Rebirth of the King of Waves

Chapter 187 Heroic Spirit
Ning Bishu and his team's opening banquet started before 6 PM and ended before 7:30 PM. After leaving the store, Ning Bishu returned to the XX Building with a large group of people, but stopped at the main entrance steps. He took Mu Shanming's hand, and with his Zhang Long and Zhao Hu by his side, waved goodbye to the senior executives and went straight down to the basement.

Zhan Zhao then pretended to lead the entire company back upstairs, and, emboldened by alcohol, rambled on about expanding their territory with President Ning before finally letting the employees disperse and go home. The group of new employees scattered in a panic.

Lu Chengxuan quickly called Xuan Ce back, pulled him into the office, and had him sign the employment agreement directly, without even needing to issue a notification.

As for Liu Yiran and Duan Jingshu, these two girls still have three months of probation to go, so there's no need to rush them; but as for Xuan Ce, President Ning will be using him as soon as he wakes up tomorrow.

"Alright, go back and rest early. Tomorrow, after President Ning comes back and signs the papers, you'll have the same status and treatment as President Gu from our administration department in the company," Lu Chengxuan said to Xuan Ce with a smile, secretly wondering why Gu Qingxuan would leave the company at her age. He wondered what was wrong with her. Judging from Ning Bishu's attitude, it seemed he wasn't very satisfied with Gu Qingxuan.

"Okay, thank you, President Lu!" Xuan Ce was very excited. He had just joined the company and had already become a "senior executive." He hadn't even officially graduated from school yet, which perfectly matched his smooth-sailing trajectory from childhood to adulthood.

Lu Chengxuan nodded and watched Xuan Ce leave.

After sitting in the office for a few minutes, seeing that the large room was empty, he got up and left.

Stepping out of the huge, unused office area of ​​the HR department, Lu Chengxuan turned off the lights, closed the door, and then looked back to find that the lights in the other departments were also off.

Only the technical department seemed quite lively, with the voices of Ye Chaotong, Lin Zhilan, and Xu Ruojin, several old classmates, being heard talking.

But Lu Chengxuan didn't join in the fun. He was really tired, so he rubbed his head and walked straight out. When he got to the elevator, he turned his back to the four characters "Bishu Health" on the wall behind the company's reception desk and pressed the downstairs button.

As he watched the elevator slowly come up from downstairs, he felt somewhat dazed.

He was busy for the past two days, and it wasn't until the work finally came to a stop that he felt like life was a little unreal.

How did the group he had worked for for over ten years suddenly go bankrupt due to a cash flow crisis, and then suddenly find himself working for a company owned by an internet celebrity...?

"Old Lu." Just as he was getting drunk and lost in thought, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and slapped him hard, making him jump.

"Holy crap!" Lu Chengxuan exclaimed, turning around abruptly.

Zhan Zhao was also startled and shouted, "Holy crap!"

"Zhan Zhao, you're going to scare people to death!" Lu Chengxuan patted his chest repeatedly.

Zhan Zhao protested, "I walked here normally, okay?! You scared me sober!"

"Forget it, forget it. I told you the carpet was too thick and we laid it in the hallway. It makes no noise when you walk on it." Lu Chengxuan indeed shifted the blame to the administration department.

Zhan Zhao was speechless.

The elevator doors opened, and the two walked in together. As the doors slowly closed, Zhan Zhao took out two cigarettes and touched Lu Chengxuan's hand. Lu Chengxuan shook his head and said in a deep voice, "I've quit. I have two people at home who can't stand the smell of cigarettes."

"It's good that you've quit." Zhan Zhao smiled, put one back, and put the other in his mouth. "I want to quit, but no one is supervising me."

Lu Chengxuan laughed and said, "If that's what you think, then go find one. You're a CEO now, can't you find a girl?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Even if I were to beg for food, I could easily find a wife." Zhan Zhao said arrogantly, "I have no such intention. Damn it, I can't even manage myself. I'm afraid that if I marry a wife, the family will fall apart over time. It's better not to get married at all."

Lu Chengxuan was silent for two seconds before saying, "So now you're managing a company that's neither too big nor too small. Dozens of people are counting on you for their livelihood."

"Hehe." Zhan Zhao chuckled, and at the same time, the elevator doors opened with a ding, and the two of them stepped out together. "I'm just a gofer for Ning Bishu. What CEO? It's all for my family's sake."

He picked up the car keys and pressed them on a button not far away.

Two beeps were heard, and the headlights of the extended Range Rover flashed.

Lu Chengxuan suddenly stopped and asked Zhan Zhao, "Zhan Zhao, do you think this company has a chance?"

"I don't know," Zhan Zhao said nonchalantly. "Anyway, I'll just muddle along for now. I'll take the salary and grab the benefits. It's not like I'm spending my own money to start this business, so I'll just live one day at a time. If I ever run out of money, I'll just find another one."

Lu Chengxuan was speechless.

For the CEO to say something like that on the very first day the company officially opened for business, it was truly an unlucky omen.

"Don't think too much about it. With your abilities, are you afraid of not having food? At worst, I'll take you with me when I leave," Zhan Zhao said with a smile. "You, Xu Ruojin, and Ye Chaotong are all capable. Oh, Ye Chaotong doesn't need me."

As he spoke, he bent down and lit a cigarette. "Zhou Yanzhe is no good, all show and no substance. Lin Zhilan and Gu Qingxuan are just wasting their time. Jiang Ruiming, on the other hand, doesn't matter. He can find work anywhere..."

Lu Chengxuan laughed and said, "You have a pretty good eye for people."

Zhan Zhao exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "That's right. These past few years, I've made a living by speaking human language to humans and ghost language to ghosts."

Lu Chengxuan immediately asked, "Then what kind of person do you think President Ning is?"

“Come here…” Zhan Zhao pulled Lu Chengxuan into the Land Rover, closed the door, squinted his eyes, and slowly said, “I feel that Ning Bishu is a bit abnormal. He gives me the feeling of a murderer.”

Lu Chengxuan looked completely bewildered and asked in alarm, "What case does he have on his record?"

“No, I mean, it’s a feeling,” Zhan Zhao said. “He doesn’t seem to really care about life or death.”

Lu Chengxuan asked, puzzled and curious, "What do you mean?"

"It's that kind of nonchalant attitude..."

Zhan Zhao said slowly, "You say he's a gambling addict, and he is, but he's not an ordinary gambling addict. He's the kind of person who would actually gamble with your life. He doesn't care whether you live or die, and he doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He just wants to win big or small, and he doesn't care about the outcome."

Take this company for example. It's only been a few days. They just registered last Tuesday, and today is Monday. It's only been a week. They don't care who's in the team. They just want to use them first.

He didn't care about the current market environment; he just threw money at it first. He didn't care whether the project had any future prospects. He made a snap decision and started doing it without any research or argumentation.

My impression of him is that he's either fine or he doesn't, as if money isn't money, life isn't life, and life is just a game. He's always chasing women and doesn't care what others say, he just does what makes him happy; but if you say he ignores everything, then when he gets down to business, he's incredibly shrewd and you can't see any malpractice in him..."

Lu Chengxuan suddenly laughed and said, "That's a very high compliment."

“Yes…” Zhan Zhao nodded, opened the window a crack, and flicked the ash out. “I don’t have the guts to do something like him. He’s really not afraid of losing at all.”

Lu Chengxuan said, "Then this company must have a very promising future?"

“That’s the problem…” Zhan Zhao said, “A person with a sound mind would dare to hire a scoundrel like me as CEO. Damn, he’s such a gambler, going all in every hand. If he kept winning, it wouldn’t be a problem, but if he lost even once, emmm…” He shook his head sadly, “Damn it, Ning Bishu is a hero, but I’m afraid heroes don’t usually live long…”

……

"Boss, Ah Hu and I will be going now."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

A little after 8 o'clock, Ning Bishu and Mu Shanming returned to the Wangfu Jinxiu Jiayuan. Watching Zhang Long drive away in his Mercedes-Benz, Mu Shanming took Ning Bishu's hand and whispered, "Why did you get both of your cars taken? What are you going to drive then?"

Ning Bishu said without even blinking, "Buy another one."

Mu Shanming said, "You spend this little bit of money quite shrewdly."

Ning Bishu laughed, "This little bit of money, this little bit of money, I have two hundred million in my pocket, okay! You guys always talk about it like it's two hundred dollars. Two hundred million isn't so easy to spend, is it? Online and offline, none of you have any concept of two hundred million, right?"

"Oh, why are you in such a hurry? I'm just telling you to be careful."

“I…I just wasn’t paying attention.” Ning Bishu led Mu Shanming forward, her voice echoing in the empty underground parking garage. “What’s there to pay attention to? For a few million, why would I waste my limited time and energy worrying about it? What’s there to worry about? Just spend it if you need to, buy what you need to buy. It’s not like we don’t have money, it’s not like we can’t afford it, it’s not like buying it will kill us.” Mu Shanming said, “A million-dollar car would only buy you two hundred.”

"What would I need two hundred vehicles for? Am I crazy?" Ning Bishu said. "Four or five vehicles are enough. If that's not enough, even if we really buy twenty, as long as they're useful, we should buy them, right?"

He pulled Mu Shanming into the elevator in Building A and pressed the button for the 5th floor.

Mu Shanming said with slight dissatisfaction, "The money is yours, you can spend it however you want."

Ning Bishu suddenly grabbed her chin and turned her head.

Under Mu Shanming's surprised and slightly angry gaze, he stared into Mu Shanming's eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Mingming, would you not say such things if I had two hundred billion?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Shanming's negative emotions instantly subsided by seven or eight tenths.

But he still slapped Ning Bishu's hand away first, and said with a slight frown, "Of course, what does 20 billion mean? He's at least one of the top few hundred richest people in China. He'll be going to Beijing for the spring conference."

Ning Bishu smiled and said, "So, it's not about money, it's about strength."

Mu Shanming said, "That's right, before you had that strength..."

“I had less than 200,000 yuan in my pocket more than two months ago,” Ning Bishu interrupted.

Just then, with a ding, the elevator doors opened.

Mu Shanming, who was in a daze, was pulled out of the elevator by Ning Bishu and pressed against the wall by the elevator door. Mu Shanming was panting, looking anxiously at the man pressing tightly against him.

The smell of alcohol still lingered on Ning Bishu's breath, but his eyes were unusually bright.

"Mingming, don't tell me what to do. I might lose, but before I lose, no one in this world can judge me, including you. I don't need you to do anything for me, you just need to trust me, trust me unconditionally, understand?"

Mu Shanming, rendered speechless by Ning Bishu's retort, lowered his head slightly and said, "Mm."

Ning Bishu smiled and kissed her on the lips, "Good girl."

More than half an hour later, the lights came on in apartment A05 of building 16 in the community.

Mu Shanming went to take a shower as soon as he entered the house.

Ning Bishu took a bag of Chinese medicine from the refrigerator in the kitchen, walked to the balcony, and sat down on the recliner.

Leaning back, looking at the pitch-black night view below, he finished his medicine in a few gulps.

Then, after holding his phone for a moment, he saw a message from Chen Tingting: "Honey, are you back?"

Ning Bishu did not reply.

A short while later, the doorbell rang again.

"Who is it?" Mu Shanming, who was taking a shower, vaguely heard the voice and called out from the bathroom.

But Ning Bishu sat there without moving.

The doorbell rang for a long time before the person who rang it finally gave up.

"Honey, did someone ring the doorbell just now?" Mu Shanming came out after taking a shower, drying his hair. He walked around the house and finally found Ning Bishu on the small balcony outside the study on the second floor.

"Hmm." Ning Bishu responded casually, "It should be Tingting, I'm too lazy to open the door."

"Oh." Mu Shanming responded calmly, pretending to be indifferent, but he was clearly still a little unhappy.

Ning Bishu didn't say anything, then got up and went into the bathroom.

After a quick shower, I went to bed with my hair still wet.

Mu Shanming turned off the main light in the room, leaving only the bedside lamp on, and lay down next to Ning Bishu.

Ning Bishu turned over, put his feet on her waist, and pulled her into his arms.

Ning Bishu felt comfortable in this position, but Mu Shanming did not.

But she didn't struggle at all, and just let Ning Bishu hold her.

Before long, the two of them fell into a deep sleep...

Ning Bishu slept very well. He didn't see any of the messages Ye Chaotong, Lin Zhilan, and Xu Ruojin sent him while working overtime. It wasn't until around 7 a.m. the next morning that he discovered there were more than twenty unread messages on WeChat.

But Ning Bishu casually swiped it away. Every second counts, but it's not like we have to work every second. This group of people really seems like a bunch of green recruits. What's the rush?
He took his time, got up and washed, and gradually got used to going downstairs with Mu Shanming to exercise for an hour. Wu Qiye wasn't at the gym early in the morning, so Ning Bishu wasn't in a hurry to ask him about the app's usage and feedback.

Then go back to your room to take a shower and eat the breakfast that Mu Shanming made.

It wasn't until a little after nine o'clock that Mu Shanming went downstairs to work at the law firm. Ning Bishu also left on time. The two parted ways at the elevator. Ning Bishu went down to the underground parking lot, where his G-Wagon was already parked in his spot.

Zhang Long was sitting in the car.

Zhao Hu stood outside the car.

Ning Bishu strode over and praised the two of them, saying, "Very good, keep it this way from now on, I don't need to say anything more."

Zhao Hu grinned and helped Ning Bishu open the back door of the car.

Ning Bishu sat down, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's go to the snow mountain."

Zhang Long turned the steering wheel, turned the car around, and drove out of the parking space.

At the same time, deep in the mountain path of the Snow Mountain Nursing Home, Uncle Zhan was finishing a set of Tai Chi exercises.

Zhan Zhao grinned and handed over a towel, his face full of flattery as he said, "Uncle."

"Hmm." Old Master Zhan took a towel, wiped his hands, then walked to the wicker chair and slowly sat down. He picked up the teapot, poured two small cups, handed one to Zhan Zhao, and then slowly asked, "Has Ning Bishu's company opened yet?"

“Yes,” Zhan Zhao said.

Old Master Zhan asked, "How did he arrange things for you?"

Zhan Zhao replied happily, "President."

"President?" Old Master Zhan was quite surprised, his eyes lighting up slightly.

Zhan Zhao added, "The second-in-command."

After a couple of seconds of contemplation, Old Zhan tilted his head back and drank the tea in one gulp, revealing a smile.

"This young man... ha! He's quite capable."

(End of this chapter)