"Mom, this is Yi Zheng."
"Yi Zheng, Yi Group's Yi Zheng?" Zhou mother immediately recognized this statue of the Buddha's identity, the finance magazines had recently began reporting on Yi Group's every day activities in China. If someone couldn't recognize his extraordinarily handsome face, they really didn't belong in the business circle.
"Yes that's me, hello auntie, I've brought you a gift." Yi Zheng politely greeted, then took out a finely wrapped box and handed it over.
Zhou mother received the gift, dazed, only remembering to invite him into the living room on the housekeeper's reminder.
"Mom, you won't open the gift to look?" Zhou Yun Sheng pouted.
Zhou mother hurriedly opened the box and found an emerald brooch surrounded by many dazzling blue diamonds inside. Its pricelessness could be seen in one glance, she immediately froze in shock.
"This gift is too expensive!" Zhou mother's words implied resistance to accept it. She remembered hearing about this brooch, it seemed to be called 'Kingfisher', easily auctioned for the sky high price of 30 million.
"Mom you have to accept it, don't be modest with him. He doesn't have a dad or mom, he wants to treat you like a mother." Zhou Yun Sheng smiled slyly.
Yi Zheng looked down at his smiling eyes, anxious to press him into the sofa and ruthlessly ravage him. He naturally hugged the younger man's shoulder and said, "Bab- … … Yun Sheng's mother is my mother. This gift is only a small kindly gesture, I'll be really disappointed if you don't accept."
Zhou mother had no choice but to accept. She switched to asking about how the two knew each other, and learned that the two had been pen pals for many years, their friendship deep. It's no wonder her son was so confident he could revive ZHOU, he'd always had Yi Zheng's support.
She was completely relieved, she walked into the kitchen to personally prepare a fruit platter.
Fang Kunpeng walked down the stairs carrying a suitcase, caught sight of Yi Zheng, and was visibly stunned for a moment. Yi Zheng's face had recently become highly exposed, too many people in China wanted to gain a foothold with him. Even his son mentioned a few days ago that he'd wanted to meet with Yi Zheng, hoping to talk about a cooperation project.
"Mr. Yi?" He tentatively called.
Yi Zheng only glanced at him, his attitude indifferent.
"Why are you still standing there? Do I have to call the security guards?" Zhou Yun Sheng sneered.
Fang Kunpeng returned to reality, nodded at Yi Zheng, then pushed open the front door to see the black luxury car parked by the fountain and a few bodyguards, even more sure of Yi Zheng's identity. What was the relationship between Zhou Yun Sheng and Yi Zheng? Would Yi Group lend a helping hand to ZHOU? Would they retaliate against his son?
One thought after another spun around in Zhou father's mind, he quickly took out his cell phone and called his son.
Zhou Yun Sheng sat for a while, then, unable to restrain himself any longer, he rushed to the kitchen doorway and called out, "Mom, I have to talk to Yi Zheng about something, we'll come down for the fruit later."
"That's fine, go on. I'll let the housekeeper got out to buy more groceries. Mr. Yi, will you stay with us for dinner today?"
"I'll be honored." Yi Zheng's sincerity greatly pleased Zhou mother, she smiled and waved, "Well go, tonight I'm cooking myself."
As soon as they closed the bedroom door, Yi Zheng's refined exterior became extremely ruthless, he crushed the younger man against the door and fiercely kissed him, their tongues grinding against each other's', little nips bringing out small wisps of blood. The smell of blood stimulated the beasts in their hearts, they rolled onto the carpet, tightly embracing each other.
"You're impotent? How did forensics identify it?" Yi Zheng squeezed the younger man's hard place.
"The test was no problem. I'm impotent to others, I can only get hard for you." Zhou Yun Sheng licked a line of silver off the corner of his mouth.
Yi Zheng buried his face in his neck and laughed, his laughter filled with satisfaction and pleasure. From start to finish, this person had never deceived him, he really did belong only to him.
"Happy now?" Zhou Yun Sheng raised an eyebrow.
"Very happy."
"Then happily continue, who's the one who said he was going to fuck me to death in the police station? If you don't fuck me to death today, you can't get out of my bed." Zhou Yun Sheng joked without a sense of crisis.
Yi Zheng lifted him up without a word and threw him onto the bed, then dropped down on him. The room's sound proofing was very good, so the occasional passing housekeeper didn't hear the two's growls and urgent panting, and the muffled sound of colliding flesh. Finished, Yi Zheng pulled the limp man into the bathtub and said, "Once in the water."
"No! We have to go down eat, my mother is waiting for us." Zhou Yun Sheng quickly rejected. He'd almost forgotten, this man had the power to destroy the Lord God, not to mention the force to defy natural order, of course he also had leverage in that department. Provoking him in bed was simply courting death.
If only he could practice the "Nine Circles Body Refining Technique" again. Zhou Yun Sheng soaked in the bathtub and daydreamed.
Yi Zheng washed him inside and out, then wrapped a soft towel around him and carried him to the bed. He dried his hair with a hair dryer, then selected a new set of clothes for him. Squatting in front of the younger man, tying his shoe for him, he suddenly felt that this setting was very familiar, as if he had done it thousands of times.
"What's with the silly look?" Zhou Yun Sheng lifted his white socked foot to step on his lover's unrivaled, handsome face.
"Nothing, I just feel that I really like taking care of you." Yi Zheng gave a heartfelt smile, his heart not only filled with happiness, but also the inexplicable ecstasy of having regained something lost.
As soon as he heard this, Zhou Yun Sheng immediately jumped off the bed and helped his lover into his suit and tie, then finally hugged his thin waist tightly, vowing, "From now on, it's my turn to take care of you, okay?"
"Let's take care of each other." Yi Zheng felt like his chest was about to burst from extreme happiness. They've clearly just met, but the deep feelings came so rapidly and violently, making him completely fall without even a trace of resistance.
This might be an arrangement by fate.
Zhou Yun Sheng nodded, sealed their lips, then said in a confident tone, "No one exposed my privacy, you handled it didn't you?"
Yi Zheng nodded, "I don't like having the outside world speculate about your sex life, that was very irritating. Whether or not you can do it, it's enough that only I know."
Zhou Yun Sheng blinked his peach blossom eyes up at him and smiled brightly.
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ZHOU's young master was released from jail, the news attracted the attention of the majority of media outlets. Some people immediately asserted that there was some shady behind the scenes deals, demanding an explanation from the police. The police couldn't expose the private matters of the involved parties, so they published news of the red skirt woman's arrest and collision with the new acute designer Meng Wan on the official website, announcing that they had conspired to commit fraud and false accusations. After the case was completed, the media could arrange to interview the two suspects, to help the public understand the hidden truth behind the case.
The media didn't waste any time, they all called the police department for exclusive rights to the interview, with the station CCTV naturally coming out on top. Soon, they produced a special column with a thorough analysis of the whole case.
The case was moved to the CCTV's authoritative legal program, completely quieting down the netizens clamoring about shady background deals. There was recently a change in national leadership, and wave after wave of anti-corruption campaigns were in full swing throughout the country. ZHOU only had influence in Y City, it wasn't ranked highly enough to pull weight in the whole country, so if it bought out the Y City police station, it wouldn't let the police accept any media intervention, let alone the CCTV.
If there was shady dealings, that would be self-defeating. Then people noticed that one of the women arrested was Meng Wan- the Meng Wan who recently came into fame as the future star of the design community- that had to be a mistake, right? What deep enmity did she have with ZHOU's young master?
Not only did the public find it unthinkable, even Zhou Yun Sheng was surprised. He'd always thought that Meng Wan hadn't participated in that ugly business, but as it turns out, she was even more 'capable' than he'd imagined.
She was the one who'd recruited the red skirt woman, and she'd also called in the two burly men to rape her. When she'd done those things, her only thought was helping Fang Zhifei retaliate against Zhou family, she didn't care about anything else. The red skirt woman was detained for two days before having a nervous breakdown and selling her out. When the police knocked on her door, Meng Wan was very calm. In order to prevent the police from digging further into things, she didn't hesitate to take on all the charges. The only reasoning she gave was that Zhou Yun Sheng had frequently harassed her in the past few years, so she came up with this plan in revenge.
CCTV interviewed her, digging deeply into her dark psychological journey. She was very blunt, she described Zhou Yun Sheng as a villain who had no limits, a bastard who wantonly used his money and power to force her. She also recounted the hardships they had to face after her younger sister fell ill, very moving.
As soon as the news aired, it aroused deep sympathy among the masses. Many asked the court to sentence her lightly. Meng Wan was also a victim, she was forced by circumstances.
"It was a last resort? What kind of logic is that? She had no choice but to destroy my life? She had to instruct two men to gang-rape a woman? The world has so many unfortunate people, should they all go around killing everyone else? Why does society still need laws? I've searched my soul but I can't find anything I should be sorry to her for. We've known each other for a few years, and I've never touched a hair on her head, let alone forced her."
"When her sister fell sick, I unhesitantly loaned her 3 million. This is the loan receipt she wrote, look at it. But since that day, she refused to talk about paying back the money. Then she took advantage of ZHOU's crisis to lead away my production team, pushing my company closer to bankruptcy. Without my 3 million, her sister would've already died. I treated her with the greatest kindness, but she stabbed me in the back with a cold knife. What kind of victim is that? I've never seen a more vicious woman than her. I have no doubt that she framed me to get out of this debt." Zhou Yun Sheng also accepted the CCTV interview and spread out the loan receipt under the camera.
In fact, the program had set up a trap. They broadcasted Meng Wan's testimony on the first episode, so the audience could sympathize with her, then left Zhou Yun Sheng and the red skirt woman's confessions for the second episode.
Compared to Zhou Yun Sheng's rationality, the red skirt woman was almost crazy, hysterical. She cried bitterly as she cursed Meng Wan, calling Meng Wan a bitch, she clearly told her that it would be an act, yet she called in two men to rape her after Zhou Yun Sheng fell unconscious from the drugs, simply an immoral beast.
The reporter also interviewed related parties, including visiting Meng Wan's hometown. Meng Wan's sister had finished her bone marrow transplant, and her recovery was currently going well. It was inconvenient for Fang Zhifei to personally look after her, so a few nurses were hired to take care of her. In the absence of a guardian, the reporters couldn't interview the sister, so they interviewed the neighbors.
"I never thought Meng Wan would do such a thing. She usually looks so gentle and refined, and so soft-spoken."
"Did Zhou Yun Sheng nag her? No here at least, I've never seen him come by. Plus her boyfriend visits her every day, the two of them are inseparable."
"I heard that she spent 800,000 for her sister's treatment and surgery, we all thought she wouldn't be able to recover financially for a long time. But guess what she does a few days before her sister's discharge? She buys a BMW X5 to go welcome her! How lavish!"
"Yes it's true. I also heard that she provided her boyfriend's venture capital. Because of that, their feelings became especially deep, they couldn't get off each other! They didn't even care if people were watching! At that time I thought, isn't she an orphan, fresh into the workforce? Where is she getting all this money? Turns out she borrowed it all from someone. That man was so easy-going that he casually gave her 3 million. Poor sap."
From the neighbors' words, you could slowly put together an image of a poisonous woman scamming money from an admirer to subsidize her family and boyfriend, then when the admirer was no longer exploitable, she designed a trap to frame him.
The reporters bid farewell to the neighbors, then interviewed a few of Meng Wan's colleagues.
"I've never seen Chief Zhou make things difficult for her at the company, at most, he put her in charge of sending up the weekly R & D report. But he also had to call, like, 4 times before she did it. It was as if she was the boss, and Chief Zhou was the employee."
"Yup, but every time she went in, she come out in a minute or two, and she always slammed the door hard enough to shake the foundation. I starting thinking maybe Chief Zhou owed her a few millions, turns out she's the one who owes Chief Zhou a few millions. Nowadays, even the creditors have it bad ah."
"Chief Zhou regularly invited her out, but out of 10 times she rejected him 11, and Chief Zhou always just shook his head and left, inviting her out again the next time. I've never seen him make things difficult for her, heck I've seen the opposite. Even though she's a fresh college graduate, Chief Zhou transferred her to the R & D department to manage the art design, with an annual salary of 300,000. Chief Zhou obviously took care of her, I really don't understand why she hurt him."
The colleagues had already resigned, there was no need to tell lies to please the boss. And all these things were common gossip in the company, casually ask anyone and they would tell you.
The reporter that was in charge of Meng Wan's interview originally felt very sympathetic of her, but they already hated her by the end of the second episode.
After this episode aired, the voices that were abusing Zhou Yun Sheng completely disappeared, and Meng Wan gained a new title in the public's hearts – The Black Widow. Refusing to pay back borrowed money, jumping jobs and trying to topple her old boss. Finally, in order to set up a badger game, she ruined a woman's life. What kind of human was capable of that? Even a dog knew how to be grateful. She was even less than a dog.
The halo that had once shrouded Meng Wan's head instantly shattered.