"Family Head, I..."

Yè Yùwán extended her hand with the report materials, speaking with a bit of trepidation.

"There's no need to speak right now."

Ye Jianzhong waved his hand expressionlessly and glanced at Yè Yùwǎn, pointing to the desk: "Just place the report on the table for now. Our main family has a tricky task at hand. I've heard you're very capable. This task—I intend to entrust it to you, a bright up-and-comer!"

The main family members of the Ye Family looked at Yè Yùwǎn with teasing eyes.

Ye Jianchang and Yè Tiānmíng sat in a corner, watching the bewildered Yè Yùwǎn, their faces brimming with schadenfreude!

Yè Yùwǎn paused, somewhat confusedly placing the materials on the table.

"Dingjing has recently seen the emergence of a new investment company, Yi Chen Investments, with assets amounting to ten billion.

Now, go to that company and bring back an investment. If you succeed, we will acknowledge your status as the head of the Jinhai Ye Family. But if you fail, you will relinquish your position as the head.

Neither the position of Family Head nor the head can be occupied by someone without the capability!"

Ye Jianzhong spoke coldly, his gaze fixed menacingly on Yè Yùwǎn.

Yè Yùwǎn was taken aback. She knew about the appearance of this investment company in Dingjing. But, as someone from Jinhai, utterly unfamiliar with Dingjing, without any connections, how could she possibly attract investment?

Moreover, from Ye Jianzhong's tone, even the Dingjing Ye Family had failed to bring in the investment. How could she possibly manage it?

This was nothing but making things difficult for her!

"Family Head, I have no resources in Dingjing—no connections, no information channels. How could I possibly attract the investment?"

Yè Yùwǎn began to argue, her heart somewhat panic-stricken. The Jinhai Ye Family had been entrusted to her by Jiang Chen; she couldn't give up her position as head.

"Haha, now you realize you're not capable, huh? What have you been doing earlier?"

"Exactly, don't you know how to seduce men? If you're so capable, go seduce the CEO of Yi Chen Company!"

Two familiar yet jarring mocking voices rose. Yè Yùwǎn turned to look and was instantly taken aback.

It was actually Ye Jianchang and his son!

Yè Yùwǎn's expression darkened immediately as she frowned and said, "What are you doing here?"

Yè Tiānmíng scoffed coldly: "What? Surprised to see us? Do you feel guilty because we were driven out of the family by your filthy tricks?"

Ye Jianchang's face showed deep sadness: "Yu Wan, I raised you for over twenty years! I never imagined you would turn out like this! You, you, you... you truly break my heart! How did I raise such a shameless and ungrateful daughter?"

"You... you have no shame!"

Yè Yùwǎn was furious. These two had the audacity to turn things around and call her ungrateful. It was they who had harmed her and Jing Yi.

But she wasn't good at arguing, only able to look at Ye Jianchang and his son with clenched teeth and seething anger.

"Slap!"

"Enough!" Ye Jianzhong slapped the table fiercely and barked, turning his expressionless face towards Yè Yùwǎn: "It's settled then. If you can secure the investment, you continue as the head of the Jinhai Ye Family. If not, you step down!"

"I..."

Yè Yùwǎn began to object, then suddenly realized, glaring fiercely at Ye Jianchang and his son. She understood now; it was these two talking nonsense, and at this point, nothing she said would matter—the main family members would not believe her.

She glanced over the main family members, all looking at her with disdain, mockery, and gloating. Rage surged in Yè Yùwǎn's heart, and she turned to Ye Jianzhong: "Fine, I'll go!"

After saying this, Yè Yùwǎn turned and left the conference room.

"Family Head, look at her attitude!" Yè Tiānmíng pointed at Yè Yùwǎn's retreating back and complained to Ye Jianzhong.

"Exactly, she rises through unseemly means and still dares to throw a tantrum here!"

"Such poor manners!"

"Such a person absolutely cannot be the leader of Jinhai's Ye Family!"

Ye Tiānmíng started the uproar, and a multitude of Ye Family members followed suit, berating Ye Yùwán.

Ye Jianzhong furrowed his brows, glanced at Ye Tiānmíng, and remained without any response.

Fuming, Ye Yùwán left the conference room to inquire about the investment company from some former members of the Ye clan, which only added to her troubles.

"Ye Jianchang and his partner were thrown out? This... what use is it for me to go then!" Ye Yùwán muttered to herself with a face full of worries.

After dwelling on her concerns for a while, Ye Yùwán nevertheless hurried to Yi Chen Company.

Since she had already agreed, she had to try; she absolutely couldn't just give up.

Yi Chen Company Chairman's office.

Zhou Cheng, having shown Jiang Chen and Gong Lin around the company, led the two to the office.

"Boss, this is your office. What do you think?" Zhou Cheng asked Jiang Chen with a smile.

Jiang Chen glanced around and nodded, "It's quite nice, but remove the nameplate for me; I don't need any plaques."

He didn't have many demands for the office since he didn't plan to spend all his time there.

Zhou Cheng agreed, and suddenly a ringtone interrupted them. Zhou Cheng was startled, gave an apologetic smile to Jiang Chen and Gong Lin, took out his phone, and answered, "Hello, Wang Zeyong, what's up?"

"Director Zhou, the Ye Family is here again!" The voice of the security team captain, Wang Zeyong, came from the earpiece.

Zhou Cheng furrowed his brows and glanced at Jiang Chen before speaking in a stern voice, "The same fellows as before? Send them away!"

"No, it's a girl named Ye Yùwán!"

Zhou Cheng paused, then muttered, "Ye Yùwán? Does the Ye Family have such a person?"

"Who?" Jiang Chen, who also heard the conversation, was taken aback and immediately asked.

"Boss, the Ye Family has come again. This time it's a girl named Ye Yùwán," Zhou Cheng hurriedly replied.

Jiang Chen was surprised for a moment, then walked to the window to look towards the plaza entrance and couldn't help but laugh.

Then, he turned his head and instructed:

"Let her in. Remember, be warm and hospitable."

...

At the plaza entrance, Ye Yùwán nervously watched Wang Zeyong on the phone. After arriving, she gave Wang Zeyong her business card and quietly waited.

"Alright!" Wang Zeyong ended the call, presenting to Ye Yùwán what he thought was an undoubtedly warm smile, "Miss Ye, please come in."

"Ah? No, I just wanted to speak with... What, I can go in?" Ye Yùwán had initially thought Wang Zeyong was about to dismiss her but realized halfway through her sentence and looked at him with surprise.

Wang Zeyong maintained the warmest smile, "Miss Ye, please come in!"

"Thank you!"

Ye Yùwán was taken aback, nodded slightly, and thanked him. Somewhat bewildered, she walked into the plaza, parked her car, and headed towards Yi Chen Company's building.

Before she could reach the building's entrance, a woman in business attire hurried out from inside, stood in front of Ye Yùwán with a beaming smile, and said, "You must be Miss Ye, right? I'm Li Yunhua, the manager of the reception department at Yi Chen Company. Please follow me!"

"Oh, sure! Thank you for the trouble, Manager Li!"

Ye Yùwán was slightly confused as she nodded.

This was nothing like the rumors of being turned away before even entering; it was entirely different!

What exactly is going on?

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