The Guide to Rising to Power: The Ultimate Schemes of a Green Tea Beauty

"I never expected that no matter how I explained or begged, Zhenxing would insist on a divorce and even wanted to abort our child."

Liang Zhenghe's voice reached Shen Yao's ears.

"Leaving me with no other choice, I threatened her parents' lives and locked her up in the manor."

"My career has been steadily rising, and Hengxin has been my intermediary. Zheng Ze's trust in me has never wavered. My career has been divinely aided, and I have risen step by step."

At that time, the legend of the two brothers was being told throughout Yanjing.

One went into politics, the other into business, and both rose to fame at the same time, like two parallel stars illuminating the night sky of the entire city.

"But Zhenxing is someone who can't tolerate any nonsense. I wouldn't let her go out, and I threatened her with her parents' lives, so she threatened me with herself."

Liang Zhenghe's voice paused slightly.

"After much agonizing, I decided to agree to her request and promise not to do those things again. She was also willing to give me another chance."

"But things weren't up to me. Because I changed my mind halfway through, my parents... were retaliated against and died in our hometown."

"If I don't continue, Zheng Ze, Zhen Xing, and I will all die."

Liang Zhenghe closed his eyes.

"I was so naive back then, actually thinking I could walk away cleanly and cleanly."

"I dare not tell anyone that my momentary lapse of judgment led to this outcome. I still have to keep going. When I returned to Yanjing, I received even worse news."

"The baby in Zhenxing's belly... is stillborn."

For Liang Zhenghe, the child was the last weapon he could use to win back Wei Zhenxing's heart.

He has no parents, and he must continue down this path, so he absolutely cannot lose Zhenxing.

He decided to switch the baby when Wei Zhenxing gave birth.

While continuing to do his shady business behind her back, Liang Zhenghe was also searching for a child who met the criteria.

The child must be beautiful, intelligent, and well-behaved, able to help him win back his beloved wife.

He searched through all the avenues, sifting and filtering.

"That's how we chose him."

The child's father was said to be a client of prostitutes and his mother a prostitute, but the truth remains unknown.

The only thing that is certain is that he has no parents.

He perfectly met all the conditions set by Liang Zhenghe.

After Wei Zhenxing gave birth to a stillborn child, Liang Zhenghe secretly buried their child.

Zhenxing wouldn't bring her resentment onto her child. She searched through dictionaries to find a name for him and finally settled on the name "Xiheng".

At that time, she still thought that Liang Xiheng was her flesh and blood, the child she had carried for ten months, and her blood relative.

"But this bastard I rescued is not likable."

Liang Xiheng failed to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by Liang Zhenghe, because his cold-blooded and ruthless nature was discovered by Zhenxing, and he even incurred her disgust.

Worse still, Liang Zhenghe's affair could not be kept from Wei Zhenxing in the end. In his rage, he even wanted to kill Xi Heng.

Liang Zhenghe began to think that Liang Xiheng was useless. Since he couldn't bring Zhenxing back, it wouldn't matter if the child died.

But at that moment, a thought suddenly popped into his mind: perhaps the child could help him get out of his current predicament.

That's how Liang Xiheng survived.

The conflict between Liang Zhenghe and Wei Zhenxing was irreconcilable.

For her parents' safety, Wei Zhenxing couldn't tell the truth. The inner torment gnawed at her day after day, and she also had to face this abnormal father and son every day.

Shen Yao closed her eyes, and she could almost see her.

A woman of noble birth, who has been surrounded by admirers since childhood, is trapped in the manor, unable to cry out or fly away.

Her second thought was very realistic.

First-generation entrepreneurs are definitely not to be trusted.

You can't marry a poor man.

A self-made man who was poor before becoming rich is even less acceptable.

She herself could be considered a semi-first-generation entrepreneur, and she deeply understood the "rising from the mud" mentality inherent in these people:

They climb to the top with all their might, only feeling at ease when they turn around and trample others down.

They have an insatiable hunger for money, power, and women, and they follow the same logic: they only win when they get their hands on something, and they always calculate interest on anything they give away.

Some men are even thinking of "refund only".

If a beauty like Shen Yao were to encounter a man like that, she'd be so unlucky she'd want to die.

"What drives me even crazier is—"

Liang Zhenghe's voice suddenly dropped, like a crack appearing on the surface of ice.

"Unbeknownst to me, after being locked up for so long, she began to look out at every opportunity, and Zhenxing actually fell in love with one of the most ordinary workers in Hengxin."

Shen Yao suddenly looked up, incredulous:

"Is this... Uncle Xue?"

Liang Zhenghe did not deny it.

His lips twitched slightly, as if he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't, leaving only a mark of disgust on his face.

"A man with absolutely no redeeming qualities. He's even married. I don't know why she would fall for him."

His tone was calm, but beneath that calm lay emotions that seemed like the marks left by clenched and unclenched fingers, imprinted deep and shallow between his words.

"He deserved to die. He even witnessed one of our men's transactions."

However, pushing the man off the building brought him little pleasure. His beloved wife, not long after, died of grief and passed away.

"I made up a random excuse, saying I had too many enemies in the business world, and quickly sent Xiheng abroad."

Shen Yao knew everything that happened afterward.

Liang Xiheng and Xue Huaiqing both became his scapegoats.

Especially Liang Xiheng.

The boy, whom he picked from the orphanage as a bargaining chip to keep his wife and ultimately became a tool to exonerate himself, took the blame for most of the crime.

In Italy, he completed every step of his "mission," learning nothing but evil methods and being exposed to the deceit and treachery of the business world, which made his already distorted mindset even more pathological.

Just as Liang Zhenghe had hoped, Liang Xiheng finally became his most useful, and also most dangerous, accomplice.

Shen Yao's fingertips dug into her palm:

"Did you specifically send people to torture him in Italy? Did you know that Xue Huaiqing is Uncle Xue's son?"

Liang Zhenghe sat opposite her, his gaze calm.

Of course he knew all of that.

The man said smugly, "Yaoyao, to be honest, it's a real shame you want to get revenge on me."

"You have no idea how ridiculous and absurd it has been to see these two sons, Xue Fanglin's son Xue Huaiqing and Liang Xiheng, who failed to meet my expectations, trying to kill each other right under my nose all these years."

Leung Cheng-ho leaned forward slightly to share a joke that only he himself understood.

"If you were me, seeing such a scene every day when you open your eyes would only bring you joy."

All of Xue Huaiqing's struggles, pain, forbearance, and revenge in his life were, in his eyes, a farce.

Liang Xiheng was born a prop, lived as a pawn, and died as a discarded piece.

They were all toys, for his amusement.

"Besides, I've been squandering money everywhere these past two years. My life is already so exciting that I don't need to do anything more."

"I've gotten to this point because fate has been pushing me forward."

Leung Cheng-ho leaned back in his chair, his tone carrying a hint of resentment at being wronged.

"It didn't let me off the hook, it didn't treat me kindly. I already know I was wrong, didn't I? Since God won't help me, I'll just have to help myself and let my short life also sit at the head table and make fun of others once."

He looked at Shen Yao.

"But the truth is, I can only win."