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The setting sun was sinking, and an oblique ray of sunshine drifted past the windowsill.

Who would have thought that in less than ten years, he would already stand at the pinnacle of the capital market.

After signing the stock exchange agreement with TikTok, Chen Pingsheng himself couldn't help sighing.

Once upon a time, his biggest aspiration was merely to buy a small house to shelter his wife and children from the elements.

Who would have guessed he'd have today.

Shen Youwei called him, saying Er Piya wanted to hold a fan meet-up for her female followers in Shenzhen.

This little girl is becoming more and more of a handful, just like her sister when she was younger.

Who knows how many more years of mischief she has up her sleeve.

Chen Pingsheng texted back with his approval, on the condition that she not reveal any details about her family situation or take pictures on that day.

Er Piya might be a troublemaker, but her grades are not affected in the slightest.

Turns out he has a daughter who's a straight-A student; it seems like his own bloodline has evolved, too.

Otherwise, how could she learn everything so quickly?

After he agreed, Shen Youwei was finally able to help Er Piya organize her fan meet-up.

By the way, she was allowed to spend money freely.

He didn't bother with the details, but turned to ask his school beauty secretary Lin Qiunan next to him.

"Where did your sister end up getting a job?"

"She went to Antler Coffee," Lin Qiunan said. "She really likes that place and has thoughts of opening a coffee shop like that once she saves up enough money."

"That's not a bad idea."

Chen Pingsheng said, "Franchising Antler Coffee only requires a decent location, and the profits far exceed those from selling bubble tea. With enough capital, it is indeed a viable plan for you."

Antler Coffee is already going global and it may take only a few years to become a globally renowned coffee franchise.

By then, its market value could possibly exceed 300 billion dollars.

Compared to that, this year's entertainment industry market isn't doing very well.

The main issue is that costs have skyrocketed, with minor celebrities demanding tens of millions.

Thank goodness he started Tengying Entertainment Art School early on.

Relying entirely on cultivating and marketing their own talents is the only way to keep costs at a reasonable level.

Even so, there isn't much room for Tengying Entertainment's stock price to rise anymore.

The annual turnover of the film industry is fixed; the ceiling market value is at most around 160 billion.

After a peak inevitably comes a plateau.

His phone buzzed in his pocket, and Chen Pingsheng picked it up to see a call from Song Jun.

Wondering what this guy wanted, he picked up and soon found out.

Turns out it was one of his cousins, who had unfortunately fallen for a nightclub girl.

Not only did he spend tens or hundreds of millions on her, but now he's made a scene about jumping off a bridge.

What to say about this.

Although he had set up a substantial family fund with several hundred million, most of these people came straight from rural areas.

Given their limited perspective shaped by their upbringing, they struggle to find truly suitable partners.

Even after having some money, they can't find the right women and end up as lapdogs, throwing tantrums about life and death at the mention of a breakup. Chen Pingsheng hung up the phone straight away.

If such a person really did jump to their death, he wouldn't so much as send a wreath.

If he had to deal with everything like this, he might as well send all the relatives back to the countryside.

It wasn't that he was heartless; it was simply that if he had to handle such matters, he would be too busy even with eight hands.

Song Jun hadn't expected him to hang up so quickly. Zhang Sitong had advised him not to call.

But considering this was still a human life and Chen Pingsheng's own cousin standing on the bridge threatening to jump, how could he not make the call?

The funny thing was, this cousin actually demanded Chen Pingsheng buy him a Ferrari, believing he could win back the nightclub girl by flaunting the car.

If he didn't get the car, he threatened to jump.

What kind of situation was this?

It just goes to show the saying that human desire is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant; foolish people always manage to lower your expectations.

It wasn't just Song Jun; other relatives were also gathered there.

"Has Chen Ping come?", "Will he be coming?"

"Liu Wei, come down. Pingsheng is too busy to deal with your nonsense."

"I'm about to jump off the bridge, why isn't he coming?"

Liu Wei was hysterical, a man who'd never been in love took a nightclub girl for true love.

Desperately wanting to live or die.

The reason he wanted to jump off the bridge was because that girl ran off with a man driving a Mercedes.

So, he had to buy a Ferrari.

Only by doing so could he win back his Yanzi.

With such logic, Chen Pingsheng giving him any attention was already doing him a huge favor.

Song Jun thought he was just making a fuss to scare people.

After all, every time that girl mentioned breaking up, Liu Wei would become desperately dramatic.

Most of the two million RMB entrepreneurial fund he received from his family had been spent on that woman.

The rest was used to support her every day by drawing crowds for her.

Now that the money was gone and he was acting like this, Song Jun didn't want to pay him any attention but was also afraid he might actually take a life.

As the saying goes, whatever you fear will come to pass, Liu Wei, for whatever reason,
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Plunged into the river with a splash, creating only a small ripple.

Song Jun immediately called for help, realizing the guy couldn't swim.

He had no idea where the courage came to jump into those depths.

The mighty river roared endlessly; one could never see the end of the waters of the Huangpu River.

Nobody knew where Liu Wei was swept off to, but one thing was clear, the guy was done for.

Perhaps he didn't really want to die, but just wanted to gamble his pride.

Hoping by doing so, he could negotiate a Ferrari from his cousin.

Then he would have the means to compete with the Mercedes guy for the nightclub girl again.

But he underestimated the waters of the Huangpu River.

In it, a person was less than an ant; if you died, you were truly dead.

Chen Pingsheng received the news at night, not through a phone call from others,

But through a knock on the door from Peng Ying.

Liu Wei was the youngest son of his second aunt, only twenty-six this year.

At such an age, nobody thought he would actually jump off a bridge.

Now that he had jumped, apart from his parents who rushed over,

Everyone else remained silent.

Chen Pingsheng thought that his cousin who once worked with sharing bikes had died foolishly enough.

But never expected there would be one who could outdo him in stupidity, to the extent that it was shameful to even bring it up.

A nightclub girl, that's not something like a sharing bike that you can play with for just ten or twenty thousand RMB.

Yet he spent millions thinking she was some pure lotus flower, and in the end, even sacrificed his life for her.

That was downright disgraceful.

Because of the family fund, countless relatives from the Chen, Liu, and Song families had come here.

Seen were those who took two million RMB to Africa to sell toothpaste for white people – true business prodigies.

But never before had someone died from jumping off a bridge over a sharing bike.

Song Jun simply remained silent, as did Zhang Sitong who came with him.

Such a waste of excellent familial resources; some people just never learn, even if you build them a ladder to heaven, they can't climb it.

With the younger generation of the Chens, the Songs, and the Lius repeatedly taking millions as entrepreneurial funds and then failing one after another.

It's clear to see just how difficult it is to actually lift a family.

It's not just about money but also about various hardships.

Clearly, Liu Wei's death shamed everyone.

Had he been just a bit more impressive, had he died from offending some top second-generation rich kid or a powerful family's child.

Then at least they could have claimed he died bravely, not bowing down to the rich and powerful.

Then Chen Pingsheng could have sought revenge for his death.

But dying over a nightclub girl, he couldn't even take revenge.

After all, the life stories of those girls there were pretty much the same.

A gambling father, an alcoholic mother.

A studious little sister, and him, broken.

Could he, with his status, bully such girls?

Stop joking; with Liu Wei's death, it's a truly pointless death.

And he had to keep the news from leaking out.