Chapter 67: Buying "little secrets"
This affair had recently become the hottest topic among Rongcheng's circle of officials' children. People knew only vaguely that the person the municipal Party secretary's son had insisted on backing, even at the cost of breaking with Kong Qi, whom he had grown up calling his older brother, was named Su Can.
But they were unsure just what background he had, or what connection he had to the Wang Family that would make Wang Weiwei oppose the Kong family, who had made their fortune through a famous hotel chain in the capital.
Perhaps, for the Kong family, falling out with the top official in one corner of Southwest China would merely obstruct their Southwest China strategy rather than prove fatal. If their young heir got hotheaded, he might even use some connections to challenge Wang Bu on a limited scale in Southwest China.
But in the eyes of the local corporate clients and business partners Kong Qi had been trying to win over and retain in Rongcheng, this only confirmed that his greatest weakness was his youthful impetuousness. He did not know how to smooth over these relationships and had publicly clashed with the municipal Party secretary's son. This undoubtedly prompted quite a few people to hurry to distance themselves from the Wangchao Hotel during this period.
The son of the power company's general manager and the rich young man who ran his own bar were among those who had previously been close to Kong Qi. Yet after witnessing Wang Weiwei's behavior and hearing his parting words that day, they had all stopped contacting Kong Qi for quite some time. Like bees scattering from a hive struck by a heavy blow, they fled in every direction in utter panic.
When they occasionally gathered, they could