Working: Start by earning the boss a hundred million!

Chapter 87

Shang Xingjian remained expressionless. "I must have misheard. There was no sound."

Cheng Mai looked at his wrist with a puzzled expression; the sound clearly came from that spot.

The merchant showed her her wrist; it was completely bare.

She didn't know the magic of illusion, but she was familiar with it.

Shang Xingjian knew she had seen through him, since he hadn't put much effort into being perfunctory.

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On the day of the party, Cheng Mai and Shang Xingjian arrived rather late. When they arrived, the place was already bustling with people, each socializing for their own purposes.

Since Cheng Mai took over the Cheng Group, he has been working at Xuanhe Technology. People in the business world know very little about this eldest daughter of the Cheng family.

On the contrary, Mr. Cheng, who had not appeared for a long time, was chatting with someone.

Shang Xingjian leaned closer to Cheng Mai and clicked his tongue, "Old ginger is spicier, you still can't do it after all."

Cheng Mai kept looking at his father not far away, watching him chatting and laughing with others.

"Miss Cheng, this must be Miss Cheng?" A man exclaimed dramatically upon seeing Cheng Mai, then looked at Cheng's father and said, "Chairman Cheng, this must be your Miss Cheng, who is as beautiful as an angel."

Mr. Cheng neither responded nor refuted, but stared at Cheng Mai.

Hearing the commotion, Zhu Biao pushed his friend aside and came over.

“Chairman Zhao, that’s not right. How can you call her Miss Cheng? This is the rightful Chairman Cheng, the old Chairman Cheng, wouldn’t you agree?” Zhu Biao said with a smile, not calling her the young Chairman Cheng, but the old Chairman Cheng, the implication of which was very clear.

The man was stunned for a moment, then just gave an awkward laugh.

Mr. Cheng put down his wine glass and walked over. He first glanced at Shang Xingjian, then looked at Cheng Mai. "Chairman Zhu said you want to auction the Golden Jade Cup?"

Cheng's father spoke so casually that Cheng Mai had a bad feeling.

"I don't like these things, but since Mr. Zhu had this occasion, I brought them out to entertain everyone. There shouldn't be any problem, right?" Cheng Mai didn't mention the tea set in detail.

“You naturally have the right to dispose of what your mother left behind, but it is ultimately something you left behind. Even if you don’t love it, it’s best to keep it safe.” Mr. Cheng spoke like a father earnestly advising his disobedient daughter.

Cheng Mai heard it clearly at this moment, and she replied calmly, "Keeping these things is just a way to remember people. Didn't you throw away all of my mother's things back then?"

The father and daughter faced off, neither willing to give an inch.

Zhu Biao glanced at the father and daughter, then looked at Shang Xingjian, who was standing next to Cheng Mai watching the show. He quietly went over and tugged at Shang Xingjian's clothes. "Boss Shang, aren't you going to do anything about this?"

This is going to be so awkward.

He still has an auction coming up.

The merchant simply exclaimed, "Ah! My name is illegitimate, how can you govern it?"

Before Shang Xingjian could finish speaking, Cheng Mai kicked him mercilessly. Shang Xingjian looked at him with a "look at me" expression; what right did he have to speak? "The past is the past, Cheng Mai. Doing business isn't that simple. You can't succeed by relying on a few charlatans."

The person pretending to be dead looked at Cheng's father with a smile upon hearing this.

Cheng's father could actually see a hint of threat in his seemingly smiling eyes, a threat that came from seeing right through a person.

Who exactly is this person, Shang Xingjian?
“Mr. Cheng is right. Doing business is indeed not easy. Relying on just a few charlatans will not make a big difference. However, Mr. Cheng, there is a saying that if you walk the dark road too much, you will eventually encounter a ghost.” Shang Xingjian’s voice was gentle, but his words sent chills down people’s spines.

"As for what Mr. Cheng intends to do, I advise you to think twice before you act." Shang Xingjian grabbed Cheng Mai's wrist and pulled him to his side.

After finishing his explanation, Shang Xingjian pulled Cheng Mai away from there. But after taking a few steps, he turned back to look at Cheng's father and said, "Logically, I shouldn't interfere in your affairs. However, I can't stand seeing my people being threatened, so before you do anything in the future, think about whether they are my opponents."

The merchant confirmed that Cheng's father had witnessed the entire process that day. He should know his own strength, and even if he didn't know who he was, he knew that Cheng was not someone to be trifled with.

Shang Xingjian pulled Cheng Mai to the bar, then shook him off and went to get some food.

Cheng Mai: "..." Being moved is just a waste of emotions.

"What did you mean by what you just said?" What do you mean by "shouldn't be"?
Is it that it shouldn't be done, or that it's that it can't be done?
"Wasn't I handsome? I thought I was incredibly handsome just now," Shang Xingjian said, leaning against the bar, eager to claim credit.

Cheng Mai leaned against the bar, mimicking his posture. "I've always felt something was off about you, Jian Shang. What are you hiding from us?"

Shang Xingjian picked out a pastry and handed it to her. "It's just that I'm too powerful. In order to maintain the balance, Heaven and Earth will prohibit me from directly participating in your affairs to prevent me from taking sides. I can only take action when there are things that you can't solve, like what happened last time. This is to protect you."

The explanation given by the business firm is reasonable, so reasonable that there is not a single flaw.

After all, people with too much ability do need to be restrained, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

"What will happen?"

"At most, it might strike me with a few bolts of lightning, but it won't destroy me," Shang Xingjian said nonchalantly. "However, I don't really intend to do anything to that old man, so the lightning won't hit me."

Cheng Mai was skeptical and had little appetite. Instead, he looked at his father, who was still exchanging pleasantries. "These people in the business world are definitely more serious about him than your family. They don't care about your family's ethics or your parents' position. They only care about whether you can make money."

Shang Xingjian followed Cheng Mai's gaze and looked over. "Cheng Ming is a man who has been a virtuous person for nine lifetimes and a demon for one lifetime. It's hard to tell if he's real or not."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Mai stared directly at Shang Xingjian. "What do you mean?"

A person who has been a virtuous person for nine generations—isn't that more meritorious than a top scholar in the imperial examination?
Her father?
That jerk?

"His fate foretold that he would fall into demonhood and slaughter a city, and be reincarnated as a human only after a thousand years in the River of Oblivion. The reason for his fall into demonhood seems to have been concealed by himself, and it is not clear, but the slaughter of the city is real." Shang Xingjian kept looking at Cheng's father and could see every one of his lives, except for his previous life.

"Lethe?"

"The Ghostly River of Oblivion disappeared decades ago. It contained tens of millions of vengeful spirits and evil ghosts. In the past, those who committed heinous crimes would be thrown there and devoured by countless ghosts for thousands of years until their souls were completely destroyed. However, if one could convert the evil ghosts in the Ghostly River of Oblivion, one could ascend to the Immortal Realm. But the last person to ascend to the Immortal Realm was thousands of years ago."

Therefore, Shang Xingjian cannot see what the memory that Cheng's father erased was.

"You suspect that he converted the Ghost River of Oblivion, which is why the Ghost River of Oblivion disappeared?" Cheng Mai found this unbelievable. His father was definitely not that kind of person. He was very selfish and could not possibly do such a thing.