Chapter 698 — Also Working on a Plan

"Give up? You really want to give up? But I don't want to give up... I have to avenge the Wang family!" Huang Shu said in anguish. "Are you truly decided? You suddenly give up—what am I supposed to do?"

"Your best course is naturally to give up as well!" Dong Jun said. "If even the Right Elder is helpless this time and can do nothing about Yang Ce, then how are we any match for Yang Juehuan?"

"But..." Huang Shu still wanted to say something.

"No more buts... Think of your sister, Huang Yan. I'll have her speak with you as soon as possible and let her persuade you!" Dong Jun saw that Huang Shu was wavering, unable to make a decision, and so he played his final trump card—having Huang Yan persuade Huang Shu!

Family or master—it all came down to how Huang Shu would decide! But Dong Jun thought, surely he could not bear to watch Huang Yan lose her happiness? Huang Yan would stop him at all costs, even threaten him with her own death. When that time came, how would Huang Shu choose?

Dong Jun thought that if Alice truly had something going on with Yan, and if Alice threatened him with death, then he himself would certainly give up! Compared with hatred, a sister's happiness mattered more! At this moment of life and death, what Dong Jun considered was still Alice's future—enough to show how deeply Dong Jun loved Alice.

And Dong Jun could sense from Huang Shu that same kind of elder brother's love for a younger sister—and Huang Yan was precisely Huang Shu's weak spot!

This move, Dong Jun had played right. By his reckoning, it was already more than half successful; what remained was to get in touch with Huang Yan as soon as possible.

"This... let me be quiet for a while... let me be alone for a while..." Huang Shu felt restless and agitated. He waved a hand and steered his wheelchair back into his room.

If Huang Shu had remained as calm as before, Dong Jun would truly have been at a loss. But Huang Shu's present behavior showed precisely that the things he held fast to had already begun to shift...

Wang Yanqiu returned to the villa in the Huashang residential compound. On her side as well, she lost no time in recounting to the other women in the household what had happened at Fang Tian's home, asking them to help think of a way together.

As for the words Dong Jun had spoken afterward—though Wang Yanqiu had seemed not to care at the time, she had in fact taken them all to heart. Huang Shu was an obstacle not only for Dong Jun but also for Yang Juehuan. Yet Wang Yanqiu had not voiced her stance then; she had planned to think of a way afterward, to see how Huang Shu might be made to come over to her side...

Wang Yanqiu had to admit that Huang Shu did possess a certain cunning—scheme or open stratagem, it made no difference. More than once he had nearly brought harm to Yang Cenbin, and more than once he had succeeded in setting Yang Juehuan's own house on fire. In all these things Huang Shu's contribution could not go unacknowledged!

Though no real consequences had resulted, this man still could not be underestimated! If there was truly no other way and Dong Jun could not bring himself to do it, then it would fall to Wang Yanqiu to dispose of him.

"Huang Shu? I know this man... He was a loyal lackey in Wang Lin's household. No wonder he's after Yang Ce—so it was all for the sake of the Wang family..." Chen Shutang was no stranger to Huang Shu.

"Yes, I know this man too. I met him back then as well."

Xiao Qing nodded as well and said, "My impression of this man isn't very good either..."

"Does this man have any weakness? He's single-mindedly set on avenging the Wang family. How can we persuade him to stop this course of action?" Wang Yanqiu asked.

"Stop this course of action... If this man is as loyal as you say, then I'm afraid only someone from the Wang family speaking to him in person could make him give up. Or else, if his actions were to bring harm to his family and friends—otherwise it would be very hard to make him stop..." Sun Jie's judgment of people was very accurate; she pinpointed the defining traits of Huang Shu's character in a single stroke.

"Someone from the Wang family... I do know one person from the Wang family... though she's actually Wang Pu's illegitimate daughter. I don't know whether that would work?" Hearing Sun Jie's words, Chen Shutang suddenly remembered her classmate Wang Xue. Wasn't she Wang Pu's illegitimate daughter, and Wang Lin's younger sister?

"Wang Xue... Of course, how could we have forgotten her!" Lin Yanhe remembered Wang Xue as well.

"Wang Xue? How are your relations with her? Could she help us persuade Huang Shu?" Sun Jie was slightly taken aback, then asked eagerly. She had never expected that a casual remark would actually prove effective.

"She's Tian Yan's girlfriend, so our relationship should count as fairly good?" Chen Shutang said. "About this matter, I think we should first talk to Tian Yan? Sister Sun Jie, you're closer to Tian Yan—how about you tell him?"

"So she's that boy's girlfriend!" Sun Jie said in sudden understanding, and breathed a sigh of relief as well. "Then it's simple! Tian Yan will certainly have no problem with it. Now it just depends on whether he can persuade his girlfriend."

With that, Sun Jie picked up the phone and dialed Tian Yan's number.

Tian Yan was at that moment in Donghai City handling the Sun family's affairs. After several months of study and tempering, he was basically capable of filling this role—except that the daily pressure was enormous!

Tian Yan did not quite understand why his father had fought tooth and nail to obtain this position, even to the point of betraying the Sun family and usurping it. The position was not bad—managing a vast company, one word carrying weight, commanding the winds and clouds—but it was also exhausting!

But since Yang Ce and Sun Jie trusted him and had placed him in this position, then no matter how bitter or tiring it was, Tian Yan was determined to produce results. This was not merely a matter of gratitude for being recognized; it was also his atonement for the errors his father had once committed!

He had already decided that for the rest of his life he would follow Yang Ce and the Sun family, and would never again do anything as heartless and treacherous as his father had done!

"Knock, knock, knock..." The office door was pushed open directly. The only one who would knock and then come straight in was Tian Yan's personal assistant, Wang Xue.

Tian Yan had not hired any pretty young secretary or the like—not because he was so devoted to Wang Xue, but because in his view, Yang Ce and Sun Jie had placed him in this position out of trust, to come and build a career, not to come and indulge in food, drink, and pleasure. If he hired a pretty secretary and Yang Shuyu got wind of it, what would Yang Ce think?

So to prevent such a thing from happening, Tian Yan had simply made Wang Xue his personal assistant. With his girlfriend Wang Xue before his eyes, Tian Yan no longer entertained thoughts of anything else.

"Donghua, your phone—it's Miss Sun Jie calling." Wang Xue quickly brought the phone to Tian Yan.

These days there were simply too many calls seeking Tian Yan every day, so Tian Yan had no choice but to have Wang Xue hold the phone for him and handle unfamiliar numbers first on his behalf. Otherwise, Tian Yan would not have been able to keep up with answering calls every day.