The clash and quarrel between Cheng Yaowen and Song JinXing did happen, but not at the cocktail party.
It was a week before the cocktail party was held that Cheng Yaowen went to see Song JinXing because of Song Corporation’s all-round suppression of Shi Rong Real Estate. It was indeed a sharp confrontation at that meeting. If the person Cheng Yaowen had met was the real Song JinXing, Cheng Yaowen would really have fought to the death with him.
But the person he met was Zhong Ruanxing.
A socialite who was best at resolving conflicts by being gentle.
Previously, Cheng Yaowen still felt that competing with Song JinXing for a woman was exciting. Now he realized what real excitement was. His family business was about to go bankrupt. How f**king exciting!
He came to see Song JinXing not expecting to reconcile with him. With his crazy personality, even if he couldn't win, he still wanted to piss off his opponent.
The Cheng family still had some foundation after all. Cheng Yaowen was not really an idle playboy. If he couldn’t defeat the business genius Song JinXing in the business field, couldn’t he still make a move from other angles? The grey industries that the Cheng family was involved in were already numerous, and Cheng Yaowen was an expert in this area.
He really found out that Song JinXing was secretly investigating the car accident of his parents years ago.
Who didn't privately talk about the car accident involving Song's three sons back then? No one was a fool. They had seen too much about the struggle for interests between prestigious families. The sudden death of Song's three sons, the banishment of his only son abroad, and Song Deming's strong suppression of media coverage with only a few media outlets reporting it.
Everyone saw it, but didn't dare to discuss it for fear of Song's deterrence.
Cheng Yaowen was not a good person to begin with. Years ago, when he heard his father mention this old affair, he was still a minor, but he laughed and said, "If it were me, I wouldn't tolerate such a younger brother either. Fortunately, you only have me as your son."
At that time, he was severely reprimanded by his father.
Combined with Song JinXing's current behavior, what else did Cheng Yaowen not understand? At first, he did intend to throw this in Song JinXing's face, and then expose it.
He didn’t care whether the Song family knew that Song JinXing was secretly investigating them as murderers. Anyway, after he exposed it, everyone would know! It would be wonderful to watch the Song family suspect and kill each other.
He didn’t know how the real murderer would react after learning about this. Perhaps he would choose to cooperate with the other party to kill Song JinXing, which was not impossible.
With such intentions and malice, he was surprised by Song JinXing's reaction when he mentioned this.
He was not angry. He even had a calm smile on his face and gently asked him, "President Cheng, what good can you get from doing this? Can it save the bankrupt Shi Rong Real Estate, or completely defeat me? How can you be sure that I will definitely lose in this battle? If you choose to cooperate with the real murderer, you are sleeping next to a tiger. Even if you defeat me, relying on the Song family who has lost its integrity and will slide down in chaos, you still can't save the collapsing Cheng business empire."
He smiled and said, "What's the fun in watching the show? Why don't you cooperate with me and directly become the screenwriter of this drama, wouldn't that be more exciting?"
Wow, Song JinXing took the initiative to cooperate with him, which was quite interesting.
Cheng Yaowen's capital to act recklessly was the Cheng family. Now this capital was in jeopardy. But the opponent who was about to tear up this capital stopped and proposed cooperation. Any grudges or women were less important than his own interests.
Cheng Yaowen, a refined egoist, simply could not refuse such a win-win and exciting cooperation. Businessmen valued profits. There were no permanent enemies or permanent friends in the business field, only permanent interests.
Cooperating with Song JinXing was the most cost-effective deal for him now when he was at the end of his rope.
Cheng Yaowen immediately switched camps on the spot and changed his attitude, "President Song, let's cooperate happily."
The confrontation at the cocktail party afterwards was just a show for the outside world, a means to push Cheng Yaowen into Song Xinwen’s hands. The suppression of Shi Rong was real, the impending bankruptcy of the Cheng family was real, and Cheng Yaowen’s covetousness for Song JinXing’s girlfriend was also real.
So when Cheng Yaowen brought the information he had investigated and "surrendered" to Song Xinwen, everything seemed so natural.
They thought this was a deadly trap set for Song JinXing, but they didn't know they had long become actors in this drama. Even the location of the fire was chosen by Cheng Yaowen, the "screenwriter". The abandoned blue-roofed factories around contained the entire crew.
The reason for letting Song Shuling participate was because she was Song JinXing's sister and their parents' child. She had the right to know the truth, even though the truth was cruel.
The Song Shuling who learned the truth did collapse, but she grew up overnight and took the initiative to join this drama of avenging her parents and finding the real murderer.
When Luo Hongxin, who thought he had completed the task perfectly, walked out of the living room and locked the doors and windows, he had already been grabbed by the actors who had sneaked in from the factory.
In Zou Wang’s panicked and regretful expression, Zhong Ruanxing calmly stood up, walked out of the house, and went to the Luo Hongxin who was pressed to the ground. He smiled and said, "Carry on according to your plan."
It was already very dark.
The real police arrived when the previously tied up Luo Hongxin in the fire truck was also brought down. Song JinXing followed him, appearing on the scene as “Zhong Ruanxing”. When the older Master Song saw him, his eyes filled with endless guilt and regret. He didn’t even dare to look him in the eye.
The ever-steady and gentle mask on Song Xinwen's face finally shattered completely when he was handcuffed. He yelled unwillingly, "I won't lose! How could I possibly lose! I didn't lose!"
Song JinXing walked calmly towards him.
Although it was a woman's face, those penetrating eyes made Song Xinwen freeze for a moment.
Song JinXing suddenly smiled, "Do you know why you lost?"
Song Xinwen stared at him.
Song JinXing said, "Because you've always been stupid. You were just an ignorant and mediocre person, but you thought too highly of yourself." Although he was smiling, his eyes didn't show any smile at all, reflecting the night sky in early autumn, like the weak and desolate falling of yellow leaves.
"Twenty years ago you won, not because you were smart enough. It was only because your younger brother trusted you and sincerely treated you as his elder brother, so he took the drink you handed him and drank it down without any doubt."
You could win only because you were his brother.