" Are you sure?" asked Father Song through gritted teeth with an ugly expression on his face. " That girl will never bring any advantages to you, but my Lan'er is different. She is wise, smart and a true socialite.. compared to her, Song Yan can never match up to this level as the second madam of the Fu family.. and if I am not wrong even your siblings like my Lan'er and they have nothing but disdain for that girl, so are you sure, that you will not change your mind? I am giving you a generous offer."

Song Lan raised her head and batted her eyelashes at Fu Yu Sheng hoping that he will look at her and agree with her father's suggestion.

" I am very thankful that you gave me such a wonderful suggestion but no," said Fu Yu Sheng as he looked at the father and daughter pair. " Whether alive or dead, Song Yan will be my only wife and in this lifetime, the chances of me marrying another woman are as slim as you surpassing the Fu family."

This time Fu Yu Sheng blatantly disrespected Father Song whose entire face flushed as he stood up. He would have loved to throw hands at Fu Yu Sheng and teach him a good lesson, but he knew that he couldn't do that —— from the looks of it Fu Yu Sheng seemed to have come up with a plan to go against him and getting on his wrong side without knowing what was going on exactly, it would be nothing but sheer foolishness. So, he gritted his teeth and muttered, " I see, if so then I have nothing more to but it's such a shame that a sharp man is committing a mistake like this." Then he turned to Song Lan and snarled angrily, "Let's go what are you waiting for?"

Song Lan did not want to leave she came here because Fu Yu Sheng has been refusing to meet her and wasn't even talking to her, how can she leave just like that? Without any solution to the problems that she was going through but then her gaze fell on her father's expression and knew that he was thoroughly upset with Fu Yu Sheng and with his attitude towards them, so even though she didn't want to leave, she had to stand up and follow her father out of the office.

Fu Yu Sheng watched as father Song stormed out of the office and drummed his fingers on his cheek. This reaction was something really weird, wasn't it? Even though Father Song created the Song Empire from the scratch with the help of Song Yan's mother, he didn't rely on the strength of a woman, instead, it was through his sheer will that he was able to get where he was, by logic he should not have been offended with what he said but what if ——

" Assistant Xu, the Song family's stocks since when did they start to fall?" asked Fu Yu Sheng, back then when he was getting married to Song Yan the Song family was more or less on par with his family and many believed that they would become one of the four great families of their city but unexpectedly the Song family started to decline and they slowly fell back to a place that they never once had to in their life.

Assistant Xu was stunned when Fu Yu Sheng asked him such a question but he immediately started to look for the answer that his boss wanted and replied, " Nine years ago.. after six months of Madam Song's death the Song industry made its first blunder and we're kicked out of the top influential family."

" Nine years ago huh?" Fu Yu Sheng's eyes narrowed as he stared at the closed door of his office. He really wanted to know how a man who once loved his daughter so much that he was willing to even give up his life for his daughter—— became someone like the man who was sitting in front of him.

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" He refused?" Chu Lian watched as her husband threw his tie after taking it off on the bed. She has been waiting for the good news, expecting that Brother Song will be able to manipulate Fu Yu Sheng into dealing with Song Yan once and for all but what she heard was this? How was this possible didn't they have a great card in their hands? " You didn't threaten him? You should have told him that we will launch the batch of drinks mixed in with drugs if he doesn't do as you ask him to!"

" Do you think I wouldn't have said that?" snapped Master Song angrily as he peeled off his suit jacket and threw it on the bed as well, before sitting down and taking the glass of water that Chu Lian was holding in her hands. " I did as you asked me to but that guy seemed to have broken past the hurdle that we placed in front of him, looks like he has a backup plan that we couldn't find out in time and now he is all smug and dandy, acting like a big boss! Cheh! He seemed to have forgotten how he bowed his head and asked me not to do something like that and destroy the hard work of his grandfather and father, that I should respect the dead and see how he repaid me for all my favours?"

Chu Lian bit her nails as she frowned and carefully thought about what might have happened. " Did your mole tell you anything? Like a new product being made in the lab or something?"

Master Song shook his head as he started to pick on his skin. " Nope."

" Maybe we should have just threatened that Fu Yu Sheng earlier on," said Chu Lian with her face malevolently twisted. " We shouldn't have dragged the matter for so long."

Master Song finally caught what he was looking for and slowly started to peel it off. " If we had threatened him from the start then maybe the guy would have broken the jar once and for all, I don't know why you two are so bent upon that guy, he looks downright stubborn to me." Stripping off the human skin mask, he threw it on the bed and rubbed his average-looking red face before glancing at the mask that looked like it has been literally peeled off a human's body. " And where did you get this mask huh? It looks so real, even after meeting me so many times that Fu guy has never doubted me once."

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