The beautiful CEO falls in love with me
Chapter 743 - 719:

Chapter 743: Chapter 719:

The man didn’t take the elevator but went straight up the stairs all the way to the tenth floor, and then knocked on the door of the room. A dull voice came from inside the room: "Come in!"

The man pushed the door open and said, "Young Master, the deed has been done!"

"Hm, well done. Xu Dong was indeed more of a liability than a benefit!" Zhang Bufen was furious. He had wanted to cause some trouble for Ye Chen. After all, Ye Chen had just returned, and had conveniently crossed paths with him, so he decided to put off his plans against the Fierce Tiger Gang and target Ye Chen instead. However, he didn’t expect to end up failing.

The Chinese are best at infighting, and there was a precedent since the Late Qing Government. Back then, the Yihe Sect’s army was extinguished through such internal strife by Empress Dowager Cixi. Later during the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government adopted the policy of "ensuring internal stability before dealing with external threats" to turn and attack the Communist Party, which led to heavy losses for the Communist Party. The outcome of internal strife was mutual destruction, only for others to reap the benefits.

"Young Master, what should we do next?" The man asked, looking puzzled at Zhang Bufen.

"Next..." Zhang Bufen squinted, exhibiting a sense of hubris, like a construction worker who suddenly won five million dollars, bought a BMW, then a Mercedes, and drove them recklessly through red lights. When the traffic police caught him and asked why he was doing it, he actually told them if he didn’t do it, how would others know he had money?

Now, Zhang Bufen was somewhat similar. He had a powerful godfather and was obsessed with revenge. He had always been humiliated by Ye Chen, often getting beaten up by him. But now, he was someone with status and position and felt he needed to regain some face, right?

Zhang Bufen coldly laughed and said, "If we can’t succeed in the dark, we’ll do it openly. We’ll visit Ye Chen at Tianya Group tomorrow!"

"Alright!" The man didn’t ask why, and simply nodded in agreement. As a servant, he clearly understood what should be asked and what should not. Especially as a henchman for Zhang Bufen, caution was paramount.

The next day.

Everything at Tianya Group had returned to normal. The previous day’s disturbance had become gossip for both the employees of Tianya Group and the citizens of Jianghuai City, and the matter involving Lin Ziwen gradually faded from people’s minds. The focus of the audience and the social media pundits was easy to manipulate: today’s television media did it well. Once something unfavorable happened, they would immediately introduce another event to shift people’s focus.

Just like the ’My father is Li Gang’ incident, not long after it occurred, Li Gang quickly used his influence to try to dominate the media by diverting attention with other matters in an attempt to cover up his son’s crimes. Indeed, Mr. Li Gang succeeded: not only was he unaffected by the incident, but he was also promoted from a deputy director to a director. Once again, congratulations to Mr. Li Gang for his strategic use of The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Little Mei still went to work as usual. Initially frightened by the death that had happened in the lobby of Tianya Group, she simply brought the Milking Girl with her to accompany her at work in the lobby. The blood in the lobby had long been cleaned, and a Taoist had been invited to perform rites to save the soul of Yang Yupeng. There was also a talisman on one of the pillars that nobody recognized.

However, it was precisely because of the presence of this talisman that the lobby’s eerie atmosphere intensified. Little Mei looked at the pillar with a sense of horror and said, "Xingxing, why do I feel like a ghost is coming?"

"Little Mei, can you not talk nonsense, please?" The Milking Girl gave Little Mei a glance and said, "Don’t you know that scaring people can scare them to death?"

"But I really do feel like a ghost is coming!" Little Mei hugged the Milking Girl tightly in nervousness.

At that moment, Zhang Bufen and his group, dressed in black suits, walked in from outside. As they entered, the sun shone from behind them, casting their shadows ahead into the lobby. Little Mei suddenly exclaimed, "Look, look, there are ghost shadows!"

The Milking Girl was startled and also got scared. However, Zhang Bufen and his group quickly entered, and the Milking Girl breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "It’s people, not ghosts!"

"Ah, they really are ghosts, look, there are no shadows behind them!" Little Mei suddenly cried out.

Zhang Bufen was immediately annoyed. Early in the morning, as soon as he walked into Tianya Group, to be called a ghost was maddening. Even with the best of tempers, Zhang Bufen couldn’t help feeling a surge of anger. Zhang Bufen said coldly, "My shadow is in front, how could I not have a shadow? Besides, have you ever seen a ghost that’s this handsome?"

That statement immediately left Little Mei without a response. Little Mei quickly said, "Mr. Zhang... I’m really sorry!"

"Hm, where’s Ye Chen?" Zhang Bufen snorted, as he truly had no interest in quarreling with a front desk lady of such a low status.

"Ah, Vice President Ye hasn’t come to work yet!" Little Mei said hastily.

"Then why haven’t you hurried to give him a call?" Zhang Bufen glanced at Little Mei and then said, "By the way, have Mr. Li come down to receive me!"

"Okay, sure!" Little Mei quickly took action, first dialing Li Ruo on the intercom, then calling Ye Chen.

Li Ruo, upon hearing that Zhang Bufen had arrived, had no choice but to go downstairs to greet him. At this time, Zhang Bufen was no longer the person he used to be. Everyone knew that Elder Liu from Central had a foster grandson named Zhang Bufen, who was also sent to the Nanjing Military District for training. It goes without saying how much Elder Liu valued Zhang Bufen; there was an implicit desire to groom him as his own successor.

At least for the moment, Zhang Bufen was someone Li Ruo couldn’t afford to offend, so she had to personally go down to welcome him. After receiving the call, Ye Chen learned that Zhang Bufen had gone to Tianya Group and immediately realized something was going to happen. He jumped out of bed, quickly washed up, skipped breakfast, and hurriedly headed for Tianya Group.

"Zhang Bufen?" Li Ruo looked at Zhang Bufen, then flashed a smile and said, "Should I address you as Mr. Zhang now or should I call you Young Master Zhang?"

Her words were clearly somewhat mocking, poking fun at Zhang Bufen for having no real talents yet managing to climb to his current position.

"Ha-ha, Xiao Ruo, you can call me Bufen. Given the relationship between us, it should be fine to address each other that way!" Zhang Bufen laughed heartily.

"Hmph, don’t talk nonsense; there’s nothing between us!" Li Ruo immediately glared at Zhang Bufen and said sternly, "Don’t give others the wrong idea!"

"Heh heh, Xiao Ruo, why are we so stiff with each other now when we used to get along so well?" Zhang Bufen said cooly with one hand in his pocket, "Perhaps I wasn’t good enough before, but now, at least I’m a bit better than Ye Chen, right?"

"Really?" Li Ruo, with a smirk, responded, "In my eyes, Ye Chen is a towering hero. Everything he has was fought for, bit by bit. Everything he has, he earned with his own hands, his own efforts. Every scar on his body is a mark of honor. Unlike some people who get ahead purely by relying on others. Can he show even a little bit of achievement? No!"

Li Ruo’s words struck Zhang Bufen like a series of piercing needles, each sentence making him extremely uncomfortable. After hearing her speech, Zhang Bufen felt like a suckling pig on a spit.

"What’s so good about Ye Chen?" Zhang Bufen was a bit annoyed as he blurted out through clenched teeth, "Isn’t he still being chased out of the country by the government, like a stray dog? Do you think there’s any happiness in following such a person?"

"Little Mei, take Young Master Zhang to the conference room!" Li Ruo immediately instructed.

"Yes!" Little Mei nodded at once.

Zhang Bufen, full of irritation, was escorted into the reception room of the hall. Meanwhile, Ye Chen also arrived at Tianya Group in a rush, full of energy. Hearing that this guy Zhang Bufen had come, he took the opportunity to vent some of his grievances.

"Yo, Young Master Zhang, looking for me so early in the morning, what brings you here?" Ye Chen pulled out a Red Double Happiness cigarette from his pocket and offered it to Zhang Bufen.

Zhang Bufen took a look. It was rude to refuse a cigarette offered by someone else, but smoking such a poor brand didn’t appeal to him. Just as he was about to put it down, Ye Chen offered his lighter, and after a moment’s hesitation, Zhang Bufen lit it up. However, he immediately choked—not because the cigarette was too harsh, but because what Ye Chen did next shocked him.

After offering Zhang Bufen a Red Double Happiness, Ye Chen took out a Zhonghua cigarette for himself, lit it up, and behaved as if nothing had happened. Zhang Bufen stared at him with wide eyes. Shit, he thought, I’ve lived for so long and never seen anyone act so outrageously. Zhang Bufen looked at the slowly burning Red Double Happiness in his hand, and then at the Zhonghua that Ye Chen was smoking. Damn it, what a rip-off...

Zhang Bufen didn’t know whether to smoke or not. Eventually, he placed the cigarette on the ashtray, deciding not to smoke it. He coughed and said, "Ye Chen, Tongzhou City is hosting a charity event this week. As you know, Japan has suffered consecutive lootings in several cities recently, with countless dead and injured, many civilians killed, and numerous banks and jewelry stores robbed. It’s a heavy blow to Japan, so out of the principle of Sino-Japanese friendship, our government plans to organize fundraising activities in several provincial capitals."

"Eh... what’s that got to do with me?" Ye Chen was taken aback.

"How could it not concern you?" Zhang Bufen said coldly. "You think I don’t know it was you who did those things?"

"Right, I admit it. I’m the one who did it!" Ye Chen nodded and grinned. "I even stole billions of US Dollars from the Japanese. What, you want a share too?"