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That day, with the National Securities Index surging two points, Xia Feng Group’s stock hit the limit down once again.

More critically, the very next day, orders for Tianguang Insulation Materials Company — a subsidiary under Xia Feng Group — plummeted by ninety percent, and more than thirty percent of their longtime clients rushed to tear up their contracts that same day.

Crack!

Xia Yuanzheng delivered another vicious slap across Xia Lewen’s face.

This time, he didn’t forget Su Yiyue.

So in the next instant, Su Yiyue went flying as well.

Because the only thought left in Xia Yuanzheng’s mind right now was this: if Su Yiyue hadn’t given birth to that little beast Xia Ruize, and if Xia Lewen hadn’t been such a useless piece of trash — actually letting Xia Ruize survive to this day — how could he possibly have ended up in such a passive and helpless position?

But there was no point saying any of this now.

The most pressing matter was to stabilize the situation at Xia Feng Group —

Besides, all Xia Ruize had done this time was develop a more advanced thermal insulation material than theirs. Given enough time, perhaps they could develop something even more advanced in return. So who would have the last laugh was still anyone’s guess!

Thinking of this, Xia Yuanzheng couldn’t help but clench his fists again.

The same words as always — once this whole affair blew over, he would absolutely flay Xia Ruize alive, crush his bones to dust, and scatter them to the winds.

Only then could he satisfy the hatred festering in his heart.

But what he never could have anticipated was that the very next day, Professor Liu had already produced a sample of the new synthetic rubber.

Ao Ruize: “……”

Professor Liu was actually a little dazed himself. He said, “Actually, before I started working with you on the electronic display screen experiments, I was already in the middle of conducting synthetic rubber experiments.”

“……Looking at the materials you gave me, the early-stage experiments seemed more or less the same as what I had been doing. And although I felt that the latter half of my experimental approach had taken some wrong turns, the first half seemed slightly simpler than yours — so I just directly substituted some of the reagents and samples I had prepared earlier……”

He hadn’t expected it, but he had actually succeeded.

Ao Ruize couldn’t help but laugh again.

Otherwise, how would you explain the saying that people who are a little bit wicked tend to have unusually good luck?

Wasn’t this the best proof of that?

Ao Ruize: “Alright, go ahead and compile the relevant materials and file directly for a patent.”

“Then we can move on to the next experiment.”

William, the Vice President and representative of Magellan Corporation, who hadn’t even had time to return to his home country before learning that Ao Ruize and Professor Liu had invented yet another world-leading technology: “……”

So two hours later, Ao Ruize and Professor Liu received another dozen or so Australian Wagyu cattle.

And these Wagyu cattle were, once again, all raised on the Magellan CEO’s private ranch — whenever Ao Ruize and Professor Liu felt like eating, they would slaughter one and fly it over.

William didn’t even need to rework his script: “Mr. Xia, Professor Liu — after all, we’ve already had two very pleasant collaborations together. Why don’t Mr. Xia and Professor Liu grant us the licensing rights to this new synthetic rubber technology as well?”

“We are prepared to offer Mr. Xia and Professor Liu a thirty percent equity stake.”

Five percent more than last time.

Not because this new synthetic rubber technology was more advanced than the previous display screen or thermal insulation technologies — but because in just under three months, Ao Ruize and Professor Liu had successively invented three world-leading technologies. It was impossible not to recognize their value now.

So they felt they had to show even greater sincerity.

After all, no one could predict how many more technologies Xia Ruize and Professor Liu might go on to invent.

They even found themselves feeling grateful that the representatives from Frank Corporation and Nuovo Corporation had shown up when they did back then, forcing them to abandon any thought of pressuring Ao Ruize and Professor Liu into selling those eight display screen patents outright. If not for that, how would they have had any chance today to sit here and negotiate a partnership with Ao Ruize?

Hearing this, Ao Ruize smiled again.

He raised his glass directly: “To a fruitful partnership!”

Five days later, upon seeing the news that Magellan Corporation had spent 3.7 billion in one go to acquire Geng Province Tire Co., Ltd., renaming it China’s First Tire Co., Ltd.

The assembled business moguls of Qian City’s commercial circle: “……”

The same points as always.

Last year, China’s tire market had already reached a scale of 350 billion yuan, with export revenues also surpassing the 150 billion yuan mark.

Xia Feng Group’s subsidiary Xiangsu Tires, while not the best tire manufacturer in the country — not even in the top three — still recorded a net profit of 7.3 billion yuan last year, accounting for thirty percent of Xia Feng Group’s annual revenue.

In other words, within just a matter of days, Xia Ruize had hacked off yet another of Xia Feng Group’s major limbs.

Most critically, they had found out that Xia Ruize had already begun research into solar energy generation materials.

— Xia Feng Group’s subsidiary, Wanke Energy, was a well-known new energy enterprise across Asia.

Last year, Wanke Energy’s net profit was 5.3 billion yuan, accounting for twenty-four percent of Xia Feng Group’s annual revenue.

If back when Xia Ruize first brought out those eight display screen patents, they had dismissed Ao Ruize as nothing more than a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse —

And even a few days ago, when Magellan Corporation suddenly thrust itself into the thermal insulation materials sector, they still hadn’t believed that Xia Ruize, a celebrity who hadn’t even finished junior college, could possess such capabilities —

Then now, with things having reached this point, anyone who still failed to see that all of this was Xia Ruize deliberately targeting the Xia family would have wasted every single year they’d lived.

And more to the point — it wasn’t even just that. The more critical issue was this: Xia Feng Group’s Xiangsu Tires couldn’t even crack the top three in China, yet because of the Xia family, Xia Ruize had upended the rice bowls of the entire Chinese tire market.

On this matter, Xiangjiang Tires — ranked first in China — and Jiaocheng Tires — ranked second in China: 【？？？？】

And the netizens at large:

【I’m stunned.】

【Same.】

【@Xia Ruize, aren’t you supposed to be a celebrity?】

【Singing and dancing on the big stage suddenly turns into “I Love Inventing”?】

【I’m genuinely curious how much Xia Ruize is worth now.】

【At least eight or nine hundred billion, maybe a trillion?】

……

And it was right at this moment that yet another video shot to the top of the trending charts.

In the video, a livestreamer who had originally been singing at the entrance of a snack street happened to run into Ao Ruize and Qin Xiuyan, who were there for a stroll.

Upon seeing Ao Ruize, he immediately forgot all about singing and rushed straight over.

Partly because he was a fan of Xia Ruize, and partly because he was genuinely curious — how had Ao Ruize, as an ordinary junior college student, managed to invent so many world-leading technologies in such a short span of time?

Hearing the question, Ao Ruize simply smiled and said: “For that, you’d have to thank the Xia family. If they hadn’t pushed me into a corner, and if I truly couldn’t think of any better way out, I — someone who was originally a complete academic slacker — would never have mustered up the will to bury myself in scientific research.”

“As it turns out, even the heavens seem to be on my side. Otherwise, how could I have possibly developed all those new technologies so easily?”

The livestreamer: “I heard your next project is solar energy generation materials — is that a coincidence, or…?”

Ao Ruize: “No coincidence.”

He said with a calm smile: “I am deliberately targeting the Xia family. And from here on out, whatever industry Xia Feng Group moves into, that’s the industry I’ll research — until the Xia family goes bankrupt.”

The netizens: 【……】

【He’s smiling, so why did a chill just run up my spine…… wait, I’m not a member of the Xia family, so never mind.】

【Because his mother cheated on his father, because his stepfather abused him, so he went straight from academic slacker to academic genius? Does this mean that if I go and cheat right now, then send her dad six feet under, and then marry some scumbag — my kid, who’s in sixth grade and still scoring two-digit marks in math every single exam, might actually have a shot at being saved?!】

【……】

【That is absolutely NOT how it works!!】

【Is THAT really what anyone should be focusing on?】

【The point is, Xia Ruize is absolutely incredible.】

【Three world-leading technologies invented in three months — I’d dare say ninety-nine point nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine percent of the scientists alive today can’t hold a candle to him.】

【Are we sure this isn’t a plot from a novel?】

【So does that mean what he just said could actually come true someday?】

【I think the real takeaway here is — the Xia family looks like they’re done for.】

Xia Yuanzheng and the others, who had only just barely managed to halt the downward spiral of Xia Feng Group’s stock, now wore expressions that had completely twisted beyond recognition.

And it was at precisely this moment that Xia Yuanzheng’s secretary came bursting in: “Chairman Xia, something’s happened — Director Chen and the others are already preparing to convene a board meeting to remove you from your position.”

The housekeeper also rushed in at that same moment: “Head of the family, the members of the collateral branches have all arrived. They’re here to strip you of your position as head of the family.”

Boom!

And right at that very instant, a bolt of lightning suddenly slashed across the sky outside the window, illuminating every twisted contour on Xia Yuanzheng’s face in stark and merciless light.

Then, torrential rain came pouring down.

The study fell into a dead silence. Su Yiyue and the others didn’t even dare draw a breath.

But this time, Xia Yuanzheng felt no urge to vent his fury on Xia Lewen.

Because he no longer had the capacity to spare a thought for such things.

The only thing left in his mind was this — that he, Xia Yuanzheng, had actually been brought down by that little beast Xia Ruize.

He had truly been defeated by the ant he had never once deigned to take seriously.

And worst of all, right now he was utterly powerless to fight back. All he could do was sit and wait for his doom —

No. He still had a way to deal with Xia Ruize.

“Kill him. Kill him —”

Xia Yuanzheng’s expression grew more and more vicious, his breathing more and more ragged: “As long as he’s dead, Xia Feng Group can hold onto what’s left of its industries. We’ll still have a chance to make a comeback.”

Xia Lewen, too, snapped back to full clarity in that moment.

Because the Xia family had pushed him to the edge — and so Xia Ruize had channeled his rage into strength, directly breaking through the limits of human potential, transforming from an academic slacker into a figure that even veteran scientists with decades of immersion in their fields couldn’t begin to match. How was that even possible?

Since it was impossible, it meant Xia Ruize absolutely had to have some kind of secret.

A thought flashed through Xia Lewen’s mind in an instant — could it be that Xia Ruize had also been reborn?

No, that wasn’t right.

Even if Xia Ruize had been reborn, he couldn’t possibly have become this terrifyingly capable overnight.

There had to be another reason.

Perhaps because he had a system on him?

Something like a “Academic God System,” or perhaps an “Film Emperor System” —

Just like in those male-oriented web novels, where the host completes tasks issued by the system and receives research breakthroughs as rewards.

That had to be it. There was no other explanation.

A flash of wild, frenzied joy rose in Xia Lewen’s eyes.

He immediately laid out every piece of his speculation.

Finally, he said, word by word: “As long as we spread this story, are we really worried that the government and those foreign underground laboratories won’t come sniffing around Xia Ruize?”

What was the point of just killing Xia Ruize?

That would do nothing to satisfy the hatred in his heart.

If they were going to act, they had to make him wish he were dead!

Hearing these words, Xia Yuanzheng — who had initially thought Xia Lewen had lost his mind for coming up with something so absurd — suddenly felt the corner of his eye twitch violently.

That was right. No matter how absurd the claim might be — so what? As long as someone believed it, as long as their goal was achieved, that was all that mattered.

And so Xia Yuanzheng smiled too: “Good.”

However, in the very next second, a group of armed personnel, each bearing the national emblem on their caps, came storming in and surrounded them completely, sealing off every exit.

The middle-aged man at the lead wore an expression of cold steel:

“Xia Yuanzheng, Xia Lewen, Su Yiyue — a matter has come to our attention, and we’d like to ask for your cooperation in an investigation.”

Their uniforms were a deep, solid black — entirely unlike the standard police uniforms commonly seen across China.

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