It Started With a Kiss: Leng Shao's Beloved Wife

Chapter 155: Foreign Enemies Besiege the City: Secret History of Defense

After Wu Xinyan hung up the phone, the air in the conference room almost froze.

The Wu family, her former home, is now like a poisonous snake, biting her and Luo Yichen fiercely.

Luo Yichen's face was terribly gloomy, and he exuded an icy chill all over his body, like a volcano about to erupt.

"How dare they?!" Master Luo roared, slamming his cane against the ground with a dull thud. "What an ungrateful bunch!"

Butler Wu stood aside, his face pale, his lips trembling, but he couldn't say a word.

He has served the Luo family for decades, and his loyalty to them is unquestionable. But now he can only watch helplessly as the family falls into internal and external troubles.

At the same time, attacks from outside forces are becoming increasingly fierce.

Several important projects of Roche Group were blocked one after another, and the capital chain began to tighten.

Various negative news spread in the media, like an invisible net, tightly entangling the Roche Group.

Disagreements within the family are also growing.

Some family members began to waver, believing that they should compromise with external forces in order to preserve their existing interests.

"We can't hold on any longer!" A family elder stood up and said bitterly, "If this continues, the Luo Group will be finished!"

"Compromise?" Luo Yichen sneered, his eyes sharp as a knife. "Why should we compromise? Should we give them everything they want? The Luo Group's foundation was built by our ancestors with great effort. We can't give it away!"

Wu Xinyan also stood firmly beside Luo Yichen, her eyes gleaming and her tone firm: "We can't give up! Even if we only have one breath left, we must fight to the end!"

The two sides were deadlocked and the atmosphere in the meeting room was tense.

Scholar Sun remained silent, buried in a pile of ancient books, as if looking for some answers.

Suddenly, he raised his head and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

"I...I think I found it..." He said in a trembling voice, pointing to one of the books, "It records an ancient formation..."

Luo Yichen stood up suddenly and grabbed Scholar Sun's shoulders, "Speak clearly!"

Scholar Sun took a deep breath and pointed at the words in the book. He said, "This is a formation that can change the world, but..." He hesitated, his face turning even paler. "It needs... it needs..."

"What do you need?" Wu Xinyan asked anxiously.

Scholar Sun looked at everyone and said in a low voice, "We need to... sacrifice blood to the heavens..."

Luo Yichen and Wu Xinyan looked at each other and saw shock and hesitation in each other's eyes.

"Sacrificing blood to heaven..." Master Luo muttered to himself, his expression becoming extremely complicated. "This...this price is too high..."

The conference room fell silent again. Everyone was weighing the pros and cons, and the atmosphere was suffocatingly heavy.

Suddenly, a rapid knock on the door broke the silence.

"Come in!" Luo Yichen said in a deep voice.

The secretary rushed in in a panic, "Mr. Luo, something bad has happened! The bank... the bank..."

"What happened to the bank?!"

"The bank... the bank has frozen all our accounts..." The secretary's voice was trembling, and she was almost about to cry.

Luo Yichen's face turned ashen in an instant. He clenched his fists violently, and the veins on the back of his hands bulged.

Wu Xinyan felt his hand was icy cold, and she held his hand tightly...

Wu Xinyan's hand was tightly grasped by Luo Yichen, her knuckles turned white, but a reassuring power came from it.

There was a storm raging in his deep eyes, but the moment they met her gaze, they turned into a gentle harbor.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." These four short words were more powerful than any oath and instantly dispelled the panic in Wu Xinyan's heart.

She held his hand in return, intertwining their fingers, as if she had found a fulcrum to withstand all wind and rain.

"We'll carry it together." Her voice was soft but filled with unquestionable determination.

Mr. Luo sat dejectedly on the chair, and his once straight back seemed to bend at this moment.

Butler Wu closed his eyes tightly, and two lines of tears rolled down silently.

A feeling of despair spread throughout the conference room, as if an invisible giant hand was strangling everyone's throat.

Just when everyone was about to give up hope, Wu Xinyan suddenly remembered a record she had accidentally seen when she was sorting out family information.

It is a secret history about how the Luo family's ancestors resolved an almost similar crisis.

She stood up suddenly, her voice hurried but clear: "Wait! I think I found a way!"

Everyone's eyes were focused on her, filled with confusion, hope, and a hint of disbelief.

Wu Xinyan quickly walked to the bookshelf and searched for the long-forgotten family secret history.

Her fingers flipped the pages quickly, her heart beating as fast as a drum.

Finally, she found the record and read it out in a trembling voice: "...In the Gengzi year, the Luo family's ancestors used the 'golden cicada escape' strategy to conceal their true identity..."

Luo Yichen's eyes lit up, and he immediately walked to Wu Xinyan and carefully studied the secret history with her.

As the text unfolds, a bold and ingenious plan gradually takes shape in their minds.

"Escape..." Luo Yichen muttered to himself, his eyes gleaming. "Brilliant! Truly brilliant!" He suddenly raised his head and looked at everyone, his tone firm and full of power, "We can't just sit there and wait for death! We must fight back!"

Wu Xinyan also looked at everyone with a stern gaze, her tone firm: "That's right! We will make those who want to swallow up the Luo Group pay the price!"

Mr. Luo and Butler Wu also rekindled their hope. They looked at Wu Xinyan and Luo Yichen, as if they saw the future of the Luo family.

"But..." Scholar Sun hesitated and asked cautiously, "This plan requires a key figure..."

Wu Xinyan and Luo Yichen looked at each other and said a name in unison: "Wu De!" Wu Xinyan and Luo Yichen acted quickly. According to the "escape plan" in the secret history, they secretly transferred the core assets of the Luo Group and released smoke bombs to the outside world to create the illusion that the company was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The hostile forces really took the bait, relaxed their vigilance, and even began to scramble for the "leftovers" of the Roche Group.

At the same time, Wu Xinyan and Luo Yichen secretly invested in new projects, taking advantage of the opportunity when hostile forces underestimated Luo's group, and quickly won several key market shares.

This tactic of "openly repairing the plank road while secretly attacking Chencang" brought the Luo Group back to life, catching the outside forces off guard and causing heavy losses.

Within the family, the originally wavering members turned to support Wu Xinyan and Luo Yichen after seeing them turn the tide.

Mr. Luo burst into tears and patted Luo Yichen's shoulder excitedly: "Good boy! You are worthy of being a descendant of my Luo family!" Butler Wu also cried with joy and said with emotion: "Madam is really the lucky star of the Luo family!" The family united again and faced the outside world as one.

Just as the Luo Group gradually stabilized and everyone was celebrating their victory, Wu Xinyan discovered a line of small words on the last page of the secret history, which had almost been erased by time: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The disaster of the Boxer Rebellion is not over yet..." Her heart sank, and an inexplicable uneasiness surged in her heart.

She told Luo Yichen these words, and Luo Yichen's expression became serious.

"There is an even greater crisis..." He murmured to himself, holding Wu Xinyan's hand tightly, "Xinyan, we can't take it lightly."

Wu Xinyan slammed the Secret History shut, her face pale, "Yi Chen, I... I have a very bad feeling..."