The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

In late December, the temperature was cold.

The huge golf course was only occupied by a few pretty female caddies.

That leaves Chen Pingsheng's family.

It's often said that golf is a game for the rich, and that's absolutely true.

Because for a decent golf course, the starting threshold for VIP membership is over 100,000.

For top-tier stadiums in China, the cost per hour is at least tens of thousands of yuan.

Golf is about swinging a club to hit the ball into the hole, which is similar to the pinball game they often played as children.

Chen An'an was wearing a white golf cap; he brought her here to play golf during his two-day holiday.

As for the mischievous Erpiya, she ran around everywhere with a golf club on her back.

Chen Pingsheng, wearing sunglasses, sat quietly to the side watching the little kid play with a ball.

A short while later, Lin Qiunan, the secretary, came to report that Yang Zishan and his daughter Yang Ziqi had been waiting outside for an hour.

Ask him if he wants to see me.

Chen Pingsheng said, "Let them come over!"

This past week has been a nightmare for Yang Ziqi, filled with the ridicule and mockery of her classmates and the alienation of her friends.

She felt a profound sense of despair, as if her life's dream had ended before it even began, and spent each day in a state of bewilderment and anxiety.

After much thought, she still couldn't figure out who she had offended.

Why would anyone target a young girl in her early twenties like this?

Yang's father watched as she spent her days listlessly, never regaining her former cheerfulness.

He didn't say it out loud, but he was extremely anxious inside.

After asking countless people for help, he finally learned that the person who blacklisted his daughter was actually the big boss of Tengying Group.

He is also a major figure who occupies half of the entertainment industry.

For such a person to issue an industry ban against his daughter is beyond despair; there is absolutely no hope left.

All the top figures in the industry, including the owners of the three major video websites iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video, have collaborated with this big boss.

It's fair to say that the only people in the industry truly capable of mediating his daughter's situation are at least figures of the "two Ma" level (referring to Jack Ma and Pony Ma).

He couldn't possibly be worthy of anyone like that.

Besides, it's not like anyone else would go to Chen Pingsheng and say, "Can you give me some face in this matter?" for the sake of his daughter.
If you really have face, that's fine. But if you don't have that face and you're just pretending to be rich, Cao Jingli, that billionaire, is a typical example.

What happened after those harsh words were spoken?
He still had to tuck his tail between his legs and apologize the next day.

He still doesn't know why his daughter offended such a person.

Logically speaking, these are all completely unrelated relationships, yet his daughter happened to run into them.

Yang Ziqi no longer wears tight leather jackets that accentuate her figure, but instead wears a simple white down jacket.

She came here with a heart full of trepidation.

She could be shut out of the industry with a single word from someone else, and she couldn't even have the slightest thought of resistance.

What she really wanted to know was why she was being blacklisted.
What heinous thing did she do that angered both heaven and man?

It wasn't until she waited outside for an hour and finally saw the person inside that Yang Ziqi fully realized what was happening.

"Is it you, that Didi driver?"

Chen Pingsheng's eyes, hidden behind his sunglasses, were completely unreadable; it was Lin Qiunan, standing to the side, who sternly reprimanded him.
"What nonsense are you talking about? This is the big boss of our Tengying Group."

Yang Ziqi's face changed repeatedly, and Yang Zishan, who was observing her expression, also secretly thought that something was wrong.

His daughter had no idea who the man was; offending someone like that is often the most unfortunate thing.

"Are you the big boss of Tengying Group?"

"If you're going to ask such a stupid question again, then you can go stand outside for a few more hours."

The secretary didn't want to talk to her, but Yang Zishan spoke up: "President Chen, my daughter is still young. If she has done anything wrong, I, as her father, am willing to apologize on her behalf. I only ask that you be magnanimous and let her off the hook."

Chen Pingsheng said, "Do you know why you were able to come here today? It's because I wanted you to come. I said before that if I had changed my identity to communicate with you, you wouldn't have dared to do such a stupid thing."

"After my cousin was hit by you, the first thing she said when she got up was 'I'm sorry,' she said it was her own fault for running a red light. And what about you?"

"But after sobering up, he put on an arrogant attitude and even tried to use his status to teach us to be more honest."

"Now look what's happened. I'll use my position to teach you a lesson. See, you're trying to reason with me now."

So you're saying you get to decide everything?

Yang Zishan finally understood: the person he had bumped into earlier was this big shot's cousin.

His daughter, unaware of anything, gave false testimony on behalf of her classmate Wang Xin. She even forced Wang Xin to sign a no-liability agreement.

When someone tries to reason with you, you adopt a capitalist attitude.

Now they're not going to reason with you anymore, and they're demanding a society governed by the rule of law and equality for all.

If this is acceptable, then where is the face of the big boss?

Knowing that this matter could not be resolved peacefully, Yang's father bent his back even lower.

"Mr. Chen, this is indeed my daughter's fault. I only ask that you draw a line for me. I, Yang Zishan, will do whatever it takes to get it done."

"You're not qualified to cover up this matter for your daughter. Your Yang family doesn't even have the ability to see me in Shanghai."

Chen Pingsheng said expressionlessly, "Now I'm giving your daughter two choices. One is to go to the police station herself to explain the situation and, as a witness, accuse your best friend Wang Xin, as well as the lawyer Wang who taught you to commit perjury."

"Secondly, you hang up a sign saying I'm a slut and stand outside the hospital for three days."

“This…” Yang Zishan’s expression changed completely, not because Chen Pingsheng had said anything demeaning to him, but because either of his daughter’s two conditions would be a lifelong disgrace.

Especially the second one, what kind of girl could accept such conditions?

As for the first one, I can accept the idea of ​​sacrificing a fellow Daoist rather than one's own.

A top lawyer can be accused by name of instigating others to commit perjury.

This isn't just a question of whether he has a future; he's broken the law!

Chen Pingsheng is asking his daughter to sacrifice her best friend in exchange for his own chance to re-enter the entertainment industry.

No matter which choice Yang Ziqi makes, she will be in pain.

On the way home, Yang's father didn't say anything.

After his daughter finished crying, he said something profound.

The person who caused the accident is Wang Xin, and the person who taught his daughter to give false testimony is Wang Gang.

If Chen Pingsheng hadn't met with their family first, but instead presented Wang Xin and her father with the same conditions to choose from, it would have been different.

It seems that Wang's father would not hesitate to sacrifice his entire family.

Since they had offended Chen Pingsheng, they had no other choice but to go through with it.

In that case, it's better to sacrifice others than to become cannon fodder yourself.

Yang's father did not hesitate to let his daughter make the choice.

The next day, Wang Xin was stunned.

I can't believe it, her father actually went to jail because of his best friend's report.

Her family felt like the sky had fallen; her lawyer's license would definitely be revoked immediately.

Nobody knows how long we'll have to stay inside.

A lawyer knowingly breaking the law and openly teaching others to commit perjury is a very serious offense within the entire profession.

Wang Xin verbally abused Yang Ziqi, her former best friend, at school.

Now it's a complete mess.

The entire school was laughing at them.

Yang Ziqi was confused. She thought that as long as she reported her best friend, everything would go back to the way it was before.

It turns out, it can't.

Wang Xin's reputation is ruined, and so is hers.

With her reputation so tarnished, even if Tengying Group lifts the ban, how can she get back on track?

Yang Ziqi's shrill, bitter laugh—is this the real bigwig in the entertainment industry?

They never intended to forgive her or give her a choice, but instead she fell into even deeper self-blame.

Wang Xin is almost going crazy, and she herself is not much better off.

Those vows we made still echo in my ears.

"Xin, let's be best friends for life."

"Ziqi, no matter who becomes a big star, you must support them in the future."

"Xin, I've landed my first acting role."

"Ziqi, me too."

"Ziqi, when I become a big star, I will definitely tell the whole world that you are my best friend."

(End of this chapter)