Welcome to I Was Trapped on the Same Day for a Thousand Years, written by Sang Ze and narrated by Wang Xiaomo and Lao He. Cao Liangpeng? Li Ruobing froze, then frowned slightly. She had no impression of the name.
That was hardly strange. Li Ruobing had little contact with that circle in Magic City.
She knew of Mao Rusong because his connections were so extensive. So many people had ties to him that she was bound to hear his name, even if she disliked socializing.
But Cao Liangpeng clearly had not reached Mao Rusong's level.
"Who is he?"
Li Ruobing asked.
"The owner of Nightfall Bar in Magic City. He used to be Mao Rusong's business partner," Wu Chen explained briefly.
Cao Liangpeng was fifty-three. He owned Nightfall Bar, one of Magic City's four major bars, and had interests in restaurants, hotels, apartments, entertainment clubs, and other businesses. He was worth over a billion.
He was much older than Mao Rusong and had entered the business world before turning twenty. He had made his fortune in the 1990s as one of Magic City's earliest operators of video halls and dance clubs. In that industry, he was something of a big brother.
When Mao Rusong rose rapidly at the end of the last century, he worked for several years with Cao Liangpeng, an older industry figure who had gone legitimate. Together they funded the establishment of World Bay No. 1 Bar, but later parted ways over management philosophy, profit sharing, and other issues.
Thirteen years ago, mutual acquaintances brought Mao Rusong and Cao Liangpeng together for a reconciliation, and they collaborated a second time.
That partnership lasted only six months. Between others sowing discord and disputes over control of the bar, their collaboration ended, and they became enemies.
From then