Tang Zichen moved to stand beside her, looking down at his unconscious brother-in-law. "The doctors say?"
"Critical but stable," Zhou Yuxi recited, the words clinical. "The surgery repaired the damage. Now it's up to his body, and his will."
"And you?" Tang Zichen asked, coming to stand on her other side. "What happens to you now?"
Zhou Yuxi's lips curved in a faint, cold smile. "Now? Now we finish what they started. Vertex Innovations is being dismantled as we speak. The merger with Mu Conglomerate will be finalized by tomorrow. Every asset, every patent, every subsidiary, all of it becomes part of his empire. And then," she turned to look at her father and brother, "we go home. All of us."
"Bradford won't just let you leave," Tang Yuze said quietly. "Not after... what happened here."
