Meanwhile, Frederic sat in the conference room, silently listening to the shareholders enumerate all his supposed wrongdoings. He was the one who proposed shifting the group's focus from traditional industries to technology. The rise of the high-tech era brought significant profits, and these shareholders profited greatly. Now that something had gone wrong, they were placing all the blame on him. These people were really fickle. An elder of the Adamson family stood up and said, "Putting aside Frederic's contributions and negative impacts on the group, the fact that he wasn't born to the Adamson family's legitimate wife doesn't align with our family's ancestral rules, so he can't hold the position of president. Yusef, don't hold it against me for being heartless." Yusef retorted with a

