Magical Tacit Understanding

Chapter 39: A Remarkable Understanding

Glory Technology's astonishing move made Wang Yue, who had only recently become a father again, a sensation all over the internet once more. He became a National Idol, and his daughter, Little Princess Yuan Yuan, was unexpectedly exposed online too. The sudden change caught Wang Yue off guard.

After all, Wang Yue had spent nearly thirty years as a laid-back nobody, always keeping a low profile. The sudden attention made it very difficult for him to go out.

The exposure of Little Princess Yuan Yuan worried Wang Yue even more. He didn't know how to make sure she could grow up without a care in the world.

Unable to think of a solution, Wang Yue agreed to an interview with a media outlet and asked them to issue a warning to the outlets that had exposed Yuan Yuan.

They talked about a lot of things, most of them inconsequential. Wang Yue barely remembered what they'd discussed. The only thing that stuck with him was the reporter asking, "You achieved success at such a young age and acquired so much wealth. Why haven't you tried to enjoy it?"

Perhaps the reporter had simply asked out of curiosity, seeing how other young people owned luxury cars and mansions. But Wang Yue's absent-minded reply made the veteran reporter burst into laughter.

"Am I not enjoying myself already?" Wang Yue answered instinctively, probably without thinking it through. His simple, honest response only earned him even more of the reporter's admiration.

While Wang Yue was being interviewed, Zheng Wei, far away in Magic City, made a decision in the conference room at Weimei Design. She approved a public service project to renovate basements, an initiative that would cover the entire city.

Zheng Wei chose to carry out the project mainly to improve the brand's image and enhance Weimei Design's social influence. What she didn't know was that her decision would, to some extent, be interpreted as having been made with Wang Yue's support.

As Zheng Wei's boyfriend, Xu Kaiyang threw his full support behind the project, providing a large quantity of high-quality, low-cost building materials.

The media outlet that had interviewed Wang Yue also devoted a great deal of coverage to praising Weimei Design's core values. Yes, its corporate core values.

For a while, Wang Yue and all the companies under his name once again drew the attention of society and the adoration of the public.

Meanwhile, the central figures in the whole affair had gathered together. Zheng Wei had finally given in to Xu Kaiyang's persistent pleas and accepted his proposal.

"Wang Yue, what was it like being interviewed?" As soon as Zheng Wei saw Wang Yue and Ruan Wan arrive at his wedding with Little Yuan Yuan, she hurriedly asked about something she'd been curious about for ages. She even forgot about the wedding dress she was painting.

"Hmm. It was all a blur, like I was in a dream." Wang Yue sighed.

"The reporter's writing really is extraordinary!" Zheng Wei gazed at him with sparkling admiration.

"He was dazed the whole time because of Yuan Yuan being exposed. He didn't even know what he was saying!" Ruan Wan revealed without mercy. She hadn't expected Wang Yue to have that side to him either.

"Seriously? You can be that hopeless?" Zheng Wei could hardly believe it. In her eyes, Wang Yue had always been calm no matter what happened. She'd never imagined anything could leave him in such a daze.

Zheng Wei had assumed that Wang Yue's interview would show the two of them calmly sipping tea while he held forth on the state of the world and laid out a series of plans.

"My family's been poor for five generations. I'm just an ordinary nobody. You expect me to suddenly chat and laugh with reporters, of all people? I still need practice. They're not gossip magazine writers, after all." Wang Yue felt deeply embarrassed by how he'd acted. He'd practically disgraced Great God Xiao Nai.

"Your performance this time is what finally convinced me you're human, just like the rest of us!" Zheng Wei said with absolute certainty.

"By the way, how did you come up with this amazing move of yours?" Wang Yue had been puzzled about why Zheng Wei had suddenly launched the project, especially since it was so fully developed. It clearly couldn't have been put together in just a few days, and he figured the people over there must have thought the same thing.

"Well..." Zheng Wei's big, watery eyes darted around. "It was actually a pretty convoluted process."

It turned out that Zheng Wei's side had been poaching employees without restraint, while Chen Xiaozheng's side was conducting mass layoffs. Zeng Yu, the former chairman's daughter, took this as proof that Chen Xiaozheng was betraying the company for his own gain.

Already devastated by Chen Xiaozheng's betrayal, Zeng Yu brought the matter before the Board of Directors and demanded that Chen Xiaozheng give a clear explanation.

Only then did the triumphant Chen Xiaozheng suddenly realize that Zheng Wei had become the head of a major company on par with Dongfang Xingchen.

All her friends were now senior executives at their companies, not to mention the most dazzling of them all, Wang Yue—a person Chen Xiaozheng couldn't understand.

In a daze, Chen Xiaozheng suddenly realized what he had been striving for all those years.

If he hadn't gone abroad back then, and had joined the company and worked alongside Zheng Wei instead, would they have gotten married and started a family by now?

If he hadn't left, could he have been part of their circle and achieved something of his own? After all, he'd heard from a classmate that Zhang Kai, that game-addicted guy, was now a branch company's vice president.

Life didn't offer that many what-ifs. If Wang Yue hadn't come into this world, who knew what might have happened?

When Chen Xiaozheng faced everyone's accusations, he immediately presented his solution: have a technician defect to Weimei Design with a stack of project documents, including several projects Dongfang Xingchen was developing in secret. If Weimei used any of those plans, they could be sued for unfair competition and have their business license revoked.

Seeing how decisive and ruthless he could be, the other shareholders felt a chill run through them. They all said they trusted Chen Xiaozheng. After all, someone so ruthless was hardly likely to be the sort of person who would stake his career on love.

Zeng Yu was shaking with anger, but there was nothing she could do. She could only watch helplessly as Chen Xiaozheng continued to bask in success.

Zeng Yu didn't understand what she'd ever seen in him. But she'd played a part in turning him into the person he was now. Was this what it meant to reap what you sowed?

When the project documents reached Zheng Wei, she didn't think of unfair competition. She simply felt that the projects were too focused on profit and didn't fit Weimei's current corporate culture. Among them, only the public service project was brought to a meeting, approved, and put into action.

When the people at Dongfang Xingchen learned that Weimei Design had picked the public service project—the one they'd tossed in to make up the numbers—from their pile of high-quality proposals, their plan to sue immediately fell through.

How could they sue? They had no chance of winning. All they could do was complain that Weimei's boss had no eye for a good opportunity.

"You need to brush up on your knowledge! At least you only chose that one public service project." Zheng Wei's explanation gave Wang Yue a fright. He glanced at her. Was this just the fate of the protagonist?

The main thing was, what corporate culture did the company even have? How had Wang Yue never heard of it?

Actually, the company culture Zheng Wei mentioned was connected to the personality Wang Yue had shown in this world. All these years, he'd acted as if money didn't matter, so when Zheng Wei handled company affairs, profit was no longer her top priority. She cared more about the company's public image.

What Zheng Wei didn't know was that at first, Wang Yue had only wanted to afford a decent meal. Later, he'd figured that he couldn't take the money with him anyway, so he stopped caring about it.