He gripped her hand, preventing her from escaping. “What you want to explore is my inner self, not those trivial questions. You don’t really want to know ‘how long Wei Zhanyi took to earn his first billion’, you want to know everything I’m telling you today. You want me, and I was attracted by your passionate gaze.”
Qing Yan was stunned, her mind in chaos.
But Second Madam insisted that money would only become thinner if left unused, and she planned to start investing.
“Does she understand investing?” Second Madam was truly fashionable!
He chuckled. “The person she wants to invest in is me.”
“Eh?” She couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.
Several tens of millions was no small amount; the monthly interest alone would be more than enough to support their entire family. But – if Second Madam had done this back then, Wei Zhanyi would not be who he is today.
She looked up at him, and no matter from which angle, he always looked heroic and spirited.
People’s personalities are inherently different. Without Second Madam’s “devil training”, he might not have become another Wang Youan, but perhaps would have been just an ordinary office worker – working, getting married, having children, living a smooth life, leaving his father’s injustice as an eternal regret.
“I could only accept it and tell myself that I must succeed,” he smiled slightly. “I know that during those years, Wang Jinqiang was still constantly monitoring us. They had seized ill-gotten wealth and were afraid of any movement, also fearing that one day I would seek revenge, so I had to disguise myself.”
She pursed her lips, recalling gossip from magazines.
“My first entry into the stock market made my funds multiply several times. You have to say human nature is ugly. Many of my relatives and friends, during our difficult times, came knocking on doors asking for shelter, but were turned away one by one.
But when I became famous in the stock market, those relatives and friends returned to me, as if they had never driven us out on stormy nights. Everyone came with smiles, clinging to me like ants finding honey.
Soon after, Zhenghai also entered society, and we worked together, using the money we earned to acquire one potentially promising small and medium-sized company after another.”
From here, she was very clear about their business dynamics, so she interjected: “The companies you acquired were not particularly outstanding in the industry, and seemed directionless, acquiring a company here and there.”
At that time, many business people would laugh and say Wei Zhanyi could make money but couldn’t manage, just throwing money down the drain.
“Until finally, you connected these small companies one by one to form the Yihai Group, and everyone then realized that the seemingly chaotic acquisitions were just collecting pieces of a group puzzle.”
The current Yihai Group is one of the top media groups in the Greater China region, with subsidiaries in internet, cultural publishing, electronic media, and continuing to expand its territory.
“This method was slow, but careful. Otherwise, how could we have brought down Wang Jinqiang in one stroke?” he said with a bitter smile.
Her tone was sarcastic. “Taking three years to achieve revenge is already considered fast.” She glared at him resentfully. “You should also thank He Qianqian and other beautiful women who created the playboy image for you, avoiding alerting the enemy. Otherwise, you’d still be struggling to seek revenge!
There are more important things to do, no time for romantic dalliances.” This is one hundred percent true. “We’ll quietly acquire the stock of those three people’s companies and buy their debt. While they’re looking at the newspaper, feeling lucky that the Wei family is a useless bunch, they don’t know that we’ve already collected evidence against them, and their peaceful bedrooms and the companies that have been making them money are now completely in our hands.”
”Reveal this information within a day,” she chimed in to help.
”One day after. My father’s death anniversary.” The day she rolled in on inline skates, rushing in front of him, only capturing the four words “no comment.”
She quietly nestled back into his chest, wrapping his arm across her own chest, swaying gently.
”How does it feel to have successfully taken revenge?”
”Not great.” He shrugged.
”Didn’t you want to kick them, beat them, hit them, curse them, make them cry, kneel and beg for forgiveness?”
He almost laughed. “I don’t have time for that.”
”You didn’t go in front of them to show off, list the suffering you’ve endured over the years, and then drop a harsh warning to make them taste a fate worse than death?” She was starting to get a bit dissatisfied.
”Actually, I can’t be bothered to even see their faces.” He remained calm as ever.
”If it were me, I would definitely do that. I would curse them so badly that in their next life, they’d rather be dogs than humans. I would bribe the authorities, step on their chests with spiked shoes – really stomp on them! Make them apologize loudly to me, and I would drag them to my father’s grave to repent…”
”So vicious?” “Remind me never to offend you in this lifetime.”
He tightened his arms, inhaling her hair’s fragrance, as if this were the most important thing in the world.
”Why not? Aren’t all revenge scenarios played out like this?”
”Revenge is a shackle. Once I achieve my goal, the shackle is unlocked.”
It wasn’t easy in the flames of revenge. There was a string inside him that grew tighter with the passing of time, causing him to break into a cold sweat every time he thought of his father, deeply afraid of not achieving his goal.
”This shackle has imprisoned me for over a decade, making me taste unbearable pain. I don’t intend to live in this suffering for the rest of my life.”
Her dissatisfaction diminished slightly, and she nestled her small head into the crook of his neck.
”Justice prevails, evil is defeated, and then you move on with your life.”
”Exactly. When Second Madam initially invested in me, she had two conditions: one, only success is allowed, failure is not; the other is that once revenge is successful, I must put it behind me and live my own life.”
She understood that only this way could a distorted life return to normal.
”Successful revenge is just to let our family be reborn and allow my father to rest in peace, that’s all.”
”But… is that all?” She was still a bit frustrated, feeling it wasn’t satisfying enough.
”What?”
”Don’t you think this revenge is too bland?” She sometimes cared about dramatic effect.
”I believe for the other party, it’s like riding the most terrifying roller coaster, thrilling and exciting.”
Qingyan thought for a moment. “Oh, you didn’t release those emotions.” No wonder he was always sarcastic with her before. “If you had, you wouldn’t have brought me to smash that villa with a big hammer.”
”I only wanted to destroy it with someone special.” Undeniably, it was the last nightmare.
Was she that “special person”? Qingyan blushed, secretly delighted but not wanting to ask directly, afraid he’d say something cheeky that would leave her defenseless.
”Do you want to build a new home there? Bring Second Madam and your mother?”
”No, they’re used to the countryside. The air here is good, Second Madam doesn’t want to move, and as for my mother…” Wei Zhanyi gazed at the starry sky. “I don’t think she wants to return to the bustling world.”
”Don’t you want her to receive treatment?”
”She’s been treated, but the results weren’t good. Reality is too cruel. She’s a lady who’s never suffered since childhood and has completely retreated into her protective shell.”
”So… what will you do with that land?” She was genuinely curious.
