Chapter 54 - Before the Storm (1/2)

Chapter 54: Before the Storm

Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

In the evening, Li Sui decided to stay in the hospital. He got some bedsheets and blankets, then he directly slept in the CCU. That was not in line with hospital rules, but when they thought about how he would be separated from Lu Shang very soon, and that this might be the last chance for Li Sui to be by Lu Shang’s side, even the hospital head did not object. He asked the nurse to get Li Sui some hand warmers to avoid freezing.

Perhaps Li Sui was overly tired, when he laid down flat on the floor, he just couldn’t sleep. Li Sui turned over to look at Lu Shang, in between them were the distance of just one arm, Li Sui could sense the breathing under the oxygen mask, they were weak and slow. Lu Shang had electrodes on his chest, and there were various instruments hooked to his body. Just looking at them made Li Sui sad, he wanted to hold Lu Shang’s cold hands and slowly warm them up or cuddle him to sleep from his back, just like how he usually would. However, Lu Shang’s current state did not allow that.

The IV drip next to the bed made constant dripping sounds, Li Sui looked at him for a long time. After a while, he spoke softly, “Good night.”

The next day, before dawn, two people entered the CCU in secret. Following that, a stretcher bed was pushed out of the CCU discreetly. Almost immediately afterwards, another stretcher bed that looked exactly the same was pushed in and placed on the empty spot.

At 9 a.m. that day, the hospital formally issued a death certificate. Because of Lu Shang’s special status, a special coroner arrived at RuiGe. After a seemingly careful examination, the coroner issued a definitive report on the cause of death, which was heart failure.

As soon as the report came out, the news was like a runaway person. It spread all over the business sector in less than a whole day, there were great uproar amongst Tong Yan’s higher-ups and even the smaller employees. A newspaper even did a special report on it. After all, Lu Shang had done a lot of charity work in recent years. Although he was a low-key person, his name was not unfamiliar amongst those who worked in the sector.

For the entire time, Li Sui remained silent, he spoke nothing, no matter who the person might be. Li Sui’s mind was completely preoccupied by Lu Shang, he didn’t get much sleep for the past few days, plus he had a few hundred milliliters of blood drawn from him last night. His complexion was poor, and he didn’t even attempted to hide that.

Xiao Tang called Li Sui immediately once she heard about the news, she called to ask if it was true. After receiving an affirmative answer, she began crying. Li Sui could not say any comforting words and just silently hung up the phone.

In the whole company, the calmest person was most likely Liu XinTian, he looked like he had expected this from the very beginning. He was full of spirit, as if Tong Yan was already in his bag right now, he also had an extremely contemptuous look on him, especially towards Li Sui.

Li Sui had a lot on his mind, so he did not talk to Liu XinTian at all. Li Sui used handling Lu Shang’s company documents as a pretext to meet with lawyer Xe.

“I see, even I thought…” After listening to Li Sui, lawyer Xe was shocked and found the plan to be extremely bold.

“Tomorrow’s shareholders’ meeting, I need your help,” Li Sui said.

Xe WeiLan quickly closed the door, then he whispered nervously, “You have 40%, plus the 8% that were originally on our side, and the 6% that you fought for, you have a total of 54%. What are you going to do next? Will you just fight him head-on like this at tomorrow’s meeting?”

Li Sui grinded his chin on his hands that were clasped together, he asked, “You said before that, two-thirds of the total voting rights attending the meeting are needed to change the company’s constitution?”

Xe WeiLan was slightly surprised, “Yes, but we still lack a lot before we can get two-thirds.”

“Does that mean, if a shareholder does not attend the meeting, said person’s share will not be counted, is that so?” Li Sui asked.

Xe WeiLan hesitated for a second, then he gradually understood what Li Sui meant, he couldn’t suppress his shock, “Do you mean, you want to…”

Xe WeiLan was only planning to stabilize Tong Yan at the shareholders’ meeting, with the current resources they had, that goal should be barely attainable. He did not expect Li Sui to be so ambitious, he was not only aiming to win against Liu XinTian at the meeting, but to break Tong Yan out of its current binds altogether.

Changing the company constitutions and the nature of the company were always things that Lu Shang wanted to do. Lu Shang had tried doing so in the past but had never succeeded. If Li Sui was successful this time, the benefits would be more than obvious for both for the company and for the Lu family as a whole. Previously, because of Liu XinTian and the others’ interference, Lu Shang’s plan of reform had been repeatedly blocked. Lu Shang was still worrying about it up until he got seriously ill, showing that this was somewhat of an unfulfilled wish of his.

When Xe WeiLan looked over to Li Sui, the youngster across the desk from him was contemplating and concocting a plan. The sophisticated look on his face was somewhat similar to that of Lu Shang’s.

“There must be something wrong with Liu XinTian’s funds.” Li Sui interrupted Xe WeiLan’s thoughts.

“Why do you say that?”

“He is just an investor of Tong Yan like all everyone else. He has no other companies or jobs. He lost a huge sum of money last year because of Tong Xin, so where did he get all so much money to bribe the rest of the shareholders to his side?”

Xe WeiLan did more or less suspected about that, but guessing was useless, “But how are we going to get evidences on such short notice?”

Li Sui frowned and thought, “Let me think about it.”

Before leaving, Li Sui went to Lu Shang’s office. Most of the things inside were already cleared out. Uncle Yuen was packing Lu Shang’s personal belongings into boxes. Li Sui rummaged through the box randomly, there wasn’t many things inside, just some bottles of medicine, some work diaries, some old photos, books and letters, plus a few pots of green plants Lu Shang kept.

Although Lu Shang wasn’t always in the company, but he did hire people to help clean the office and water the plants, so all the plants were growing prosperously. Li Sui fiddled with the leaves for a bit and looked around the empty office. Suddenly, an intense emotion came into being. Lu Shang’s life was so simple, so much that his world seemed to have nothing beside Li Sui.

“Shall we go now?” Uncle Yuen picked up the box and asked.

Li Sui looked back at the office one final time and said, “Let’s go.”

When they walked out of the office, they ran into Secretary Yeung. Their eyes collided, and the latter quickly avoided Li Sui. Li Sui stagnated and asked Uncle Yuen to go downstairs first. Li Sui then followed after her.

Just after a turn, Secretary Yeung stopped and asked, “What do you want?”

“I want to help you,” Li Sui said.

“Help me?” Secretary Yeung seemed to have heard something funny. She turned back around but was stopped by Li Sui.

“I know you need money.” Li Sui lowered his head to look at her, he was a lot taller than her, when he stretched out his arms, there were basically no room for her to dodge.

Secretary Yeung raised her head up and gave up hiding the wound at the corner of her mouth.

“Why do you want to help me?” she asked coldly.

Li Sui smiled softly, “For the sake of the coffee that you once made for me.”

“I haven’t fallen to the point that I need your help.”

“Fallen?” Li Sui disagreed with her statement. “You are Liu XinTian’s lover, I am Lu Shang’s lover. There shouldn’t be any difference in status between you and me, and there’s absolutely no reason for you to despise me. Look at yourself now, look at the injury on your face, Liu XinTian did that, right? Now, look at me, I am one of the biggest shareholders in Mu Sheng. Which side is more dependable? Isn’t that obvious?”

Secretary Yeung flinched slightly.

Li Sui looked at her and continued, “I’m trying to get on your good side, it is me that’s asking. I’m asking for your help. It’s just one simple question, do you want the money or not?”

Secretary Yeung stood still for a while. She was discouraged and she gave in, “What do you want me to do?”

In his heart, Li Sui secretly relaxed, he looked around and whispered to her, “Where did Liu XinTian’s money come from? I think you should know better than I do what I’m referring at. I need proof of it.”

After Li Sui got in the car, Uncle Yuen glanced at the rearview mirror and asked, “Are we going back to the Lu family house? Somebody’s following us.”

Li Sui was so tired that he felt dizzy, and he just blurted out going to the hospital. Then he realized, now that Lu Shang was “deceased”, if he ran to the hospital and stayed there all night, it would just arouse unnecessary suspicion and increase the risk of discovery.

Tomorrow will be the shareholders’ meeting. With Tong Yan on the line, Liu XinTian would naturally spend all his effort in monitoring Li Sui, so as to avoid any unexpected incidents in the upcoming meeting.

Li Sui thought about it and said, “Find a hotel, the busier the area is, the better.”

Uncle Yuen brought him to the city center, below the hotel was a night market, it was as bustling as ever even after midnight. Li Sui went inside the hotel, he booked a room, then he took a shower and a nap. After it was quite late in the night, he looked at the clock and went out in disguise.

Fortunately, he had not forgotten the anti-tracking skills he learned in the training camp. Li Sui slipped out of the back door and mixed into the crowd. Then he quickly got onto an old pickup truck and drove to the suburbs, he was still not rest assured.

The place they would be picking up Lu Shang had long been arranged. It would happen in a small airport in the suburbs, the private jet had already landed there by the time Li Sui arrived. Li Sui sat in the car and waited for a while, then he saw two Iveco vans driving into the airport one after another. A stretcher bed was pushed out from the back of one of the vans. At the same time, several people got out of the other vans, they helped pull the stretcher bed towards the jet.

A short distance away, Li Sui was still inside the car, he could see a glimpse of Lu Shang lying on the bed amongst the people, and his heart tightened.

Watching people push the bed farther and farther away from him, Li Sui had been suppressing his worries of the entire day and couldn’t stop himself from rushing out of the car. He tried stopping himself again, but it was useless, he opened the door and ran over.

Leung ZiRui who was wearing a mask, was directing everyone seriously. When he saw Li Sui appear out of nowhere, he was so stunned that he had forgotten to stop him.

Li Sui walked past him directly, he pushed through the rest of the people and held Lu Shang’s hand that was on the stretcher bed.

“You must live… until I come to find you…” Li Sui said earnestly, leaning down to Lu Shang’s closed eyes, he printed a light kiss on his eyelid, “…I love you.”