"Director Gu, what's wrong? Why are you sweating?"
Jiang Chen asked kindly when he saw sweat on Director Gu's forehead.
"N-nothing, maybe I drank too much tea, haha."
Gu Liancheng gave a dry laugh, casually making an excuse, but his hand involuntarily picked up the teacup and took another sip.
Jiang Chen looked at him, opened his mouth, and then swallowed the words, "You're probably not feeling well," that were on the tip of his tongue.
He had no idea that his two unconscious remarks had made the usually composed Gu Liancheng lose his composure so much.
He checked the time; the procedures were complete. Jiang Chen felt there was no need to stay any longer, so he proposed leaving.
Seeing this, Gu Liancheng quickly offered to see him off.
Jiang Chen repeatedly declined, saying it wasn't necessary.
However, Gu Liancheng insisted, saying something about Mr. Jiang being their law firm's most important client, and they absolutely had to see him off as a sign of their respect, even going downstairs and seeing him into his car.
Jiang Chen secretly grumbled:
See me into a taxi?
He had come by taxi, and he couldn't let them know that, or the image he had maintained would be completely ruined.
Helpless, seeing that he really couldn't refuse, Jiang Chen secretly gritted his teeth and, on a ride-hailing app, splurged on a premium car, choosing the most expensive model, a Mercedes-Benz S480, which cost over a thousand yuan.
In the elevator, Director Gu, accompanied by a Group of senior partners, surrounded Jiang Chen. These business elites, dressed in suits, stood with Jiang Chen at the forefront.
Jiang Chen, at this moment, also stood expressionlessly in front of everyone, saying nothing, picking up his phone to glance at it before putting it down again.
Director Gu, standing to one side, secretly observed Jiang Chen and couldn't help but say:
"Mr. Jiang, I had originally booked a private room at Guangyue Restaurant downstairs to invite you for a meal, but seeing you in a hurry, you must have an important matter, so I dare not detain you. Next time you are free, you must do me the honor of letting me host."
Jiang Chen's eye twitched slightly at these words, feeling even more speechless.
Why didn't you say so earlier!
He was already starving. If you had said something sooner, couldn't you have kept me for a bit?
Although he was complaining internally,
He still maintained a smile. He turned his head and said to Director Gu with a smile, "I'm sure I'll have more things to trouble Director Gu with in the future. There will be plenty of opportunities."
As they spoke, the elevator arrived at the underground parking lot.
Jiang Chen had asked beforehand when he arrived that morning, and parking was not allowed on the ground floor of the building, so he was prepared and had already entered the pick-up location as the underground garage before placing his order.
"Director Gu, this is far enough. My car is here too," Jiang Chen said, pointing to the slowly approaching Mercedes-Benz S480.
He quietly took out his phone to check the order, and after confirming the license plate was correct, he got directly into the car.
He was about to tell the driver to go, but Jiang Chen realized he still didn't have contact information for Xinghe Group.
He rolled down the window and glanced at the Group of people still standing in a line, then said to Director Gu:
"Director Gu, oh, I almost forgot something. I'm going to Xinghe Group tomorrow. Could you please inform them for me?"
After speaking, without waiting for Director Gu to reply, he directly told the driver to drive off.
Watching the car slowly drive away, Director Gu pondered why Jiang Chen had once again repeated what he had said earlier in his office.
After thinking for a long time and still not understanding, he simply stopped thinking about it and told the partners to go back upstairs.
Director Gu then took out his phone and made a call: "Old Ji, I've completed the handover here. The new boss will be at your Group tomorrow. I'll send you the information in a bit. Get ready."
"What? You're asking me what the new boss is like? You'll find out tomorrow. I can only say he's very young. Alright, I can't talk anymore, I have things to do here. Hanging up."
After speaking, he hung up the phone, not giving the other party a chance to ask. On the contact page where the call was disconnected, the note read: Ji Jun, CEO of Xinghe Group.
The Mercedes-Benz S480 was driving on the expressway, but Jiang Chen was a bit worried because the private car ride had almost depleted his limited funds.
Looking at the mere 146 yuan left on his phone, he felt like crying, though no tears came. Although he had been rewarded with Xinghe Group by the system, he himself had no money at all.
As if sensing Jiang Chen's predicament, a cold voice exploded directly in his mind.
"Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden novice achievement: Who in the world doesn't know you?"
"Achievement reward: Successfully made at least one person correctly recognize the host."
"Congratulations to the host for successfully making at least one person correctly recognize the host."
"Congratulations to the host for receiving the achievement reward: 100,000,000."
???
Jiang Chen was utterly confused at this moment. He had inexplicably completed a task. Wasn't this task a bit too simple?
System, couldn't you just give me the money directly, instead of going through all these twists and turns with a task?
"..."
Jiang Chen looked at the achievement details. The contributor to this task's completion could only be Director Gu.
His phone vibrated, and the SMS notification sound rang out:
"China Merchants Bank" Dear customer, your account ending in 8888 received a cash transfer of: 100,000,000.00 yuan today. Your current balance is: 100,000,146.49 yuan.
This one hundred million came just in time, solving Jiang Chen's current predicament. The events that had just happened resurfaced. If I had this one hundred million earlier, would I have needed to take a taxi? Buy a car, I must buy a car!
"Driver, turn at the next intersection and go to the nearest Rolls-Royce 4S store."
If he had had this one hundred million from the start, he wouldn't be in such a tight spot now. So, with this one hundred million, Jiang Chen immediately decided to buy a car, and it had to be a Rolls-Royce.
Perhaps sports cars are many men's dreams, but compared to sports cars, the grandeur and luxury of a Rolls-Royce appealed more to Jiang Chen.
Upon hearing this, the driver replied, "Okay," and set the navigation destination to the nearest Rolls-Royce 4S store.
Although he didn't know what this young man was going to do, those in their line of work never asked too many questions. Moreover, the new destination was closer than the original one, but the price remained the same.
After setting the new destination, the driver turned around and headed towards the Rolls-Royce 4S store.
Looking at the city scenery rapidly passing by outside the car window, Jiang Chen's thoughts drifted back to yesterday.
— — Dividing line of memories — —
"Perfect Life System binding successful."
"Detecting host's continuous 996 overtime work, rewarding novice gift package."
"Congratulations to the host for acquiring 100% shares of Xinghe Group. The system has completed world modification and rationalization for it, entrusting it to Zhongcheng Law Firm for full agency."
"All assets and cash rewarded by the system are completely legal, compliant, and rationalized. Please use them with confidence, host."
"The system will reward the host with industries from time to time. Please enjoy life, host."
This series of cold, mechanical voices appeared directly in the mind of Jiang Chen, who had just gotten off work. Jiang Chen even wondered if it was an illusion caused by working overtime and staying up too late recently, or perhaps food poisoning from a cheap meal.
Rubbing his eyes, Jiang Chen looked at the light blue alert box in front of him, which only he should be able to see. Then, under the system's explanation, he accepted this reality.
As an old bookworm who had read novels for over a decade, with years of experience in online novels, his intuition told him that this was a web novel plot reflecting reality, happening to him—he had bound a system.
He immediately decided to quit his job anyway. That lousy job didn't earn much money, and he even deleted everyone from the company.
Early the next morning, he changed into the suit he had bought with two months' salary to meet a client, and took a taxi directly to Zhongcheng Law Firm.
And then everything that happened today unfolded.