Li Xingfang's efficiency amazed me.
In just one day, he had already looked into Xu Feng's situation.
Xu Feng was in a terrible predicament.
To put it simply, he was a jinx who'd had the worst luck imaginable.
Even Li Xingfang found it hard to believe as he told me about it.
"He used to be a sales rep at a securities firm, responsible for bringing in clients to open accounts and invest. His performance had been pretty good. He kept bringing in new clients, and the amounts they invested through the firm kept growing. Some even took his advice and bought stocks and futures. But then... things started to change, probably around two years ago. By then, he was no longer a sales rep. He'd become a manager in the business department. While on the phone with someone, he casually remarked that the most valuable thing their company had was the confidence people placed in those accounts. Almost minutes later, the firm's account database ran into trouble, and all the account data nearly got destroyed. It took about three months to repair the whole system. Fortunately, they had a backup system to take over, so the securities firm avoided a major disaster."
As Li Xingfang spoke, he still sounded doubtful, as if he could hardly believe it himself.
"After that, he got into an argument with his wife in a store and said something like, 'Watch out, or you'll get hit by a car when you go outside.' It came true immediately, too. His wife stormed out of the mall and was hit and killed by a passing car. Later, at her funeral, he swore to his in-laws that he loved his wife and would rather go bankrupt and become penniless than lose her."
I asked hesitantly, "That came