"President Cheng, we are still looking. The young master didn't take his own car; he left it parked by the side of the road," the assistant on the other end of the line replied.
Cheng Gui frowned deeply and rubbed his brow, appearing somewhat exhausted and irritable.
"Send more people out to find him. You must bring him back to me! If he dares to resist, give him a good beating!"
"This... yes... I understand." The assistant seemed to hesitate for a moment but agreed nonetheless.
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Gui's headache grew even more severe.
He was not only worried about Cheng Xiao Dong's safety but also troubled by his inability to contact Jiang Cheng.
He had already tried calling Jiang Cheng and messaging him on WeChat, but no one answered.
Meanwhile, Cheng Xiao Dong was completely unaware of his father's worry and anger.
At this moment, he was indulging himself in a wild revelry at a nightclub.
A few hours earlier, his phone had suddenly received a notification from the bank that his accounts were frozen.
At first, he didn't believe it was true, so he gave all his bank cards to the bartender to try them one by one.
However, the final result left him dumbfounded—every single black card under his name had actually been deactivated!
It seemed his old man was serious this time... Cheng Xiao Dong gulped down glass after glass of alcohol, and before long, he was stumbling drunk.
The red-haired girl sitting beside him, whose expression was already somewhat gloomy, now looked even more somber.
"You guys, what do you have to say about this matter?" the red-haired girl suddenly spoke, her voice cold and carrying a trace of imperceptible anger.
Being asked this, the others were a bit confused and looked at each other.
"Xiao Na, what do you mean by that?" one of them asked in confusion.
"Yeah, what do you mean 'what do we have to say'?" another chimed in.
The red-haired girl looked at them, the anger in her heart growing stronger.
Just a moment ago, these people were confidently saying things like "what's there to be afraid of," but now they didn't care about the matter at all, only focusing on smoking, taking photos, and picking up girls.
"Look at Xiao Dong, he's drunk himself into this state!" Linna slammed the table in a rage. "Don't you have any thoughts on this? Weren't you all acting so capable just now? Why are you all silent now?"
Hearing this, the group looked over at Cheng Xiao Dong.
He was already unconscious from drink, slumped over the table and muttering unintelligible words.
"Oh, you're talking about that? Didn't I say I'd buy him a drink!" someone quickly explained.
"Is just buying him a drink enough? Xiao Dong hasn't treated you guys poorly! Today he suffered such a great humiliation because of that man; shouldn't we help him vent his anger and get even?" Linna questioned with wide eyes.
"Then what do you suggest we do..."
"Yeah, what can we do? We can't really... go home and tell on them."
Linna looked at everyone helplessly, her gaze slowly scanning the messy array of wine bottles on the table.
Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she grabbed Cheng Xiao Dong's phone and waved it in the air, a hint of cunning flashing in her eyes.
"Don't these big bosses care a lot about their reputations?"
After saying that, the corners of Linna's mouth curled up into a cold sneer. "Then we'll create some 'reputation' for him."
The yellow-haired guy on the side had a cigarette in his mouth; hearing Linna's words, the hand he was using to light it suddenly paused as he looked at her in confusion.
"You mean... hire internet trolls to smear him?" the yellow-haired guy asked tentatively.
"Too low-level." Linna snorted disdainfully. "We'll invite him for a drink to apologize, saying Xiao Dong knows he was wrong and wants to apologize to him personally."
By now, Cheng Xiao Dong was somewhat delirious from the alcohol.
But hearing Linna's words, he still dizzily slapped the table and shouted, "Right! Buy him a drink! Drink him under the table!"
"Getting him drunk is only the first step." Linna's voice was low and meaningful. She leaned in closer, as if afraid of being overheard, and continued, "I know a girl who's the best at acting innocent. When the time comes, we'll have her 'accidentally' stumble into the private room. Once Jiang Cheng drinks that spiked wine, he'll definitely lose his reason and do something out of line..."
At this point, Linna paused deliberately to observe everyone's reaction.
Sure enough, several people were captivated by her words, and for a moment, the room fell silent.
Linna lowered her voice again: "We'll record all the evidence. If he doesn't obediently withdraw his suppression of Tianlong, we'll send these things to the media and to that An Xin from the Ansheng Group!"
Her words were like a bombshell, making everyone rub their hands in excitement.
It wasn't the first time they had done something like this.
"This is a good move, but will he come?"
Linna's lips curled up slightly, revealing a confident smile. "He will definitely come. He probably thinks Xiao Dong is just a useless brat and won't be on guard against us at all. When the time comes, we'll just say Xiao Dong drank too much and is going to jump off a building; wouldn't he come to watch the show?"
The boy with green-dyed hair next to her suddenly spoke: "That drug... where do we get it? Do we have to buy it from that guy again?"
"I have some." Linna pulled a small medicine bottle from her bag. "It's left over from when I went clubbing last time; just a little bit can make someone lose their mind."
...While these punks were gathered together plotting, Jiang Cheng's body, which was thrusting forward, suddenly came to a halt.
A faint sense of danger began to spread.
Looking at the prompt from the Danger Perception Skill, Jiang Cheng suddenly laughed.
Could the reason this Danger Perception Skill prompt was so faint be because it would ultimately be resolved anyway?
It was just that the system prompt didn't want Jiang Cheng to put himself in danger.
According to the Danger Perception Skill's prompt, Cheng Xiao Dong was bringing a group of his little buddies to apologize to him.
Although the impact of this danger perception on his company was almost negligible, since it had been discovered, then...
Even though Cheng Gui had promised him a satisfactory result when he left earlier.
But the rise of this danger warning clearly meant that Cheng Gui had failed to control Cheng Xiao Dong.
Although according to the Danger Perception Skill's prompt, Cheng Xiao Dong wasn't the one leading this matter.
However, the whole thing was happening because of him.
After reading the prompt, the corners of Jiang Cheng's mouth curled up.
It seems I really need to open their eyes, otherwise they'll truly think I'm an easy target.