Chapter 25

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Chapter 25 Stars On The Sky(25)

They drove all the way to the villas in the suburbs through the long avenue of trees. Looking ahead, they saw the villas were all the same and can’t distinguish them. This time the benefits of Punctuation Map had shown. The Gaos’ location was previously marked on the map, and the navigation led all the way to the Gaos’ garage.

“Punctuation Map is obviously better to use.” Zhai Chen tried to praise his boss’s products.

But flattery was time-sensitive. They had driven the car for a long time, and it was useless to flatter his boss at this moment. Gao Yusheng ignored his flattering words, and got off the car after putting away his speeches.

The gloved and bow-tied butler came out to greet him, kept his standard British smile and bowed slightly over his shoulder in a detached, polite way: “Welcome home.”

Zhai Chen organized his hair to ensure his hairstyle, and went into the house without saying a word.

The living room was five meters high with decoration of luxurious velvet sofa of European court. At the seat back of the highest single sofa, his father Gao Zhenze, who was middle-aged, sat there with his pajamas.

Zhai Chen had seen this man’s photo

on the Internet, who was no different from the real person. The upper half of his face was kind, with deep crow’s feet around his eyes, which was a result of a perennial smile. The lower half of his face was drooping at the corners of the mouth, and two lines of law were drawn out on either side of his nose, which were caused by the frequent blanching of his face. This contradictory combination of faces made him look divided when he was expressionless.

“You take your bodyguard back home,” Gao’s father said, throwing aside the newspaper and scanning them sharply. “Is your home a dangerous place?”

Gao Yusheng sat down on a single sofa farthest from his father’s. “I can’t explain it if you want to think this way.”

Zhai Chen immediately put on his sunglasses to stand beside, with his hands put behind and two legs differential. This was a posture of standard bodyguard. Today’s dressing was not in vain because Gao’s father recognized Zhai Chen was a bodyguard.

“Sheng sheng, how can you talk to your father like this?” The woman in the red dress came down from the upstairs, who was aged with a strange voice. Zhai Chen can’t see clearly through the sunglasses, but it was obviously not the mother of Gao Yusheng but the current wife of Gao’s father. She was the stepmother of Gao Yusheng.

“Auntie, is Gao Mudi back yet?” Gao Yusheng looked at her calmly.

The stepmother, who was wearing high heels, almost sprained her foot and shook it to stand still. Gao’s father looked at her by such a reminder: “Where is he?”

“He had gone to Europe and ordered the ticket yesterday night to fly back. But I think it’s because the flight delay that he didn’t come back on time.” The stepmother smiled and explained, walking quickly and sitting beside Gao’s father.

“I told him to come back today, and he booked last night’s flight, didn’t he?” Gao Zhenze pulled down the corners of the mouth to say slowly, and looked at his wife. He stopped looking at her until the stepmother became anxious

“This child doesn’t have a time concept. After he comes back, I will certainly give him a lesson.” The stepmother turned to see Gao Yusheng and dare not say anything.

Her son Gao Mudi was 19 years old this year, who was a thorough dude without her sister’s smartness and Gao’s talent. He was obsessed with car and girls every day, therefore his father didn’t like him very much. The stepmother wanted to explain this reason after the atmosphere became better, but didn’t expect Gao Yusheng to reveal him immediately.

“Well,” the elder sister Gao Wenzheng, who just entered the room and heard this, could not help snorting, “I have already said taking away his pocket money is the only way to make him abandon all the things.”

Before lunchtime, the family gathering had turned into a conversation in the sofa area. Zhai Chen stared admiringly at the back of Gao Yusheng’s head. This guy only said two sentences after entering the room, and successfully provoked the other three people in the room. He was drinking tea with relaxation.

“I heard Jinnan Capital refused to invest for you?” Miss Gao took off her gloves and put them aside, pulling the conversation back. There was no schadenfreude in the tone but just a statement of fact.

Gao Yusheng said: “All the people in China knew this news.”

“…” Miss Gao can’t take this sentence and was driven angry by his tone.

Punctuation map had always been free, which was supported by investors’ money and advertising. The new project “finding the point” was a bonanza, but it was the cornerstone of the following commercial project. So “finding the point” must be still in operation although it may cost a lot of money. Now the Jinnan Capital had withdrawn their investment and the commercial program won’t be able to be carried out. All the money putting in the “finding the point” project was wasted.

If Gao can’t find the right investors in a short period of time, he will face the situation of falling into debt or selling his company at a low price. But this man was not worried at all at this point!

“I’ll give you two hundred million,” Gao’s father said suddenly, startling the two women beside him. “You incorporate your company into Jiu Yi and come back home to work.”

“Old Gao, will the board agree to buy a unprofitable company with 200 million yuan?” The stepmother tried to dissuade.

Gao Wenzheng sat up straight, wanted to say something and suddenly stopped.

“You can only buy part of the equity of my company with 200 million. Not all of them.” Gao Yusheng looked at his father who was trying to take advantage of him in a patronising tone. “How many parts have you participated in this matter?”

This question came from nowhere but Gao’s father understood it clearly and burst into laughter, “I don’t have the time to involve in your company. If I really want you to fail, you won’t be able to run your company at the very beginning.”

“Good. I’ll take care of it myself.” After that, Gao Yusheng stood up, trimmed his sleeves and prepared to leave.

“Solve it? How are you going to solve it?” My sister sneered. “I just to remind you that Jinnan capital thought you didn’t have enough public relations skills. Because you even can’t solve such trivial matter. If they really help your company to be listed, your company will be delisted after three months. Only our father will help you according to Punctuation’s current situation.

The stepmother, who did not understand this, tried to show her presence: “He is still young. It’s reasonable that he failed to solve it well. Gradually he will find the way to do it well. No one is born to be good at such things.”

Zhai Chen was mad with veins appearing in his forehead behind the sunglasses. The whole family was not friendly.

“I have business to deal with, and I shall go first.” Gao Yusheng did not continue to quarrel with them, gently touched Zhai Chen’s fists hanging in the side. The responsible bodyguard immediately took off the sunglasses, stepped behind him, and cut off the family’s eye knife.

They quickly left the villa area, and left Gao’s angry father throwing the cup on the ground.

Zhai Chen exhaled: “Your family is really complicated, which was just like a palace fight. If they all have bodyguards, they would have been fighting by now.”

“Not really,” Gao Yusheng said, and opened the window and took a deep breath. “If I had a better attitude, I would receive nice words, a hot meal and enough pocket money, but I have no feelings for them.”

“Where’s your mother?” Zhai Chen couldn’t help asking him.

“She’s gone.”

Gone? Zhai Chen frowned hard.

In the same day afternoon, the perspective weekend broadcast a new episode of program, which was an interview of Li Ting’s parents. They were the heated topic recently. The viewers had grown tired of watching the couple, and were not interested in the show at first. After about an hour, the social networking site exploded.

[Go to see today’s perspective weekend, there is turning point about the white collar’s jumping matter! Watch it from 7 minutes 30 seconds, go!]

Seven minutes and 30 seconds, the host: “I heard she still has a brother? Li Ting sent most of her salary home every month. How can you live without her?”

“Yeah, her brother has just started college, and we haven’t even collected enough tuition yet. Both his father and I have been laid off. Our whole family is counting on Li Ting’s salary every month to live.” Li Ting’s mother shed tears, and did not deny the host’s words.

“Her younger brother got admitted to S city and had a good academic performance. If he can find a job in S city, you can count on your son to live a good life.”

“No. the housing price is so high in S city and we can’t afford a house in that city.”

[Fumiko: Their daughter sent most of the salary home and the housing price is high in S city. I kinda understand it.]

[Sue: It’s a story of raising a family counting on the daughter, and extorted money to buy a house for son on the excuse of her daughter’s death.

[Cute guy: Wow, it’s already 8012 years, and there are such parents!]

The interview was instructive, making them accidentally tell the truth: they wanted to claim more money to buy a house for their son. Son preference is a more sensitive topic than the sudden death of white-collar workers. Therefore the audience’s attention was transferred suddenly.

In that evening, the police released a notice:

[Notice: The case of a female worker falling off building on 8th, July, is done by others instead of suicide. One main criminal has been arrested, and the case is under investigation.]

In the network thinking world, the rubbish parents who favor boys over girls certainly can’t do anything good. Now it has been officially proved that the death of the female white-collar worker was a homicide, which was nothing to do with the Punctuation company.

Then on Sunday, Gao Yusheng’s advertisement was broadcasted.

The young and handsome CEO with outstanding temperament, who sat in the spotlight and talked eloquently, instantly attracted the attention of countless female audiences.

“Is the company’s atmosphere relaxing?” The host asked questions with a sense of purpose.

“I cannot say yes or no absolutely. The innovation sector requires a relatively relaxing environment and flexible working system, which was given full freedom. As for functional departments, they should be punctual and efficient. I don’t approve of overtime working. The employees should do work at the right time and the company also needs to pay for electricity.” His rigorous and humorous speech with his young dressing made the audience have a positive attitude towards the company,

[God, Mr. Gao is so handsome! How could he be so handsome! I declare Gao Yusheng is my new idol now!]

[What a good company and what a good boss! Now I will download the Punctuation map again.]

[love dear +1, download back +1]

Zhai Chen watched these news at home one after another, and felt dizzy. Gao Yusheng pretended to be bullied by the program group. He had clearly discusses with the program in advance, digging a hole for Li Ting’s parents to jump in. Then they filled up the sands in the hole so that Li Ting’s parents will never find his company troubles.

Zhai Chen kicked Fang Chuyang with his feet, “Why did the police station have such a coincidence with the TV program?”

“A helpful citizen provided a major clue and didn’t require any rewards. He only has one request-releasing the notion as soon as possible. Originally the government has asked us to solve the case to comfort the public. So we agreed his request.”

On Monday, Punctuation map released an indictment.

The sued competitor was the Cloud Road Map adopting unfair competition. The Cloud Road map paid Li Ting’s parents to smear Punctuation, and hired a large number of water army, resulting in a calculable loss of 200 million yuan in Punctuation Map. The non-calculable loss included the lost users, malicious ratings on application platform, loss of reputation and so on.

And Jinnan’s decision to withdraw their investment was the solid evidence for the actual loss of 200 million yuan.

The author has something to say:

The tiny scene:

Gao: I am weak, helpless, and pitiful QAQ

Brother Chen: I do not believe you.

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