Chapter 723: Take a Gamble with You_1
The head of the Wang Family immediately contacted the heads of the Zhang and Meng Families. Upon learning from them that the actions had been personally undertaken by Zhang Wenjie and Meng Yanran, he breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn’t a coalition between the two great families of Zhang and Meng, and only Yi Chen, the Gong Family, Zhang Wenjie, and Meng Yanran were involved, the Wang Family had nothing to fear.
While all the major families in Jincheng watched on with interest, the battle between the Yi Chen alliance and the Wang Family raged for over half a month. In the end, the Wang Family prevailed, but not without significant losses—losses which the Yi Chen alliance sustained as well.
According to estimates, during this conflict, the Yi Chen alliance suffered total losses amounting to two hundred billion. Several projects under the Yi Chen Group were put on hold, only to secure a single office building in Jincheng without gaining any business to boot.
The Gong Family fell from the status of a first-class family to a second-class one, while Zhang Wenjie and Meng Yanran threw all of their resources into the fray. For this, both were severely chastised by their families!
The great battle erupted suddenly and dissipated just as abruptly. After more than half a month of fighting, Yi Chen suddenly announced their success in taking over an office building. The Yi Chen alliance quickly ceased all actions against the Wang Family.
The Wang Family was perplexed and also ceased hostilities while cautiously watching the movements of the Yi Chen alliance, somewhat disbelieving that they would truly stop fighting after such heavy losses.
At this time, some quick-witted individuals noticed something; the cessation of hostilities by the Yi Chen alliance came the day before the Jiang Family’s ancestral ritual and assessment. Could the timing of their truce, or indeed their declaration of war, be related to this event?
Suddenly, everyone in Jincheng turned their attention to the Jiang Family’s ancestral ritual and assessment!
In front of the Jiang Family ancestral hall.
The normally quiet square in front of the hall was now crammed with people.
It had been many years since such a scene unfolded here. The last time the members of the Jiang Family gathered like this was when Jiang Minghui, as the Family Head, led the family in ancestral worship—but that was over a decade ago. Now, they were here again for a similar reason: today would determine the successor to the head of the Jiang Family.