Chapter 36

Yet even so, Young Lady Kaguya gently set her down.

Perhaps Young Lady Kaguya is just like her.

She looked up once more, tears still on her face, yet she was already different from before.

"Young Lady Kaguya, thank you very much for your forgiveness."

"This time, having a choice, I will not be wrong again."

Taking a deep breath, she continued to look at this huge piece of meat.

"Let's begin."

Just as Kaguya Sigong and Ayase Ai were repairing their relationship within the Zhongsigong residence, the entire Kaguya Sigong family began to suffer an extraordinary blow.

As the current helmsman of the Kaguya Sigong family, Sigong Huang Guang was at this moment extremely bewildered.

"What is going on?"

"Why did we suddenly receive so many warnings from both the political and business circles?"

【The Kaguya Sigong family, as merchants, should rest content with commerce and not stretch their hands toward politics.】

This statement was a warning, yet it made Sigong Huang Guang's scalp go numb.

This statement was indeed quite heavy.

The politics of the Island Nation are tail-heavy and immovable.

However, the Island Nation also dislikes merchants stretching their hands toward politics; in the business world, this has already constituted a very serious warning.

It is not only the political world that is like this; even the business world is the same.

Allies who had previously cooperated harmoniously were now emitting sarcastic voices, with most accusing the Kaguya Sigong family of greedy behavior that wanted both this and that.

Actually, in the past, this was also a tradition of the Miyake family's burden.

Zaibatsu naturally know the principle of "leaving a line for others to walk, so that one may meet again in the future."

Yet the Kaguya Sigong family was too thorough in implementing this point, truly leaving only a sliver of life for commercial allies while devouring everything else.

Such behavior is certainly detestable.

It is just that the Kaguya Sigong family of the past was very powerful; even if he acted this way, as long as he remained so powerful, his rules were the rules.

This is "the principle."

But this time, the situation was that no one was following the principle.

Almost all allies pushed the Kaguya Sigong family toward a desperate situation at the same time.

Sigong Huang Guang habitually used some leverage, yet the effect was minimal, and some even spoke arrogantly.

"Sigong Huang Guang, if you want to release my leverage, go ahead and release it; let us see who dies and whose net breaks in the end!"

This tough response gave Sigong Huang Guang a headache as well.

Then Sigong Huang Guang received official sanctions; all hotels and shopping malls under the Kaguya Sigong name were ordered to close for rectification, for no other reason than that safety measures were inadequate.

Then the heavy assets of the Kaguya Sigong family, real estate, were sanctioned by the government, and many orders in the shipbuilding industry were directly halted.

Railways, mining, and oil all suffered desperate suppression, almost a pressure intended to strike the Kaguya Sigong family dead with a single blow.

Even procurement aspects were suppressed; all past channels were unilaterally breached by the other party, and the other party even stated they were willing to pay the breach-of-contract penalty.

Yet this statement gave Sigong Huang Guang a great headache.

Is this now a matter of breach-of-contract penalties? This is now a problem where the Kaguya Sigong family has money but cannot spend it.

This made Sigong Huang Guang, whose life had gone smoothly for the past forty years, have one head and two big problems.

Since taking over all the business of the Kaguya Sigong family, he had never seen such a situation.

"Who exactly wants the Kaguya Sigong family to die?"

This made Sigong Huang Guang anxious as well.

This matter is not a joke; once this comprehensive boycott from both the political and business circles continues for some time, the Kaguya Sigong family will truly be excluded from the entire Island Nation, and all business will completely fail.

Even though reluctant, Sigong Huang Guang still gritted his teeth and went to the hospital where his father was recuperating.

"Father, who exactly has such power to target the Kaguya Sigong family?"

Sigong Gan'an, knowing his son's purpose, almost instantly knew who had done it.

"It is Sanzenin Tei."

"Sanzenin Tei..."

Sigong Huang Guang's expression changed abruptly.

He remembered that less than half a day ago, the Young Lady of the Sanzenin family and the Young Lady of the Tsunomiya family had met with Kaguya.

Less than half a day later, the Kaguya Sigong family received blows from both the political and business circles.

Looking at it this way, the reason is clear.

Sigong Gan'an recalled the ruthlessness of Sanzenin Tei in the past; even now, he still felt a lingering fear.

"That old man... do not look at his kind face and gentle eyes now; in the past, he was a ruthless person."

"Now, besides Sanzenin Tei, no one else could destroy the Kaguya Sigong family in one stroke."

"Huang Guang, how did you provoke that old man, Sanzenin Tei?"

"..."

How could Sigong Huang Guang answer this question?

He simply did not dare to lay a hand on the Young Lady of the Sanzenin family.

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