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Chapter 1076: Chapter 947: Evil Grows by the Gallbladder (Subscribe Please!)
Having such significant authority retracted by Lang Cai.
Kundun certainly couldn’t just sit there and wait for doom.
"President Cai, although I haven’t achieved anything notable before, I will do everything possible to try hard and learn," Kundun’s "art of language" made the others despise him bitterly.
What do you think this is?
It could be revoked the very next second.
This isn’t a discussion.
It’s a decision.
By saying this, Kundun also sent out a signal, that was, President Cai didn’t even inform Kundun and directly brought it up at the meeting, absolutely denying him any chance to refute, which was indeed thought-provoking.
Lang Cai glanced at Kundun, "This matter is settled, you’re managing too many departments by yourself, it’s too tiring."
"I’m not tired," Kundun blurted out.
"Meeting adjourned. Kundun, come to my office," said Lang Cai as he stood up and left the conference room.
Watching the figure of Kundun follow him.
The others quickly left as well, as the shake-up in such large departments involved no small interests, and they needed time to digest this. They also had to find out what Kundun had done wrong.
...
Arriving at Lang Cai’s office.
"Why is this happening?" Kundun felt very aggrieved.
Lang Cai returned to his seat.
He offered Kundun a cigarette.
He lit one up for himself as well.
Such uncharacteristic behavior by Lang Cai made Kundun even more uneasy; he didn’t dare to smoke it.
"Kundun, I know all about you and Dsvid," Lang Cai clarified bluntly.
This first sentence, 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
made Kundun’s legs go weak, and he plopped down onto the chair.
"I... this..."
Kundun immediately realized he had indirectly admitted to it and quickly stood up again.
Lang Cai pressed down his hand, signaling Kundun not to speak, "Cough cough... no need for excuses, no need to say much, Kundun, your immaturity has disappointed me, I know many of your affairs.
I could pretend I haven’t seen them, but there are some things that one should not do, and you did them, I can’t help you there. It seems that I was too indulgent with you previously, I too am responsible, for not guiding you onto the right path."
"I... I can change," Kundun’s face turned red with effort.
"No, this isn’t about whether you can change or not, but a matter of principle. I once thought you were capable, but it seems I was wrong, so now, I need to correct my own mistake," said Lang Cai, looking at Kundun with a complex gaze.
"Now Dsvid is one of us," Kundun quickly said.
Lang Cai shook his head, "Kundun, it seems you still haven’t realized where your mistake lies. Just like in business competition, before a corporate acquisition, if one party’s representative leaks the negotiation bottom line to the opponent, what do you think this company would do?"
"I..."
Kundun didn’t know how to respond.
Being fired would be the least of his worries in such a scenario; he could even be reported to the police. Could it be that Lang Cai wanted to gradually strip away his authority too?
"Your mistake is severe, but I have already ordered secrecy. You can continue to work in your current position. If you produce results, you may serve another term, if you accomplish nothing, you should know what to do, right?"
If it were somebody else, Lang Cai could have easily dismissed him, but considering his family’s reputation, he only weakened Kundun’s power. To jail a person of Kundun’s status, these reasons were not sufficient.
Kundun gave a wry smile.
How could he not understand what that meant, his status as the successor, was now gone.
Regret was inevitable, but it was a pity there was no medicine for regret; at the same time, he felt a bit resentful towards a certain "advisor" who had egged him on to do this.
Damn it.
It was all that guy’s fault.
He was blinded by interests at that time, thinking back, he was really foolish. If he hadn’t been greedy, he might have had a low profile, but he would still have been able to keep his position, with others only able to look on enviously.
"You can go back now," Lang Cai began to show him out.
"I... Yes."
Kundun knew that arguing was useless.
He returned to his office as if he had lost his soul.
Looking at the scenery outside the window.
He had always regarded it as his own ’kingdom’ before, so it was exceptionally pleasing to behold, but now, he had no chance, this ’kingdom’ was about to belong to someone else.
No.
He couldn’t just sit there and wait for doom.
Immediately,
Kundun made a phone call, and five minutes later.
"The person has disappeared."
Kundun said loudly, "What? A living, breathing person, how could he just vanish?"
"I don’t know, their neighbors said they haven’t seen the lights on at their place since yesterday morning. Now his whereabouts are unknown, and there’s no record of him leaving or entering the country. Domestic transportation hasn’t realized real-name registration, so we have no way to track him."
"Okay, I got it, keep searching."
At this moment, Kundun’s mood was extremely poor.
For the first time.
He resented Burma’s travel management system for being so backward.
Once a person is gone, it’s really like searching for a needle in a haystack.
He had just been about to have a good talk with the ’strategist’ who had initially advised him, but now the person had disappeared, the whole family gone. Could they have been caught by Lang Cai? But that seemed impossible.
He was just someone who gave advice, and only Kundun knew that.
Could it be that he anticipated that something would be exposed?
Or was he the one who had tipped them off?
The possibilities were numerous.
Kundun was hugely stressed; he faintly sensed a conspiratorial air. If this was a trap set by someone else, a scheme designed to make him lose power, it wasn’t impossible.
But it was just like the rumors before.
Untraceable to their source.
"Haha... Hahaha..."
Kundun felt the world’s full malice towards him, and suddenly, he began to laugh, like someone who had gone mad, and the more he laughed, the louder he got. The vast discrepancy made him feel as though heaven was playing a massive joke on him.
What seemed to be a sure thing.
Had undergone such a huge reversal.
After more than a minute of laughing.
Kundun stopped.
Thinking back on what Lang Cai had just said, that this matter had been ordered to be kept confidential and not many people knew about it, Kundun’s thoughts became active again. How much worse could the worst-case scenario be than what he was currently facing?
Since Lang Cai was unkind.
It was no wonder that Kundun would be unjust.
...
Two days later.
That was August 23rd.
In the morning.
Tang Qing had finished his summer vacation and returned to Shanghai.
Accompanying him was Zeng Rou.
She had grown tired of staying at home, so she came to Tang Qing’s villa a week earlier. School would start in a few days, so they had returned early, mainly because Tang Qing had to deal with some company matters before school started.
Second Aunt and his mother’s sister had also returned to Qingyan City three days ago.
The Burmese matter had lost its suspense.
This morning.
When he received the news that Lang Cai had suddenly fallen seriously ill and was hospitalized, he knew that the trap was set, and all the people meant to fall into it had jumped in themselves. What remained were just the formalities of tying up loose ends.
Of course, Tang Qing hadn’t ordered the fighters to do this.
He wasn’t so heartless as to harm Lang Cai so viciously. Strictly speaking, this was a trap Kundun had set four years ago, with the intent to act a year ago. At that time, Lang Cai would have definitely supported him.
Lang Cai’s cough had been incessant.
Kundun had exerted quite a bit of ’effort’.
But, then Ling had an incident, and conflicts shifted outward, causing him to delay his original plan.
Now, abandoned by Lang Cai.
He grew desperate.
Attempting to make a last-ditch struggle, or at the very least, muddy the waters to fish in troubled waters. Tang Qing had known about this last year, and had been weaving a large series of interconnected plans around this trap.
Behind the plans outlined in millions of words.
It wasn’t just about giving Kundun’s ’strategist’ a few ’suggestions’.
Or giving Lang Cai evidence of Kundun’s contact with Dsvid. This wasn’t even one percent of the plan. His trap was meant to catch at least eight hundred key personnel in various departments in Burma.
These were positions the fighters must take down.
Next.
What would be staged in Burma.
Was a series of ’promotion battles,’ complicated to the point that even Tang Qing felt dizzy watching, so he simply stopped looking and waited for the outcome. Lang Cai and Kundun were going to be the main movers of this ’play’...
