Chapter 27 - He Was So Angry that He Smashed The Cellphone Again (1)

After Zhong Yi had picked up a few sets, Fang JunRong made a call and had them send the dresses over as soon as possible.

Li WangJin knocked on her door not too long after she went back into her room.

Fang JunRong opened up the door and Li WangJin walked in naturally. She could smell the very subtle hint of perfume on him and figured that he must have already met up with Jiang YaGe's aunt, Wang SiXian. She was the one who had planned it after all.

The truth was she didn't even need to do much. All she needed to do was to have someone mention two things in front of Wang SiXian -- "Li WangJin's white moonlight was Wang SiEr" and "Li WangJin's relationship with his wife had gotten worse".

Had she not asked for it, He Ming wouldn't have brought up Wang SiXian randomly.

As for Wang SiXian herself, she was going through a rough patch overseas. Once she heard of this life-saving straw, no way she'd like it slipped by. After all, didn't she use her looks and pretend to be infatuated to get to Li WangJin in her previous life?

Fang JunRong suppressed her sense of disgust that was bubbling up and asked in a nonchalant tone, "What is it?"

Li WangJin paused for a little but, then he quickly put on his normal, gentle smile. "How much money do we have on the books that we can spend right now?"

"Oh, probably $7B ~ $8B," said Fang JunRong. There would have been more, but she had been actively purchasing gold and jewelries etc. lately and used up some of them.

Li WangJin frowned a little. That's less than he had expected. He thought there would be at least over $10B.

"You wanted to buy more antiques and paintings? Haven't you bought a lot this year already? They must add up to at least tens of billions by now," said Fang JunRong.

Li WangJin's heart dropped a little. He didn't think Fang JunRong would pay attention to that. After his face froze up for a while, he recovered quickly and said, "Most of my collection were those by Xu FangWeng. His artworks' value has only been going up and up internationally as of late. It's really a kind of investment. When we sell them later, we'd make more than we'd otherwise on the stock market.

He said it with such righteousness as though he was merely making money for their family.

"You have heard of 'Snow by the River" by Xu FangWeng, right? I have already gotten hold of the original buyer. He needs cash for his family business and has the intention to sell it. He has a few other well-known paintings that he was interested in parting with as well. They add up to about $1.5B. It's not a small amount so I wanted to talk to you first."

If it was just tens of millions, then he wouldn't bother talking to her about, but this was a large amount. He'd need her approval first.

Fang JunRong just wanted to laugh out loud. She looked down and said, "You know, we can't just spend all the cash that we have. We should at least save some for future investments, like if we want to bid for land for development."

"I know." Li WangJin had already had it all thought out before he approached Fang JunRong. "I figured that our company has its own investments in the stock market as well. We can sell some of the stocks owned by the company for cash. Then we only need to add in a little bit more cash from the company."

Of course, that was a great idea to Fang JunRong. If they don't sell them, they'd have to split them 50/50 during their divorce. If they sell them now, the money would end up hers. It's a win-win for her. As much as she loved the idea, she put on a frown and a concerned look.

"That's a lot of risk. I don't think we should do that." She shook her head and looked very determined.

Li WangJin continued to try and convince her and brought up every point that he could think of. Finally, he promised that he'd take out an additional $500 million to buy some properties before Fang JunRong "reluctantly" agreed.

When Fang JunRong finally nodded, Li WangJin was exhausted. He would only comfort himself by thinking that even though his wife got $500 million, he'd have made $1.5B. Anyway one looked at it, he was the one who came out ahead.

He didn't want to drag it out in case Fang JunRong changed her mind and went to arrange for a transaction as soon as he had obtained Fang JunRong's approval.

Chapter 28 - He Was So Angry that He Smashed The Cellphone Again (2)

The transferring of the stocks involves a few steps and takes time. Plus, since the Li's wanted to sell quite a few of them; most in the circle had caught wind of it. In addition, Fang JunRong had no intention of keeping this a secret for Li WangJin. It didn't take long for many to find out that Li WangJin had gone insane over Xu FangWeng's work and were selling quite a few of their money-making stocks.

In front of him, they praised that he has good taste and money wasn't an object to him. But inevitably, they would mock him behind his back. Every plutocrat has a few hobbies, and naturally, some of them cost more money than others. But none of them would spend that kind of money like Li WangJin was doing.

Of course, many of them also felt that Fang JunRong had been way too nice to Li WangJin for putting up with that type of spending habits. If it were them, they'd at least try to stop him. As such, Fang JunRong had also become the image of an amazing Chinese wife in many people's eyes.

A few of Fang JunRong's closer friends even called her up and reminded her that she must keep some control of the money at home and not let just her man spend it however he wanted.

To which Fang JunRong would always reply with a tolerating "oh, whatever makes him happy" to further make herself stand out. Of course, she did all of these things on purpose. Once they get a divorce, Li WangJin would not be able to even dream about having the public opinions on his side like before.

Li WangJin had no idea that Fang JunRong was setting him up subtly. He sold a portion of their stocks and was quite happy after he had the money in hand. He transferred $1.5B to He Ming. Now, all he needed to do was to wait for He Ming to transfer them back to him.

Even though he had already worked with He Ming for many years, he still didn't trust him 100%. He had a few of his men watching over He Ming. He hadn't expected that all of the hired men would return with bruises on their faces and looking anxious.

Li WangJin had a bad feeling. "What's happened?"

"He Ming is gone!"

His blood roiled and Li WangJin almost fell down on the ground. He took a deep breath, and his veins were visible on his forehead. "What good are you all? There are so many of you. How did he run away by himself?"

The hired men felt very unjust. "He Ming got himself a bunch of accomplices. They beat us up, and he was already gone by the time we regained consciousness."

Li WangJin was about to have a heart attack when he thought about his $1.5B. His finger that was pointing at the hired men shook violently ,and he finally made out some words after a long while. "Go look for him! Keep looking! Even if you have to dig 3 feet down you are going to find him!"

If he didn't still need them to do his dirty work for him, Li WangJin would have beat up all these useless losers himself.

He was so angry that his eyes were about to turn red thinking about He Ming who had gotten away with such a large amount of money. As rich as the Li's were, with the net worth in the tens of billions, most of their assets were in real estates. Losing that much cash at once made his heart arched indescribably.

Chapter 29 - He Was So Angry that He Smashed The Cellphone Again (3)

He tried hard to calm himself down. Right now, the top priority was to find He Ming and get the money back. He was a little baffled. Did He Ming decide to give up on his son? He knew that He Ming had some sort of health issue when he was young. The son that he has in custody was no doubt He Ming's only child. Li WangJin had hid him well and He Ming had never seen him. At most, he could see his son on video chat.

He felt unsettled the entire time and another possibility occurred to him. He fished out his cellphone nervously and made a call.

Five minutes later, after he had hung up, he was so angry that he smashed his phone.

Sure enough. He Ming's son was gone too. Someone had taken him.

Someone was helping out He Ming!

He was angry, but also anxious at the same time. Who did this? They not only knew about He Ming; they also knew where He Ming's son was. Li WangJin had always been careful. Only three of his most trusted men knew about this.

Could one of the three men have betrayed him? Once that idea had formed in his mind, he couldn't shake it off. He tried hard to recall the behaviors of all three of them recently and tried to see if he could think of anything. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it could be any of the three. One or more of them might be in cahoots with He Ming. He could be surrounded by danger. Cold cold sweat began to drip from his body.

Li WangJin, in a foul mood, wanted to go somewhere to relax. But, he had just smashed his own cellphone and the screen was in pieces and inoperable. He couldn't even call in advance to visit one of his usual clubs nor was he in the habit of having multiple cellphones normally.

Li WangJin, who was running into issues in every direction, finally retrieved the SIM card from the now-destroyed cellphone and had his chauffeur take him to Wang SiXian's place.

He borrowed his chauffeur's phone on his way and inserted his SIM card inside. He called Wang SiXian on that phone and asked her out to dinner. Hearing Wang SiXian's gentle voice from the other end made him feel better.

After years of very peaceful life, the sudden appearance of Wang SiXian made him feel like he had rediscovered some of his youthful passion.

After he had chatted with her for a little bit and hung up the phone, Li WangJin saw a text. The name of the sender made his face drop.

The text came from He Ming.

He had the balls to send him a message?!

Li WangJin was so angry that his chest was heaving up and down. He quickly clicked open the text message, and his blood boiled all over again after he read it.

He Ming was blackmailing him for another $2B. Otherwise, he'd exposed everything that they had done together in the past. He had been keeping all the emails between the two of them over the years, and he also has recordings to some of their conversations.

Li WangJin was so angry that he smashed the cellphone again.