I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

The Shen family had joined forces to deal with Huo Qianjue back then, but they have developed their own paths over the years without any major conflicts.

The relationships between the various families are quite good, at least on the surface.

There are no permanent enemies or permanent friends, only permanent interests. The premise of peaceful coexistence is that there are no major conflicts of interest between the parties.

The fact that the various families could coexist peacefully after the common enemy Huo Qianjue was gone was precisely because they were in a state of equilibrium without major conflicts of interest.

If any of them develops too quickly and becomes dominant, disrupting the balance, the others will join forces to restrain them.

No one can guarantee that someone will still be so friendly to you once they become powerful. Rather than gambling on people's hearts, it's better to take control yourself.

Nobody dared to gamble.

It is easy to see how great Viro's potential is, and the future of Qingcheng Beauty is also foreseeable.

If the Shen family acquires a behemoth like Qingcheng Beauty in the future, the balance will be broken, and the Shen family will gradually become the sole dominant force, which is an outcome that other families cannot accept.

The Shen family currently maintains friendly relations with other families, but who can guarantee that once the Shen family becomes powerful, its ambitions will not grow larger and larger, gradually squeezing out the living space of other families and slowly eroding and swallowing them up!

If the Alluring Beauty brand belongs to Qin Ge, they can feel much more at ease.

Moreover, Su Wan sold some of her shares in Qingcheng Beauty. The Xia family, Han family, and others all hold shares in Qingcheng Beauty, and their holdings are no less than those of the Shen family.

What Shen Tingzhi wants to do now is to unite with various parties to hunt down Meng's Pharmaceutical!

......

A ward at Shuguang Hospital.

"Can't we just skip the trouble a couple of times?"

"What if the nurses come to check on us?"

Guo Lingling used her head to push the curtains open, looking utterly annoyed.

Pan Cheng was never very capable to begin with, and after breaking his leg, it became even worse; he would wail incessantly if he made even the slightest movement.

But he also loves to tinker; he's both bad at it and loves to have fun.

Guo Lingling had just gotten into the mood when Pan Cheng finished. How could she not be frustrated?

Unfortunately, both of her hands were injured, leaving her feeling utterly powerless.

"I was just so bored staying in the hospital!"

"Am I stronger than before?"

Even with a broken leg, his masculinity remains...

Pan Cheng was looking at his phone with a satisfied expression when his expression suddenly froze, and then his expression changed as if he had seen a ghost.

"Heroic my foot! Even a cucumber works better than you!" Guo Lingling noticed Pan Cheng's strange expression and leaned closer.

Pan Cheng kept swiping the screen, which was almost entirely filled with trending news about Qingcheng Beauty and Mengshi Pharmaceutical.

Guo Lingling's expression changed drastically; Meng's Pharmaceuticals was doomed!

"Pan Cheng! You lied to me!?" Guo Lingling's anger surged.

If Meng's Pharmaceuticals is going to go bankrupt, then all the things Pan Cheng promised her will be for nothing.

Haven't we been taken advantage of by Pan Cheng for the past two days?

"Don't panic, I don't know what happened either!"

Pan Cheng was completely dumbfounded. If Meng's Pharmaceuticals went bankrupt, his own future would be in jeopardy. What was this talk of being lied to?

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"Don't say I'm being unreasonable. It's 30,000 a time, but we're old acquaintances, so I'll give you a discount."

"Two hundred thousand, we're even!"

Guo Lingling was furious when she thought about how she had been taking care of Pan Cheng like a disabled person for the past two days.

She had to take care of Pan Cheng's feelings in every way, selling her body and working hard herself, but in the end she gained nothing!

Anyway, Pan Cheng has no use to her anymore. She can turn her back on him whenever she wants. She doesn't have to put up with his attitude anymore. At least she can earn back the 200,000 yuan she lost before. Even if she doesn't have a job for a while, she can get by.

"Guo Lingling, are you fucking crazy?"

"Charging 30,000 yuan at a time, do they think they're made of gold?"

"Someone like you, if I went out and had some fun, I could grind an iron bar into a needle with 200,000 yuan!"

Pan Cheng was also very annoyed. Seeing this kind of news was already annoying enough, but Guo Lingling was adding fuel to the fire.

"Isn't my current sorry state all your fault, you son of a bitch?" Guo Lingling retorted, not to be outdone. "Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror and see what kind of person you are!"

"You can't control your lust when you see a woman who's even slightly attractive? Don't you even consider that someone as stunning as Chen Xiaoxiao is someone you can even dream about?"

"If it weren't for your mess, I'd still be working at Qingcheng Beauty. Now that Qingcheng Beauty is about to take off, I could at least get a piece of the pie!"

"It's all your fault, you bastard! You got lustful and ruined everything!"

Pan Cheng slapped him across the face. "Shut the hell up and stop babbling at me. I'll make a call and ask!"

"It's just a trivial matter. Meng's Pharmaceuticals is a large and powerful company; it's no big deal!"

"Maybe it's just a rumor. If nothing's wrong, you slut, don't even think about me working with you again!"

After giving Guo Lingling a piece of his mind, he pulled out Li Jianghe's phone number and called him.

Guo Lingling did not leave, her head bowed, her heart filled with unease.

"Hit, hit, hit! Hit your mother's head!"

"No need to ask anymore, they're all fucking wiped out. Everyone's on their own!"

Pan Cheng dialed three times before Li Jianghe answered. Li Jianghe's voice was almost a roar, and he hung up the phone after speaking.

Pan Cheng stood there dumbfounded, holding his phone. "I haven't even said a word yet!"

However, he still understood what Li Jianghe meant. Meng's Pharmaceuticals was really going to collapse. Li Jianghe was in trouble himself, so how could he care about him?

"Now you've given up, haven't you?" Guo Lingling sneered, then suddenly kicked Pan Cheng off the bed.

"ah--"

Pan Cheng's legs had not yet healed. He fell off the bed and touched his wounds, letting out a heart-wrenching scream.

"Pan Cheng! I'm not kidding you!"

"I've let you off easy so many times, asking for 200,000 isn't unreasonable, is it?"

"Don't think you don't know anyone in Donghai. If you dare not give it to me, you'll face consequences you can't afford!"

"I'm giving you three days. If the 200,000 isn't in your account by then, I'll sell myself to earn enough to buy your life!"

Guo Lingling made a harsh statement and left.

Three days later at noon, in Gu Caiwei's office.

Why didn't you go with me?

When Gu Caiwei returned after finishing her work, she saw Qin Ge sitting in her seat playing on the computer, and a smile appeared on her lips.

"I wanted to go, but Xiaoxiao wouldn't let me."

Chen Xiaoxiao's parents arrived, and she accompanied them to discuss cooperation details and sign contracts with executives from Qingcheng Beauty.

Qin Ge wanted to go with her, but Chen Xiaoxiao refused decisively.

"By the way, there's something I'm curious about." Qin Ge looked at Gu Caiwei with interest.

"About the collaboration with Xiaoxiao's parents' company?" Gu Caiwei guessed what Qin Ge wanted to ask before he could speak. "Are you curious why I didn't object?"

"You're really smart!" Qin Ge chuckled. "I'll just poke my head out..."

"Uh, I mean, we're totally on the same wavelength!"

"Who said you understood?" Gu Caiwei inexplicably recalled the scene of Qin Ge touching her lower abdomen to treat her ailment that day, and her pretty face flushed red. "You're so shameless!"