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Some restaurants operate like this: after ripping off people in one place, they move on to the next and continue ripping off others, until their kitchens are exposed for having problems once again.
He never imagined that one day he would be punished by Hell Girl!
To be fair, Hell Girl wasn't entirely heartless. She simply donated his personal savings, but left the company's accounts and funds untouched. This was a way of giving him a chance to make amends, not going too far.
From then on, when he did business, he knew he could never do anything bad again, because Hell Girl was watching him.
*……*……*
In Su Xiaoqiang's home in the residential complex.
The living room was air-conditioned, and Su Xiaoqiang, dressed in a casual dress, sat on the soft sofa, holding several resumes of graduating seniors and screening them.
Gu Ran rested his head on her smooth, rounded thighs, enjoying the lap pillow, his mind replaying the time he used his spiritual transformation technique to control people yesterday.
The art of spiritual transformation allows him to separate his spiritual energy from his body and materialize his spiritual energy into a 'spiritual body,' or, in the words of cultivation novels, to have his primordial spirit leave his body.
Moreover, after the spirit separates, it also possesses the characteristic of "traveling a thousand miles in a single thought" from cultivation novels, and can possess a person's body and do whatever it wants!
The boss has essentially worked for nothing these past few years, but Gu Ran didn't completely destroy him; instead, he gave him a chance to reform.
"Eee-yah..." Gu Ran stretched and yawned, then turned her face and rubbed against Su Xiaoqiang's stomach, tickling her!
Su Xiaoqiang has a flat stomach. She usually goes swimming and working out, so she has some abdominal muscles, but they are still soft.
"Stop it, stop it!" Su Xiaoqiang pushed his face with her hand in annoyance, pretending to be angry and glaring at him. "You also have a share in the company, so hurry up and help me choose people. I need an accountant to help keep an eye on the investment accounts, and I also need someone to manage the finances to help with tax filing."
"You can't tell these things from a resume; you still have to go for an interview. Graduates from top universities are all pretty much the same in terms of professional skills; the key is character." Gu Ran didn't really want to get involved in these things; interviews were quite annoying.
"Oh, by the way, there's a new energy innovation company in Fujian province that's being established. You should take a few hundred million yuan and go see them to see if you can get a stake." Gu Ran suddenly seemed to remember that CATL was about to be founded.
The future belongs to new energy vehicles, and new energy batteries are an important industry.
Su Xiaoqiang sighed: "So, our company still needs to hire an investment manager to help us manage our investment projects. I'm tired of having to negotiate with them every time."
"Then let's hire more people. Our company doesn't need many people."
Their company doesn't need many permanent employees because they are just an investment company, and Gu Ran makes all the decisions about what to invest in. They don't need employees to go out and find investment projects.
"Then let's go for the interviews this afternoon, finalize the hiring, and then leave everything to them!" Su Xiaoqiang put the resumes aside and stroked the stubble on Gu Ran's face with one hand.
"Have you decided where you want to take me during summer vacation?" she asked.
"How about we go to Europe this summer?" Gu Ran said.
"Europe...that sounds good too!" Su Xiaoqiang suddenly thought of something and laughed, "I heard that there are no speed limits on German highways, I really want to go there and race!"
Do you have an international driver's license?
"Hehehe, you underestimate me, I actually have an international driver's license!" Su Xiaoqiang took out her phone and showed Gu Ran a photo of her international driver's license, a souvenir she kept after passing her driving test.
"Impressive, impressive..." Gu Ran replied perfunctorily, and was immediately punished by Su Xiaoqiang by having her cheek pinched.
“Then we’ll need a good car in Germany!” Gu Ran pulled out his phone, thought for a moment, and decided to arrange it through the Lionheart Club.
Kassel College originated in Germany, so Germany can be considered its homeland. Many members of the Lionheart Society are also from Germany, and since they come from well-off families, borrowing a nice sports car shouldn't be a problem for them.
"By the way, you haven't visited Aunt Zhang since you came back... Won't you get scolded?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.
"Can't I sleep with you if I'm looking for her?" Gu Ran sat up and hugged Su Xiaoqiang. "I want to spend more time with you and don't want anyone else to bother me."
Su Xiaoqiang leaned against him, her cheek pressed against his sternum, her arms wrapped around his body. She wanted to stay with him forever.
Perhaps it's because they've been apart for too long, and as the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder; this is the perfect time for them to be deeply in love.
After the two leaned close together, they wanted to get intimate. Su Xiaoqiang's delicate nose rubbed against his neck, then she tilted her head slightly, pouted her little mouth, and kissed his lips.
Gu Ran then lowered his head and kissed her deeply.
His hand caressed the smooth skin of her shoulder, slowly sliding down her back, and slipping inside her clothes to feel the softness of her skin...
But the next second, there was a knock on the door.
The two paused, then slowly separated. Gu Ran glanced back at the doorway with some annoyance, and rolled her eyes at the people outside.
There were four people who came.
Just as Su Xiaoqiang was about to answer the door, Gu Ran covered her mouth and said, "Don't speak, let's pretend we're not home."
Su Xiaoqiang was confused, but then she heard voices coming from outside: "Gu Ran, I know you're home. The security camera at the door says you haven't left all day. Open the door now."
It was Zhang Qiong's voice.
This time, Su Xiaoqiang knew she couldn't hide anymore, so she had no choice but to push Gu Ran to open the door.
Gu Ran pursed her lips, walked to the door, and opened it.
As soon as the door opened, his expression changed to a warm smile as he greeted her: "Oh my, isn't this my beloved Mommy? What brings you here? Come here and give me a hug!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Ran opened his arms and gave Zhang Qiong a brief hug.
Zhang Qiong was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Just now, that kid was planning to pretend that no one was home, but now he was smiling and greeting her, like a dog with a face.
"Mommy, why are you unhappy? Didn't you love it when I acted like this when you were little?" Gu Ran pinched Zhang Qiong's cheek.
“You weren’t this shameless when you were little.” She pushed Gu Ran away and went into the house.
"Oh my, isn't this my aunt who never hugged me when I was little? Come here, let me hug you now!" With that, Gu Ran started to hug Zhang Wanjun, who was behind Zhang Qiong.
Zhang Wanjun, dressed in a black gothic dress, knew this kid was up to no good, but she couldn't beat him, so she could only stand there and let her nephew hug her.
"Come in, Auntie." Gu Ran welcomed Zhang Wanjun in, then turned and went inside, closing the security door behind her.
The remaining two men were locked outside.
Zhang Qiong and Zhang Wanjun exchanged a glance and chuckled. This kid was still as vengeful and petty as ever.
"Why don't you let them in?" Zhang Qiong asked.
"I don't want anyone I hate coming into the house and dirtying my fiancée's house," Gu Ran said matter-of-factly.
"Then come to my room." Seeing this, Zhang Qiong reopened the security door and glanced at the two men outside with dark expressions.
One is Zhang Qiong's father, who is also Gu Ran's maternal grandfather, Zhang Youlong, and the other is Zhang Youlong's bodyguard, Gong Xuan.
Zhang Youlong's face darkened. After the security door reopened, he saw Gu Ran and began to curse, "You brat, how dare you show such disrespect to your elders..."
Before he could finish speaking, Gu Ran's white eyes opened, instantly releasing their oppressive aura!
The sudden whirlwind pressure knocked Zhang Youlong and Gong Xuan, who were caught off guard, against the wall.
The immense aura and pressure left both of them utterly powerless to resist. Furthermore, Gu Ran showed no mercy, unleashing his chakra to its maximum value in an instant. The two slammed their backs against the wall, cracking the tiles in the stairwell.
Both of them suffered internal injuries from Gu Ran's attack, and blood flowed from the corners of their mouths.
"Get out!" Gu Ran switched his Byakugan to the Rinnegan and used the Rinnegan hypnosis technique to forcefully hypnotize him.
"You...you..." Zhang Youlong seemed to want to struggle, but Gu Ran's Samsara Eye was not so easy to break.
So he and Gong Xuan scrambled to the top of the stairs and began to tumble down the stairs.
Gu Ran's order was to get out, which meant they had to roll away.
"Alright, everyone who's not involved has left!" Gu Ran put one arm around Zhang Qiong's shoulder and the other around Zhang Wanjun's shoulder. "Do you two sisters have anything to tell me? If not, please leave. I have things to do this afternoon!"
Zhang Wanjun pushed Gu Ran's hand away, went into the room, and helped Su Xiaoqiang boil water to make tea.
She had actually tried to persuade Zhang Youlong not to come, but he wouldn't listen, seemingly unaware of just how annoying he was.
Within the family, there might be some people who would give him some face because of his seniority, but she knew that Gu Ran wouldn't give him any face.
"You need to go back to the Zhang family tomorrow. There are some things that require your attention." Zhang Qiong pulled her son's hand and led him to sit on the sofa in the living room. Then she glanced at Su Xiaoqiang and nodded slightly to her as a greeting.
Su Xiaoqiang smiled in response and then began to prepare the tea set and brew tea.
"Why go there? I'm not surnamed Zhang. Tomorrow I'm planning to travel the world with my little wife!"
Zhang Qiong knew he had a lot of grievances against the Zhang family, so she didn't force him. Instead, she brought up another matter: "I have some ideas about the pills that Erii needs to maintain her bloodline, but I need one ingredient."
"What medicine?" Gu Ran asked, intrigued.
“Dragon’s fetal blood, at least from a second-generation species or higher,” Zhang Qiong said. “Dragon’s fetal blood has strong activity. I don’t need to explain its uses; you know them all. With second-generation fetal blood, combined with other medicines, the resulting elixir might allow Erii to no longer rely on the Dead Servants’ fetal blood serum.”
Gu Ran was silent for a while and then said, "So, the Zhang family has the blood of a second-generation offspring?"
Zhang Wanjun had previously approached him and told him that there was a second-generation species in the Zhang family's ancestral land that had been dormant for a long time and was now awakening.
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"That's right. That second-generation dragon was actually raised by the Zhang family for generations. In ancient records, since the time of Yao and Shun, there have been official positions such as 'Dragon-raising Clan' and 'Dragon-taming Clan'. The methods of raising dragons have been passed down and recorded in aristocratic families."
Zhang Qiong explained to Gu Ran.
"Raising dragons, that's quite a grand scheme." Gu Ran smiled. "If I'm not mistaken, the Zhang family probably took advantage of the second generation's awakening and cocooning to extract its fetal blood, and then waited for it to emerge from the cocoon. The first thing a dragon does after emerging from its cocoon is to leave the cocoon intact, just in case. Once the dragon breeder sees the second generation emerge from the cocoon, he can kill the dragon and wait for its cocoon to be awakened again."
Zhang Qiong nodded: "You guessed right. The dragon-raising methods passed down by aristocratic families are mostly like this."
“The dragons never imagined that the humans they’ve always looked down on could raise them like livestock, slaughtering one whenever they want to eat them.” Gu Ran thought for a moment, then asked, “If that’s the case, why do I have to go to the Zhang family? The Dragon-Slaying Sword is with you now, and you’re so powerful, you don’t need me, do you?”
"What do you mean 'fresh and lively'? Do you think I'm seafood? How dare you talk like that!" Zhang Qiong gently tapped her eldest son's head, and Gu Ran pretended to dodge.
Zhang Qiong then explained to him, "You must know how precious dragon fetal blood is, right? That's why every sixty years, the family would argue for a long time about how to distribute it."
The time it takes for each dragon to awaken after metamorphosis is different, because dragons need nutrients and high-level dragon blood to awaken them after metamorphosis.
Based on the Zhang family's breeding experience, the dragons they have been raising have been awakened once every sixty years.
Gu Ran thought for a moment and seemed to understand something: "So, in previous years, they would argue over the division of the dragon's fetal blood, but this year they've turned into fighting?"
“That’s right,” Zhang Qiong nodded in reply.
Then he told Gu Ran about the current situation of the Zhang family.
Simply put, the Zhang family clan is divided into four branches, each with equal power, and no single branch is dominant.
Therefore, although families would argue and fight every year, the final result was always an equal distribution, and everyone would stop arguing.
But more than sixty years ago, the previous clan chief seemed to sense something, so he set a new distribution method, dividing the fetal blood into ten parts. Each family sent two people to compete in a round-robin tournament. Winning a round would earn one part of the fetal blood, and winning all rounds would earn eight parts.
In other words, if Gu Ran represents one of the families and defeats all six people from the other three families, he can keep all eight portions of fetal blood for himself.
"What about the other two portions?" Gu Ran asked.
“Of the ten portions of fetal blood, the clan leader gets one portion and the sword wielder gets one portion,” Zhang Qiong explained. “The clan leader and the sword wielder do not belong to any faction; they are considered independent entities.”
So, I already have one?