Update

By the time Lin Shijiu came to his senses, he had already signed and stamped a military pledge, guaranteeing he would complete the mission.

Then he was stuffed into the Huai Shi Group, with the added duty of raising Crow.

It was only a task from his teacher.

Whenever he thought of it that way, even being a tool felt like happiness.

Wasn't that pretty good?

In Huai Shi's plan, the Alliance could not continue to exist.

Now that they had returned to the light, the ways of surviving in the darkness could no longer be retained. The order of the Tanba Inner Circle had to be reestablished. Not only the Alliance, but the Huai Shi Group would inevitably be restructured in the future and fully shift toward legitimate industries.

But an Alliance of such immense size could not be dissolved overnight. Otherwise, who knew what kind of trouble the uncontrolled Gokudō would cause.

Therefore, during this crucial transition period, someone had to take Huai Shi's place and shoulder the responsibility, personally carrying out his will and orders.

That's right, that person was Yuan Yuan.

Yuan Yuan only felt an overwhelming weight of pressure.

As the future backbone of their families, by their age, they should have begun getting involved with the family businesses and participating in management. It was just that, being far away at the Ivory Tower, she and Lin Shijiu had temporarily missed those lessons.

But neither of them had expected their teacher's make-up lessons to be so fierce and so outrageous, casually dumping an undertaking as enormous as the Alliance into their hands.

Though they were nominally assistants and secretaries, they were practically being left entirely to their own devices.

Even tools weren't used this outrageously.

What was this, skipping straight to the final step?

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