Chapter 1394: Chapter 526: The Earl Seeks Forgiveness with Humility

On the surface, this seemed like an accident, but in reality, it was not.

Ren Zhong knew from the very beginning that there was a problem with the invisible paint currently being sold because the entire affair was orchestrated by him from start to finish.

Strangely enough, long before invisible paint first emerged in the laboratory and its functions were verified, Ren Zhong had already foreseen this situation with his foresight.

This is the essence of logic.

As soon as Ren Zhong confirmed the existence of the Star Annihilation Ant for the first time, he deduced that it must have originated from the Augustus family of Viscount Nan Jiu, who was close at hand.

The Red Blade Clan developed the paint using mutated Star Annihilation Ants as the Source and made a huge profit. There was no reason for the Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu to remain indifferent.

Back then, Ren Zhong spent considerable time studying the Empire’s system, pondering the humanities and social science environment within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, researching legal texts, and the possible thought processes derived from these texts, and easily came to a conclusion.

No matter how many twists and turns happened later, as long as the Red Blade Clan was not destroyed and the Viscount Mansion of Nan Jiu continued, the entire affair was destined to follow Liu An’s guidance to this point.

So, at that time, Ren Zhong had already prepared a contingency plan, casually setting up a fallback, and then just waited for it to take effect.

But the problem arose here. Considering it wasn’t a significant issue, he did not inform others, including Ju Qingmeng, when formulating decisions.

Ju Qingmeng, however, privately decided to sell the first batch of semi-finished products at half-price and later concealed the matter to avoid implicating the Baron, without directly reporting to Ren Zhong.

After all, for the entire Red Blade Clan, these were minor, trivial episodes not worthy of wasting Ren Zhong’s energy.

Sun Ai had data records on this.

But Sun Ai, after all, was a "human," not a real machine, and would take human affairs into consideration, thus did not deliberately remind Ren Zhong.

Before this, Ren Zhong was genuinely unaware of the matter.

As he followed up on the lawsuit, what he thought was just waiting for the right moment to step forward, publicly revealing the truth, compensating all users who purchased the invisible paint early on, and reapplying a genuinely perfect paint, effortlessly covering up the previous flaw of the "problem product" having a short lifespan, just in time for remediation.

Ren Zhong timed it perfectly so that when revealing the truth, there would be at least two years before the first batch of paint would expire, allowing ample time for remediation.

By then, no matter how the lawsuit was fought outside, it couldn’t change an objective fact, which was that the research data on Red Blade Star was inevitably more detailed, whereas whatever counterfeiting methods prepared by Viscount Nan Jiu would inevitably be full of loopholes, regardless of how genuine they appeared.

If there were no other decisive means, with Nanxiang Marquis Liu An’s influence, he could surely manipulate the lawsuit’s outcome by force.

But with such a debacle stirred up, let Red Blade Star present the real deal, it naturally would prove that the fake couldn’t become real, and the real couldn’t be fake.

Ren Zhong was certain that Viscount Nan Jiu’s side couldn’t tell whether the market’s invisible paint had issues and was sure that they couldn’t make any changes to the invisible paint. If they wished to go to court, they could only replicate it entirely as it was.

Moreover, the entire decryption and research process by the Augustus Academy, from start to finish, was accomplished under his secret maneuvers and guidance, similar to how Sun Monkey couldn’t escape Tathagata Buddha’s Five-finger Mountain.

By then, having the Red Blade Clan come forward, openly admitting errors and making reasonable compensations, and then providing a free replacement with new long-lasting paint, the decryption on Viscount Nan Jiu’s side would end up being completely pointless.

Anyone with eyes would know that it was clearly Viscount Nan Jiu imitating without the skills, resulting in a defective and futile imitation.

The lawsuit would naturally collapse, and the massive investment by Grue Augustus would go down the drain.

Then, with the ever-diminishing financial resources of Viscount Nan Jiu, he would abruptly find that his hefty stakes were in vain, inevitably leading to large-scale withdrawals, causing economic collapse.

The mysterious financial group established single-handedly by Ren Zhong would then naturally step in, taking advantage of Grue’s inability to repay the mortgage loan contracts, and complete the final blow within the Empire’s system using reasonable and legal means.

Ironically, when Ren Zhong was ready to make a move, an unexpected lawsuit instead ignited the scene.

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