Today's banquet is a gathering of young people in the industry. Because it's not very formal, people like Cheng Zhibo can bring their girlfriends who haven't gone astray.

Cheng Zhibo, relying on his good looks and seemingly good family background, changed girlfriends very quickly. When they first met, Cheng Zhili was still very polite to him, but recently, each of them was more and more difficult, so she naturally wouldn't tolerate it.

At the banquet, Zhao Zhilan still treated her with disdain.

"Cheng Zhibo's taste is getting worse and worse. Has the Cheng family fallen so low that he can't find a better woman?" Song Wenwen brought Cheng Zhili a drink and some snacks. The two sat in a corner of the banquet, enjoying a rare moment of leisure.

Originally, Song Wenwen could have had a few months of leisure after finishing the college entrance examination, but unexpectedly, Song Xia directly gave Song Wenwen the management rights of the department store. In order to ensure that there would be no mistakes, Song Wenwen studied overtime almost every day.

In fact, Song Xia had considered giving Cheng Zhili management rights over the food factory, but Cheng Zhili refused.

Because the Cheng family didn't know about the refusal, they assumed Song Xia was being biased and made sarcastic remarks for quite some time.

"Mom and Dad have been quite busy lately. Did they go to see Aunt Song again?"

"Hmm." Song Wenwen nodded haphazardly. "But Mom is away on a business trip. They couldn't find her, so they came to me, hoping I would mortgage the department store to give them capital."

Cheng Zhili sighed softly. She couldn't help with the company's affairs, and she was powerless to do anything about it. Although her parents had told her more than once to go and talk to Song's mother and Ji Yunyang, she just couldn't bring herself to ask.

The Ji family invested so much money before, but the project is not progressing as expected. If they were really interested, why would they keep avoiding us?

And then there's Song's mother. She doesn't even understand how her parents could bring themselves to ask her for money directly, not just borrow it!

She also said that half of Song's mother's assets would eventually belong to her, and giving them to her now or later would make no difference, and could even reverse the decline of the Cheng family.

She blushed with embarrassment when she heard this. Song's mother's money was Song's mother's. Song's mother was still so young. How could she be entitled to a share of Song's mother's property? And who said that just because she was Song's mother's biological daughter, Song's mother would give her half of it?

Knowing what her parents were planning, she refused when her mother offered to give her a food factory.

She knew that once she accepted the offer, her parents would definitely try to take advantage of it, and besides, her ambitions lay elsewhere.

Although she did not take over the food factory, she accepted some funds from Song's mother, and she wanted to start her own business and open her own jewelry studio.

So she secretly applied to a foreign university without telling her parents, and has been accepted and even received a scholarship. Next month, she will be going to Europe to study.

She has no control over the future of the Cheng family. All she can do now is to enrich herself as much as possible, hoping to achieve some success in her future career so that she can support her parents should they fall on hard times.

However, this is probably impossible. After all, even if his family is down on its luck, they are still richer than the average person. The amount of money Cheng Zhibo has spent on each of his girlfriends is countless.

"What are you thinking? Don't worry too much about the Cheng family. If your parents hadn't been so greedy and taken such big steps, they wouldn't be in such a tight financial situation. Even if they stop now, there's still room for recovery."

"I see."

Now Cheng Zhili has learned not to waste her energy internally. The pressure her parents put on her is a result of their own actions, and there's no use in her being anxious. Besides, her parents won't let her get involved anyway.

Asking her to get the funds back? Where would she get them? She couldn't bring herself to ask either Ji Yunyang or Song's mother.

Song Wenwen shook her head. The Cheng couple were typical people who wanted to get something for nothing, thinking that she and Zhili owed them something! How could they have the nerve to ask the two children for money?

Besides, they're both minors, how much stuff could they possibly have? Isn't this just a disguised way of asking their mother for things? How shameless!

They want Mom to invest, but you're not even mentioning giving up Cheng's shares or fixed assets.

Has the Cheng family really reached the end of their rope? Not necessarily. The Cheng family's villa alone is enough for an ordinary person to work hard for several lifetimes. And Cheng Zhibo's garage still has all those luxury cars, doesn't it?

Tsk, last year they even had the idea of ​​arranging a blind date and engagement for her, just like Zhili, and planned to win over one family to cooperate again. Did they think she was as easy to bully as Zhili?

Even my mother never said these things, so what right does your Cheng family have?

And you blame her for not being close to the Cheng family? With parents like you who treat their children like commodities, who can be close to them?

"You two are hiding in the corner again." Ji Yunyang started searching as soon as he entered the venue, and sure enough, he found them in this small corner.

He sat down in front of the two with a warm smile: "There's a barbecue going on outside, why don't you go join the fun?"

"I was planning to go."

"You weren't just planning to leave because I came, were you?" Ji Yunyang looked at Song Wenwen helplessly, feeling a little lonely.

"No." Song Wenwen was always a little annoyed by his expression, but she didn't want to show it, otherwise people would really think that she and he had something going on.

She didn't understand. Didn't Ji Yunyang ever try to avoid suspicion? Why did he always ignore Zhili and speak to her whenever she was around?

Zhili didn't care. She and Ji Yunyang hadn't developed any feelings for each other, and she had also noticed the difference in how Ji Yunyang treated Wenwen. In addition, with the gradual collapse of the cooperation between the Cheng and Ji families, their marriage was already in jeopardy.

However, she also disliked Ji Yunyang's attitude. If Ji Yunyang could be a little braver, she would think more highly of him, but Ji Yunyang's ambiguous smile every time brought a lot of gossip to Wenwen, which made her look down on him.

The two sisters were both cold to him, and Ji Yunyang was once again rebuffed. He didn't know what he had done wrong.

Over the past year, he has gradually realized that Song Wenwen is different from other girls in his heart. He often fantasizes that if Cheng Zhili and Song Wenwen hadn't switched identities, then Song Wenwen would be the one he is engaged to.

Unfortunately, once the engagement was finalized, nothing could be changed. If he confessed his feelings to Wenwen, it would also hurt Zhili. Zhili was a good girl, and her parents were very satisfied with her. Even though the cooperation with the Cheng family had reached a stalemate, her parents had not mentioned canceling the engagement.

Moreover, Wenwen and Zhili are best friends. If I hurt Zhili, wouldn't Wenwen hate me even more?

Now that the Cheng family is gradually declining, Song Xia clearly dotes on Song Wenwen more. If she loses even herself, what will Zhili have left?

Ji Yunyang, lost in his own thoughts, clearly didn't realize how important he was to him. But if he was so considerate of others, why did he repeatedly behave inappropriately?

So, in essence, he is still selfish.