The Geared Immortal

The rise and fall of Susan Tang Part 1

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9:00 a.m. in front of a tall skyscraper…

Two people alighted from a cab which stops in front of a huge building\'s entrance. Wearing a white knee-length classy dress and a black handbag, Susan Tang looks gorgeous and elegant. Her temperament suddenly changes from an innocent young woman into a domineering boss of a company.

Meanwhile, Shin Jiao walking beside her just wore a simple long sleeves white shirt and a dark blue tight-fitting slacks pant.

The arrival of these two people immediately grabs the attention of all the people in the lobby of the building.

Susan\'s company actually didn\'t own the whole building but is renting three floors in the middle part of the building. This building is a skyscraper with many other companies occupying the other floors. However, Susan\'s Touch Corporation is the most famous company in the whole building.

This is because of the revolutionary products the company produces. Their latest product the maglev board was a total hit in the market especially abroad. However, this is where Susan Tang\'s problem started.

Because it turns out that her engineers and the one who submitted the design actually pirated it from another company. What baffled her is the reason why the patent for the maglev board was released to them. And then the series of problems began piling up.

Now her promising company is now in trouble. So her only choice is to either retract all the sent products or replace them with a new one without infringing on the patent law.

As the two walks towards the elevator, a group of executives suddenly appear from a corner and was stunned after seeing her.

"You… why are you here?" a middle-aged man accidentally said with a startled look on his face.

He didn\'t receive any news about her last night so he thought that she was taken care of by the business partner who offered to help her with her problem in the company. This executive was the man who introduced that person to her.

What the middle-aged man didn\'t know is that the man is actually inside the hospital still unconscious with bruises all over his body. Unlike Susan Tang, the man was thrown to the wall and landed in a garbage heap filled with broken bottles. This has caused too many injuries in his body hence he looks like a mummy on a bed inside a hospital room right at this moment.

"This is my company manager Ma, why should I not be here?" Susan Tang said nonchalantly with a hint of a sneer on her face.

Shin Jiao and Susan Tang walked calmly at an elevator which just opened leaving the stunned company executives.

Before the elevator door could close, Susan Tang suddenly said.

"Meeting room at 30 minutes…"

…

The large meeting room the Susan\'s Touch Corporation is filled with people. The executives and managers of the company are murmuring and confused as to why they are having this meeting. They are all confused because right now, the company is facing a great problem and they are all busy with the last command from their boss to recall almost all of the products.

But the shareholders of the company are looking at each other with confident looks on their eyes. All of them have already given up on Susan and have been bought by other companies interested in acquiring the company.

"What do you think she is planning? Will she inject more funds into the company? If she did that then she would only lose more money… Hahaha…"

"You\'re devious… I guess the two brothers won you over, right?"

"Haha…"

This discussion is among the shareholders of the company.

When Susan Tang enters, she walks inside followed by Shin Jiao. As she takes her seat in the middle, Shin Jiao stood next to her like a bodyguard.

"Alright, whose fault is it?" Susan Tang asked without any scruple.

She was a bit hesitant about it at first but decided to trust Shin Jiao. So she felt a bit confident from the way he stood on her side like a strong wall. She felt like she can just lean on him and never worry about anything else.

From her question, everyone suddenly looks at each other with a guilty look on their faces.

However, before anyone could say something, a shareholder stood up and suddenly pointed his finger towards a thin middle-aged man.

"It was him! He was the one who started this all. He was bought by your brothers and convinces us all to sell our stocks to your brothers. So in truth, we are not the real stockholders anymore. We are just here to fool you!"

"Are you kidding me? You all my accomplice in this matter! It\'s that woman who sold the blueprint to the overseas company, I\'m not the only greedy one here, all of us  are!"

"…"

Everyone began to point fingers and admitted to their crimes. Then they began to dispute among each other\'s and their voices rose through the whole conference room.

"Hmm… I guess these talismans have these effects... Amazing!" Shin Jiao thought after observing the situation with wonder.

This is what enters his mind and what he suggested after they had a talk that morning.

So Susan Tang actually already expected this, yet it just troubled her of the fact that the so-called friends and people she worked within the company were all bought by her two brothers. A pained look on her face appears as she could not hold back the tears from falling from her eyes.

She was truly hurt and truly felt down on her luck once again.

"I… I guess it\'s time for me to give up. *sob… I… I can\'t fight against them anymore... Not like this…" she muttered while trying to contain her sadness and the tears in her eyes.

She just stood from her chair took out a document and lay it down on the table.

…

That day, she felt like everything she has done was all for naught. She didn\'t want anything to do with the Tang family. She just wanted to be an independent woman, to live on her own. But even freedom seems to be slipping from her fingertips.

As she walks outside and on the road, Shin Jiao calmly followed her, while guiding her whenever she would stray from the wrong path.

Suddenly she tripped.

Falling on the ground, the tears she was holding back immediately pour out like rain. It can be said that she has already expected such a thing to happen, but to the extent that even the managers and the executives in the company would betray her really hurt her feelings.

"I… I have shown them everything. I brought the company to what it is today. And with just a little bit of money, they would betray me?" she muttered under her sobs.

Shin Jiao seeing the pitiful young woman on the ground while grumbling, squatted down, and lifted her with ease.

He turns around and walked to a bus stop.

Susan Tang didn\'t argue or fights back. She just leans on his broad chest with her arms around his neck and cried her heart out. He set her down but she didn\'t let go of him and just hugs him and cried. The people around them look at the two and began to whisper.

Standing on the bus stop, Shin Jiao calmly patted her back to appease her heart ache.

Suddenly, the rain started to pour heavily.

The two stood like they were the only people in the world and everything around them are just background and non-important characters.

…

That night, a young woman is sleeping on the bed with an exhausted look on her face. Shin Jiao took her home and settled her in bed. But she didn\'t let go of him and so he waited until she calms down.

"This is getting troublesome… I still need to identify my real identity. Sigh… I guess I\'m already a part of this." Shin Jiao sighs as he looks at Susan Tang\'s beautiful yet pitiful face lying on the bed.

Though she is very beautiful, almost everyman\'s ideal woman but he is not attracted to her. Within his mind and sometimes in his dream he can see a woman wearing a veil on her face. Then he can see himself unveiling her and the ugly scar on the lower part of her face doesn\'t seem to make him feel repulsed of her appearance.

In fact, he felt like liking and loving her more after seeing her face.

Shin Jiao didn\'t bother with these confusing thoughts anymore. He knew that his memory would just return as long as he follows his heart. So he sat down on the ground and decided to try and feel the Qi in the surroundings.

Not long later, he suddenly felt something. A very thin almost nonexistent strand of Qi is drifting towards him. Then upon turning his head, he saw that the pendant he made for Susan Tang is actually producing the thin strand of Qi.

Within his mind, he knew how important Qi is for his body.

Suddenly another idea pops out.

"Artifact! I can make Qi collecting artifacts!" Shin Jiao muttered as he hit his head.

Then another question came to his mind.

"Wait a minute, if my body has lack of Qi, then where do these powers of mine come from?"

Then with a thought, he scanned his brain and saw the 50 spheres which are located in his mind dantian.

"So this is what I am using. It seems that I have already used a forth of a sphere these past few days. Hmm… I need to make an absorbing artifact first and then learn this step by step." He said as he began working.

Since he has a lot of metal in the closet, he immediately took them out and began working in the living room. Within Shin Jiao\'s mind he followed what he needed to do and was able to craft, ten different kinds of low-tier artifacts.

He then began to set it up all over the house in an array formation. And following the seemingly mysterious memories, he has he began writing runes on the center floor of the house and the ceiling.

Twang!!!

After doing that a not so loud reverberating sound echoed throughout the whole building. Although many heard this, it didn\'t catch their attention.

Slowly from all over the place, especially the flowers and trees around the area strands of spiritual Qi began flowing through the air and going directly towards Susan Tang\'s condominium.

When Shin Jiao saw this a smile crept on his handsome face.

"Let\'s start cultivating Qi," he muttered.