After returning to the city from the suburbs, Zhao Shengming went home. Night had fallen, and his mistress was waiting for him naked in bed. Zhao Shengming had completely lost interest. He sat in his office chair, smoking one cigarette after another, his mind preoccupied with the task his boss had given him. "Good heavens, what am I going to do?" He sighed as he stubbed out his cigarette. His boss had told him to find something on Zhao Weimin's son, even something small, and use it to stir things up. But Zhao Weimin was no pushover. Coming from a wealthy and powerful family, he was even more cautious in his actions, trying to avoid bringing any negative impact on his family. Zhao Shengming had tried various methods before, but to no avail. Just as Zhao Shengming was agonizing over his troubles, Xiao Mi walked naked into his study. He waved her over, and she leaned her soft body against his chest. "Darling, are you thinking about Zhao Weimin?" Zhao Shengming nodded. He made no attempt to hide anything from Xiao Mi; she was the boss's woman, just temporarily keeping him company to give him a taste of her kindness. Xiao Mi ruffled her hair and then said, "Zhao Weimin has no weaknesses. Could we start with the people around him?" Zhao Shengming was about to shake his head when he remembered the little boy with Zhao Weimin that he'd encountered while having dinner with his wife earlier that day. His gloom vanished, and he picked up Xiao Mi, giving her a big kiss. He exclaimed gleefully, "You, you're truly my lucky star!" Then, he quietly took off his clothes and began playing cards with Xiao Mi on the chair.
The next evening, Xu Chen and Wang Li were taking a walk by the lake. Tired, they sat on the grass to look at the stars. Xu Chen stared at a particular star for a long time, his gaze gentle and unwavering. Wang Li waved in front of him. "Chenchen, what's wrong?" Xu Chen joked, "I'm looking at my hometown." Wang Li smiled sweetly. "You're getting sillier and sillier." She turned her head, watching the students coming and going, enjoying the tranquility. Suddenly, a figure caught her eye. "Isn't that Li Wei?" Wang Li tugged at Xu Chen's sleeve. Xu Chen glanced over and saw Li Wei, blushing, walking with a pretty girl, the two chatting and laughing. He chuckled softly, "Looks like Li Wei's found a girlfriend too." Seeing Li Wei and the girl's awkwardness, Wang Li thought of herself and Xu Chen. She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Xu Chen pretended to be disgusted and touched his face. Wang Li, seeing this, was furious, and the two playfully wrestled.
"Alright, that's enough for today. I'm going back to my dorm to study." Su Qingqing smiled sweetly at Li Wei. Li Wei didn't dare to look at her face and hurriedly said nervously, "Okay, okay, then go back to your dorm early. I won't bother you anymore." Su Qingqing turned and left. Li Wei pressed his pounding heart and went back to his dorm.
"Boss, I've made contact with him." Su Qingqing walked out of the school gate and called Zhao Shengming. Zhao Shengming laughed and said, "Good, well done. Your task is to lure out Zhao Weimin by establishing a relationship with him." After replying, Su Qingqing hung up the phone and drove away from the school. Zhao Shengming lit a cigarette and stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the Beijing nightscape. The situation above was becoming increasingly turbulent, and despite his deep thought, he could only piece together a few clues. Just as he was lost in thought, a phone rang. He answered, and a dignified yet magnetic female voice came from the other end, "Zhao Shengming, how's the matter my father entrusted to you going?" Zhao Shengming nodded subconsciously, then hurriedly said, "Almost there, almost there. Zhao Weimin will take the bait soon." The female voice snorted coldly, then said, "You'd better not try anything funny. Do it properly." Zhao Shengming asked curiously, "Why is the boss targeting the Zhao family?" The female voice raised her voice, speaking sarcastically, "Oh, want to know the inside story? Want to turn the tables?" Zhao Shengming quickly denied, "No, no, no, I'll always be the boss's dog. I'm just curious." "With the network of connections you've built behind my family's back over the years, how could you not guess?" the female voice retorted, then hung up the phone. Zhao Shengming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then pondered, "So that's really how it is. The boss's faction's takeover of Hunan Province was taken away, which has a lot to do with the Tang family's faction. The boss wants to take revenge on the Tang faction."
In his dorm room at Peking University, Li Wei was being besieged by a group of people. Xu Chen, Zhao Weimin, and others had pillows pressing down on him, while Wang Aihua demanded, "Tell us, who's that girl? Why didn't you bring her back for us brothers to check on?" Xu Chen nodded. "Yeah, Li Wei, all that effort of forwarding your contact information from the love letter I received was for nothing. Turns out you started dating her yourself." Seeing everyone's curious looks, Li Wei was about to blurt it out, but then he remembered Su Qingqing's advice during their walk: not to reveal too much. Thinking of this, Li Wei kept his mouth shut. "I won't, you can kill me then." The group grabbed pillows and pounced on him. After the commotion subsided, Xu Chen left the dorm. Today, he planned to do something neither too big nor too small: under the cover of night, he would return to Hunan Province to retrieve that fish. After leaving the school gate, he slipped into the roadside grove, teleported into the sky, and soon returned to the original spot carrying the white jade bucket. Xu Chen looked it over and found that the fish hadn't changed at all; it was still the same size as when he first got it. He figured the spiritual energy was probably only enough to maintain the fish's vital signs, not enough for its growth. Xu Chen didn't actually know much about the growth cycle of the manta ray, but his eyesight and memory were extraordinary; he could see even the slightest growth in the fish. Now that the fish hadn't changed, Xu Chen thought, "Should I set up a spirit-gathering array in the room to see if it can accelerate its growth?" As he thought this, he returned to the small villa. Wang Li was already asleep. Xu Chen went into the room, placed the fish on the balcony, and then fell into a deep sleep himself.
Over the next few days, Xu Chen was recalling matters related to the Wenyao fish, Su Qingqing was happily dating Li Wei, and Zhao Weimin and Wang Aihua were spending time in the library. "Now I'm truly penniless." One day after class, Xu Chen returned to the small villa, looking at the jade in the bag, painfully recalling the moment he had just paid for it, then recalling the arrangement of the low-level spirit-gathering array, picked up the jade and quickly began to work. Half an hour later, the array was complete. "Alright, now I just wait for the array to resonate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Although it's a low-level spirit-gathering array, it's still enough to improve the concentration of spiritual energy around the house, and Lili will also benefit." Xu Chen looked at the spirit-gathering array and the jade bucket within it with satisfaction.
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