I'm surrounded by women.

Katori Kyozuki's fingers trembled slightly. She could hear that Katori Mima was calling her, or rather... her father had already noticed something was wrong and was now sending Mima to call her.

Katori Kyozuki went to London for such a long time this time. Ostensibly, she was there to discuss business for the Katori Group, but in fact, it was also to pave the way for her next plan of "seizing the source cherry blossoms".

"Did father send someone to warn me?" Haha, it turns out that the old ones are the wisest. I always thought my actions in London were secretive enough, but I didn't expect that father would still hear some of it.

But... Father, if we had given up after being warned, would the Katori family have reached its current status?

When you started from scratch in the underworld and led the rise of the Katori family, you did not give up in the face of warnings and threats from various bigwigs.

Now that I'm facing your warning, how could I possibly give up?'

Thinking of this, Katori Kyozuki calmed down completely. The slight tension on her face completely disappeared, and she put on a poker face with a fake smile and said with a smile:

"The business negotiations in London this time weren't going very smoothly, and I was thinking of finding time to go home and ask my father for advice.

Children are like this. Only when they encounter setbacks will they realize that they are still children who need their parents' help.

Aunt Zhen, let’s sit down and talk slowly. I’ll go get you a hot drink. Do you like tea or coffee?

You are my elder, and if you come to my place and don’t even have a glass of water, I will be scolded by my father when I go back.”

Katori Mima did not choose tea or coffee, but just glanced at Nishiwaki Keiharu who was protected by Katori Kyogetsu behind him.

Just a casual glance made Nishiwaki Jiechun feel an oppressive feeling that was difficult to describe in words, and even made her seem to forget to breathe for a moment!

'What, what's going on?!' Nishiwaki Kaiharu thought inwardly in fear.

"Auntie Zhen!" Katori Kyozuki suddenly shouted.

Katori Mima then withdrew his gaze from Nishiwaki Kaiharu, and as if nothing had happened, he said casually:

"No, I prefer drinking mineral water, and I won't sit here for long. After telling you one thing, I'll leave. The wife of the headmaster hasn't had a good appetite recently, and she wants to eat the salted duck egg and shrimp porridge I cooked for dinner."

"What happened to my mother?" Although he really wanted to know what Katori Mima wanted to say, since Katori Mima mentioned his mother at the end, Katori Kyozuki had no choice but to ask what happened to his mother out of concern.

"It's nothing, just a cold. I'll be fine after a few days of rest."

"I see. Then I should go home and visit my mother as soon as possible..."

Before Katori Kyozuki could finish his words, Katori Misaki did not give Kyozuki any time to prepare and suddenly said without any warning:

“I came here today just to tell you something.

The Katori family and the Wakaba family are about to start a formal meeting. After this meeting, the wedding date of Miss Minamoto Sakura and Miss Wakaba Mutsu will be determined.

After all, there is an arranged marriage between the two families. For the future development of the two families, both families think it would be better for the two of them to get married earlier.

When the two families meet, as Miss Yuan Ying's aunt, you must be present as 'Aunt'."

At the end of the speech, Katori Mima deliberately emphasized the word "aunt", as if to remind or warn.

It's more like a sword piercing through Katori Kyozuki's heart!

After saying this, Katori Mima left without even looking at Katori Kyozuki's reaction.

However, when he walked to Katori Kyozuki's side, Katori Mima did not turn his head to look at Katori Kyozuki, but just said lightly:

"Miss Jingyue, Lord Longyin asked me to tell you something."

Having said this, Katori Mima silently imitated Katori Ryuin's voice and said:

"I won't pursue you too much about the Toyokawa family's affairs. I also know that you are helping the Toyokawa family by doing that. But as for Genying, there are some thoughts that you'd better keep hidden in your heart for the rest of your life. Never let these inappropriate thoughts surface, otherwise..."

After finishing his words, Katori Mima quietly left.

Chapter 99: The Thing in the Palm (2)

After Katori Mima left, Katori Kyozuki stood there as if nailed to the spot, not saying a word.

Nishiwaki Jiechun couldn't help but feel a little worried. He walked forward and asked cautiously: "Jingyue, you..."

Katori Kyozuki did not respond to Nishiwaki Kaiharu's concerns, but looked at the piece of paper that Katori Mima quietly put into his hand before leaving.

Before looking at the words written on the scrap of paper, Katori Kyozuki had been holding onto a hope: that Katori Mima would accept his invitation and become his right-hand man. It was simply inconvenient to express his thoughts directly in front of others, so he chose to express them on paper.

As long as he can make Katori Mima his assistant, Katori Kyozuki is at least 90% sure that he can successfully complete his plan!

But when Katori Kyozuki looked at the words on the paper with hope, her face froze in the second she was still full of hope.

There was no thought of accepting the invitation on the piece of paper, just a casual sentence of giving the address.

"The meeting between the two parties is scheduled to take place at the Kaiseki restaurant "Hinazuki Lake" in Ginza. Once the time is confirmed, we will inform you one day in advance. Please be sure to attend on time."

This lightly spoken sentence seemed to instantly become a sharp knife that crushed Katori Kyozuki's heart. She gritted her teeth, crumpled the paper in her hand, and said through gritted teeth:

"Katori Mima...if you give her face, I'll call her Auntie. If you don't, I'll just bury her!

Originally, I thought that even if she didn't accept my invitation, I would let her continue to be a guest of honor in the Katori family after I inherited the position of head of the family. But she relied on her father's support and dared to come directly to my office to threaten me and warn me?

Father, you're truly heartless. You're worthy of being the hero who rose from the bloody underworld. I generate so much profit for the Katori Group every year, and now I just want to marry Minamoto Sakura. With just this one request, you're not willing to grant me that?!

I originally thought that as long as you allow me to marry Minamoto Sakura, I will conduct this marriage in a low-key manner and will not cause any negative impact on the Katori Group. But since you sent someone directly to warn me, you sent an outsider to warn me!

How cruel... But father, don't forget, I am your daughter. You are cruel, and I have inherited your cruelty as well!

Since you chose to take the initiative and warn me, and finalized the engagement between Yuan Ying and Ruo Ye Mu, don't blame me for breaking up with you!

Even if it means paying the most horrific price, I will obtain Yuan Ying and hold her firmly in my palm!"

At this moment, Katori Kyozuki, who was originally thinking about when to start his plan, no longer had any hesitation in his heart.

Katori Mima's warning made Katori Kyozuki furious, but it did not make her lose her basic rationality. She realized in an instant that if she did not start to implement the plan she had been thinking about for a long time, it might be too late.

We can’t delay any longer, we must start now!

Thinking of this, Katori Kyoyue no longer hesitated. She directly dialed a woman's number and said in a cold voice:

"It's me, just like we agreed before, we can start now."

The woman on the other end of the phone was very surprised by this sudden call, but she quickly calmed down and smiled charmingly:

"Why is an aunt so anxious about her little niece? Isn't she only sixteen?

Ah... I accidentally forgot, in Japan you can get married at the age of sixteen. You Japan is really a strange country. You can get married and have children at the age of sixteen, but you have to wait until you are eighteen years old to smoke and drink. "

"You talk as if you're not Japanese." Katori Kyozuki complained.

In response to Katori Kyozuki's complaints, the woman on the other end of the phone said with a smile:

"Haha, I'm so sorry. Although my father is Japanese, I grew up in the UK and have never been to Japan.

After all, I am afraid of flying, but taking a ship to Japan would be a waste of time.

Let's get back to the topic. Yuanying just started high school this year. You can wait until she goes to college and help her apply for studying abroad in the UK. I will also write a letter of recommendation for her.

It just so happens that your career in London is basically stable at this time. You can definitely take advantage of the fact that Yuan Ying comes to the UK to study at university in three years and you are the only relative around her to take advantage of the situation.

In response to the "kind reminder" from the woman on the other end of the phone, Katori Kyozuki did not express his gratitude for it. Why are they all thousand-year-old foxes pretending to be harmless?

Although she said something nice, Katori Kyoyue, who often dealt with her, knew better than anyone that the woman on the other end of the phone also had "evil intentions" towards Katori Genzakura.

The so-called arrangement of letting Katori Genzakura go to study at a university in the UK is not so much a matter of the woman being close to the water and getting the moon first, but rather a desire to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

If Katori Genzakura really goes to study in the UK, even if Katori Kyozuki wants to go with her, he will arrive at least one month later than Katori Genzakura, because Katori Kyozuki now has nearly half of the say in the Katori Group. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Therefore, if Katori Kyoyue wants to leave the company's power center and go to the UK, it will take at least a month to arrange work matters, and it cannot be arranged in advance. He can only wait until Yuan Ying confirms the time to go to school in the UK before Katori Kyoyue can start arranging the handover of work.

What's more, one month is the fastest time estimated under the assumption that everything goes well.

If any accident occurs in any link, it may take three months, not to mention one month.

An heir to a high-ranking family head like Katori Kyozuki may seem to have a glorious life, but in fact he is also bound by the constraints of his family. It is not easy for him to leave Japan, and he cannot even stay abroad for a long time.

The woman on the other end of the phone calculated that Katori Kyozuki could not leave Japan easily, so she proposed this method. She wanted to wait for Gen Sakura to arrive in the UK in advance, and then take the initiative to attack Gen Sakura while Kyozuki is away.

Katori Kyozuki had seen through her thoughts a long time ago, but he had no choice but to cooperate with her in a risky way and then cut ties with her when the time was right.

Out of vigilance against this woman, Katori Kyozuki said that no matter what, he would never let Katori Gensakura go to study in the UK, because going to the UK would mean entering this woman's territory. And he couldn't go to the UK at any time.

Katori Kyozuki knew exactly what the woman on the other end of the line was planning, but he couldn't do without her help if he wanted his plan to succeed, so he pretended not to hear anything and continued:

"I can't wait three years."

"Hey...are you going to die?"

Although Katori Kyozuki hadn't finished speaking, the woman on the other end of the phone blurted out these words as if possessed by a demon.

"..."

This suddenly silenced Katori Kyozuki, who was about to continue speaking. She didn't expect that the woman on the other end of the phone would say such a thing when she was in the middle of her speech.

But after thinking about this woman's inherently evil character, as beautiful yet dangerous as a poisonous rose, Katori Kyozuki didn't pursue the matter any further and continued:

"You're so eager for my death, are you planning to take Yuan Ying away by force after I die?"

"Hehehe, you guessed right. Of course, we have known each other for so many years. Even if you really die suddenly one day, I will wait a year before taking action against Yuan Ying out of my remembrance of you. At that time, I will hold our child and go to your tombstone with Yuan Ying to sweep your grave."

"Get out!" Katori Kyozuki finally couldn't help but curse.

"Hahaha, sorry, I said what I was thinking all of a sudden.

But to be honest, you went to great lengths to plan such a horrible plan in order to get Yuanying, but if I wanted to get Yuanying, I actually didn't need to come up with any plan at all. I just needed to take people to Japan, propose to Yuanying's parents, and then prove my feelings for Yuanying and the sincerity of my family behind me.

Oh, I really don’t know whether it is your luck or misfortune that you were born in the Katori family?

As the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, you have never had to worry about food and clothing since childhood, just like you were born with a silver spoon in your hand. Reincarnation is a skill, and being able to be reincarnated into a wealthy family is something that many people envy.

But because you and Gen Ying both have the blood of the Katori family flowing in your bodies, when you realized that you liked Gen Ying, you, who had never tasted frustration before, tasted for the first time what it felt like to be faced with numerous difficulties and almost no hope of success.

Hehe, just thinking about it is so much fun!"

At the end of the conversation, the woman on the other end of the phone couldn't help but laugh out loud with joy.

This is why when evaluating this woman, the first word that came to Katori Kyozuki's mind was "bad", because this woman really loves to have fun!

Sometimes, what she does is really hard to understand from a normal person's perspective.

But if you knew she just wanted to have fun, you could understand her actions a little better.

After laughing happily, the woman on the other end of the phone did not forget the business and continued to ask:

"So, why couldn't you wait three years? If I remember correctly, the first time you realized you liked Yuan Ying was ten years ago when she was still in kindergarten, right? You've already waited for ten years, so why can't you wait three more years?"

"Because she's getting married. If I don't start soon, I'll just have to watch her walk down the aisle with another girl."

"puff--!"

The woman on the other end of the phone couldn't help but spit out the water she was drinking after hearing what Katori Kyozuki said.

"Ahem! No, I just casually said that people in Japan can get married at the age of sixteen, but Yuan Ying really wants to get married?! What about me?" The woman said to the end, pretending to be aggrieved.

"Get out! Even if Gen Ying doesn't get married, it has nothing to do with you!" Katori Kyozuki cursed unhappily.

"...I understand why you're so anxious. Okay, I'll help you, but—I'll only help you complete the plan we agreed on. After that, I'll start pursuing Yuan Ying. How about we compete fairly?"

"Okay, I believe Yuan Ying won't like a woman like you who has big breasts, no brains, and a bad personality."

"What a ruthless assessment! Alright, it's getting late. It's daytime over there, but it's night here."

"OK, bye."

After saying that, Katori Kyozuki hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Katori Kyozuki threw the phone aside with a slightly tired look, sat on the sofa and gently rubbed his forehead with his fingers.

The news of Katori Genzakura and Wakaba Mutsu's marriage was too much of a blow to Katori Kyozuki.

When the Katori Group was audited by the Financial Services Agency due to cash flow problems, Katori Kyozuki did not show a trace of fatigue. Instead, he led the Katori Group calmly and flawlessly to successfully pass the Financial Services Agency's financial inspection without paying any price.

Katori Kyozuki has only one weakness, and that is her niece Katori Genzakura.

After sitting on the sofa and resting for several minutes, Katori Kyozuki finally recovered a little from the shock of Minamoto Sakura's marriage. She also knew that it was not a solution to continue feeling depressed like this. In this situation, she could only take an unconventional approach and start the plan in her mind ahead of time without being fully prepared.

To describe Katori Kyozuki's plan in one sentence, it is to force his father to abdicate by gradually exerting pressure from all sides, so that his father will have to pass the position of head of the family to him in advance.

Katori Kyozuki knew very well that once he started to force the emperor to abdicate, it would cause a messy situation between him and his family.

But she had to do it!

If he didn't do this, Gen Sakura, whom he had loved for more than ten years, would soon marry the eldest daughter of the Wakaba family, which was something Katori Kyozuki could never accept.

If he wanted to break off the engagement with the Wakaba family, he had to become the new head of the Katori family as quickly as possible. As the head of the family, he would have enough say to cancel the engagement between Minamoto Sakura and Wakaba Mutsu.

After the engagement is cancelled, he can use his status as the head of the family to force Katori Gensakura to marry him!

By then, even if their parents object, they will no longer be the head of the family and their wife, and they will not be able to change the status quo!