LWDC Chapter 93

Ninety-third Chapter – Molding a Golden Body with Money

Ninety-third Chapter – Molding a Golden Body with Money

Ninety-third Chapter – Molding a Golden Body with Money

Ji Xingzhe had already planned how to kneel, cry, and plead when Ji Zhenwei found out Duan Yunhong had returned.

Unexpectedly, Duan Yunhong didn’t go to Ji Zhenwei; he went to Ji Xingzhe.

“The Li family has suddenly started digging foundations to build a new house.”

As soon as he entered Ji Xingzhe’s room, Duan Yunhong dropped this bombshell. Then, while closing the door behind him, he added, “Don’t tell me you don’t know which ‘Li family’ I’m talking about, or I’ll have a chat with Ji Zhenwei about exactly which Li family it is.”

Ji Xingzhe’s half-open mouth immediately froze, and he couldn’t utter a word for a long time.

Duan Yunhong didn’t wait for him to recover. He walked into the room, pulled out a chair, sat down, and continued, “Li Mingzu just gambled away the Li family’s fortune. Where did they get the money to build a new house?”

Ji Xingzhe’s face turned pale. He was afraid of Duan Yunhong, but he couldn’t help but follow his movements with his eyes, his ears listening intently to Duan Yunhong’s words.

Duan Yunhong also looked at him, slowly saying, “Every year, the red envelopes and pocket money you receive, you save them and spend them yourself. Over the years, the total must exceed one hundred thousand, right? Do others know how you spend it? Have you shown your savings account to anyone?”

Ji Xingzhe weakly replied, “I showed it to my mother.”

Duan Yunhong pressed, “Recently? Since the New Year?”

Ji Xingzhe was speechless again; the answer was obvious.

Duan Yunhong asked again, “When we were eating just now, Ji Zhenwei said he would reward you with one hundred thousand. What are you planning to do with it?”

Ji Xingzhe understood that Duan Yunhong wasn’t there to ask about his “financial plan.”

He also realized that Duan Yunhong already knew everything that had happened behind the scenes. The Li family was the surname of his biological maternal grandmother’s husband’s family. It was this grandmother who worked as a nanny in the Ji family and replaced the Ji family’s biological child with her own grandson, who was born around the same time. And Li Mingzu was the grandmother’s eldest grandson, five years older than Ji Xingzhe.

But Ji Xingzhe didn’t know that Li Mingzu gambled, nor did he know that the Li family, after squandering their fortune, was now building a new house. The woman who always claimed to be his biological grandmother kept saying that his maternal grandfather was seriously ill and the family owed a lot of money, so she came to him, begging him—or rather, forcing him—to donate money to save them.

To get rid of her and prevent her from appearing in front of him again, Ji Xingzhe gave her all the eight hundred thousand he had saved over the years.

In this day and age, eight hundred thousand was indeed enough to build a decent self-built house in the countryside. But at the time, Ji Xingzhe didn’t know her true purpose. Even if he had known, there was nothing Ji Xingzhe could have done. Although he managed to get the money to his grandmother before the college entrance examination, he was always worried that the remittance would be discovered, and his true identity would be exposed. Under this increasing psychological pressure, he began to suffer from insomnia, hives, and even low-grade fever. So, this was the real reason why Ji Xingzhe asked for leave before the college entrance examination.

Now, Ji Xingzhe finally knew where the money had gone, and he was naturally furious. But more than that, he was worried.

He vaguely realized that Li Mingzu, a gambling addict, his money-grubbing grandmother, and the Li family, who were building a new house even in this situation, would definitely become the clutches that dragged him into the mud.

But now was not the time to think about these things. Ji Xingzhe had to deal with Duan Yunhong first. He didn’t know how Duan Yunhong found out, and he didn’t dare to ask. Perhaps Duan Yunhong had started investigating silently the moment he suspected his identity, but he had been holding back, waiting for the most appropriate time.

After thinking about it, Ji Xingzhe could only try to please him first, “How about that one hundred thousand? Let Uncle try to invest it for me…”

Duan Yunhong looked at him with a smile that wasn’t a smile.

Ji Xingzhe bit the bullet and said, “It doesn’t matter if it fails. I’ll leave it entirely to Uncle to handle.”

“Do you think I’m lacking your one hundred thousand?” Duan Yunhong sneered at his obvious attempt to bribe him with money. “I just don’t want the Ji family’s money to be taken by some inexplicable people.”

Even though the air conditioner was on, Ji Xingzhe’s back was covered in sweat.

He blinked hard, barely holding back the tears that had been scared out, and said in a trembling voice, “Uncle, what do you want me to do? I’ll definitely listen to you. Please don’t…”

Duan Yunhong stood up abruptly.

“I’m not interested in watching your bad acting.” The man’s gaze lowered, landing on the boy who was shrinking his back. “You better make up for this missing money before I remember to ask Ji Zhenwei to take a look at your savings account. Otherwise, Ji Zhenwei and I will seriously listen to the story of how you spent this money.”

After saying that, Duan Yunhong turned and left.

When he was about to open the door to leave, he stopped again, turning his head and sneering, “Oh, right, Ji Zhenwei has also added the Zhu family to your college entrance banquet list. I heard that Zhu Yueting didn’t do well on the exam. You better pray she doesn’t put on a ‘little show’ at your college entrance banquet.”

With these words, Duan Yunhong really left, opening the door and closing it, leaving Ji Xingzhe alone in the room.

After a long time, the young man with an extremely bad complexion threw himself onto the bed, muffled himself in the quilt, and suddenly shouted, “Ahhhhh!!!”

The sound was completely isolated in the room by the soundproof doors, windows, and walls, just like Ji Xingzhe’s truest emotions, which could only be briefly vented in this small space.

*

Duan Yunhong returned to his apartment in Nancheng. Ning Fei was playing cards at the dining table?

“It’s the first time I’ve seen you play these.” Duan Yunhong watched the cards flipping nimbly between his fingers and couldn’t help but walk closer to watch. “What, are you planning to choose something related to casinos for the next world? Or card-based competitions?”

“Haha, would you believe me if I said I’d choose something related to casinos?” Ning Fei cut the cards many times with flamboyant techniques, then seemingly casually took the upper half, picked up the first card of the lower half, and flipped it over: the Joker.

He stuffed the cards back into the deck very casually and continued, “Did you finish scaring the little friend at the Ji family? How did it go?”

“How else could it go? He almost didn’t piss his pants for real.” Duan Yunhong pulled out a chair next to him and sat down. “You guessed right. He really did give his birth mother’s family a sum of money. I casually said one hundred thousand, and he didn’t refute it, so it shouldn’t be too far off.”

As he spoke, Duan Yunhong forcibly drew a card from the deck, flipped it over, and saw the Ace of Spades.

Ning Fei didn’t stop him from drawing the card, only glancing at it casually while replying, “In the information you showed me, his cousin is a gambling addict, but his family is actually building a new house recently. I just guessed casually. I just got lucky. So, what else did you say to him?”

Duan Yunhong casually put the card back, “I told him that when I remember to check next time, the money better be in the account. Then I left, without paying attention to his reaction.”

“Pfft, you’re really good at threatening people, Duan Yunhong.” Ning Fei shuffled the cards quickly again, even motioning for Duan Yunhong to cut them a few times. “How is he going to conjure up this money? Is he going to ask the Li family to return it?”

“He will ask, but the Li family definitely won’t give it back.” Duan Yunhong cut the cards three times and stopped. “I plan to check this money after giving Lin Shengjia the shares. Now it’s less than three months until Lin Shengjia’s birthday. If Ji Xingzhe can’t come up with this money, then I’ll expose his identity rightfully.”

“Mmm, a very logical plot development.” Ning Fei cut the cards twice more. “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see this exciting climax. If there’s a chance in the next world, remember to describe it to me.”

When Duan Yunhong heard him mention the arrangements for the next world, he felt a faint ripple in his heart, but he couldn’t tell what that emotion was. He lowered his eyes and said slowly, “Next world… do you still want to use the ‘come on contact as soon as we meet’ trick to manipulate me?”

“Who knows? That’s why it’s ‘if there’s a chance’.” Ning Fei smiled. “If necessary, I might even kill you myself.”

Duan Yunhong looked up at him, “Me too.”

Ning Fei chuckled, stopped talking, and only put half the deck of cards aside, motioning for Duan Yunhong to flip the top card of the remaining half.

Duan Yunhong flipped it.

He thought it would be the Ace of Spades.

—It was the Joker.

“Hahahaha…!” Ning Fei threw the cards away, stood up, stretched, and walked away.

“You didn’t think I’d really cooperate with you to find the Ace of Spades, did you? Don’t be so humorous, CEO Duan!”

*

In the blink of an eye, more than two months passed.

Lin Shengjia and Ji Xingzhe had both successfully enrolled in university. Lin Shengjia had even gotten tanned from military training, but this didn’t affect Duan Yunhong’s private internet company treating him as the “young master.” Although he was still doing some simple chores and relaying messages, anyone with eyes could see that Duan Yunhong allowed him to participate in all important company activities and took him along when meeting certain “big shots.” Sometimes Lin Shengjia would offer some suggestions, and even if they sounded a bit naive or like “pie in the sky,” Duan Yunhong would modify them and order people to implement them. Therefore, people in the company speculated that Lin Shengjia would be an important decision-maker in the company in the future.

Lin Shengjia had also personally visited many real estate developments and finally settled on two apartments. One was conveniently located in Ji’s real estate, and Duan Yunhong had an allocation, so he gave it to him as a gift. The other was bought with money Duan Yunhong lent him, with the loan set at zero interest and a ten-year cycle.

Duan Yunhong was becoming numb from acting as an ATM. He asked Ning Fei, “If I didn’t come, and you weren’t willing to spend luck to be a rich man, how would you have prepared to make him rich quickly?”

“Didn’t I tell you long ago, extort Ji Xingzhe. He can give the Li family one hundred thousand, so why can’t he give Lin Shengjia one hundred thousand?” Ning Fei said with a matter-of-fact expression, “Make him write an IOU and give money every year, or else expose his true identity. Also, make a backup of the materials and tell him that if Lin Shengjia dies, this secret will be immediately revealed to the world. This way, that cowardly melon won’t dare to move in the short term. By the time he really wants to do something, Lin Shengjia should have grown to have some ability to resist. If he still can’t handle it, then Lin Shengjia is really not up to par.”

It was a classic case of survival of the fittest, but coming from Ning Fei, it didn’t seem out of place at all.

Duan Yunhong didn’t ask anymore. The more he asked, the more superfluous he would become, purely looking for trouble.

So, on the day after Lin Shengjia’s eighteenth birthday (identity card version), Duan Yunhong took him to complete the transfer of ownership of the apartments.

A week later, the company’s equity transfer was also completed, expedited by connections. When 49% of the shares fell into Lin Shengjia’s pocket, some of the company’s executives hadn’t even reacted yet. However, Duan Yunhong had always controlled the number of people in the company and had complete authority, so no one could object to this equity gift.

Lin Shengjia’s “golden body” was basically molded in this way. In just a few days, he had ascended to a height that many people could never reach in their entire lives. On one side, he was so excited that he couldn’t sleep on his iron bed in the university dormitory. On the other side, Ning Fei had already set up a row of display racks in Duan Yunhong’s Shenzhen mansion. The racks were hung with exquisite “beautiful clothes” that Ning Fei had someone “proxy buy.” Opposite the racks, Duan Yunhong sat on the sofa in a dominant position, leaning against the back.

“Thank you, CEO Duan, for helping me complete my KPI career and for hosting my farewell party from this mission world. Let’s begin! Come, choose what you want me to wear. As many sets as you like.” Ning Fei leaned against the display rack, smiling slightly.

“Of course, if CEO Duan wants to wear them himself, that’s not impossible either.”

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The next chapter will really be the end of this arc!!!

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