When the executive proposed re-electing the chairman, out of the more than twenty shareholders present, only five raised objections. Rong Heng glared fiercely at the other dozen silent shareholders, as if hoping they would speak out against it, but everything was ultimately futile.

The re-election vote officially began, and the result was without suspense.

Rong Heng’s face was ashen, sitting in disbelief. He still seemed to not understand why, in this short half-day, his entire world had changed. 

However, Rong Xu completely ignored him. When the results were out, Rong Xu stood up directly and handed everything over to the executive.

His handsome face showed neither joy nor sorrow, no triumph nor mockery. Rong Xu calmly walked past Rong Heng, heading straight for the door. Just as he was about to reach the door, Rong Heng suddenly slammed the table, jumped up, and furiously rushed towards Rong Xu.

“You little beast! I’ll fight you today!!!”

Rong Heng’s actions were too sudden; everyone was caught off guard, and even Rong Xu was momentarily stunned: he hadn’t expected his uncle to suddenly go mad in front of so many shareholders. 

However, years of training and action choreography during filming quickly brought Rong Xu back to his senses. He immediately stepped aside, and Rong Heng missed.

Rong Heng swung his fists, striking at Rong Xu again, his once handsome face now distorted and ugly. By this time, the other shareholders had all reacted and rushed forward to restrain Rong Heng.

“You little beast, you framed me! Everything was your doing!!!”

Rong Xu lightly patted the corner of his clothes, as if he hadn’t heard Rong Heng’s irrational roar. The executive asked with concern if he was alright, and Rong Xu calmly replied, “I’m fine.” Hearing this, the executive finally relaxed.

The large conference room was now in chaos. Rong Heng was restrained by two shareholders, but he struggled with all his might every moment, his eyes wide, staring fixedly at Rong Xu, as if he would tear him to shreds if given the chance. Yet, from beginning to end, Rong Xu merely cast a sympathetic glance at him, frowned slightly, then turned to his hired executive and said, “You handle the rest; I have other matters.”

The executive nodded gently, helping to open the door. However, this time, as the door just opened and Rong Xu hadn’t yet stepped out, he heard a commotion.

Outside the conference room, two tall and slender secretaries were struggling to pull back a middle-aged woman, urgently saying, “Madam Rong, the shareholder meeting is in session right now; you can’t barge in.”

The middle-aged woman wouldn’t listen to two young girls. She rudely pushed them to the ground and roared towards the conference room, “Rong Heng! You bastard, get out here! Explain yourself! What was that hussy doing bringing her son to the house today? Do you think I’m dead!!!”

The two young secretaries’ eyes reddened with grievance, but they immediately picked themselves up from the ground and rushed forward to grab Second Aunt Rong again. But just as Second Aunt Rong’s words fell, the conference room door was opened, and all three froze. After a moment, the two young girls couldn’t hold on, and Second Aunt Rong quickly rushed forward, slapping Rong Heng across the face.

“You beast! What was that slut doing at the house today? What were you trying to do?! Did you deliberately let her go to the house, bringing that little bastard…”

Suddenly, the entire conference room descended into chaos once more. Rong Heng only reacted after being slapped twice. He angrily grabbed Second Aunt Rong’s hair and slammed her head against the wall. At first, the shareholders tried to pull them apart, but when Second Aunt Rong scratched one shareholder’s face with her fingernails, the others immediately backed away, no longer getting involved.

“What’s this nonsense? If this couple wants to fight, they should go home and do it themselves. Anyone who interferes now is a fool.”

At this moment, Rong Xu had already left Rong Group by car. Sitting in the car, he let out a soft sigh and reached up to rub his temples. Luo Xi, sitting in the driver’s seat, saw him like this and couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Xiao Xu, did something happen at the company?”

Rong Xu smiled and shook his head: “Nothing much.”

Luo Xi frowned in confusion.

Rong Xu added: “I still don’t really want to come here. Hmm… it’s too chaotic, but maybe it’ll improve in the future.”

Luo Xi nodded, half-understanding.

Luo Xi wasn’t entirely clear about the disputes between Rong Xu and Second Uncle Rong. She only knew that Rong Xu was the eldest young master of the Rong family, but his relationship with the family didn’t seem very good, and he rarely returned home throughout the year.

Once before, a butler from the Rong family named Duan personally went to Huaxia Entertainment to find Rong Xu, seemingly wanting to invite Rong Xu home for a New Year’s Eve dinner. But Luo Xi clearly remembered that Rong Xu smiled at the old butler, softly saying, “Uncle Duan, I will definitely go home for New Year’s Eve dinner. But… I will go home to eat.”

The old butler was instantly speechless. He wanted to say more, but looking at the young man’s gentle smile, he couldn’t utter a single word. Rong Xu would, of course, go home to eat, but the Rong family mansion was no longer his home. A house is a house, and a home is a home. The people currently living in the Rong family mansion were never Rong Xu’s family, so how could he “go home”?

Luo Xi had also been curious about Rong Xu’s relationship with the Rong family. Currently, the relationship between Rong Xu and Rong Group is not publicly disclosed, but some big fans and well-informed fans know that Rong Xu is the eldest young master of the Rong family. 

There have always been rumors online that Rong Xu is a rich second-generation. This is not unfounded. In fact, a year ago, when Rong Xu had just won the Berlin Film Emperor award, a small magazine suddenly exposed news: Rong Xu used to be a hedonistic, unruly rich second-generation.

The news article was well-reasoned, and a few rich second-generation individuals from City B who often showed off their wealth on Weibo ambiguously reposted the news, seemingly implying that Rong Xu was indeed a prodigal rich kid.

 At the time, it did cause some trouble for Rong Xu’s reputation. 

However, fortunately, the magazine couldn’t produce any photographic evidence, so under the joint suppression of Luo Zhentao and Huaxia Entertainment, this gossip remained just gossip and is now rarely discussed.

At the time, Luo Xi only thought that someone wanted to target Rong Xu. However, she never expected that after this incident, the mastermind uncovered by Huaxia Entertainment actually pointed directly to Rong Group’s chairman, Rong Heng. 

Rong Heng actually wanted to target his own nephew? If those gossip news reports had truly been confirmed, it would have been a definite blow to Rong Xu, because the news article ultimately stated that Rong Xu had even once driven drunk and killed someone!

When she heard that Rong Heng was the one who revealed these messages, Luo Xi immediately said, “Xiao Xu, we absolutely must not contact those people. Don’t pay attention to your uncle; absolutely do not go home. He’s deliberately spreading rumors, that bastard is slandering you to harm you!”

After this incident, Rong Xu wasn’t overly angry. He smiled and retorted, “Sister Xiao Xi, do you think it’s a rumor?”

Luo Xi instinctively nodded: “Of course, it’s a rumor.” After speaking, she looked at Rong Xu’s bitter smile, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat: “Xiao Xu, please don’t tell me… those are true?” 

Rong Xu really stayed out all night at thirteen, frequented nightclubs daily at fifteen, got a girl pregnant, and killed someone while drunk driving at seventeen?!

Rong Xu didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he gazed seriously at Luo Xi: “Sister Xiao Xi, if it were true, what would you think?”

Luo Xi instinctively said: “Impossible! Xiao Xu, you are not that kind of person at all. How could you do such things? I don’t believe it, I absolutely don’t believe it. Even if you told me yourself, I… I… how could that be possible?!”

Our Rongrong is so well-behaved and gentle. Although not a soft-hearted saint, just based on the charitable donations Rong Xu makes every year, how many people in the world care so much about charity? How could such a Rongrong be that kind of person?

Watching Luo Xi’s anxious expression, Rong Xu gently shook his head, then chuckled softly: 

“That report isn’t true, but it’s not entirely false either. Sister Xiao Xi, I really did start spending all night in various nightclubs in City B at thirteen, and when I was seventeen… well, I also drove drunk, but I didn’t hit anyone. I actually drove myself into a river. These things really happened. I was quite rebellious at the time due to family reasons, but I never did anything to harm anyone.”

Luo Xi: “…” After a moment, she couldn’t help but ask: “Xiao Xu, did you just say you drove whom into a river?”

Rong Xu: “…Sister Xiao Xi, are you missing the point?”

Luo Xi: “Xiao Xu, did you really drive your own car into a river?”

Rong Xu: “…”

Luo Xi: “Hahahahaha, Xiao Xu, so you had such a cute side. You know, I’ve been your assistant for so long, and I’ve never seen you look troubled. Nothing seems to faze you. I never imagined you actually fell into a river yourself before… fell into a river, hahahahaha…”

Rong Xu: “…”

In any case, with the end of the shareholder meeting, Rong Xu once again cast the Rong family matters to the back of his mind. 

For Rong Xu, he didn’t care about the Rong family’s assets at all, and he never intended to take anything from Rong Heng. 

However, what originally belonged to him, or rather, to Rong Xu, he had to take back. He wouldn’t spend a single cent of this money; he would donate it all. There wasn’t much he could do, but he would do everything he should.

News of the change in ownership of Rong Group also made headlines in the financial sections of major Chinese newspapers, but in this era of information overload, too many things happen every day, and this matter quickly became old news.

As time passed, netizens gradually forgot about the video of Rong Xu and Qin Cheng kissing. The only impact that video now had was introducing “The Zeroth Law” to moviegoers worldwide. 

Originally, Sr. Holt had intended to wait two months, closer to the film’s release, to launch a large-scale promotional campaign. However, due to this sudden video incident, “The Zeroth Law” gained significant momentum, and Sr. Holt, not wanting to miss such a good opportunity, seized the moment and officially began the promotion of “The Zeroth Law.”