Every sound and every word of Lin Long was calm.
But it was like a sharp sword that tore through everything, mercilessly slicing through all of Lin Jiashu's 'thoughts' and all of his 'taken for granted'.
It was natural to assume that Lin Long still missed the Lin family, and her previous revenge against their Lin Group was only because she cared about the Lin family.
He took it for granted that although he had done something wrong in the past, he could redeem himself, and as long as he redeemed himself, everything would be back to normal.
But at this moment, Lin Jiashu truly realized that Lin Long really didn't need them anymore, let alone a brother like him. The words "Don't try to be relatives. Although my last name is Lin, I have nothing to do with the wealthy Lin family" were not just a casual remark, but...
Lin Jiashu felt that his brain was a little blank at this moment and his heart was aching badly.
He knew that at this point, it would be futile for him to continue holding on to the phone, so he should hang up.
But he clung on tightly, using all his strength, so much so that the blood vessels on the back of his hand bulged, but he was unwilling to let go even a little.
There were so many things I wanted to say in my heart, but in the end I could only hold my breath, tremble, and whisper these words:
"Long... Lin Long, you... no longer need the Lin family as your safe haven, and you no longer need me, your third brother, as your safe haven...?"
"haven?"
Lin Long paused, and when he heard this, he subconsciously raised his head.
She glanced at the three giant dragons who were already drunk and limp, the two brothers Feng Shan and Feng Feng who were completely drunk and dreaming, and Sister Chu Qi who was looking at her anxiously and worriedly at the beginning.
Suddenly, Lin Long couldn't help laughing. Her laugh was so clear, so brilliant, and so warm.
"Safe haven? Sorry, I already have one, and more than one."
"Also, the Lin family has never been my safe haven, never. The Lin family here also includes you, Mr. Lin Jiashu."
Because your Lin family has never been qualified to be a 'safe haven', either in the past or now.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Long felt that not only was his mood not affected at all, but when he looked at the drunk Dragon Dads in front of him, he suddenly felt warm in his heart. He walked to the side, picked up the blankets and covered the Dragon Dads with them.
Seeing this, Sister Chu Qi also helped to fetch a few more blankets and handed them to Lin Long. Her face was clearly filled with worry, "Longlong, are you okay?" But she didn't seem to know how to start. After holding it in for a long time, she finally couldn't help it and forced out a sentence, "Longlong, are you really okay?"
"It's okay, you see I look like I'm in trouble now?"
Lin Long responded while covering the Dragon Fathers with a quilt. Chu Qi widened her eyes and stared at him for a while. When she found that there was really no reluctance on Lin Long's face, she breathed a sigh of relief.
After a while, Chu Qi recalled what happened on Weibo, and suddenly became excited and happy again, chattering about something.
Feng Shan, who was closer to Chu Qi, kept chattering until his head ached for a while. His face was twisted in pain, and he couldn't help but roll over. He stared at Chu Qi with a dark face, as if he wanted to put her in a sack.
The commotion seemed to have woken Feng Feng up. With two hairs sticking up from his head, he rubbed his eyes and looked at the people in front of him in a daze, mumbling, "Brother...what are you doing? Why are you making so much noise?"
"Nothing, just some happy event! Happy event! I feel like all the frustrations I've been feeling for the past six months have been washed away. Look, look! It's on Weibo."
As he spoke, Chu Qi stretched out his arms and circled the two brothers Feng Shan and Feng Feng, then opened Weibo to let them see the grand scene on the Internet.
Looking down, the two brothers suddenly became energetic. After a while, the three of them gathered together to discuss, with no concealment of joy and excitement on their faces.
Lin Long just looked at the Goddess team in front of him, and an idea couldn't help but sprout in his mind.
No, or rather, this idea had already flashed through her mind long before when she saw that her dragon fathers had become very powerful, but there was no prototype.
But now, looking at the Goddess in front of him, and what happened to Yang Yiyi before, this thought became even stronger. After trying to hold it back, Lin Long finally couldn't help it. He suddenly walked up to Chu Qi and Feng Shan and Feng Feng brothers and said:
"Well, everyone, please listen to me for a moment. What I'm about to say may sound ridiculous, but I'm serious."
"I want to set up a company. No, I shouldn't say company, but rather a consortium. Don't you think that as the offspring of He Long's father, Will's father, and Ed's father, how can I succeed without a consortium to match? And Goddess is mine, or rather, our consortium's first property. How about it? I want to shamelessly buy out Goddess's future possibilities... and at the same time, I think I have a great idea. Do you want to hear it?"
As he spoke, Lin Long explained his plans, intentions and ideas in detail.
These detailed plans, which were obviously not made on a whim, made Chu Qi, Feng Shan and Feng Feng, who were originally surprised and thought Lin Long was joking, gradually calm down and realize that Lin Long was really serious and was not joking.
From Lin Long's words, he clearly analyzed Goddess's future position in the consortium, as well as Goddess's future development discoveries and goals, etc., and made Feng Shan and Feng Feng think seriously about the possibilities of the future.
Even though Goddess seems to have received good reviews at Fashion Week, apart from the glamorous appearance, Goddess really lacks everything. If Chu Qi is included, the entire Goddess team only has four people, which is too few in terms of manpower.
But if Goddess wants to add people, it has to consider the core issue: funding.
If Goddess continues to maintain its status quo without developing, it will definitely not work. It is estimated that it will soon return to the previous predicament of lack of materials and funds.
In other words, Goddess still needs to re-establish a complete team structure and get the funds flowing before Feng Feng can boldly and confidently carry out the design.
The market test is also the biggest testing ground for designers to demonstrate their abilities.
With this in mind, Goddess's partnership with Lin Long wasn't a bad choice. Furthermore, Lin Long would retain the largest stake in the company, reaching 60%, allowing the Feng Shan and Feng Feng brothers to fully control Goddess's operations and develop it in the direction they desired.
The consortium that Lin Long plans to establish will only be responsible for the flow of funds and providing Goddess with the best development platform.
Of course, this is just the beginning, everything starts from scratch, there is nothing.
As for Goddess's performance on the Fashion Week stage this year, they could easily find well-developed and mature partners. If this is the case, the current cooperation between Goddess and Lin Long is not the best choice.
Feng Shan didn't need much time to analyze all this in his mind at once, but... when his eyes fell on Lin Long, who was sitting there quietly waiting for their answer, Feng Shan didn't hesitate for long and quickly gave his answer.
"Okay, it's settled. If it weren't for LongLong, there wouldn't be Goddess's resurrection today. Who else could Goddess work with if not you? Besides, everyone in the world is looking forward to Goddess's performance next year. Without LongLong, Goddess wouldn't be complete... Besides, that idea you just proposed is a good one. I can't wait to see the reactions from those people online in a few days."
Feng Shan, who had already made up his mind, laughed happily enough. Feng Feng had no problem at all. He had not had any objection to Lin Long's proposal since the beginning.
On the contrary, Chu Qi, who was standing next to him, couldn't help feeling a little lonely when she saw Lin Long, who had grown mature without her noticing, and the two brothers who were laughing heartily.
It looked like her agent could only accompany them so far. Back then, because of Goddess's matter, she had applied for a long vacation from the company. As for Lin Long... her path was no longer limited to the small entertainment circle. Her world would be even wider.
As early as some time ago, He Long from the BD Consortium had renewed Lin Long's original contract. This matter was handled by her, but because the entire Goddess was busy with Fashion Week at the time, she did not tell anyone about it.
Now that Fashion Week is over, she has to go back to work in the company and take over other artists.
Thinking of this, Chu Qi subconsciously said, "Alright, let's have some drinks tonight. I probably won't be able to stay in Xia Garden tomorrow. If I don't go back, my job as a manager will be in jeopardy."
"Then don't go back."
Feng Shan spoke directly while drinking the sobering soup that the servant had just brought him, but Chu Qi kept shaking her head.
"No, after all, I'm not from Goddess. I'm just a temporary assistant, not a professional. I still have to go back to my old job."
"Then let's do it. Although I don't think you're useless to Goddess, I do think you're a bit underutilized here, so I can only reluctantly give you to Long Longong."
Feng Shan continued to speak, but Chu Qi was a little confused. It seemed that she did not understand what Feng Shan meant. Seeing this, Feng Shan pointed at Lin Long and spoke again:
"Don't you understand? Goddess is just one of the industries that LongLong wants to develop. If he wants to develop a consortium, he should develop a consortium that makes money quickly. The entertainment industry is indispensable. LongLong has no intention of letting you go, right? Mr. Chu, the agent."
"Feng Shan, now I understand why the heads of those big brands are always obsessed with you. But you're right, Sister Chu Qi, I have no intention of letting you go."
Seeing that Feng Shan had seen through his idea, Lin Long couldn't help but laugh. After laughing for a long while, he coughed twice, stood up, bowed slightly towards Chu Qi, and made a gentleman's salute. He then formally invited Chu Qi:
"Sister Chu Qi, I would like to invite you to be my partner and be responsible for the entertainment brokerage business under my consortium in the future. Is that okay?"
Chu Qi has always known that her little white rabbit is a very charming guy.
But because I picked it up and had raised it for such a long time, I thought I had already developed immunity to it.
So Chu Qi thought that Lin Long's charm didn't have much influence on her. She did admire and admire him, but it wasn't to the point of losing her mind or being completely distracted. She was no longer a young person who had "never seen the world".
Chu Qi had always thought so, but she never thought that at this moment, when she looked at Lin Long who was smiling at her sincerely and brightly, she was suddenly distracted.
When she came to her senses, she realized that she had nodded, shook hands, and gotten on board without knowing why.
It was not until a long time later, when Chu Qi became the head of the entertainment sector of the future eighth largest consortium, whose influence and status were almost equal to that of Lao Zhan of the former BD consortium, that he could not help but sigh like this.
It was all her fault that she was seduced by the beauty of her little white rabbit and dragged into the pirate ship. Otherwise, she would probably still be living a happy life now. The workload of being the head of the entertainment section of a consortium and being a small agent is completely different. It is a world of difference.
And this is not the point. The point is... her little white rabbit is indeed the "biological" daughter of those BD Group, GD Group and so on. Her talent in being a "hands-off boss" is exactly the same!
What’s even more hateful is that even Feng Feng has become more and more shrewd as he grows up, and he disappeared long ago.
Needless to say, Feng Shan was incredibly shrewd. As soon as there was even a hint of trouble, he'd have already taken flight, escaping faster than anyone else. He'd thrown all his courage into her. What else could this be but a pirate ship?!
Of course, this is a story for later.
No one would have thought that the consortium that was hastily recruited in Xia Garden at night would not only be successfully established, but would also emerge as the eighth largest consortium on par with the world's seven largest consortiums.
That evening, after determining the future development direction and preliminary plan of the consortium, the current core members and the industries to be implemented were also decided.
Feng Shan and Feng Feng are responsible for the development of Goddess and predict that Goddess will develop rapidly in the short term as a pioneer in capital accumulation.
In terms of entertainment brokerage, this is also a money-making project that Lin Long wants to develop quickly. The current members are only Chu Qi, Lin Long herself, and Yang Yiyi who she plans to invite to join.
There are very few people, and it is much more difficult to run than Goddess, but once it is on the right track, the income will be considerable. Lin Longke has no intention of giving up this lucrative opportunity.
And he has planned to be the vanguard and increase his popularity and traffic first. Chu Qi also holds the same opinion. She has recently been paying attention to whether there are any opportunities that can make Lin Long famous, so he should increase his traffic first.
As for the consortium's starting capital, Lin Long naturally didn't have it.
So at dawn the next day, after her three dragon dads woke up, Lin Long very servilely served her three dragon dads three bowls of sobering soup, and very tactfully praised her three dragon dads as "the most handsome dragons in the world".
When the three dragons' fur had been stroked until their tails were about to curl up, Lin Long told them with a little trepidation that he wanted to set up a consortium like the dragon fathers.
But because she is now penniless and has no start-up capital, she wants to borrow some money from the three Dragon Fathers. She will write an IOU, and when her consortium can run normally, she will return the start-up capital plus interest to the Dragon Fathers.
It has to be said that when Lin Long said this, she was still a little nervous, because she wanted to develop Goddess in a short period of time, and the amount of start-up capital she asked for was quite a lot, and she didn't know what her dragon fathers thought.
Especially now, after hearing what Lin Long said, the three dragon fathers became quieter than each other, staring at their cubs with wide eyes and falling silent. Lin Long, who was already quite nervous, became even more nervous and became a little restless.
Just when Lin Long thought that her three Dragon Dads disagreed with her decision and was considering whether to lower the amount of start-up capital, her three Dragon Dads suddenly took out their mobile phones and started making calls.
So, after a while, Lin Long saw Will's father, who had finished the call the fastest, and he came forward and said an astronomical figure proudly, and then he said directly:
"Isn't it just start-up capital? That little money is not enough, not even enough to build a dragon's nest. And you're asking so cautiously. You're so pitiful, kid. You must be used to being poor. Dad is so heartbroken. How can a dragon survive with such a small amount of money? But it's okay, Dad will help you. I just called back and asked, and the GD Foundation currently has this amount of idle funds. It's a bit small, but you can take it first. After the new round of investment cycle, the GD Foundation will be able to come up with more money..."
However, before Will could finish his words, he was interrupted by the Black Dragon He Long beside him.
While pushing Will away with brute force without hesitation, he pulled out a black card from his wallet, pushed it in front of Lin Long and said seriously:
"Hey, take this black card, kid. I just had LeBron James transfer all the idle funds from the BD Foundation into this. It's twice as much as the GD Foundation. Use mine. The GD Foundation's rankings have fallen to the bottom in recent years. I guess they need this little money urgently. There's no need to take Will's. It would be bad if those guys from the GD Foundation came to you and cried poor. Here, use mine. Take it."
But this is not the largest number. The final number is still with Ed who is sitting at the edge.
He did not interrupt Will and He Long, but waited until they finished speaking before taking a sip of black tea elegantly and speaking to Lin Long with a chuckle:
"Both the GD and BD consortiums require considerable costs to operate, but my TD consortium is different. It primarily deals in intelligence trading with no capital required, and the funds it draws are twice as high as He Long's. If you want to use mine, darling, I'll be ready for you anytime."
“…”
Although Lin Long knew that his dragon fathers were very rich, he had no idea how rich they were, so he could not help but remain silent.
Looking at the money handed over by the Dragon Fathers, with that scary circle of zeros at the end, and then looking at the money I had raised, I thought it was already a huge amount of start-up capital...
Lin Long then realized that she really was poor, just that simple and ordinary poor. Didn’t she see that her three dragon fathers were looking at her with pitiful eyes because she was so poor? ! ! T口T!!
Of course, the Dragon Fathers stuffed huge amounts of money into Lin Long's pocket, but Lin Long, thinking that she could not afford such "huge wealth", did not dare to accept it all, and only took the part that was the start-up capital she originally planned to use.
Moreover, in order to prevent her three dragon fathers from quarreling again, Lin Long took a little from each dragon father evenly and wrote out IOUs in a very strict manner, although her three dragon fathers did not take these IOUs seriously.
In the rear, Chu Qi, Feng Shan and Feng Feng, who were caught off guard by the sight of their future chairman of the consortium, who had an extraordinary backing, were all silent.
Although they knew that Lin Long was the daughter of the big bosses of those conglomerates, cooperating with her was, to some extent, like holding on to a golden thigh.
But they didn't expect that this golden thigh was so thick that it was even thicker than an elephant's leg.
They are not worried at all about the possible failure of the consortium. If it really fails, they can just give a little help from each of the major consortiums and the company will be able to survive again. If it still fails, they can give it another little help. If it still fails, they can give it a few more little help. It will be a sure thing.
Moreover, Lin Long is not such a fool. Her abilities are being tapped out bit by bit, and she will be led by those big bosses of the consortium in the future. How could she be bad? She can only make rapid progress, there is no other possibility.
However, the fact that international supermodel Ed, in addition to being a supermodel, is also the chairman of the TD Group really shocked the three of them, and Chu Qi had long given up trying to figure out how Lin Long's father came about.
And suddenly I felt that it wouldn't be strange if some big boss of a consortium showed up in the future and said he was Lin Long's father.
I have to say, to some extent, Chu Qi is telling the truth.
At the same time, netizens online were very nervous.
Ever since they flooded the screen with apologies to Lin Long and Yang Yiyi after midnight that day, they couldn't help but feel uneasy.
The reason was simple: Yang Yiyi had already responded to their "apologies" during the daytime of the next day.
But it had been several days and there was still no concrete response from Lin Long. Even Goddess was quiet and there was no movement, which made them wait anxiously. They didn't know if Lin Long would just ignore them. After all, the damage had already been done.
Until three days later, when many netizens could no longer hold back and wanted to leave private messages or say "I'm sorry" again, there was movement on the official accounts of Lin Long and Goddess.
All I saw was the official account 'Lin Long Long Long Long', which just posted a new Weibo post. There was no text on the Weibo post, only a photo.
In the photo, Lin Long was wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans. He stretched out his hands, gave a pair of thumbs up, and smiled brightly at everyone.
It was just such a simple photo, but it made people who saw it feel tears in their eyes and scream with emotion.
The reason was not anything else, but simply because this was not an ordinary photo. The T-shirt that Lin Long was wearing had screenshots of the "I'm sorry" Weibo posts that were flooding their screens that morning. Above these "I'm sorry" Weibo posts were seven other large characters.
It only says this on it:
"I am fine"
"Thank you"
At this moment, almost everyone understood that these seven big words were Lin Long's response to their "I'm sorry" that night.
I'm fine: the past hurts couldn't bring her down.
Thank you: Thank you for having the courage to stand up and say "I'm sorry" to her.
These seven simple words immediately brought many people online back to their senses, and... they unconsciously loved Lin Long even more.
It's not just because of her performance in Goddess, nor is it out of any guilt, it's simply because of her personal charm.
Although Lin Long didn't say anything now, the words engraved on her clothes and her condition shown in the photos.
It has been conveyed very clearly to everyone that she has not been affected by the previous offensive language. You don't have to feel too guilty and you can rest assured.
It has to be said that on this day, many fans became fans of Lin Long again, and even some people who were not big fans of stars remembered the name "Lin Long" deeply.
Many of Lin Long's previous stories were brought up again by everyone, including the young and green Lin Long when she first debuted, and the Lin Long who later shined in Goddess.
After digging into this, everyone discovered that Lin Long was really good. Even when he first came out, he was very good and well-behaved, and his business skills were not bad either.
The most important thing is her looks. Lin Long is really pretty, holy shit! And she's getting prettier and prettier!
As a result, more and more people started talking about Lin Long. The deeper they dug, the more they discovered that Lin Long was like a treasure. Various peripheral products and emoticons about Lin Long went viral on the Internet for a while.
The dress that Lin Long wore that day, which had the words "I'm fine, thank you" inscribed on it, attracted a lot of questions, and many fans expressed their desire to buy an identical one for themselves.
On the one hand, it is to serve as a warning to myself and always remember what happened on this day.
On the one hand, it is to commemorate that they have officially become "Zizi fans", and the kind that are excited about love.
Not long after, the official account of Goddess also launched a new Weibo post, introducing the latest new product. What else could this new product be if not the clothes that Lin Long was wearing?
However, not many of these dresses were ordered, only a hundred pieces, and no fees will be charged. Instead, they will be shipped with any other item from Goddess, limited to the first one hundred orders.
The release of such a Weibo post means that Goddess has officially entered the clothing fashion market. Moreover, Goddess's prices are very affordable and the designs are also unique.
Although due to the short time, there are not many products for sale on the Goddess official website.
In addition to the new products of the previous month, there are some clothes designed by the brothers Feng Shan and Feng Feng in the previous year. They selected some designs and made them into samples and put them on pre-sale. While alleviating their time constraints, they can also use this to observe market trends and plan to expand the scale in one go after setting goals.
I have to say that Goddess's designs really touch the hearts of women.
Some people originally came just for that T-shirt with special meaning, but after browsing for a while, they couldn't stop shopping. They felt that there were many beautiful clothes and they liked them very much.
What was even more surprising was that Lin Long was the spokesperson model for every piece of Goddess clothing. They liked it even more and all of a sudden, they accidentally started to go on a 'buy, buy, buy' cycle and couldn't stop.
Some netizens even said that apart from the limited stock and new products, there is nothing wrong with Goddess.
Lin Long and Goddess's development is going smoothly and very well. Everything is slowly getting back on track.
But for Lin Zhuer, who was interrogated in Country X and forced to return to China in a very embarrassed manner, all was not good.
It can even be said that the more glorious she was in the past, the more miserable she is now. In recent days, she has been constantly reminded of the tragic experiences in her previous life.
No, no, no, it's not over yet. She still has a backer. Yes, she still has a backer. That person won't give up on her so easily. She still knows how to prevent him from dying early. There's no way he won't come to save her. Yes, there's no way he won't come to save her.
Thinking of this, Lin Zhuer became a little crazy, and said directly to the police in front of her:
"Where's the guy who bailed me out? Why hasn't he come yet? I've been back in China for two days, why hasn't he come yet? Did you stop him? He doesn't need to bail me out!!"
However, the young policeman took a few steps back in disgust at Lin Zhu'er, who was now at her peak. He looked at the two 'big and small Justice Bao' who were playing poker in boredom not far away, and said helplessly:
"Captain, Deputy Captain, why do I feel like that Lin Zhu'er is a little crazy? Has she been provoked? If the procedures with Country X hadn't been completed, she would have been sentenced long ago based on the evidence. Why is she still thinking about someone coming to bail her out? Does she think the Lin family will come to bail her out? She didn't even think about what she did before, but she directly swallowed up a lot of the former Lin's company's assets. I don't know where all that huge money went. We can't find out where it went no matter how hard we try..."
"I don't think the money is the real deal. I'm actually quite interested in the 'he' that Lin Zhu'er mentioned who would bail her out. Xiao Bao, tell me what you think."
Captain Bao Zheng stroked his chin, pondering while playing cards. Meanwhile, Xiao Bao, the deputy captain, played a royal bomb and spoke without looking up:
"From what I see... Lin Zhu'er never seemed to expect the Lin family to come and rescue her. Regardless of whether she was an adopted daughter or something, even if she was a family member, how could a normal family member simply use 'he' as a substitute? Generally speaking, they would give an identity, such as 'my father', 'my mother', 'my brother', etc. So I think... that 'he' is not a member of the Lin family."
"You're right, you're worthy of being my partner. And not only that, during Fashion Week, Lin Zhu'er witnessed firsthand who reported her to the police. It was He Long, chairman of the BD Group, and international supermodel Ed, with Will from the GD Group right beside them. These powerful figures are untouchable to the average person, right? But look at Lin Zhu'er's expression. She seems to be convinced that the 'him' who will bail her out has the power to overwhelm those powerful individuals. He's no ordinary person."
After hearing what his two captains said, the young policeman seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing. He only knew that his two captains believed that the person who came back to bail out Lin Zhuer would be a big shot.
But how could a 'big shot' possibly come to bail out Lin Zhu'er?
The young policeman didn't believe it.
At this moment, someone hurried over and said, "Oh no, Captain, someone really came to bail Lin Zhu'er out. The director brought them here personally. He said they were an old noble from a foreign country who had met Lin Zhu'er once and wanted to meet her."
Foreign old aristocrat? Who?
Suddenly, the big and small Bao Qingtian looked at each other and saw the slight surprise in each other's eyes, but now that the director had brought the person here in person, they couldn't refuse to greet him.
So, they skillfully swept the playing cards aside, quickly sorted them out, and walked forward to welcome the person in.
And the next moment, they actually saw two foreigners. One was older and needed a cane, while the other was younger, probably in his thirties, and was probably an assistant or a housekeeper.
These two people are indeed very imposing, and their temperament is indeed very aristocratic, but for some reason, when Bao Xiao and Bao Da looked at each other, they felt that there was a bit of a corrupt aura about each other?
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