My Son Might Be A Villain

Chapter 278 – Su Han felt that this was all part of Lu Shao's plan.
(1)

What did that even mean?

Did the Song family take the opportunity to slander the wife of the Lu family’s patriarch because of the competition between the two families?

Combining that with the fact that the Lu family had been beating the Song family in all areas as of late, all of the melon-eaters felt that they had figured out the truth.

What they had thought were cliché love affairs among the prominent families turned to be nothing but business competition between two large corporations!

Nobody cared about this melon anymore.

Ordinary people should not be interested in the battles between deities or capitalists.

That being said, about the wife of the Lu family’s patriarch, nobody knew about this until this stunt that was pulled by the wife of the President of the Song family.
Many people lamented at the difference between a prominent family and a parvenu riche.

After all, just a few years ago, Lin XingEr, Madam Song, was seen often at all sorts of banquets and activities among upper class ladies.

And update from her on Weibo was the norm.

Madam Lu, on the other hand, was as mysterious as the Lu family.

Right when everyone thought that this was blowing over, another giant boulder was dropped.

The Lu Corporation’s office site announced a news: Starting today, the Lu Corporation will begin their comprehensive acquisition of the Song Corporation including all of their subsidiaries, branches, fixed assets, real estates, and investments in any projects.

This might not be very meaningful to an everyday melon-eating netizen.
All they thought was that the patriarch of the Lu family was doing all this for a woman.

The entire business realm, however, had been upended by this announcement.

Competitions in business were common but announcements like Lu Shao had done was rare.

In addition, he was practically saying that he was going to destroy the Song family!

Matters of the business world was more than just line or two.

Ever since Song ZeYu had taken over the Song Corporation, they had been doing well the last few years.
Many other corporations had partnerships and financial transactions with the Song Corporation and a lot of them owned their shares as well.

These people were going insane when they read the Lu Corporation’s announcement.

The Song family might be sizeable but they were nothing when measured up against the Lu family.

If the Lu family was to target the Song family, it would be like smashing an egg with a rock.

These people dared not even to guesstimate how long it would take for Song Corporation to go belly up.

And, in this very short amount of time, they would have to pull their investments out from the Song Corporation, end their partnership, and try and sell all of their stocks.

The only thing that was predictable was that the stock prices of the Song Corporation would be plummeting for a while.
As to how long it would fall to, that would probably depend on the mood of the Lu family.

***

Naturally, Su Ran was oblivious to all the crazy events that took place in the business world and online that morning.

She was competing in her last round of elimination during the peak of all this.

6 out of the 12 contestants would be eliminated this around.
For one reason or another, the production team did not open up the voting to the public this time around.

Instead, contestants would be ranked using the scoring from the 5 judges along with that from the jury.

Even though many were aware of what was going online, owing to professionalism, they would not allow the public opinion to cloud their judgements.

This round of competition was even more professional than the previous rounds.

Contestants would have to draw from 8 difficult piano pieces the one that they would need to perform.

Su Ran got Concerto No.
2 in B Flat.
It was not too difficult from the technique perspective but required a good grip on the emotions.

Su Ran, in the past, was never an emotional one.
Nevertheless, she was good at injected emotions into her work through her understandings.

As such, this was not a difficult piece as far as Su Ran was concerned.

Su Ran’s entire performance from the very first to the very last note was smooth.
It made the audiences felt that they had experienced an entire concert, rather than a short competition.

“Thank you for bringing this piece to us.”

“The completeness was incredible.”

“Truth be told, I was worried for you being the competition.” Pleasantly surprised, one of the judges stood up couldn't help but told Su Ran when she stood up next to the piano and said to her, “I was worried that you would let what was going on around you affect your performance.
Apparently, my worry had been proven unnecessary.”