Feng Yongrui went to school as usual, and after school, he would go to Yin Longshen's company and accompany his brother as usual. Of course, when he was in school, Feng Yongrui did not forget to advertise his older brother's MMORPG, "Land of Avalon".
"Recently I downloaded that game, and it's really fun, you know!" Feng Yongrui told his friends.
Next to Feng Yongrui was a lean, well-built young boy wearing glasses. He was Deng Qiu, Feng Yongrui's childhood friend. When he was still in kindergarten, Feng Yongrui was close with two people: Yuan Hong and Deng Qiu.
When they entered first grade, Yuan Hong had been transferred into another school, whereas Feng Yongrui and Deng Qiu stayed together.
Now, both of them were 12 years old already. Deng Qiu had been a reticent child when he was young, but now, he was so talkative that sometimes Feng Yongrui couldn't stand it.
"You just downloaded 'Land of Avalon'?" Deng Qiu asked incredulously, his loud voice booming across the school cafeteria.
"Well..." Feng Yongrui hesitated.
"They launched it about three months ago~ When they first launched it, I looked at it for only two seconds, and I knew that it was going to be a big hit!" Deng Qiu cried.
Feng Yongrui rolled his eyes. Deng Qiu was really...
"Even before it was launched, I knew it would be a big hit!" Feng Yongrui grumbled inside his head.
"Host..."
"You don't need to comfort me. Tsk, Deng Qiu was pretty normal last time. Now, why did he become like this? It's like he's become a completely different person!" Feng Yongrui complained.
"I've tried that game as well," another boy chipped in. "It's really good. What's your character's level?"
"I'm in level 20," Deng Qiu replied.
The two boys continued chattering away, and Feng Yongrui slowly droned out their voices. His thoughts drifted back to the message he received two days ago.
Wang Li had contacted him, asking him for his bank account. Of course, Feng Yongrui gave him the bank account without any fear.
Wang Li had transferred $100,000 and told him that it was the deposit.
"I'll give you more once you do what I want you to," Wang Li had told him.
Wang Li had asked him for information regarding the CEO of XBH Company. Of course, Feng Yongrui had anticipated this. He had already prepared a document filled with Yin Longshen's information.
Of course, most of the information inside was fake. He had made a fake schedule, and he had attached fake pictures of Yin Longshen.
He had written Yin Longshen's name wrongly on purpose (the Yin was a different 'Yin' from the character 'Yin' from the Yin family) -- this way, Wang Li wouldn't know that Yin Longshen was from the powerful Yin family.
All this time, Yin Longshen had yet to announce that he was the founder and CEO of XBH Company. Other rival companies did not know his identity. Whenever they tried to track him down or find out other details about him, they would fail.
This was partly due to Yin Longshen's own influence and strength, partly due to Zhao Baozhai's help, and mostly due to [waiting_fire], the expert hacker.
Since other companies couldn't find out anything about Yin Longshen, Feng Yongrui was able to spout out lies and give false information to Wang Li without fear of being found out.
Feng Yongrui also added information about Yin Longshen's beloved younger brother, which was himself. Feng Yongrui made sure to emphasize that Yin Longshen treasured his younger brother a lot. Hopefully, this would make Wang Li make a move on him!
After sending the information to Wang Li, Feng Yongrui waited for the latter to respond. If possible, he wanted Wang Li to tell him when and how he was planning to hurt Yin Longshen.
This way, Feng Yongrui would be able to plan ahead, stop his brother from getting into the car accident, and making sure that the person who got hurt was himself.
However, Feng Yongrui was also afraid that Wang Li wouldn't tell him anything. If Wang Li didn't tell him... Then his only option would be to follow Wang Li in his ghost form.
Several days later, Feng Yongrui received a message from Wang Li, asking to meet up. Feng Yongrui agreed without hesitation. The two of them met inside the same bar as last time.
"You're sure that the CEO of the company will go to work and go home at the same time, right?" Wang Li went straight to the point.
"I'm sure. He always goes to work and goes home at around the same time," Feng Yongrui, no, "Xiao Xiong", looked at Wang Li nervously.
"Uhm... what are you... what are you planning to do...?" Xiao Xiong asked rather timidly.
"That's none of your business, right?" Wang Li raised an eyebrow.
"Don't forget. Now that you've met up with me, this means you're ready to work with me..." Wang Li said, narrowing his eyes.
"I... I can't just betray my company like this," Xiao Xiong said hesitantly.
"Betray? Oh, that's a strong word... This is no betrayal," Wang Li chuckled. He took a sip of his beer and set the glass down on the table with a thud.
"Xiao Xiong" flinched and looked at Wang Li with fearful eyes.
"You're not betraying anyone here. You're just helping me... After all, the Chen family head just wants to... 'get to know' the founder of XBH. You know, have a 'heart to heart' talk..." Wang Li drawled.
"You're not betraying your company... of course you're not. This is called helping," Wang Li chuckled.
"Of course, you should know what to say and what not to say..." Wang Li's eyes glinted dangerously.
"Now that you're here, this means you and I are on the same boat. I believe you should know what to do. You should also know what will happen to you if you offend the Chen family," he added.
"Y-yes... I understand," Xiao Xiong nodded weakly.
"Good. Next week, on Wednesday, you have to keep watch on Yin Longshen. If everything goes as planned, he'll leave his company at the same time as usual. Once you see him heading to his car, you have to inform me," Wang Li explained.
"As for the rest... you just leave them all to me," he added.
"You hate XBH Company because they're not paying you enough and they don't treat you well, right? Huh, after you help me with this, I'll make sure you get to enter 'Perduro'. Your salary will be twice the amount of what you get right now, and I'll make sure you get a higher position than before."
"Xiao Xiong" nodded his head eagerly, but then paused.
"Sir... Y-you're planning to make a move on Yin Longshen, not on his younger brother?" Feng Yongrui asked.
"Oh, that younger brother? Isn't he just a kid? He's not that important. Why should we make a move on him? It's better to target the real boss," Wang Li chuckled.
"Y-yes sir, I understand," Feng Yongrui shifted uncomfortably in his seat and took a sip of beer.
Initially, he assumed the Chen family would target him (Yin Yongrui). After all, the Chen family was known for their dirty deeds. If they wanted someone to listen to them, they wouldn't hesitate to threaten that person using his or her family.
Feng Yongrui had assumed that the Chen family would be the same this time; they would hurt Yin Longshen's younger brother as a warning, telling Yin Longshen not to mess with them and to know his place.
...But now, it seemed like they would still target Yin Longshen after all.
"System, is this because of... I don't know, the 'law of the world' or something like that?" Feng Yongrui asked.
"Host... what do you mean?"
"You know, I've read novels where each world has its own set of predestined fate. A world is like a clockwork filled with gears and numerous settings. If something were to change, everything else would be affected..." Feng Yongrui paused and took a deep breath.
"But I've heard that fate is persistent. No matter how much you try to change it, the world will force things back to its original state. For example, I planned so carefully so that the Chen family would target me. In the end, the one who is targeted is still Yin Longshen..."
"Isn't this something like the 'law of the world'?" Feng Yongrui asked.
"Host, this System doesn't know anything about 'law of the world' and whatnot. Anyway, Host. It doesn't matter, right? Even if the Chen family wants to target Yin Longshen, won't you stop them?" the System asked.
Well, that was, indeed true.
Feng Yongrui sighed and looked at the empty air in front of him. He had a lot of work to do. He would have to prepare everything, take into account any of the mishaps that might happen, and create countermeasures...
He couldn't let anything go wrong on that day! His fate, as well as Yin Longshen's, depended on this!
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