Chapter 100

Chapter 100

As one of the seven major families of the Federation, the Su family losing Qiao Yuexun should have been impossible. But the Su family was in turmoil back then, torn apart by fierce internal strife, and Qiao Yuexun became a casualty of it all.

Over the years, Qiao Yuexun's family never stopped searching for him. His alpha father passed away five years ago, and his greatest regret before dying was never finding his lost omega son.

In recent years, Su Lan had been carrying out his father's last wish, searching for his younger brother.

Thanks to Wen Yanxu acting as the go-between, the Su family finally acknowledged Qiao Yuexun as their own.

As the key figure who made this possible, Wen Yanxu naturally received a weighty and heartfelt expression of gratitude from the Su family.

Qiao Yuexun and the True Love System were in turn rewarded with World Essence.

Next, following the "humiliation" plot point in the script, Qiao Yuexun needed to be targeted by Luo Hanyu at a public event, after which the Su family would step in to fiercely defend him, completing the highlight moment of his identity reversal.

After Luo Hanyu's hopes of marrying into the Wen family through an alliance with Wen Yanxu were dashed, he didn't marry right after graduation. Instead, he entered the entertainment industry, using the Luo family's resources to do reasonably well. But compared to the rapidly rising Qiao Yuexun, he'd fallen behind in both public goodwill and fan base.

At a banquet, Luo Hanyu publicly gave Qiao Yuexun a hard time. Qiao Yuexun didn't argue on the spot, only putting on a look of quiet hurt and forbearance.

Upon hearing those words, Su Lan's expression darkened instantly. He walked over to Qiao Yuexun's side, shot Luo Hanyu a cold look, and said publicly, "Luo Hanyu, out of respect for the Luo family, this is my one and only warning. Show my brother some respect. He's a Su."

The Su family had originally planned to announce this news on a suitable day, but Luo Hanyu's insult toward Qiao Yuexun pushed Su Lan to step up and defend his brother.

Luo Hanyu went pale as a ghost.

Su Lan didn't give him a chance to react, raising his voice and announcing to everyone: "Taking this opportunity, I'd also like to formally introduce someone. Qiao Yuexun is the omega youngest son our family lost all those years ago—my own little brother."

The entire venue burst into an uproar.

That night, Su Lan posted an update on his social media: "Welcome home @Qiao Yuexun." The Su family's official account immediately reposted it, formally confirming Qiao Yuexun's status as a young master of the family.

Public opinion exploded instantly. The news that Qiao Yuexun was a young master of the Su family spread like wildfire online.

Luo Hanyu, on the other hand, suffered the consequences. A video of him trash-talking Qiao Yuexun at the banquet leaked online, and the internet overwhelmingly condemned him for throwing his family's weight around.

Following that, a series of scandals about Luo Hanyu were exposed. Internally, the Luo family, to protect the family's interests, forced Luo Hanyu to apologize to Qiao Yuexun and publicly announce his retirement from showbiz.

After this plot point was completed, Qiao Yuexun was rewarded with another share of World Essence.

While helping Qiao Yuexun play out the plot, Wen Yanxu was also working to prevent another tragedy.

The script mentioned the scandal that broke around the joint laboratory of Wenyuan Medical and Ruiping Kanghe Hospital.

After the laboratory was established, due to sloppy oversight, huge sums of research funding were siphoned off illegally. When it all came to light, both Wenyuan Medical and Ruiping Kanghe Hospital suffered enormous losses, pushing Wenyuan Medical to the brink of bankruptcy.

When a third-party audit was eventually brought in, the person behind the fund transfers turned out to be Wen Juelang.

After his crimes were exposed, Wen Juelang fled the country in fear of the consequences. While being pursued, he slipped and fell into the sea, drowning.

When Wen Jueqian learned of the plot, he took it far more calmly than Wen Yanxu had expected. After the two of them hashed out the suspicious details, Wen Jueqian picked up his light brain and called Wen Qishan, flat-out demanding that Wenyuan's finance department launch an immediate, quiet investigation into all fund flows of the joint laboratory.

What they found was staggering. Once all the accounts were laid out, the numbers were horrifying.

Over two hundred million in total had already been transferred to overseas accounts through all kinds of hidden channels, using highly sophisticated methods. If they hadn't been digging deliberately, routine audits would never have caught it.

Wen Yanxu had the True Love System use its energy to rewrite the records and cover the tracks of those transfers, rerouting the forged paper trail to point at the real mastermind—Ruijia Capital.

At the same time, after Wen Yanxu submitted this evidence to Wen Shijun, he got the green light to investigate Ruijia Capital and the relevant people inside the Wen family.

The father and son had long suspected there were factions within the Wen family that were beyond their control. They'd already turned up some leads, but hadn't found a way in.

This time, using the joint lab's funding scandal as a wedge, they forced the people hiding in the shadows to slip up and reveal more clues.

Armed with the evidence from the investigation, Wen Yanxu pushed hard at the Wen family council meeting for a comprehensive review of Ruijia Capital, while also demanding self-audits of all enterprises under the Wen family.

The proposal faced opposition and delays from the majority, but with Wen Shijun's firm support, the father and son steamrolled the resolution through.

Following the money from Ruijia, Wen Yanxu flushed out a number of traitors inside the Wen family.

The most shocking discovery was Wen Shibing. He ran the charity foundation, was Wen Shijun's older brother, and was an elder deeply respected in the family for his devotion to philanthropy.

Using his position running the charity fund, Wen Shibing had been continuously transferring family funds to overseas accounts for years. The sums involved were staggering.

Wen Shijun had Wen Yanxu handle the interrogation himself. As the heir, learning to face betrayal from his own blood was an important lesson in itself.

When Wen Shibing was brought before Wen Yanxu, he appeared exceptionally composed. Before the investigation reached him, Wen Shibing had already liquidated and moved most of his personal assets and arranged for his descendants to leave the Federation—but Wen Yanxu had stopped them.

Wen Shibing flat-out admitted to embezzling family funds. But when it came to who was pulling the strings, he clammed up, only saying he'd been led astray by greed and had acted like a fool.

Wen Yanxu could tell Wen Shibing had braced himself. Short of threatening his family, standard interrogation tactics wouldn't get anything else out of him.

He didn't waste time. He had the True Love System use its energy to put Wen Shibing under hypnosis.

The secrets Wen Shibing had been so desperate to keep finally came pouring out.

The man pulling Wen Shibing's strings from the shadows was Wen Shiqi.

Wen Shiqi—that name hadn't been spoken aloud in the Wen family for twenty years.

The official story the Wen family put out was that Wen Shiqi had died of illness twenty years ago.

In reality, twenty years ago, Wen Shiqi had abused his position as head of R&D to secretly siphon off funds and resources, conducting illegal human experiments on Jueying Island.

This monstrous experiment only came to light after a fire broke out, forcing it to be shut down.

Knowing that staying on Jueying Island would only end badly for him, Wen Shiqi tried to flee the Federation with his most trusted men. On the way, they encountered pirates. The people sent to find him only found a sunken ship. Wen Shiqi's fate was a mystery.

In truth, Wen Shiqi had escaped to the Empire with his research findings and the money he'd secretly siphoned from the Wen family.

He'd spent the years since continuing his research in the Empire.

The reason Wen Shibing had turned traitor was that Wen Shiqi had a hold on his greatest weakness—his son, who was supposed to have been a Beta.

Wen Yanxu's eyes narrowed slightly: "My cousin was supposed to be a Beta?"

Wen Shibing lowered his head, his voice hoarse: "Yes. In the Wen family, only high-ranking Alphas can compete to be heir and get anywhere near the inner circle. I'm just a B-grade alpha—I wasn't even in the running for heir. I only ever had this one child. I couldn't stand the thought of my kid losing his inheritance rights because of his secondary gender. So when he was born, I bribed the testing facility and had his genetic results changed to Alpha."

His voice trailed off, getting quieter and quieter. "Later, Wen Shiqi reached out to me on his own. He said he was working on a way to turn Betas into Alphas, and the success rate was already pretty high. He needed me to supply him with resources and bankroll his experiments. In exchange, he'd help change my son."

Wen Yanxu was quiet for a long time. He looked at the old man in front of him. In just a few short weeks, that once kind, gentle face had been overtaken by a mad obsession.

He couldn't understand what drove that obsession.

"Why are you all so obsessed with changing your secondary gender? Beta, Omega, Alpha—does it really matter that much?"

"The Wen family has no rule saying the next head of the family has to be a high-ranking alpha."

Wen Shibing looked up at him with a sneer: "From my great-grandfather to my grandfather, to my father, and even your father—which generation of Wen family heads wasn't an S-grade alpha?"

Wen Yanxu disagreed with his view: "The most important criterion for choosing an heir has always been ability..."

Before he could finish, Wen Shibing cut him off directly, "Ability? Wasn't your older brother's ability outstanding enough? He was the youngest recipient of the Claire Award, he led Aegis in overcoming..."

Wen Shibing ran through Wen Shiqi's past achievements one by one—undeniable, he was a true genius in the field of biotechnology.

Suddenly, Wen Shibing's cloudy eyes burst forth with a long-suppressed grievance and resentment. He said hysterically, "People like you and your father, who were born as S-level Alphas, will never understand. You've stood at the top since birth, with all resources and opportunities tilted in your favor. I just wanted my child to have the same life as you, to live a little easier. What's wrong with that?"

Wen Yanxu didn't argue with him. He looked at Wen Shibing, knowing that his beliefs had been corrupted.

Before Wen Shibing was taken away, he had already recovered from the hypnotic state. He pleaded, "Don't tell my son he was modified. He doesn't know anything. Let me bear all the guilt."

Facing his final plea as a father, Wen Yanxu felt an indescribable sorrow welling up inside him.

==========Author's Note:==========

Short and weak, sorry!