Chapter 124: Upheaval Shakes Donghai!

Chapter 124: Upheaval Shakes Donghai!

It had been a very long time since Su Ruiwen heard his wife cry like this. What great event had shaken her to such a degree?

The last time Madam Su had cried aloud was two years ago, when Su Ruiwen was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

“Don’t cry. What exactly happened? How has it come to your not being able to control our daughter?” Su Ruiwen asked, soothing her.

Madam Su wept twice more, then wiped her tears, sniffed, brought herself under control, and began laying out the situation for him.

She told him everything.

Su Ruiwen was startled again and again as he listened.

Because… it beggared belief.

He couldn’t imagine how his daughter had done it either. Yao Honglin betraying Xu Zhenyuan. Sun Haomin leaning her way despite being an independent director. And chief financial officer Chen Lei, so enormously important… and all the others…

Each one alone was impossible. Put together, more impossible still.

And yet Su Qingying had done it.

“…That girl simply resents how much I manage her. She won’t acknowledge me as her mother anymore. And who knows what Li Ruobing said to her yesterday…”

“It wouldn’t be Li Ruobing.”

Su Ruiwen cut his wife off over the phone.

He knew about yesterday’s business between Li Ruobing and Su Qingying; his wife had called that night and told him. As for that, Su Ruiwen didn’t think it a bad thing. He understood his daughter better than his wife did. He knew the pressure Su Qingying was under. To relax a little, to come to know Li Ruobing and build a connection with her—that wasn’t merely not a bad thing, it was a good one.

But today a matter this earth-shattering had happened.

And that… proved instead that it had nothing to do with Li Ruobing. Li Ruobing wasn’t the sort to meddle in other people’s affairs. She had a basketful of troubles of her own and relations with her family were so poor. It was impossible that she would interfere to any great extent.

At most Li Ruobing was… the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

Those who supported Su Qingying could not possibly have all turned to her on the same day.

Su Ruiwen inferred that this daughter of his had likely been planning and arranging things in secret for a very long time, waiting only for the moment to act. And Li Ruobing… was very likely the last “external helper” his daughter had brought in—an external helper sufficient to prove the strength of her network.

Whatever Li Ruobing had said yesterday had certainly influenced his daughter.

But even without a “Li Ruobing” there would have been a “Wang Ruobing” or a “Zhou Ruobing.” The problem lay with nobody else. It was that his daughter had long wanted to do this.

“All right, all right. Don’t feel so wronged either… Our daughter has grown up, after all…” Su Ruiwen took a broader view than his wife did, because he didn’t know how many more years he had. One day he might simply be gone.

So although Su Qingying had suddenly “stood on her own,” and although the way she had handled it wasn’t entirely right, the ability and the nerve she had shown… Su Ruiwen even felt gratified. She hadn’t disappointed him.

The Su Qingying of today.

Set against the Su Qingying of before, she was better suited to take over, better suited to command the commercial empire that was Jinfu Group.

She was his only daughter. What else was there to do?

At the same time that Madam Su was on the phone with her husband—

the directors and the assistants and secretaries who had attended the board meeting all came out of the conference room. The meeting was over. They saw Madam Su half-hidden at the corner at the far end of the corridor. They could see she was on the phone, and they could guess whom she was calling.

Nobody dared go over.

Nor was there any need to.

There were elevator corridors at both ends.

They only watched. Before stepping into the elevators, some turned their heads with complicated expressions, and some with easy ones.

Inside the…