New to Yingzhi Group

The next morning.

When Liu Di woke up, the notifications on his phone had exploded again.

The video for "The Future is Promising" had spread overnight.

200 million views!

Over 100 million likes!

50 million comments!

110 million followers!

The Emperor Yi account had become the biggest internet sensation on the entire web overnight, ranking first in every metric!

Countless invitations, recruitment offers, and business partnerships flooded Liu Di's private messages!

He could not possibly read them all!

Online, the top seven trending topics were all related to the video!

"Voice of heaven: Emperor Yi's 'The Future is Promising'!"

"Nationwide guessing game: Who exactly is Emperor Yi?"

"Chart-topping divine song: 'The Future is Promising'!"

"Made everyone cry: 500 million netizens stayed awake all night!"

"Music platform giant offers 80 million for the copyright to 'The Future is Promising'!"

"Ten thousand people petition: Begging Emperor Yi to release more work!"

"Rumor has it Emperor Yi is blind. God closed his window but opened the door to his singing talent!"

Even more absurdly, quite a few people publicly claimed overnight that they were Emperor Yi!

Singer God Li Ming: I'll come clean. I only wanted to quietly sing a song, but I never expected you all to find out!

Performing Artist Sun Xiang: It was me! I devoted two years to studying singing, and this is my first work for everyone!

Liu Di merely smiled when he saw those posts.

Not only had it been an unintended stroke of luck, he had no intention of doing it again!

He got up, washed up, and went for his morning run!

At exactly 6:00 a.m., Liu Di left the house.

He ran along the mountain road, stretching his limbs as he went!

An hour later.

Yan Qingwen stood before the gates of Yan Family Manor.

Her face was full of anger.

Tie Si, the Man in Black beside her, bowed and said, "Third Miss, I've knocked on Mr. Liu Di's door twice already. He's probably still asleep. Why not let Old Li drive you today?"

"No. It has to be him! He volunteered to be my driver, so he does not get to sleep in!"

Yan Qingwen crossed her arms and frowned. "Tie Si, go keep knocking until you wake him up."

Suddenly.

In the morning sunlight, a tall figure slowly ran back up from the foot of the mountain.

He had a sturdy build and light footsteps. Each breath he took was calm and steady.

"Hm?"

Yan Qingwen narrowed her beautiful eyes. "Is that him? He actually went running?"

Liu Di slowly ran up to them, a bag of soup dumplings in his hand. "Morning, Third Miss."

"You got up so early? You don't sleep in?"

Yan Qingwen was somewhat surprised.

With Liu Di's idle, lazy appearance, she had assumed he was a complete slacker.

"I get up at 5:30 every day and go out to exercise. I've kept it up for ten years!"

"I left at six as usual today, ran a lap around the foot of the mountain, and look, there are some left. Want any?"

Liu Di stretched as he offered her the dumplings.

Yan Qingwen suddenly felt a little embarrassed!

She truly had not expected Liu Di to be so diligent!

To be this disciplined every day—he really was a role model for young people!

When she got up at six, it was practically torture!

Then Yan Qingwen's pupils contracted as she caught sight of the packaging in Liu Di's hand—Liufuji Soup Dumplings.

This...

The Liufuji shop was on the street at the foot of the mountain, a full twenty kilometers from here!

"Liu Di, you bought dumplings? That place is twenty kilometers away!"

"You did that in an hour? A normal person needs thirty minutes just to run five kilometers!"

Yan Qingwen instantly sensed that something was off.

"Less than an hour, actually. I even took some time to eat seven baskets of dumplings down there," Liu Di said casually.

"That's even more impossible! Liu Di, is a morning run really worth showing off over?!"

Yan Qingwen finally understood, and her expression turned utterly helpless!

Yet Tie Si beside her narrowed his eyes. Through his earpiece, Tie Shi and the others were reporting that Liu Di had indeed run twenty kilometers round trip in one hour!

The Tie Family Brothers had witnessed it firsthand!

He was fast as the wind, sprinting at full speed the entire way!

The Tie Family experts were all ashamed of themselves!

Tie Si's expression remained calm, but he was deeply shocked!

Having fought through countless battles and endured innumerable harsh training programs, Tie Si naturally understood!

Even among hell-level special forces, Liu Di's speed would be monstrously exceptional!

"Mr. Liu Di, I admire your stamina."

"Heh, you flatter me. Are we leaving? Wait for me a moment. I'll take a shower and change clothes!"

With that, Liu Di turned and left!

"What?"

"What kind of driver are you?!"

"And you too, Tie Si! Why did you give Liu Di an excuse to leave?"

Yan Qingwen, who had only just developed a faintly favorable impression of Liu Di yesterday, was furious again.

Unseen by anyone, Tie Si, the Man in Black, watched Liu Di's retreating figure with a sharp glint in his eyes!

On the way to work, inside the Rolls-Royce.

Yan Qingwen wore earphones, her expression carrying an indescribable look of yearning.

She was listening to "The Future is Promising," the song that had swept the entire internet overnight!

She looked at the silhouette in the video, then at Liu Di's back in the driver's seat.

Both were tall and slender, both wore white shirts.

Their builds were even somewhat alike.

Why was the difference so enormous?

What kind of person could sing this song so beautifully?

This Emperor Yi must have experienced many stories.

Only someone like that could write such lyrics and sing with such emotion!

As for this Liu Di.

He was sarcastic every day, like some petty street punk!

Not a word out of his mouth was true!

Compared with Emperor Yi, he was a hundred thousand miles behind!

Yan Qingwen tapped on the privacy glass and held her phone toward Liu Di. "Play this song!"

Liu Di froze for a moment.

Then he smiled helplessly and complied without a word.

It had to be said.

Played through the Rolls-Royce's top-tier sound system, "The Future is Promising" sounded even better!

It was like music from paradise!

All the way there, Yan Qingwen kept replaying the same song until they reached Yingzhi Group headquarters!

After getting out of the car.

Liu Di strolled leisurely behind Yan Qingwen.

Yingzhi Group truly was absurdly wealthy.

The reception hall on the first floor alone had a ceiling ten meters high, making it immensely grand!

But what puzzled Liu Di was this.

A massive screen hung from the ceiling of the lobby, with scrolling text appearing on it from time to time—the Yingzhi Sales Heavenly Ranking.

Yan Qingwen's name was even on it. Her monthly sales were 87 million, placing her fourth!

"What's going on here? Even the chairman's daughter has to compete in sales?"

Liu Di asked with a teasing smile.

Yan Qingwen pressed her lips together. "It's the company culture. Everyone is a salesperson. No matter who you are, you have to create value for the group. I'm no exception."

"Tsk, tsk."

Liu Di was still somewhat impressed. For Yingzhi Group to have reached its current standing, it really did have something extraordinary!

"That's not bad. Fourth in the entire group?"

Yan Qingwen frowned, seeming somewhat unwilling to accept it. "That would be a good result for someone else, but for me, it's far from enough!"

For some reason.

The moment Yan Qingwen stepped into Yingzhi Group, she suddenly became decisive and stern, no longer smiling casually.

It was as though she carried immense pressure on her shoulders.

Her expression remained grave the entire time.

Liu Di joked, "Then that makes me an employee of Yingzhi Group too, right? Does that mean I can expand the business and make a run for the Sales Heavenly Ranking?"

"You?"

Yan Qingwen replied weakly, "You should get more rest."