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Although Su Wanqiao had described it in detail, the passage about Mrs. Yu and President Fei only appeared after the male lead swallowed up the Yu Family's assets.
In fact, by the time the male lead moved against the Yu Family, Mrs. Yu had long since died.
[Mrs. Yu might have died even earlier than Fu Huaiyan exited the story. After she died, most of the Yu Family's businesses fell into President Fei's hands, but his assets ultimately ended up in the hands of the male lead, Gu Yubai. Truly, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it. You never know who the next winner will be.]
A shudder ran through Fu Huaiyan.
He would be the next winner.
He had to be, and he always would be.
He would also be the one who won in the end.
Still, he had never imagined that this was the secret behind Mrs. Yu and President Fei's marriage.
Didn't that make Mrs. Yu terribly pitiful? If no one told her, wouldn't President Fei keep her in the dark her entire life?
[Actually, cannon fodder like Mrs. Yu is no different from the roles the Fu Family members play. Perhaps the only difference is that if she learned the truth, the later plot involving the male lead might change. One less investment for him would mean he wouldn't accumulate as much wealth as in the original novel and threaten the Fu Family.]
Fu Huaiyan realized it too when he saw those words.
Since President Fei's assets were going to be swallowed up by Gu Yubai in the end anyway, why sacrifice Mrs. Yu's life to pave the way for them?
Besides, the Fu Family's supporting roles were much the same as Mrs. Yu's. Without Su Wanqiao's warning, their family might be ruined and their lives lost. But if Mrs. Yu also learned the plot in advance and could turn the tables and kill her attacker, the story would become even more exciting.
Fu Huaiyan wanted to change the plot where the male lead swallowed up President Fei's assets. And since someone was going to swallow them up anyway, he might as well get a share of the pie himself.
Also, while Gu Yubai had yet to establish himself, he needed to make a few enemies for him, so he wouldn't keep setting his sights on the Fu Family whenever he had nothing else to do.
So Mrs. Yu had to be told immediately that President Fei had broken their agreement to remain child-free, was keeping a mistress and a child on the side, and was planning to murder his wife, so she could take precautions.
Mrs. Yu was decisive and swift in her actions. If she knew President Fei had betrayed her, she would never let him off. Fate could be rewritten, and so could the plot. They could all have good outcomes.
The birthday banquet soon began.
Of all the gifts, Wu Songshan was most pleased with the one Fu Huaiyan presented.
The moment Wu Songshan saw Spring Dawn at Danshan, he loved it immensely. And Fu Huaiyan had not violated any of his taboos.
So after this birthday banquet, Fu Huaiyan became the person most likely to secure his investment.
Gu Yubai, meanwhile, fell just a little short. When he saw that Fu Huaiyan had obtained a work by Zhang Daqian, shock flashed across his face, because he felt his own gift was inferior. Fu Huaiyan had catered perfectly to Wu Songshan's tastes, giving him something that struck right at his heart. This opportunity was probably in jeopardy.
Sure enough, after the birthday banquet ended, Wu Songshan asked to meet Fu Huaiyan rather than Gu Yubai as he had in the original plot. This left Gu Yubai feeling awful, as though he had no idea how to accept the outcome.
When Fu Huaiyan emerged after his conversation with Wu Songshan, he looked ecstatic. No business deal he had ever made had been this easy. Su Wanqiao really was his lucky star. The matter had been resolved so easily just by giving him a painting.
Besides, after this, Gu Yubai and Jiang Ruoning's progress might be delayed again.
Judging by the inner thoughts they had previously heard from Su Wanqiao, the male and female leads should already have secured two or three enormous investments and achieved something by now. Instead, they had not secured a single one, all because the changes to the plot had kept those investments out of their hands.
In other words, if they kept obstructing them, the male and female leads' company could never grow into an enterprise capable of shaking the Fu Family, and that ending would never happen.
The only dangers were the various unexpected incidents, such as his own murder. Even if the third brother had been involved, the male lead had been the main mastermind behind most of it.
He still knew nothing about how Gu Yubai had plotted his murder.
Now that he knew the plot in advance, Fu Huaiyan would not give him that chance. At the slightest sign, he would wipe him out.
After the birthday banquet.
Several more major events shook the business world.
The Chen Corporation's stock plummeted.
Insider reports said that the Fu Family was buying up the Chen Family's shares like mad, making people wonder whether the Fu Family had a hand in the Chen Family's current troubles.
But the Chen Family was already exhausted by its domestic troubles. When they tried to stabilize the share price, they discovered it was beyond their control. If it continued to plunge at this alarming rate, they would soon become lambs awaiting slaughter. Chen Zheyuan and Liu Yue, the once-wealthy couple, had long since been drowned in the gossip of South City's high society. People were astonished that a couple who had once appeared so loving in public had now become enemies.
Meanwhile, the entire Fu Family was in high spirits. Their share price was soaring with tremendous momentum, and they had closed two or three major business deals in succession, including the one with Wu Songshan.
In addition, Fu Huaiyan had Fu Yichu find a way to tell Mrs. Yu the information he had heard in Su Wanqiao's inner thoughts. He was very eager to see exactly how Mrs. Yu would react when she learned about it.
In the middle of the night, Su Wanqiao was asleep.
A sudden phone call from Fu Siyao woke her.
She opened her eyes groggily and answered.
"Sister-in-law, something's wrong! Fu Qingshu has been surrounded by people at a bar. We have to get over there right now."
Hearing this, Su Wanqiao was startled wide awake. She checked the time. Was it two in the morning? She really couldn't understand what Fu Qingshu, the Fu Family's second daughter, was doing out so late.
But she soon remembered that Fu Qingshu might have run into the main storyline!
She absolutely could not stand by and do nothing at a time like this, so she immediately put on her clothes and went to the bedroom next door to wake Fu Huaiyan.
Ever since Fu Huaiyan had started coming home frequently, he had been staying in her residence. However, the couple had not been sleeping in the same bedroom before, so he had continued staying next door.