Best Young Master
Chapter 523 - 465: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best; The Victor Is King!

Chapter 523: Chapter 465: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best; The Victor Is King!

At ten in the morning, Bai Yuan returned to his office villa inside the high-walled courthouse with a sullen expression.

"Bang bang—"

Just as Bai Yuan stepped into his office, his secretary followed and gently knocked on the door, ready to inquire about Bai Yuan’s schedule for the day.

Even though the secretary was already well-aware of Bai Yuan’s monthly, weekly, and daily work schedules and had made the necessary arrangements, he would still consult with Bai Yuan every day.

This was one of his most important daily tasks.

"Come in."

Leaning back in his office chair with his eyes closed, Bai Yuan gently massaged his temples, his brow furrowed deeply.

"XX, according to the schedule, today..." The secretary entered upon pushing the door open and began to report from the doorway.

"Today’s schedule is canceled; I will work here," interrupted Bai Yuan, without opening his eyes, "Additionally, decline all appointments. Without my consent, do not allow anyone to disturb me."

"Understood."

The secretary promptly replied and tactfully exited the office, closing the door gently behind him.

As the secretary left, Bai Yuan stopped massaging his temples and slowly opened his eyes, his expression extremely grave.

Because, just at the ’democracy life meeting’ that had just concluded, Yan reported on Ye Fan’s actions, and the content of the report was essentially consistent with what he had been told the day before.

Yan claimed: Ye Fan is a special agent for the Yanhuang Organization, secretly infiltrating the underworld to eradicate the cancer that is Nanqinghong. Ye Fan’s actions, though somewhat extreme, have caused a huge stir within Huaxia and globally, and the pressure from public opinion is tremendous. However, these actions are authorized by the Yanhuang Organization, so there is no question of illegality or violation of rules—the Organization will hold a special press conference to clarify this and internally award Ye Fan with a first-class Merit.

After Yan’s report was finished, a participant at the meeting raised doubts under Bai Yuan’s prior authorization, but the other participants unanimously agreed with the Yanhuang Organization’s decision.

This outcome directly rendered the carefully crafted plan of the Bai Family Faction utterly useless!

This outcome also meant that the Ye Family would continue to securely hold the seat as Huaxia’s top family, and would soon retaliate against the Bai Family Faction!

This couldn’t help but worry Bai Yuan, and it also left him puzzled.

Firstly, in his view, although Yan had grown somewhat closer to the Ye Family, as the dual number one of both the Dragon and Divine Rankings, and known as the Guardian of Huaxia, Yan possessed a pride unique to the strong, was always fair and just in his dealings, and had never changed his principles due to external forces.

He did not believe that Yan would change his principles just because Ye Fan was a Young Master of the Ye Family and a disciple of Chu Xuanji!

Logic told him that there were secrets he did not know about, and... these secrets were Ye Fan’s trump cards, the key to changing the situation, as well as the deadly blade hanging over the Bai Family’s heads!

Furthermore, although he was aware that the news of Ye Yuanshan’s successful life extension would quietly change the minds of the Neutral Faction, what really made them decide was the stance of the leading boss—who almost without any hesitation supported Yan’s decision.

This made him even more certain there was inside information—Yan must have communicated with the leading boss before the meeting and reached an agreement.

"What exactly is the inside story?"

After carefully straightening out the ins and outs of the matter, Bai Yuan asked himself inwardly.

"Buzz... Buzz..."

The response to Bai Yuan was the vibrating sound of a cellphone.

Hm?

Bai Yuan came back to his senses from his contemplation, and picked up his private phone to find a call from his son, Bai Guotao.

"Dad, just now the Yanhuang Organization held a press conference about Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son’s recent actions, claiming that the kid is a special agent of the Yanhuang Organization, secretly infiltrating the Underworld to carry out missions..."

On the phone, Bai Guotao, who was in Donghai, asked both annoyed and puzzled, "Isn’t this just deceiving oneself—How could that kid possibly be a special agent of the Yanhuang Organization? What’s really going on? How can the Yanhuang Organization do such a thing??"

"Just now, Yan made a report about this at the democratic meeting, and the decision was approved by the meeting," Bai Yuan sighed.

"Didn’t you say that Yan is an upright person who wouldn’t change his principles due to external forces? How come this time?"

Bai Guotao was stunned.

Firstly, although he had considered that the Yanhuang Organization would never make such a decision in the face of global public opinion pressure, he didn’t expect Yan to take this matter to a democratic meeting for reporting—one of the highest-level meetings!

What’s more important is that he had heard from Bai Yuan many times that Yan was a person of integrity. Ye Fan’s actions, fueled by behind-the-scenes momentum, had sparked heated debates worldwide, with unprecedented public pressure. In this situation, Yan should not be changing his principles!

"Yan must have a reason for doing this—the kid must hold some leverage over Yan that goes against his principles," Bai Yuan said with a furrowed brow. "But what exactly his leverage is, I don’t know on my side."

"Uh..."

Bai Guotao was stunned again. "Since Yan didn’t disclose the inside story or provide a convincing reason, why did the meeting approve Yan’s decision?"

"XXX was the first to express support."

Bai Yuan’s complexion looked somewhat ugly. "What’s more important is that yesterday evening, Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son performed a mysterious spell at the 301 Hospital, successfully prolonging Ye Yuanshan’s life!"

"What... What??"

This time, Bai Guotao was completely astonished.

Because the matter of Ye Fan prolonging Ye Yuanshan’s life yesterday was kept strictly confidential and sealed, and had not been released, plus Bai Yuan had been preoccupied with arranging countermeasures last night and did not tell Bai Guotao, Bai Guotao was unaware of it.

But—

He could easily infer the significance and the consequences that this would trigger!

"How... How can there be a spell for prolonging life in this world?"

It took Bai Guotao more than ten seconds to regain his composure from the extreme shock, but his expression was still filled with disbelief, "Also, as far as I know, his strength is even less than Emperor Bai’s, how could he perform such an inconceivable spell?"

"I don’t know either."

Bai Yuan’s brows were completely furrowed, as he once again astonishingly said, "According to Wu Mu, that mysterious spell is only mentioned in ancient books, and even he cannot perform it, since there are only a few brief mentions."

"Even Wu Mu cannot perform it?"

Although Bai Guotao was not a man of the Jianghu, he knew of Chu Xuanji, and even because of Chu Xuanji’s ’Savior contribution’ from the past, his fame was like thunder piercing the ear, "Dad, are you sure it was Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son who did it? Why do I feel like it’s something that old man Chu Xuanji did?"

"At first, I shared your opinion, but it was proven in the end that it was indeed that kid’s doing."

As he spoke, Bai Yuan couldn’t help but think of the disdainful expression Ye Fan had shown him yesterday and, unable to suppress a sigh, said, "As the saying goes, ’Xiao He succeeds where Xiao He fails,’ we still underestimated that kid in the end!"

"——"

Bai Guotao tacitly agreed with Bai Yuan’s words.

The Yanhuang Organization had cleared Ye Fan’s crimes, not only ensuring Ye Fan himself would be fine, but also leaving Ye Wenhao’s career unscathed, without even the slightest impact!

More importantly, Ye Fan’s successful extension of Ye Yuanshan’s life was equivalent to directly saving the Ye Family!

In their previous plan, Ye Fan was supposed to be the chief culprit who would end Ye Wenhao’s career and bring about the collapse of the Ye Family!

The contrast between the two outcomes was just too great... too great!

"Moving forward, things are going to get very tricky. You must remember, absolutely no association with the Qinghong Organization again!"

Seeing Bai Guotao silent, Bai Yuan suddenly spoke up, urging him with a fairly stern tone, "Otherwise, if our opponents get hold of any evidence, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Bai Guotao was momentarily unable to accept this outcome, his face still blank in shock, forgetting to reply.

Bai Yuan seemed to understand Bai Guotao’s feelings and, without further ado, ended the call.

...

In the early morning hours of Huaxia, thousands of miles away, Los Angeles was greeted with nightfall.

Qinghong Villa, Villa No. 2, study room.

Chen Feilian sat at the desk, activated the wall screen opposite him, and started a video call.

"Respected... Mr. Chen!"

As the video call connected, the face of Luo Yi, the head of Qinghong Organization’s intelligence in Huaxia, appeared on the screen. He looked somewhat nervous, his tone a bit rushed.

"What’s happened?"

Detecting Luo Yi’s abnormality, Chen Feilian’s eyebrows raised, a sense of unease surged in his heart, his reason telling him something unexpected had occurred in Huaxia.

"Just now, the Yanhuang Organization held a press conference..."

Luo Yi, clearly alarmed, hastily reported to Chen Feilian about the Yanhuang Organization’s press conference regarding Ye Fan’s actions.

"Are you sure this information is accurate?"

Chen Feilian interrupted Luo Yi with a look of shock before he could finish his report. If this news was true, then their plan with the Bai Family to counter both Ye Fan and Ye Wenhao, as well as the Ye Family as a whole, had completely failed, which... meant that Nanqinghong had sacrificed in vain, without any meaning!

"Respected Mr. Chen, I couldn’t believe it either that things would turn out this way, but the information is indeed true,"

Luo Yi replied cautiously, with a strained expression, "The official website of the Yanhuang Organization has a video link to the news conference, and some influential media in Huaxia and other major alliances have also reported on it."

"Bang!"

As the words of Luo Yi fell, the wall screen was suddenly struck by a blast of Gang Qi and burst apart, severing the call.

"What on earth is the Bai Family doing?"

Perhaps unable to accept this result for a moment, Chen Feilian roared in unquenchable fury, then immediately took out a specially made communicator to contact Bai Guotao.

He wanted to question Bai Guotao on why he had failed to fulfill their agreement, only to discover that Bai Guotao’s personal mobile number no longer existed, nearly destroying the communicator in his rage!

Because... he understood that Bai Guotao was deliberately avoiding him!

"Huff~"

Chen Feilian took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the anger in his heart, and then dialed Bai Guotao’s secretary’s phone.

"Doot... Sorry, the number you have dialed is currently in a call."

This time, the call connected, but was quickly hung up by the other end, refusing to answer.

"Huff... Huff..."

Chen Feilian, like an enraged beast, panted heavily, utterly furious, he dialed Bai Guotao’s secretary’s phone again, only to find out that it had been turned off...

"FUCK!!"

Chen Feilian cursed aloud, Gang Qi surging in his hand, the communicator instantly turned into a pile of dust, "Those bastards in the Bai Family!!"

After his anger subsided, Chen Feilian also realized that the Bai Family would not easily let Ye Fan off the hook, and something must have gone wrong.

This filled his heart with questions, "Wasn’t Bai Guotao adamant about nailing that kid? How could it have turned out like this?"

"You have a strong hand, but until the hidden cards are revealed, anything is possible!!"

The words Ye Fan said when he bloodbathed the Nanqinghong Headquarters echoed in Chen Feilian’s ears like a curse.

"Hidden cards?"

"What’s his trump card??"

Chen Feilian silently questioned himself.

"Ah!!"

Without an answer, Chen Feilian, like a crazed beast, roared and lashed out with his palm, smashing the mahogany desk in front of him into splinters and sawdust.

The last to laugh is the true victor.

He could accept defeat, but not being played like a fool by Ye Fan!

...

...(To be continued. If you like this work, I invite you to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for the recommendation ticket, Monthly Ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)