No Good Men or Women Here

Only after receiving that letter did Ren Jingshu realize that her entire life had been an act.

She played the good daughter in front of her parents, the perfect supportive wife in front of her husband, and a winner in life in front of all their friends and relatives.

She played her roles so well that everyone believed her. So well that even she believed herself.

The letter was anonymous.

It warned her that her husband had a mistress and was in the process of moving assets.

She immediately checked the company's accounts. A huge sum of cash sat on the books, while the whereabouts of many other payments were unknown.

The letter was telling the truth.

A revenge plot came together in her mind in an instant.

She kept her eyes on the computer screen, fixed on the names of two shareholders.

Zhang Xiuzhong, known in high society as Young Master Zhang, was a spoiled heir to old money, with a scandal sheet thicker than the company's financial reports. Recently, he had bought up a large number of company shares.

Perhaps all he had wanted was to make a quick profit.

But the role she had written for him was that of a corporate raider, taking over the company.

Zhang Xiuzhong would not be easy to fool, but that did not mean she was really deceiving him. She would offer him a genuine partnership, with real money on the table. She would simply keep one last card up her sleeve.

The other person was Zhou Jianwei.

He, too, came from a wealthy family. He had started his own tech company and kept an extremely low profile.

He held a crucial stake, just like Zhang Xiuzhong, with voting rights on the board.

He had held that stake for a full ten years without selling a single share. He had never voted at a shareholders' meeting, either.

She did not know why he had bought the shares, and she did not care. All she knew was that she had to get his voting rights.

With the script written, the actors took the stage, and a battle for control of the company began in secret.

Zhang Xiuzhong was her open move. Zhou Jianwei was her hidden card.

Ren Jingshu thought she had written the whole script.

She had no idea that Zhou Jianwei's script was far thicker than hers.

And that spoiled Young Master Zhang had never believed her from the start.

Theme: Everyone is playing a role.