Ye Heng:?
Tang Mingxi looked innocent. "You're too tall. You blocked my view."
Over there, Wang Min was already shouting herself hoarse. "Tang Yu, are you even human? I treated you so well, and you dared to cheat on me!"
Tang Yu hurriedly said, "Minmin, listen to my explanation. It's not what it looks like. I threw a celebration banquet because I secured the Azure Luo Bay contract. Shanshan is just my female companion..."
But an enraged woman could not hear a thing. She kept beating Tang Yu with the Hermès Birkin in her hand, leaving him utterly bedraggled.
"Go to hell, Tang Yu! Secured the Azure Luo Bay contract? Threw a celebration banquet? Since when did you secure the Azure Luo Bay contract?! You really have no shame. Not a single word out of your mouth is true!"
The entire room erupted.
Even Tang Yu froze. He suddenly seized Wang Min's wrist, his eyes splitting with rage. "What did you say?"
"Do you need me to repeat it for my former cousin-in-law?" Tang Mingxi stood up innocently. "Since you weren't the one who secured the Azure Luo Bay contract, then of course Ye Heng was."
Hearing his own name, Ye Heng turned his head and looked at him in surprise.
He had originally thought Tang Mingxi would claim the credit for himself.
"Say that again!" Tang Yu flew into a rage. "You're just a useless piece of trash who lives off his brother! What makes you qualified to secure the Azure Luo Bay contract?!"
Tang Mingxi clutched his chest as if he had been deeply wounded, his expression melancholy. "Cousin, you're right. I'm just a useless person raised on the fifty million monthly allowance my brother gives me. Then, after growing up, I accidentally married a husband who casually secured a one-billion Azure Luo Bay contract."
He sniffed and tore the sapphire tie clip from his suit. "Even my tie clip is only a thirty-million-dollar sapphire. It's nowhere near as meaningful as Cousin's wristwatch. TT (fake crying)."
The onlookers: ...
Why did they suddenly want to smack these damned rich people? :)
After thinking for a moment, Tang Mingxi innocently corrected himself. "It should be Ye Heng's wristwatch now."
"Tang Mingxi!!!" Tang Yu gritted his teeth and lunged at him.
Ye Heng kicked Tang Yu squarely in the chest, sending him to his knees in pain on the spot.
Wang Min was so frightened by the scene that she froze, holding up the Hermès Birkin without knowing whether she should keep hitting him.
"Miss Wang," Tang Mingxi said.
Wang Min looked at him, her eyes full of tears.
He picked up several solid decorative glass bricks from the table and stuffed four or five into the Birkin, instantly raising the Hermès's destructive power to nuclear-weapon level. With perfect righteousness, he said, "I'm such an upright person. Of course I support reason, not family. It's a little heavy, but make do with it."
Wang Min finally could not hold back her tears any longer.
Tang Yu climbed to his feet and glared at Tang Mingxi through gritted teeth. Then he saw Ye Heng standing beside Tang Mingxi like a vicious dog.
In the end, he lowered himself and spoke to Wang Min. "Minmin, listen to my explanation. It really isn't what you saw. I thought you were the one who helped me secure the Azure Luo Bay contract..."
"Really?" Tang Mingxi smiled. "Cousin, why don't you turn around and help your new wife? I'm afraid she's pregnant and wearing high heels. It must be hard for her to stand for so long."
Tang Yu stared at him in shock. "What did you say?"
Shanshan's little face turned deathly pale, and she instinctively covered her stomach. "Brother Yu..."
Tang Yu flew into a rage and grabbed Shanshan by the throat. "You're fucking pregnant? You fucking set me up?! How dare you get pregnant without my permission?!"
"That's enough." Tang Mingxi's face went cold.
Wang Min screamed. The heart that had begun to soften completely turned cold.
In a towering rage, she swung the Hermès Birkin at Tang Yu's head, smashing him until his head was bloody. Only then did Shanshan narrowly escape death.
"Ye Heng, I'm tired of standing. Get me a chair."
He really was tired, and his voice was soft enough to sound like a spoiled plea. Ye Heng's fingers curled slightly.
Tang Mingxi sat in the chair Ye Heng brought over, crossing his legs as he looked down at Tang Yu.
Only then did Tang Yu belatedly sense that something was terrifyingly wrong.
"Huanyu Real Estate will no longer be under your management. Mingheng will acquire Huanyu Real Estate next, and Ye Heng will serve as general manager, taking full charge of the Azure Luo Bay land development project." Tang Mingxi smiled. "Cousin, you're old enough to get married. How can a man build a career without starting a family? Your new wife is pregnant. You should spend more time at home with her. Ye Heng, give Cousin and his wife maternity leave."
He paused, then slowly said under Tang Yu's despairing gaze, "Your wife was frightened today. I'm afraid it'll affect her pregnancy, so give Cousin three years of maternity leave first."
The once-lively banquet hall fell so silent that a pin dropping to the floor could have been heard.
Tang Yu collapsed on the floor, muttering to himself, "Impossible... impossible. You have no right to acquire Huanyu. I'm going to find my dad... I'm going to find my dad..."
Tang Mingxi glanced at his watch, intending to end today's farce. "Chairman Tang Yun's signed documents will be sent to every employee's email inbox in ten minutes. If anyone has objections, they may discuss them directly with Director Ye."
Tang Yu sprang up like a madman. "Impossible! Tang Mingxi, you're screwing with me!"
Tang Mingxi paused and shook his head. A trace of innocence appeared on his beautiful features. "It seems Cousin's mental state isn't very good either. It must have been caused by that kick you gave him earlier."
Ye Heng, suddenly saddled with the blame: ...
Tang Mingxi pulled three hundred yuan from his pocket and tossed it in front of Tang Yu.
The bills fluttered down. Tang Mingxi said, "Go register at the city hospital and get some medicine for your brain. How pitiful."
Tang Mingxi sighed, shaking his head as he stretched his long, straight legs and walked out. "Give Cousin another seven years of sick leave!"
Tang Yu had just struggled back to consciousness when he heard those words. His vision went black, and he fainted from fury.
Only then did the banquet hall slowly fill with noise again. The media reporters came to their senses and swarmed after Tang Mingxi, only to be stopped by more than a dozen Bodyguards in black. They could only watch Second Young Master Tang's retreating figure disappear into the distance.
Among the Tang Family's companies, power over Mingheng and Huanyu, two major subsidiaries, had changed hands in just a few words from Tang Mingxi.
No one noticed the thin layer of cold sweat that had appeared on their backs.
After leaving, Tang Mingxi stretched lazily. Remembering the two hundred yuan he had lost earlier, the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he was to let it go.
He turned to Ye Heng and said somewhat unhappily, "Tang Yu was definitely kicked stupid by you. The three hundred yuan registration fee I gave him will be deducted from your allowance."
Ye Heng, who had not received a single cent in allowance yet but already had negative eight hundred in assets: ...
Ye Heng abruptly said, "You haven't given me my allowance today."
Tang Mingxi: ...
Damn male lead. Tang Mingxi silently cursed, then reluctantly gave Ye Heng one thousand yuan.
Ye Heng had only had the money for five seconds, not even long enough to warm it in his hands, when Tang Mingxi said, "Aren't you going to show some appreciation?"
Such a familiar opening.
Such familiar words.
Ye Heng instinctively asked, "Appreciation for what?"
Tang Mingxi gave a dry cough and hinted, "You got promoted, Director Ye. Aren't you going to treat me to a meal?"
One hour later.
The newly promoted Director Ye's assets went from negative eight hundred to negative three thousand.
This made the already struggling young man even poorer.
Chapter 13: Here? Borrowing Money
Watching Ye Heng pay the bill expressionlessly, Tang Mingxi's conscience, which had apparently been gnawed on by a dog, finally surfaced just a tiny bit.
But when they got into the car, he thought of Ye Heng's one-billion contract, and Second Young Master Tang's scant conscience instantly vanished into thin air!
He was so rich. Shouldn't he give some to his lawful wife? :)
Tang Mingxi gave a soft snort and muttered, "Ye Heng, when the Azure Luo Bay project receives its first funds, you have to give me half."
Ye Heng paused and turned to look at him. "Why?"