Imposter Young Master
Chapter 60 Two Birds with One Stone_1

Chapter 60: Chapter 60 Two Birds with One Stone_1

"This weekend, it’s Yang Fei’s and my birthday. The Yang family is planning a birthday party. In the spirit of ’merriment is better when shared together,’ I’ve decided to open up spots at our birthday party to students from our school. Here are the conditions: for guys, a meal fee of 300 yuan, plus casting their ’Campus Belle’ vote for student Xia Zihan. Girls, since you don’t have the right to vote in the ’Campus Belle’ competition, you’ll need to pay 500 yuan for the meal fee,"

Yang Gang paused for a moment, swallowed his spit to control the pace, then continued, "Students, what are you waiting for? Just 300 or 500 yuan and you can be part of a high society banquet, where you can enjoy drinks like Maotai, XO and Lafite wine, and delicacies like shark fin, abalone, and bird’s nest. Moreover, there will be upper-class young talent and beautiful ladies. By chance, if someone takes a liking to you, you could potentially enter a prestigious family. Isn’t that a brilliant deal?! Those interested, please sign up with me, limited places, register as fast as possible."

As soon as Yang Gang finished speaking, Haixing University fell into complete silence.

A moment later, the whole school erupted in excitement.

It wasn’t just the students, but also numerous single teachers were incredibly excited.

Xia Ziyang was dumbfounded: "What! Can he do that?!"

Yang Fei was just as stunned, unable to believe it...

Lin Qingyu, standing there in shock, wondered why were they campaigning for Xia Zihan now? Weren’t they campaigning for me yesterday? Ah! That Yang Gang must be messing with me! These rich second-generation kids are really the worst!

A girl turned to Qingyu and said, "Qingyu, it looks like Yang Gang has shifted his target. These rich kids are just not into ordinary girls like us. But for you, Qingyu, it should be good news. At least the capricious young master of the Yang family will stop pestering you."

Qingyu laughed awkwardly, "Yeah, for me, it really is good news."

After all, that annoying rich kid finally stopped bothering her. It was indeed something worth celebrating with firecrackers, but...

But why did she feel a tinge of disappointment in her heart?

At the Yang Group building, in the chairman’s office.

The news that Yang Gang openly invited ordinary university students to the Yang family weekend birthday banquet had already reached the ears of Yang Lin.

The chairman was furious. He interrupted a high-level meeting and angrily called Yang Gang.

"Er, Dad, anything urgent?" Yang Gang said with a surprised tone.

Yang Lin was livid at his audacity!

"Yang Gang! Didn’t I warn you not to mess around at the weekend birthday banquet?" Yang Lin said, suppressing his own fury.

Yang Gang feigned surprise: "I didn’t cause any trouble."

In his tone, a hint of innocence was detected.

Yang Lin was ready to explode in rage.

"You are openly selling spots at our Yang family weekend birthday banquet at the college! If that’s not causing trouble, what is?" Yang Lin yelled.

Yang Gang replied seriously, "Chairman Yang, I finally understand why the Yang family has been declining under your leadership. Because, sir, you’ve become dull. You should consider arranging a successor soon."

Yang Lin was ready to blow a gasket.

"Yang Gang! Bear in mind, I’m your boss, watch your tongue!" Yang Lin fumed.

Yang Gang said calmly, "Chairman Yang, do you think I’m doing this just for my personal interest? No, you’re wrong. I’m doing it for the sake of the Yang family."

"What do you mean?" enquired Yang Lin.

"What’s at the heart of modern business development? It’s not the system, not the mechanics, but talent. There’s a common shortcoming in our family businesses; they are inclined to favour relatives instead of meritocracy. This causes the structure of family businesses to be bloated, and work efficiency low. Furthermore, once such practices spread throughout the company, it may just mark the end of the family business."

Yang Gang swallowed his saliva before continuing, "I’ve been visiting some of the companies under the Yang family lately, and frankly, I haven’t found many useful talents. So, I thought I’d seize the opportunity of Yang Fei’s and my birthday party to invite some talented university students to our family. Nurture relationships. In the future, when they graduate, if they could work for our Yang family businesses, that would be a huge gain."

After a pause, Yang Gang continued, "I know you, Dad, want to host an exclusive birthday party with only high-society guests. But what good does that do for the Yang family? Would these upper-class citizens save the Yang family from a crisis? No, they wouldn’t. They’d only add insult to injury; it’s what they’re best at. I attended quite a few high-society parties in the past, and if I were to describe them in one word, it’d be ’hypocritical.’ Everyone was just dancing behind masks; it’s nauseating."

Yang Gang took a moment, then continued, "All this while, the elite families in Hangcheng have never included ordinary folks in their high-end functions. They are just trying to show off their sophistication and superiority. But now, I’ll make them regret it. Suppose through this party, we Yang family can attract a large number of talents. In that case, even if the other elite families of Hangcheng start also inviting ordinary people, people will just say, ’They are following in the footsteps of the Yang family.’ Regardless, the Yang family will come out as the winner in this talent competition. Dad, what do you think?"

Yang Lin stood, holding the phone, dumbfounded.

Damn, he had severely underestimated this guy’s ability to twist the narrative! What was clearly a case of blatant abuse of power turned into something so noble and dignified by this bastard that he couldn’t even argue against...

Despite Yang Gang’s hard sell, Yang Lin, a cunning business mogul, wasn’t going to be fooled easily. He knew that Yang Gang felt cheated after being fined 10,000 yuan last night and was looking for revenge. As far as Yang Gang was concerned, Yang Lin was a ’boss’ that had to bear all the banquet costs. If Yang Gang invited five hundred people, Yang Lin would have to bear five hundred guests’ ’meal fees.’ Not only did Yang Gang manage to retaliate, but he also pocketed quite a bit of ’hongbao’ money.

Despite feeling annoyed, Yang Lin had to admit Yang Gang’s ’killing two birds with one stone’ plan was rather brilliant.

A cryptic thought crossed Yang Lin’s mind.

"It would be so nice if this guy was sincere towards the Yang family."

But Yang Lin knew that an imposter would remain an imposter and wouldn’t integrate into the family genuinely. Yang Lin believed that if the Yang family couldn’t provide benefits for him, he’d leave without hesitation.

Even Kent can bid each other adieu when disaster strikes, let alone a greedy imposter.

So, Yang Lin was very clear. He couldn’t trust this imposter. No, in fact, he had to be cautious.

Now, Yang Lin finally understood his ’war’ with Yang Gang was going to be a grueling, continuous tug-of-war.

"It looks like I need to revisit Chairman Mao’s ’On Protracted War.’ Otherwise, I might suffer significant losses in this tug-of-war with Yang Gang," Yang Lin thought.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in," Yang Lin said, hanging up the phone and regaining his composure.

---

PS: Almost hitting 500 comments, I’ll add an extra Chapter once we reach 500~~