The Tang Family’s Seven Os

Chapter 178 - TTFSO Chapter 178

Tang Qi Yuan was watching the news on the internet with his mobile phone in between classes. After Sheng Cen had sent out Sheng Lian’s audio recording, it had already caused widespread repercussions on the internet.

In just one day, the incident of Sheng Lian insulting Omegas has been fermenting. Even though Sheng Lian denied the recording as soon as it was released, nowadays, with the advanced technology, some netizens have made an audio comparison and confirmed that the person who spoke in the recording was Sheng Lian, he couldn’t argue. After getting this result, netizens scolded him again and again.

The Omega movement is now in full swing, and for Sheng Lian to make such a statement at this time is to openly antagonise the entire Omega community.

The most important thing is that Sheng Cen chose a good time to release the video, as he posted it online after Sheng Lian had attended an Omega charity gala.

The day before, Sheng Lian had spoken passionately about the greatness of Omegas at the charity gala, and the next day, he had been praised in numerous press releases, but at this time, the recording was suddenly released online, shocking netizens completely, and the headline on the press release, ‘Third Prince Supports Omega’, was instantly smacked in the face.

Sheng Lian had wanted to use the opportunity to win Omegas over, but it backfired, and the tide of public opinion changed dramatically.

Tang Qi Yuan was holding his mobile phone and looking at the news comments one by one, Sheng Lian always hated it when people called him ‘prosperous age white lotus’¹盛世白莲 (shèng shì bái lián): 盛世 = prosperous/flourishing age/period, 白莲 = white lotus. The Sheng in sheng shi is the same character as Sheng Lian’s surname and the Lian in lian hua is homonymous with the Lian in his name (盛连). This time, the whole empire was scolding him as such.

[The person in the recording is obviously him, but he still refuses to admit it. He really lives up to his name and regards himself as a prosperous age white lotus?]

[If the Empire is in the hands of such a hypocritical person, does Omegas still need to live? If he becomes the heir to the Empire, I will never have children! I’d rather die alone!]

[Please apologise, prosperous age white lotus! Prosperous age white lotus is extremely hypocritical!]

[I thought he was more understanding of the plight of the common people than the Second Prince because of his origins, but he really has no self-awareness. Listen to this recording, just him and still looks down on this and that, who does he think he is?]

[I am firmly against such a successor to the Empire! Defend your rights! This time we will defend our rights to the end!]

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When the bell rang, Tang Qi Yuan put away his mobile phone and started class with a calm face.

Sheng Lian’s incident was a big deal, it lasted for three days and the heat didn’t subside, instead it grew higher and higher. Finally the Omega Association came out to publicly accuse him, sending three consecutive letters of questioning. In the end, he had to personally hold a press conference and publicly apologise in front of the public. Unfortunately not many people were willing to accept his apology, he even had a rotten egg thrown at his head during the press conference.

His wretched appearance at the time was captured by reporters and published in the headlines of major newspapers and entertainment news, so to speak, his image was ruined.

During this time Sheng Cen took advantage of His Majesty’s lack of time and released the news of the marriage between the Yan family and Sheng Xi. His Majesty was too busy helping Sheng Lian clear up the scandal to notice the small detail of the ‘Yan family’s son’.

The wedding date between Sheng Xi and Yan Feng was getting closer and closer. Sheng Xi was unaware of the inside story, and although he was sad at heart, he always pretended to be happy in front of everyone and tried to act as if he was very much looking forward to the marriage.

On the day of the wedding, Sheng Cen understood that it would not be that easy to get His Majesty to agree to the marriage between Sheng Xi and Yan Fei, so he prepared all the scandals of Sheng Lian he had gathered over the years and exchanged them with His Majesty on that day. Sheng Lian is now riddled with scandals, His Majesty was naturally anxious to keep his son, and without thinking too long, he agreed to the replacing Yan Feng with Yan Fei instead for the marriage. After all, he had no choice at this time.

As for Yan Feng, he did not show up at the wedding as Yan Fei had said. Later on, Tang Qi Yuan heard that Yan Feng was in the hotel that day, hanging out with some men and women and was so high on drugs that he became delirious and was arrested to the police station, which made the news on the same day. Yan Feng was found to have been taking drugs for a long time, and the Yan family hurriedly locked him up.

This time, Yan Fei attacked directly at the source of the problem. Although the Yan family has lost face, it has completely eliminated the possibility of Yan Feng’s succession as the head of the family.

When Sheng Xi found out at the wedding that he was getting married to Yan Fei, his first reaction was to refuse, but not sure what Sheng Cen and Yan Fei had said to him and he finally agreed to the marriage.

While they were talking, Tang Qi Yuan did not walk over, but stood aside and smiled as he looked at the carefully decorated wedding venue, which was covered with white magnolia flowers, beautiful and romantic.

The magnolia is Sheng Xi’s favourite flower, and naturally, Yan family would not know that, only Yan Fei would decorate this wedding with such care. If Sheng Xi had paid attention, he would have found that everything at this wedding banquet was decorated to his liking.

Tang Qi Yuan smiled and looked up slightly, he saw His Majesty standing by with an ugly look on his face. His Majesty had thought that he could use this wedding to intensify the conflict between Sheng Cen and the Yan family, but he had never thought that it would backfire and instead joined Sheng Cen and the Yan family together.

Although he was chagrined, he couldn’t care less now. Sheng Lian failed to live up to expectations and had caused trouble several times, and he is also in a terrible fix now.

After Sheng Xi and Yan Fei’s wedding, the heir battle between Sheng Cen and Sheng Lian is now in full swing, and the two parties are constantly fighting.

Sheng Cen has been hiding his light for many years, but now with the help of Xia Cheng Lang and Yan Fei, he can be said to be a tiger with wings added. By the time Tang Qi Yuan comes back to his senses, Sheng Cen has already become the Imperial Crown Prince.

Although the Emperor did not want to give Sheng Cen the crown prince position, the him at this time had basically been completely hollowed out by Sheng Cen, and Sheng Lian had completely lost the hearts of the people and was so suppressed by Sheng Cen that he could no longer be competitive.

Sheng Cen had wanted to let His Majesty sit as a puppet emperor for a few more years, but it was Sheng Lian who was restless.

On this day, Sheng Xi returned to Orchid Palace from Yan’s house to visit Empress Xia, and when Tang Qi Yuan got off work, Sheng Cen fetched him to Orchid Palace as well, and they all wanted to get together.

Sheng Xi had been living in the Yan family for the past few days, and instead of looking haggard, he looked a little rosier than before, and even his mental state looked happier than before, so everyone could tell at a glance that Yan Fei had taken good care of him, and finally put their minds at ease.

As everyone was talking, Sheng Cen suddenly received a phone call, his face changed and he raised his eyes to look at Tang Qi Yuan before hanging up the phone.

“What’s wrong?” Tang Qi Yuan sat up straight and asked somewhat nervously, his intuition told him that something bad must have happened.

Sheng Cen hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice, “Song Xiao Bai’s call, he said that your fifth Ge has been shot.”

Seeing Tang Qi Yuan’s face turn white for a moment, he hurriedly said, “Your fifth Ge’s life is not in danger, and he has already finished his surgery.”

Tang Qi Yuan stood up with a pale face: “I’m going to the hospital to see him.”

Sheng Cen hurriedly reached out to hold him and said, “I’ll take you there.”

Tang Qi Yuan nodded, his heart lifted. He hurried to the hospital and opened the door to see that Song Xiao Bai was feeding Tang Wu Yuan, and Tang Wu Yuan was even in the mood to flirt with Song Xiao Bai.

The injuries he sustained were not serious, but the attempted assassination angered Sheng Cen and Song Xiao Bai, and after several days of round-ups, Song Xiao Bai personally caught the perpetrator from that day and finally interrogated out Sheng Lian, the mastermind behind the crime.

Sheng Lian was arrested that night, and this time His Majesty was completely unable to protect his son, and by this time, he had to give up on Sheng Lian.

During Sheng Lian’s interrogation, he never visited him from the beginning to the end, so he was completely cleared of any involvement.

The assassin confessed that the target of Sheng Lian’s assassination was Song Xiao Bai, and that Tang Wu Yuan had only been wounded by mistake. The attempted murder of a Major General is a major crime, and once he was convicted, Sheng Lian would have no chance of recovering.

On the day Tang Wu Yuan was released from the hospital, someone suddenly reported to Sheng Cen that Sheng Lian had sent a message to His Majesty, saying that His Majesty must go and see him, but when His Majesty refused, Sheng Lian had someone bring a document to His Majesty.

That document contained incriminating evidence of the Emperor’s private operations over the years, and what was recorded in it was enough to destroy him.

Sheng Lian had been with the Emperor all these years and was his most trusted right-hand man, so he naturally had a lot of evidence. Now that His Majesty wanted to give him up, he threw his weight around and tried to threaten His Majesty to save him.

Unfortunately, Sheng Lian did not know that the person he had sent to deliver the message had already been one of Sheng Cen’s men long ago, and now this incriminating evidence had naturally fallen into Sheng Cen’s hands.

“What do you want to do?” Tang Qi Yuan asked, looking up at Sheng Cen.

If Sheng Cen wanted to ascend the throne quickly, this was undoubtedly the best time to do so, as long as he published this document to the public, the Emperor would have to step down.

Sheng Cen sneered as he held the document and said unhurriedly, “Since Sheng Lian wants to see Imperial Father, I will let them meet, Imperial Father has favoured this son of his since he was a child, I would like to see how much weight this son of his has in his heart before his own interests.”

He threw the document on the table, his gaze sinking, “After all, they are father and son, this choice, I will leave to him.”

Tang Qi Yuan did not open his mouth to persuade him, Sheng Cen had hatred and resentment in his heart, if this would give him the answer he wanted to know, it would be a relief.

Sheng Cen had someone pretend not to know anything and passed the document to the Emperor as Sheng Lian had wanted, and after the Emperor received Sheng Lian’s message, he did secretly go to see Sheng Lian that night.

No one knew what happened between the Emperor and Sheng Lian that night, but early the next morning, news suddenly came from the prison that Sheng Lian had gone mad.

Sheng Cen sent a doctor over to treat him, who concluded that Sheng Lian had indeed gone mad, and that there was no chance of recovery, and that the cause of the illness was due to drugs.

Sheng Lian was His Majesty’s son, and His Majesty would not kill him, but he had a way of making him no longer a threat. With Sheng Lian’s current condition, no one would believe him even if he told them what His Majesty had done, for he was now only a sick man.

When Madam Zhen Wei received the news, she went and made a big fuss with the Emperor, who slapped her and locked her up without mercy, all the glamour and favour that she had enjoyed had gone up in smoke by this point.

When Tang Qi Yuan heard all this, he shuddered and shivered. His Majesty was really ruthless and had no mercy on those he once favoured. Perhaps in his heart, only interests come first, and others are never important.

When Sheng Cen heard this, he was silent for a long time, and finally he gave a low snort of laughter.

The so-called father-son love was just like that.

melon: sigh…such a disgusting father 😔

• 1盛世白莲 (shèng shì bái lián): 盛世 = prosperous/flourishing age/period, 白莲 = white lotus. The Sheng in sheng shi is the same character as Sheng Lian’s surname and the Lian in lian hua is homonymous with the Lian in his name (盛连)