fond of him. He knew that Fu Ling listened to his mother the most and had always taunted him because of that. Unexpectedly it would come in handy at this time.
So what if Fu Ling is so powerful doesn't he still have to listen to his mother who hates him? Luo Xing Jie's lost sense of superiority came back.
It would be better if he could make the old woman force Fu Ling to help him take over the Luo family and pass his contacts to him. Then, there would be no one in the Luo family who would be able to look down on him.
Luo Xing Jie was daydreaming happily and had no idea his days would become worse.
On the other hand, in the Yu family there were various quarrels and most people thought the old man shouldn't have helped the Luo family because of childhood friendship as he had now pulled the Yu family into this quagmire.
When Yu Jiahao heard the surname Fu, he knew there was no escaping this. It didn't matter if they helped the Luo family as long as it was that person, he wouldn't let them go.
Yu Jiahao endured his discomfort until the family meeting ended and rushed off to call Luo Xing Jie.
"Xing Jie did you hear who it was?"
Luo Xing Jie who thought he had everything covered was not anxious
"Yeah. I already made plans. There's no need to worry"
Yu Jiahao didn't think it was that easy but Luo Xing Jie had already ended the call.
Luo Xing Jie discarded the phone and pulled the woman closer. She yelled delicately and trailed her hands on his arms.
"Brother Jie who was that?"
Luo Xing Jie was in a rare good mood so he answered her.
"That was Yu Jiahao. A low level piece of rubbish doesn't know his place and keeps making trouble. Yu Jiahao is too cautious and worries for nothing but I've already handled the issue"
Wen Ting wasn't interested in that at all she just asked casually. Who knew he would actually answer her. But she couldn't let him think she was perfunctory so she answered brightly
"Ah brother Jie is so awesome."
He seemed happy with her response and tossed her again before going to sleep. Wen Ting touched her stomach in the dark. She already did a test and knew she was pregnant with his child. With this seed, she is one step closer to being Mrs Luo.
Happy with the way things were going, she snuggled closer to him and closed her eyes with a sweet smile.
That night, some people were restless while some slept soundly. None of this had anything to do with Fu Ling however, as he had already prepared the next step to drag them all to hell.