After Su Zheng's parents passed away in an accident, the Su company was in chaos for a while. Quite a few shareholders had ulterior motives, but under Su Zheng's suppression, stability was restored before long.

However, facts proved that although these people appeared obedient on the surface, their ambitions had never been extinguished.

After Su Zheng was taken away by the police this time, apart from his trusted aides in the company, most of the shareholders were not thinking about quickly bailing the chairman out of prison to maintain the company's stability. Instead, they were eagerly plotting how to wrest shares from Su Zheng's hands and gain more benefits from this incident.

They didn't place the safety of the Su company in their hearts at all, which seemed quite misguided.

Actually, there was a reason for their fearlessness. The Su company had been passed down for several decades and had an extremely solid foundation domestically, occupying over 40% of the current industry's market share. It was not that easy to collapse.

If they could tear away shares from Su Zheng, the benefits obtained could completely make up for their losses in this assault.

After the system finished analyzing these shareholders' mentality with Su Duan, Su Duan thought for a bit and commented, "These people are really stupid."

When he was still a poria herb, growing attached to the roots of a pine tree, he understood that only if the pine tree lived healthily could he obtain the most nutrients. The relationship between those shareholders and the Su company should be similar to his relationship with the pine tree, yet they didn't know to cherish the environment they grew in at all.

Although the effects were not apparent in the short term, he remembered an idiom humans often said - many a little makes a mickle. If this continued, the Su company would inevitably decline bit by bit.

This was indeed the case. In the original plot, Su Zheng stayed in prison for three years. During these three years, the shareholders schemed against each other. Su Duan also couldn't control the situation, and the Su company's circumstances grew worse and worse. By the time Su Zheng was released from prison, what he faced was a Su company that was already mostly hollowed out on the inside and on the verge of collapse at any time.

The system echoed, "The host is correct."

After Su Duan finished speaking with the system, he climbed to the window edge in his newly changed pajamas.

The night was already very late, but the lights in this city were still shining. All kinds of dazzling neon lights radiated towards the sky, making even the light of the distant stars appear dim.

Su Duan raised his head to look at a particularly tall cluster of buildings in the east of the city. That was where the major companies and conglomerates were concentrated, the economic lifeline of this city. The Su company occupied an entire building there.

Su Zheng should almost be at the police station by now.

Su Duan thought worriedly, he heard that the police were very fierce when arresting people, and the environment in prison was also not good. He looked up information and found that not only would fights break out between inmates, some prison guards would also abuse prisoners. In any case, it was very chaotic.

The system seemed to read his worries and considerately said, "Does the host need a real-time projection of Su Zheng's location?"

Su Duan hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "Yes, thank you."

A screen appeared in front of him out of thin air. Su Zheng's figure appeared in the center of the screen. He had already arrived at the police station and was sitting in the interrogation room being questioned. His suit jacket was nowhere to be seen, leaving him in only a white shirt. The expression on his face was very cold.

Su Duan stared at the screen for a long time. Because he was too focused, his pupils even slightly constricted. It was only when the interrogation came to a stop and Su Zheng was taken to the detention room that he relaxed a little.

The situation didn't seem to be as bad as he initially thought. Those police officers were more civilized than he expected and were quite polite to Su Zheng. It was just that the detention room was really too crude. It was only five or six square meters in total, and the bed inside was narrow and short. For someone as tall and large as Su Zheng, lying on it was extremely uncomfortable.

Perhaps it was because the bed was too uncomfortable to lie on, but Su Zheng slept leaning against the wall that night.

Su Duan originally had no sleepiness, but the subject of his observation had fallen asleep. As he watched, drowsiness also suddenly surged up, and before he knew it, he had slept until dawn.

The next day, Su Duan was woken up by the butler. After a night of fermentation, those who should know about this matter already knew. The people on Su Zheng's side had also pretty much finished preparing countermeasures.

After the butler helped him get dressed, he solemnly explained the course of events to him and then took him to the police station.

Although suspects were generally not allowed visits from family members before the verdict was announced, as long as the connections were in place, everything could be negotiated in a society based on human relations.

Although he knew that the other party had not suffered much last night, when he saw Su Zheng's slightly haggard face with his own eyes, Su Duan's eyes still turned sour, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

Su Zheng's brows almost immediately furrowed so deeply a fly could be crushed to death between them.

But the police were still guarding to the side, so he couldn't go over and comfort his brother by patting his head like before. He could only coax in a low voice from across the table, "Duan Duan, be good. Big brother is fine, don't cry."

Su Duan wiped his tears and said, "I won't cry."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but let out a hiccup with a tearful tone, and two more teardrops seeped out from the corners of his eyes.

Su Duan: "..."

Actually, Su Duan also understood that tears were futile, but human emotions were just so strange. Obviously, he had already watched Su Zheng for the entire night through the system's projection, but after a few hours of truly meeting face-to-face, a feeling of sadness still welled up uncontrollably from his heart.

Seeing his younger brother crying to the point of hiccuping, Su Zheng couldn't help but lean his body forward. He pulled out some tissues from the tissue box beside his hand and handed them to Su Duan sitting across the table.

Su Duan took the tissues and pressed his already reddening nose tip.

Su Zheng softly comforted him. After Su Duan's tears stopped, he felt a bit dispirited. The one who was caught was Su Zheng. Originally, he should be the one comforting Su Zheng, but now it was the other way around.

Not only could he not help with anything, he kept causing Su Zheng trouble.

After reflecting for a few seconds, Su Duan corrected his mentality and said to Su Zheng, "Big brother, don't worry. Sleep well at night."

Sleeping while leaning against the wall like yesterday was really not good. The system said it was easy to injure the cervical spine.

The furrow between Su Zheng's brows loosened a bit. He said, "Alright, I'll listen to our Duan Duan."

The staff member to the side had probably been bought off. His gaze fell on the floor to the side, turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to their exchange. Apart from reminding them when time was up at the end, he didn't say a single word the entire time.

The visitation time was only twenty minutes. Although reluctant, Su Duan was still asked to leave the visitation room.

Then came the long wait.

The Su family's lawyers were not slacking off and reacted very quickly. Su Zheng's trusted aides were also trying to find ways to bail him out.

But unfortunately, the mastermind behind framing Su Zheng had clearly prepared for a long time. Every link was planned perfectly, and all kinds of "evidence" were indisputable. In the end, Su Zheng was still sentenced to five years in prison, just like in the original plot.

The Su Company also fell into chaos due to infighting among shareholders, and the stock price plummeted.

Fortunately, after the verdict was announced, Su Zheng immediately handed over the proxy rights of his shares to Su Duan. Together with the shares that Father Su and Mother Su had left to Su Duan, he alone could control more than fifty percent of the shares and had absolute decision-making power in the Su Company, so the situation was not so bad that it could not be salvaged.

Moreover, Su Duan was no longer the original body who had zero intelligence and was played around by the shareholders.

Even though the shareholders strongly opposed letting an outsider take charge of the Su Company, Su Duan, who had absolute decision-making power, still hired a professional manager selected by the system to come back.

The system was quite reliable. The selected professional manager had strong business capabilities. After taking office, he withstood the deliberate difficulties created by the shareholders, and the situation of the Su Company began to improve. Although it still could not compare to when Su Zheng was around, it was better than letting those muddle-headed shareholders do as they pleased.

Su Duan also breathed a small sigh of relief. When he went to visit Su Zheng, he earnestly reported the situation to Su Zheng and then received a round of relentless praise, which made him feel a bit dizzy.

However, facts proved that flags should not be casually raised. Not long after Su Zheng finished praising him for having good judgment, that professional manager betrayed them—

The system detected that he had been in frequent private contact with a relatively large shareholder on the board of directors recently and had reached an agreement with the other party to find ways to swindle the shares in Su Duan's hands.

After reading the information provided by the system, Su Duan sighed and said, "Should we change to another person?"

The system said, "That seems to be the best option, host."

Su Duan vaguely felt that even if they changed to another person, sooner or later, they would betray him. After all, the shares in his hands were too tempting. The genes of humans, no, of all living things, contained the seeds of greed. There shouldn't be many people who could resist the temptation of such a large amount of wealth.

But there was no other way. With Su Zheng gone, he couldn't manage it himself, and those shareholders were absolutely unreliable. He could only find someone from outside.

At worst, if a problem arose, they would just keep changing. In any case, with the system helping him monitor, he wouldn't really be schemed against.

It was just a bit troublesome to keep changing, and it was also not conducive to the long-term development of the company, but preserving the Su Company was the most important thing now. Su Duan didn't bother with so many details.

During this period, it wasn't all bad news. Although the professional manager betrayed them, good news soon arrived.

Half a year after Su Zheng was imprisoned, Qin Zhi finally took down Qin Feng and took the Qin company into his own hands, completing his fate line. At the same time, his healing value also increased by five points, becoming ninety points.

A small sprout of hope emerged in Su Duan's heart.

According to the information provided by the system, although he had experienced many misfortunes, Qin Zhi ultimately did not go astray but grew up to be a good person who repaid kindness. In the original plot, although Su Duan did many excessive things to him, in order to repay Su Zheng's help, he still did his best to use his connections to let Su Zheng be released from prison two years early.

This time, he did not do those excessive things to Qin Zhi like in the original plot. Qin Zhi should still go and help Su Zheng, right?