Chapter 286: Shocking announcement

That person answered a few seemingly random questions that the reporters asked first.

They were simple things from asking about the overall situation of the Jiang Family to that person's private life.

Lin Fan couldn't help asking Qiang You, "Who is that person on screen? Why is he holding the conference for the Jiang Family?"

Qiang You explained, "That is Jiang Qi Tai, he's the current heir to the Jiang Family. He's probably doing this because the Jiang Family wants to groom him to be the next head."

Lin Fan immediately knit his brows when he heard this. It wasn't the part of him being the Jiang Family's heir that made him do this, rather it was because of his name.

Jiang Qi Tai was a name that he had definitely heard before because it was a name that Jiang Zhi Shu had mentioned countless times. It was the brother of his that was about to marry his childhood lover.

This was a name that Jiang Zhi Shu had repeated countless times in front of Lin Fan, so it was close to impossible for him to forget now. It was also the name that was at the top of Jiang Zhi Shu's list, but not the list of people he wanted to kill. Rather it was at the top of his list and the only name on the list of people that he wanted to question.

Why?

Why did he do this?

Jiang Qi Tai had answered a few random questions of the reporters, but then his tone suddenly changed as he said, "Now, it's time for me to make the important announcement that I wanted to make."

When the reporters heard this, they immediately fell silent and focused all their attention on Jiang Qi Tai. They pointed all the recording devices they had at him and just waited.

Jiang Qi Tai knew what he was doing and took a slight pause to build up tension before slowly saying, "I want to announce that because of personal reasons, me and my fiancee have decided to move our wedding up. It will now be held in a week instead of a month from now. We invite everyone to come and watch as we will be live broadcasting this event."

All the reporters were silent since they couldn't make sense of what was happening, but that wasn't the case with certain people who were watching the live broadcast.

The reporters didn't ask any follow up questions because they didn't know what to ask, but that didn't matter since Jiang Qi Tai wasn't finished with his announcement just yet.

After another pause to bring up tension, Jiang Qi Tai continued, "Moreover, I wish to announce that with the agreement of my father and the various elders, we have agreed that after the wedding, I will be taking over as the head of the Jiang Family."

This time, the news that was announced caused all the reporters present to take a cold breath.

This wasn't a small piece of news, this was a piece of news that would definitely change the entire scene of Rock Mountain City. The family head was the effective leader of the Jiang Family and each family head would bring new rules to the Jiang Family.

The current family head of the Jiang Family was someone who was more passive, which meant that the Jiang Family hadn't done much during his rule. Other than maintaining their current businesses, the Jiang Family had never expanded out into new fields and had left much opportunity for the other families.

But with the change of family heads, no one knew how the Jiang Family would change since they didn't know what plans the new family head would have.

This meant that this wedding would become the event that everyone would pay attention to. All the various heads of the royal and noble families would be there because they would do their best to get close to the new Jiang Family head for their own benefits. Even those that were enemies with the Jiang Family would be there since this would be their chance to scope out the new Jiang Family head.

In short, for one day, all powers of Rock Mountain City would come together to celebrate Jiang Qi Tai's wedding.

This time the reporters all had different questions which they all shouted at Jiang Qi Tai on stage, but Lin Fan didn't have time to care about this since his phone had started ringing the moment Jiang Qi Tai had given his announcement.

Unsurprisingly, it was no one other than Jiang Zhi Shu.

He had broken their agreement and had directly called Lin Fan, which just showed how agitated he was by this announcement.

But Lin Fan didn't lose his calm and rejected the call without any hesitation.

At the same time, he had Brainy send a message through their backup communication line to Jiang Zhi Shu, telling him to wait for him to make his plan.

After several minutes and several hundred attempted calls, Lin Fan directly shut off his calling function without another thought.

Lin Fan immediately fell into thought the moment Jiang Qi Tai had made his announcement, just like Qiang You beside him.

For Qiang You, this announcement was definitely something that would affect the Seekers Union.

The previous Jiang Family Head had never interfered too much in Rock Mountain City, making the Jiang Family keep to itself. This had allowed the Seekers Union to spread into more businesses into Rock Mountain City and make themselves stronger.

Qiang You had been hoping to continue this, but with the change in family head, that was uncertain.

Of course, there was no threat of the Jiang Family completely tearing away all face and starting a full war with the Seekers Union, but this still didn't bode well for the future prospects of the Seekers Union.

As for Lin Fan, what he was thinking about was much more complicated than this.

The Jiang Family was clearly facing a large amount of pressure both internally and externally from the destruction of their various businesses and the loss of their shadow squad. But for them to announce the changing of leaders, that was definitely a move that seemed strange. That is, unless one knew the inside story.

Lin Fan actually considered this a genius move, but that was also why it confused him since he didn't understand who would be able to come up with this move. So far the Jiang Family had reacted completely the way that he had expected, with the exception of sending out the shadow squad, but that was just an extra boon for him.

But now they had made such a clever move, it was clear that something had changed.

The reason why this was such a smart move was very simple, they were able to make up for their previously lost reputation with this one single move.

First, Jiang Qi Tai wasn't just someone who had suddenly come out of nowhere and had taken the family head position. Rather he was someone who was famous for being a genius and one of the top younger generations of the Jiang Family. If he were to claim that he was number two, there was no one who would dare to claim that they were first.

With this promising new younger generation taking over, it was clear that there would be a revival in the Jiang Family which would restore many people's faith in them. This would mean that some of the backers lost from the slave trade base incident would come back.

But that wasn't the only thing.

The Jiang Family would also denounce the now dead fourth elder and completely split his branch among themselves.

On one hand, that would make their own branches stronger while it would also restore more faith with their lost backers since they were blaming the one who was dead for all the mistakes. Now that he was dead and gone, they could claim that the problem was solved and bring back a few more backers.

While the backers would be skeptical, there would still be a few that would be moved by this along with the change in leadership.

At the same time, by announcing this change in leadership, they could attract many of the neutral families in Rock Mountain City to their side to bolster their own forces. While these temporary alliances weren't as powerful as having their own experts like the shadow squad, they would buy the Jiang Family enough time to train up another shadow squad.

Moreover, by using these temporary alliances, even if these new allies suffered any losses in the rare scenario that they would, the Jiang Family wouldn't suffer from this at all since they would be losses of these temporary allies and not them.

Just this single move would solve most of the problems that the Jiang Family was facing right now, giving them new blood, restoring their backers and giving them a chance to restart their slave business again, and also gaining new businesses through their new temporary allies.

But all of that depended on a single thing, it depended on the wedding going well and the succession to happen.

That was where the crux of this plan laid since in the end, all this wedding was is bait. It was bait to draw out Lin Fan and the ones who had been targeting the Jiang Family, allowing them to deal with all of their enemies in a single blow.

The most important thing was that Lin Fan had no choice but to go.