After the Cannon Fodder Awakens, They Marry the Heroine! - Chapter 2

“Movement! Her finger moved!”

“Life signs are getting active, and her heart rate has a small increase!”

Before Li Mo even opened her eyes, the clamorous chatter flooded her ears, creating a sense of impatience.

“Shut up,” Li Mo tried to vocalize her displeasure, but her still-recovering bodily functions weakened her voice tenfold.

“Her lips moved! Does Mo Mo want to say something?” The beautiful woman, dressed in ostentatious clothing, grew even more excited. She immediately dropped her designer handbag, bent down, and leaned her ear close to Li Mo’s mouth.

When the pungent scent of perfume hit her, Li Mo’s attractive brows furrowed. She summoned all her strength and shouted out one clear word:

“Scram.”

Instantly, the hospital room fell silent.

The beautiful woman’s smile froze. She endured the awkwardness and straightened up. “Mo Mo probably doesn’t like so many people crowding around her.”

The others in the room exchanged glances. They were all aware of how much this eldest young lady disliked this stepmother. That her first word after regaining consciousness was to tell her stepmother to scram was truly no surprise at all.

Li Mo fell back asleep shortly after saying “scram.” This was the first time she had conducted a temporal-spatial transit after devouring the System, and the somewhat clumsy operation had left some after-effects.

After this latest awakening, Li Mo’s state was much better, and she had also completely digested all the memories of this body.

She was the eldest daughter of the Li family. She had been exceptionally outstanding in all aspects since childhood. Immediately after graduating from university, she took over the Jiaheng Group from her grandfather and spent five years tripling the Group’s market value.

Just before she was about to become the richest person in Huaguo (China), she encountered a car accident—one whose accidental nature was questionable—which instantly turned her into a vegetable.

Naturally, a vegetable could not be the richest person. After it was confirmed that Li Mo could not wake up, the President of the Jiaheng Group was replaced.

The replacement was her younger brother, Li Beichen, who was also the so-called Male Lead of this small world.

Tsk, the exact same routine. Before, they effortlessly took away the cultivation she had painstakingly built over hundreds of years; this time, they directly inherited the company she had established?

Her slightly frail hand propped itself against the bed. Due to the intense effort, her pale fingers were squeezed until a faint redness appeared.

Li Mo calmed her breathing. As she looked at her fingers, which were as translucent and fragile as white jade, she felt an urge to bite and chew them to pieces.

“Master, your body hasn’t recovered yet,” the incompletely digested 033 whispered weakly. “If your behavior deviates too much from the original host, it will be easily detected by the rules…”

A crease formed between Li Mo’s eyebrows. She raised her hand, loosely placing her index and middle fingers against her temple.

033 quickly fell silent. It swore that if it dared to utter another word, this psychopath would surely shove her fingers in and crush it completely.

At the same time, Wen Runan, having barely recovered, also arrived in the small world and began executing his mission.

“066, is the script you gave me serious?” After receiving the plot, Wen Runan couldn’t help but complain. “Although I don’t have a choice right now, you shouldn’t have assigned me such a melodramatic role, should you?”

“The Male Lead already has a fiancée! And I still have to get involved? Plus, I have to insist that ‘we are just friends’ while stirring up trouble?” Wen Runan’s face was filled with distaste. “No way, I’m seriously going to throw up!”

“Host, are you considering giving up the conquest mission for this world?”

“Can I give up and switch to a different world?” Wen Runan asked hopefully.

“If the Host chooses to give up, you will immediately enter a penalty mission: completing the Newbie Guide one hundred times,” 066 completely ignored the latter half of the sentence.

“The Newbie Guide…” Wen Runan subconsciously trembled. He reached up to touch his neck, only relaxing after confirming it was intact.

“Forget it. A pure, innocent role is fine. It’s better than being bitten to death,” Wen Runan reassured himself. Just endure three worlds, and then he would recover some of his autonomy.

After a month of rehabilitation training, Li Mo was successfully discharged from the hospital.

The first thing she did after being discharged was not to go home but to immediately change into formal attire and attend the Jiaheng Shareholders’ Meeting.

Although the position of President was gone, the shares under Li Mo’s name had not decreased in the slightest. She still held a thirty-three percent stake, making her the undisputed largest shareholder.

“It’s been a long time. Everyone’s complexion seems much better,” Li Mo still sat in the primary seat, her right leg crossed over her left, maintaining a relaxed posture.

“Director Li is joking. It’s just that we are older and have settled into a comfortable life,” the shareholder sitting in the first position on the right said with a smile.

The shareholder in the second position on the left quickly interjected, “Director Li, may I ask why you convened this shareholders’ meeting? If you have any new arrangements, you could simply tell Beichen. Beichen’s performance while you were recuperating in the hospital has been quite good.”

Li Mo raised an eyebrow and glanced at the speaker. “Since that’s the case, I’ll be direct.”

“Sister, you can state any ideas you have, and I will do my best to arrange for the people below me to carry them out,” Li Beichen sat in the first position on the left. The smile on his face looked humble, but his eyes held hostility toward Li Mo.

Although the two were biological siblings, their relationship was not good because one had grown up with their grandfather and the other with their father.

Li Mo was the former President of Jiaheng, and Li Beichen was the current President. Their positions naturally put them on opposing sides.

“There’s no need for your subordinates to do it; you alone can complete the task I’m assigning,” Li Mo chuckled softly. “Scram from my position. Jiaheng is the asset Grandpa left for me. Understand?”

The smile on Li Beichen’s face froze. He had anticipated Li Mo returning to seize power from him. However, he had not expected her to be so direct, convening a large-scale shareholders’ meeting just to say this.

“Director Li, that’s not the way to say it. Although Jiaheng was left by the Late Director Li, Beichen is his biological grandson and your biological brother. Surely the Late Director Li would not mind Beichen taking over Jiaheng.”

“Director Li, your illness has just barely recovered. Why don’t you rest for a longer period? Jiaheng’s development under Beichen’s management has been quite good. Why bother with this? Just wait for your dividends.”

More than half of the shareholders present quickly made their stance clear. Their tones varied; some were direct, some were subtle, and some even showed concern. But the one thing they had in common was their choice to stand with Li Beichen.

Hearing the shareholders’ statements, the smile on Li Beichen’s face deepened.

There had been a full month between the time he heard Li Mo had woken up and her successful discharge from the hospital. That was enough time for him to win over more than half of the shareholders.

“‘Quite good’?” Li Mo also smiled. “In five years, I tripled Jiaheng’s market value. In three years, my good brother increased Jiaheng’s market value by five points.”

“You call this ‘quite good’?” Li Mo scanned the room. Almost none of the shareholders present dared to meet her gaze.

“That’s not the way to put it. The domestic economic situation hasn’t been good these past few years, and many companies’ market values have dropped.” A shareholder quickly spoke up for Li Beichen. “For President Li to stabilize the market value and even achieve some growth is already very commendable…”

Under Li Mo’s steady gaze, the shareholder’s voice grew softer and softer, until he ultimately fell silent.

There was no denying it. Compared to tripling the market value in five years, a mere five-point increase in three years was indeed too poor a performance.

But so what? He was simply someone who enjoyed comfort.

Working under Li Mo, he couldn’t pocket much profit, and he had to adhere to a multitude of rules; he couldn’t even touch female employees.

Following Li Beichen was different. Dividends were guaranteed, and one could live a very comfortable life. Besides, entertainment was always abundant.

“Sister, why don’t we just vote?” Li Beichen said with a smile. “We can see if half of the shareholders agree, right?”

Li Mo’s expression remained unchanged. “Vote.”

The smile on Li Beichen’s face deepened. He had been managing the company for three years; how could he possibly have kept any supporters of Li Mo here? This was truly ridicul—

When he saw that the number of people in agreement had exceeded half, the smile on Li Beichen’s face froze again.

How is this possible! Why would there still be shareholders supporting Li Mo! Didn’t they all promise to support me before?

Li Mo smiled, her expression brazen and wild. “My good brother, it seems everyone still prefers having their assets tripled.”

Only short-sighted people would be blinded by temporary benefits. Even if Li Beichen had managed to win over a few shareholders, what did it matter? In the face of a three-hundred percent return, someone would always be swayed.

Besides, Li Beichen surely didn’t think that the month she spent in the hospital was only for rehabilitation training.

Li Beichen quickly stabilized his expression, gritting his teeth and forcing himself to say, “Sister, the personnel appointments and removals these years have all been under my purview. You wouldn’t want the core staff of Jiaheng to suffer a large-scale outflow, would you?”

Soon after, the Jiaheng Group issued an internal notice to its high-level staff: Director Li Mo would serve as one of the Executive Presidents, temporarily responsible for the management of the Marketing Department and the Administrative Department.

Evidently, this was a result where both sides conceded a step.

Li Mo’s capability was exceptionally strong; this was beyond question. However, Jiaheng had, after all, been managed by Li Beichen for three years. If he were to be replaced without any transition, the company would surely descend into chaos.

“Nannan, did you hear? President Li Mo is coming back!” A colleague excitedly pulled Wen Runan’s sleeve, eager to share the news he had received.

“President Li Mo?” Wen Runan was momentarily stunned. That name didn’t seem to be in the script. Wasn’t the President of Jiaheng always the Male Lead, Li Beichen?

“You don’t know? It’s the President Li Mo who tripled Jiaheng’s market value in just five years!”

After being reminded, Wen Runan recalled the details. This was the former President who had been quickly mentioned at the beginning—the one who worked hard to expand the company only to become a vegetable.

Wait a minute, in the plot, didn’t this hard-working former President never wake up until she died?

He even remembered how she died! She was killed as collateral damage by the Male Lead’s enemy when the plot reached its latter half.

That’s right! The Male Lead and Female Lead had reunited and reconciled at her funeral!

Now that she had woken up, wouldn’t the catalyst for the Male Lead and Female Lead’s reconciliation be gone? Was he expected to improvise?

At this moment, Wen Runan, who was worried about the plot, had no idea that the “hard-working former President” in his eyes was currently browsing the employee list of the Administrative Department, and she paused for three seconds on his personal information.