Only after being reborn did I realize how fascinating the world of the rich is.

As the year drew to a close in 2003, Jiang Xueying flew back from abroad, and Li Xiaofeng once again visited the Jiang family.

After finishing their meal, Li Xiaofeng was about to pull Jiang Xueying back to her room when President Jiang stopped him.

"Xiaofeng, don't be in such a hurry. Have a seat. I have something to tell you!"

"Uncle Jiang, I'm not in a hurry, I'm just worried that Xueying will be anxious!" Li Xiaofeng said with a smile as he sat down on the sofa.

However, to Li Xiaofeng's surprise, Jiang Xueying slapped the back of his head with her black-stockinged foot, then ran barefoot upstairs to the second floor with her slippers in hand.

"Pah, you big bad guy! I finally flew back, and the first thing you do when we meet is talk bad about me. You deserve it!" Jiang Xueying stood on the second floor, smugly wiggling her hips in a provocative manner.

Li Xiaofeng said irritably, "You just wait, see how I deal with you later!"

President Jiang looked at his daughter with a smile and said in a very doting tone, "Xueying, don't be silly, I really have something to tell Xiaofeng!"

Jiang Xueying asked with a grin, "Should I leave?"

Before President Jiang could speak, Jiang Xueying continued with a grin, "It seems I don't need to leave. Otherwise, you wouldn't be talking here; you would have gone to the study or somewhere else long ago, right?"

Seeing his daughter looking like a bystander on the second floor, President Jiang swallowed back the words he was about to say and smiled helplessly at Li Xiaofeng.

Li Xiaofeng threatened Jiang Xueying on the second floor with his eyes, while Jiang Xueying made a face at him, indicating that she was not afraid.

"Uncle Jiang, please just say what you want to say!"

"Actually, it's nothing serious. A friend asked me to pass on a message to you: it's better to resolve conflicts than to let them fester. Forgive and forget. In business, harmony is the best policy!"

Li Xiaofeng smiled and instantly understood what was going on.

"Uncle Jiang, logically speaking, since you've already spoken up, and it's the first time you've spoken to me, I should give you face. But the problem isn't that simple; this matter concerns the life and death of my company."

Besides, I'm not deliberately causing trouble. If I don't make a move, or if I just let this go, do you mean I, Li Xiaofeng, am someone anyone can just come and kick?

Jiang Xueying leaned on the railing, grinning as she asked, "Is it so hard to kick you? Am I not an ordinary person anymore?"

Li Xiaofeng said irritably, "Of course, most people don't deserve a beating; it's the other way around!"

"Tch, I'll lock the door in a minute, let's see what you can do about it!"

Ignoring their banter, President Jiang sighed and said, "Xiaofeng, is it really that serious? It's just that Wei Jianjun did some shady things, how does it have such a big connection to your company?"

Li Xiaofeng smiled confidently and said, "President Jiang, a new era has arrived. Your previous way of doing business is outdated. The competition in this new era is far more brutal than you can imagine!"

"What do you mean by that?" President Jiang asked, his expression full of curiosity.

"In your era, doing business relied on initial capital accumulation. The development speed was very slow, and the market was very large. It was impossible for a single company to occupy the market in a short period of time."

Therefore, in your era, the emphasis was on making money through harmony. Everyone worked together peacefully to earn money, since the market was huge and there was plenty of business to be done.

But times have changed. My competitors and I expand our scale by relying on external financing and actively seizing market share.

Whoever can secure more funding will gain a larger market share, and with a larger market share, they can secure even more funding.

In this process, whoever is a step behind will be left far behind by their competitors.

In particular, once one of them goes public and obtains a large amount of funds, it will have a devastating impact on later entrants. After all, going public is the best financing channel, and the financing that can be obtained is the most abundant and convenient.

Uncle Jiang, I'm currently in a race against time with my competitor to see who can go public first, and you're here telling me to make peace with my competitor and let him off the hook?

"Then you can ask my competitors if they'll give me a break once they go public."

Li Xiaofeng's words left President Jiang speechless, seemingly unable to comprehend them for a moment. However, he still said with a slight embarrassment, "No matter what, we have no grudges against each other, so we should still get along peacefully!"

Li Xiaofeng smiled and continued, "President Jiang, you may not understand the meaning of this. Let me put it this way: if I let the other party off the hook, it would be equivalent to giving away all of your Jiang family's assets to them in order to win their favor."

Mr. Jiang looked somewhat taken aback and said blankly, "Xiaofeng, you're exaggerating a bit!"

Li Xiaofeng shook his head and said in a calm tone, "This is just a rough estimate. This is only the result within three to five years. If this result is extended to ten or twenty years, it would be equivalent to dozens of the current Jiang family."

"Mr. Jiang, think about it. Giving away the wealth of dozens of Jiang families to your competitor, perhaps just in exchange for a so-called favor—do you think it's worth it?"

Jiang Xueying, from the second floor, chimed in with a grin: "Dad, I feel like you've gotten old and outdated. You're like a little kid in front of Xiaofeng, that big bad guy. Hehe, so funny, so funny!"

President Jiang glared at his daughter with annoyance, then turned to Li Xiaofeng with some resentment and said, "Xiaofeng, I know the Wei family framed you before, and they were definitely in the wrong."

But you don't need to make such a big deal out of it. For your own selfish interests, you're going to condemn everyone on the boat. Many of them are innocent, and they have no reason to suffer along with the Wei family.

As for your talk of wealth, and dozens of Jiang families, that's outrageous! I definitely don't believe it. That's just an excuse you're making up. If you're going to make a reason, at least come up with something plausible!

Li Xiaofeng smiled and shook his head: "President Jiang, judging from your tone, it must be that the Wei family and the people from Hezhong Media have come to you to plead for me!"

There's a saying you may or may not have heard: "When an avalanche comes, no snowflake is innocent."

The Wei family has clashed with me repeatedly and tried to harm the people around me. They don't take me seriously at all. Now they've almost made me go to jail. Of course they deserve to die. I certainly won't let them off easily.

Are the people at Hezhong Media really innocent? They are not innocent at all!

Those people used that incident to launch a massive smear campaign against me and my company in the media. Why didn't they think of showing some leniency then?