Chapter 221: Internal Strife

In Union Square, San Francisco, a luxury car, a Bentley, was speeding along the road when it crashed head-on into the parking lot fence.

An accident like this in a place like Union Square is undoubtedly big news, so it quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers, but no one could see the perpetrator. All they could see was an attorney coordinating with the management of Union Square.

The identity of someone who can be so willful is naturally not simple. However, today's incident had nothing to do with the arrogant Tang Yi, but was done by Tang Yu, who had always been confident. After he lost his lawyer to deal with it, he hurriedly walked into the St. Nala Private Dining Room.

'I never thought that cousin Tang Yu, who always pays attention to his status, would be late today. This is really surprising!'

As soon as he entered the familiar luxurious private dining room, a strange remark reached Tang Yu's ears. He then noticed that Tang Yi and Tang Wan'er were already sitting there.

'There was a little accident, that's why we were delayed a little.'

Tang Yu said, maintaining his aloof image, and then sat down in his seat, trying to lightly skip over the topic, but Tang Yi obviously had no intention of letting him off the hook so easily.

'I know, I saw it when I was coming up here. There was an accident in the car park. Someone drove straight into the parking barrier. I think that was your doing, cousin Tang Yu?' Tang Yi said, 'But what I can't figure out is, cousin Tang Yu, aren't you always proud of your composure and calmness? I always thought that only someone like me would make a mistake like this. How could someone like you make a mistake?'

'I didn't mean to do it like this. It's just that the brakes on the car were faulty and there was no time to adjust them,' Tong Yu replied.

Tang Yi laughed: 'I see. But if I remember correctly, cousin Tang Yu, you only had the car serviced last month, and now, less than half a month later, there's already been such a serious problem. This is terrible! I would rather just ignore it, like I do! Otherwise, next time, you might end up driving straight into the San Francisco Bay.'

Tang Yu slammed his hand down on the table and said, 'I hope you can keep your mouth shut, otherwise I won't let you off the hook, I promise!'

Tang Yi laughed even more happily: 'Promise not to let me go? This is the funniest joke I have heard in the past 24 years. My cousin Tang Yu, do you remember when and to whom you last said this? And what happened to that person now?'

This time, Tang Yu did not lose his temper again. Instead, after taking a deep breath, he said slowly, 'The other person's trickery was indeed a bit unexpected, which is why I asked you all to come out today, so that we can figure out a way to deal with that Zhou Ming together.'

Tang Yu's soft approach was undoubtedly unexpected for Tang Yi and Tang Wan'er, but Tang Yi was not about to give up. So he asked meaningfully, 'So I wonder what you want to do about Zhou Ming? Are you going back to deal with Jieke Company? Or are you going to continue to hire people to disparage his film projects online?'

Tang Yu shook his head and replied, 'Neither. First, we need to find out whether his claims are true. Which project does he really want to focus on? As long as we can grasp this point and then attack with all our strength, we will win!'

'Cousin, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that you have someone inside Jieke Company.' Tang Yi slapped his head and suddenly realised, but then he changed the subject, saying, 'It's just that through your intelligence, I find it hard to doubt the intelligence of the people you have planted. You're not going to prepare to deal with whoever you think is your undercover?'

'Of course not!' Tang Yu answered with certainty, "I make decisions after analysing the information he gives me...'

Before Tang Yu could finish speaking, Tang Yi interrupted him, "So your decision was to keep running back and forth between Jieke and the BBS like an idiot getting played by Zhou Ming?'

Hearing Tang Yi's teasing, Tang Yu's face sank at that moment, and he coldly questioned him, 'What do you mean by that?'

Tang Yu also put away his teasing expression at this time and said, 'What I mean is that you shouldn't be so confident sometimes. You are not the opponent of that Zhou Ming. If you don't pretend to be cool, we can still be good friends...'

'Tang Yi!' Tang Yu angrily slammed his hand down on the table, interrupting Tang Yi's words, and pointed his finger at him and said, 'You bastard, I don't know where you learned these ignorant words vocabulary. I think that as heirs to the same family, we should unite, not fight amongst ourselves at a time like this. But now, with your attitude and your actions, you have already disqualified yourself as a Tang family heir!'

Tang Yi slapped away the hand that was about to poke him in the face: 'Who is going to judge this matter, you? But you seem to have forgotten that you are only the second-in-line successor of the Tang family, so where did you get this qualification?'

'I'm not qualified? Do you think you are? You should know that you are still one place behind me, you are third, you are even less qualified, and your behaviour and actions are very annoying, while my actions are all very good, I behave properly in front of the elders, but I also have the courage to break through, I am the most suitable heir!' Tang Yu said.

'Damn it! You can shamelessly flatter yourself like that, Mr. Tang Yu, you're quite a character.' Tang Yi said.

Tang Yu paid no attention, and then said to Tang Yi with clenched teeth, 'You know what? Sometimes I really want to kill you!'

'Really? Then come on, it's just what I want to do too. Let's practice, and see if you, who kowtow to your elders all day long like a dog, are better or I am.'

Tang Yi stood up while he was talking, rolled up his sleeves, and made a show of getting ready to fight.

Facing the farce of Tang Yu and Tang Yi, this time Tang Wan'er also surprisingly did not stop them. Instead, she leaned back in her chair with a cup of tea in her hands, in the standard posture of someone watching a show.

However, Tang Yu and Tang Yi did not fight in the end, or rather, Tang Yu, who considered himself to be of high status, simply did not bother to fight with Tang Yi, who looked like a thug.

'So, cousin Tang Yu, let me put it this way: if you don't have a better idea, or if you can't find a way to change your current fucking habit of making people's skin crawl, today will be the last time we meet. I have something to do, so I'll be going now.'

Tang Yi said, dropped his sleeves, and walked towards the door. But before he left, he turned back and said, 'I forgot to tell you, actually, your maid Xiaoyu looks innocent, but she's so horny in bed. is very good at serving people. It's just that the red birthmark on the inner thigh is a bit annoying, but as long as you don't look at it on purpose, it's fine. So overall, cousin Tang Yu, you do have good taste.'

Upon hearing these words, Tang Yu's eyes widened at the time, and he looked as if he had seen a ghost. He couldn't believe that his most beloved maid had actually been having an affair with that rascal behind his back.

At this moment, Tang Wan'er clearly felt the calm before the storm. She quietly put down her teacup, then picked up her bag and said, 'See you later, I'm leaving first,' before quickly sneaking out of the box. Just as she closed the box the moment she closed the door, she heard a roar coming from the cubicle, mixed with the sound of broken ceramics. Needless to say, someone was having a tantrum inside.

Tang Wan'er let out a sigh of relief, patted her small chest in some measure of relief, then thought for a moment before sprinting after Tang Yi.

'My little cousin, aren't you going to wait for me?' Tang Wan'er said as she caught up to Tang Yi.

Tang Yi folded his arms and said, 'I thought you were going to chat with that idiot for a while longer.'

'You called him an idiot, so what else is there to talk about? Although I don't think this is a good time for internal conflict, I think his temper is so bad that he could tear the box apart.' Tang Wan'er spoke casually, and Tang Yi disdainfully scolded her as a waste of space. Tang Wan'er then asked, 'I don't know about him, but I want to know what you plan to do next?'

Tang Yi reached up very flirtatiously and lifted Tang Wan'er's chin: 'Does my beautiful cousin Wan'er plan to follow me next?'

Tang Wan'er was stunned at first, then lowered her head coquettishly and whispered into Tang Yi's fingers, 'If your method is satisfactory to me, then some things...are not impossible!'

But Tang Yi instead let go of her hand and said to Tang Wan'er, 'Then come with me, I hope my way will satisfy you.'

Subsequently, Tang Wan'er followed Tang Yi and left the private restaurant of Saint Na, and went to the coffee shop downstairs, where she met another heir of the Tang family.

'Tang Lin, why are you here?' Tang Wan'er said in surprise, 'Have you and Tang Lin formed an alliance?'

'An alliance? I think cousin Tang Lin is smarter than that idiot Tang Yu.'

Tang Yi said this while sitting down, and then Tang Wan'er also sat down doubtfully. Tang Yi said to Tang Lin, 'Cousin Wan'er is not included in the plan, so you should tell her what you did.'

Tang Lin put down the cup of coffee in his hand and said, 'It's nothing special. I invested more than 10 million US dollars in that Zhou Ming project.'

This answer made Tang Wan'er's eyes widen immediately: 'So it was you who kept helping that Zhou Ming?'

This time, Tang Yi answered her. He said to Tang Wan'er, 'Cousin Wan'er, I don't think the word help is quite appropriate. Perhaps it would be better to use the word cooperate.'

'What's the difference?' Tang Wan'er asked.

'The difference is huge. If it were just simple help, I would have unconditionally given that Zhou Ming funding, but now the situation is that I am investing in his project, and I will receive a return after the project is successful,' Tang Lin replied.

Seeing that Tang Wan'er still didn't understand, Tang Yi then asked her, 'In that case, let me be more direct. Cousin Wan'er, do you think that among us, anyone can defeat that Zhou Ming and then legitimately inherit the Tang family?'

Tang Wan'er thought for a moment and then replied, 'If it's just one person, it's certainly difficult, but if we work together, it's not necessarily impossible.'

Tang Yi shook his head and said, 'There's nothing uncertain about it. It's no big deal for us to admit frankly that we can't beat that Zhou Ming.'

Tang Wan'er's eyes widened in surprise: 'So you've decided to support that Tang Ran to inherit the family?'

'I don't think it's a bad thing,' Tang Yi said. 'Of course I understand that they are outsiders after all, but it doesn't mean that as long as Tang Ran inherits the family, then in the future the Tang family will have to bear the Zhou surname. You have to know that the strength of the Tang family is not due to a particular person, but because it is surrounded the Tang Bank, and then the various Tang descendants control various industrial combinations. The so-called inheritance is at most the inheritance of the absolute shareholding of the Tang Bank, so it has a rallying power for the Tang family.'

In the end, Tang Yi said with a smile, 'If we say that whoever inherits the Tang family inherits the entire enterprise, we agree, but the other uncles and aunts don't agree! So I thought about it, and rather than fight to the death with that Zhou Ming, I might as well cooperate with him and develop my own industry by investing in his projects, because only by having a real industry of your own will you really have a say in the family.'

'So we followed Tang Lin and continued to invest in his projects?' Tang Wan'er asked.

Tang Lin shook his head regretfully and said, 'I feel that you should have contacted that Zhou Ming earlier. He is truly a man of great wisdom, and is by no means limited to the few projects you have seen.'

'According to cousin Tang Lin, he thinks that Zhou Ming will create a conglomerate that you can't even imagine.'

Tang Yi said to Tang Wan'er, making Tang Wan'er feel as if she were listening to a fairy tale.

'If you don't believe it, just wait and see the box office for this movie,' Tang Lin added at the end.