Chapter 85 - Fang JunRong was very curious to see whether Li ShiZe would still be able to achieve the same level of success as he did in her previous life. (1)

Fang JunRong had no idea that Jiang YaGe was plotting against her. She had been busy with work lately and also checking on Jiang WenYu when she has free time in between.

After having the detoxification pills from Fang JunRong, the poison was cleared from Jiang WenYu's body quickly and his pretty face has returned. His look leaned more toward those from the old days, elegant with a hint of softness. If he'd picked up a folding fan, he'd look like a scholar that just walked straight out of a book. Look wise, he resembled Zhang Bi, his twin brother. Except that Zhang Bi has more of a masculine look to him. Fang JunRong speculated that they were fraternal twins.

His eyes were very bright. As her daughter would put it, there's a galaxy in his eyes.

He had planned to return to the campus to resign, but he had since found out that someone had already put in the resignation for him. A process that should be done by him in person had, somehow, been taken care of.

Naturally, Jiang WenYu could smell that something wasn't right at all. More likely than not, it has to do with whoever tried to kill him. He had always thought of himself as an everyday Joe and had no idea who he had offended to a point that they wanted him dead.

Without status or power, he had no choice but to rely on Fang JunRong for help.

Fang JunRong, on the other hand, had a pretty good idea that it was the handy work of the Zhang's. After all, when she saw Jiang WenYu, the effects of the poison that he was exhibited matching that of the kind that belong uniquely to the Zhang's according to the book. The process of making it was quite complicated. What she couldn't figure out was since his existence had already been brought to the Zhang's attention, shouldn't they have already welcomed him home? After all, Jiang WenYu and Zhang Bi were twins and Zhang Bi grew up at the Zhang's. There was no reason why the existence of Jiang WenYu would threaten Zhang Bi's status within the Zhang's.

There was something hazy about the Zhang's that she couldn't quite figure out. Perhaps Jiang WenYu had found out something about the Zhang's in her previous life, which was why he targeted them before.

She agreed to help him out and also spent a large amount of money on building a laboratory for him, dropping tens of millions just like that. She did that because she had faith in Jiang WenYu's ability and wanted to provide the opportunity for him to shine. Nevertheless, from an outsider's perspective, Jiang WenYu was only a regular college professor. He had no outstanding achievements besides his good looks.

Therefore, Fang JunRong's behavior could only be explained as her being dazzled by his good looks. That was the only reasonable explanation for her behavior.

Even Xu WeiWei made a special trip to go and check out Jiang WenYu. She seemed to have let out a sigh of relief after she had checked him out.

Baffled, Fang JunRong asked her, "What's the matter?"

Xu WeiWei hesitated for a little and said, "I thought you had a change of heart and decided to keep a little fresh meat but realized that I was wrong after meeting Jiang WenYu. He didn't look like that kind of a person."

There was definitely more passion in his eyes when he was looking at the cans and bottles in his laboratory than when he was looking at women.

Hearing that, Fang JunRong busted out laughing. What the heck...

"Our Beautify Pills are more or less complete. We can begin pre-sale in a few days and launch it officially on 9/8," said Xu WeiWei.

"Awesome. Let's push out 50,000 for our first batch."

Xu WeiWei brought up another incident. "By the way, Jiang YaGe is really a character."

Fang JunRong's face dropped when she heard the name. "What did she do now?"

Chapter 86 - Fang JunRong was very curious to see whether Li ShiZe would still be able to achieve the same level of success as he did in her previous life. (2)

She knew that Li WangJin had been in a slump lately, which directly affected the quality of life of Jiang YaGe, the newly crowned Miss. That being said, everything was all relative. Her quality of life wasn't as good as the period immediately preceding it, but still much better than what her life was like before that. As much as Li WangJin didn't have a lot of money, he'd still give her some money. And that BBQ pork son of hers started calling her more frequently a few days ago. After picking it up the first time, she had blocked his number.

She wasn't dumb enough to be Li ShiZe's ATM machine.

As she had divorced Li WangJin, many of Fang JunRong's acquaintances informed her that Li WangJin was very determined to keep Wang Xiao in jail and had been pulling all sorts of strings and spending loads and loads of money over this.

Xu WeiWei said, "Do you remember Zhou Yang? She has been hosting an antique appraisal show lately, I think it's called "The Fate of Antiques". It's quite popular for a show. She said to me that Jiang YaGe had applied to go on the show and wanted to have a piece of Xu FengWeng's work appraised. I seem to recall that you have given her a piece of Xu FengWeng's work as a gift when you first met her?"

"Zhou Yang asked if they should stop her from getting onto the show?" As the host of the show and that Jiang YaGe didn't have many who backed her, all Zhou Yang needed to do was to say a word to stop her from getting onto the show.

Fang JunRong, on the other hand, was very happy when she heard the news. Her lips curved a happy arc. "Why would we want to stop her? Let her onto the show!"

Then she asked casually, "If she is going onto the show. Approximately when will it be aired?"

"In a week, probably around the 6th?"

"That's great, isn't it? It's free advertising for me. We will be able to save so much. I am sure she is doing this behind Li WangJin's back. If he knows about it, he'd for sure do everything within his power to try and stop her."

When this blows up, it'd do wonders to Li WangJin's reputation. Thinking about that day, Fang JunRong eagerly looked forward to the date that the show would be aired.

Xu WeiWei, after figuring out the intricacies behind it all, nodded and said, "That works. I'll let Zhou Yang know to make sure Jiang YaGe receives the best spotlight."

Xu WeiWei was the vice president now. With Fang JunRong delegating most of the work to her, she was usually very busy. She needed to hurry back to the office after finishing her conversation with Fang JunRong. She did, however, enjoy her current lifestyle a lot.

***

Li XinYun, Fang JunRong's daughter, came home not long after Xu WeiWei had taken off. She was frowning and looking very unhappy.

"Who upset you?" asked Fang JunRong.

She remembered that her daughter had picked up ice-skating recently and had been leaving the house early every day.

Li XinYun sat down next to Fang JunRong and leaned on her much like she used to when she was still a child. "Big brother called me today."

"He asked you to lend him money?" Fang JunRong asked right away.

Li XinYun sat up straight. Her eyes widened and looked even more round than usual. "How did you guess, Mom?"

In a nonchalant way and without showing her emotions, Fang JunRong said, "He never called me after the divorce to ask about my well-being but had been calling me frequently the last few days and wouldn't stop talking about wanting to start his own business and needing start-up capital. I had stopped answering his calls."

What she hadn't expected was that her BBQ-pork son would turn to her daughter instead. That being said, XinYun has no shortage of money. She got pocket money from Fang JunRong every month and all the other red packets that she received were put away for her by Fang JunRong. Fang JunRong had also shown her some ropes on investments. Over the years, she should at least have tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.

Chapter 87 - Fang JunRong was very curious to see whether Li ShiZe would still be able to achieve the same level of success as he did in her previous life. (3)

Li XinYun scratched her cheek and said, "Yeah, he said the same thing to me. He said his team had developed a new software but needs the capital to push it to the market. He said he is asking me to invest in it and will profit-share with me. He also said that he would do right by me."

Talking about this made Li XinYun angry. Her brother didn't even get her a birthday present on her birthday and the one time that he called her was to ask her for money? And that high and mighty tone of his. He made it sound like it would be her loss if she didn't invest in him. Was she stupid? She yelled at him over the phone and hung up on him.

"You are better off buying stocks of my company," said Fang JunRong. For sure the stock price of her company would go up by a lot.

Li XinYun cocked her head a little and asked, "But why is Big Brother short on money? He should have more money saved up than I do." She'd occasionally spend money on makeup or luxurious items, but her brother didn't need any of them. Hrm, she knew that Dad had always been giving money to her brother behind her back. She was just never petty about it. Mom liked her more anyway.

Fang JunRong said, "After your father and I divorced, your father no longer had a house under his name and he didn't have enough cash in hand. So your brother shelled out a large sum for a large mansion."

They were not the kind who could adapt to a lesser lifestyle. Between the large mansion and the monthly salary for the servants, that about used up all of Li ShiZe's cash.

"And they moved Wang SiXian there as well." Fang JunRong added.

Li XinYun didn't know about all those things. Now that she had found out, she was infuriated. Her face beet red, she said, "I am going to block his number right now!

"Ungrateful! White-eyed wolf! Unconscientious!" said Li XinYun over and over again. Then she turned to Fang JunRong and reassured her. "Don't worry, Mom. I would not be like Big Brother.

"From now on, I no longer have a brother!" said Li XinYun determinately.

She then went on to blocking Li ShiZe's number right in front of Fang JunRong. She thought about it some more and was still very annoyed. She unblocked him and sent a few texts over to shout at him before she blocked him one more time.

Nothing Li ShiZe did at this point could hurt Fang JunRong. She has, after all, already given up on him. There would be no disappointment if there were no hope to begin with. Fang JunRong was, nevertheless, still very happy that her daughter was on her side.

Fang JunRong still remembers this software that Li ShiZe had just developed. During the same timeframe in her previous life, she was still on good terms with Li ShiZe and had given him a lot of startup capital. Li ShiZe's software went to market smoothly, and he made a lot of money from it. And he was also able to befriend a very talented elite IT guy.

Without her help during this lifetime and with his shortage in money, Fang JunRong was very curious to see whether Li ShiZe would still be able to achieve the same level of success as he did in her previous life.

***

As she was reminded by Xu WeiWei, Fang JunRong started paying attention to the variety show "The Fate of Antiques".

Just to make sure that everything would go smoothly, she even had a word with the TV director. The TV director was an acquaintance of He JianBing plus Jiang YaGe has a certain draw so she was added to the show successfully.

The advertisement never showed Jiang YaGe's face. It was covered up with pixels. The slogans that they used were very appealing as well.

[Million-dollar gift at first meeting. How did this girl with both looks and talent appease the elderlies?]

[Expensive gift with love behind it. There is real love among prestigious families.]

The melon-eating crowd were always curious about the lives of those in prestigious families. With the words "prestigious families" in the slogan, the number of clicks would naturally go up and up. That, on top of the part about her looks and talent, had brought out the viewers' desire for melon-eating. "The Fate of Antiques'' had always used provocative slogans to pique interest. But they rarely advertise falsely, which made the audiences even more excited.

Many started speculating who this Miss could be. Even Li XinYun made it to the list of possible individuals. After all, she had just been on the top trended search list and Li WangJin was known to be an antique fanatic. That being said, Jiang YaGe was never mentioned. Even though her status wasn't a secret in her circle, she had never been officially introduced.

All of a sudden, the popularity of the show shot up in everybody's speculation.

Fang JunRong, too, turned her TV on at 8 PM with anticipation.