"Alright, alright, I'll try to mention her less in front of you."
"In any case, enough about that, remember this. There's only servitude, no breakup. If you break up, you'll bear the consequences yourself."
Shiro at that moment delivered a fierce threat.
Yukino could only deeply store this guy's threat in her heart.
"I feel like you're completely two-faced now compared to your usual self. Does your sister know you're like this?"
Yukino very clearly realized that the guy in front of her was completely different from how he usually was, like night and day. Otherwise, he could be considered a normal person, restrained, but now he was a complete devil.
Shiro, after hearing her words, shrugged and spoke openly.
"How could I let Mikan know such things? Am I crazy?"
"Whether it's Mikan or anyone else, they're not like you. These things absolutely must not be revealed."
After hearing Shiro's words, Yukinoshita secretly cursed this damn hypocrite in her mind.
I know you're probably cursing me furiously in your mind right now. But I can't do anything about it. Who's to blame for having a Chat Group and knowing so much? Why would I pretend in front of someone who knows everything?
"Honestly, if you didn't know anything, I would still maintain my usual image in front of you, but now it's obviously too troublesome to maintain it. After all, all my secrets have already been uncovered, so what's left to maintain?"
Yukino: ???
Yukino at that moment was completely confused, as if thinking: "Can this really fall on me?"
So, just because I have a Chat Group and know your true situation, you'll be two-faced toward me, is that it?
"Can this be blamed on me? After all, don't you see, isn't this your own problem? If you were just a little more normal, this wouldn't have happened at all."
Yukino at that moment was very angry and began to accuse him without any restraint.
Shiro, on the other hand, listened to her accusations with a humble expression. However, after listening, he seriously nodded and spoke.
"You are completely right, but I don't want to listen."
"After all, how should I put it?"
"There's no such thing as 'what if' and 'how it would be.'"
"And the most important thing is that your personality determines that I can only speak so honestly with you. If you had a better personality, weren't so troublesome, and so on, I wouldn't have to be like this."
"After all, you don't actually like me; I practically forced you to be here. That's why I can only be like this."
When Yukino heard Shiro's words, she really felt like saying: "You know you forced me?"
Although her heart was full of desire to complain about this, she still held back. After all, whatever this person said was useless.
"Alright, alright, let's skip this topic."
"After all, this is just a small matter. I have an eternity to slowly deal with you, and I even more believe in the saying 'great effort brings miracles.'"
Yukino: !!!
Although Yukino didn't understand at first what that sentence meant, her subconscious intuition told her that it was definitely not a good thing.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing, you'll find out in the future. For now, you only need to know one thing: you are mine and cannot escape. Even if you run through countless worlds, I can find you, because my title is not for nothing."
Shiro leaned against her pale neck and took a deep breath.
Yukino felt the touch on her neck and her body trembled slightly.
"Let's get back to the main topic, alright?"
Yukino nodded in agreement when she heard someone suddenly say that. After all, it was better to talk about the main topic; these side topics left her speechless.
"So, to put it this way. My gift package includes shares in your family's company, and I took a look and found that your three-member family—ah, wait, including your father who lives with you, that's four people—only has 35%. You can imagine how bad your family's situation is. It's a family conglomerate, you're in power, and you don't even have 51%."
Yukino fell silent after hearing that. Although she didn't care about many things and wasn't particularly knowledgeable, this made her realize something.
But soon she couldn't help but frown.
"That's impossible. Even if the shares were scattered, the Yukinoshita family would surely have over 51%."
"Why does it sound like our family doesn't even have 51% when you say it?"
Yukino frowned at that moment, and her tone was full of doubt.
"Normally, you would have something, even up to 65%. Your family individually held about 15% each, and the remaining 30% was with various relatives."
"Including your so-called aunts and the like."
"But it's quite interesting. Today I got 65%, which means they sold all their shares, and with my cheat I acquired the rest. And I checked, a sum of money twice the original price was deposited into their accounts."
"Isn't that interesting? Because of that money, they even ignored family ties and probably didn't even tell your mother before directly selling."
Yukino was also aware of the situation with those people; they purely lived off dividends. Now, having received double, it meant they planned to sell everything and withdraw once and for all.
Yukino couldn't help but frown. After all, such people were unstable factors, parasites. If these shares hadn't ended up in this guy's hands, but in someone else's, her family would probably have had big problems.
Ah, no, that's not right. Even in this guy's hands, it was a big problem. After all, this person didn't seem like a good person, and the fact that he was telling her all this definitely meant he wanted something, or had demands she had to fulfill.
But there was one thing she didn't understand.
"Why would those people decide to do that? Wouldn't it be better to continue receiving dividends? After all, their dividends weren't small; this is sustainable growth, surely better than a one-time payment, and the shares could also be transferred to their children and the like."
"Not to mention, our family is now developing here, so in the future they will surely receive more, right?"
Yukino's tone was full of doubt; she really couldn't understand those people's thinking. And when Shiro heard her naive words, he couldn't help but rub his forehead, suddenly realizing something: this girl really didn't know anything.
"Yukino, is it possible that they cut their losses in time, which is actually a very smart move?"
Yukino didn't react immediately after hearing that and subconsciously said what came to her mind.
"Wasn't your cheat threatening those people?"
Shiro, hearing that, twisted his lips, and his tone was full of contempt.
"You're overthinking."
"It seems your sister protected you too well; you really don't know anything about your family's situation."
Yukino's head was full of question marks after hearing that, and then she was overcome with a bad premonition.
"What do you mean by that? Did something big happen?"
Shiro felt that she was not completely hopeless when she asked this question.
"What 'big' issue? It's a huge issue, alright? Do you really think you can just come here and develop? To be direct, your family ran away and abandoned their base, which means your retreat is practically cut off. If you succeed, your wealth will increase insanely. If you fail, you'll retreat depressed, and there won't be much room left for your family. After all, once you're gone, everything that could have been shared has already been shared."
"The problem is that, when you come here, there are countless big players. First and foremost is elimination. After all, the cake is limited and already divided. If you come, it means you'll take a piece of the cake from others. Who, in your opinion, would be willing to accept that?"