[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-706":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887283,2510,"Chapter 706: Yuqi’s and Songjia’s Past","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-706",706,"\u003Cp>\"Anyway, where was I... Oh, right, the crash scene. There was nobody left in the car, so Mom had to do a funeral with your old clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was crying so much at that funeral. I was crying so much too... Only Yueyue and Nami were too young to remember it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened after the funeral?\" Xiaoyun curiously asked as Yuqi’s voice suddenly got quieter and quieter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom started drinking nonstop for years... Our grandparents were the ones taking care of us until she got out of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did she get out of it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should be thankful Wuli and Shuli are her best friends... Or else Mom probably wouldn’t have lived long enough to see you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you helped, too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun gently patted her on the head, Yuqi didn’t push it away as she snuggled up to his chest even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you want to know what happened to your company?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. Did it go as planned, or did something bad happen to it? Leyan wasn’t running it while drunk, was she?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She only started running it after she got out of the drinking habit... Grandma was running the company until she... couldn’t.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi’s words made Xiaoyun’s hand freeze again as he instantly knew the grandma she was talking about was his old man’s wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When did she... pass away?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A month after Mom stopped drinking. She was barely holding on after both you and her grandson passed away in the same year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Songyi died?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... He got into some sort of fight with thugs and was stabbed to death. It was just streaks of bad luck in the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Mom took over the company, it was a complete mess. The plan you had made before passing away was half-useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Half useless? Really? I spent years crafting that. It was a cumulative sustainability safety plan. How did it become useless?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because your plan didn’t include what to do when a global recession hit. You literally left at the worst time possible, you know that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi looked back at her with a grumpy look, all Xiaoyun could do was awkwardly scratch his head, as he knew exactly what she was talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crap. I should have written something about that. But there should have been enough cash flow to survive the crash, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, there was. But it took years to recover... Xiaoyun, you know, Mom was seriously considering just selling your share of the stock completely?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, that was what I originally expected her to do. Selling it to get enough money to raise you guys would make more sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She wasn’t about to give up the years of work you had put into the company. Your plan wasn’t all that useless when she actually started putting it into work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really? I thought you said it was just useless a few seconds ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said half-useless. It’s just not as useful as it could have been. But just enough to convince the majority of the board to keep her as the CEO.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... If I remember correctly, though, you took over the company at some point, didn’t you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course I did. I sped up everything in life just to take over from Mom. You should have been happy I took it over, or else Mom would have remarried.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remarried?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun looked genuinally shocked for the first time as he had never once ever heard of the possibility of Leyan remarrying someone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom had a lot of people chasing after her. Especially one of our main competitors who wanted the title of putting one of the few female CEO under his boot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does that have to do with Leyan and remarrying?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They went out of their way to force every single one of our distributors to break already signed contracts to boycott us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s... absurd.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not as absurd when they happened to be one of the richest coal operations that was looking to expand into other fields of business.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You still haven’t explained what that has to do with Leyan and remarrying,\" Xiaoyun asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do I really need to explain it down to the detail?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him nod his head, Yuqi rolled her eyes as she let out a small sigh before resuming the story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The company was going through a little liquidity crisis when interest rates got more expensive, while the company had already agreed to a massive energy contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the major stockholders and the board of directors wanted us to incorporate the company with that coal mining CEO who had more than enough cash flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention it also happened to perfectly complement our business, providing coal towards the potential energy sector we had been expanding into.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You serious? That bad of a timing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. And guess what? That coal mining CEO went on Television to say they’ll only agree to a merger if Mom marries his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now you get why the whole breaking contract happened in the first place? Mom was about to fold under pressure just to keep the company going.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are the provincial officials? There’s no way they will just let Songjia conglomerate fail when so many people in Guangdong work for us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, do I need to wake you up or something? They already bailed out businesses once during the Great Recession.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, if I hadn’t taken the position as CEO any faster. You probably could have said goodbye to Mom forever.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you so much then... Wait, how did you deal with the problem then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Break contracts, duh. I’m not some idiot who’s going to not cut our losses. Giving up the energy sector is better than selling out my own mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The board agreed to that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What else are they going to do? Force a woman to marry some stranger in the hope that the merger will actually go through?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun quickly facepalmed himself as he took someone talking on the TV seriously rather than as a joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom almost got sold by the board, thought. They were so convinced of not taking losses that they almost denied me from taking Mom’s position.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They dared to do that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why wouldn’t they? You aren’t here anymore... To them, we’re just a slightly bigger shareholder whose share had been diluted over the years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, how did you get into position? Did you have the majority or something?\" Xiaoyun curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, I had the majority. All I needed to do was to blackmail a few of the smaller shareholders and make Mom hand over her position.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blackmail?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi suddenly reached her hand down onto his crotch, a chill traveled down his spine as she gently squeezed it a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This kind of blackmail... Imagine being recorded with a prostitute in a dark room. You tell me how they would vote after that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she lets him go, Xiaoyun’s face only gets more intrigued rather than scared about how she even learned all these dirty tactics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi... You really just graduated from university? And took the company over at such a young age?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I graduated from the same university you went to at 18, just two years before the outbreak...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You took the company over at a young age, too, no? Right after graduating from college and meeting mom?\" Yuqi questioned back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was just in the right place at the right time. I-I was more lucky than anything. Yuqi, how did you even learned all these... tactics?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s just things I had to do to survive growing up without a father... Talking about you, asshole.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun could only awkwardly chuckle as he scratched his head. He couldn’t say sorry again as he saw the genuine frustration building up on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, what happened in the year you took the company over? Did everything just go smoothly until the outbreak?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course not. What made you think I was staying late in the company when the outbreak happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um... I just thought you might have been a workaholic or something. I mean, you’re the one who lashed out at Leyan the day we came back home.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi crossed her arms as she didn’t speak up any further. It was clear Xiaoyun had spoken too brutally honest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, so the company was in a bad situation after the loss of the energy sector... I’m sure you made a great recovery with the genius ideas in your head, right?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short silence, Yuqi finally spoke up again as the anger suddenly vanished. In its place was a hint of shame and embrassment, surprisingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I could only keep the company afloat, and that’s it... I just couldn’t expand anywhere, no matter what I tried to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice got quieter and quieter, looking a little embrassed as she nervously played with her own finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s already extremely impressive for someone straight out of uni. Do you know how many people would fail at the first step?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1504,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","3a834ba29a157d6785c3dea805632ead3302449f31fcb4464cf0c0cc652ea24a","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-707","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-705",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]