When Old Master Cheng heard Cheng Huanzhen’s words, he almost couldn’t catch his breath for a moment.

Listen, listen to what kind of words these were!

What did “if you don’t agree, I will learn from Second Uncle’s approach and leave the Cheng family” mean? What did “fallen in love with a man” mean? What did…

Wasn’t this threatening him?

This was clearly threatening him!!

Old Master Cheng was furious. His rage shot up to his head; he slammed his palm on the table and stood up abruptly.

He pointed at Cheng Huanzhen and cursed loudly: “Yesterday I told you to go back and calm down! Good for you, after a whole day, what exactly has calmed down in your brain?!”

“And ‘if I agree,’ ‘if I don’t agree’? What, just because I gave you a little power in the past two years, you think you’re hot stuff?! Do you really think you’re the head of the Cheng family now?!”

Old Master Cheng exploded with anger: “And you want to start a family with a man?! I raised you from childhood, how did I never know you were gay! Confess honestly, where did this vixen of a man come from? How could he deceive you so thoroughly in such a short time?!”

“How much money has he cheated you out of? I tell you, our Cheng family never produces fools. The last fool has already pissed off. If you want to follow in his footsteps, fine, go ahead! Do you really think the Cheng family can’t function without you?!”

Cheng Huanzhen stood up expressionlessly.

He said: “I have already tried to persuade you. Actually, I didn’t plan to persuade you from the beginning; he asked me to come. Moreover, he didn’t cheat me out of my money. If we’re talking about giving him money, you’ve given him much more than I have.”

Old Master Cheng: “?”

Old Master Cheng was dizzy with anger, looking all over the reception room for a stick.

Old Master Cheng: “Does this kind of flirtatious vixen even deserve to know me?! Come on, tell me, what kind of guy is this? What ability does he have that even I would give him money?! If you can’t say it, today either my stick will hit you, or you get the hell out of the Cheng family yourself!”

Cheng Huanzhen didn’t retreat a step, remaining expressionless.

He said: “The person I like is named Lin Chen, the Lin Chen who played the role of Little Uncle back then. As far as I know, you transferred a total of one hundred million to him.”

“…”

Time in the reception room suddenly froze strangely.

Old Master Cheng had just grabbed a stick, holding it in his hand, about to stand up. But as soon as Cheng Huanzhen said this, his whole body froze. He had only straightened up halfway, his back still bent.

He stood rooted to the spot, his eyes widening slightly in disbelief. The anger that was originally rushing to his head was stuck in his chest, neither going up nor down, making his expression look very comical.

Time remained silent like this for five seconds.

Old Master Cheng finally recovered slightly from this shocking name.

His face twisted extremely, and he threw the stick onto the ground, making a heavy “Bang!”

He pointed outside the door, shouting with almost all his anger: “Get out! …Get out right now!”

Cheng Huanzhen turned his head and left!

There was no moon tonight.

Layers of dark clouds covered the entire starry sky.

The chilly night wind blew on Cheng Huanzhen’s face, slightly soothing the anger provoked by his grandfather over the past two days.

Cheng Huanzhen thought to himself, trying to persuade his grandfather was indeed a waste of time.

With this time, he might as well spend more time with Little Uncle.

He wondered how Little Uncle’s work was going now?

Cheng Huanzhen sat in the car and lowered his head to send a message to Little Uncle.

Sending messages to Little Uncle was always full of anticipation.

Because he never knew when Little Uncle would reply to his message. Maybe in the next second, maybe ten minutes later, or maybe an hour or half a day later.

But no matter how long, waiting for Little Uncle’s reply was always something full of anticipation.

Little Uncle didn’t reply, seemingly not finished yet.

Cheng Huanzhen didn’t take it to heart. He asked the driver to take him to Little Uncle’s villa, which was indeed empty as expected.

Little Uncle wasn’t there, and Cheng Huanzhen didn’t know if he needed to manage the company’s affairs.

He simply busied himself with his own matters—over the years, to raise funds for eloping, he had saved tens of millions in his hidden account through various means.

Now that Grandfather wouldn’t allow him to be with Little Uncle, it was time to use this fund.

Cheng Huanzhen busied himself like this for the whole night.

It wasn’t until the night deepened that he looked up from his work.

He checked his phone messages immediately and found that Little Uncle still hadn’t replied.

…It was already one o’clock!

Cheng Huanzhen frowned.

Staring at the solitary message in the chat box, he couldn’t help but make a voice call to Lin Chen.

Little Uncle wasn’t playing a role in someone else’s family right now.

If Little Uncle was busy, he could directly hang up and explain a sentence or two to him.

That would also reassure him.

However.

Beep—beep—beep—

Click.

The call automatically hung up.

No one answered.

Cheng Huanzhen’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Bad memories flooded his mind. He immediately put down everything in his hands and started making video calls and phone calls to Little Uncle over and over again.

Repeatedly, one after another, no one answered. He even called Wen Siheng’s WeChat and phone dozens of times.

But, no answer, no answer, no one answered!

There wasn’t even anyone to hang up the call!

Cheng Huanzhen’s face looked extremely ugly.

He immediately couldn’t sit still anymore. At one or two in the morning, three consecutive calls went directly to his grandfather’s mobile phone!

Old Master Cheng picked up his call on the third ring.

His tone was furious, murderous: “Cheng! Huan! Zhen! What is wrong with you?! Don’t you know what time it is? If you want to apologize for tonight, I tell you, no way!”

Of course, Cheng Huanzhen wasn’t there to apologize.

He tried his best to keep his tone calm, but the end of his words trembled slightly uncontrollably.

He said: “Grandfather, I can’t contact Lin Chen anymore. Did you do it? It must be you, right? Tell me quickly, you hid him!!”

…

Lin Chen opened his eyes in a daze.

The first thing that caught his eye was a huge floor-to-ceiling window.

Outside the window, the sun was shining brightly, almost taking in half the city.

A figure was reflected vaguely on the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window.

This figure was extremely familiar. The hair was shoulder-length, slightly curly, and the color was a very natural dark brown, close to black, that he had specially selected from the system’s color library.

The red scarf around his neck was a gift from Cheng Huanzhen, saying the color was close to strawberries, guessing he would like it. Lin Chen had no preference for scarves before, but since Cheng Huanzhen said so and gave it, he couldn’t help but be partial to this scarf.

From the attire to the clothes, and then to the “age” between his eyebrows.

This… was the body of the “Lin Chen” version.

His confused mind slowly became clear.

Memories before his vision distorted gradually returned.

Along with the revival of memories, a fierce anger rushed up in his chest!

His five years of struggle!

His ten-digit savings!

He promised Cheng Huanzhen he would go back tonight!

…A, C, 9, 9, 9, 9!!!

His ten fingers clenched into fists, making cracking sounds.

Lin Chen took a deep breath and barely suppressed this anger.

The priority now was not to get angry.

Lin Chen turned around expressionlessly. The familiar yet strange office layout made him wonder for a moment whose office he had ended up in.

He walked forward slowly, his fingertips landing on the solid wood desktop.

The desktop was messily covered with documents. The nameplate standing on the table bore a very unfamiliar name—”Wang Yuan”.

Lin Chen coldly scanned everything on the desk.

All the items were unfamiliar.

But on the lower-left corner of the solid wood table, two scratches forming an “X” shape were so familiar.

…This was his desk.

Or rather, his former desk?

Lin Chen frowned slightly, casually took off his scarf and coat, and habitually draped them over the back of the chair.

The documents scattered on the table were both familiar and strange. Lin Chen couldn’t help but flip through them roughly. The anger he had just suppressed shot up again instantly!

…How many all-nighters did he pull before transmigrating into the book to handle those tough clients and finally push the three big projects to the door of victory? How come… the progress has f**king returned to pre-liberation overnight?!!

Just then, outside the terrible soundproofing, angry footsteps approached heavily from afar. After stopping at a certain position, a chair was pulled out harshly and violently. That person sat heavily on the chair.

After three seconds of silence, someone suddenly asked: “Brother Li, how did it go?”

The person called “Brother Li” scolded angrily: “How could it go? Still the same shitty situation! As soon as they heard our names, their tone changed completely. Mentioning the project, they said they had already signed a contract with the Huasheng Group next door!”

“? But didn’t Director Wang say he had already…”

“Already my ass! That Wang Yuan is full of shit. How many things he said can actually be done? Damn it, if our Director Lin were still here, what would Huasheng Group amount to?! …F**k, in my opinion, Wang Yuan is just all talk. All day long he only knows how to brag. Count the actual things he’s done? Heh, he just brags about the performance Director Lin achieved before disappearing every day!”

“…Brother Li, calm down… Sigh, but it is true. I’m not commenting on Director Wang’s ability, let’s just seek truth from facts. Look at our performance in the five months he’s been in position, and think about our performance when Director Lin was here… That’s simply heaven and earth!”

“What heaven and earth? I think that guy Wang Yuan is just a pile of s**t…”

“Hey, Brother Li, everyone is listening, calm down!”

“Calm down my ass! Whenever I think about those three great projects becoming like this, I just… I just… Those were progress we made by working overtime with Director Lin! Now look, that idiot Wang Yuan inherited the golden start Director Lin created, but played it into such a rotten situation! …If it weren’t for Director Lin’s appreciation back then, and wanting to wait for the day Director Lin returns, I f**king would have quit on the first day that idiot Wang Yuan took office!”

These words naturally fell into Lin Chen’s ears.

Indescribable anger burned brighter and brighter. The concern of his former subordinates blew gently across his heart like a soft breeze…

Fanning the fire even bigger!

Lin Chen couldn’t bear it anymore. He grabbed the documents on the table and pushed open the office door heavily.

“Bang!”

“…Holy s**t! Isn’t he absent today?!”

The entire office area was instantly in chaos. Everyone swished back to their respective workstations, straightening their backs, shutting their mouths. After a full three seconds of silence, finally, the first person dared to quietly raise their eyes and look towards the office door.

However, with this look, the person froze.

“…Director, Director, Director… Director Lin?!!”

The latter part of the sentence screamed out, breaking through the throat.

Instantly, all the gazes that had just lowered looked up in disbelief with this address.

“Screech—”

“Bang! —Hiss!”

“Director, Director Lin?! A-Am I seeing things? Director Lin is back?!”

“…Missing person returns?! Brother, s-slap me, am I dreaming?!”

“Brother, Brother Lin! …OMG Brother Lin!! Y-You, you finally came back!!!”

The originally silent office area instantly boiled like a hot pot.

Only a few new young people who didn’t know Lin Chen looked around blankly in the crowd.

Lin Chen listened with veins popping on his forehead. He immediately rolled up the documents in his hand and smashed them heavily against the wall!

“Smack!”

“Quiet!”

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, his tone calm enough to make people’s scalps numb: “Talk about other things later. If I remember correctly, the three projects worth over 100 million—Lieyun, Lanqi, and Hongjing—were only one step away from being secured before I left. So, can anyone explain to me now why these three projects are almost being handed over to others?”

Silence.

Only the documents in Lin Chen’s hand smashed against the wall even harder: “Smack!!”

“Newcomers, do whatever you should be doing. I’m not talking about you,” Lin Chen said gently first.

Immediately after, he sneered: “But what about those who followed me before? If the new director doesn’t know better, do you also not know better? If the new director doesn’t know how to do things, do you also not know?!”

“Now, all key personnel of the three major projects—Lieyun, Lanqi, and Hongjing—drop everything in your hands, bring the key materials and documents of the projects, and meet in Conference Room 1101 in five minutes!”