Wang Tengfei

Biodata

Background

Wang Tengfei was known among his university classmates as a wealthy second-generation heir. He pursued Xiao Churan, but she never reciprocated his interest. By the reunion at Wang Daokun’s restaurant opening, the classmates had only recently graduated 36.

His father, Wang Donghai, held an executive position at Dihao Group and oversaw a project in Jinling’s development zone. Rather than join Dihao himself, Tengfei established a building materials company and planned to obtain supply contracts through his father. He claimed this arrangement could earn him around ten million yuan annually; these were projected earnings, not established income 39 41.

Personality

Wang Tengfei is boastful and highly concerned with public status. He accepts classmates’ praise for his expensive car, advertises his father’s influence, and uses Ye Chen’s apparent financial dependence on Xiao Churan as grounds for ridicule 36 39.

His desire to save face repeatedly overrides his judgment. After losing their race, he initially disputes the result, then destroys his own BMW rather than accept Ye Chen’s offer to waive the wager. Even after losing the car, he pretends to be untroubled and remains at the celebration to seek revenge through further humiliation 37 38.

He can back down under pressure without abandoning his resentment. When his second wager becomes impossible to fulfill, he apologizes publicly, but privately continues to hate Ye Chen 41.

Equipment & Possessions

• Gold BMW 540 — Purchased less than a month before the restaurant opening for over 700,000 yuan. Its 3.0-liter engine produces 340 horsepower. Tengfei carefully protects it from scratches and dust, but ultimately burns it down while fulfilling the firecracker wager 36 37 38.
• 10,000-yuan red envelope — His gift for Wang Daokun’s restaurant opening. Its value earns public praise when Liu Lili announces the guests’ gifts 38 39.

Relationships

• Wang Donghai — His father and the source of his business and official connections. Donghai’s dismissal from Dihao Group leaves Tengfei unable to secure help from development-zone officials; Donghai is subsequently sued and arrested for using his position for personal gain 39 41 42 43.
• Ye Chen — Former university classmate whom Tengfei repeatedly attempts to humiliate. Ye Chen defeats him in two wagers and secretly orders his father’s dismissal. When Tengfei is beaten unconscious, Ye Chen calls him an acquaintance rather than a friend and orders that he be taken to hospital 36 37 40 41 42.
• Xiao Churan — Former classmate and unrequited romantic interest. Tengfei resents Ye Chen’s marriage to her 36.
• Wang Daokun — Classmate whose restaurant opening Tengfei attends. Tengfei gives him a substantial cash gift and later attempts to intervene when thugs demand a share of the business 38 39 41.
• Dong Ruolin — Classmate whom he offers to help through his father’s position at Dihao Group. She defends Ye Chen against the race challenge and condemns Tengfei’s attempt to evade the resulting wager 36 37 39.
• Scarface — Gang leader who beats Tengfei after his attempts to invoke official connections fail. Scarface’s men later carry him to hospital on Ye Chen’s orders 42.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Race and Destruction of His BMW

• At Wang Daokun’s restaurant opening, Tengfei mocks the “520” badge on Ye Chen’s BMW and challenges him to a race. He first proposes that the loser kneel and kowtow; Ye Chen instead suggests setting off a coil of 30,000 firecrackers inside the loser’s car 36.
• Tengfei confidently accepts, unaware that Ye Chen’s apparent BMW 520 is actually a BMW 760 with a 6.6-liter engine producing 585 horsepower. Ye Chen completes the outward-and-return route before Tengfei can finish turning around 37.
• Tengfei accuses Ye Chen of using a modified car and argues that the result should not count. Classmates turn against him, and Ye Chen’s offer to release him from the bet further wounds his pride 37.
• Determined to prove he can accept defeat, Tengfei lights the firecrackers inside his BMW. The resulting fire consumes the vehicle, leaving only its frame by the time firefighters arrive 38.

The Painting Wager

• Inside the restaurant, Tengfei joins the ridicule of Ye Chen and Xiao Churan’s antique painting. When Ye Chen says it is worth more than all the other gifts combined, Tengfei promises to eat the table if the claim is true 39.
• Liu Yuesheng authenticates the painting as a work by Huang Shen worth over 200,000 yuan. Faced with classmates demanding that he honor his promise, Tengfei apologizes; Ye Chen then asks everyone to drop the matter 40 41.
• Despite publicly accepting the apology, Ye Chen privately instructs Wang Dongxue to dismiss Tengfei’s father from Dihao Group 41.

Failed Intervention and Family Downfall

• When Scarface demands a free twenty-percent stake in the restaurant, Tengfei steps forward and invokes his father’s connections. District Chief Li declines to help, and a second official tells him that the gang answers to Abiao and Master Hong Wu 41 42.
• Tengfei attempts to pressure the second official by mentioning Dihao Group donations, only to learn that his father has already been fired 42.
• Scarface and his men beat Tengfei unconscious, then increase their demand to forty percent. Ye Chen’s intervention stops the extortion, and Scarface sends Tengfei to hospital at his instruction 42.
• The aftermath confirms both Tengfei’s hospitalization and his father’s arrest following Dihao Group’s lawsuit. The narration describes the family as ruined, while noting that its downfall attracts little attention in Jinling 43.