Chapter 1418: Chapter 776: Siege and Doubt

In this bustling banquet hall, Ke Rouli stood with many youthful girls, everyone holding champagne, their laughter as bright as blossoms.

Then, Ke Rouli glanced at Qing Chen with a frequency of two or three times per minute, an unstoppable joy and respect in her eyes...

Qing Chen thought of what Ke Rouli had just said, and the more he thought about it, the more it seemed off.

He took out his phone amidst the crowd to send a message to Yi: "Did you set me up again? What’s the deal with this Ke Rouli."

Yi replied: "You’re asking me? You promised me more than two hundred girls, and yet you only focused on your own happiness, failing to keep your promise!"

Qing Chen’s heart sank, knowing that when Yi began to evade the topic, it usually meant he’d done something to betray him: "Don’t change the subject, I’m talking to you about Ke Rouli, what exactly did you discuss with her?"

Yi’s tone weakened slightly: "Didn’t really talk about much, just trying to soothe her sorrow. I said there were many things inconvenient to say at the blind date, could only say them in private..."

Qing Chen stood there for a long while, he could almost imagine how Ke Rouli would extend her imagination under such a context.

His reputation... ruined in an instant.

Qing Chen began frantically typing on his phone, unleashing his frustration at Yi, who responded with a pitiful tone: "You promised my brother not to lose your temper with me..."

Qing Chen sighed, feeling the tragedy: "But doing this will cause a lot of misunderstandings."

"Fine, I’ll explain it to them," Yi responded.

In the banquet hall, countless heated gazes quietly swept towards Qing Chen, which were then sensed by A-Class experts’ sixth sense.

Beside him, Qing Ji calmly said: "Playing with your phone at a banquet is not a mature behavior."

Qing Chen, without lifting his head, replied: "Do I still need to care about others’ opinions?"

Qing Ji pondered: "Seems you really don’t."

For other descendants of Qing’s Family, attending a banquet at the age of eighteen, the most important thing is to be mindful of one’s behavior, fearing to leave a bad impression on others.

Leaving an impression of instability in the elders’ eyes might affect their future prospects.

But Qing Chen was different; he didn’t need anyone’s approval. If he was a member of Qing’s Family, now having control of the Parents’ Meeting and the Shadow Troop, as the City Lord, he was already one of the most influential figures within the factions.

Even if he wasn’t the Family Head’s son, he would undoubtedly enter the board this year, becoming the youngest board member of Qing’s Family, standing on equal footing with Qing Kun, Qing Yu, and others.

Others may have a bad impression of him, but they could only endure it.

In this noisy environment, Qing Chen only felt increasingly uncomfortable, as if he was inherently unsuited for this place, also unsuitable for this insincere atmosphere everyone upheld.

He put his phone back in his pocket, loosened his tie, and went to the refreshment table to grab some snacks.

At this moment, everyone in Qing’s Family faction received a mass message: A board meeting will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow to vote on the proposal to "elect Qing Chen as chairman of the board."

Initially, when people received the message, they didn’t check immediately, until the first person took out their phone. Gradually, everyone else also took out their phones, then cast a peculiar gaze towards Qing Chen.

The position of board chairman was too sensitive; the Shadow struggle wasn’t even over, yet the Family Head wanted to directly nominate Qing Chen?

The banquet hall first fell silent, then suddenly became lively again, and the only topic everyone was discussing was... Qing Chen.

Qing Ji remarked with an amused tone: "Besides the military, almost all of Qing’s Family’s powerful figures are here. In politics, there are important delegates from each district, representing the control of laws, and in business, there are CEOs of various subsidiaries under Qing’s Family, controlling coal, oil, electricity, aviation, and military industries. Really, they are the foundation of Qing’s Family, like components interlocking to power this colossal machine."

Qing Ji continued: "But, the components of this machine have begun fighting for themselves, no longer serving the highest will, but their own. The wheels have thoughts, the engine has thoughts, making Qing’s Family appear somewhat clumsy."

"Why doesn’t the Family Head manage it; isn’t it his responsibility?" Qing Chen asked: "The Family Head’s job should be to regularly maintain these components, making them more obedient, more useful."

Qing Ji shook his head: "No, the old man thinks some components have decayed, so he wants to replace some, even change the engine. In this process, the most crucial component is the engine. Without a new engine previously, rashly replacing new components could lead to incompatibility issues with a new engine, making things more troublesome. So only when the new engine appears does replacing components make sense."

Qing Chen understood: "I’m that engine?"

"No, you have a misunderstanding of your role," Qing Ji shook his head: "Parents’ Meeting is the new engine, while you are the one driving this machine."

"So, in this banquet hall, which people are to be replaced?" Qing Chen asked.

Qing Ji smiled and replied: "The disobedient ones, replace them all. Of course, they themselves have yet to realize how brutal this process will be."

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