The Wedding of the Demon King

"Alright, the transaction is complete, Mr. An, the acquisition of Lanhai Company by you is officially completed. Now everything belongs to you," said the former chairman of Lanhai Company, pushing a document across the long conference table.

Inside the spacious and cold conference room, the air was constantly refreshed by the new ventilation system, but the lingering smell of tobacco still found its way into their noses.

Sitting confidently at the other end of the conference table, a man rested his large cigar on the table. The cigar's tip was burning, curling the colorful lizard tail wrapped inside.

"Everything?" An Kun blew out a smoke ring and asked, "Including the largest ocean under Lanhai Company's control and... the Chief Researcher in the Independent Research Institute?"

"Yes," the former chairman bowed humbly, understanding that this Mr. An had recently spent a large sum of money to acquire their financially distressed ocean company.

"Let her come and meet her new boss," An Kun pressed the lizard tail of his cigar onto the table, extinguishing the faint glow.

"But she may not be very good at communicating with people. It would be bad if she offended you," the former chairman flattered.

"Besides her intriguing mind, it seems her beauty is also well-known. Don't worry, I have a high tolerance for beautiful women," An Kun leaned back and lit a fresh cigar, chuckling softly.

Ji Qingzhuo came out of the laboratory, just taking off her glasses and putting them in the pocket next to her lab coat.

She had just finished testing the samples collected from the Night Abyss Ocean, but she felt that there were many impurities in the samples. So, she planned to personally collect them during the weekend.

As the current head of the Independent Research Center, she received the news of the company's change in ownership as soon as it happened.

The acquisition of Lanhai Company was not surprising, even though it owned the purest ocean, Night Abyss Ocean, in this remote galaxy. However, the lack of development and exploitation of resources from the Night Abyss Ocean meant the company was not generating any income, and bankruptcy was inevitable.

Of course, before bankruptcy, it could be sold at a good price because of their renowned Chief Researcher.

Ji Qingzhuo took the documents of the company's acquisition and accepted them without showing any expression on her face.

This kind of demeanor always made others perceive her as cold and unapproachable, but in reality, she simply wasn't very good at communicating with people.

She nodded and walked towards the conference room.

The elevator ascended straight up one hundred floors, and Ji Qingzhuo reached into the large pocket of her lab coat, feeling the lemon-flavored candy, her glasses she had just put in, and various other oddities.

Of course, the most important things in her pocket were two pieces of crumpled paper.

She flattened the creased papers and entered the conference room located on the top floor of the company.

An Kun had been waiting there, tapping his expensive leather shoes on the floor, surrounded by swirling smoke. He looked up as she entered.

His appearance was not bad, but his domineering aura made people hesitate to approach him.

Ji Qingzhuo sat on the other side of the conference table, keeping a distance from him. She avoided eye contact with the stranger.

She was not accustomed to interacting with strangers, so she sat quietly, not saying a word, and took her glasses out of her pocket.

Her vision was actually quite good, but she couldn't tolerate bright colors for long periods of time, so she bought these glasses to dull some of the glaring light.

Now An Kun's gaze made her feel uncomfortable, so she put on her glasses to protect herself.

"Facing the future new boss, Miss Ji, are you waiting for me to initiate a conversation?" An Kun leaned over since Ji Qingzhuo had purposely chosen a seat far away from him. He rested his elbow on the table, reducing the distance between them.

He said this as if Jiqingzhuo came specifically to please him.

However, Jiqingzhuo ignored the wit and teasing in Ankun's words - she didn't quite understand the circumlocution between adults.

"Mr. An, why did you call me here?" Jiqingzhuo asked directly. She wanted to leave here quickly.

"Now I'm your chairman, Mr. An is not quite appropriate, is it?" Ankun's gaze wandered on Jiqingzhuo's face. "Don't worry, I will be better than the previous boss. As long as I am happy, you will have a bigger and more formal research institute."

She did have a very beautiful face, but there was no expression on her face. People who didn't know her thought she was cold, and those who had been with her for a long time knew that she was just very naive.

"Appropriate," Jiqingzhuo said.

She took out two pieces of paper from her pocket, and two crumpled papers appeared on the smooth conference table.

Ankun even straightened the tail of the lizard in his cigar, because the content of these two papers was...

One paper was a resignation letter to Lanhai Company, with today's date.

The other paper was a transaction certificate for Jiqingzhuo's purchase of Yelanhai in her own name. Jiqingzhuo bought it from her own company, with yesterday's date.

Now, Jiqingzhuo resigned from Yelanhai, and Ankun didn't leave anything he wanted.

"What do you mean by this?" Ankun grabbed the paper on the table, unable to believe it.

"The meaning on the paper," Jiqingzhuo told the truth.

"Where did you get the money?" Ankun tried to find loopholes in Jiqingzhuo's purchase transaction certificate for Yelanhai, but the document was very regular, and the price Jiqingzhuo offered was the current market price.

"Bank loan." Jiqingzhuo's gaze met Ankun's for a moment, and she felt a little uncomfortable. She lowered her head and rubbed her eyes.

"With your current credit, can you get so much cash?" Ankun knew that the bank wasn't a charity.

"The news of Mr. An's acquisition of Lanhai Company was released long ago." Jiqingzhuo spoke straightforwardly, with reasons and evidence, and she was justified and confident. "I am about to become Mr. An's chief researcher. The bank thinks I have prospects and can lend such a large amount of cash."

"You have resigned now," Ankun narrowed his eyes and said.

"So what?" Jiqingzhuo stood up, "When I applied for the loan, I was still an employee of Lanhai Company."

"Do you know the consequences of bankruptcy?" Ankun stood up abruptly, putting his hands on the conference table, he was a little angry.

"After you go bankrupt, your citizenship will be revoked, you will lose your dignified life, and you will be exiled to the lowest trading market, where you will be bought and treated as a slave." Ankun extinguished his cigar, "I can come and buy you later."

Of course, Jiqingzhuo knew the consequences after bankruptcy, and she didn't have the ability to manage it herself. If she didn't choose to exploit the resources of Yelanhai, she would soon not be able to repay the high loan from the bank.

But when she made this decision, she didn't think so much. She just felt that the ocean should not be treated like this. As a researcher, she knew that it would be difficult to find such a primitive ocean throughout the galaxy.

Staking her entire worth was a bit willful, but Jiqingzhuo didn't care.

"Then let's talk about it when the time comes." Jiqingzhuo turned her head, took off her glasses, and put them back in her pocket.

"Do you think you can profit from this sea?" Ankun gritted his teeth and said.

Ankun Group monopolizes 80% of the trading channels here. Even if Jiqingzhuo wants to make money, she may not find a way out.

"Okay." Jiqingzhuo nodded.

"Okay, what's so good about being okay?" An Kun was completely angered by her indifferent attitude.

"Okay, means 'I understand'," Ji Qingzhu explained.

"Hold onto your piece of the sea and wait for bankruptcy," Ji Qingzhu was kicked out of the conference room by An Kun.

Just as she left the meeting room, she received a call from the bank manager.

"Miss Ji, what's wrong with you? If it weren't for me seeing that An Kun Group was going to acquire Lanhai Company, you would have been promoted and had a bright future. I wouldn't have approved a huge loan for you. Now you're resigning? Are you joking with me? Do you know the consequences of bankruptcy?" The bank manager was no longer elegant and composed, she was spitting with anger on the other end of the phone.

"Um..." Faced with the questioning, Ji Qingzhu simply responded.

"Your savings won't be able to repay the loan in a few months. What are you planning to do then?" the manager asked.

"I haven't thought about it," Ji Qingzhu replied shortly, holding her phone as she sat in the driver's seat of her car.

"You will go bankrupt, do you know that? When you can't repay the loan, don't come to me for an extension!" the manager hung up the phone angrily.

Ji Qingzhu responded with another "Um" as she looked at the hung-up phone.

It was only when the busy tone sounded that she put down her phone and looked ahead.

Outside the Lanhai Company building, An Kun's luxury car, spewing exhaust fumes, arrogantly drove away.

New messages kept popping up on her phone, but since people knew she was not good at socializing, they mostly contacted her through phone messages.

Ji Qingzhu didn't have time to read them. Instead, she took out the seawater sample she had been studying from her pocket.

In the small glass test tube, the water without the ocean was clear, with calcium and salt adhering to the edges of the glass tube, making it appear slightly cloudy.

Perhaps by accident, a small jellyfish had entered the test tube of seawater, only half the size of a fingernail, swaying lazily in the water.

No one knew how it had survived, but Ji Qingzhu decided to release it.

She stepped on the gas pedal and headed towards the nearby Night Barrier Sea.

At this moment, the sea was calm, with only the gentle swaying of chains like snakes at the deep sea floor, imprisoning a long dragon tail.

Unknown creatures slept at the bottom of the sea, and the researchers who were about to arrive here had no idea.