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Chapter 30
Chapter 30
Chapter 30: Counteroffensive Begins
Sixth floor, banquet hall.
A vivacious banquet was held here.
On this kind of occasion, everyone’s faces were piled with smiles.
Kota’s gaze lingered on each person.
Since yesterday’s lucky draw, he had got the prize of “Increasing 10% probability, reading the mind of others”.
He found that among the 95 people present, there were over a dozen people having a list over their heads showing what was in their mind.
“That old man Moanke is really… His own granddaughter is only verbally engaged to the Heavenly Punishment’s heir, but he wanted to hold a cocktail party to inform everyone. What an ambitious old man.”
“Sigh, it’s difficult for Moanke either. In the past two years, Yan and Yun Ye’s momentum has grown in influence, forcing him to use his own granddaughter for his own interest.”
“After his party, everyone will know that he has a relationship with Heavenly Punishment. In the future, Yan and Yun Ye will not dare to touch him. Clever move.”
Different people had different activities in their hearts.
In the front row of the cocktail party, there were a few empty seats.
At the moment, no one was sitting there, and no one dared to sit.
As expected, the first seat next to the middle seat should belong to Moanke, and the seat in the middle probably belonged to the presentative-witness of Heavenly Punishment.
Just as Kota was thinking, everyone who was already sitting suddenly stood up.
“It’s John!”
“John, what an honor!”
While a group of people were flattering him, the hotel staff opened the door of the banquet hall, and three people walked out from under the spotlight.
“Drizzt! It’s actually Drizzt, the younger brother of the heir of the Heavenly Punishment, Naka!”
“Oh my God, at first I thought Heavenly Punishment would just send a random guy as a witness. I can’t believe that they are sending Drizzt. It seems that his elder brother Naka still cares a lot about Ying.”
“This Moanke has made the right move. John really can’t forget Catherine, the ice beauty.”
Whispers came from the surrounding crowd.
On the red carpet, Moanke got a broad smile on his face as he invited Drizzt to take a seat.
Drizzt looked about thirty-four or thirty-five, energetic. He wore an expensive, tailor-made tight fit suit. He really had the look of someone from an influential family.
There was one flaw, though. Drizzt’s appearance was slightly feminine. He had high cheekbones and looked like someone difficult to get along with.
Kota crossed his legs and sat in the last row. His gaze was locked on Drizzt’s face.
Name: Drizzt
List of desires:
[1. become the successor of the Chen family.]
[2. Curious to see how beautiful the woman that my brother Naka mentioned is.]
Unfold to see more.
Seeing Drizzt’s list of desires, the smile on Kota’s face grew wider.
He thought to himself, ‘Drizzt, is it? After looking at the first list of desires, it seems your relationship with your brother Naka isn’t that cozy.’
At this moment, all the guests had taken their seats, and the emcee was standing on the stage.
Kota knew this emcee.
He was a pretty famous news anchor of a local television station in New York. For such a person to appear on such an occasion, it would expose him to a completely different social circle.
Therefore, the emcee was smiling like a Cheshire cat, as if he had an endless amount of energy.
“Next, let’s welcome the main character of today, the young lady of Ying, Catherine!”
“Let’s welcome her!”
After saying that, the curtain behind the stage decorated with white rose to symbolize purity was lifted.
Catherine, who was wearing a long red dress, walked out.
Her hair was tied up, as if she was a beauty coming straight out of a movie.
“Wow, it has been over ten years, and this girl has grown to become so beautiful.”
“I’m so envious, Moanke really has a good granddaughter!”
The crowd exclaimed.
As Catherine appeared, Drizzt, who was sitting in the main seat, was stunned, even though he had high expectations for Catherine’s appearance before he came.
But when he saw Catherine for the first time, he was still shocked by her appearance.
‘So Beautiful…’ Drizzt thought to himself.
Especially the coldness and unapproachable persona of Catherine instantly conquered Drizzt.
Ever since Drizzt became an adult, he had never lacked women around him. But no woman had ever made him have such a strong desire to conquer.
Although Drizzt still maintained a smile on his face, his fists were slowly clenched.
This was his nephew’s woman. This was the woman that the entire family had placed high hopes on. The woman that John had taken a fancy to. If Drizzt wanted it, he would make sure he got her. Moreover, didn’t his good nephew just do something ridiculous?
As the jealousy in his heart slowly rose, he tried his best to shift his gaze away from Catherine.
Until he saw Sikal beside Catherine.
“This is…” Drizzt’s pupils constricted.
Wasn’t this the female lawyer he met at the hillside villa about a week ago, the lawyer he had been thinking about for a long time?
A week ago, Drizzt hosted some celebrities and important people he had made friends with in private at the hillside villa.
At the time, he met Sikal, who delivered the lawyer’s contract.
Ever since that meeting, he had been thinking about Sikal constantly.
He did not expect to see not only Catherine but also Sikal at this reception of Ying Corporation today.
He did not know how much trouble the reception at the villa had caused to Sikal.
Drizzt was sitting below the stage, happy that he had come to the reception of Ying’s Corporation.
After Catherine appeared, Moanke also came onto the stage at the invitation of the host.
He was about to take a microphone to express his gratitude to the guests who came.
Catherine took the microphone from the host’s hand all of a sudden.
Before she did this, her eyes had been darting around the banquet hall, as if she was looking for someone.
As the lights on the stage were too bright, when she looked down the stage, she found it hard to locate Kota.
She was not sure if Kota would come as promised.
Until now, the host still thought that today’s banquet was going to be a happy one.
Since the young lady wanted to speak, then he thought he should not stop her.
Moreover, she was the woman who was going to marry the heir of Heavenly Punishment.
“It seems that Miss Catherine has something to say. Let’s welcome her.”
Catherine stood on the stage in a charming manner.
She held the microphone in her hand. On the back of her fair hand, her knuckles had turned white because she clenched the microphone too tightly.
“Catherine, do your best.”
Sikal, who was behind her, had yet to see Drizzt. She had been cheering for Catherine and encouraging her from behind.
The noisy audience slowly quieted down.
Everyone was looking forward to what Catherine would say as the lady of the cocktail party.
A sharp noise came from the microphone.
Catherine immediately straightened the microphone.
She glanced at her grandfather, who was frowning beside her.
“Welcome, everyone, to today’s cocktail party.”
After Catherine spoke, she realized things became easier when she let go of her worries and faced it together.
She took a deep breath and said, “Before announcing my engagement, there is a family business that needs to be resolved in front of everyone.”
“Aah? What family business?”
“I don’t know, but Catherine seems to be someone in charge after not seeing her for so long.”
Moanke stood on the stage. Although his face was full of smiles, he didn’t know what Catherine wanted to say.
This feeling of not being able to control everything made him feel uneasy.
His granddaughter who had gone missing suddenly appeared this afternoon and said that she had just gone out to relax. Although he did not believe it, he had no other choice.
He comforted himself that his granddaughter must have grown up. Otherwise, she could have simply continued to disappear and not come back.
Although she had returned now, he was getting more and more uneasy.
“Catherine, what do you want to say?”
He stood beside Catherine and asked in a low voice.
“Grandfather, it’s about Ying Corporation. Perhaps you have been focusing on outsiders from the beginning, but the decay of a family always starts from within.”
Catherine held the microphone and did not hesitate at all. After she finished speaking in one breath, she looked coldly at the audience.
“Coster, come out!”
Under the absolute silence of the audience, Catherine’s voice echoed in the hall.
“Come out…”
“Come out…”
Moanke was stunned when he heard that. “Coster? What happened to him?”
“I’m here, Young Lady.”
A burly man strolled out of the crowd.
The lighting technician in the banquet hall immediately shone a light on Coster.
He was dressed in a black suit, and the muscles on his face were twitching. But his expression was still as submissive as before in front of Ying Corporation.
“Should I call you Coster or Atkins?”
When Catherine mentioned Coster’s actual name, she literally spelled it out.
Coster looked up at her abruptly.
A hint of surprise and fear appeared in his eyes for a short while, but he quickly adjusted this hint of surprise into confusion.
“Young Lady, who is Atkins?”
Coster looked at the guests and celebrities around him in confusion.
The surrounding people were also pointing at him.
“What do you mean?”
“What exactly does Miss Catherine want?”
Without waiting for Coster to refute it, Catherine turned back to look at her grandfather, who was also the only pillar of Ying Corporation at the moment.
“You all may not know this. Ten hours before everyone came to this banquet, I was hiding in an unknown street to avoid being kidnapped.”
“And the mastermind of that kidnapping was the right-hand man of Ying Corporation, Coster!”
Catherine’s words were clearly transmitted to the ears of everyone present.
Some people who roughly knew about Ying’s situation knew about the opposing relationship between Ying, and Yun Ye and Yan. They had already vaguely guessed something.
They also looked at Coster in shock.
For over ten years, Coster had been in charge of the entire Ying Corporation, whether it was business or trivial matters.
Among the guests, many people thought that since they had business dealings with Ying Corporation, they had built a relationship with Coster.
Little did they expect Coster was such a person.
“What?” The one who was shocked the most of Moanke.
“Catherine, what are you talking about? Everyone here today is your elders. There is no evidence…”
“Grandpa!” Catherine interrupted Moanke.
“I just want to ask you one thing.”
The smile on Moanke’s face had long disappeared.
He looked at this almost completely unfamiliar granddaughter and realized that she did not seem to be the little girl who followed him around every day.
“I just want to ask you one thing,” Catherine repeated.
“From the beginning to the end, did you say that even if I die, you will send my body to Heavenly Punishment?”
The gray-haired Moanke heard this, and his body trembled.