"It is rumored that the Lex Group may launch another merger and acquisition of Stark Industries!"

"With the waves coming back, can Stark turn the tide again?"

"Iron Man's first challenge is not nuclear weapons, it's this!"

"Talking about the N negative effects of steel suits on the United States."

"After five years, the old driver told you why Lex Industries has made a comeback?"

"Family Scandal: The Dark Side of Howard Stark!"

"Iron Man embezzles company resources? Stark Industries has not responded yet......"

"Stark reverted to his old ways and stole from his girlfriend!"

Ever since Stark said "I'm Iron Man" at that press conference, news about him has appeared on the news from time to time, and various rumors related to him have also circulated in the market. However, in the first days, these news or rumors were comparative, well, not rational, at least there were positive and negative, and the number was roughly equal. But these days, the Internet began to erupt in a large number of unfavorable news against Stark. The Internet was followed by relatively serious newspapers and news stations, followed by various undisciplined tabloids, in short, for a while, Stark went from an American idol and superhero who "could fight nuclear intimidation on his own" to a state of mixed reputation. In fact, if it weren't for the identity of Iron Man, which made him have a certain number of supporters among young people and children, those 'brainless fans' who were cheering for him, and his steel suit had a certain deterrent effect, maybe he would have been ousted from the CEO position at this time.

The ups and downs of life really don't go too fast.

But now Stark is already in a hurry. Not to mention that the plan to find out the root cause of the internal turmoil could not be implemented, and his attention from the outside and inside of Stark Industries, which had been diverted by the opening of the tech fair, returned to him. Now he was forced by the board to decide: either hand over the drawings of the steel suit and help the weapons department with the technical points, or get out of the CEO position or even be told to go bankrupt.

There is no doubt that the Stark of this world is a bit of a bag compared to the one before Rhaegar crossed over...... There's no way around it. Who made Stark Industries in this world a board system, Stark is far from absolute control, and he himself has just killed Obadi, who he is most familiar with on the board...... And the most important thing is that his steel suit uses a number of patented technologies from Stark Industries. If he does go to court, Stark has an 80% chance of losing the case. The only remaining 20% chance of winning is based on his challenge to the law. He had to hand over his steel suit in the course of the legal process, and the suit had to be completely devoid of Stark Industries' patented technology, while retaining the powers that the suit had already been known to others. In other words, he had to come up with a new steel suit that seemed real and fake to fool everyone.

To be honest, this one is no less difficult than when he created the Steel Suit from scratch...... No, it's much harder! If it's really that easy to find a replacement for those patented technologies, what is the Iron Suit an epoch-making masterpiece?

In the end, even if Stark really gave his steel suit a technological innovation, and then deceived everyone to win the lawsuit, he would definitely not be happy. Not to mention that his insistence on confronting the board of directors will make him completely lose his position as CEO of Stark Industries, and he may not even be able to keep the shares in his original hands, and more importantly, he must hand over the steel suit throughout the legal process, and more than once, in the process, his design has a great chance of being stolen by others, which is even more than worth the loss.

Working with the board of directors and handing over the Iron Suit, Stark loses the independence of Iron Man. Not to mention preventing nuclear intimidation and maintaining world peace, the Iron Suit is likely to trigger a more terrifying and higher-level war, and Stark will become a sinner of humanity. Without cooperating with the Board of Directors, Stark would have been demoted from the world's largest arms dealer to an ordinary person, nay, even an ordinary person who was heavily indebted and abandoned, and the Iron Suit would still be in the hands of others elsewhere......

What should he do? What will he do?

No wonder the resistance group made it clear that there was no need for Rhaegar to achieve anything in a short period of time, this kind of thing would indeed not end for a while, and once the legal process really went through, it was not impossible to drag it out for two or three or even four or five years. Unless Stark really compromises, with the big hand of Hydra operating behind the scenes, the matter can probably be resolved sooner, but Stark will hand over the steel suit?

So Rhaegar guessed that Stark must be thinking about some kind of trick to break the game.

In fact, Rhaegar didn't expect Stark's situation to become so difficult all of a sudden. It feels like the genius, superweapon merchant and playboy who is still the glamorous Iron Man one moment, and the next moment he is entangled in internal and external troubles, facing a future that will be tragic no matter how you look at it.

In the pre-Rhaegar world, Stark was seriously injured in an attack, and as a result, the Ark reactor designed later - which was also the power source of the Iron Suit - kept him alive while constantly poisoning his body, so he developed a tendency to self-destruct, and prepared for the last glory when he knew that his time was running out, so he had the Tech Fair. In this world, the Ark reactor still serves as the energy source of the steel suit, but Stark was not injured by a single blowout, did not need to open a hole in his chest and implant a magnetic coil to prevent the iron filings remaining in the veins from piercing the heart, and naturally did not have a tendency to self-destruct. The fair was held for another reason, and Stark's situation was even worse than Rhaegar had known about the same stage before he crossed over. The Stark before Rhaegar crossed over finally came up with a way to save himself, and although Stark in this world was not in danger of his life, his reputation was getting worse day by day.

Maybe Stark himself hadn't noticed, but in Rhaeggar's opinion, it all started after Stark and Stephanie Malik had a fight on the day of the fair. If nothing else, this is Stephanie, after being Stark's girlfriend for five years and infiltrating Stark Industries for five years through the influence of this identity, found that Stark, who is now transformed into Iron Man, began to get out of control, so she decided to turn around.

Of course, Stephanie was smarter. She will not directly show Stark, but first discredit Stark, put herself on the moral high ground, and at the same time create chaos through the people she has planted in Stark Industries in the past five years, and then create a situation of external and internal troubles in Stark Industries, forcing Stark to submit and hand over the steel suit, and further expand her influence within Stark Industries. In these processes, Stephanie does not have to come forward, she will come forward in the end, as a victim and a savior, to take over the mess left by Stark, so that Stark Industries can get back on track and revitalize. When that time comes, Stark Industries might as well change its name, and Stark and his surname can completely disappear into history......

Thinking of this, Rhaegar has one more doubt: judging from the coincidental timing, maybe the rumors that 'Lex Group may launch another merger and acquisition of Stark Industries' are not groundless, but that Stephanie has really teamed up with Lex Luthor?

Hiss...... While there's no Batman or Superman in this world – well, at least not yet, Lex Luthor is the second most existential villain in the DC world after the Joker! And in this world where Hydra controls the trend, Luthor has a connection to the Malik family, which has been confirmed to be an important member of Hydra, so Luther's identity seems to be self-evident?

Gee!