"Beep, beep, beep!"
As the piercing alarm rang, a magnetic voice complained lazily, "Who is it? Do you even want people to sleep this early in the morning?!"
With his eyes closed, Jiang Cheng groped toward the bedside table. A beam of harsh sunlight fell across his face, and he groggily opened his eyes.
"Seven fifty? Then I'll sleep another ten minutes!"
Jiang Cheng let out a huge yawn. Still holding his phone, he closed his eyes and went back to chat with the Duke of Zhou.
Wait!
With a sudden flip, Jiang Cheng sat up and stared blankly at his surroundings.
Crystal chandelier, carved sofa, marble floor, and all kinds of calligraphy and paintings on the walls. In two words—completely unfamiliar!
"Is this still my home? What, did sleeping give me hallucinations?"
Jiang Cheng pinched his thigh hard. It hurt!
Before he could rejoice, Jiang Cheng felt his head swelling with pain as a flood of information poured into his mind.
When he woke from his faint again, two figures had appeared beside his bed.
"Young Master, are you all right?"
"Butler Fu, I'm fine." Jiang Cheng shook his head and blurted out as he looked at the elderly man before him.
While unconscious, Jiang Cheng had already absorbed all the information. He knew he had transmigrated into a novel and taken over the body of a wealthy young man with the same name as him.
The only son of the Jiang Family, one of the Four Great Families of Jiangcheng!
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he had lived in luxury. While others were still worrying about firewood, rice, oil, and salt, he had owned his first supercar at the age of three.
All he could say was that people's joys and sorrows truly differed.
Jiang Cheng took a deep breath and quickly accepted his current identity. Before transmigrating into the novel, he had been an orphan. He had never expected heaven to give him a chance to experience family affection.
"Young Master, the nine hundred and ninety-nine roses are ready. When shall we go to CEO Mu's company?"
Beside Butler Fu, a burly young man in a suit spoke.
"CEO Mu?" Jiang Cheng slapped his forehead, and his expression immediately turned bitter. He had been so busy being happy that he had forgotten the most important thing!
He was a Villain!
According to the plot, the original owner had been hated by the Male Lead because he shamelessly pursued the icy CEO Mu Qingcheng, ultimately ending with his family ruined and everyone dead.
"No, I need to stay away from them!" Jiang Cheng immediately made up his mind. "Whoever wants to get involved can go. I'm not going."
The Male Lead, Ye Bufan, was skilled in both medicine and martial arts. There was nothing he could not do, only things you could not imagine.
His background was even more extraordinary. He was the long-lost eldest son of the Kyoto Ye Family, and behind him stood an unfathomable master. Why would Jiang Cheng have to be so out of his mind to provoke such a perfectly overpowered monster?
Wasn't she just a woman? Not worth it! Three-legged toads were hard to find, but two-legged women were everywhere.
With his status, position, and this handsome face, what woman could he not get?
Seeing Jiang Cheng's dazed state, Butler Fu could not help sighing. Everything about his Young Master was good, so why was he so infatuated with Mu Qingcheng?
"Not going!" Jiang Cheng looked at the young man in the suit and ordered, "A Long, the roses are yours. Deal with them however you want."
Butler Fu and A Long widened their eyes, their faces full of disbelief.
"Young Master, you... what did you say? You're... not going?"
Jiang Cheng nodded. "Butler Fu, I've figured it out. Mu Qingcheng wears that cold face every day like everyone owes her money. I'm done serving her!"
"Good, good!" Butler Fu's eyes filled with tears as he beamed like a three-year-old child.
"I have to tell the Master and Madam this good news!"
After Butler Fu left, Jiang Cheng yawned and said to A Long, "You go down too. I'm going back to sleep for a while."
"Yes."
A Long nodded and thoughtfully closed the bedroom door for Jiang Cheng.
Meanwhile, a crowd had already gathered downstairs at Qingcheng Group.
"Why hasn't Young Master Jiang arrived today?"
"Exactly! Young Master Jiang would usually have arrived by now. Could something have happened?"
"How is that possible? With Young Master Jiang's devotion to CEO Mu, what could possibly stop him from confessing?"
"I really don't know why CEO Mu won't agree. Young Master Jiang is handsome and rich, practically the prince charming of my dreams!"
Quite a few Qingcheng Group employees chattered away, gazing outside expectantly.
One hour passed, then two hours, then three hours...
"What's going on? Could Young Master Jiang have given up pursuing CEO Mu?"
"Maybe. CEO Mu must have broken Young Master Jiang's heart, so he decided to give up."
"Ahhh! No, Young Master Jiang!" someone wailed from the crowd.
Everyone rolled their eyes at him. "What does Young Master Jiang not coming have to do with you? You're acting like Young Master Jiang confessed to you."
That person pounded his chest, looking utterly heartbroken.
"What the hell do you people know! Do you know why Qingcheng Group replaced Security Guard Grandpa? It's because there was a necklace worth ten million hidden in the flowers Young Master Jiang bought!"
The moment those words fell, the area beneath Qingcheng Group went deathly silent. Then waves of anguished wails erupted.
Pain. Such pain!
"CEO Mu, don't listen to their nonsense. Young Master Jiang must have been delayed by something."
At the top floor of Qingcheng Group,
Wang Yaoyao looked at Mu Qingcheng, who wore gold-rimmed glasses and carried an aloof temperament, and could not help speaking up.
"You should go down first." Mu Qingcheng stared silently at the crowd below for a moment before giving the order.
"Yes."
After Wang Yaoyao left, Mu Qingcheng parted her red lips and murmured, "Did my rebirth cause everything to change?"
"But it's fine. This time, I'll be the one pursuing you. And Ye Bufan, I won't let you hurt Jiang Cheng again!"
Mu Qingcheng picked up her phone, calmed herself, and dialed that familiar number.
Beep, beep~
"Chicken, you're so beautiful~"
The sleeping Jiang Cheng was awakened by the harsh ringtone. Looking thoroughly irritated, he answered the call.
"Hello, who is this?! Do you even want people to sleep?!"
Hearing that familiar voice again, Mu Qingcheng's eyes reddened, and her tone softened.
"Jiang Cheng, you... beep, beep..."
The call was hung up?!
Mu Qingcheng's red lips parted slightly as she stood frozen for a moment, but she still dialed the number again.
"Are scammers this rampant nowadays?"
Before he had even finished speaking, the phone rang again.
"Are you done yet?"
Jiang Cheng sat up at once, his hair a mess. He groggily opened his eyes, wanting to see who had disturbed his sweet dream!
"Qingcheng baby?!"
Seeing the caller ID on the screen, Jiang Cheng rubbed his eyes.
Qingcheng? Wasn't that the icy CEO? Why was she calling him?
And that nickname—ugh, it was enough to make him throw up last night's dinner!
Jiang Cheng immediately blocked and deleted her in one smooth motion. Vicious woman, trying to harm him? Not a chance!
At Qingcheng Group,
Mu Qingcheng listened to the "unavailable" message coming from the phone and was dumbfounded.
She had been blocked??
Was the butterfly effect caused by her rebirth really this huge?
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