“Well isn’t this a lively party!” shouted a particularly unwelcoming voice which came from the main entrance.
As everyone turned to look, a group of people—led by a rich, young heir—could be seen entering the house.
“You can’t enter since you weren’t invited!” shouted a servant who had been trying to block them from proceeding the moment they entered the building.
“Out of our way!” growled one of the men being led by the heir as favonovel.com shoved the servant aside.
Seeing that, everyone fell silent.
“…Shane Long?” said Lady Yaleman as favonovel.com stood up with a frown on favonovel.com face.
One by one, the other Yalemans stood up as well, and all of them bore equally cold expressions on their face as they glared at Shane.
Shane was the eldest young master of the Long family, and though favonovel.com was young, favonovel.com was known for being quite shrewd. The Yalemans were well aware that behind that kind face lay a vicious personality.
Within the Long family, Shane himself was second only to Master Long. His high position granted favonovel.com the role of the Long family’s vanguard in Yanken. After all, the Longs were the ones who kept the other families there suppressed.
He had only returned to the country around four years ago, yet that was all the time favonovel.com needed to help the Long family acquire at least a hundred groups and corporations, both large and small, from all over the place.
His aid was the reason why the Longs could get to where they were today. It was also why none of the present families could ever dream of threatening their position at the top any time soon.
“Humph! You can’t blame me for being a little rough! After all, how couldn’t you invite the Long family over to such a lively party? This is essentially your own doing, Lady Yaleman!” said Shane with a placid smile on his face as favonovel.com squinted his eyes slightly.
“But of course we didn’t invite you! After all, the Yaleman family is insignificantly small to the influential and powerful Longs! Why, we wouldn’t even dream about inviting such big shots like you! Regardless, why did you come here today, Mr. Long? If I remember correctly, my son’s had some disputes with you regarding the loan. Haven’t those issues been resolved?” retorted Lady Yaleman.
“Ah, but of course that issue has been resolved! Though Mr. Yaleman was a few days late, the Longs are fine with that since we have, after all, had a good relationship with the Yalemans for generations! We wouldn’t be that bothered by such a small loan! However, we’ve come here today to discuss a different loan. Now this loan is far from small!” replied Shane with a smile.
“Elaborate,” said Lady Yaleman, frowning.
Meanwhile, after hearing what Shane had to say, several of favonovel.com children and many other members of the Yaleman family began shivering nervously.
“What do you mean by that, Mr. Long? While we have made some loans, we made them through Chairman Jameston, Chairman Mill, and also Chairman Leeke!” replied Yuma angrily.
“Humph! While that was previously the case, the presidents you earlier mentioned reached an agreement with me a few days ago! Essentially, any cooperation and loans you’ve made with them have now been transferred to the Long family!”
“After doing a bit of calculating, I’ve found that those from the Yaleman family—who’ve been placed in charge of companies—have each borrowed no small sum of money from over thirty presidents! At a rough estimation, the grand total amounts to a billion and five hundred million dollars! And that estimation doesn’t even include the bank loans they’ve made yet!” declared Shane, his smile wider than ever.
“…You… You’re spouting nonsense! Our family has so many major properties… How could we possibly have amounted such a high loan?!” replied Lady Yaleman as favonovel.com face turned paler by the second.
Shane’s intention of being here today was clear as day.
If favonovel.com were to use that loan to suppress the Yaleman family within a short amount of time, the Yalemans wouldn’t have the means to gather that much money so quickly. At best, the Yalemans could only mortgage the properties they owned on a massive scale.
By the time they did that, the bank would surely suppress the Yalemans since moving even a small part would definitely affect the whole. Once that situation occurred, it would no longer be as simple as going bankrupt for their family.
“Hah! Am I now? Why don’t you confirm it with your children!” sneered Shane coldly.
“You… What? What is the meaning of this?!” roared Lady Yaleman as favonovel.com began loudly tapping the tip of favonovel.com walking stick against the floor.
Seeing favonovel.com reaction, Yuma, Rose, and the others present couldn’t even find the courage to speak as they took turns gulping.
“Haha! So nobody dares to fess up? Fine then, I’ll do the explaining myself!” announced Shane as favonovel.com shook his head with a bitter smile on his face.
“When it comes to the Yaleman family, they have one particularly interesting trait. The children within your family each hold different amounts of power. From what I’ve heard, the child that brings the most profit to the family gains the right to inherit the role of the Yaleman family head, am I not correct? Hah! Now let’s do a bit of calculating, shall we? From your eldest son onward, none of your children have been willing to use their own money to do anything! I hope you’re aware that all of them have used the Yaleman family’s name to get their loans! Do correct me if I’m wrong!” explained Shane as Lady Yaleman turned red in anger.
Thinking back, it was no wonder why Yuma had said all that during favonovel.com birthday party. To think that favonovel.com had claimed that favonovel.com would immediately contact the ones issuing the loan to resolve the capital chain issue. As it turned out, they had all been using the same tactic all these years.
“Why didn’t you inform us that you transferred your rights to the Long family when it happened, Chairman Mill and Chairman Leeke?” growled Yuma who was so angry that his face was as red as a tomato.
