Chapter 1177: A Good Death

Everyone thinks he is a playboy.

But that is not a problem; his family is wealthy, and aren't all sons of wealthy families like that? It can be considered a standard feature, not an anomaly.

Only he himself knows why he acts this way.

Yun Qitian was misunderstood, and he originally wanted to explain it clearly.

The words were already on the tip of his tongue, but he changed his mind: "Hehe, I was just feeling shy, it's all my fault. I promise that apart from this one thing, I won't hide anything from you in the future, okay?"

He went to raise his right hand to swear an oath.

Shi Ran hurriedly interrupted him: "Go and arrange the task I gave you, don't be so glib here."

"Okay."

Yun Qitian turned and went out, and she let out a long sigh of relief.

She is afraid of oaths.

Qi Heng had made solemn promises in front of her and sworn many oaths; haha, it was just a joke!

……

L Country.

Presidential Office.

Qi Heng's brows were deeply furrowed, and his fingers tapped incessantly on the table, the sound irregular, much like his current mood—very unstable.

Turning on printing presses to print banknotes—damn it, if one's brain wasn't kicked by a donkey, one wouldn't come up with such an idea!

Now, prices across the country are soaring, and the streets are full of figures of ordinary people.

Panic-buying food.

Panic-buying daily necessities.

Panic-buying everything that can be bought with money.

Some transactions don't even accept the national currency at all, requiring Jiangzhou Currency instead.

Turning on printing presses makes money worthless and causes prices to soar; Qi Heng understands such a simple principle!

But what he doesn't understand is—isn't the speed of the price hikes a bit too fast?

The printing presses here were just turned on, and the printed banknotes hadn't even circulated into the market yet.

As a result, prices started to rise, and then panic began to set in.

The market in L Country seems to have been injected with a catalyst, accelerating all of this development, making it impossible for people to guard against.

"Bang!"

The office door was slammed open.

Qi Heng knew who it was without looking.

In the entire L Country, besides Liu Quan, there wouldn't be a second person who would barge into his office without knocking.

"President, why is the military expenditure this time in cash? I won't accept it. You can exchange it for gold bars or Jiangzhou Currency for us, or even Rice Round if you have to, but I don't want the national currency."

Qi Heng was almost angered to the point of fainting.

But he cannot faint right now; a huge pile of troublesome matters hasn't been resolved, and as the commander of a country, he has no right to faint!

"Commander Liu, don't forget, you were the one who suggested turning on the printing presses!"

"As the initiator, shouldn't you be setting an example? Instead of righteously refusing the national currency."

If it were someone else refusing, he wouldn't be this angry.

But Commander Liu refusing made him extremely furious.

Liu Quan's influence is among the top in the country; if his refusal to accept L Currency as military pay gets out, the country might just collapse directly.

He knew he was in the wrong and couldn't win the argument.

So he waved his hand: "I don't care about all that; if you don't agree, then just take back the military power, and I'll retire to my hometown."

"Every day in the countryside, planting some vegetables and rice is enough to eat and drink."

This person has always been one to start things without finishing them, caring only about the result and not the process.

Qi Heng: ……

"You go back first, I'll give you an answer this afternoon, okay?"

Commander Liu immediately beamed with joy: "Sure, sure, why wouldn't that be okay? Don't talk about the afternoon, I can wait three or two days." He said this as if he were very reasonable.

He left, in a rush, leaving all the difficult problems to Qi Heng.

Qi Heng thought for a long time.

In the end, he dialed the number for Dingsheng Group.

"I am Qi Heng, help me connect to your President, official business."

Qi Heng was concise and to the point, using the fewest words possible to state his purpose.

Based on his understanding of Shi Ran, she would definitely instruct the company staff that if he called, they should clarify whether it was official or private business.

If it were official business, she would take it; if it were private, forget it.

Qi Heng's guess was correct; Shi Ran had indeed given such instructions.

Secretary: "Okay, please wait a moment, I will transfer you."

President Office.

Shi Ran answered the line.

"Hello, does President Qi have something to say?"

Qi Heng: ……

"Ranran, we don't need to be so distant when we talk, do we?"

Shi Ran: "This is as it should be. From the moment you issued a Red Wanted Order for my parents without distinguishing right from wrong, there has been no relationship between us anymore."

"If I haven't guessed wrong, you are looking for me because the economy in your country is not doing well, so you want me to let you off."

That was correct; that was indeed Qi Heng's purpose.

Qi Heng: "Yes, I hope that the matters between our two families will not affect innocent commoners. If you want to take revenge, come at me alone; do not involve the innocent."

"Hahahaha..."

Shi Ran suddenly began to laugh, laughing until tears came out.

She mocked: "President Qi, you are truly hilarious. Your parents kidnapped my parents onto a plane, and then they died, yet you blame my parents for it."

"Because Uncle Wang Yong spoke a few words of justice for them, you worried he would cause trouble, so you fabricated charges of rebellion to throw him into Prison and even wanted to hang him. Now you tell me not to involve the innocent?"

"You are really good at double standards; why didn't I notice that before?"

Qi Heng: "They killed my parents. A feud over a murdered father cannot exist under the same sky!"

Shi Ran originally did not want to tangle with him over this issue, but she was too angry to let it go, so she asked: "On what grounds do you say that? Do you have evidence?"

"No evidence is needed. At the time, only they were on the island, and apart from your parents going missing, everyone else died. If they aren't the murderers, who else could be?"

Shi Ran sneered: "Heh, Qi Heng, I really misjudged you before. I actually thought you would be an upright man; I didn't expect you to be such a muddle-headed fool."

"Why would my parents do such a thing? They had no reason to do so."

Qi Heng: "They did! It's just that you don't know about it."

In his haste, he blurted it out.

Shi Ran: "Tell me, what reason did they have to do this?"

Things having reached this point, Qi Heng no longer hid anything; he confessed to Shi Ran everything his parents had said and planned to do before their engagement.

Shi Ran was trembling with anger.

It was the first time she learned that the parents of the Qi Family could be so excessive!

Qi Heng: "Alright, I have confessed everything you wanted to know to you. Now you know they had a reason to do it, right?"

Shi Ran: "Your parents deserved to die; it was good they died."

After saying this, she prepared to hang up the phone.

But thinking that her goal had not yet been achieved, she forcibly held back.

"Fine, I won't waste my breath on you. Let's lay our cards on the table: you revoke the arrest warrants for my parents and Uncle Wang Yong, and I will let the economy of L Country return to normal within three days."

Qi Heng: "That is impossible."

Shi Ran...

She raged: "Since it's impossible, then what is there left to talk about? I will continue to look for my parents, and you can wish L Country good luck!"

This time she hung up the phone—not just hung up, but in her fury, she grabbed the phone and smashed it onto the ground!