Chapter Fifty-Four

  "Why?" Li Jin didn't understand.

  "There's no need," said Li Yiheng. "This matter has nothing to do with you, you have no obligation to investigate Ke Yuan's cause of death, and even more so, you don't have the ability."

  "I..." Lei Jin hastily explained, but was interrupted by Li Yi Heng.

  "Li Jin, just hearing these secrets has made you severely ill, lying in the hospital for a day and night. If you really investigate further, neither of us can predict the consequences." Li Yi Heng's gaze was piercing, as if he wanted to see into his own eyes, "You don't have the ability to deal with Shu Mu Dou, so stay away from him, don't touch this matter again."

  "Do you have it?" Li Jin retorted, "Yes, Mr. Li, you can easily take down a Shu Mu with a flick of your wrist, but what about the He family? The powerful and famous He family, who is Shu Mu's protector? Can you also take them on? Aren't you afraid that in the end, you and the He family will both suffer losses? Besides, wasn't it you who said you would help me make Hong Fei famous and bring down Shu Mu?"

  "If you still want to make Ruo Fei famous, I'll help you, but Ke Yuan's case has nothing to do with you." Li Yi Heng took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Even if it means bankrupting my family, I will investigate the cause of Ke Yuan's death. However, Li Jin, I don't allow you to interfere with this matter again."

  " Ruin the whole family?" Li Jin repeated the four words in a low voice.

  "Yes, even if I lose everything, I won't let go of the person who dares to hurt Ke Yuan, whether it's Shu Mu or anyone else." Li Yi Heng grasped Lei Jin's hand tightly, "But there's no need for you to get involved too."

  Li Jin stared blankly at Li Yi Heng, feeling strange, as if his heart was pounding loudly, causing his chest to throb and his throat to dry up.

  He grasped him with his backhand.

  "Li Yiheng, you..."

  Bang!

  The door was suddenly and violently pushed open by a strange force.

  The next second, Luo Fei's classmate with an extremely innocent and pure face poked in.

  "Little Brocade?"

  The two people on the bed quickly let go of each other's hands, as if they had been caught in an illicit affair.

  "You're here." Li Jin smiled stiffly and called out to him, "Come in... sit!"

  Luo Fei was taken aback for a moment.

  How come you think this tone is wrong?

  Take a look at his side, huh? This person looks familiar, as if I've seen him somewhere before?

  He leaned against the door and thought for a long time, then suddenly stomped his foot and remembered.

  "Pervert!" Kou Fei took three steps forward, his fists clenched and eyes blazing with anger as he charged towards Li Yi Heng, "You actually dare to come looking for Xiao Jin again? I'll beat you up!"

  Although Li Jin didn't understand what Zhang Er and the monk were doing, he saw Ruo Fei, who was 1.9 meters tall, rushing towards Li Yi Heng, which was visually shocking, so he lifted up his quilt and went to stop him.

  But he had just recovered from a serious illness and was still dizzy, so he didn't have the strength to do anything else. His next move was to kneel down on the ground with his legs weak.

  With a thud.

  Luo Fei's body rushed halfway, seeing him fall, turned around and ran towards him directly.

  "Xiao Jin!" Hong Fei supported Li Jin and exclaimed, "Are you okay?!"

  Then he raised his head and shouted at Mr. Li without any psychological burden, "You pervert, stay away from Xiao Jin, you see, as soon as you come, Xiao Jin..."

  "Stop causing trouble, okay? I'm begging you." Li Jin's face twitched with a mixture of anger and embarrassment as he pushed Ruo Fei away, standing up to sit on the edge of the bed. "What pervert, he's our big boss, Li Yi Heng!"

  "Li Yi Heng again... Li Yi Heng?" Kong Fei was stunned, "Li... Mr. Li? Your former boss?"

  Li Jin rolled her eyes and nodded: "Yes."

  "But he's obviously... " Ruo Fei asked in a low voice with his mouth crooked, "... your pervert."

  At this time, Li Jin also reacted.

  Can't blame Ruo Fei for overreacting, last time he met Li Yi Heng, he had just been reborn, narrowly escaped death and came down from Mr. Li's bed, only to be caught red-handed by Ruo Fei.

  At that time, Luo Fei was waving his fist to hit someone, and afterwards, he would often mention that pervert with hatred. However, he didn't know that the pervert who gave Li Jinmei a good job was actually Mr. Li Yiheng, the same person.

  But he knows now.

  Li Jin looked up at Li Yiheng, who was tightly pursing his lips and trying to maintain a poker face, but in reality, he was laughing so hard that he was almost suffocating.

  "Last time was a misunderstanding, I didn't have a chance to explain it to you." Li Jinbai rolled his eyes and continued stubbornly, "Besides, the cause and effect are very complicated, even if I explained it to you, you wouldn't understand. In short, this Mr. Li is a gentleman, I fainted and he sent me to the hospital."

  "Ah-choo." Mr. Li, a gentleman of great integrity, let out a slight cough, as if he were rather enjoying the high hat.

  Luo Fei felt a pang of guilt, thinking that Xiao Jin had fainted and he wasn't by her side, and it was all thanks to someone else sending her to the hospital. He turned his rusty brain over again, thinking that a boss who would kindly send an employee to the hospital probably wasn't a bad person after all, so he didn't dig deeper into the "cause and effect" of what had happened earlier.

  "Sorry, Mr. Li, I...I was just too impulsive." Luo Fei stood up straight and apologized to him.

  Li Yiheng maintained a dignified and gentlemanly demeanor, nodding slightly and saying in a warm tone: "It's alright, ignorance is not a crime. You two chat first, I'll come back later."

  Li Jin replied with a "yes".

  He didn't leave immediately, instead he took his coat from the clothes rack and put it on Lei Jin's shoulders as if afraid she would catch a chill.

  "Remember what I told you." He bent down, his slender fingers carefully smoothing out the wrinkles on Li Jin's clothes. The breath carrying a hint of men's cologne enveloped Li Jin warmly, "Take good care of yourself and don't think too much."

  Then he looked at Hong Fei with a profound gaze and turned around to leave.

  Li Jing stared blankly as Rong Fei's fur suddenly stood on end.

  "Xiao Jin, you...you...!" Ruo Fei pulled at his clothes incoherently.

  "What's wrong with you? You're so capable now, someone sent me to the hospital and you're waving your fist at them," Lei Jin suddenly reached out to grab his clothes, but hesitated for a moment before pulling back, his tone becoming even more severe. "You're really something."

  Luo Fei lowered his flag and stopped drumming, twisting his neck uncomfortably. "I came that day, but you were asleep, so I didn't disturb you," he explained awkwardly. "I stayed for a bit and then left. The competition is very intense, and besides, Old Bei and I are working on this." As he spoke, he pulled out several crumpled papers from his pocket. "Xiao Jin, hurry up and get better, and then we can work together to get this endorsement!"

  "Endorsement?" Li Jincheng took the paper in surprise, and after reading just the first line, he sucked in a breath of cold air. "You want to get your hands on this endorsement?"

  "Right," replied Luo Fei.

  The document in hand is the endorsement negotiation plan with e-commerce company SG, which lists various details and preferential terms for cooperation between the two parties.

  Li Jin roughly flipped through the plan book and looked up to ask Kuang Fei, "Do you know that this family's spokesperson, Shu Mu, has been in office for three years?"

  "I know, so I think they should change their spokesperson." Luo Fei pointed to the plan book, "Lao Bei and I worked on it for a whole day, and we came up with this. Neither of us is professional, so he said that after you review it, we can submit it to SG company."

  The SG company was founded over a decade ago and rose to fame overnight with the rise of e-commerce. After that, it steadily expanded its territory over the next ten years and is now the undisputed leader in the industry, with a market share of as high as 40%. Three years ago, it transformed from a low-cost and people-friendly e-commerce company to start reaching out to the luxury online shopping industry, and at the same time, it appointed Shu Mu as its spokesperson and offered a sky-high endorsement fee. Since then, although the road to luxury online shopping has not been smooth, Shu Mu's position as spokesperson has remained stable, with automatic contract renewal every year, seemingly set to be the spokesperson for life.

  So with just a few months of experience in the industry, wanting to compete with Shu Mu is simply a fantasy.

  "Who proposed this plan?" Li Jin flipped through the crumpled plan book and asked without raising his head.

  "......I." Luo Fei rubbed his nose bridge.

  Li Jin raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

  Luo Fei is a honest kid, but once a honest kid gets angry, his actions can be quite intimidating.

  He recalled the look on Lu Fei's face when he vowed to surpass Shu Mu that day and couldn't help but smile.

  Luo Fei thought he was laughing at his own foolish fantasy, so he tentatively asked: "Is this plan not feasible?"

  "The plan is not bad, but the planning book won't do," said Li Jin. "There's less than a month left before Shu Mu renews his contract with the other party, and you think using this kind of planning book can turn things around? It's absolutely impossible."

  "So?" Kong Fei's eyes lit up.

  "So, you're telling me to get better quickly?" As soon as he mentioned work, Li Jin seemed to have gained energy instantly, and his pale cheeks also showed a hint of rosiness.

  "Xiao Jin, can we grab this endorsement?"

  "I don't dare to guarantee, but I'll try my best." Lei Jin recalled a confidential analysis document he saw when he was an assistant to Li Yiheng. "SG Company is going to change its dynasty, the new CEO who is about to take office doesn't like high-end luxury goods that are out of reach for ordinary people, he still wants SG Company to maintain a down-to-earth image, so the unapproachable superstar Shu Mu is somewhat out of place."

  He looked at Luo Fei, a pop idol born from a talent show, with a huge fan base, appearing on TV every week at a fixed time with a fresh face, and an innate affinity...

  Absolutely save money on agency fees.

  "Ruo Fei, SG company's annual advertising investment is simply countless. In the past, we joked that SG uses a human sea strategy. Whether it's subway buses or fashionable shopping malls, they will stick the spokesperson's portrait in every corner you can't imagine. Outsiders often say that three years ago, Shu Mu and SG's cooperation was a strong alliance, but in fact, if not for SG's human sea strategy, perhaps Shu Mu's image would not have been so deeply ingrained in people's minds. Now, the role of being favored has fallen to you." Li Jin looked at him seriously, "One year and three months, Shu Mu has not released an album or filmed a movie, nor has he presented any work to the audience for one year and three months. He is blindly consuming his accumulated popularity from the past, trying to occupy a place in high society. He's like the Greek war god Antaeus, who has forgotten that the most ordinary audience is his source of nourishment - since he wants to abandon his mother earth, let us take over."