Welcome home!
Hearing these four words, Fang Junxue not only felt no sense of closeness, but was even disgusted.
At this moment, the person in front of her was her own brother – Fang Qianhan.
"Yes! I'm back." Fang Junxue looked at everyone expressionlessly. "So, are you ready?"
She didn't waste time with pleasantries and got straight to the point. Excessive pretense was meaningless.
"Jun..."
"Please use a different address, Young Master Fang."
Before Fang Qianhan could speak, Fang Junxue interrupted him.
The name Junxue was not something Fang Qianhan had the right to call her. Not just him, but everyone in the Fang family, except for one elder, had no such right.
"You..."
Fang Junxue's sharp reprimand immediately made Fang Qianhan's face turn ugly.
"Junxue, is there any room for negotiation?"
At this moment, an elder in his early seventies emerged from the crowd.
The elder's hair was white, and his face bore the marks of time. As his weathered eyes met Fang Junxue's, a hint of affection appeared.
"Grandpa Kong, are you also trying to persuade Junxue?"
Looking at the elder, Fang Junxue's tone softened from its icy coldness.
This elder was the only one in the Fang family who had the right to call her "Junxue."
Although not her blood relative.
Yet, this elder was the person she respected most since childhood. He was also the one who doted on her the most.
But now, the Fang family had brought out this elder. Upon realizing this, Fang Junxue's gaze shifted from icy to furious as she looked at the rest of the Fang family.
"Alas!" The elder sighed, his aged hands clasped behind his back, a sense of desolation radiating from him. He seemed to have aged several years in that instant.
For him, stepping forward to persuade Fang Junxue was also a difficult choice.
"Fang girl, it's my fault." The elder looked at Fang Junxue, and in his eyes, the image of a little girl appeared. He murmured, "Back then, Grandpa couldn't protect you. Grandpa was useless."
As he finished speaking, a frost flickered in the elder's eyes.
At this moment, he no longer addressed Fang Junxue as "Junxue girl" but as "Fang girl."
In the elder's opinion, the moment he was asked to step forward and persuade Fang Junxue, he had lost that privilege.
Fang Junxue trembled subtly upon hearing this. Her hands clenched tightly.
It seemed her emotions were highly unstable.
"Shameless!"
Bai Qiushui, standing nearby, cursed the Fang family's despicable actions in his heart.
However, he had to admit that the Fang family's approach had indeed put Fang Junxue in a difficult position.
Thus, the heavy atmosphere persisted for a minute.
"Hoo!"
Fang Junxue took a deep breath, and her tensed hands relaxed. She then looked at the Fang family members, her eyes devoid of any emotion.
"For Grandpa Kong's sake, I will only take back all shares of Fang Bai Technology and Xue Meiren." Fang Junxue said indifferently to everyone, "From now on, I have nothing to do with the Fang family."
Fang Bai Technology and Xue Meiren!
Hearing these two names, the Fang family members gasped. No one understood better than they did what these two companies meant to the Fang family.
It could be said that the value of these two companies was equivalent to sixty percent of the Fang family's total assets.
"Impossible!"
Fang Qianhan immediately rejected Fang Junxue's statement. He said, "You want to take back the shares of Xue Meiren, and I have no objection. After all, you built it." Then he changed his tone and said coldly, "But Fang Bai Technology, on what grounds?"
Since the pretense had been dropped, Fang Qianhan no longer concealed his true intentions.
"On what grounds? Heh!" Hearing this, Fang Junxue actually laughed. But there was no warmth in her smile.
"Because it's the business left by my mother." Fang Junxue looked at Fang Qianhan and sneered, "You surely know how our mother died. Since you did nothing, you have no right to the inheritance she left behind."
Fang Bai Technology was the business left by Fang Junxue's mother?
Upon hearing Fang Junxue's words, Fang Qianhan was also taken aback. He hadn't expected Fang Junxue to know about those past events.
"What, lost for words?" Fang Junxue looked at the silent Fang Qianhan.
A moment later, Fang Qianhan conceded, "Fine! It will be as you say!"
Indeed, he had no grounds.
Seeing this, the others dared not say anything more. Although Fang Junxue's demands would severely weaken the Fang family, it wasn't enough to make them unable to cope.
They could still live comfortably in the future.
"If that's the case, then my dealings with the Fang family end here. And now..." Fang Junxue took a step forward, and a chilling aura spread around her. She scanned everyone and said, "Now, let's talk about personal grievances."
Personal grievances?
Hearing this, most of the Fang family members didn't react. They didn't understand the meaning behind her words.
What did it mean?
However, a small number of people seemed to understand.
And Fang Qianhan was among them.
Fang Junxue walked up to him and looked him in the eye, saying, "You know what I'm talking about, don't you?"
"I..."
Faced with Fang Junxue's icy gaze, he flinched.
"Tell me, who orchestrated that car accident back then?" Fang Junxue pressed forward, her aura feeling almost tangible, chilling to the bone. "And, who arranged for the doctor who operated on me in the Black Eagle Empire?"
Facing Fang Junxue's relentless advance, Fang Qianhan slowly began to retreat. The expression on his face shifted from terror to cowardice.
"It... it wasn't me." Fang Qianhan stammered, backing away, still unable to meet Fang Junxue's eyes.
"I know it wasn't you. You didn't have the ability, nor the guts."
At this moment, Fang Junxue's domineering presence was fully displayed. In a trance, Fang Qianhan seemed to see his youthful days.
The era that Fang Junxue used to command.
"Thud!"
Carelessly, Fang Qianhan stumbled and fell to the ground. Yet, the terror on his face did not diminish in the slightest.
Fang Junxue stood over him, looking down at him, and said coldly, "Tell me, who?"
This matter was a lifelong shadow for her. If she couldn't eradicate it, her heart would never be at peace. Therefore, she was determined to unmask the mastermind, no matter what.
And Fang Qianhan clearly knew something.
"Your Highness, I can make him speak!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly echoed in Fang Junxue's mind.
It was Cessa.
"No need! If he still refuses to speak in the end, then you can act."
Cessa's sudden transmission caught Fang Junxue by surprise for a moment. But she reacted immediately.
After all, this was not her first time dealing with such matters.
"As you command!"
Afterward, Cessa's voice disappeared.
"I..."
Just as Fang Qianhan was about to say something, an aged voice suddenly echoed from within the hall.
"Fang Junxue, you are too presumptuous!"