Ji Hanxing scoffed at the system's words. Your trauma was your own business, and healing should be your own business too.
This domineering CEO might not need an innocent heroine to save him, either, and the heroine might not want to save him.
They were all merely tools controlled by the plot.
A trace of mockery flashed through Ji Hanxing's eyes.
His current body seemingly had both a father and a mother, but he would have been better off without them. Like him, he had little affinity with his parents.
There was only Old Master Ji...
"Grandpa doesn't know I was hospitalized after something hit me, does he?"
"President Ji, considering the chairman's health, we've kept it from him. The board doesn't know either."
Influenced by the original owner's memories, Ji Hanxing naturally felt an added measure of concern and worry for Old Master Ji, who had raised the original owner.
Old Master Ji was getting on in years. Though he was still fairly hale and hearty, he was, after all, nearly eighty.
After the original owner came of age and showed a talent for business, Old Master Ji was overjoyed and immediately handed the Ji Family's businesses over to him.
The original owner had not let the old master down. In just three years, thanks to his distinctive eye for investments, he invested in a medical device research and development team. Their product caused a huge sensation as soon as it was released.
The patents and sales revenue from the medical devices they developed doubled the Ji Group's market value, bringing the Ji Family back from the brink of sinking to the bottom ranks and making it even stronger than it had been at its former peak.
Afterward, relying on his keen instincts, the original owner invested in the gaming industry. He had only just begun laying the groundwork, and all of City A was watching to see the results.
Although the Ji Family still could not compare to City A's four families-the Jiang, Yan, Ye, and Cheng families-Ji Hanxing was still young, wasn't he?
Ji Hanxing: ⊙ω⊙
As expected of a romance novel's domineering CEO. Truly impressive. Seal applause.
Countless people wanted to win over such a talented young man. Of course, plenty wanted to bring him down too.
The person who had drugged the original owner at the banquet that day had probably belonged to one of those categories.
After reading Xue Hui's information, Ji Hanxing learned that the original owner's room that day should have been 5103. The suite where he and Yan Jinyue had slept, however, was 5108; he had noticed the room number when he left.
Remembering that he had entered the wrong room and even pulled someone into bed with him, Ji Hanxing felt truly guilty.
Still, Ji Hanxing continued to feel that the huge iron chain in that suite was very out of place.
What kind of presidential suite had a huge iron chain in it?
It was even thicker than the chain he used to lock up his tricycle when he ran his street stall.
The owner of the Grand Prosperity Hotel had bizarre taste too.
"Does Grand Prosperity belong to the Jiang Family?"
Ji Hanxing suddenly spoke.
Xue Hui froze, then quickly nodded. "Yes. The Jiang Family's young master is managing Grand Prosperity now."
"Jiang Yuzhuo?"
Ji Hanxing had some memories of the Jiang Family's young master. "I remember he only recently returned to the country, right?"
Xue Hui said, "Yes, President Ji."
He suddenly remembered Director Xu telling him that Yan Jinyue had visited Ji Hanxing during his hospital stay. When had his president become acquainted with this member of the Yan Family?
Although the Yan Family's new leader had only just returned to the country, no one dared underestimate him. As the sole heir of the Yan Family, one of City A's most prominent families, even if he were an incompetent fool, the Yan Family's existing wealth and resources would have been enough for him to squander. Besides, Yan Jinyue was exceptionally capable.
Having just returned to the country, he had thoroughly reorganized the Yan Group from top to bottom less than a month after taking office. He had even driven his own uncle by marriage out of the Yan Group. Yan Jinyue's paternal aunt had gone back to Old Master Yan in tears, but it had done no good.
Xue Hui ventured, "Young Master Jiang and President Yan Jinyue, the Yan Group's new president, were schoolmates in different years. They both graduated from the Country Y Royal Business School."
"President Yan also returned to the country only recently. He officially took over the Yan Group last month."
"Young Master Jiang and President Yan are very close personally. Rumor has it that President Yan helped Young Master Jiang secure Grand Prosperity."
Ji Hanxing unconsciously nodded as he listened. As expected of the main villain. He really was capable.
Watching Ji Hanxing's expression, Xue Hui feigned a casual tone. "I didn't realize you and President Yan were friends. I heard that President Yan even visited you during your hospital stay."
Ji Hanxing gave Xue Hui an appreciative look. As expected of the special assistant to a romance novel's domineering CEO. He really was well informed.
He did not doubt Xue Hui's professional abilities in the slightest. Judging by the "abnormal" study tasks the system had assigned him, Ji Hanxing felt that the Ji Group would have collapsed long ago without this top-notch special assistant.
[Every romance novel about a domineering CEO has a top-notch special assistant. Rest assured, host: Xue Hui is a system-certified top-notch special assistant to a domineering CEO. His professional abilities are absolutely first-rate.] [As the top-notch special assistant to a romance novel's domineering CEO male lead, Assistant Xue has an overseas master's degree and four years of work experience. He can guarantee that he is on standby twenty-four hours a day. He can both drive and drink, accompany his workaholic CEO at work until three in the morning, and find all the information whenever the CEO gives him a three-minute deadline.] [In the future plot, his duties will include, but are not limited to, buying the heroine a change of clothes in the middle of the night, crossing more than half the city early in the morning to buy her favorite breakfast, and contacting a doctor in the middle of the night to treat the heroine for the CEO...]
As Ji Hanxing listened to the system's introduction of Xue Hui, his face had already twisted into a mask of pain.
What top-notch special assistant? He was clearly a modern-day servant, a thoroughly exploited sucker of a worker!
Wasn't this taking the rat race too far?
Ji Hanxing had once worked desperately to earn money and make a living too, holding down three or four jobs a day. But he had dropped out of university and had no degree, so he had no choice.
Xue Hui's educational qualifications were clearly far better than his, yet he still worked this hard!
[Do I need to remind you, host? You were hit by a car and killed while collecting trash.]
When it came to the rat race, who could outdo Ji Hanxing? He had even lost his life to it.
Ji Hanxing choked. "That was because the driver violated traffic regulations!"
How could he be blamed for picking up bottles?
The appreciative look Ji Hanxing had just given Xue Hui had turned to astonishment. Special Assistant Xue had to be an AI, right? A silicon-based life-form. Terrifying.
Ji Hanxing's stare left Xue Hui feeling uneasy. Why was President Ji looking at him like that? Had he done something wrong?
Or did he blame him for talking too much just now, for prying into his relationship with President Yan?
"System, this is still your fault. If you hadn't set things up this way, how could Assistant Xue be exploited like this?"
The system snorted.
[Why don't you ask Assistant Xue how much he earns a year?]
Ji Hanxing suddenly leaned forward, closing the distance between himself and Xue Hui.
He asked in a hushed voice, "Assistant Xue, how much are you paid a month now?"
Xue Hui's heart clenched, and regret flooded him. Was President Ji going to dock his pay?
"President Ji, I have elderly family members and children to support, and a mortgage of several million to repay. My current annual salary of eight hundred thousand really is only enough to live on..."
"What?"
Ji Hanxing's hand trembled, then instinctively went to his heart. With that annual salary, who wouldn't work themselves to the bone?
[Hmph. You should feel sorry for yourself instead, host. You only have five days of life remaining. Please work hard to complete your tasks and take your work seriously!]
Ji Hanxing: ಥ_ಥ
Seeing Xue Hui watching him nervously, Ji Hanxing smiled faintly.
Since Assistant Xue was so capable, and he would still need his help in the future, he could not bring himself to exploit him like this. Since he was the domineering CEO now, then...
"Assistant Xue, tell HR tomorrow to raise your annual salary to one million!"