"Brother Hongqi," Pierre beamed at Hongqi and briefly glance at the familiar acquaintances. He greeted them with a generous humble smile when he realized these men that surrounded Hongqi were important and prominent people. He was gone for three years, so he had a little bit of a hard time remembering all these faces.

"Pierre, it's been a while." Hongqi toasted his gla.s.ses to Pierre's drink as a sign of greeting.

"Brother Hongqi seems to be very popular all through these years. As expected." Pierre still has that humble smile plastered on his face. As possible he wanted to look approachable. He wanted to debut to the public with flying colors. 

"Of course." Hongqi conceitedly agreed. Though he may sound arrogant but for the people around them, he was only claiming the facts.

"How are you? It's a pity that you didn't even visited me in the hospital. I also heard you got married to General Song's youngest daughter. You didn't even invited your close brother!" Pierre begrudgingly pouted and laughed. Though he was acting like this to make everyone think he is having a friendly tantrum, yet his eyes didn't have that friendly glow. Rather, it looks lifeless.

Pierre still has animosity against women. He can't help but be scared and hated them. The trauma he gained from those wretched females caused him to be so hateful.

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"I heard you were not allowing guests, so I didn't bother visiting you. Will you even attend my wedding?" Hongqi explained and stressed on his question. He knew very well this flamboyant Pierre wouldn't attend. He hates women now. What if he do something stupid to Xiulan, right?

"Haha, did I? Maybe you visited at a wrong time then. Anyway, you are right. I wouldn't go too since I was still hiding." Pierre admitted and laughed again. 

Honqgi knew that Pierre is just faking his happy mood. He knew very well that this man is trying to win everyone's favor right now. As someone who is considered a brother to this psychopath, he will gladly help him so that the Han family wouldn't try to do dirty tricks on him.

It's not that Hongqi is scared of the Han family, rather he treasures the friends.h.i.+p that the Xing and Han family have. 

"It looks like a lot of people wanted to talk to you. We can talk later, Pierre." Hongqi announced and tap Pierre's shoulders. He briefly smiled at him and Hongqi went to approach his father-in-law, Song Yingpei.

Pierre responded with a curtsy smile. He sharply looked where Hongqi was heading. "Song Yingpei? So it was really true that Hongqi's using the Song family." He subconsciously deduced. "What a smart brother!" He added.

"Father!" Hongqi approached the talkative Song Yingpei, who was currently busy chatting animatedly to his old peers. Everyone who were close enough to hear Hongqi's enthusiastic greeting were all surprised and amused by his sudden friendly aura. They never though that this aloof and domineering man would first approach his father-in-law.

"Father? He never called me like that before in functions like this." Yingpei suspiciously thought and made a confused look at the approaching Hongqi. 

"Kiddo, how are you and my daughter?" Yingpei humbly asked and gave a loose hug to Hongqi as a tender greeting to his son-in-law. Two days ago, his daughter was still in the mansion and was trying to escape this man's s.e.xual attempts. Since his daughter back in Hongqi's territory, Yingpei only hopes that his daughter could keep up with her husband's energy.

"We are good, father. Have you received the souvenirs?" Hongqi happily answered. 

"I did. Thank you. There were quite a lot of gifts, eh? Anyway, my friends wanted to discuss something with you." Yingpei thanked him. Yingpei looked at his peers who were just pestering him a while ago about using her skills again in the military.

"Oh? What it could be?" Hongqi looked at his father-in-law's peers. 

Yingpei's peers suddenly shuddered when the great Hongqi looked at them. Though they are old and had distinguished backgrounds and positions, they are still heavily inferior to Hongqi.

"Ah... it's nothing important, young master Xing. Forget about it... hehehe." One of the old peers awkwardly said and quickly gave an angry look at Song Yingpei.

"Weak!" Yingpei couldn't help but secretly curse these scared men.

"Really? But it looks important to me since father mentioned it." Hongqi mustered a friendly smile to show to these old men. He tried to be friendly to them since they are from the army and friends of Song Yingpei. 

Though he already used the Song name for his selfish needs, he still wanted to extend his power and alliance. This will be a good oppurtunity to be closer to the army.

Though his grandfather is already considered as an oligarch [1] and also the old geezer from the Han family, but for Xing Hongqi, he definetely wanted his name that have its own superiority and to be considered an oligarch.

The men nervously looked at each other and conversed through their eyes. Hongqi noticed this and he concluded that they might request something big from him. He expects that they will ask for a huge sum of money or for a collaboration. But he did not expect that they will be asking for his wife.

"If young master Xing wouldn't mind, but we need your wife's hacking skills again? We already asked Song Yingpei about it but he said that we should ask you first." one of the peers said. He may be nervous but out of desperation to get the skillful Xiulan, he will have a thick face and asked the husband for permission.

Hongqi's brief surprised expression was caught by the old peers. "He didn't expect this? Doesn't he?" The old peer subconsciously guessed.

"I heard that my wife will be free from any government work for a whole year. Maybe after that, I would consider letting her go work with the army again. But for now, I want my wife to rest. Add that she also has serious internal problems in her company. Please let my wife have her peace and rest for a year." Hongqi humbly answered and pleaded to them to let his wife have a rest.

Actually, he was genuine about what he said. But also the most important thing, the time he has with her will be divided again. The snu-snu time with her will be disrupted too. He doesn't like that idea at all.

"I see. Yes, we did promise about that. Right, we will wait for a year. Thank you for letting us know your opinion." One of the peers said. He respectfully and apologetically bowed to Honqi, same with the rest.

Hongqi only smiled to them and went back to conversing with Song Yingpei. He reported to his father-in-law the progress of the company and also the collaboration he has with Xiulan's company.

The old Song Yingpei was happy with what he was hearing.  Who wouldn't be happy that his daughter have a good relations.h.i.+p with a man like Xing Hongqi? Add that the Song family business is on its peak because of Hongqi's influence and effort. He was really happy of this progress.

Han Pierre might be talking to some potential business partners but his eyes and attention were at Hongqi and Yingpei.

For Pierre, the Song family are too righteous and strict to their pure principles. Because of this, they were oddly favored by the ma.s.s. Song Yingpei might be righteous but since the Han family are oligarchs, the army under Yingpei's reign back then weren't able to lay a finger on the Han family. 

Even how loud and messy the drug trade that was cause by the Han family back then, the army and government weren't able to lay a finger or even put them in jail because they were oligarchs. 

It's not that he was afraid or weak, it's just a great order from the higher-ups.

Even though this event and the upcoming business summit are hosted and sponsored by the scandalous Han family, Song Yingpei will not mind them. He is here as a businessman and he wouldn't dare to offend an oligarch. Though Yingpei is also considered an oligarch, he knows what not to do and what to do.

Han Pierre can't help but applause Hongqi's great tactics. He's definitely the right person to idolize when it comes to business and scheming.

The security company Hongqi was aiming for will be finished soon and he managed to get the right connections. Once that security company is up and running, the oligarchs' power will be uncontrollable.

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[1] Oligarch - a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. Usually, these people are above the law . Some countries that have oligarchs can control the flow of the government and can even pick who will be the next leader/president.