This Alpha Is So Devoted to His Wife - Chapter 69

In the afternoon.

“Cub (Zǎizǎi), your uncle mentioned that Galaxy is running into some difficulties, is that right?”

Duan Yuluo answered a video call from his Great-Papa, Duan Yizhou. Hearing the question, he lowered his gaze, his fingers rubbing together, before finally speaking: “Yes, there are a few issues, but they are already being handled. I can take care of it.”

The Great-Papa on the other end of the video call looked at his son, whom he hadn’t seen in half a year. Including the four years he’d been away at school, he hadn’t been by their side. Seeing that he had lost quite a bit of weight, they naturally knew about everything that had happened in recent years and had tried every possible way to arrange people to be around Duan Yuluo. However, being in a foreign country was different from being at home, and there were many times they couldn’t interfere.

This included everything that unfolded after Lu Xinghe gave up his royal title for Duan Yuluo.

“Why didn’t you tell your Daddies?”

Duan Yuluo replied: “Since this is a challenge that I’ve encountered, I naturally need to face it myself. It’s no problem, Great-Papa, I can handle it.” As he spoke, he noticed his Great-Papa looking at him in silence. He tentatively asked: “What’s wrong, Great-Papa?”

“Cub, your Great-Papa has never demanded you achieve any specific results. To your Daddies, whatever stage you reach is something we will be proud of. We just want you to know that your Papa and I will always stand behind you as your strongest support. If you turn around, we will certainly be there.”

“Don’t work too hard.”

Duan Yuluo felt a warmth in his heart. He smiled: “Okay, I know.”

“When the Guardian Chip is launched, we’ll all go over, including your Great-Great-Grandpa.”

He looked at the video and saw his Papa’s head pop out from behind his Great-Papa. He couldn’t help but laugh: “Papa, you were there? I thought you weren’t.”

“Of course I am! No, technically, your Great-Papa is at my place; he can’t leave me now.” Papa Luo Songran leaned his head close to the camera, looking at his son’s complexion, and frowned: “Did that boy Lu Xinghe not take good care of you? If I find out next time I see you that you’ve lost more weight than you did last winter break, I won’t let him off the hook.”

He explained helplessly: “No, he takes great care of me. I’ve just been too busy lately; it’s probably fatigue.”

“You know you’re busy. Cub, don’t tire yourself out like this. A corporation that big doesn’t rely entirely on the decision-maker doing all the work. A qualified decision-maker needs to know how to use people,” his Great-Papa said. “Your Great-Grandpa Chu brought the Galaxy Group to the industry’s peak at the age of twenty-eight. Yet, at that point, he chose to step down to the second line and gave the position to your Great-Grandpa Luo. Do you know why?”

Duan Yuluo had long since memorized the achievements of his great-grandfathers; of course, he knew.

“The core of the Galaxy Group does not lie in who holds the visible position, but who is making the decisions. Even though your Great-Grandpa Chu hasn’t been in the Executive CEO position for a long time, half of the biological medicine and technology sector belongs to him.”

“Let’s talk about your Great-Uncle Chu Beihang. In your Great-Papa’s eyes, he is a legendary existence. You children might think your Great-Uncle spends all his time avoiding inheriting the family business, or you just saw him play with you when you were little, or that he’s now accompanying your Uncle Yu on his world concert tour. He is, in fact, the best at making money in the family, precisely because he knows how to utilize people.”

“The Haven Company he invested in in Country D went public last year. You should have heard of it.”

Duan Yuluo nodded: “I know. Lu Xinghe works for that company.” At this, he looked a little surprised: “Is that company Great-Uncle’s?”

Lu Xinghe had never mentioned it to him.

“To be precise, it’s half his. I don’t know who owns the other half, but your Great-Uncle has always had an eagle eye for making money. The industries or people he favors can bring him huge economic benefits, so your Great-Uncle’s approach is worth learning. Try to relax a bit.”

His Papa nodded upon hearing this, looking at Duan Yuluo through the video: “Exactly, son. You need to ‘play’ happily, diligently, and smartly. When else are you going to have fun? Our philosophy is to be serious when needed, and to have fun when it’s time to play, and to be smart about discerning and using people.”

“Yes, do everything boldly. Don’t worry. Your Daddies and the family are all supporting you from behind. No one can touch the Galaxy Group. Including this patent case, your Grandpa Gu will be coming over with his chief lawyer team in a couple of days to resolve this lawsuit as quickly as possible.”

He remained in the position of leaning against his chair until his Daddies ended the video call.

So his Daddies knew everything.

Had he been too tense?

Perhaps it was his youthful pride, where he felt he had to bear everything himself, and hadn’t utilized all his resources effectively. His Great-Papa was right—a good decision-maker isn’t defined by their personal ability, but by their organizational skills. Working stubbornly on his own would only lower efficiency and could even be counterproductive.

He picked up his phone and checked the time. It was only 12:30 PM. He called his secretary in.

“How may I assist you, Young CEO Duan?”

Duan Yuluo looked at his chief secretary: “Starting today, arrange for the catering company to set up a coffee and tea break every day from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Please send out a simple survey to the colleagues to ask what they prefer to eat. I need you to compile the statistics and make arrangements.”

The chief secretary, a refined Alpha, was a bit surprised that his young boss would offer a signal of relaxation at such a crucial juncture: “Young CEO Duan, won’t this make everyone too complacent?”

Duan Yuluo smiled: “Arrange it. Everyone has been working hard during this time.”

“Understood. I will arrange it immediately.”

After the secretary left, Manager Huo walked in, holding two envelopes.

Manager Huo held a letter from the Patent Office and the opposing party’s statement of claim: “Young CEO Duan, after we issued our lawyer’s letter, Royal Pharmaceutical Group sued us. They’ve hired a strong intellectual property dispute lawyer, so it seems they’re determined to fight us all the way.”

Duan Yuluo took the letters, opened the statement of claim, and read the content of the lawsuit. His face was composed, and the look in his eyes beneath his glasses was indifferent. He let out a slight laugh and gently placed the claim on the desk.

“The Galaxy Group’s chief legal team isn’t just for show. Let’s see what they can bring to the table,” he said, then paused. “Have every programmer in the Technical Department come in one by one this afternoon.”

Manager Huo nodded: “All right.”

“Oh, and one more thing,” Duan Yuluo thought of something: “Manager Huo, are you familiar with the Haven Company?”

Manager Huo thought for a moment, then looked at the landmark building not far from the window: “A company that went public last year. Why?”

“What level of publicly listed company is it?”

“A network security company whose market value exceeded ten billion upon its IPO.”

Duan Yuluo was a little surprised. Lu Xinghe hadn’t told him, but then again, he himself hadn’t had much time to ask recently. He should have asked more questions; it was rather negligent of him not to even ask what his loved one was doing.

“One more thing: the group will be hiring external technical assistance in the coming days, and the system will be upgraded. There might be unexpected events, so please remind all departments not to panic.”

“Yes, Young CEO Duan, I’ll go notify them right away.”

As night fell, the time reached 7:00 PM.

[Alias J: Young CEO Duan, get ready. I’m about to ‘intrude’ upon the group’s server.]

Duan Yuluo was about to leave work when he received this message.

[Alias J: I won’t turn off the lights in your office, so just stay put. The whole intrusion will take no more than two minutes. If your programmers are capable, they should be able to crack and fix it within ten minutes. If it exceeds that time, there’s a high probability that the ‘mole’ is tampering with things. I’ll arrive within ten minutes, and I’ll pick up my husband for our date.]

The moment the message dropped, the entire building’s servers paused, and the signal was interrupted.

In the bustling city, an entire office building losing power was extremely noticeable.

But the lights were on in a certain office on the top floor.

Duan Yuluo looked at the pitch-black corridor outside his office, then back at the dialogue box still open on his screen. He wondered if this Alias J was doing this on purpose. Now that the elevators were stopped, he would have to walk down twenty floors via the emergency stairwell to reach the Technical Department.

He was afraid of the dark.

At this moment, the Technical Department was in chaos.

The Technical Department Manager stared intently at the main monitor, noticing that the data center values in several areas were dropping rapidly. He knew their online shopping cloud service was likely under an unknown attack: “Technical Support Team, immediately activate the emergency response procedure!”

One of the programmers immediately said: “Manager, we’ve been hit by an unknown network interruption attack!”

In less than thirty seconds, a second, more ferocious wave of attacks arrived. This time, the database centered in Galaxy’s area was directly cut off from power.

Although they were occasionally subject to such attacks, this time was clearly a higher-level hacker intrusion, and it was executed while they were completely unprepared. They truly had no defense ready.

The Technical Department Manager quickly deployed a rescue operation. Generators were activated, and they tried to locate the source of the fault and begin emergency repairs in the shortest possible time. However, the opponent was clearly a very difficult hacker.

They were completely unaware that this ‘surprise attack’ was being controlled by the owner of the black Maybach downstairs, operating a laptop.

Lu Xinghe looked at the operating ‘surprise attack’ code bomb on the screen. He didn’t know how many times he had made his employees play this kind of game. The purpose was to use an unsuspecting moment for a ‘surprise attack.’ Programmers had to repair the fault in an extremely short time.

This was a form of technical raid and team confrontation.

All he had to do was press the test bomb button for the game to start. After countless attacks and drills, the ‘1-2-8 Theory’ was formed: 1 minute to capture the attack signal and issue an alert, 2 minutes to locate the fault, and 8 minutes to fix the fault.

This constant, high-intensity practice was meant to achieve system stability and establish professional offense and defense teams to cope with genuine attacks.

His current operation showed that Galaxy’s defense measures were fast, but the speed of breaking through was slow, indicating a very fragile defense. More accurately, someone was intentionally being ‘fragile.’

He took a moment to send a message to Duan Yuluo.

[Alias J: Arriving in ten minutes. Attack paused. I’m heading upstairs.]

He paused the code bomb attack and closed his laptop.

After finishing, he slowly unwrapped a strawberry-flavored lollipop and put it in his mouth, then slipped another strawberry-flavored one into his pocket. He opened the car door, got out, and walked into the Galaxy building.

The power in the building instantly restored, and the servers returned to normal.

The Technical Department Manager was astonished to see that the data centers in all areas had recovered instantly. He slowly looked at the programmers behind him, all of whom were exchanging confused glances, not knowing what had happened. They all knew it couldn’t have been them who restored it; they hadn’t even found the source of the fault before it ended.

Only the lean man sitting in the cubicle closest to the wall was still bowing his head, staring intensely at the screen, his hands on the keyboard gradually clenching.

The door to the Technical Department was pushed open.

The Technical Department Manager looked over and saw Duan Yuluo walk in. He immediately stepped forward: “Young CEO Duan, just now—”

“I know,” Duan Yuluo cut him off directly, his eyes calm: “You failed to defend. You couldn’t even manage the most basic fault location.”

“Young CEO Duan, it was only ten minutes. It was clearly an attack launched by a very skilled hacker. How could we possibly locate the fault so quickly?”

A cold voice came from the corner.

Duan Yuluo looked over, seeing a slender man stand up. He was wearing a plaid shirt with long bangs over his forehead. Duan Yuluo met the man’s resentful gaze: “Hmm, yes, the time was short, so you couldn’t complete it. But I think ‘unable to complete’ and ‘deliberately not completing’ are not the same concept.”

The Technical Department Manager snapped coldly: “Lin Qi!”

Lin Qi looked directly at Duan Yuluo: “No one can locate the fault in such a short time. You are deliberately making things difficult for us. You just don’t trust us. Since you suspected from the beginning that we leaked the source code, why keep us here?”

At this, the entire Technical Department fell silent, and many programmers gasped.

“Who says no one can? I can.”

Just then, a tall figure appeared at the entrance of the Technical Department.

Duan Yuluo narrowed his eyes until he clearly saw who it was.

Lu Xinghe, wearing a black shirt, walked in with one hand in his pocket. He was wearing gold-rimmed glasses without lenses on his nose, looking very much like a refined scoundrel, and he was eating a lollipop.

Lu Xinghe met Duan Yuluo’s speechless stare. He smiled and took the lollipop out of his mouth, then turned his gaze to Lin Qi speaking in the corner. A smile was on his face, but there was no warmth in his eyes as he repeated what he had just said:

“You can’t. I can.”