The mysterious CEO's endless pampering

Li Zhanting looked at the photo of Shen Yanran holding a kitten that she had sent him on WeChat, smiled knowingly, and immediately replied, "Okay, I understand. Get some rest, goodnight."

Sitting across from him, Xie Tingrui couldn't help but sigh. This ruthless and powerful man in the business world would one day take the initiative to apologize to his wife.

He had always thought that Li Zhanting had become henpecked after getting married, but after seeing what he did just now, he realized that he was a wife-obsessed man!

Xie Tingrui crossed his arms and teased him, "Old Li, judging from your expression, your wife must be home by now. Can we start working now?"

To be honest, at this moment, he felt a strange longing for the workaholic Li Zhanting of the past. Unlike now, when Shen Yanran is in any trouble, he can abandon his work to care for his wife.

If he weren't in the United States, which is too far from China, he might have flown back overnight to handle the situation personally.

Li Zhanting said in a deep voice, "Go ahead and speak, I'm listening."

Xie Tingrui stopped gossiping and started talking to him about serious matters.

Back in China, Shen Yanran played with Rou Rou for a while, then went to check on Shen Guohua in his room. Finding him asleep, she quietly closed the door and went back to her own bedroom to sleep.

After washing up, her phone suddenly vibrated a few more times; it was a text message from an unknown number.

Shen Yanran opened her phone and looked at it, her brows furrowing instantly.

The person who sent her the text message was none other than her estranged father, Shen Changtian.

“Shen Yanran, if you don’t want to be disgraced and kicked out of the Li family, transfer 10 billion yuan to this account immediately, and I promise I will never contact you again.”

Shen Yanran found it utterly inexplicable that Shen Changtian had suddenly sent her such a text message. She hadn't done anything wrong, so why would she be afraid of his threats?

She casually mentioned 10 billion yuan. Does she think she prints money and can just casually get so much cash?

He must have gambled again, racked up a huge debt, and had no choice but to come looking for her again.

She had agreed to pay off his gambling debts for his sake out of consideration for her grandfather, but now that they were completely estranged and even her grandfather didn't care about him anymore, she had even less reason to care about him.

Shen Yanran immediately blocked the number, deleted the text message, and then went to sleep on silent.

Shen Changtian waited for a long time with his new phone number, but received no reply from Shen Yanran. He impatiently dialed the number again, but it was already unreachable after only one ring.

It's obvious that Shen Yanran has blocked him.

Furious, Shen Chang threw his phone onto the bed. "That brat Shen Yanran ignored me and blocked me!"

Du Yuzhi seemed to have anticipated this outcome, and said with a hint of sarcasm, "Changtian, I've already told you, Shen Yanran is a heartless little beast. Why did you send her any text messages and make yourself so angry? If you ask me, we should just do a live stream as planned first thing tomorrow morning, let her know how powerful we are, and she'll be eager to send us money. Wouldn't that be better?"

The reason Shen Changtian bought a new number to send text messages to Shen Yanran was that he wanted to give her another chance. As the saying goes, family scandals should not be aired in public. If it really went live and became known throughout the city, he would lose face.

Besides, he didn't ask for much. 10 billion yuan is just a drop in the ocean for a family as wealthy as Li Zhanting's.

Shen Yanran could easily get the money by just acting cute and saying nice things to him. Why does she have to make him completely break off relations with her?

Shen Changtian waved his hand impatiently and said, "Alright, stop dawdling. I'm telling you, it would be best if we could make money during tomorrow's live stream. If we can't, you'll have to give me back all the money I gave you!"

Du Yuzhi had already transferred all her money to her lover Momo's name. What could she possibly give Shen Changtian? Helpless, she could only use the child in her belly as an excuse, saying, "Didn't we agree that the money was for our son to spend? You're going back now. How am I supposed to support him after he's born?"

Shen Changtian couldn't care less about anything else. "My son is still so young, he won't cost much. The debt collectors are pressing me hard. If I don't give them the money, they'll chop off my hand. Do you want me to become crippled?"

Du Yuzhi didn't care about Shen Changtian's life or death at the moment, but she still had to put on a show. "You are my husband, of course I can't just watch you become a cripple. But didn't Mom just pay off part of your debts yesterday? Why do you need more? How much do you owe those loan sharks? Why is this never going to end?"

Loan sharks' interest keeps compounding, and unless you pay it off all at once, you'll never be able to pay it off in your lifetime. Shen Changtian's gambling debts have already ballooned to over 100 million yuan, and his mother has only paid off less than half of it. How could that possibly be enough?

Shen Changtian glared fiercely at Du Yuzhi and said, "Don't worry about how much money I owe. Anyway, I didn't even care about my father's life or death for you and my son. If you don't give me the money, don't blame me for being rude to you!"

If Du Yuzhi hadn't been constantly encouraging him to hurt his father, he wouldn't be in this situation now. At least with his father around, he could pay back any amount of money he owed.

Du Yuzhi didn't want to provoke him at this time. "Okay, okay, I understand. Don't be angry. It's getting late, go to sleep."

The next day, Shen Yanran went to work as usual.

But during her lunch break, a live stream suddenly made her the focus of discussion throughout the city and even the country.

Even Shen Yanran, who rarely uses her phone or goes online, knows about this, which shows just how far the news has spread.

Almost all online and television media outlets were broadcasting Shen Changtian's live video.

Shen Changtian and Du Yuzhi, dressed somewhat disheveled, appeared in front of the camera to accuse Shen Yanran of "all sorts of evil deeds".

"Hello everyone, my name is Shen Changtian. I am the father of the wife of the president of Shengtian International, who was recently officially announced. Originally, I, as a father, should be happy that my daughter married so well. But you have no idea how many heinous things she has done to our family behind the scenes! She is simply insane!"

She was jealous of her younger sister from a young age, even trying to steal her fiancé. When we discovered this, she became enraged and ran away from home, even severing ties with us. Then, to get revenge, she used some unknown means to deceive the president of Shengtian International into marrying her. She then used the Li family's power to retaliate against the Shen family, not only taking Shen's Jewelry from me but also kicking me, my wife, my eighty-year-old mother, and me out of our home, leaving us homeless!

Shen Yanran stared at her phone as Shen Changtian spoke words completely contrary to the truth, her heart aching as if she could hardly breathe.

Such a huge scandal has provided a perfect outlet for keyboard warriors who love to vent their frustrations.

Without distinguishing right from wrong, they started hurling insults and abuse at Shen Yanran in the comments, calling her a slut, a whore, a lowlife, and so on—the most vile things they could say.

Some people even sent gifts to Shen Changtian, hoping he would reveal more secrets.

After all, gossip about the rich can be much more exciting than gossip about TV stars.

Some people even suggested that Du Yuzhi come out and say a few words.

Compared to her peers, Du Yuzhi is well-maintained. Although she is over fifty years old, she looks like she is only forty-five or forty-six.

It can be said that Shen Yufei's appearance is exactly like her when she was young, pure and lovely, gentle and cute, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to easily seduce Shen Changtian.

Du Yuzhi gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a tissue, and began to speak with a choked voice: "Although I am Shen Yanran's stepmother, I have always regarded her as more important than my own daughter since she was a child. Whether it is delicious food or beautiful clothes, she is the first person I think of. Who would have thought that after she grew up, she would not only not be grateful for my upbringing, but also plotted to cause my biological daughter to lose her career and go far away, and there has been no news of her since!"

Upon hearing this news, Shen Yufei's die-hard fans stepped forward to prove that what Du Yuzhi said was true.

Shen Changtian continued his baseless accusations against Shen Yanran, saying, "They say a father is to blame for a son's misbehavior. I failed to properly care for my eldest daughter and even harmed my younger daughter. It's my responsibility as a father. I've tried to persuade Shen Yanran to stop more than once, but she just wouldn't listen. Even after learning that my wife was pregnant again, fearing the child would fight him for his inheritance, she forced my wife to take abortion pills. If I hadn't desperately stopped her, the consequences would have been unimaginable! Now, I only hope that my online friends can help me and ask her to spare me, give me a way out, and give my unborn child a chance to live!"

Shen Yanran watched helplessly as Shen Changtian and Du Yuzhi joined forces to slander and defame her, and the various malicious comments scrolling across the screen instantly left her mind blank.

It is said that even tigers do not eat their cubs, but Shen Changtian really went to extreme lengths to force her to give him money!

Du Yuzhi really went all out to make this live stream a success, spending no less than 500,000 yuan. She personally contacted an internet company and hired millions of online trolls to promote her and denounce Shen Yanran.

Even if Shen Yanran could ignore these online comments, she didn't believe that the Li family could just sit idly by.

Seeing that the online comments were all in their favor, Du Yuzhi knew that things were at least half successful. Just as she was about to press on, her phone screen suddenly went black, and she was forcibly logged out for some unknown reason.

When she immediately picked up her phone and tried to log in again, it showed that her account had been permanently banned!