"So, Sister Lian, why did you come alone? Where are the other six girls?" Xu Qianghua asked Su Lian.
They were in the living room, sitting on the sofa, with Su Lian on Xu Qianghua's lap, her arms around his neck, and her long legs wrapped around his waist.
He placed his hands on her ass and started playing with them.
"They're tying up some loose ends and will be here in a few days," Su Lian said as she used one of her hands to play with his hair.
"But didn't I tell Grandma Su to let you all stay where you were before?" he asked.
"Yes, she said that, but when we learned we were going to sell everything, we felt it would be better to come over here and stay here. Why, don't you want me to be here?" she asked with a teasing smile.
"No way, I would never want that. You can stay here for as long as you want," he said, connecting his forehead with hers.
After a few minutes of chatting, he asked, "How are the Feng sisters?"
"They're doing well. They also miss you very much," Su Lian said.
The Feng sisters that Xu Qianghua was talking about are the other members of the Shadow Guards.
They are sextuplets who Grandma Su brought in after their parents couldn't handle them.
The parents were poor and spent a lot of money on their birth, but the mother died afterward, leaving the father alone with six babies to look after.
Unable to handle it, the father gave them to Grandma Su in the orphanage.
Grandma Su accepted them and raised them to the same standard as the others, but the difference is that all of them excelled in different professions to the point where they had learned everything by the age of 20.
Su Lian, who saw their potential, brought them together and made the Shadow Guards, intending to help Xu Qianghua, which all the Feng sisters happily accepted.
Long story short, they became the heads of the six branches in Shadow and have their duties to do, but they are still close to each other.
"Hmm," Xu Qianghua nodded a little absentmindedly.
As today is an important day because this is the day that the announcement regarding the batteries is published by the WayFlower Group.
The reason for the delay is the Xu Group situation. Although the company itself is small and not that interesting, it still involves illegal activities.
Due to the world not worrying about other countries starting wars, a lot of military and police power is focused on these illegal and terrorist activities, which has reduced a lot to the point where some people have forgotten what these are.
So now there is a case of something illegal happening near them, causing everyone to talk about it.
This prevented those who wanted to publish the news about the WayFlower Group from finding an opportunity.
Yes, it is not the WayFlower Group that wanted to do this but some other group that wanted to make money from the stock rise after the news got out.
Xu Qianghua thought it was people from WayFlower who did this, but after using some connections from Shadow, he found out it was a group of billionaires who wanted to profit from this.
When he heard this, he was surprised as he thought it was the WayFlower Group that wanted to do something shady with this later.
But from Shadow, they saw that most of the shareholders for the WayFlower Group are away on an island with low world contact, so they had no idea about this.
So when this happened, the WayFlower Group had no way to deal with it as soon as possible, as the actual controllers were not available.
The same thing happened this time: all the shareholders are on a small island with no internet or cell service for a month, and the closest internet or cell service is a day away.
While he was thinking about this, he saw a flashing light coming from his terminal, and he knew what that was for.
It was the notification for the news website used by those billionaires to publish the news about the WayFlower Group buying the batteries.
Xu Qianghua removed one of his hands from Su Lian's ass and held the terminal to see the whole article while he put his head on her shoulder for a better view.
The article was made by a con artist using the WayFlower Group's official account, which was hacked.
It said they have ordered the first batch of yet-to-be-tested batteries. They know this is risky but believe that Jiang Group's products are legit and something they are willing to pay a lot of money to use first.
As soon as the article went online, the comments on it were increasing at a fast speed. Most of the comments were about why they didn't announce this before, as they are usually loud about these kinds of deals so they can be ready for any implications.
But these comments did not get a response, which further fueled the excitement and confusion of the crowd.
Xu Qianghua, who knew that there was nothing else important, put his terminal away and patted Su Lian's butt to signal her to get up.
But she did not get up. Instead, she tightened her grip so he couldn't get out. Xu Qianghua just sighed, wrapped his arms around her waist, got up from the sofa, and went towards Liu Meiying's office.
Inside, Liu Meiying was busy looking at the stock market of both the WayFlower Group and the Jiang Group.
Before, when they only had close to 20 billion luminas, they had decided to put everything in there and get as much as possible. But after they got the cash from Shadow, they decided to put in about 45 billion. Any more would make it difficult to earn anything, as the value of each company itself is around 150 billion.