Hua Xing Trading.
In the office.
The absentee boss, Li Changfeng, was reviewing Chen Yino's resume, looking for a suitable promotion position for her.
Suddenly.
The phone rang.
"Has the car been sent for inspection?" Li Changfeng asked after seeing the caller ID.
"Li Zong, something's happened!" The person on the other end hesitated awkwardly.
"Wham!"
Li Changfeng jumped up from his chair, his face changed drastically. "What did you say? Something happened?"
"Li Zong, the brakes failed, and we collided with a taxi that switched lanes without signaling, then rear-ended a few private cars. We're now waiting for the police on the Huannan Expressway!" The person on the other end spoke nervously.
Upon hearing this, Li Changfeng felt like he had been struck by a bolt of lightning!
The words that Ye Chen had spoken earlier at the Champs-Élysées rushed through his mind in waves.
"Li Zong? Li Zong?"
Not hearing a response from Li Changfeng, the other person sounded even more panicked.
"How are the people? Is everyone alright?" Li Changfeng quickly asked, regaining his composure.
"Li Zong, everyone's fine. I bumped my head with Xiao Wang, but it's not serious. The taxi that switched lanes without signaling had no passengers, and the airbag deployed to protect the driver, so he's fine. As for the private cars, they were just hit; no one was injured," the person on the other end explained.
"What was the speed you were driving?" Li Changfeng pressed on.
"Li... Li Zong!"
The person hesitated but eventually admitted, "Li Zong, it's thanks to Xiao Wang. You told me to drive slowly, but I thought the new car wouldn't have any problems, so I sped up to 100 on the Huannan Expressway. Later, when Xiao Wang kept reminding me, I slowed down to 60. That's when the taxi suddenly switched lanes without signaling, and when I slammed on the brakes, they failed to respond!"
In the office.
Li Changfeng's back was already soaked with cold sweat.
The Huannan Expressway was a road he traveled every day.
It was frequently congested with large trucks.
And on that road, he almost never drove below 100 km/h.
If it weren't for Ye Chen's reminder, if Zhang Jingshan hadn't trusted Ye Chen's strange warning and dragged him into the Porsche,
He would definitely have been driving his Ferrari home.
If there hadn't been any traffic, he would have driven as usual at over 100 km/h.
At that speed, with trucks often on the road, what would it mean if the brakes failed?
Li Changfeng couldn't bear to imagine it!
"Li Zong, Li Zong?"
Not hearing a response, the person at the scene of the accident grew increasingly frantic.
"Thank God everyone's okay. Don't panic. Everything else is fine. Stay put, I'll be right over to handle it!" Li Changfeng quickly replied, pulling himself together.
"Okay, okay, thank you, Li Zong! Thank you, Li Zong!" The other person, who had been expecting a reprimand, sounded nearly tearful with gratitude.
Although the brake failure wasn't his fault,
It was a two to three million yuan car, and it had been damaged like this—how could he not panic?
In the office.
Li Changfeng slumped back into his chair.
The feeling of dread was like being pulled back from the brink of death.
After swallowing and exhaling a long breath, he picked up his phone and dialed Zhang Jingshan.
"Old Zhang, what's going on?" Zhang Jingshan's voice came through the phone.
"Come to the building downstairs, we're going to the Huannan Expressway!" Li Changfeng said urgently.
"What's going on?" Zhang Jingshan felt his heart sink.
"My Ferrari had an accident. I sent it for inspection, and the brakes failed, causing a rear-end collision!"
"What? Ye Chen's prediction came true? Is the situation serious?"
"Fortunately, I told them to drive slowly. They said the speed was 60 when the collision happened. No one's badly hurt! Get over here quickly!" Li Changfeng replied.
"Okay, okay, I'm coming right now!" Zhang Jingshan responded.
The call ended.
Although inexperienced, Li Changfeng still felt like he had survived a close call, his mouth dry as he murmured to himself.
"First, I had a gut feeling that Old Zhang would be trapped, and now I had a gut feeling my car would have an accident..."
"Just two hours later, it came true..."
"Ye Chen... Mr. Ye... Who exactly are you? A half-sage? A prophet?"
"This time, it's not a favor I owe. It's my life!"
...
In the rental apartment.
Back from the Champs-Élysées, Ye Chen had no idea that the warning he gave Li Changfeng had already come true.
After taking a shower, he sat on the sofa, smoking, and contemplating his future plans.
Unfortunately, in his past life, he had no interest in the lottery, even in his gambling days, he never bought lottery tickets.
If he had, with his past life's memory, he could have become a billionaire just from buying lottery tickets, assuming there was no foul play in the lottery center, and he could continuously drain the prize pool.
That being said, Ye Chen knew that relying on the lottery would not work, and he never intended to create his financial empire that way.
Yes, that's right.
In this life, Ye Chen not only had to repair his relationship with his wife, Chen Yino, and make up for the harm he caused her, but he also had to build a business empire to provide his wife and daughter with a life of glory!
In his past life, his wealth had reached 400 billion when he passed away.
But in this life, 400 billion would not be enough to satisfy him.
Relying on his knowledge of the next sixty years, if he couldn't multiply that figure by more than ten times, then his life would have been wasted!
However, building his business empire wasn't urgent right now. What mattered most was how to change his wife, Chen Yino's, perception of him and erase the wounds he left on her.
After finishing a few cigarettes, he left for the computer specialty store in the mall.
He spent the remaining 30,000 yuan on two brand-new high-performance computers.
One was for Yino, since last month, he had secretly sold her old computer.
The other was for himself, to search for information for his next step: developing a magical ointment!
An ointment that could quickly fade scars and skin pigmentation!
In his past life, this was the key to Ye Chen becoming a super-rich billionaire.
It was the creation of this unique ointment, which became globally sought after, that allowed him to accumulate vast wealth and expand into various industries, all while choosing not to go public, retaining 400 billion in personal assets.
But at the moment, Ye Chen hadn't planned that far ahead. What he cared about now was getting the ointment ready to remove the scars he had left on his wife!
In the rental apartment.
Based on his memory of the ointment's formula, Ye Chen typed quickly on the computer, searching for where to purchase the necessary ingredients.
After all, the ointment hadn't appeared in his previous life until he was almost forty.
Now, ten years ahead of time, it was impossible to buy the ingredients through his old channels.
He could only search online and inquire one by one.