108: The President invites you

Gu Xiaoyue looked at their questioning gazes. "Either you obediently transfer 70% of the Gu Corporation's shares to my father or my younger brother. Or, you let the Gu Corporation disappear, so you can stop saying that we are coveting the Gus's meager family assets!"

Gu Qi's eyes blazed with fire, and he said with some disdain, "What big talk!"

Gu Xiaoyue was neither hurried nor upset; she shrugged. "Whether the talk is big or not has nothing to do with you. After all, this choice isn't up to you to make—don't let the door hit you on the way out!"

Gu Xiaoyue made a gesture of invitation, effectively issuing an order to leave.

The air seemed to freeze for several minutes before Gu Yongze slowly stood up and led everyone away.

Gu Xiaoyue smiled awkwardly at Chu Li. "I'm really sorry; you came as a guest, only to encounter such a dramatic mess."

Chu Li shook his head and said nothing. Being in the Chu family, he had seen plenty of dirty business.

If not for his grandfather's doting and his own protective measures, his life probably wouldn't have been easy either.

That was the way of aristocratic families; they looked glorious on the surface, but most were helpless behind the scenes.

Gu Yu asked Gu Xiaoyue if she was really going to move to the capital; Gu Xiaoyue's rude attitude toward Gu Yongze just now had made him somewhat dissatisfied.

Gu Xiaoyue sighed; at this point, she felt she shouldn't hide it any longer.

She told them about the previous assassination attempt and how Mu Qingning had "accidentally" fallen down the stairs.

Fearing they wouldn't believe her, she also presented the evidence she had collected.

After more than a year of being together, Gu Xiaoyue had indeed developed feelings for this pair of convenient parents, Gu Yu and Mu Qingning.

However, she couldn't stand Gu Yu's stubbornness. She could sense his dissatisfaction in his tone because of her attitude toward Gu Yongze.

If Gu Yu remained stubborn, the previous one billion star coins would count as paying off their care for her over the past year.

From then on, she would be free to soar, which wouldn't be a bad thing.

Mu Qingning sat to the side holding her son, gently patting his back to coax him to sleep, without saying a word.

She originally hadn't known why, after twenty years, Gu Yongze had finally relented and allowed their family of three to return to the Gu Family.

Hearing Shen Jiajing's words just now, she finally understood that Gu Yongze's scheme was because Gu Xiaoyue was favored by the young master of the Chu family, and he wanted Gu Xiaoyue to return home to arrange a marriage with the Chu family.

Even though she and Gu Yu had been targeted by Gu Qi with lethal intent time and again, Gu Yongze's attitude remained one of inaction.

The meaning was obvious: as long as Gu Xiaoyue returned safely to the Gu Family for the marriage alliance, it didn't matter even if she gave birth to eight or ten heirs for the Gu Family; she was of no use.

Mu Qingning's tears dripped onto her hand, and before she could wipe them away, she heard Gu Yu's voice filled with anger.

"This is outrageous! Xiao Yue, from now on, your mother and I will listen to you!"

Mu Qingning was Gu Yu's bottom line; he absolutely would not allow anyone to hurt her!

Since Gu Xiaoyue could casually transfer one billion star coins, and was also the champion of the National Competition, she naturally wouldn't fight a battle she wasn't prepared for!

Gu Xiaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and pulled Chu Li into her room.

"Chu Li, how many pet beasts can you summon at the same time now?"

Gu Xiaoyue's gossipy side was ignited. Logically speaking, since returning from the Lianxin Waterfall, Chu Li should have been able to summon three pet beasts simultaneously, but in the secret realm, she had only seen him summon two to fight.

Chu Li rubbed his nose. "I can summon three, but Xiao Li's level is still only at the early stage of Mature Tier 1. The beasts in the secret realm are at least Mature Tier 2; summoning it out is useless and also consumes Mental Power."

"But with the Master-level assessment in a few days, only your Fire Phoenix is at the mid-stage of Mature Tier 3. It won't be easy to pass, will it?"

Chu Li's current pet beasts were: the Fire Phoenix at the mid-stage of Mature Tier 3, the Teng Snake and the Youming Tiger at the mid-stage of Mature Tier 1, and the Lihuo Red-Eyed Beast at the early stage of Mature Tier 1.

That Immortal Tier pet beast in the Chu family treasury had already been cleansed by Chu Li into a Dark-Wood attribute contract, but it was still only at Young life stage 4.

"I've also checked the Beastmaster Association recently; there's no han jiang grass or Golden Herb for sale," Chu Li spread his hands. "If I don't pass this time, I'll just pass it the next time. Once the Fire Phoenix reaches Mature Tier 4, passing will be the same thing; I'll just treat this time as testing the waters."

Seeing that Chu Li had a good mindset, Gu Xiaoyue took out three attribute accessories from her Yu Beast Space.

She gave a wood-attribute necklace to the Teng Snake, a fire-attribute necklace to the Lihuo Red-Eyed Beast, and a pair of dark-attribute earrings to the Youming Tiger.

The bonus from these attribute accessories was equivalent to increasing a small level.

The Teng Snake at the mid-stage of Mature Tier 1 was now at the strength level of the late stage of Tier 1.

If the Teng Snake could reach the late stage of Mature Tier 1 before the Master-level Beastmaster assessment, it would have the strength of the early stage of Mature Tier 2.

It might just give him an extra bit of certainty to pass the assessment.

Chu Li didn't stand on ceremony with Gu Xiaoyue and put the attribute accessories on his pet beasts.

As for the Immortal Tier pet beast, Gu Xiaoyue didn't ask, and Chu Li didn't mention it.

Actually, Gu Xiaoyue wanted to give Chu Li a Huanpo Lotus, but unfortunately, she had only saved up over a thousand points so far.

With her current points, she couldn't even bear to exchange for Immortal Tier beast food; she was saving everything for the Huanpo Lotus.

The two chatted idly for a while longer before Chu Li took his leave to go home.

Not two days later, the seven of them, including Gu Xiaoyue, simultaneously received notification for the Beastmaster assessment the next day.

They also agreed to meet up at the Beastmaster Association.

Gu Xiaoyue calculated the treasures in her Yu Beast Space: ten tianling fruits, five hua yu fruits, and seven Soul Exchange Fruits—she wanted to cash them out.

She narrowed her eyes; the Gu Family would most likely not transfer the shares.

If she really wanted the Gu Family to go bankrupt, she would need to have several tens of billions of star coins in her hands.

So, early the next morning, Gu Xiaoyue arrived at the Beastmaster Association an hour earlier than Chu Li, Ye Wanrou, and the others.

While listing the tianling fruits and hua yu fruits for sale, she felt a pang of pain over the transaction fees.

The time limit for the 1% transaction fee reduction that Qin Shao had promised her had just expired a few days ago. Last time she listed the hua yu flower, she hadn't expected it to sell so quickly.

Therefore, at the time, she hadn't asked the staff at the Qingyu City Beastmaster Association to adjust her transaction fees.

Now that these billions of star coins' worth of heavenly treasures were listed, the transaction fees had exceeded one hundred million.

She listed ten orders of tianling fruit at 170 million star coins each.

She listed five orders of hua yu fruit at 300 million each, and seven orders of Soul Exchange Fruit at 400 million each.

Gu Xiaoyue also took out the Spirit Cleansing Spring, listing twenty orders at 30 million star coins per 10 milliliters.

She calculated that according to the current growth progress of the tianling trees and the others, she would have to come back to the Beastmaster Association to list items again in just over a month.

Once the treasures were all listed, Gu Xiaoyue had just stepped out of the operation room when a staff member was already waiting for her at the door.

Her eyes flickered, and she unconsciously furrowed her brows.

Was she being watched?

Gu Xiaoyue lifted her leg to leave, but the staff member raised an arm, blocking her path.

"Hello, little beauty, our Beastmaster Association President requests your presence—"