Chapter 246: Wage Worker
"Nani?"
Yeshinke asked with a miserable expression, "Then what did you mean just now?"
"You apologized, so I accepted your apology."
Li Jiexuan nodded matter-of-factly, then said in surprise, "You didn't seriously think that had anything to do with whether I'd save your father, did you?"
Hearing this, let alone his pride Yeshinke felt like his entire worldview was about to collapse. From the very beginning, he had simply been too foolish. All that apologizing and kneeling earlier hadn't changed anything at all…
No, something had changed.
When Li Jiexuan stopped walking, he had given him a chance!
After struggling painfully for quite a while, Yeshinke finally forced himself to lift his head again. "Lord Jiexuan, just tell me what do I have to do for you to be willing to save my father?"
Hearing this, Li Jiexuan's eyes lit up. This guy wasn't completely hopeless after all…
"I'm a very reasonable person." Li Jiexuan smiled and raised a finger. "I can risk my life to save someone, but…"
"The person I save aside from their life, everything else they have will belong to me!" Li Jiexuan narrowed his eyes and sneered. "In other words, they only get to keep their life!"
Hearing this, Yeshinke froze.
After a long while, he staggered backward in panic, falling onto the sand with a thud, and screamed in fear, "You also want to seize the Wild Nation!"
Hearing that, Li Jiexuan didn't deny it. Instead, he smiled and nodded. "You're not wrong. But you don't have a choice, do you?"
"Gulp…"
Only now did Yeshinke realize: Li Jiexuan wasn't his savior. He had just escaped the tiger's den only to enter the wolf's lair caught between two ruthless forces fighting over the same prey!
"How can I trust you?"
Yeshinke suddenly widened his eyes and repeated, "How can I trust you that after obtaining the Wild Nation, you won't kill my whole family?"
Hearing this, Li Jiexuan suddenly burst out laughing. "Because I'm only one person. I just want to be the king of the Wild Nation I have no interest in managing it!"
"What?"
Yeshinke was completely stunned. He couldn't understand what Li Jiexuan meant. Becoming the king of a country, yet not governing it?
In reality, the idea was simple.
If the Wild Nation were compared to a large company, then after acquiring all its shares, Li Jiexuan would have no interest in running it himself.
So he would appoint Noshimura as the company's CEO, give him a portion of shares, and let him handle the management and operations essentially turning him into a traditional wage worker.
Li Jiexuan, on the other hand, would be the major shareholder behind the scenes the boss responsible only for collecting profits…
After Li Jiexuan gave a simple explanation, Yeshinke finally nodded. Although falling from boss to employee was a bitter pill to swallow…
As Li Jiexuan said, he had no other choice!
Weakness that was his sin!
"Alright, I agree." Yeshinke clenched his teeth. "As long as my father can be saved, nothing else matters!"
What a filial son…
Li Jiexuan was moved to tears, then declared that in the future, he would definitely give the Ye royal family a bit more dividends let's say one percent!
"…"
Yeshinke choked. More meant one percent then what was it before?
But none of that mattered now!
"Dad, I've sold the country to come save you!" Yeshinke gazed into the distance with determination. "You have to hold on!"
Li Jiexuan nodded to himself. If I had such a prodigal son, I'd probably beat him half to death out of sheer satisfaction…
"Big Brother Jiexuan."
Suddenly, Yeshinko tugged at Li Jiexuan's arm, her big, adorable eyes wide. "I have something I want to ask you."
"Go ahead, little sister!"
Li Jiexuan indicated that as long as it didn't involve increasing dividends, anything was fine.
Yeshinko's small hand pointed straight at the two Bird ninjas' pig-headed corpses. "Big Brother Jiexuan, why is it that you only hit them once, but they ended up with so many injuries?"
"..."
If the Bird ninjas had any awareness in the afterlife, they would probably be grateful to Yeshinko for clearing their names!
"No, no they were born looking like pig heads." Li Jiexuan explained with a straight face.
Yeshinko nodded seriously. "Ohhh, so that's how it is."
If the Bird ninjas could crawl out of their graves, they'd probably curse loudly: Li Jiexuan, you devil!