After being reborn, the young master returned to his village and led his wife and daughters to prosp

If it were an ordinary person, hearing Liu Qi's heartfelt words might have made them start to doubt themselves.

After all, the person in front of him was one of the real big shots in the provincial capital. Although he couldn't compare to a super enterprise like Boss He, which could be ranked among the top in the country, as the leader of their Nancheng, he was at a level that ordinary people could hardly reach.

Their evaluations were remarkably objective and accurate.

However, in the face of Liu Qi's warning, Lin Fan shook his head and remained silent, seemingly indifferent on the surface, but in his heart he really didn't care much about what Liu Qi was saying.

Is Longteng his goal? Obviously not.

Lin Fan has always had only one goal: to become his past self.

In his past life, he might not have reached the pinnacle of the world, but he was certainly a force to be reckoned with in China. Back then, he wouldn't even have given a company as large as Longteng a second thought.

So perhaps in Liu Qi's eyes, Lin Fan is a proud and ambitious young man who has achieved some small successes and is at the peak of his life.

However, in reality, Lin Fan is a hidden tycoon who has already reached the peak, returned to the trough, and started from scratch again.

So, although they are at the same level now, their mindsets are completely different. Lin Fan had already faced the things Liu Qi mentioned once, so he would only feel that it was easy to handle the second time and would not feel any pressure.

"You're confident."

Seeing that Lin Fan didn't speak, but only nodded and remained silent, she glanced at Lin Fan with some surprise, then stared into his eyes and spoke in a deep voice.

A hint of inexplicable vicissitude flashed in Lin Fan's eyes as he sighed, "Confidence?"

"Perhaps, but confidence is always better than inferiority."

"But excessive confidence is arrogance. Do you know that the commotion you've caused could bring you utter ruin?"

Liu Qi's tone gradually became serious as he looked at Lin Fan.

"Doing business is far more complicated than you think. Everything in this world, from food and clothing to housing and transportation, is inseparable from money, and those who have the most direct relationship with money are us businessmen."

"In this provincial capital, do you know how many companies there are, how much collusion exists among them, and how much profit they divide up?"

"Making money is not as simple as you giving me something and me giving you something to complete a value exchange; there are many complex aspects involved."

"It's like a complex spider web, connecting everything in this world that's related to interests, power, lust, and so on. If you rashly step into an unfamiliar web, you'll only get trapped and eventually be swallowed up."

Lin Fan looked at Liu Qi, his brows furrowing slightly.

Of course, it wasn't because of what Liu Qi said, but because of the reason he said those words.

Logically speaking, this was only the second time I had met him, so there was no need for him to bring these things up to a junior I didn't know well.

Could it be that he admired me so much after just one meeting and getting to know me that he was willing to put aside his precious time to come to my shop and talk nonsense to me?

Obviously, this is unrealistic. Lin Fan isn't a clown living in a fairy tale, so he understands very well that people like Liu Qi have a reason for everything they do; it's impossible for them to be so naive.

So he looked at Liu Qi and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Liu, why are you telling me all this?"

"More than what you said, I'm curious: is there something special about me that makes you so interested in me?"

"Mr. Liu, you came to see me specifically today, surely you didn't come here just to talk about these things? We can discuss this topic later. Mr. Liu, could you please answer my questions?"

Liu Qi paused for a moment, staring at Lin Fan's bewildered expression, his eyes scrutinizing him, and remained silent for a while.

After a moment, he suddenly chuckled self-deprecatingly and said, "You really are very smart and perceptive."

"It seems you've already noticed the difference between me and you."

Lin Fan nodded and said, "I did find that out. After all, I'm just a nobody from a small county town, doing some small business."

"My interactions with you were only because of Mr. Zheng's past relationship; I bought some things from you. No matter how you look at it, you wouldn't pay special attention to me, so there must be a reason."

"If I couldn't even figure these things out, I wouldn't have been able to build my business to its current scale, wouldn't you say?"

Liu Qi nodded noncommittally.

The gaze, which had been fixed on a still, stagnant pool, suddenly shifted to resemble the rippling surface of an autumn altar.

He looked at Lin Fan and slowly said, "When you saw me last time, I noticed something was off about you."

“You once said I resembled an old friend of yours, so after you left, I investigated you.”

Do you want to know the result?

Lin Fan's pupils contracted, and his heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.

Just now, this Mr. Liu was saying that he was sensitive, but now it seems that he is no less so than I am.

I only glanced at him once last time, yet he became so wary of me.

Sure enough, none of those who can run a business to this extent are easy to get along with.

"Mr. Liu, have you misunderstood something?"

Lin Fan asked tentatively.

Liu Qi waved his hand and said, "No need to play games anymore, and you don't need to be so cautious. Don't worry, I didn't mean any harm by investigating you. I just thought about some things from the past."

Lin Fan fell silent. Since the other party had already put it this way, Lin Fan felt embarrassed to say anything more.

He nodded and said in a deep voice, "So, Mr. Liu, what exactly did you investigate that made you go to the trouble of seeing a nobody like me?"

Mr. Liu sighed, his tone inexplicably softening.

“I’ve found out…you’re not your parents’ biological child. Your father’s surname is Lin, and your mother’s surname is Liu, the same as mine.”

"You said last time that I look a lot like one of your family members, you must be referring to your adoptive mother, right?"

Lin Fan did not refute, but slowly nodded.

"So, Mr. Liu, now that you know the reason, I don't want to keep it a secret anymore."

"I want to know if you and my mother have any relationship?"

Lin Fan raised his head, looked directly into Liu Qi's eyes, and slowly began to speak.

If it's just a one-sided illusion, it might simply be because the two people happen to look very alike.

After all, with billions of people in the world, it is actually very easy to find two people who are not related by blood but have very similar facial features.

But now that Liu Qi has investigated him and knows about his relationship with his adoptive mother, and then came here specifically to find him because of this, it is obviously not something that can be explained by coincidence.