The Biggest Variable

Lu Chengwen paced back and forth across the open ground behind the villa, talking on the phone as he walked.

Leng Qingqiu smiled. "What have you been busy with lately, CEO Lu?"

"Doing what you told me to," Lu Chengwen said. "Playing the fool."

"Oh? How's the act going?"

"Not bad." Lu Chengwen said, "Now it's not just Long Aotian. Zhao Ritian has gotten involved too."

"I don't care about your martial world affairs. I only care about business," Leng Qingqiu said. "And when we're getting married." ??

Lu Chengwen laughed. "Do you know Li Yangyang?"

"I do. She was a top student at the National Development Business School and Pharaoh's personal disciple. She started in foreign trade, then later followed Chen Mengyun into finance. She's highly capable, incredibly seductive, and smart and competent. Also..."

"How so?"

Leng Qingqiu smiled. "She admires you."

"She admires me?"

"She was the first to support Chen Mengyun's full investment in the Chengwen District project. Back then, everyone in Xiangyun Group opposed it. She was the only one who supported it."

Lu Chengwen nodded. "Her foresight was even better than mine. I didn't even know things would turn out this way back then. Has Chen Ergou been settled in?"

"He doesn't want a position. He wants to keep farming. What price did you offer him to get the property rights to such a huge stretch of land?"

Lu Chengwen laughed. "Huo Wendong built him a pig farm. Huo Wendong rebuilt the roads in his village. Huo Wendong bought the village two harvesters and a seeder..."

"Huo Wendong paid for all of that? What did you contribute?"

"I made Huo Wendong pay for it."

Leng Qingqiu laughed, then turned serious. "I can smell danger coming from the provincial capital."

Lu Chengwen greatly admired her inwardly.