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A week later, Christmas Day.
Not a few things had happened during this week, but for Ryan, they were all just trivial matters.
For instance, Norman Osborn's death, just as Ryan expected, did not cause much of a stir in society.
The official report only stated that a sudden 'fire' broke out at Osborn Manor, and Norman Osborn himself was unfortunately unable to escape in time due to his severe illness and perished.
Internally, the senior board members of Osborn Enterprises also acted as Ryan predicted; they concealed the truth, intending to pin the entire incident on Norman himself, waiting for Harry to return so they could kick him out of the game directly!
After learning of his father's death, Harry had already filed for a leave of absence from his studies abroad and was on his way back.
However, Harry didn't know yet that what awaited him upon his return was not the inheritance of his father's multi-billion dollar estate.
Instead, it was the unfortunate news of being kicked out of his own company, and the even more unfortunate news that he suffered from a hereditary terminal illness...
When Harry reached the lowest point of his life, it would be the time for Ryan to step in...
Besides the major event of the unfortunate passing of Norman Osborn, the chairman of the World's top biotechnology company, Osborn Enterprises, there was another major news story concerning the chairman of another World-leading company.
That chairman was Tony Stark of Stark Industries!
However, unlike Osborn Enterprises wanting to kick out the heir Harry, Tony Stark of Stark Industries had instead fired the entire Stark board of directors!
The reason was that Tony provided the court with evidence that these directors had conspired with Obadiah Stane since 1992 to illegally sell a large number of Stark weapons to Terrorists worldwide.
The quantity of these weapons sold was enough for these board members to be sentenced to life imprisonment at the very least, or even the death penalty.
And because these shareholders had all signed the Stark Arms Agreement established by Howard Stark when the board was formed.
Therefore, once the crimes of these directors were proven, Tony Stark, as the actual controller of Stark Industries, had the right to reclaim the shares held by the offending directors.
So in the end, except for the Military's stake in Stark Industries, all other shareholders' shares were reclaimed by Tony alone; he personally controlled 80% of Stark Industries' shares!
As for why it was 80%, because besides the 10% held by the Military, another 10% had already been transferred to Ryan via a signed transfer agreement after Tony reclaimed the shares.
However, no one knew about this, as Tony had also encrypted Ryan's real information as a shareholder at Ryan's request.
And Ryan didn't mention to anyone that he had become one of the only three shareholders of Stark Industries, including his own family.
After all, while this thing was a good asset, it was also a double-edged sword that could easily bring unnecessary trouble to himself or those around him.
So he preferred to keep a low profile and just wait for the annual dividends from Stark Industries.
But unlike the original plot, because Ethan didn't die this time, Tony didn't close Stark Industries' weapons division.
Thus, Tony didn't fall out with the Military, preventing certain clowns who liked the 'Ex-Wife' from coming out to cause trouble.
With the support of the Military, Tony's process of purging the board of directors could be said to have gone incredibly smoothly.
Those shareholders were sentenced in the morning and taken out by the Military to be shot in the afternoon!
After all, although the U.S. Military itself has a tradition of selling its own weapons to Terrorists, as a listed group, if you're doing the U.S. Military's job, isn't that showing too little respect for us?
The key point is, if you sell all the weapons, how are we supposed to make money from the Terrorists?!
So the Military's high efficiency this time was somewhat personal...
These were the two major events that happened this week, at least the only two that had anything to do with Ryan...
And besides taking out Norman Osborn and going to Stark Tower once to sign the share transfer agreement, he didn't directly participate in the entire process of these two events.
As for what he was busy with this week?
It was Christmas after all~
This week he was busy shoveling snow, putting up Christmas decorations for the house, and preparing gifts...
Although it was mundane, Ryan quite enjoyed it; the festive atmosphere reminded him of the New Year in his previous life.
He wondered if his original World was also entering a new year now.
Even though he was in a different World, he still wished that World a Happy New Year...
Having been an orphan in his previous life, he had always been a bystander witnessing other people's happy families.
In this life, he was one of the members of a countless happy family.
The feeling was quite strange. Don't other transmigrators usually go from having a complete family in their past life to being alone in an alien World, and then try everything to return to their original World?
How come in his case, it was the opposite? He transmigrated from being an orphan to a complete and happy family, and he didn't want to go back to the original World at all... Faced with the holiday atmosphere, Ryan rarely became a bit sentimental.
"Ryan, look quickly, I made a snowman based on you, does it look like you?"
Ryan finished shoveling the last bit of snow in front of the door and turned around at the sound to see Gwen, who had pushed the snow he shoveled into a two-meter-high snowman, smiling.
Red scarf, carrot nose, barrel waist—besides the height, how did this look like him? It looked more like Kingpin...
Thus, Ryan stepped forward, put his arm around Gwen's waist, and laughed: "No, I think it looks more like my 400-plus-pound boss."
Kingpin, who was walking over with Christmas gifts:...
"Oh, hearing my most capable partner talk about me like that as soon as I arrive really makes me so sad~"
Hearing Kingpin's voice, Ryan turned his head in surprise.
He saw Kingpin slowly walking over, arm-in-arm with a beautiful woman.
Although he hadn't met Kingpin's wife, he figured this must be the woman Kingpin rarely showed genuine affection for, Vanessa.
Vanessa naturally walked to the snowman Gwen had built, took Gwen's arm away from Ryan, and smiled at Kingpin and Ryan:
"I actually think Ryan is quite right. This snowman is very round, and you are also very round. This snowman is very white, and you also like to dress very white. You two are really alike, aren't you?"
As she spoke, Vanessa pulled Gwen aside to whisper, saying she wanted to ask Gwen for advice on how to build a snowman.
Ryan saw at a glance that Vanessa was deliberately creating space for him and Kingpin, and asked indifferently:
"Why aren't you guarding your empire today? What brings you here to see me?"
Kingpin smiled slightly:
"Can't it just be purely to bring you gifts for Christmas?"
As he spoke, Kingpin also raised the gift boxes he was carrying, which were filled to the brim.
The gift boxes contained everything from the latest game consoles to towels and razors.
Clearly, Kingpin had prepared gifts for everyone in Ryan's family.
Ryan glanced at Kingpin and didn't speak.
Guess if Ryan believed Kingpin would be this idle?