Chapter 290: Shall we have a run-in?

Clap, clap!

Manager Nie Kai clapped his hands.

A row of sexy, attractive girls walked in from outside the door.

They looked to be about eighteen or nineteen, seemingly still students, so young and fresh they could practically drip water. They were a full seven or eight years younger than Young Master Zheng.

"Good evening, Young Master Zheng!"

Young Master Zheng: ???

Why does this scene feel a bit like I've arrived at a nightclub? Is this even appropriate?

"Young Master Zheng, this is a batch of artists I just recruited. They haven't debuted yet. Let them sing for you."

"You can order whatever you want to hear."

"《Girl》."

Clap, clap.

Manager Nie Kai clapped his hands again.

"Young Master Zheng wants to hear 《Girl》. Xiao Lin, Xiao Liu, you two come here. Everyone else, stand aside."

The prelude began to play.

The other girls who had flown in specially from Hong Kong were all looking on with envious eyes.

They had heard about Yin Yanyan's situation long ago—how she had offended a big shot a few years back and was shelved by her agency, relegated to the sidelines.

Who would have thought Manager Nie Kai was so resourceful? He could even help such an artist find a sugar daddy.

Rumor had it that Young Master Zheng was a top-tier young master from Kyushu with a net worth in the hundreds of billions!

They were in high spirits tonight, all wanting to show off in front of Young Master Zheng.

Maybe he would take a fancy to one of them, or perhaps a few?

Manager Nie Kai had said that Young Master Zheng was extremely generous with money. Just the welcome gift for Yin Yanyan alone was 10 billion!

That's the adult world for you—just painting pictures for each other.

What Manager Nie Kai said wasn't exactly a lie; that 10 billion really was thrown at Yin Yanyan, and it could be interpreted as a welcome gift.

Yin Yanyan's eyes were darting around a bit. Why were these girls staring at her? She felt rather embarrassed because of her relationship with Young Master Zheng.

The remaining female artists took turns passing the microphone.

"Young Master Zheng, how was it? They sang pretty well, right?"

Manager Nie Kai had specifically selected a few with good voices and booked flight tickets for them, flying them from Hong Kong to Jiangnan immediately.

"Hmm, they're all quite good. But they don't sing as well as Little Yin."

As Young Master Zheng said this, he traced his fingers across the back of Yin Yanyan's hand.

Yin Yanyan had never had such contact with a man before. Just the scratching sent an itch straight to her heart. She subconsciously squeezed her legs together.

Creak.

The door was suddenly pushed open.

"Ah, sorry, sorry, wrong room."

"Eh? It's Young Master Zheng!"

"Young Master Zheng, why are you here? What a coincidence!"

The ones who had walked into the wrong room were none other than Chairman Zhu Hongfu and Lin Chengye.

Immediately, Chairman Zhu Hongfu called the head waiter over.

"What is wrong with you people! Why are you serving this kind of wine to Young Master Zheng!"

"Go! Bring over those two bottles of Romanée-Conti I have in storage! Open them for Young Master Zheng!"

The two walked in with smiles to greet Young Master Zheng, and upon seeing the wine on the table, they ordered the head waiter to replace it with the top-tier stored vintage without a second thought.

Young Master Zheng's expression instantly turned gloomy.

"How did you know I was here?" Young Master Zheng asked curiously.

"Young Master Zheng, it's purely a coincidence!"

"Yes, Young Master Zheng, we often come here to hang out. We walked into the wrong room and didn't expect to run into a Buddha like you."

The two were smiling on the surface, but cold sweat was breaking out on their backs.

After the auction ended, they had received the news immediately. Young Master Zheng had invested 10 billion and even paid extra to buy time! This had terrified the two of them.

They had to know that more than half of Tang Xingyu's 9 billion in funds had come from their hands. If Young Master Zheng found out about this, they would likely be doomed!

The title of the Richest Man in Jiangnan was too prominent, and he had made many enemies in Jiangnan. Many people were polite to him on the surface, but thought differently in reality.

If someone saw the opportunity to tell Young Master Zheng about this, who knew what Young Master Zheng would do to him? Rather than being stabbed in the back by someone else, it was better to take the initiative to improve his relationship with Young Master Zheng.

After the auction ended, the two inquired about Young Master Zheng's whereabouts and were told he would be holding a victory banquet at this KTV that night. The two came together and deliberately walked into the private room, claiming they had gone to the wrong place.

"Stop pretending, you two. Just speak your minds."

Young Master Zheng rubbed his nose.

"Tang Xingyu definitely couldn't have scraped together that much money in such a short time. You two must have been secretly helping out behind the scenes, right?"

Upon hearing this, Chairman Zhu Hongfu and Lin Chengye panicked! Cold sweat poured down.

The two were afraid of Young Master Zheng finding out, which is why they had come to test the waters first. But they hadn't expected him to say exactly what they were worried about.

This wasn't hard to guess. Since the two were being so attentive, they definitely had ulterior motives. Young Master Zheng had already suspected the source of Tang Xingyu's funds, and the two had popped up right after the auction ended. Wasn't this just like saying, "There is no silver 300 taels buried here"? Their own guilty conscience had confirmed it.

Who knew how their brains were wired.

Thump.

After Young Master Zheng exposed them, they knelt down immediately.

This startled Manager Nie Kai and the beauties standing around the sofa. Fan Minxue and Zhang Lekang almost spat out their drinks.

That kneeling was just too sudden. The Richest Man in Jiangnan had absolutely no face in front of Young Master Zheng!

The two knelt down to beg for mercy.

"Young Master Zheng! I was wrong!"

"Young Master Zheng! I was confused!"

"Young Master Zheng, it's all that Tang Xingyu's fault. It was him who strongly lobbied us and used moral kidnapping to threaten us into giving money."

"He said if we didn't pay, we wouldn't have the face to stay in Jiangnan, and the people of Jiangnan would gossip about us for the rest of our lives, calling us stinking capitalists."

"Yes, Young Master Zheng, we didn't want to pay either, wuwuwu!"

The two started shirking responsibility. They were old hands at this. Damn it, whoever wasn't present got the blame pushed onto them. They feared Young Master Zheng, but they feared the forces and background behind Young Master Zheng even more.

Little did they know, Young Master Zheng really didn't have any forces behind him; he had always been a lone wolf. It was just the bootlicking of Fan Minxue, Zhang Lekang, and others, combined with Young Master Zheng's lavish spending, that gave everyone the illusion of a massive background. Everything was just an illusion they had concocted in their own minds.

Based on Young Master Zheng's understanding of Tang Xingyu, he would never have said such things. He would fight with whatever money he could raise. Moral kidnapping was not something Tang Xingyu would do; it simply wasn't his personality.

Still not being honest?

"Since you were funding it behind the scenes and didn't dare to show your faces, that means you don't submit to me, right?"

"How about this, I will order The Group to establish an office specifically to counter the forces of Jiangnan and declare war directly."

"If you don't submit to me, that's fine."

"Let's have a real, head-on clash in business."

"Although I am a shipping group company and my industries don't overlap with yours, I can establish a specific anti-competition office."

"Whatever projects you do, I will follow and do the same."

"What do you think?"

Fuck!

Upon hearing this, the two were scared to the point of pissing themselves. What the hell! What kind of situation is this! Clash? Clash with their heads? How could they clash with Young Master Zheng? Was it an egg hitting a rock?

Anyone with a brain wouldn't do something like throwing an egg at a rock. Young Master Zheng couldn't be bluffing. Based on everyone's understanding of Young Master Zheng, he might actually be able to do something like this. He had bid over 7 billion extra for the white knight; what was there that Young Master Zheng couldn't do?

Manager Nie Kai, Fan Minxue, and Zhang Lekang were scared stiff by Young Master Zheng.

Chairman Zhu Hongfu was, after all, the Richest Man in Jiangnan. He was twenty or thirty years older than Young Master Zheng. And he was using this method to intimidate a richest man? Even more pathetic was that Chairman Zhu Hongfu had actually chickened out?

Chairman Zhu Hongfu was suffering internally. Damn it! Could he not chicken out? The man was going to crush him to death with money! If things went poorly, Young Master Zheng might just be looking to expand into his industry! By then, not only would he be crushed, but Young Master Zheng might even snatch the whole cake in Jiangnan. So what if he was the Richest Man in Jiangnan? In front of Young Master Zheng, he was nothing!

"Young Master Zheng!"

"We were truly wrong!"

"I'm sorry!"

"From now on, you are my big brother!"

"If you tell me to go east, I will never go west."

"I will go through fire and water for you, no matter what!"

Fan Minxue: ???

Zhang Lekang: ???

Manager Nie Kai: ???

Damn, did those words really come out of the mouth of the Richest Man? That is way too ruthless!

Yin Yanyan had only seen such a scene once at a cocktail party, but it was nowhere near as exaggerated as it was now. She was extremely shocked.

The newly signed female artists who had flown over from Hong Kong were deeply stunned. This... was this the new sugar daddy Manager Nie Kai had found for Yin Yanyan!

Chairman Zhu Hongfu liked to show off, going to Hong Kong every day to hold seminars and teach successful experiences. Even they had heard of the great name of Chairman Zhu Hongfu as the Richest Man in Jiangnan. But they hadn't expected that in front of Young Master Zheng, he would be like a mouse seeing a cat, or a fox seeing a tiger. He knelt down to beg for mercy directly. The scene was too dramatic! It was more exciting than a novel.