Qiu Chengye had been utterly baffled by the change in Liu Woxing's personality during the filming of season two, so he had immediately hired someone to investigate after leaving the show.
Only then had he learned that Liu Woxing had broken with the Liu Family, left home, and started her own business.
According to Liu Woxing, Qiu Chengye had come to see her a few days earlier, condescendingly offering to invest in her company on the condition that she obey him from then on.
Naturally, Liu Woxing had refused. Even setting their personal grievances aside, she did not consider Qiu Chengye a suitable business partner.
Humiliated by her rejection, Qiu Chengye had flown into a rage, convinced that Liu Woxing looked down on his business acumen. In retaliation, he had rented the entire building, founded Chengye Media, and officially announced that he was starting a business.
To drum up publicity, he had even paid to get himself on Hot Search. Between recruiting employees and recruiting trainees, he had caused quite a stir.
None of that really affected Liu Woxing, though. Her real headache was all the trouble Qiu Chengye caused her in his capacity as the building's leaseholder.
For instance, the building's lights went out at eight every evening, but Liu Woxing often worked until nine. Her office would be the only room in the entire building still lit.
The darkness was manageable; she could put up with it by using a flashlight. But even the elevators lost power, forcing her to take the stairs down.
Then there were the cleaners Qiu Chengye had hired for the building. After cleaning, they deliberately piled the trash outside her office door. Every attempt to reason with them went nowhere, and when she contacted the landlord, she was told there was nothing they