Chapter 57: 57, devoted mothers and filial children, all is chaos!

The hall instantly fell silent.

Everyone was stunned.

Zhang Meili and Yang Tingting wore shocked expressions, and both turned to look at Su Mengqing. Yuan Youwei and Mrs. Xue were also slightly astonished.

Clearly, Su Mengqing has been driven into a corner, Lin Fan silently furrowed his brows and shook his head inwardly. She’s planning to sacrifice Su Gang to save her own skin! I have to say, this woman is truly ruthless and insidious.

“You! Shut your damn mouth! Su Mengqing, weren’t you the one who told me to steal the medicine?” Su Gang’s body shook violently as he suddenly cried out in grief and indignation.

He wasn’t stupid. His own sister was planning to sacrifice a pawn to save the king!

“When did I tell you to steal any medicine?” Su Mengqing, her face beet red, still shouted through gritted teeth. “Tingting and I have been recovering in the hospital this whole time!”

“That’s… that’s right! What Director Su said is true. You were the one who brought the medicine; it had nothing to do with us!” Yang Tingting shivered under Su Mengqing’s intimidating glare, then gritted her teeth and shouted back at Su Gang, her chin jutted out stubbornly.

Fuck! A pair of animals, absolute animals!

Su Gang nearly exploded with rage, quickly turning to Zhang Meili beside him. “Mom, look at them! They’re putting all the blame on me! Just a moment ago they were giddy with joy, and now they’re pinning it all on me!”

“Su Gang, you should just take the fall. It’s not like you haven’t done things like this before… one more time won’t make a difference…” Zhang Meili’s plump face flushed red, and her scalp tingled with dread.

It was like choosing between the palm and the back of her hand—both were her own flesh and blood. Honestly, she doted on Su Gang a little more. But now, their opponent had solid proof. Breaking in and stealing the precious White Dragon Grass was a crime that guaranteed jail time! Rather than the whole family going down… it was better to sacrifice Su Gang alone!

“Su Gang, a real man owns up to his actions… Don’t worry, once you’re inside, Mom will bring you delicious food every day…” Zhang Meili turned her head away, unwilling to meet the trembling Su Gang’s eyes.

“Bullshit! That’s all bullshit! All four of us went to the clinic to steal the medicine together! Why should I take the blame by myself?” Su Gang completely broke down, screaming hysterically. “Lin Fan! Mr. Wang Sr.! I want to confess! I want to report them!”

He turned to Lin Fan and Mr. Wang Sr., his voice thick with anger. “I’ll testify! It was Zhang Meili and Su Mengqing who told me to steal the medicine! Moreover, the four of us did it together after midnight last night. There’s no way I should be the only one punished!”

At his words, darkness swam before Su Mengqing’s eyes, and she nearly fainted on the spot. Zhang Meili and Yang Tingting’s faces turned green as they silently cursed Su Gang for his utter stupidity. The others in the hall simply looked at one another, completely speechless.

*What a touching display of motherly love and filial piety… It’s true what they say: birds of a feather flock together!*

“Su Mengqing, did you hear that? Your own brother wants to report you. It’s not us slandering you, you know,” Yuan Youwei said, raising a shapely eyebrow at Su Mengqing, clearly amused.

“He… he’s talking nonsense! What proof does he have to report us? Does Su Gang have any evidence?” However, before a flushed Su Mengqing could respond, Zhang Meili erupted, glaring furiously at her son.

Mother and son locked eyes, neither willing to back down.

“Zhang Meili! You’re too biased! Are you going to disregard the life of your own son just for Su Mengqing’s sake?” Su Gang raged, craning his neck to shout. “Do you want me to expose all your dirty secrets about hooking up with Old Xu next door?”

“You little bastard, you have the nerve to talk about me?” Zhang Meili’s portly frame trembled, her face burning with shame as she screeched, “You’ve been gambling in secret and embezzling from the company account behind your sister’s back. How dare you accuse me!”

“So what if I gamble? It’s better than you sleeping around!”

“I… I must have had the worst luck for eight lifetimes to have given birth to a shameless beast like you!”

The two of them hurled insults back and forth, leaving everyone in the hall staring, dumbfounded. Their minds reeled from the chaos. Su Mengqing was overwhelmed with shame and mortification. She hung her head low, wishing she could bite her tongue and die on the spot.

CRASH!

“Enough! All of you, shut up! Do you take the Wang residence for a public latrine, where you can shriek like fishwives?” After a moment, a grim-faced Mr. Wang Sr. could no longer stand it. He violently smashed his teacup at his feet, shattering it to pieces.

The shouting stopped abruptly.

Zhang Meili and Su Gang’s faces tightened. They hunched their necks and fell silent, though they continued to glare at each other.

“Beat him! Just beat Su Gang! Gag him and beat him half to death, then we’ll talk!” Mr. Wang Sr. commanded, pointing a wrathful finger at Su Gang.

A Wang family bodyguard pulled off his own smelly sock and unceremoniously stuffed it into Su Gang’s mouth. Immediately after, a water-soaked cowhide whip lashed down fiercely.

SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!

The whip tore the skin from his back, leaving a bloody, mangled mess. He writhed and squirmed like a maggot suspended in midair, letting out muffled, indignant cries of agony. Before long, Su Gang’s eyes rolled back in his head and he passed out from the pain.

Seeing this, Su Mengqing and the other two turned away, unable to watch Su Gang’s miserable state. They could only shoot frequent, hateful glares at Lin Fan.

If it wasn’t for this bastard suddenly showing up at the Wang residence, how could things have possibly escalated to this point? You jinx! Lin Fan, you’re the absolute bane of the Su Family!

“Everyone, it’s time to discuss our cooperation.”

Just then, Lin Fan, who had been silent for some time, walked to the center of the hall and slowly scanned the room.

“Lin Fan, don’t be ridiculous. What gives you the right to discuss cooperation with our nine companies?”

“Even if you’re temporarily in charge of Yuandao Pharmaceuticals, it’s still just one of the top ten pharmaceutical companies. You don’t have the power to stand on equal footing with us!”

“This is a joke! We’d have to be crazy to work with you!”

Several pharmaceutical tycoons spoke up one after another, their voices dripping with sarcasm.

“Lin Fan, Yuan Youwei, I have given you an explanation for the stolen medicine. If there’s nothing else, you should head home,” Mr. Wang Sr. said coldly, making it clear they should leave.

A dull ache still lingered deep within his body, but it didn’t feel like the aftereffects of poison… and the way Lin Fan had just forcibly expelled the silver needles… that was more like the technique of a high-level Martial Artist. His heart skipped a beat as he reeled from the secret shock. No wonder Lin Fan had single-handedly destroyed the Black Tiger Hall’s headquarters, and Chen Heihu, the so-called underground emperor, had simply swallowed his grievance. There hadn’t been the slightest sign of retaliation in the past few days. If Lin Fan were pushed into a corner and decided to get violent, the Wang family likely had no one who could stop him!

“I am the president of the Haicheng Pharmaceutical Association. If you are truly sincere about cooperating, then show us some real skill instead of resorting to such despicable means,” Mr. Wang Sr. couldn’t help but soften his tone, truly wary that Lin Fan might act recklessly.

For a moment, all eyes were fixed on Lin Fan. Even Yuan Youwei and Mrs. Xue had a flicker of curiosity in their gazes.

Only Su Mengqing and the other two, still suspended in the air, looked on with contempt.

They had Lin Fan figured out long ago. He was just a brute who was good at fighting. What real skills could he possibly have to force Haicheng’s nine major pharmaceutical companies to cooperate? From the looks of it, he was just bluffing.

“Fine. I need a pen and paper,” Lin Fan said with a simple nod to one of the managers, seemingly unfazed by the dozens of peculiar gazes.

After getting a nod from Mr. Wang Sr., the man hurried away, returning moments later with a stack of white paper for Lin Fan.

Suddenly, the hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, the only sound being the swift scratching of Lin Fan’s pen on paper. Everyone craned their necks to see, curious about what on earth he was doing.

One second, two seconds, three seconds… Finally, Lin Fan stopped writing. He held up the stack of papers, which were covered in minuscule script, and slowly scanned the room.

“These nine prescriptions correspond to the flagship products of your nine companies. However, their effects are faster and significantly more potent.”

“I will give them for free to anyone willing to cooperate with me,” he continued, his gaze turning cold. “But if you refuse, I will give them to Yuandao Pharmaceuticals to produce. With our absolute market superiority, we will drive all nine of your companies to extinction!”

As his words fell, the hall was dead silent for a heartbeat.

Then, it exploded into an uproar.

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