Fu Siye's expression grew increasingly grim, but he still spoke slowly with a sullen face, "Mu Yinyin, I hope you can face reality."
Mu Yinyin smiled without a smile, "Face what reality?"
She had actually guessed what Fu Siye was going to say, but she didn't directly mock him, as if she were truly waiting for Fu Siye to continue speaking.
Fu Siye looked at her coldly, "If you want to inherit your father's company, you can choose to take over from them. There's no need to target anyone."
Mu Yinyin sneered.
"What if I want everyone to see that she and I don't get along? What then?"
"Unreasonable." Fu Siye's face darkened further, his dislike for Mu Yinyin seeming to intensify.
If it were in the past, Mu Yinyin might have panicked, wanting only to explain everything to him, even willing to be controlled by him as long as he was happy.
But now...
Mu Yinyin simply said with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, "Mr. Fu, whatever I do is my freedom. I don't have that much patience to argue with you. I'll just ask you, this contract, will you sign it or not?"
Fu Siye's sharp gaze swept directly at her, not uttering a single word.
Mu Yinyin, however, smiled and raised an eyebrow, "It seems you favor this collaboration and don't want me to cooperate with the Lu Group. Then let's call a lawyer over to draft the contract now. Do you have any objections?"
"I hope you won't regret making such a decision," Fu Siye said coldly with a sullen face.
"Regret?" Mu Yinyin couldn't help but scoff, "Don't say I'll never regret it in this lifetime. Even if I did, I'd bear the consequences myself. It has nothing to do with you."
Fu Siye's expression darkened even more, but he frowned and remained silent.
The current Mu Yinyin was constantly distancing herself from him. Her gaze towards him used to be filled with love and affection.
But now, she was filled with disdain and indifference towards him, even trying to distance herself from him at every turn.
This Mu Yinyin made Fu Siye increasingly agitated. He furrowed his brows, feeling that this woman had been a master of pretense.
Fu Siye let out a cold laugh, "I never knew you could be so hypocritical. How much of what you did before was just an act?"
Mu Yinyin's eyelashes trembled slightly.
She smiled gently.
So, no matter what she did, he thought it was insincere. Seeing her now trying to avoid him, he concluded that she had always been motivated by profit.
At this moment, she felt a slight nausea, an indescribable discomfort that made her feel unwell.
Mu Yinyin immediately took a deep breath, as if suppressing the feeling of unease.
She didn't want to spend another moment with this man. She immediately said in a low voice, "If you're not in the mood to sign, please leave my place now."
Fu Siye sneered, not wanting to stay any longer either. He got up directly, "I'll have my assistant handle the signing matters with you tomorrow."
After speaking, he walked out without hesitation, as if he didn't want to stay there for a moment.
The moment the door closed, Mu Yinyin could no longer control herself and started retching uncontrollably.
She got up and rushed to the bathroom.
This physical nausea was something she hadn't anticipated.
After a long while, she finally recovered. She had been retching for a long time but hadn't vomited anything. She just felt unwell.
Mu Yinyin gradually stood up straight and slowly walked to the living room. She opened the window and felt the breeze coming in. Her condition finally eased a little.
The next day, as Mu Yinyin had requested, Fu Siye indeed prepared the contract according to her demands.
When Nan Shiqing and her daughter learned about this, their expressions were beyond ugly.
At this moment, the three of them were sitting in an office. Nan Shiqing's face was extremely displeased, and they had been silent for over ten minutes.
Nan Shiqing couldn't hold back any longer and said irritably, "Do you have any ideas? Now that Fu Corporation has signed this contract with Fanxing, Fu Corporation will truly stop cooperating with us."
"I know that," He Chengkui's voice was also a bit heavy.
He Xia furrowed her brows, glanced at He Chengkui, and said in a low voice, "We are in an awkward position now. If neither Fu Corporation nor Lu Corporation cooperates with us, we'll have to find a way to grow stronger on our own."
"What do you mean?" Nan Shiqing sensed something was off with these two and immediately asked, "Do you two have any plans?"
She stared intently at the two, not daring to look away.
He Xia sighed helplessly, then said softly, "We did plan to produce something before, but because our situation wasn't right, we wanted to get support from either Lu Corporation or Fu Corporation. This was to bring you two closer. Once we launched this, since we were short on funds, but now it seems this plan can only be initiated by ourselves. Otherwise..."
He Xia didn't finish the rest of her sentence, but even without her saying it, He Chengkui and Nan Shiqing understood what she meant.
He Chengkui frowned slightly, "The project is good, but now that we have no partners, where will we get so much funding? And this is a large-scale project launch, it's simply not feasible."
He Xia said in a low voice again, "There's no such thing as not feasible, only trying. I believe if we find more companies and offer them better profit margins, there won't be any problems."
Nan Shiqing felt it was still not right and instinctively shook her head, saying again, "But if Lu Corporation and Fu Corporation clearly state they won't cooperate with us anymore, those people won't even bother with us just to curry favor."
"It's okay. We can tell them that the cooperation is temporary, and if they want to cooperate with our company in the future, they can break off ties with us then." He Xia finished speaking and picked up the water cup on the table, taking a few sips to moisten her throat.
"How can that be?" Nan Shiqing's brows were tightly knit. "What's the point of doing that?"
"Because we are going to launch this new project. Once launched, it will definitely be a huge hit, and it will go to market extremely quickly. As long as the money is in place, the cooperation can be finalized within half a month, and then we'll hold a press conference to announce it."
"What exactly is this project that it's so powerful?" Nan Shiqing's eyes clearly showed suspicion, and even more so, disbelief.
She had been so hit by Mu Yinyin that she felt... the Mu Group was doomed.
Her mother said there was a new opportunity, a chance for a huge hit, but she felt it was a fantasy.
"You'll know later." He Xia seemed unwilling to say more.
Nan Shiqing became anxious, "What is it? Mom, tell me. What new projects has the company come up with recently?"
"No need to ask, you'll know later." He Chengkui suddenly said the same thing, clearly neither of them intended to tell her.
Nan Shiqing: "..."