Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 53

Chapter 53

After the New Year holiday, Qi Feiluan decided to end his suspension and resume work.

Qi’s father learned of his decision and sighed: “Have you thought it through? Is it based on your own wishes?”

“Yes.” Qi Feiluan then smiled, his eyebrows glowing.

Qi’s mother looked at his appearance and understood.

In fact, the two of them had already had a premonition. Not long after the last kidnapping incident, Qi Feiluan often became distracted.

“Just think about it clearly. In short, we will always support you.” Qi’s father patted him on the shoulder.

Qi’s mother said: “You should come back and hang out with us after work.”

Qi Feiluan nodded.

Qi’s father looked at him with some emotion. In fact, they were not qualified parents. They sent Qi Feiluan to Ji Xingyuan to be his companion. After so many years, they never took care of Qi Feiluan, so naturally they are not qualified to take care of him now.

No matter what decision Qi Feiluan makes, as long as it is out of his own mind, both Qi’s father and Qi’s mother express their understanding and support.

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Regarding Qi Feiluan’s resumption of work, both Hongtong and staff in other departments expressed their emotional stability.

It’s normal, just think that Qi Feiluan is back to work after his annual vacation.

Those who knew the inside story, such as confidants, had already expected it. After all, his boss had even removed his glands for Qi Feiluan.

Ji Xingyuan’s removal of glands also caused huge controversy within the Ji family group. However, apart from Ji Xingyuan, there was another person who became the center of the controversy, and that was Ji Yinli.

Currently, the only direct bloodline members of the Ji family are Ji Xingyuan and Ji Yinli. Since Ji Xingyuan is no longer Alpha, it is Ji Yinli’s turn.

When Ji Yinli sat on the board of directors and heard someone plausibly saying that he should be cultivated, he was furious on the spot.

I’m not, I don’t have it, don’t get involved with me if you want to die.

I didn’t see the last person who wanted to support me. Didn’t the body go somewhere?

Fortunately, this wave was easily suppressed by Ji Xingyuan. After all, if Ji Taizhen was still alive, it would still be possible to shake Ji Xingyuan’s position. However, Ji Taizhen had been “missing” for so long, and Ji Taizhen’s power was basically eliminated by Ji Xingyuan, and the remaining opposition was completely insignificant.

In particular, the news of the sudden death of the leader of the Grantham Group made the Grantham Group even more turbulent. After Ji Xingyuan seized the opportunity and annexed several crystal mines decisively, the only voices of doubt and opposition within the Jijia Group disappeared.

Now is a good opportunity to pursue the victory and take a bite out of the competitors. Now that Ji Xingyuan has shown the same courage as before, it is obviously more important to unite under his command to fight for greater interests than to oppose him.

After the New Year, Ji Xingyuan and Qi Feiluan attended Grantham’s funeral together.

After all, Ji Xingyuan had someone tell Grantham that he would not attend his wedding but would definitely attend the funeral.

There had been heavy snowfall in the capital on New Year’s Eve, and on the day of the funeral, the ground was still covered with thick snow.

Qi Feiluan followed Lai Ji Xingyuan, stepping on the snow step by step towards the tombstone, making a crunching sound under his feet.

As Grantham’s Oxmega, Mu Hean stood in front of the tombstone, wearing solemn black clothes. His eyes were a little swollen, but his expression showed no joy or sorrow.

Behind him stood some of the group’s directors and executives, while others gathered around a man in his thirties.

There is a clear distinction between the two parties, and there is quite an atmosphere of tension.

When Ji Xingyuan walked up to Mu He’an and put down the bouquet he brought, someone on the other side snorted coldly and said mockingly: “How capable is the town? A person has just died, and an adulterer comes to the grave so blatantly?”

Mu He’an didn’t even look at him, but instead said to Ji Xingyuan: “So have you even used this opportunity to dispel internal doubts about you removing your glands and becoming a Beta?”

“You should also thank me.” Ji Xingyuan raised his eyes, his eyes like swords, “After all, my speech is also beneficial to you, isn’t it?”

Mu He’an’s eyes changed when he paused…

He originally thought that by killing Grantham and paying a certain amount of group benefits in exchange for Ji Xingyuan’s help, he would take over the group with Ji Xingyuan’s help. He and Ji Xingyuan would have a mutually beneficial partnership.

But Ji Xingyuan seized this opportunity and in turn dispelled the doubts within the group that might arise from his becoming a Beta, thus achieving the goal of killing two birds with one stone. He was completely the one being exploited.

If Ji Xingyuan had removed his glands and turned into a Beta while Grantham was still alive, then the situation of the two groups would have been reversed, and the offense and defense would have changed.

Unfortunately, as Ji Xingyuan said, Mu Hean also needs to thank Ji Xingyuan for taking advantage of this. After all, Ji Xingyuan’s public remarks challenged the pyramid-shaped social concept.

Since Beta can be a leader, why can’t Omega?

Without Ji Xingyuan’s remarks, there would not be so many people standing behind Mu He’an to support him today.

Ji Xingyuan didn’t communicate much with him. After putting down the flowers, he left with Qi Feiluan.

Mu Hean watched the two of them leaving, turned his head to look at the tombstone, and exhaled slowly.

The warm heat condensed into white mist in the cold wind, and dissipated in an instant.

The fire caused by the dock explosion burned almost everything, not to mention Grantham’s ashes, even the wheelchair he was sitting in was burned into a whole piece, and only the clothes he usually wore were buried under the tombstone.

Mu Hean, on the other hand, was carried to the lighthouse far away from the dock by Grantham’s men and watched the fire from a long distance.

Fire and ocean together formed his last memory of Grantham.

No matter what, he got what he wanted now.

There will be more conspiracies, battles and interest disputes waiting for him in the future.

But this is the path he has to take. No matter how difficult it is, he will go on it at all costs.

After the funeral, Mu Hean leaned close to the tombstone, gently kissed the black and white photo on it, and said with a smile: “Goodbye.”

The snow on the cemetery floor was filled with messy footprints from the people attending the funeral. Mu and An’s leaving footprints were mixed in, indistinguishable from each other.

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Of course, Qi Feiluan, who has returned to work, will no longer be Ji Xingyuan’s companion as before. Sometimes Ji Xingyuan goes out to socialize, and he gets off work early after arranging enough manpower to protect him.

Qi Feiluan had just taken a ride back to Qi’s house. He had just entered his house and wanted to change out of his coat, but he looked at the wardrobe in the house. The beds and bedding in the rooms at Ji’s Manor were all ready-made, but the clothes he usually wore were all in Qi’s house.

He might live in both places in the future, so now he might as well take some of his clothes back to Ji’s Manor.

Besides…he hadn’t spent the night at the manor for a while.

Qi Feiluan opened the wardrobe and packed his clothes, sent a message to his parents saying that he was going to stay at the manor tonight, and then took a ride to Ji’s Manor.

When Qi Feiluan arrived, Ji Xingyuan hadn’t come back yet. The housekeeper asked the servant to take the clothes from his hand. He was about to ask the servant to help take Qi Feiluan’s clothes to the room where he lived before, but he seemed to suddenly remember something, and his words turned around.

“Put it for Mr. Qi… put it in the empty room upstairs first.”

Butler Ji said to Qi Feiluan seriously: “Mr. Qi’s room has not been occupied for a long time. Although the servants clean it every day, the closet is not cleaned often, so dust may have fallen. Put it in a clean place in another empty room first, and then I will ask them to clean the closet. After cleaning, put it in.”

Qi Feiluan nodded, his face expressionless, but still a little confused.

The most important thing for Butler Ji and the servants on weekdays is to clean and maintain the normal operation of Ji’s manor. His room is very close to Ji Xingyuan’s room, and that row of rooms is the focus of cleaning.

Even if the servant forgets to clean, Butler Ji has served the Ji family for many years and has made thoughtful arrangements in all aspects, so he will never forget to arrange it.

What’s more, it only took more than half a year from the time he moved out to the time he came back. There wouldn’t be dust in the closet, right?

Qi Feiluan was a little confused, thinking that maybe he was overthinking the occupational health problem. After all, it was not a big deal.

But then he discovered that Butler Ji was slightly anxious, and the servants did not enter his room to clean the closet.

Qi Feiluan’s doubts that had just been suppressed resurfaced.

He stood up and walked upstairs. Butler Ji followed him and said to Qi Feiluan, “Mr. Ji hasn’t asked for it yet. Do you want to wait for Mr. Ji below?”

Qi Feiluan shook his head.

As he approached his room, Butler Ji’s subtle anxiety became apparent.

This time Qi Feiluan had his doubts completely confirmed, and Butler Ji was anxious about him entering the room where he lived before.

Is there something in his room that he cannot see?

Butler Ji saw him walking to the door and opening the door. Although he was anxious, he didn’t say anything to stop him. He just watched Qi Feiluan enter his room.

Qi Feiluan closed the door, blocking Butler Ji’s sight, and his eyes fell on the walk-in closet in the room.

There are multiple cloakrooms in Jijia Manor, but most of the cloakrooms are filled with formal wear, formal wear, or outerwear, and some frequently worn clothes are placed in the walk-in closet in the room.

The wall behind the walk-in closet looked normal, just as it was before he left.

So what is hidden in the closet?

Qi Feiluan’s face turned cold unconsciously.

When he just stepped into the room, he noticed that although the servants had cleaned the room, the bed didn’t look like anyone was lying on it.

In the more than half a year since he moved out of this room, is it possible that Ji Xingyuan has let others live in this room?

Qi Feiluan felt that this was unlikely, but his observation told him that it was a fact. Butler Ji’s anxiety may be because he was afraid that he would discover this.

Qi Feiluan looked at the ordinary wall, and the coldness in his heart slowly turned into cold anger.

If someone else really lived here, that person’s clothes would be left in the closet, and he would be able to see it just by opening it.

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The author has something to say: I originally thought it would be better to divide the extra chapter into two parts directly, but because of obsessive-compulsive disorder, each chapter must be no less than 3,000 words, so I added an extra thousand words. I will finish the extra chapter tomorrow and it will be completely finished.