Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One
Chapter 23: Who is the Richest?

Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Who is the Richest?

Chu River had long noticed the stares of others and suddenly turned his head:

"Tell me, in our country, who’s the wealthiest now? How did they get rich?"

What could the students possibly say?

So, they naturally replied:

"Of course, it’s Taotao Treasure’s founder, Daddy!"

"He got rich by starting an online shopping platform!"

Chu River glanced at that lousy website where not even reactors are sold, and his disdain was quite evident.

Forget it.

This lousy website is clearly not successful enough — no reactors for sale, no raw materials, no coatings... only making some movie merchandise.

It seems very unpromising.

She could only reluctantly lower her standards:

"Forget it, tell me who’s the richest in our city, and how did they get rich?"

"Huh? In our city, huh..."

This question was much harder to answer than the previous one.

Like it or not, for the previous one, you could hear about it online.

But in Tianshui City, such a small corner, who cares about whether or not there’s a richest person?

First, the class isn’t there.

Second—this isn’t some lavish family story, so how could an entrepreneur boast about being the richest in a prefecture-level city?

How embarrassing it would be to talk about.

The young man finally fumbled, racking his brains, and dragged out a piece of gossip from a forum:

"Well... I suppose it’s the boss of Green Forever Real Estate Company; all real estate people have money—last name Zhou, name Zhou Tianheng."

Real estate?

Chu River sighed again.

With interstellar travel offering mobile capsule homes and thousands of planets to choose from,

besides the main star, where else is there room for real estate development?

On a Deserted Star, living for 5 years grants you 1000 square meters of permanent land ownership, yet it still doesn’t attract people!

No one cares for it, and real estate money rolls in even slower than the nuclear reactor money—

Even more worthless.

However... She does remember the name Zhou Tianheng.

...

Chu River glanced at the young man beside her, who, for some reason, suddenly felt his heart tremble and quickly shrank back into his computer chair, never daring to look again.

Meanwhile, Chu River’s fingers danced swiftly on the keyboard, documents stacking up on the page, ultimately leaving a blank space.

Chu River slowly typed the two words "Zhou Bai."

Instantly, everything related that could be searched appeared here.

After all, in her mind, the young man Zhou Bai she met by the riverbank, while searching his phone amidst a dense information flow, clearly displayed—

His father seemed to be called Zhou Tianheng.

And if it weren’t for her coming here, the end of Chu River’s life would also have to be communicated by him, right?

This... might just be a wondrous word still present in the Star Sea Era.

—Fate.

...

Of course, in General Chu’s heart, Zhou Bai was still quite memorable.

After all, back then when she tried to pinch him for some spending money, he didn’t fork over a single coin.

Now she understands, that’s because nowadays no one carries cash, and without a smartphone, she’s essentially the poorest among the poor.

So, it’s understandable why no money was borrowed, right?

Nowadays, studying the education of the Five Virtues, Four Excellences, and Three Loves, Gao Shanghe of course no longer tried to borrow money.

Chang Geng had said before—that if not prepared thoroughly, this kind of borrowing method can easily cause trouble, and he would have to exert great effort to clean up the mess, not advisable.

Thus, Chu River had a sudden idea to contact and see if this son of the richest had any quick money-making ideas.

After all, borrowing money is not an option, but what about borrowing a good idea?

Being the son of the richest must give some development insight, right!

But unexpectedly, the scent of wealth was absent, only a whiff of green showed itself clearly.

Initially upon arriving, Chu River thought that dyeing hair green was some local self-deprecating and self-comforting practice.

—Although upon seeing his angry expression afterwards, she immediately understood that those words had been misplaced.

ค(TㅅT)ค

In any case, let bygones be bygones.

At this moment, looking at the correlating information showing in the search bar, she couldn’t help but display a retching expression.

The young man beside her snuck a peek—

Wow!!!

What’s the genius looking at?

Bright white, pixelated, scary, shouldn’t be seen...

The young man couldn’t resist stretching his neck again—

However, before he could focus, a hand was pressed on his forehead, with an irresistible force slowly pushing him back into his seat, making him rigid like a puppet.

Immobile.

Facing the genius’s soul interrogation:

"Is this something you should be looking at?"

At this moment, the genius sat cross-legged, leaning slightly forward, one hand pressing his head, the other supporting her chin, raising an eyebrow while looking at him, full of criticism.

The young man beside was utterly aggrieved:

—Honestly, this indeed isn’t something he should be watching, but it’s not for girls either!

Now that there’s gender equality, why can girls watch, but guys can’t?

Though the genius was smiling, yet the aura of danger never dissipated, the young man could only swallow his grievance and decide to describe today’s weird event thoroughly in the group tonight.

With such a timid young man beside, once Chu River settled him, she no longer cared, sorted all the input information, edited the email according to the retrieved information, and sent it out.

Whether she can earn some money before the holiday depends on this.

...

Zhou Bai had actually long forgotten about Chu River.

—It wasn’t a big deal anyway.

Just an accidental encounter with a high school student skipping class that morning.

Moreover, he had important matters to attend to lately!

Because on that very day, the careless words of the girl who skipped school became reality by a twist of fate.

Indeed, it was fate.

Otherwise, even if the tablet synced across multiple platforms under the same account, he would hardly be interested in looking.

After all, he’s not a girl, who’d keep flipping through the photo album at every moment?

But upon seeing it, it was quite thrilling.

The girlfriend was being intimate with another person in the photos, mosaic and all.

And the male lead wasn’t him.

Isn’t it obvious?

It’s green.

Completely green.

Zhou Bai’s entire person entered a summer state, his soles to his forehead ignited by raging flames, wanting to rush over and hack down the two dogs!

Fortunately, there’s no potential for a legal show, as when he drove to his girlfriend’s place, anger clouding his brain, he sobered up.

Anyway, although Zhou Bai was just an average person without much ability as a rich second-generation, his parents’ teachings were somewhat useful after all.

Like now, he knew very well his father’s advice—

[In rage, nothing good can be done.]

So at this moment, deep breathing suppressed the trembling in his body, he ultimately turned back and retreated.