After leaving the branch of the Rong Corporation in the afternoon, Kristino returned to his hotel.
He contacted Ivy, asking her to stir up some trouble.
Ivy trembled, feeling powerless. Rong Jingyang and Du Ruoxin were not in E City, so how could she cause trouble?
Kristino suddenly realized.
He had to return to Country A immediately.
Therefore, he needed to settle things in India quickly and efficiently!
But how could he subtly get Addis to sign with the Rong Corporation, and make it seem as though the Rong Corporation had been desperately seeking the collaboration?
The problem was that Xin'er wasn't coming to beg him.
Kristino was in a bit of a predicament.
He needed to find a way to make Xin'er proactively ask him, so he could then go with the flow and agree to the "collaboration."
This "agreement" was not about making money together with Rong Jingyang, but about sending him to eternal damnation, letting him taste the feeling of being pushed into an abyss.
Kristino lit a cigar, took a deep puff, and exhaled the smoke.
His gaze was cold and sharp, like a wolf lurking in the night, ready to tear into its prey at any moment.
【Rong Jingyang—】
He had dug a pit, and was just waiting for him to fall in.
*Thump, thump, thump.* A sound of footsteps shattered the tranquility of the room.
The secretary bowed respectfully and reported, "Master, there's a situation in Canada."
Kristino let out a cold, soft "Hmm?"
The secretary handed him a laptop. "The mountain fire that started last night has not been brought under control after several hours of firefighting."
"It's burning towards our factory."
Kristino's blue eyes narrowed. "Mountain fire?"
If he remembered correctly, Rong Jingyang's new factory was not far from his own?
Here was an opportunity, wasn't it?
Kristino curved his lips coldly and said, "Find a way to guide the mountain fire towards Rong Jingyang's factory."
Didn't Rong Jingyang feel extremely smug a while ago for securing the order that originally belonged to him?
Then he would make him lose everything!
In this world, no one took anything from him without paying a price.
"Yes," the secretary replied.
Then he handed over the laptop again. "The Chairman wants to have a video call with you."
Daddy?
Kristino took the laptop.
The secretary bowed and quickly disappeared, as if afraid of losing his life if he heard something he shouldn't have by even a second.
Kristino opened his Apple laptop, and a middle-aged man's almost roaring voice immediately came through the signal, "Kristino, where are you!"
"I told you to find your sister, have you found her!"
"Three years have passed!"
"Why hasn't she appeared yet!"
His Xin'er, his precious daughter, had she encountered some difficulty? Why had she broken her promise? Why hadn't she appeared!
Every day for the past six months, Francis had lived on pins and needles, living in deep self-blame and constant worry.
He was afraid—
He dared not think—
What if something happened to his daughter—
The old father, with trembling hands, moved the video from his phone towards the camera. "She... she..."
Francis's mouth was wide open, but he stammered, unable to speak.
But Kristino saw the image on the screen. Wasn't this an advertisement that Du Ruoxin had filmed for Caroline's clothing brand?
Daddy...
Just as Kristino was about to speak, Francis, tears streaming down his face, choked out, "Is she... your sister?"
The girl in the advertisement was slender, her baby fat and youthful innocence gone from her face, replaced by the aura of a mature woman.
He couldn't tell if it was sand in his eyes or his presbyopia, but he couldn't recognize if she was his daughter.
Francis wiped his eyes. "Kristino, she's in China, go and take a look."
"Help me see..."
Over the years, too many girls had looked like Xin'er, and he had been filled with hope time and time again, only to be disappointed time and time again.
"Yes," Kristino replied.
But in his heart, he was extremely surprised: 【Daddy didn't recognize Xin'er?】
What kind of torment had the years inflicted to make an old father forget his daughter's original appearance?
Dare not acknowledge her?
Xin'er was unhappy married to Rong Jingyang!
So, it was right for him to take her away!
After ending the video call, Kristino took several rapid puffs of his cigar, and at that moment, the exclusive brainwave that connected him to Du Ruoxin showed an anomaly.