The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Because of the bad news, Li Zifeng worked very hard all night.

The wealthy woman he served was named Cao Jingli.

Born in 1971, Cao Jingli is a legendary figure in her village.

In the 1970s, the preference for sons over daughters was prevalent in various places.

Cao Jingli is the fourth child in her family, with three older sisters.

He was neglected by his parents from the moment he was born and almost starved to death.

When she was over ten years old, she took the train to Shanghai alone.

She became a nanny in the Yang family with the help of an elder from the same village.

Cao Jingli was exceptionally hardworking from a young age, and it took her three whole years to completely gain Madam Yang's trust.

At that time, she was exactly nineteen years old, the most youthful and beautiful time of a woman's life.

Cao Jingli was lucky; after staying in the Yang family for another two years, Madam Yang died of illness.

She cried very sadly at the time, and Madam Yang treated her even better than her own mother.

After she finished crying, she thought of one thing: Mr. Yang no longer had a wife.

Moreover, there were no children.

Cao Jingli started learning to dance and to drink coffee. Whenever she had free time, she would read books diligently.

Because she knew that Mr. Yang preferred well-educated and refined young ladies from respectable families.

However, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't change her status as a nanny.

After Mr. Yang got drunk one of his nights, Cao Jingli made a decision that would change her life.

That means taking the initiative and riding on his back.

She wants to have Mr. Yang's child.

Only in this way can she successfully marry into the Yang family.

Reality is not a TV drama; Cao Jingli did not succeed the first time.

She didn't stay with Mr. Yang that night either.

For the next six months, whenever Mr. Yang was drunk, she would take the initiative.

If once doesn't work, try twice; if twice doesn't work, try ten times.

She believed that she would definitely get pregnant someday, and only when she was pregnant could she confront the truth.

Mr. Yang was thirty years older than him, and he was actually conscious on those drunken nights.

He simply didn't care and acted as if nothing had happened the next day.

When Cao Jingli actually became pregnant, he was overjoyed.

Mr. Yang didn't show much emotion until the child was born and it was confirmed to be his.

He then agreed to give Cao Jingli some recognition, based on a three-point agreement.

The condition was that she was only a wife in name, but in reality, she was still a nanny.

They wouldn't even entrust their children to Cao Jingli to raise.

Mr. Yang still frequently stayed out overnight, and even brought some beautiful women home.

Cao Jingli silently endured it for fifteen years, until her child grew up.

Old Yang's health is not very good anymore.

She took meticulous care of her for another three years, and no one knows how she endured those twenty years of forbearance.

In the end, she inherited all of the Yang family's assets.

This includes his five large villas in Shanghai, three large companies, and over 500 million yuan in cash and bank deposits.

After Old Yang died, Yang's relatives still wanted to treat her as a nanny.

Cao Jingli no longer needed to endure it, and she used the most ruthless methods to deal with the Yang family relatives.

This includes his siblings, and his mother, who is not yet dead.

After taking over the Yang family's company, Cao Jingli simply sold off all its assets.

Only a shell real estate company remained.

She was also smart; she knew she didn't have much ability to run a company.

Moreover, she couldn't prevent those veteran generals of the Yang family from coming to compete with her for power.

They made the wisest decision possible.

That is to sell all of his shares to those veterans of the Yang family.

They gained their approval and also received cash.

For the next ten years or so, he focused solely on real estate and land speculation.

At that time, housing prices had just exploded.

With this decision, Cao Jingli snowballed her wealth.

In contrast, those veteran members of the Yang family, after acquiring company shares, engaged in various power struggles and ultimately perished in the 08 financial crisis. It's simply remarkable how Cao Jingli rose from a lowly nanny to become a glamorous and wealthy woman in Shanghai.

There must be a reason for that.

She has always believed that her greatest strength lies in her self-awareness.

Just like when she slept with Mr. Yang for the first time, she clearly gave away her most precious first time.

The next day, she acted as if nothing had happened and continued to be her nanny.

When she became pregnant with Lao Yang's child, she was still a nanny.

It wasn't until her child was born that she truly gained some recognition.

She never truly considered herself Mrs. Yang.

They endured it until the day when Lao Yang's health deteriorated.

Under her meticulous care, Old Yang finally had a change of heart and realized that the woman in front of him was the best woman he had ever been in his life.

She was also Old Yang's only true love.

In the midst of three years of emotion, he signed the entire inheritance agreement.

Then... he ascended to heaven!
Until the day he died, Cao Jingli cried and then laughed, taking a whole night to process the fact that Lao Yang was finally dead.

She can finally take control of her own life.

After inheriting the estate, Cao Jingli did not immediately think of finding a younger man.

Instead, she sold off the companies she wasn't doing well and then speculated in real estate for two years before finally letting loose completely.

This kind of self-indulgence is something that cannot be explained to outsiders.

Almost every male celebrity she sets her sights on ends up with her.

The older you get, the more you need, and the more creative your hobbies become.

Li Zifeng has become popular in recent years and is known as the dream of 100 million girls.

Even such a handsome man couldn't resist Cao Jingli.

Fifty-year-old Cao Jingli discovered that she had actually fallen for Li Zifeng.

That's why I was so angry when I saw those news reports the next day.

She definitely knows about Tencent Entertainment; it's Chen Pingsheng's doing.

Cao Jingli didn't believe that Song Yanxi wouldn't know that Li Zifeng came to Shanghai specifically to seek refuge with her.

In this situation, they still release negative information without even giving a heads-up.

Isn't this a blatant slap in the face to Cao Jingli?
"Sister Li, you must stand up for me."

"Don't worry, with me here, no one can bully you."

Cao Jingli got up and asked the nanny to dress her; the extent of her extravagance was unimaginable to outsiders.

The nannies are all young men in their early twenties, good-looking, and good cooks.

As for salary, they can easily give you 70,000 to 80,000 a month.

It's no longer a question of whether Li Zifeng can still work in the entertainment industry; it's that the Chen family is showing her no respect at all.

Cao Jingli hosted a lavish banquet at her home, inviting a large group of wealthy women to attend.

Similarly, she also made a special trip to invite Song Yanxi over.

The circle in Shanghai isn't that big, but it's not that small either.

Those with assets in the tens of billions are just a few people coming and going.

With an inheritance of over a billion yuan, Cao Jingli made a fortune in just over a decade by speculating on real estate and land.

When it comes to making money, she's far more capable than top-tier rich kids like Wang Yanfeng.

"Song Yanxi, I recently started dating a younger man named Li Zifeng. He just left your Tencent Entertainment and immediately a lot of scandals about him have been exposed. We're in the same industry, can you ask your husband to give me an explanation?"

Cao Jingli didn't hold back in her attack; she had set up this banquet today specifically for this matter.

Since Song Yanxi is here, she certainly knows something.

She just sneered and said, "Who do you think you are, to think you deserve an explanation from my husband?"

"Let me give you a piece of advice: no one will care if you want to spend money to play around with men, but if you still want to stand up for him and go to my husband's place to cause trouble, you'd better take a look in the mirror first. Do you even have the face for that?"

“You…” Cao Jingli’s face turned a deep shade of liver with anger.

Song Yanxi's words reminded her of her childhood and the humiliating days when she worked as a maid in the Yang family, kneeling on the floor every day to wipe the floor.

This is her taboo.

Previously, after she inherited the estate, some members of the Yang family still mentioned it to her face.

Such people always end up in a very tragic situation.

She never imagined that even though she was so rich, someone would still disrespect her like that.

(End of this chapter)