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Chapter 104 Revenge (Please Subscribe)

"What? Don't believe it?"

Seeing Cao Wei's surprised and puzzled look, Cao Jian felt a little smug, but still reminded him, "Don't let your sister-in-law know."

"I understand this."

Having witnessed his cousin's skill in picking up girls, Cao Wei nodded and asked curiously, "Brother, you're really amazing. I can see what your third sister-in-law looks like, and that Ni Zhen is able to criticize you in a magazine."

"There's nothing much to see."

Cao Jian took out a photo of Vivian Chow from his bag and smiled with a Versailles-like expression, saying, "Actually, she's really quite ordinary-looking."

"You thief!"

Upon seeing Zhou Huimin's photo and hearing the word "ordinary," Cao Wei immediately swore in Shaanxi dialect before saying, "Brother, you call this ordinary? My daughter is so beautiful, she's just as good-looking as my sister-in-law. Let me meet her sometime. They're both sisters-in-law, and as her younger brother, I should treat them equally and not favor one over the other."

"You use idioms so well, are you preparing for graduate school?"

"You've almost forgotten all of AoE, and you're still taking the postgraduate entrance exam?"

Cao Wei, of course, didn't understand what taking the postgraduate entrance exam meant. Holding the photo, he sighed, "I can understand Ni Zhen for this woman, but unfortunately, he offended my brother!"

"I've never seen a beautiful woman before. There were a few even prettier ones when we were filming last time, but unfortunately, they're all taken."

"Brother, take it! I already have three sisters-in-law, I don't mind having a few more."

"Speaking fluent rhymes"

After joking around for a while, Cao Jian advised, "When you're doing it to him, it's best not to make a sound, and you mustn't let anyone find out. After you're done, you should also act calmly."

"Brother, don't worry, I know all this."

Cao Wei patted his chest: "I hate Ni Zhen just looking at him. Wait for my good news."

I trust you to do things.

Cao Jian patted his cousin's arm: "Come on, let's go eat."

"You go eat with your sister-in-law, I won't go. She's been talking about you a lot lately, she must miss you."

Cao Wei is very smart and resolutely refuses to be a third wheel.

……

Cao Jian planned to spend the night with Zhou Huimin and leave Hong Kong early the next morning.

He had achieved his goal regarding the TVB gala, so he had no choice but to cancel his appointment.

The prototype of the main VCD player has indeed been successfully developed, and he needs to go and see it before deciding to start production.

Actually, CD technology has existed for nine years. The difference is that CDs do not have pictures, while VCDs do.

The key is to compress the image onto a CD and then read it using a machine.

But on that very day, the Hong Kong music scene seemed to be on the verge of a storm.

"That Ni Zhen is truly ungrateful!"

When Mui Yan-fang saw the comments about Cao Jian in YES! magazine, she couldn't help but feel furious.

Last time this guy tried to ruin Cao Jian's voice, I already warned you. You little brat, you really don't know what's good for you, and you even went so far as to badmouth Cao Jian in a magazine.

Do you really think everyone else is Liu Ximing?

He immediately had other newspapers contacted to refute Ni Zhen's remarks, asking if Cantonese was not the national language.
At the same time, he arranged for someone to find Lau Sik-ming, accusing Ni Chun of making insinuations and slanders against him, and claiming that the magazine "YES!" was the biggest cancer in Hong Kong.

PolyGram was even angrier.

"Kiss Goodbye" will be released in one day. For someone like Ni Zhen to say such things at this time is despicable!

PolyGram immediately mobilized its artists, including Andy Lau, Lai Ming, and Cheung Hok-yau, to argue that speaking Cantonese or Mandarin is Chinese, so are we listening to music or language?

And they plan to use the media to say that Cao Jian defeated Japanese music with pure instrumental music, isn't that bringing glory to Hong Kong music?
Even Stephen Chow, who had met Cao Jian a few times, told reporters that speaking Mandarin was a step backward for the music industry, so why didn't Ni Zhen boycott Japanese songs?

For a time, Hong Kong people began to discuss whether Mandarin songs represented a regression in the Hong Kong music scene.

Most Hong Kong people, while they like Cantonese songs, are not actually averse to Mandarin songs.

In their opinion, as long as it sounds nice, that's enough.

Ni Zhen had expected that his comments would garner support for Cao Jian, but he hadn't anticipated such a fierce backlash.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had never experienced hardship since childhood. He completely overestimated his influence in Hong Kong, thinking that having a magazine and a voice meant he could do whatever he wanted.

What I didn't expect was that Cao Jian was so popular.

I thought my words would resonate with Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong people, but they didn't.

"I never expected that Anita Mui would bring in Lau Siu-ming to retaliate against me!"

The next morning, Ni Zhen was restless in his office, worried that the sales of "YES!" magazine would be affected.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered criticizing him in the magazine. I could have just paid someone to take care of him!" No sooner had Ni Zhen finished speaking than his underling said, "That should have been done sooner. I'll arrange it right away!"

"Go! This time, cripple him completely, just leave him on his last breath!"

Ni Zhen has gone a bit crazy. He thinks that as long as he gets rid of Cao Jian, everything will be resolved and the woman he likes will come back to him.

Just as the younger brother was about to leave, he asked, "How are Cao Jian's new album sales?"

Upon hearing this question, all the underlings lowered their heads. After a while, the leader finally said, "It's so-so."

"That's good. Let me know as soon as the data is available."

Although Cao Jian had three bodyguards, he couldn't compete with hiring more people himself.

What frustrated Ni Zhen even more was that he received news the next day that Cao Jian had actually gone to the United States.

Besides this bad news, there's even worse news: Cao Jian's second album's title track "Goodbye Kiss" and another song, "Love Like a Tide," have spread throughout the streets and alleys in just one day.

"Let him be smug for now, we'll deal with it when he gets back!"

Although Ni Zhen was unhappy, he had no choice but to vent his frustration elsewhere: "Let him have a couple more days of fun. Let's go drinking tonight. The girls who did the cover shoot for our magazine last time are pretty good. Let's call them over tonight."

He felt that no matter how troublesome things were, venting to a few girls would definitely relieve his depression.

Hong Kong has many bars and nightclubs.

Ni Zhen and his gang had a great time at the bar, surrounded by beautiful young women.

"Tomorrow's New Year's Eve, let's continue to relax!"

Drunk, Ni Zhen was with a girl, preparing to go home.

In Hong Kong late at night, the streetlights are bright, but there are noticeably fewer cars on the road.

As Ni Zhen's car approached his house and slowed down, a motorcycle suddenly darted out.

"Oh!"

The car and motorcycle collided, and the car came to a screeching halt.

“What bad luck!”

Ni Zhen knew that there were many motorcycle gangs in Hong Kong who liked to race cars at night, so he didn't find it strange. He simply told his bodyguard, "Go down and check it out. Give them some money and send them away."

The bodyguard got out of the car, went to the front of the car, and was about to look down to check on the motorcyclist.

At that moment, five men carrying steel pipes and wearing helmets ran out from the roadside bushes and attacked the bodyguard.

Seeing this, the bodyguard realized that risking his life for a monthly salary of just over ten thousand yuan was not worth it.

He took off running, intending to call the police.

Ni Zhen, who was in the car, was completely stunned when he saw this.

The bodyguard just abandoned him like that?

Fortunately, the driver was also a bodyguard, and he quickly said, "Drive!"

But it's too late.

The motorcyclist who had been hit on the ground also stood up, took the baton from the others, opened the car door, and pulled Ni Zhen down.

Amidst screams of terror, the man swung the iron bar and smashed it down on Ni Zhen's knee.

"Oh!"

"what!"

Under the horrified gazes of the driver and the girl in the car, Ni Zhen let out a scream and knelt on the ground.

But the man was still not satisfied, so he swung the stick at Ni Zhen's leg and then kicked him hard in the groin, where Ni Zhen was still screaming in pain.

"what!"

This time the screams were even louder.

Men's pain is something only men know; even the bodyguards in the car couldn't help but cover their private parts.

If that kick landed on me, I might lose all my happiness for the rest of my life.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

But the screams did not stop the helmeted men. They kicked him three more times until Ni Zhen fainted from the pain. Without saying a word, they all ran away.

The whole process took less than two minutes, and it was quick and efficient.

After a while, the driver finally got out of the car to check on his boss. Just as he opened the door, a patrol car finally arrived.
(End of this chapter)