After a night without incident, the next day dawned bright, and Li Yue was already awake.
It was March, and the weather was pleasant.
In Manhattan, New York, the morning sun shone on the ground, mostly blocked by skyscrapers, scattering golden light across the buildings' glass facades.
Li Yue's current residence was in eastern Manhattan, in an area called Revolution Road.
The environment here was quite good, with an artificial lake surrounded by trees, creating a pleasant atmosphere, which was rare in the expensive area of New York.
After all, most Americans didn't like living in the city center, preferring the suburbs for their better environment.
And the closer one was to the suburbs, the more expensive the houses became, not to mention the high property taxes.
Although the neighborhood on Revolution Road wasn't in the suburbs, it wasn't close to the city center either, so house prices here were quite high.
The house Li Yue lived in cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Since it wasn't rented but bought outright, he also had to pay over a hundred thousand in property taxes, which was simply outrageous.
But then again, the body he possessed belonged to a rich second generation heir.
Aside from the house, Li Yue currently controlled tens of millions of dollars in liquid assets, plus ten percent of the company's stock, and a luxurious villa in southern Manhattan.
These were all left behind by his parents.
It was early morning, and the weather was pleasant.
Li Yue was wearing a black suit and trousers, leather boots, and carrying a shoulder bag as he walked towards the garage.
Opening the car door, Li Yue sat in the driver's seat and started the car directly.
It was a streamlined white Chevrolet, worth over a hundred thousand dollars, quite expensive, and looked simple, elegant, and very beautiful.
The car started, the powerful engine emitting a low roar. Li Yue stepped on the accelerator, and the white car sped off towards the company.
His destination was his parents' company, the Noah Group, full name, Noah Technology Group.
The Noah Technology Group was primarily involved in the internet and industry. In terms of the internet, its main focus was on portal websites and game development.
However, industry was the focus of Noah Technology, mainly involving the research and manufacturing of new alloys and aerospace industry. In recent years, it had gradually cooperated with the military, developing very rapidly.
In this regard, it was somewhat similar to Stark Industries, but unfortunately, their products were completely different, and their values were also completely different.
Stark Industries was a giant group with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, involved in energy, industry, weapons, real estate, and so on. Noah Company, on the other hand, had a market value of only a few billion dollars, mainly focusing on the internet, metallurgy, and aerospace industry. The difference between the two was enormous.
However, no matter what, Li Yue had no intention of giving up the Noah Technology Group.
Not to mention that this was the company founded by the parents of this body, just for its huge market value, Li Yue couldn't give it up for some future plans.
After all, in this capitalist country, only by controlling powerful capital could one have a certain degree of influence.
"Of course, there's also avenging the 'unlucky guy' whose body I took over!"
Driving the car, Li Yue sneered, already having a plan in mind.
Previously, the unlucky guy was manipulated by the company's shareholders, who seized control of the company, and as a result, he died from an overdose due to 'depression'.
In his dying memories, his biggest obsession was to reclaim his parents' company. Unfortunately, he didn't have the ability, and instead, he ended up dead.
Both emotionally and logically, Li Yue was determined to resolve this issue.
The white Chevrolet streaked down the road like a white shadow, driving rapidly.
Soon, in just over ten minutes, Li Yue arrived at the base of the Noah Technology Group building.
Parking the car, Li Yue opened the door,
carrying his bag, and walked directly into the building.
"Excuse me, sir, who are you looking for?" At the front desk, a blonde woman in uniform asked Li Yue with a professional smile.
She didn't recognize Li Yue, or rather, she had seen him a few times, but he was too unfamiliar for her to have a clear memory. After all, Li Yue rarely came here.
"Gallo Cavent!" Li Yue looked at the front desk attendant with an expressionless face and said calmly.
"May I know if you have an appointment, sir?"
"An appointment? Yes!" A faint smile played on Li Yue's lips. He looked at the blonde woman, a slight flicker of light in his eyes.
"Snap!"
He lightly snapped his fingers. The woman's gaze froze, and her eyes became vacant.
Immediately, he said, "Miss, didn't you call to confirm? Can I go in now?"
"Yes, sir. Noah Technology welcomes you!" The woman smiled, nodded at Li Yue, and then said no more.
Looking closely, one could see that the woman's eyes were vacant, devoid of any emotion, as if she were dead, which was very strange.
Li Yue smiled at this, picked up his pace, and walked directly towards the elevator.
After Li Yue left, the woman suddenly paused, blinking her eyes in confusion. "What just happened to me? It doesn't seem like anything, so why was I spacing out?"
...
"This is the first time using this ability, and I didn't expect it to be quite useful. Just a glance is enough to trap an ordinary person in a complete illusion, a hundred times more potent than ordinary hypnosis!"
Inside the elevator, Li Yue muttered to himself, very satisfied with his ability.
The entire Noah Group building is over 270 meters tall, built in the late 1990s at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It has nearly a hundred floors. When this building was constructed, the Noah Group took out numerous loans, severely straining its resources. Fortunately, the group developed step by step to reach its current scale.
And the place Li Yue was going was the top floor of the Noah Group, also the office of the group's current chairman, Gallo Cavent.
And this Gallo was Li Yue's target for this trip.
Gallo Cavent, one of the company's founders. When the Noah Group was first established, it was he who attracted many investments, leading to the company's current development.
In the memories, it was also this guy who gathered several shareholders, forcibly increased the company's assets, and then used various means to halve the value of the shares inherited from his parents, and also kicked him out of the company's management.
"Haha, this guy is probably involved in the death of this body's parents. Perhaps, even the reason this body overdosed on drugs was orchestrated by this guy!"
"However, everything is in the past. In one day, this group will completely belong to me!"
With a cold sneer in his heart, Li Yue, carrying his shoulder bag, arrived at the top floor and stepped out of the elevator.
The vast space on the top floor was empty except for a few staff members working. Li Yue ignored them and walked directly towards the chairman's office as remembered.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
He knocked on the door, and soon, a stern voice came from inside the office.
"Click!"
Opening the door, Li Yue walked directly into the office.
The office was large and luxuriously decorated. Besides a desk, there were many leisure items.
In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, a middle-aged white man with a surprised expression was watching Li Yue enter.
The middle-aged man was tall, wearing a simple black suit. His golden hair was combed back, and he wore gold-rimmed glasses on his nose. His brown eyes stared intently at Li Yue.
"It's you, Karl!"
A look of shock and suspicion flashed in Gallo's eyes, as if surprised by how Li Yue got in... No, that look was more like surprise that Li Yue was still alive.
"Oh, Uncle Gallo, what's wrong? Can't I come in? After all, I'm one of the company's shareholders!" Li Yue smiled and said.
"Of course, Karl. By the way, I'm very sorry about what happened to your parents. Ah, every time I think about the time your parents and I started this company, I miss them dearly!" Gallo sighed, walked to a small wine cabinet, took out a bottle of red wine, and opened it.
"You're an adult now, would you like a glass? This is a rare treasure brewed in your uncle's private Bordeaux winery!"
Gallo said, poured two glasses, and handed one to Li Yue.
"Haha, no thanks, Uncle Gallo. I'm allergic to red wine!" Li Yue smiled. This was naturally nonsense; he wouldn't dare drink this wine. Who knew if there was anything in it?
"Oh, that's truly unfortunate!" Gallo sighed, taking a small sip. "Karl, what brings you here?"
"I want to convene a shareholders' meeting!" Li Yue said.
"Oh? Karl, you should know that the shareholders are very busy. Convening a shareholders' meeting isn't something you can just do whenever you want!" Leaning against the sofa, Gallo said calmly while drinking his red wine.
"No, you will agree!"
"What do you mean?"
Gallo was taken aback. Looking at the young man in front of him, he suppressed the violence in his heart and asked Li Yue.
"Snap!"
With a light snap of his fingers, ripples of invisible waves immediately spread out.
Instantly, the entire space on the top floor changed, transforming into a world of ice and snow.
"What's going on? What is this!" Gallo's face changed dramatically. Looking at Li Yue, he finally stopped hiding his feelings and roared at Li Yue.
Just moments ago, he was in the office, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a world of ice and snow. Moreover, he could clearly feel the biting cold. A thin layer of ice had even formed on the rim of the wine glass in his hand.
"Uncle Gallo!" Li Yue looked calmly at the middle-aged man, ignoring his rage, and continued, "Welcome to my world. Here, you will experience the scenery of the Arctic, slowly freeze into an ice popsicle in minus thirty degrees Celsius, and then watch yourself die little by little!"
"Are you a mutant?" Gallo trembled all over. The biting cold made him shiver. "No, no, you can't do this! I'm your uncle, and I was friends with your parents!"
"Friends? If I'm not mistaken, that car accident involving my parents was arranged by you!" Li Yue said, paused, and continued, "Also, I've always been curious why every time I went to a bar to drink, people kept offering me drugs!"
"Furthermore, the dosage increased each time. The most recent time, it wasn't just drugs; there were also large amounts of sleeping pills in it. Haha, it seems Uncle Gallo really wanted me dead!"
"When I came here, your first reaction wasn't anger, not disgust, not even happiness, but... shock and suspicion?"
Li Yue smiled indifferently, "Are you surprised I didn't die? Are you wondering why I'm still alive after taking that amount of drugs and sleeping pills?"
Gallo looked at Li Yue furiously, his eyes almost wanting to devour him. However, at this moment, he was trembling from the cold, his lips were purple, and he could no longer speak.
"Heh, actually, your plan was perfect. That unlucky guy did die. But I'm here! So, for the sake of my future plans, please just die!"