Ma Ba Wan, Nai Cha Dong.
Would these people accept things given as gifts?
I can afford it myself, why would I use yours?
Business cooperation is called win-win for everyone.
Ye Yun couldn't possibly divide the cake without a purpose.
He wasn't a saint.
Just like the incident on Xiong'an County's pedestrian street, without Wang Meiling, based on Ye Yun's unfamiliarity with the place.
Could he have taken over the entire pedestrian street in three days?
Or, when the incident broke out, could he have sold the entire pedestrian street in a short time and cashed out?
Not to mention buying houses in Gaohai Village next and leveraging Hengda Group.
On the surface.
Ye Yun had enough funds and time to swallow this cake before Hengda Group made their move.
However!
Don't forget.
Would Hengda Group easily return the money?
After being profited from by billions for nothing, wouldn't the higher-ups at Hengda be resentful?
Wang Jialin Shiyou didn't get that money for free either; they had to bear the pressure at a critical moment.
In the end, it was the pride ingrained in the bones of Chinese people.
Reciprocity, not accepting charity.
"What's wrong with that, Brother Ye? How long have we known each other? At the antique auction, I swindled Li Zhaohui, that scoundrel, out of over twenty million. When I shorted Haixin, I earned over two hundred million. Not to mention, if it weren't for you, I would have likely spent ten to eight years in jail for raising peregrine falcons."
"Houses, cars, these are just small tokens of my appreciation," Lin Shiyou said earnestly.
"Enough! I said I don't want it, and I don't want it! Don't try to convince me!" Ye Yun extended his hand to refuse, his attitude exceptionally firm.
Seeing this, Lin Shiyou could only give up helplessly.
"Alright, Brother Ye, where are you planning to look for a house?"
"Yingtianfu," Ye Yun said casually.
Yingtianfu was a temporary transitional property he had chosen for now.
Of course, "transitional" didn't mean cheap.
A villa in Yingtianfu, fully furnished and paid for in full, would cost at least nine figures.
To view a house there, you needed to show proof of funds, possessing over eighty million in cash to qualify.
The reason it was called transitional was that, currently, Yingtianfu was the best neighborhood he had considered after careful deliberation.
Dual school districts, river views, detached, garden-style design.
However, despite Yingtianfu being good, it wasn't Ye Yun's ultimate choice.
What he truly desired was a piece of land that Jinling was about to release.
One-fourth of the area would be his private residence!
With advanced design concepts from the future, it would set a new trend in the real estate industry!
The remaining three-fourths would be used to build dozens of villas for appeasement.
"Yingtianfu, that place is nice. I have a house there too! Brother Ye, I'm free this afternoon, want me to tag along and join the fun?" Lin Shiyou, clearly not thinking that far, said absentmindedly.
"Alright, I haven't bought a car yet. I'll trouble you, Young Master Lin, to be my driver," Ye Yun said with a smile.
"It's my honor!" Lin Shiyou replied with a smile.
The two then headed towards the parking lot.
...
"Welcome to Yingtianfu."
As soon as they entered the sales office, a delicate voice like a skylark's greeted them.
However, upon seeing the saleswoman's face, Ye Yun was stunned.
Not only was he dumbfounded, but the person opposite him was also taken aback.
"Ye Yun?"
"Pan Shuying?"
They both blurted out in unison.
Pan Shuying, Li Mengyao's college roommate.
Ye Yun remembered this roommate so vividly precisely because her beauty was not much inferior to Li Mengyao's.
In his youthful days, one always paid attention to beautiful women.
However, for Li Mengyao, this roommate was merely an acquaintance.
Unlike Li Mengyao, who married early and was solely focused on being a good wife and mother.
Pan Shuying had always been scheming, wanting to rely on men to turn her life around.
Right in college, she found an older boyfriend.
That senior had won academic honors multiple times at their school, with his award-winning works being "My Principal Dad" and "My Bank Manager Mom."
Within half a month, they were deeply in love, often sneaking off into the woods.
In their second year of college, whether the senior was short on cash or had grown tired of her, they broke up.
Pan Shuying didn't stop there; she turned around and found a bald, middle-aged man with a Mediterranean hairline, becoming his mistress.
From then on, she received all sorts of designer luxury goods, to the point of softening her hands.
These were all things Li Mengyao told Ye Yun after they got together.
The last time Ye Yun saw Pan Shuying was on the day he and Li Mengyao got married, when Pan Shuying attended their simple wedding banquet.
After that, he had no further contact with Pan Shuying.
He never expected to see her again today at Yingtianfu.
He had to admit, this roommate of Li Mengyao's hadn't declined over the years; instead, she had become even more charming and alluring.
As Ye Yun was observing Pan Shuying, she was also sizing him up.
Wasn't her roommate, Li Mengyao, living a miserable life, and the part-time graduate student she was determined to marry had now become a drunkard and a gambler, owing a lot of high-interest loans?
How did he end up at the Yingtianfu sales office?
And, if she saw correctly just now.
Ye Yun seemed to have gotten out of a Rolls-Royce!
"Pan Shuying, long time no see."
Since they knew each other, Ye Yun smiled and greeted her.
"Long time no see, long time no see. The last time we met was six or seven years ago. I didn't expect you to still recognize me." Pan Shuying recovered.
"I should say I didn't expect *you* to recognize me," Ye Yun said with a smile.
"Huh? Brother Ye, you guys know each other?" the simple-minded Lin Shiyou asked the obvious.
"Li Mengyao's college roommate," Ye Yun explained with a smile.
"You haven't changed so much over the years, how could I not recognize you? This is still our spirited Teacher Ye from back then."
As if forgetting her status, Pan Shuying playfully stuck out her tongue.
She and Li Mengyao had majored in nursing in college, while Ye Yun was pursuing a bachelor's and master's degree at Jinling University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had been invited by their school's principal to give a few nursing lectures.
He was called Teacher Ye, but in reality, Ye Yun was only two or three years older than them at the time.
However, calling him that implicitly helped to establish a connection.
"You're as beautiful as you were then, no, I should say you're even more charming now," Ye Yun said with a smile.
"Teacher Ye's words are still so sweet. I really envy Mengyao for being able to land you. Many people at our school had deep regrets about that back then," Pan Shuying said with a chuckle.
The nursing school was famously a "nun's convent."
And Ye Yun, as a graduate student from a renowned university, came to lecture as an acting supervisor. He was confident and handsome.
He had captivated many girls at the time.
Even Pan Shuying herself admitted that she had a crush on Ye Yun back then.
But upon learning about Ye Yun's family background, she wisely cut her losses.
"Being able to marry Mengyao is my good fortune," Ye Yun said with a smile.
Tucking away a strand of hair that had fallen to her ear, Pan Shuying looked at Ye Yun and got to the point.
"Teacher Ye, are you here to look for a house today?"
"Yes, but with a familiar face like yours, I don't want to waste time. Do you have any move-in ready apartments? The kind I can buy today and move into tomorrow," Ye Yun said.
Hearing Ye Yun's words, Pan Shuying was dumbfounded.
Buy today, move in tomorrow?
This was a luxury residence in Yingtianfu, not cabbage from the roadside!