He Zhen withdrew from all management affairs of ‘Silan’.
At first, Zhao Dong was unaware of this.
It was not until Zhao Dong called He Zhen that He Zhen said his abilities were still insufficient and he intended to prioritise his studies. Zhao Dong was so angry that he laughed.
So ‘Silan’ had become Zhao Dong’s own business, had it?
He Zhinian had his own difficulties and could not explain the conflict between the couple and He Zhen. He could only gloss over the matter in a few vague words, saying that young people were not yet mature and their ideas changed frequently, which was normal. From now on, Dai Chenglan would step forward to manage ‘Silan’ alongside Zhao Dong.
In truth, Zhao Dong did not mind whether He Zhen participated or not. A young man who had not yet graduated from university was indeed capable, but he was not irreplaceable.
However, with He Zhen no longer involved, would He Zhen’s girlfriend still be willing to seek technical support for ‘Silan’?
This question was clearly not one that only Zhao Dong was anxious about.
Dai Chenglan had tried contacting Rebecca alone, asking for Rebecca’s address in Britain, saying she wanted to send a gift to her.
The gift was that gemstone necklace originally meant to be taken to Britain by He Zhen.
The necklace had been smashed to pieces in Dai Chenglan’s fit of rage, but the gems were not damaged. The chain holding the gems was broken, yet Dai Chenglan had it repaired and it could still be worn.
Dai Chenglan wanted to use this necklace as an opportunity to maintain unilateral contact with Rebecca.
As a mother, she could refrain from speaking to her son He Zhen, but contacting his girlfriend was actively offering a way out, was it not!
Any girl with even a modicum of emotional intelligence would seize the step Dai Chenglan offered and act as a lubricant between mother and son, striving to help He Zhen repair his relationship with Dai Chenglan. This would not only showcase Rebecca’s abilities but also benefit Rebecca herself, a wealthy in-laws’ family would always make her future life easier.
Unexpectedly, Rebecca’s thinking was completely out of sync with Dai Chenglan’s.
She seemed unable to grasp Dai Chenglan’s implied subtext. Not only did she refuse the gift, but she also loudly praised He Zhen’s pursuit of financial independence to him, “I think I must respect him. He no longer wishes to accept financial gifts from his parents. This is wonderful!”
On the phone, Dai Chenglan nearly exploded in curses.
This was wonderful?
Rebecca was either a fool or a scheming hypocrite pretending to be kind!
Dai Chenglan suspected that Rebecca was deliberately causing trouble, supporting He Zhen’s severance of ties with his family and inciting him to break away from his parents and stay in Britain in the future!
Yes, it must be so.
Since the gemstone necklace could not be sent, naturally there was no way to request Rebecca’s continued technical support.
Dai Chenglan had a strong personality. Neither her son He Zhen’s ‘betrayal’ nor Rebecca’s duplicity had shaken her confidence. Having run businesses with her husband for many years, she prided herself on her insight and methods. She refused to believe she could not manage ‘Silan’ well!
The internal family conflicts in the He family were none of Zhao Dong’s concern, as long as they did not affect their joint business venture.
Rebecca was no longer providing support?
Zhao Dong prepared to negotiate personally!
He Zhen believed that doing medical beauty required one’s own core products, so he had asked Rebecca to seek suitable technologies for development in Europe. Zhao Dong, however, placed more faith in the power of packaging and promotion.
Just like those health supplements, advertised to the skies, yet upon checking the ingredients, they were all placebos with no efficacy at all, still making fortunes for their bosses without issue.
Finding truly effective high-end biotechnologies was too difficult. It was better to import a grandiose concept and package it for promotion.
Zhao Dong had just left the country when Xie Qian, far away in Rong City, received the news.
He Zhen had actually withdrawn from ‘Silan’s’ management?
This meant that He Zhen was not a spy sent by Xie Jinghu, but genuinely wanted to know if the He family had helped Xie Jinghu transfer marital assets. The result was naturally disastrous. The probability of good bamboo shoots from bad bamboo was low, but not impossible. He Zhen seemed to be the exception.
Xie Qian had no time for now to meddle in others’ affairs. With Zhao Dong gone from the Magic City, something Xie Qian had endured for a long time could finally be done!
That baseball cap troublemaker from Wen Ying’s signing event had long collaborated with a journalist in the Magic City. The baseball cap provided the journalist with useful news leads, and when the journalist lacked stories, the baseball cap would even deliberately create some news for him.
Providing news leads was nothing much. Many media outlets had special ‘lead rewards’ to encourage the public to act as news discoverers.
Deliberately manufacturing news was rather unethical.
Sometimes, what started as a minor incident would be stirred and provoked by the baseball cap into a sensational news hotspot.
The journalist gained fame and fortune, the baseball cap received a fee, yet neither considered how the affected parties felt with their scars exposed to the public.
For instance, at Wen Ying’s first signing event, the journalist took Zhao Qian’s money, instructed the baseball cap to splash filthy water, and arranged follow-up reports. Both split the money. Whether it hurt Wen Ying or damaged relations between Rong City Literature Press and local Magic City booksellers was of no concern to them!
Xie Qian had long wanted to deal with these two tumours in the news world. Unfortunately, Xie Jinghu had suddenly taken an interest in Wen Ying. Xie Qian feared his actions would confirm Xie Jinghu’s wild suspicions, so he forcibly suppressed his urge to purge the tumours.
Now, Xie Jinghu’s attention was entirely on Zou Weijun working at Jinhu, and with Zhao Dong absent from the Magic City, it was the perfect time for Xie Qian to act.
Perhaps because the baseball cap and the journalist, this pair of scoundrels, had never failed before, and even after the signing event fiasco led to the baseball cap being dragged to the police station, no one troubled him further, he had kept a low profile for a while but grew bolder. With only slight guidance from Gong Sheng, the baseball cap boldly inserted himself into a ‘medical disturbance’ incident at a major Magic City hospital.
The baseball cap lurked in the shadows, inciting hatred and opposition between patients and the hospital. The patients were driven to the brink of mutual destruction with the hospital. Then the journalist descended like a ‘justice warrior’, following and reporting throughout, using public opinion to coerce the hospital into admitting medical errors.
For a time, this news sparked widespread social discussion in the Magic City, even radiating to broader regions.
The journalist reaped fame and fortune again, while the baseball cap received promises from the patients’ families that upon securing a massive compensation from the hospital, they would share it with him!
Unbeknownst to them, this Magic City hospital was exceptionally tough. Facing public pressure, it refused to yield and instead firmly reported the matter to the police.
The hospital could provide detailed records of the entire treatment process and even agreed to an appraisal by a third-party medical institution to determine if it constituted a medical accident, being both reasonable and accommodating.
The appraisal result was ‘no medical accident constituted’. This did not affect the journalist. He could hypocritically write another report and harvest another wave of readers. However, before he could finish his new piece, the police came knocking.
The hospital, unyielding to threats, reported the incident. Suddenly, the medical disturbance patient had a ‘change of heart’. At the police station, he wept bitterly in repentance and confessed to deliberately extorting the hospital.
The patient stated that he was actually very grateful to the doctor who performed his surgery. It was one person who had proactively approached him, offering to seek justice on his behalf.
“He said he could make the hospital pay hundreds of thousands. Once the compensation was obtained, he would get a hundred thousand benefit fee from it. He also said he knew a famous journalist and would definitely make the hospital yield!”
