Chapter 1 The Beginning

The next morning, Huang Zewen came to school with a mission.

If you stared at him closely, you would notice the marks left by his father's beating last night, with some bruises on his face.

Huang Zewen usually liked to stir up trouble, and although his friends noticed something unusual, they didn't take it to heart.

After waiting for a long time, Su Yehao finally arrived.

Huang Zewen's buddies were quite nervous, all thinking that their boss had been humiliated yesterday and wanted to get revenge at the school gate in front of the other students.

They usually just made a few verbal jibes, but they didn't have the guts to actually lay a hand on Su Yehao, even with Huang Zewen taking the lead. It still made them uneasy.

One of the young men with glasses clutched his stomach and cried out, "Ouch!" before scurrying away.

Another hurriedly chased after him, saying he was going to take him toilet paper.

Two fewer people all of a sudden.

Huang Zewen was so angry that his nose was crooked, but he pretended not to see it. There were more important things to deal with, and he couldn't spare the time to discipline his subordinates.

His parents had given him a strict order. If he didn't get the job done, he wouldn't have a good life in the future.

When he walked up to Su Yehao, Huang Zewen reached out to stop him and said in a hooligan-like manner:

"I went home last night and thought about it. Having that dirt on me in your hands won't do me any good in the future. Let's settle this like men. Today I'll give you face! I'll never mess with Wei Jiang again. You give me the video, how about it?"

Su Yehao didn't pay much attention to it at first.

But then he realized that what he had said yesterday had made Huang Zewen nervous.

He didn't like brats like Huang Zewen. Su Yehao yawned and said with a smile, "Why should I give you the information I worked so hard to get? Move aside, I'm in a hurry to get to the cafeteria. Class is about to start and I haven't eaten yet."

Huang Zewen usually didn't have much to do with Su Yehao, and there was a whole laundry list of conflicts between them. He had prepared himself to bleed a little in advance, gritted his teeth and said, "Fine! I admit defeat! You're ruthless this time. Give me a number, and I'll buy it from you!"

Su Yehao had recently done a simple calculation. Not counting the limited-edition supercar and a drawer full of famous watches, he had more than two hundred thousand patacas in spending money alone.

He was already riding high, truly at the peak of his life.

Just last night, his mother had called to tell him that she had bought some insurance in the past, and there would be a sum of money he could claim after he came of age. He needed to take some time to go to the insurance company to sign the contract. It was a full eight million Hong Kong dollars!

According to his mother, she seemed to want to raise some more money to make up ten million Hong Kong dollars to buy a trust fund for continued investment.

Just eating the interest every year would amount to more than one million Hong Kong dollars!

In fact, when he found out that he was about to receive more than eight million Hong Kong dollars, Su Yehao had already become dizzy.

He didn't even hear clearly what she said afterwards, and it made him so excited that he couldn't sleep, so he woke up late and listless this morning.

In the past, Su Yehao couldn't solve anything with money.

Now it was different.

After adapting for several days, the feeling of confusion completely disappeared, and he began to try to enjoy life.

Hearing Huang Zewen's words, Su Yehao smiled and said, "Are you kidding me? Do I look like I'm short of money? Don't think you can get rid of me with a pittance. Yesterday my mom just..."

He was halfway through his gloating when he decided it was better to keep a low profile and stopped talking.

Su Yehao reached out to check his watch.

A Patek Philippe 5016, featuring a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, and minute repeater.

Last night, he was so excited that Su Yehao's ego had taken flight.

He was just worried about not having a chance to flaunt his wealth and find some validation when Huang Zewen ran right into the barrel of his gun.

Hearing Su Yehao mention his mother, Huang Zewen's legs instantly went weak. He immediately jumped to the wrong conclusion, thinking that his mother had already heard about the video.

Looking at Su Yehao again, staring unblinkingly at his watch, with an inscrutable smile on his lips... Huang Zewen felt his vision go black!

He couldn't even imagine what would happen to him when he got home if he messed things up!

Su Yehao just thought that this young master Huang was also rich and should be able to recognize the value of the watch, so he was deliberately showing off his new watch.

Wearing a house on his wrist like that, it would be a waste not to let people see it.

When he found this watch in the walk-in closet last night, the receipt was in the watch box. It cost more than two million Hong Kong dollars. Su's father also had one of the same watches.

It was mainly for tax avoidance. Since he had to pay taxes every year anyway, he might as well buy something valuable and keep it for himself to enjoy.

The two of them were talking at cross-purposes.

Huang Zewen, unaware that he had misunderstood, thought that this matter would be difficult to resolve, so he decisively offered a price and took the initiative to say:

"Two million! You delete the video and promise me not to leak it to the media, and I'll go home and get the money right now!"

Su Yehao was stunned on the spot, raising his eyebrows and staring at Huang Zewen.

He thought, are all rich kids so fierce, using "millions" as a unit of measurement so casually?

He's clearly still a student!

Seeing that he was unmoved at all, Huang Zewen thought the money was too little.

He continued to lower his voice and add, "Three million! How about it? Give me a straight answer. At worst, I'll treat you to a drink and apologize to you!"

Unlike the current Su Yehao, Huang Zewen had been pampered since he was a child and had never experienced the taste of being short of money.

In his opinion, treating Su Yehao to a drink to apologize was far more impressive than those three million patacas.

Money didn't matter, face was more important.

At this moment, he swallowed his pride and lowered his head.

Huang Zewen felt empty inside, as if his pride had dissipated with the wind. He would have to look up to him from now on.

Looking at Su Yehao again, he was completely shocked!

His head hadn't even reacted yet, but under Huang Zewen's repeated questioning, he nodded subconsciously.

Even at this moment, he still didn't understand what was going on.

He just made a few jokes and threats, and wondered why Huang Zewen was taking it so seriously?

It was just a video... three million!?

Su Yehao had actually forgotten about the video he took yesterday, and he didn't even mention it when he got home.

How would he know that Huang Zewen's parents were planning to use the official project as a springboard to formally enter the mainland market?

It just so happened that the Huang Jinfei couple both thought that Su Yehao was retaliating for the project order being snatched away, so they tried to find dirt on them through their son.

Last night, Huang's second concubine even speculated that Su's father was probably the one pulling the strings behind the scenes!

She cursed that Su the Skinflint was ruthless and black-hearted.

He didn't spare even the younger generation!

Early this morning, the couple teamed up to rummage through the newspapers, afraid that the news had already been leaked. They specifically contacted several media outlets, trying to find out what was going on in a roundabout way.

It was really just a misunderstanding...

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A few million in cash was just a daily expense for families like theirs.

Huang Zewen didn't go to class. After going home to explain the situation, he rushed to trade with Su Yehao with the cash.

Actually, a transfer check would have been enough.

But Huang Zewen's mother thought that a mere check wouldn't be attractive enough, fearing that Su Yehao would go back on his word at the last minute, so she specifically took out the one thousand pataca banknotes that had been stored at the bottom of the chest in the vault.

The one thousand banknote was not widely circulated on the market.

But for Huang's family, which occasionally needed it for social interactions, they naturally kept a lot of it at home, all brand-new cash.

One stack was one hundred thousand patacas, and ten stacks were tied together.

A total of three bundles were tied, totaling three million!

When Su Yehao actually saw the money, he realized that Huang Zewen wasn't joking.

After looking at the cash in the bag, he felt dizzy for a moment.

Although he didn't understand, Su Yehao kept his promise. Under Huang's repeated urging, he borrowed a digital camcorder from Zhugan and deleted the video from yesterday.

Seeing that the video had been deleted, Huang Zewen breathed a sigh of relief. After calling his mother to report the good news, he didn't even want to look at Su Yehao again.

After a short break, the teacher walked into the classroom and continued the lesson.

Su Yehao was still at a loss.

Staring at the bulging black bag at his feet, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He wondered if Huang Zewen was digging a hole for him, planning to use a charge like extortion to send him in!?

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

He had seen similar stories on the news, and it seemed very possible.

He suffered through the class.

As soon as the teacher left, Su Yehao found Huang Zewen and whispered, "I haven't even touched this money. I think..."

Huang Zewen looked at him with a look as if he had seen a ghost. He was almost crying, and immediately said excitedly:

"Brother! Brother Hao! Please spare me. Let's just forget about this, can we not mention it again!? Please be merciful and let my family off the hook. It was all my fault before. My dad will really beat me to death. You're the only son in your family, but I still have an older brother and a younger brother. I know this money isn't enough. I'll make proper arrangements tonight and guarantee you'll be satisfied!"

"..."

Su Yehao swallowed back the words that had already reached his lips.

Such a large sum of money had exceeded the limitations of his thinking, and it was difficult for him not to think of money as money for a while.

He sighed deeply and continued to sit back in his seat. Although he wanted to go to the bathroom, he was still worried about the bag of money.

Su Yehao wondered, feeling like he had missed something.

With his way of thinking, he couldn't imagine how afraid the wealthy people in Macao and Hong Kong were of getting a bad reputation in the mainland.

Moreover, the Huang family was planning to do business in the mainland. Compared with the profits brought by those large projects, this three million was simply not worth mentioning.

The Huang family didn't care about this little bit of money at all. They naturally felt that Su Yehao didn't care about it either. They just wanted an assurance that the Su family wouldn't target them.

Su Yehao, this mud-legged man, never thought about taking the opportunity to take advantage of the Huang family, so of course he couldn't guess any of this, even if he racked his brains.

In his eyes, there was only this three million, so he readily agreed to delete the video.

This large sum of money at his feet was a bit of a hot potato.

It was really a headache.

So he took advantage of the break to call his cheap dad for advice, so as not to be tricked in a daze.

As soon as he finished explaining the ins and outs, Su's father burst out laughing on the other end of the phone and told Su Yehao his guesses and analysis.

This time Su Yehao immediately understood that the Huang family was afraid of their reputation stinking and being targeted by certain people.

After understanding the reason, Su Yehao looked at the money in the black bag again, and it smelled very good.

Since the Huang family couldn't possibly expose it on their own, he would of course accept it with a smile, and even found Huang Zewen more pleasing to the eye.

Golden and shiny, a little likable.