Chapter 501: The Chessboard Overturned

The air in the Wanhui Company’s top-floor boardroom was so thick with tension it felt like a physical weight. The panoramic windows, which usually offered a stunning, god-like view of the city, now seemed to frame a world that had ceased to matter. Inside this glass cage, a new king was crowning himself. Manager Yang sat at the head of the long, polished mahogany table, a position that had belonged to a phantom chairman for years. His usual ingratiating smile was gone, replaced by a mask of...