Chapter 432: Don’t Blame This Young Miss For Being Impolite

Thinking back to the virtual meeting where Gu Le calmly announced the revocation of her seat on the board of directors of Wanling Biopharmaceutics, followed immediately by exiting the Virtual World—

Sima Yurao gritted her teeth in anger.

"Bastard!"

"So what if she's an only daughter?"

"Where on earth did I offend you?"

Sima Yurao slammed her hand hard against the table.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Sima Yurao was the daughter of the Sima Family head, and her status was incomparably noble.

But only she herself knew just how massive the gap between her and Gu Le truly was.

Her mother was merely a tier-six god from the Qin Family and couldn't reach the core circle of the Five Great Families.

As for her father, although he was the current head of the Sima Family, he had an extremely large number of offspring.

Except for the very few who truly displayed top-tier talent and capability, most of the other offspring were left to fend for themselves.

For Sima Yurao to reach where she was today, she relied much more on her own abilities and opportunities.

But Gu Le was different; both of her parents were High-tier Gods, and they only had one daughter.

On the surface, both of their identities were direct descendants of the Five Great Families.

But the resources and foundation they truly grasped were completely on different levels.

The gap between them was like that between clouds and mud.

Sima Yurao took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the raging fire in her heart.

Then she opened Feixun and dialed a video call.

Soon, the projection of a middle-aged man wearing a dark black suit appeared on the room's wall.

"Little sister, I just heard about it."

The man's tone was calm.

This person was none other than Sima Yurao's biological older brother—Sima Zhao.

He had graduated from Primordial Academy for over three hundred years and was similarly a Peerless Prodigy.

Nowadays, he was also one of the important candidates for the next head of the Sima Family.

"Brother."

Seeing Sima Zhao appear, Sima Yurao finally couldn't help saying:

"In order to enter the board of directors of Wanling Biopharmaceutics, I spent nearly a hundred years!"

"Queuing up, greasing palms, and continuously accumulating connections."

"That was how I finally got this position."

"Now, with a single sentence from Gu Le, I've been kicked straight out of the board of directors."

"I won't accept this!"

The more Sima Yurao spoke, the more furious she became.

Losing her board seat meant far more to her than just losing a share of benefits.

Instead, it meant that her Divine Kingdom planning, resource investment, and development route for the next century might all be tremendously affected.

This loss was already so massive that she could not accept it.

Sima Zhao rubbed the space between his eyebrows.

"Little sister, how on earth did you provoke her?"

Hearing this, Sima Yurao instantly grew anxious.

"No, brother!"

"Today is the first time I've ever seen her."

"In the past, I had only heard others mention her; I don't know this person at all."

"I've already explained it to everyone, but not a single person believes me."

"They seem to have concluded that it was me who did something wrong!"

Sima Yurao's face was full of bewilderment.

Until now, she still didn't know how she had provoked Gu Le.

Looking at the expression on his own younger sister's face, Sima Zhao's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"Since you don't know Gu Le."

"That means what you offended wasn't her personally, but the people around her."

"Her parents are both big figures standing at the very top of the Federation. With our status, it's simply impossible to come into contact with them on ordinary days."

"So… it can only be her friends or those close to her."

"Think carefully, have you provoked anyone recently?"

Sima Zhao asked in a deep voice.

"Brother, I've always been very careful when doing things."

Sima Yurao hurriedly explained.

"Even if I used the convenience of my position to acquire some company resources, it was entirely within the scope permitted by the rules."

"The benefits that should be distributed were never lacking. Not a single person who needed to be greased was missed."

"As for the people on the Gu Family side, I have never offended them either."

"And today at the board meeting, there were even a few Gu Family direct descendants speaking up for me."

Speaking to this point, Sima Yurao suddenly stopped, freezing in place as if a flash of inspiration swept across her mind.

"What is it? Did you think of something?"

Sima Zhao instantly noticed her change.

"That…"

Sima Yurao hesitated for a moment.

"I remember now, Gu Le's husband, Yang Fan."

"It seems he has some grievances with Ma Huainan."

Hearing these words, Sima Zhao's gaze instantly turned cold.

"In other words… the person who truly caused the trouble is Ma Huainan?"

"However…"

Sima Yurao frowned.

"This isn't even a big deal."

"And I already took the initiative to apologize to the other party during the previous gathering."

"At that time, the other party didn't display any abnormalities either."

"If it were just because of this matter, Gu Le wouldn't make such a huge fuss. This is unreasonable."

On the other end of the video, Sima Zhao fell into silence.

After a moment, he slowly spoke:

"This Ma Huainan… his talent is indeed pretty good."

"But in terms of Heart-Nature, he is always lacking somewhat."

"I've reminded you long ago to be more on guard against this person."

"Go, immediately arrange for the Intelligent Life to investigate what he has been doing recently, especially regarding the internal channels of the Sima Family."

"I want to know the whole story."

"Once the matter is investigated clearly, I'll find a way to help you act as this middleman."

Sima Zhao didn't say anything more and directly closed the video communication.

…

Inside the room.

Sima Yurao was silent for a moment.

Then she slowly turned her head, looking towards the direction of the room door, her gaze gradually turning icy.

"Zero," she said softly.

"Master, what are your instructions?"

The Mechanical voice of the Intelligent Life rang out inside the room.

"Immediately investigate what Ma Huainan has done recently, with a focus on the internal channels of the Sima Family."

"Additionally…"

"Find a professional background check company to help me investigate three people."

"Yang Fan, Gu Le, Lu Wan."

"Remember, you must not check too deeply; just the recent basic information."

Sima Yurao said.

"Yes, Master," the Intelligent Life responded.

Sima Yurao leaned against her chair, quietly looking at the starry sky outside the window.

After a long while, she murmured in a low voice:

"Ma Huainan… if you really did something foolish to block my Dao path—"

"—then don't blame this Young Miss for being impolite."

…

In the real world, half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period of time, the Zombie Kingdom in Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom finally completed a new round of troop replenishment.

Not only that, because of Yang Fan's resource inclination during this period…

A large number of alien corpses were continuously purchased back through the Frontline shops, and then all thrown into the life essence conversion pool.

After half a month of accumulation, the corpse Qi concentration in the Eternal Corpse Mine had once again increased by about twenty percent.

Now in that world of death, the dense corpse Qi even formed black mist visible to the naked eye.

A massive number of zombies continuously evolved within it, and the number of Zombie Generals was increasing more and more.

Even quite a few Zombie Kings successfully achieved a Breakthrough to the White Zombie level.

However, what made Yang Fan slightly regretful was that the Breakthroughs of high-tier believers walking the Corpse Cultivator path were more difficult than imagined.

Until now, there still wasn't a single White Zombie believer who had broken through to a higher level.

In the afternoon, Yang Fan was inside his room, listening to Yang Da's report.

"Master, the number of corpse pills currently stored in the Zombie Kingdom has reached…"

"In addition, the procurement progress of one-time war supplies has already reached forty percent."

"I have already let Yang Eleven organize the troops and prepare for battle."

"On the Dark Web auction…"

Right at this moment,

"Dong, dong, dong."

The room door was suddenly knocked on.