“That person just now is not very good, you have to be careful with him in the future.”

After leaving, Liu Yao frowned and warned Tao Mu. He only noticed that Lin Rong’an was a petty man who beat women, and mistakenly thought that Lin Rong’an was jealous of Tao Mu being more handsome than him, more capable than him, and more attractive to women than him, so he was trying to provoke him. He didn’t think of anything more than that.

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After all, they often encounter this kind of rich second generation who were too idle and liked to make trouble at Night.

Tao Mu smiled and said, “He’s just a hedonistic son of rich parents, and just relying on the power of the Lin family to toss about in Hong Kong. We’re going back to Beijing soon. Don’t pay attention to him.”

Liu Yao heard these words and smiled, “That’s true.”

Mr. Song, who had not spoken for a long time, also smoothed out the wrinkle in his eyebrows.

The family of four strolled around the mall for a long time, buying a lot of luxury goods, cosmetics, mobile phones, laptops, and even a lot of gold accessories. According to a rough calculation, Tao Mu alone spent nearly 10 million yuan. Causing the shopping guide to be quite speechless and delighted, realizing that she had encountered quite a big customer. So her service attitude was even warmer than before.

After some shopping, the family of four returned to the hotel around 6 o’clock in the evening. Li Xiaoheng also just came back. Seeing the big bags and small bags and even the staff from the shopping mall following behind the family of four carrying more bags, he couldn’t help but chuckle.

“It looks like you guys were having a good time.” Li Xiaoheng asked with a smile, “What did you buy?”

“There are a lot of things, but most are all gifts.” Tao Mu picked and chose among the gifts, and handed a set of jade bracelets worth nearly one million, a Patek Philippe watch, as well as two game books and a long Valentino dress to Li Xiaoheng: “For you.”

“Huh?” Li Xiaoheng didn’t react for a while.

Tao Mu patiently repeated: “For your parents and younger siblings.”

Not knowing what to say, Li Xiaoheng only felt that a warm current suddenly rose from the depths of his heart, just like rolling lava, instantly burning his whole body.

He smiled and accepted Tao Mu’s gifts for his family, and asked in a warm voice, “Even my family gets gifts, but what about mine?”

“Here!” Tao Mu picked through the pile of gifts again, finding a watch and handing it to Li Xiaoheng.

Li Xiaoheng then found that Tao Mu’s gifts all had a similar characteristic. As long as it was for a man, he would give a watch or a game book depending on age and distance. For example, the gift he gave to Liu Yao and Meng Qi was a pair of men’s couple watches. The gift for Yun Yi was also a watch. The ones that were given to friends like Feng Yuan, Wen Bao, Du Kang, Chu Sui’an and Gou Rixin were all game books. Only Mr. Song’s gift was a packet of Pu’er green cakes.

The gifts for girls were more varied. For mother Li it was a jade bracelet, for little sister Li it was an extravagant evening dress, and for dean Tao it was a set of gold jewelry. Because Dean Tao worked in an orphanage and usually had contact with all kinds of naughty children. If he gave her a fragile jade bracelet, it would easily be damaged. Besides, Dean Tao would also be reluctant to wear it. The gifts for Qin Miaoru and other girls were all kinds of cosmetics, luxury accessories and designer bags.

“There’s no other way, girls’ gifts are easy to buy. Relatively speaking, the selection of gifts for men is much narrower.” Tao Mu shrugged his shoulders and answered very honestly.

Li Xiaoheng chuckled and said warmly, “Thank you for your gifts. After the contract signing ceremony is over tomorrow, we can go back to Beijing.”

Tao Mu nodded: “Then you have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow, you must be more handsome than other bosses.”

This time, Li Xiaoheng really laughed out loud.

But that night, Li Xiaoheng didn’t listen to Tao Mu’s words and rested early. Instead, he took Assistant Jiang and ran out to buy gifts. It was mainly  for Liu Yao, Meng Qi and Mr. Song. Tao Mu treated his family so carefully, not even forgetting them when he bought gifts, Li Xiaoheng felt that he couldn’t be left behind.

However, in the process of choosing gifts, Li Xiaoheng was a bit troubled. Because he really didn’t know what gift to give a man. The best choice, a watch, had already been occupied by Tao Mu in advance. Li Xiaoheng couldn’t buy a watch like Tao Mu did. So after thinking about it, Li Xiaoheng was very troubled.

Finally, he had to ask Assistant Jiang’s opinion.

As Li Xiaoheng’s assistant, Jiang Zhe usually handled things like giving gifts. As early as when Li Xiaoheng was pulling him to the mall, Assistant Jiang had already cleverly sent a FlyNews to the work group of the secretary’s office. Brainstorming ideas, and then handing the phone to CEO Li.

Mr. Li peeked at the FlyNews group for a long time, and finally decided to give Liu Yao and Meng Qi an RV, so that they could travel in the future if they want; give the old man and Dean Tao massage chairs, so that these two elderly could enjoy a relaxing massage whenever they wanted. As for the gift for Tao Mu, Mr. Li thought and thought, and finally bought a bunch of underwear.

When Tao Mu received the gift, he was speechless.

He threw the panties directly on Li Xiaoheng, got into the bed and fell asleep on his own.

Li Xiaoheng flicked his big tail all the way, went to wash up, and then got into the bed. After some diligent practice of kissing skills, the two fell asleep hugging each other.

It was a peaceful night.

The next day, Li Xiaoheng indeed dressed himself well, and he even wore the watch Tao Mu gave him to the contract signing ceremony. Before leaving, he also asked Tao Mu to change into the underwear he gave him.

Tao Mu rolled his eyes in annoyance, and replied stubbornly, “I won’t wear it!” Tao Mu didn’t have the habit of putting on new underwear that had not been washed.

Li Xiaoheng didn’t mind either. Hearing this, he placed a pair of his clean underwear on the pillow. Then went off to work with a big tail waving behind him.

Only Tao Mu was left lying on the bed and secretly scolding: “Too indecent.”

The preparations for the contract signing ceremony took a long time, but when the actual day arrived, including the interaction with the media, it was over in less than two hours.

Li Xiaoheng’s scheduled flight from Hong Kong to Beijing took off at 12:30 noon and arrived in Beijing at 3:40 pm. And there was actually no delay!

The group went directly from the VIP channel to the parking lot, and when they came out, they were glad to find that the sky outside was still a bright blue.

“It’s really not easy!”

It was August, and Beijing had entered the season when autumn was at its height but the weather was absolutely not pleasant at all. The wind and sand blowing from Inner Mongolia would always be dusty, and a sandstorm would blow over from time to time.

In this case, that they could actually see the blue sky, it was even smaller than the chance of winning the lottery.

Considering that the old man Song was advanced in years, the courtyard house was the first place the group returned to. As soon as the car entered the alley, all the neighbors nearby heard it.

When the car drove to the gate of the courtyard, Dean Tao and Feng Yuan were already waiting at the gate.

When everyone got out of the car, Feng Yuan, the little stammer, rushed forward eagerly, hugged Tao Mu and said loudly, “Brother, brother Mu, I, I miss you.”

Tao Mu touched Feng Yuan’s crew cut head and felt the hard hair poking his palms: “Brother also misses you too. I brought back your gift. We’ll look at it later when we enter the house.”

Qin Miaoru and Gou Rixin, who lived in the courtyard, ran out in a rush, helping to move things in, and the atmosphere suddenly became very lively.

Tao Mu walked up to Dean Tao and greeted her with a smile: “Dean, I’m back.”

“Ai, ai, it’s good to come back, it’s good to come back.” Dean Tao looked at the young man who was now a year older and looked even more handsome and hearty, and felt her eyes mist over.

“Before your birthday, Mr. Li came back to pick up people, and he wanted me to follow him. But I couldn’t put aside my worries for the children in the orphanage, so I didn’t come. You don’t blame me, do you?”

“How could I!” Tao Mu said with a smile: “I know you miss me.”

Speaking of this, Tao Mu suddenly remembered: “I also bought gifts for the children in the orphanage.” It was when they went to Disney, he had bought a lot of Disney souvenirs, which were just perfect for the young children.

Dean Tao smiled slightly. She just knew that though Tao Mu said he didn’t like children and hated naughty children the most. In truth, he also thought about the children in the orphanage. Even when he went out to film, he did not forget about buying gifts for the children.

The children who followed Dean Tao and Feng Yuan to pick them up at the gate of the courtyard instantly cheered in delight.

Children’s voices were immature and high when excited. It gave Tao Mu a headache, so he quickly said, “Don’t make any noise, wait for the Dean to divide the gifts amongst you.”

Just as he was talking, he suddenly saw a thin, short young man squeezing in from behind and greeting Tao Mu with a smile: “Brother Mu, long time no see.”

Looking at that very familiar face, the smile on Tao Mu’s face suddenly disappeared.

Tao Mu’s personality was not the kind of approachable, gentle and amiable personality. Even when he suppressed his nature when interacting with sophistication with others, there were still many people who were afraid of him. So one could imagine how fiery Tao Mu’s temper was.

At this moment, when his smile faded away, and when those phoenix eyes stared coldly at you, an invisible coercive energy seemed to seep out from his body, deterring the person and causing him to hesitate for a while, and then smile even more tentatively: “Brother Mu don’t remember me anymore? I’m Cao Miao.”

Of course Tao Mu remembered him. Not only did they know each other, Tao Mu also clearly remembered how in the previous life he stole his diary and posted it on the Internet. It was simply unforgettable!

The corner of Tao Mu’s mouth twitched, and he smiled coldly: “Of course I remember. Isn’t this brother Cao! Didn’t you say that you have left the orphanage? Told us not to pester you or drag you down. What’s the matter? After so many years of tossing about you still haven’t struck it rich, now you are thinking of coming back and hugging a big thigh?”

Cao Miao was actually two years older than Tao Mu. However, because Tao Mu had always had a tyrannical personality since he was a child, fighting fiercely and possessing a fierce temper, the children in the orphanage were used to calling Tao Mu big brother. Cao Miao was no exception. In order to have a good meal and nice clothing, he had been following behind Tao Mu as a sidekick since he was a child.

Later, Cao Miao graduated from junior high school and went to work directly without attending high school. Since then, any contact with the orphanage had been cut off. In fact, after Cao Miao left the orphanage, Tao Mu was quite worried about him, afraid that he would be bullied out in society. So he once took Feng Yuan to find him. As a result, Cao Miao probably thought that he could now make money, and he was an adult, so he behaved very arrogantly in front of Tao Mu. Inviting Tao Mu and Feng Yuan to eat street-side kebabs, his words and attitude all holding a trace of one who was now the boss. He also told Tao Mu that he didn’t want to be known that he came out of the orphanage, and told Tao Mu not to bother him in the future.

Tao Mu’s temper was unsurprisingly ignited, and he flipped the table on the spot, leaving angrily with Feng Yuan.

After Tao Mu returned to the Shen family in his previous life, this Cao Miao went to find him. Crying and saying that he had no education and background, and it was very difficult to get ahead in society. Although Tao Mu’s temper was explosive, he was more nostalgic. Remembering the relationship between the two in the orphanage, he let Cao Miao be his assistant.

Tao Mu was never defensive against his own people. As a result, Cao Miao took advantage of Tao Mu’s trust in him, stole Tao Mu’s diary, and slandered Tao Mu, saying that he sold himself in Night before. That his behavior and mannerisms were all learned from the popular gigolos in the nightclub.

These revelations were true and false, and Tao Mu couldn’t explain them clearly after they were posted on the Internet. During that time, he was very badly attacked by netizens. However, Cao Miao was sent away by Shen Yu’s admirer with 100,000 yuan for helping Shen Yu.

Just 100,000 yuan was not even half of what Cao Miao earned in a year with Tao Mu. Yet he betrayed him for just 100,000 yuan.

At that time, Tao Mu was very busy trying to delete the black material on the Internet. There was no time to pay attention to Cao Miao. When he was finally able to breathe, he realized that Feng Yuan had found Cao Miao secretly and maimed him.

Shen Yu’s admirers jumped onto this matter and helped Cao Miao with the lawsuit, but they refused to accept Tao Mu’s reconciliation. In the end, Feng Yuan was sentenced to seven years.

Seeing Tao Mu’s murderous appearance now, Cao Miao’s legs went weak with fright. Back then he was too young and ignorant. He didn’t know to leave himself a retreat route and room to maneuver in the future. Mainly because he didn’t expect Tao Mu to be able to do so well. Now that he wanted to turn back and hug his thighs, he was afraid Tao Mu still remembered how he drove away Tao Mu back then.

Sure enough, when Tao Mu saw him, he didn’t let him say a second sentence. He leaned over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a particularly sarcastic tone: “It’s too late. Back then, you ignored me, today I have no eyes for you. I have a golden thigh, but I won’t give it to you to hug. So go back to wherever it is you came from.”

Cao Miao’s heart became anxious, he could only smile ingratiatingly and say, “Brother Mu, I——”

“Piss off!”

Tao Mu waved his hand and said to Feng Yuan and the others, “What are you doing standing still? Keep moving the things. Don’t you want your gifts?”

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The children of the orphanage looked at each other, but still swarmed over. They didn’t want to talk to Cao Miao. Back in the orphanage, he only knew to flatter brother Mu and snatch away any of the belongings they have that he took a fancy to. Now he wanted to come back and continue snatching things from them? Bah!

Dean Tao watched the children’s reactions with clear eyes and also silently shook her head.

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“Mr. Tao?” Lin Rong’an had his arm around his little lover, who had just hooked up with for less than a month, and looked at Tao Mu with surprise: “Mr. Tao is out shopping with your family?”

Tao Mu nodded slightly at Lin Rong’an, and said with a cold expression, “Yes.”

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Tao Mu clearly didn’t want to talk to Lin Rong’an. But Lin Rong’an didn’t take it to heart, and looked for a topic on his own: “Mr. Tao finished filming for more than a week, right? I saw the FlyNews you posted yesterday, and it looked like you had quite a lot of fun with us Hong Kong people. In truth, what fun is there in a large group of people singing together. If Mr. Tao is interested, you could join our yacht club. They are all young talents in Hong Kong, and everyone can get together to chat and help each other in their careers.”

“Thank you, Mr. Lin, for your kindness. But there is no need.” Tao Mu smiled slightly: “I just finished filming and want to take a good rest. Besides, I’ll be back in Beijing in two days.”

Whether it was acting or FlyNews.com, Tao Mu’s career focus was on the mainland. Hong Kong was really too small, and the most important thing was that Tao Mu was well aware of the yacht club that Lin Rong’an mentioned, but there were actually no real young talents in it. All of them were the sons of wealthy families who had no right of inheritance, and could only rely on the company dividends to eat and wait to die. Most of the topics that were usually communicated were also related to sumptuous entertainment and debauchery.

In the previous life, there was a gossip reporter who sneaked into a yacht club party and took a lot of crazy and eye-popping videos. After the scandal was exposed, instead of feeling ashamed, those people felt quite proud and even called themselves “players”.

They treat that kind of thing as a game, and even invented a lot of new ways to play the game.

The reason why Tao Mu had an impression of that yacht was because in his previous life, Shen Yu was brought into the yacht club by Lin Rong’an, and he even persuaded Shen Yu to drink several glasses of red wine with ulterior motives. Fortunately, Yan Sheng arrived in time, which ruined Lin Rong’an’s plan. Otherwise, Shen Yu would definitely have suffered a huge loss under Lin Rong’an’s hands.

Tao Mu had also been particularly disgusted with Lin Rong’an since then. But Lin Rong’an did that kind of thing to Shen Yu, so he didn’t get a good ending either. How could Yan Sheng let go of those who dared to hurt Shen Yu. With the Yan family’s background, Yan Sheng only needed to make a few phone calls. Within a month, the department stores and restaurant chains opened by the Lin family in the mainland underwent three fire inspections, and they failed each time. The suspension of business for rectification lasted for half a year.

In the end, the Lin family couldn’t hold back any longer, and pressed Lin Rong’an to apologize to Shen Yu. After apologizing, Lin Rong’an, who returned to Hong Kong again, had his third leg broken by Liang Shuwen, who had always admired Shen Yu but never dared to speak out.

He no longer needed to go to a yacht club party for the rest of his life.

Thinking of this, Tao Mu glanced meaningfully at Lin Rong’an’s lower half.

For some reason, Lin Rong’an felt a sudden chill down below, and smiled sheepishly, “Mr. Tao, what are you looking at?”

“It’s nothing.” Tao Mu looked away: “It’s getting late. I won’t delay Mr. Lin and your girlfriend’s shopping date. See you next time.”

“Hey, wait.” Don’t know what nerve in Lin Rong’an’s head twitched, he immediately stopped Tao Mu, but didn’t know what to talk about. His eyes looked around and fell on Tao Mu’s two fathers and grandfather, and he suggested, “Mr. Tao and your family should be coming to Hong Kong for the first time. You may not be familiar with the nearby shopping malls. Why don’t I be your tour guide?”

As Lin Rong’an spoke, he patted his little lover on the shoulder: “It happens that Linda is a model, and she knows a lot about these clothes and jewelry. Mr. Tao must be trying to choose gifts for relatives and friends? Why not listen to Linda’s advice?”

“There is really no need.” Tao Mu declined with a smile: “My friends are quite amiable. They will be happy with whatever I buy.”

Linda, who was standing next to Lin Rong’an, smiled slightly and said, “Young Master An is also being kind. Why does Mr. Tao push people thousands of miles away? When you go out to do business, having more friends is always a good thing.”

Tao Mu smiled but said nothing. But Lin Rong’an slapped Linda suddenly: “What did you say? What is Mr. Tao’s identity, does he need you to teach him? Apologize to Mr. Tao right now.”

Linda was slapped in the face by Lin Rong’an in front of so many people and her whole person was stunned. She covered her flushed cheek, and her eyes immediately reddened. But she didn’t dare to cry, and could only apologize to Tao Mu aggrievedly: “I’m sorry Mr. Tao, I said the wrong thing. You are a magnanimous person, please don’t bother with me.”

Liu Yao, Meng Qi, and old man Song actually didn’t understand Cantonese, and they didn’t quite understand what Tao Mu and Lin Rong’an were talking about. They only know that Tao Mu kept rejecting the other. Then the girl said something and was slapped.

“You are a grown man, how can you be violent to a girl.” Liu Yao frowned tightly. He felt that there was really a problem with the character of this frivolous looking dandy in front of him. When he was young, he liked to fight so much, yet he never hit a woman.

“Don’t you people from Hong Kong like to talk about a gentleman’s demeanor? Is this how you act like a gentleman?”

Lin Rong’an had intentions to befriend Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng, and of course he had also investigated Tao Mu’s background. He knew the origins of Liu Yao, Meng Qi, and Mr. Song. In Lin Rong’an’s view, these three people were nothing more than a hoodlum, a gigolo and a cook.

Lin Rong’an felt contempt for people like Liu Yao. But for the sake of Tao Mu’s face, it was not good to show it. He could only explain with a smile: “It’s not a question of being a gentleman or not a gentleman. It’s that this woman’s words offended Mr. Tao. I don’t want Mr. Tao to misunderstand me because of this.”

“So you slapped the girl in front of Tao Mu.” Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and commented sharply, “What do you want to show? You want to show that you are a person who won’t stand even a speck of sand in your eyes, that you are a rich young master who gets angry when even the ones around you say the wrong word; or do you want to use this to tell Tao Mu that you are not a broad-minded person. To tell Tao Mu not to offend you?”

Lin Rong’an probably didn’t expect Meng Qi’s appearance to be gentle and soft, yet could actually speak so sharply. The smile on his face faded slightly, and he looked at Meng Qi thoughtfully.

Then he suddenly discovered that although this old man was a bit old, his facial features were quite fine and his aura was also very cultured and refined. Like celadon. When you first saw it, you wouldn’t feel especially captivated, but the closer you looked the more you couldn’t bear to look away.

It was the kind of art piece that had both cultural heritage and was finely carved. He looked like the kind of mature man with style and sophistication.

This kind of man must be very attentive and considerate in daily life, but must be very open in bed.

Meng Qi had a wealth of experience, and almost as soon as Lin Rong’an’s eyes looked at him, Meng Qi could see through what he was thinking. Instantly, he felt disgust. However, considering Liu Yao’s violent temper, Meng Qi didn’t say anything. He just patted Tao Mu on the shoulder and urged, “Let’s go.”

Tao Mu nodded and gave Lin Rong’an a warning look before leaving with his family.

Lin Rong’an looked at the backs of the family of four with interest. Linda, whose cheek was swollen after being slapped, leaned forward cautiously: “Young Master An, I spoke rashly and couldn’t see my station clearly, almost offending your friend. Please don’t be mad at me.”

“Mad?” Lin Rong’an returned to his senses, raised his eyebrows, raised a hand to touch Linda’s cheek, and said with a sympathetic smile, “How could I be angry with my baby Linda. Did I hurt you just now? I’ll make it up to you. When you go shopping and see something that catches your fancy, just swipe my card directly.”

“Really? Young Master An is so generous.” Linda smiled, and instantly the corner of her mouth twitched in pain.

Thinking of the reason why she was slapped, Linda felt unhappy. She didn’t dare to hate her bankroller, so she took out her anger at Tao Mu: “Who was that Mr. Tao? Even refusing Young Master An’s good intentions, he’s really too ignorant.”

“Ignorant?” Lin Rong’an raised his eyebrows, and subconsciously looked in the direction Tao Mu had left. He asked casually: “He is Tao Mu, the founder of FlyNews.com, you haven’t heard of it?”

“That was Tao Mu?” Linda was surprised.

Now many young people in Hong Kong played FlyNews, Linda considered herself very fashionable, and of course she also followed the trend. She just didn’t expect that the CEO of FlyNews.com was not only young, but also so handsome——Linda had thought he was just Lin Rong’an’s latest target.

If she had known that that was Tao Mu…..

Linda thought of the relevant information she had seen on the Internet, and couldn’t help but think that with Tao Mu’s talent and ability, it was normal that he would feel contempt for Lin Rong’an’s hedonistic ways.

“Tao Mu is so handsome. The real person is much more handsome than the photo. He is handsome, rich, and talented. No wonder he has so many fans.” She really didn’t expect Tao Mu’s appearance in reality to be so much more good-looking than photos and videos. Under the visual impact, she almost even turned into a Tao Mu fan.

Lin Rong’an looked at Linda in surprise: “You know him well? Then why didn’t you recognize him just now?”

Linda blushed. She dared not say that she just regarded Tao Mu as a gold-digger like herself, and all she could think about was how to compete with this new rival, and didn’t take a closer look at his appearance. Besides, Tao Mu spoke Cantonese very well. Linda had the preconceived thought that Tao Mu was also from Hong Kong. She even pondered when such a top-notch stunner that attracted both men and women appeared in the gold-hunting circle of Hong Kong without her knowledge.

But this could also be blamed on Lin Rong’an. Who asked Lin Rong’an to take the initiative to introduce Tao Mu to the yacht club as soon as he saw Tao Mu. Linda’s mind already had preconceived notions, and she thought that Lin Rong’an was trying to trick Tao Mu into a yacht club party. How could she have thought that Lin Rong’an sincerely wanted to invite Tao Mu into the yacht club to be a “player” and not a “plaything”.

“I don’t think Tao Mu will agree.” Linda said this, and looked at Lin Rong’an cautiously: “As actors, they all care about their image and reputation. The yacht parties are so chaotic, Tao Mu probably won’t go to them.”

“Oh, chaotic?” Lin Rong’an glanced at Linda with a half-smile, “I thought you had a good time.”

The smile on Linda’s face froze, and she couldn’t help changing the subject: “I heard that Tao Mu is an orphan. He was abandoned by his parents and grew up in an orphanage. If his parents knew that their son is so handsome and capable, I wonder just how much regret they must feel for abandoning him in the first place?”

“What do you want to say?” Lin Rong’an sneered: “Tao Mu is an orphan, but he was able to create FlyNews.com when he just started college. At the age of nineteen, he is worth more than one billion US dollars. I am the third son of the Lin family, but I am not as good as him in every aspect. So it’s normal for him to look down on me?”

“How can that be?” Linda’s expression changed, and she carefully flattered Lin Rong’an: “I just want to say that based on Tao Mu’s experience, he would definitely be very wary of outsiders. So even if he behaves a little coldly, it is normal.”

Lin Rong’an looked at Linda ambiguously. Seeing that Linda’s face was turning pale, he asked playfully, “Didn’t you just say that Tao Mu was an ignorant guy. Why did you change your tune in such a short time?”

“You wouldn’t happen to be interested in him now, would you? You want to dump me and climb another high branch?”

“Young Master An, you really know how to joke.” Linda could barely keep up her smile. She could only try to explain: “How could I be interested in Tao Mu? He is only nineteen years old, and he is younger than me. And he is so cold, and at first glance, he is not a fun person at all. How could he compare to Young Master An’s gentleness. I only like you.”

Lin Rong’an sneered but didn’t bother to make it difficult for Linda anymore. He just asked suddenly: “If a person who normally treats others amiably is cold and indifferent in front of you and refuses to even say a word. What would be the reason?”

Linda didn’t know why Lin Rong’an asked such a question, so she could only answer casually, “Then I’m sure it’s out of dislike.”

Dislike? Disgust? Or contempt?

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Lin Rong’an squeezed his fingers thoughtfully and felt a bit unhappy.

On behalf of the Lin family, Third Young Master Lin took the initiative to throw out an olive branch, yet not only did the other refuse to take it he even avoided him as much as he could. Just how much disgust does he have towards him?

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After eating this bowl of hot grass jelly, the group of bigwigs who had originally wanted to play late into the night all dispersed tactfully.

Li Xiaoheng drove Tao Mu back to the hotel. During this period, Tao Mu also suggested to Li Xiaoheng: “Since you think we should treat each other honestly, then don’t always be so perfect. And don’t blindly accommodate me. If you always show an unconditional tolerance for me, it will make me feel very insecure. I don’t know if your tolerance will only last during the romantic period. Once the enthusiasm subsides, you will feel that all the concessions and compromises you have made for this relationship are not worth it.”

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Moreover, in response to Li Xiaoheng’s theory that he was a seasoning pot, Tao Mu also said: “When two people get along it is like putting two different ingredients in a pot. If you want to live a flavorful life then seasoning must not be lacking. For example, you worked so hard to make a birthday cake for me, but after preparing for so long, I complained that the cake is too sweet and not delicious at all. It might not matter to you if this happens once or twice. But after a longer period of time, wouldn’t you feel that I just don’t care about your hard work and dedication, and instead only know how to pick at faults. Wouldn’t you feel very tired? When you are too tired to maintain this relationship, yet feel too embarrassed to tell me, what should I do when you finally choose to quietly betray me then?”

Tao Mu’s words were also from his heart. After all, when he was with Zhuo Yan in his previous life, he paid too much attention to his own emotions and didn’t pay enough attention to Zhuo Yan’s changes. In the end, he didn’t even know when Zhuo Yan started to feel tired of him and didn’t want to maintain their relationship or when did he even fall in love with Shen Yu.

After reliving life over, Tao Mu was not sure which step he and Li Xiaoheng could take. But at least when it came to romantic relationships, he didn’t want to go back to the old ways.

CEO Li, who had a minor in psychology, keenly picked up from Tao Mu’s words that there seemed to be a deeper meaning behind them. After he pondered for a while, he nodded and admitted: “What you said also makes sense. Then from now on, I will try my best to convey my feelings to you. If either of us have something to say, then we can just say it openly. If there is an argument because of different opinions, then we’ll just simply have a fight. But after the fight, we must make up.”

Seemingly realizing that such a request seemed like it was something to be taken for granted, Li Xiaoheng paused for a moment, then added: “Even if we don’t reconcile immediately, we are not allowed to run away from home, not allowed to avoid answering each other’s phone calls, and not allowed to deliberately show intimacy with outsiders, just for the sake of angering each other.”

So, just what kind of movies do you usually watch?

Tao Mu glanced at Li Xiaoheng with a strange look, nodded and said, “Okay.”

“Then when we go back, let’s sign a memo first.” It was his first time in a relationship, and he really didn’t have much experience. Li Xiaoheng could only try his best to connect the unfamiliar field to one he was familiar with. All his actions were serious and conservative. Their relationship had only been confirmed for less than a year, and already who knew how many contracts, letters of intent and memorandums had been signed. Now even supplementary clauses have begun to be included. The standard of requirement for his lover was exactly what he would ask of a business partner. If outsiders could see this, it was estimated that they would only think that the relationship mode between these two people was quite bizarre indeed.

Fortunately, Tao Mu was also willing to cooperate with Li Xiaoheng. It could only be said that what kind of lid goes with what kind of pot.

When they got back to the hotel, it was already two o’clock in the morning. Li Xiaoheng had Tao Mu go rest after washing up, while he stayed in the study to write up the memo and then show it to Tao Mu the next morning. Then wait until the evening when the two could discuss the details of the memo. If there was no issue, they would then sign.

Tao Mu didn’t agree: “Didn’t we agreed to meet frankly and get to know each other in depth. The process of drafting a memo together is also a process of mutual understanding. We can feel each other’s thoughts more intuitively.”

Li Xiaoheng thought for a while and said, “Alright.”

So the two really discussed in the study for more than an hour. Later, Li Xiaoheng felt that sitting so upright and discussing the details of the memo seemed very distant. So the two went to the bathroom to take a shower, dried their hair, and went back to the bedroom to lie down. Li Xiaoheng also opened a bottle of red wine, and the two discussed while drinking.

Then, in the process of discussing it, they fell asleep together.

At 7:30am the next day, when Li Xiaoheng was woken up by the alarm, Tao Mu was still asleep.

Mr. Li quickly pressed the alarm and collected the A4 papers, pen and laptop that were spread out on the bed. When he checked the memo carefully, he found that there were many hilarious clauses on the memo——

For example, Tao Mu didn’t like to eat western food, but because of Li Xiaoheng’s eating habits, he was willing to accompany CEO Li to eat western food. But Mr. Li was not allowed to feel embarrassed that Tao Mu wanted a well-done steak. Because he really couldn’t eat medium-rare steak; and Tao Mu didn’t like peeling apples before eating them, but Mr. Li felt that apples must be peeled to avoid pesticide residues…..

“What are you laughing at?” Li Xiaoheng was looking down at the memo when he heard a sleepy voice sound behind him.

Tao Mu walked out of the bedroom in his pajamas, his hair a bit messy, and his face was covered in pillow marks. He rubbed his eyes and asked Li Xiaoheng at the door of the bedroom.

Li Xiaoheng turned his head, raised the memorandum in his hand, and said to Tao Mu, “Looking at the memo we discussed last night. By the way, one of the items in it stipulates that you are not allowed to rub your eyes with your hands.”

Tao Mu’s hand rubbing his eyes paused slightly, and he immediately said, “I’m going to wash my face.”

Li Xiaoheng fluttered his big and bushy wolf tail leisurely, followed after Tao Mu, and also entered the bathroom: “I didn’t know it before, turns out you like to eat well-done steak. Don’t you feel that it tastes a little tough?”

“A bit, but I feel nauseous if it’s not fully cooked.” Since he promised they meet each other frankly, Tao Mu naturally wouldn’t be secretive about his living habits and food preferences. In Li Xiaoheng’s words, concealing such a thing for the sake of face was indeed asking to suffer.

Li Xiaoheng nodded, leaned on the door frame and asked, “I have a bad stomach, and spicy food makes me uncomfortable. But I also like spicy food, what should I do?”

“You can eat slightly spicy food. Eat a little less. Or in the future, cook half of the food spicy and half of the food non-spicy.” Since he didn’t want to treat himself or the other badly, he could only go out of his way. Fortunately, Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng could cook, so even if it was troublesome, it was not too troublesome.

Li Xiaoheng continued to look through the memo, and then said: “We even discussed the decoration plan of the new house in the memo…..You actually want to decorate it yourself. Isn’t that tiring?”

Mr. Li believed that there was a specialization in each industry, and the householder only needed to make a request, and the rest should be left to the designer and the decoration team.

“I mentioned that?”

Tao Mu stood under the shower and raised his head, rubbing his face while recalling carefully, he really couldn’t remember what he talked about last night.

“Yes.” Li Xiaoheng nodded with great certainty. Looking at the bolded and underlined words on the memorandum, Mr. Li said, “You emphasized it many times, that you must decorate it yourself.”

“I forgot.” Tao Mu washed his hair and started to apply the shower gel: “Anyway, neither of us have the time. Let’s just leave it to the decoration team.”

Li Xiaoheng frowned and said, “I think we can make a compromise. We’ll personally go to the building materials market to select materials, then go to the furniture store to select furniture and electrical appliances, communicate our ideas with the designer carefully, and when the decoration team begins the job, we can just follow up from time to time.”

To a certain extent, this could also be considered as being involved in the entire home decoration plan.

Tao Mu lowered his head and rinsed off the shower gel. He didn’t have his own home in his previous life, and after being driven out of the Shen family manor, he had been living with Zhuo Yan. The only house under Tao Mu’s name was bought by him using the money he had accumulated over the years. During the decoration, he was filming in other places, and Zhuo Yan handed over the decoration matters to the decoration team. When Tao Mu returned to Shanghai, what he saw was a new house so beautiful that it could be used as a model house for a home designer magazine. Although all the decoration details and furniture were made according to Tao Mu’s preferences, Tao Mu had never felt a sense of belonging.

He also barely lived in that house. Even after he broke up with Zhuo Yan, he only moved into a hotel room and never stayed there.

So last night, Tao Mu probably made such an unrealistic request on a whim——a duplex of nearly 200 square meters, yet he actually wanted to decorate it himself. It was estimated that even if Tao Mu exhausted himself he still wouldn’t be able to renovate the whole place by himself——this dude had failed his junior high school physics class, and he couldn’t even connect an electric wire.

Li Xiaoheng held the memo, and looked seriously at Tao Mu’s good figure that was being caressed by the warm water, and suddenly asked, “Would you like your back rubbed?”

“No need.” Tao Mu rinsed the foam off his body and was about to come out, when CEO Li suddenly took off his pajamas and squeezed in, turning on the shower again: “Then let’s start practicing!”

Tao Mu quickly covered Mr. Li’s mouth with quick hands. Feeling Mr. Li’s warm lips kissing his palm, he said without hesitation, “You didn’t brush your teeth this morning!”

Li Xiaoheng gave Tao Mu an exasperated look, and could only step out of the shower dripping wet. Going to the sink, squeezing toothpaste and complaining: “I think we need to add a note to our memo, lovers have to be romantic occasionally.”

“I also think we should add one more to the memo. For example, lovers have to be hygienic at all times.”

Tao Mu walked out with a smile, wrapped a large bath towel around his waist, and took another towel to wipe his hair, smoothing it back away from his forehead.

Li Xiaoheng looked at Tao Mu through the mirror, and suddenly said, “After returning to Beijing, let’s decorate your place together.”

Tao Mu wiped his hair and said, “There’s no need to go to the trouble.”

His face was tightly covered by the towel: “The online shopping platform is soon to go online. You must be very busy with your work after returning to Beijing. I will do it myself. If I am too busy, I can find my Yao Dad and Xiao Qi Dad for help.”

Anyway, August was still summer vacation. He had at least half a month to keep a watch on the renovating/decorating.

“No matter how busy I am, I can still spare this time.” Li Xiaoheng said lightheartedly, “It’s also the home I will live in in the future. I have to at least make sure that after the renovation, I will be able to live there comfortably.”

Tao Mu’s hand rubbing his hair paused for a moment, and then he said with a complicated tone, “That’s also fine.”

Li Xiaohengg smiled slightly, and after taking a shower, he went to communicate with Assistant Jiang about the itinerary after returning to Beijing.

CEO Li had to meet with clients at 9:30 and left after breakfast. Tao Mu had just finished filming, and was completely free of any burden. He changed into a set of casual clothing and sauntered to the next room, ready to discuss with him Yao Dad, Xiao Qi Dad and their old man where to play today.

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After the discussion, everyone unanimously decided to go out to buy some souvenirs before leaving Hong Kong, and give them to relatives and friends after returning to Beijing. Tao Mu directly asked the hotel to send a car to follow them. The family of four headed directly to the mall.

——Then ran into the third young master of the Lin family who was out accompanying his recent hook-up to go shopping in the mall.

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That night, Tao Mu and the bigwigs played until after midnight.

Boss Li from their family came to pick him up.

Although the relationship between Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng was not reported by the media, it was still a tacit knowledge among the upper class in Hong Kong. The relationship between the entertainment industry and the upper class was not deep but also not shallow, and everyone had heard about such relatively explosive gossip news, especially as it happened under the nose.

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When Li Xiaoheng came over, he didn’t think too much. He was just worried that Tao Mu had drunk too much and couldn’t get a taxi. So he drove over to pick him up in person.

When entering the private room, he greeted everyone warmly, and then sat next to Tao Mu.

Tao Mu keenly noticed a box of takeaway that Li Xiaoheng was carrying, and sniffed: “What’s that?”

“Hot grass jelly. When you posted on FlyNews earlier, didn’t you say you wanted to eat it?” Li Xiaoheng handed the hot grass jelly to Tao Mu. He nodded at the others, and explained with a smile, “I asked my assistant to buy a few more shares, and they will be delivered in a while.”

Probably not having expected the capital boss with a net worth of nearly 100 billion dollars to be so approachable and down-to-earth, all the entertainment industry bosses nodded in an overwhelmed manner. Fang Ruoti smiled and said, “Mr. Li is too considerate.”

Li Xiaoheng chuckled and said, “Naturally.”

All the celebrities suddenly had the illusion that they were being fed with something.

The door of the private room was knocked on again, this time Assistant Jiang came in with a dozen boxes of hot grass jelly. And even distributed it to everyone with a special spirit of service.

Zhou Yanqing took the takeout, looked at the colorful ingredients inside, and said with a smile, “I didn’t expect Tao Mu to actually like sweets.”

In fact, there were also many male stars who love sweets. However, most people had to strictly control their weight management and did not dare to eat. And if a man liked eating sweets, it didn’t sound very manly. So many male stars clearly loved sweets, but they didn’t voice it. Just having a taste secretly in private. It was really rare for a male artist like Tao Mu who was particular about his food and could eat sweets in front of everyone without any scruples.

But thinking about it carefully, Tao Mu was not purely a male artist. In terms of career achievements, Tao Mu was more like a domineering CEO who enjoyed acting. If the entertainment industry rated its most unprofessional male artist in any year, it was estimated that Tao Mu would definitely be on the list.

Zhou Yanqing pondered to himself, but Li Xiaoheng nodded very seriously, and solemnly agreed: “Our CEO Tao is quite a picky eater. He even complained that the cake I made was not very delicious.”

When Tao Mu was celebrating his birthday, Li Xiaoheng not only communicated with the crew about the celebration process, but also brought Tao Mu’s family to Hong Kong for a birthday reunion, selected birthday gifts for Tao Mu, and personally made a birthday cake and brought it to the crew.

As a result, it turned out that too much cream was put, the cake was too sweet, and as CEO Li was making a birthday cake for the first time, the cake art was particularly ugly. But CEO Tao didn’t dislike it at all. So he felt the need to clear his name: “I said it was delicious. You were the one who thought it was unpalatable yourself.”

“But your expression doesn’t say that.” Li Xiaoheng pointed out in a small voice, “Your expression that day was clearly saying that the cake was too sweet.”

“I was smiling the whole day, okay?” As a professional actor, Tao Mu felt that his expression management was very good. And he was really happy that day, and he had smiled like crazy the whole time.

“You were very happy that day. But you were indeed forcing your face to smile when you were eating the cake.” Li Xiaoheng was also very straightforward. He said directly: “I don’t like how you coaxed me by saying it was delicious even though you thought it was not delicious. If you always fool me like this, how could my cooking skills improve? If my cooking skills don’t improve, won’t you be the unlucky one in the end?”

“Now this is you being irresponsible to yourself.”

“Mr. Tao, I think the most crucial point for both parties to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship is that they must meet each other frankly. The cultivation of tacit understanding is not blindly tolerating the shortcomings of the other party. It is to directly point out the shortcomings of the other party at the right time and help the other party correct themselves as soon as possible. Mutual tolerance and mutual familiarizing does not mean to torture each other. When clearly just a few words could clarify things to be corrected, there is no need to consume our patience. Our tolerance should be reserved for more core aspects.”

After a pause, Li Xiaoheng added: “For example, one day I accidentally made you angry. You have to think that we have been living very happily before, so you tolerate my little mistakes. Instead of thinking of how in order to be with me, you tolerated so many trivial things, and then become even more angry and aggrieved.”

Li Xiaoheng believed that a person’s energy and tolerance were limited. Like the law of conservation of energy. Consuming a little on trivial things meant a little more accumulation of negative feelings. If you let negative emotions continue to accumulate, in the case that it overwhelmed and exploded out one day, it was very likely to cause qualitative changes.

So tolerance must not be consumed in daily life.

In Li Xiaoheng’s vision, his and Tao Mu’s daily life should be a piggy bank. Because they get along well, they accumulate a little bit of happiness every day. When there was a real quarrel, they could take a little of the happiness stored in the piggy bank to offset the negative emotions caused by the quarrel. After the negative emotions were offset in this way, the remaining happiness balance was enough to support them for the rest of their lives.

But Tao Mu’s habit was to treat everyday life as a seasoning jar. Even when encountering the slightest disharmony, Tao Mu always habitually chose to make concessions on his own. Tao Mu wouldn’t even say something as small as how the cake was too sweet and instead lie to him that the cake was delicious.

Li Xiaoheng felt that this approach was Tao Mu sacrificing his senses to accommodate him. Li Xiaoheng was very worried that if things went on like this, he would be spoiled by Tao Mu, and he was accustomed to thinking that Tao Mu should accommodate him and forbear more for this relationship. At that time, Tao Mu’s seasoning jar would keep pouring seasonings out to adjust this relationship. When Tao Mu’s seasoning jar was finally empty, it might truly be the end of their relationship.

“There is no way to manage emotional matters like one manages financial affairs, nor is there a way to short it. We can only use the most primitive means to increase our savings. I also think this kind of investment will be very hard. But fortunately, if my partner is you, it doesn’t matter how slow it is. As long as you work hard with me.”

Li Xiaoheng’s mouth was a little dry, and he couldn’t help taking another sip of wine. He felt that the most urgent task was to reverse Tao Mu’s thinking. Let Tao Mu change the business philosophy of this relationship from a loss-type to a savings-type. After all, the matter of dating was always like the early days of starting a business, where you couldn’t buy suitable love insurance, and you couldn’t find a claim of equal value. If you really messed up, former lovers would really have to go their separate ways.

Li Xiaoheng could take the risk of any project merger and reorganization, but he could never accept the consequences of parting ways with Tao Mu.

“What’s gotten into you today?” Tao Mu looked at Li Xiaoheng suspiciously while eating the hot grass jelly. He felt that their boss Li was more talkative than usual today.

“I saw the FlyNews you sent.” Li Xiaoheng paused and added, “The one about Shen Yu.”

Tao Mu raised his eyebrows: So?

“You never paid attention to him before. Now you don’t want to restrain yourself anymore.” Speaking to here, Li Xiaoheng slightly approached Tao Mu, but still maintained a normal distance, and said in a voice that only the two could hear: “I think our CEO Tao’s demeanor when dissing people was very handsome and sexy. So I really want to see if our CEO Tao is also as flexible when he smack talks me, is his tongue just as clever?”

The last part, Li Xiaoheng was almost speaking in a whisper. The hot and humid breath sprayed on Tao Mu’s ears, Tao Mu subconsciously looked at the other people in the room, and said in a somewhat restrained whisper, “Don’t make trouble, there are so many people.”

“Oh.” Li Xiaoheng sat upright in an orderly manner. He concluded with a wave of a big bushy wolf tail: “In short, I hope we can meet each other frankly, understand each other as deeply as possible, and tolerate each other, instead of staying on such superficial politeness.”

Tao Mu raised his eyebrows and squinted at Li Xiaoheng: “Please excuse me for asking, by candid meeting and in-depth understanding, does Mr. Li mean it as a noun or a verb?”

What kind of feeling was it to be stared at by perfect phoenix eyes with a smile that was not a smile?

Those slender eyes were hooked inward and curved outward, and the ends of the eyes were slanted upwards, the light and brilliance they gave off was so compelling and captivating. It caused Mr. Li’s heart to beat faster and his temperature to heat up. He changed from a normal sitting posture to one with his legs crossed and did not forget to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf: “This, of course, I have to listen to you.”

“In our family, don’t we listen to you no matter if it’s a big or small matter? From the investment standard of the company’s investment direction, to what to eat in the evening, when did I ever have a say!”

My ass!

Tao Mu rolled his eyes. Anyway, he never won when he quarreled with Li Xiaoheng. Now it was almost impossible to even out flirt the man.

Seeing Tao Mu’s annoyed look, Li Xiaoheng couldn’t help twitching up the corners of his mouth. He opened the spoon included with the takeout wrapped in plastic and handed it to Tao Mu: “Eat something?”

Acting coquettish again!

Tao Mu turned his head to look at Li Xiaoheng. Li Xiaoheng held a spoon in one hand and the hot grass jelly in the other hand, and showed off: “I know you like to eat taro, so I added an extra portion. Try it, is it good?”

Although the light in the room was very dim, and someone had been singing the whole time, and later the two had also deliberately lowered their voices when they spoke, it was not likely that the others would have noticed their quarrel. However, Tao Mu still quickly took over the hot grass jelly.

He was not used to being very intimate in front of people. But even so, Tao Mu responded candidly: “It’s delicious.”

“Really?” Li Xiaoheng played with the beer bottle and smiled slightly: “I made the bowl of hot grass jelly you are eating now.”

Tao Mu turned to look at Li Xiaoheng.

In the dim light, Li Xiaoheng’s silhouette appeared even more handsome: “So you see, sometimes being more honest could help me get to know you better.”

After Mr. Li said this, he picked up the beer and took two sips. It had not been easy to finally find his first love at the age of twenty-six years old. In fact, CEO Li really wanted to show his affection in front of everyone and engage in PDA. But he also knew that Tao Mu was thin-skinned and didn’t like to be lovey-dovey in front of people. So he could only quit while he was ahead.

However low-key they might be, occasionally it was necessary to display his rights and possessiveness as a lover.

At least he must let everyone know. I am yours.

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The group of celebrities exchanged looks and winks in the dim room. Although the sound in the private room made it impossible for them to hear the conversation between Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng clearly, the two of them sitting in the corner, even if they didn’t have any intimate contact, the aura they exuded was still cotton candy sweet.

Just like the hot grass jelly brought over by Mr. Li.

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Li Xiaoheng with a satisfied face: Was this wave of conjugal love really relayed to everyone??ヽ(°▽°)ノ?~

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Singing, taking pictures, and recording short videos, Tao Mu also selected some photos and videos to upload to FlyNews.com after obtaining everyone’s consent.

It must be said, Tao Mu’s photography skills were really good. Under the dim lighting, Tao Mu was still able to take advantage of all kinds of light and shadows to photograph them with a special flavor. One of them was a photo of Fang Ruoti sitting on a high stool with her legs crossed and her head bowed while singing. Tao Mu instructed everyone to use the flashlight that comes with their mobile phone to help with lighting, while choosing an angle to take pictures. The final result was similar to the nostalgic black-and-white photo, with the light and shadows playing off against each other, it actually gave people a heart-pounding visual experience.

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There was also a photo of Cheng Yi leaning on the sofa and singing. It was a simple side photo, but it conveyed a unique appeal no matter how one looked at it.

“It is the scent of a married man.” Liang Xia patted Cheng Yi’s shoulder and laughed. Everyone knew that Cheng Yi just got married last year, and his wife was gentle and virtuous. Knowing that Cheng Yi was a singer and wanted to protect his throat, she would make all kinds of tasty special soup good for the throat for Cheng Yi every day. Indeed, Cheng Yi lived quite a comfortable, nourishing life.

The specific proof being that less than a year after marriage, his weight increased linearly. He had transformed from an idol-level heavenly king to a singer that relied on only skill at a rocket-like speed.

“It turns out that your industry’s standard for classifying professional singers and idol singers is actually based on weight.” Tao Mu’s eyes were glued to Cheng Yi, his eyes looking him up and down, and he touched his chin thoughtfully: “Then it seems that I have no way to become a professional singer.”

“You can’t even become an idol singer.” Cheng Yi couldn’t resist it anymore, and exploded: “We in the singer world do not accept people who could manage to make singing in tune poisonous.”

This comment was really powerful and quite innovative. The bigwigs sitting in the private room were caught off guard and burst into laughter.

Liang Xia’s hand crooked, and half a bottle of beer was spilled on Gu Rongtian, causing her to turn around and apologize again and again. Gu Rongtian waved his hand to show that he didn’t mind, wiped it with a tissue, and went to the bathroom to clean up.

Tao Mu, who received 100,000 points of damage to his HP level, was not happy. But CEO Tao refused to say anything. CEO Tao just shredly invited everyone to sing for him: “Then let’s hear how the most famous teacher Cheng Yi in the music world of Hong Kong sings.”

Then Tao Mu personally picked a song——a famous song of Liang Xia’s for Cheng Yi to sing.

Cheng Yi was probably having too much fun too, and was not afraid of CEO Tao’s provocation. Picking up the microphone, he began to sing, and even adjusted his voice into a female singing voice. This was something he had never shown in public.

All the celebrities clapped their hands and applauded. No one paid attention to the video that Tao Mu was recording with his mobile phone secretly. Moreover, CEO Tao not only recorded the video, but also posted the video to FlyNews.com. And considerately attached the title——

“The version you have never heard of before. Brother Cheng Yi’s singing is so beautiful. [Dog Head].JPG”

Knowing that Tao Mu went out to play with the bigwigs in Hong Kong, and was having a lot of fun. The netizens and fans of the bigwigs all gathered under Tao Mu’s FlyNews, eagerly waiting for Tao Mu to update FlyNews from time to time. The photos of Fang Ruoti, Cheng Yi and others that Tao Mu uploaded before really stunned everyone. Many netizens praised Tao Mu’s photography skills while drooling over the photos and right-clicking to save.

The most important thing was that Tao Mu was very good at playing. After uploading beautifully aesthetic photos that were enough to be used as album cover photos or promotional posters to FlyNews.com, he would also upload some funny pictures and clips of the celebrities holding up their mobile phones to help with the lighting.

They were able to witness the bigwigs who were at least A-list superstars, under the command of Tao Mu, scramble with the lighting. There were even some who stood on chairs, laid on the sofa, or squatted on the ground without any regard for their image. Netizens were surprised to find that these celebrities, who usually seem mysterious and aloof, could actually play like this in private, and were so approachable.

It practically attracted new fans like bees to a honeypot.

Especially after Tao Mu uploaded Cheng Yi’s female version of the song, Cheng Yi’s fans went crazy. It could be seen from the title of Cheng Yi’s God of Versatile Singing that Cheng Yi’s voice was actually very versatile with a wide range, all kinds of high, low, and midrange packed power. But before that, no one had heard Cheng Yi sing in a female voice.

Who knew that Cheng Yi’s female singing voice could be so stunning as well. The singing was low and slightly hoarse, full of a slow, lazy charm, as if it was a woman who had experienced vicissitudes and seen past the superficial was slowly reminiscing about her life.

Fans of Cheng Yi and netizens of FlyNews.com greatly enjoyed the treat to their auditory senses. Comments under Tao Mu’s FlyNews were posted frequently, directly praising Cheng Yi.

Tao Mu secretly read the comments while continuing to provoke Cheng Yi and have him continue to sing. Cheng Yi was not on guard, and sure enough, he sang one song after another. In the end, he even deliberately tried to mimic other people’s voices. For example, Cheng Yi also sang Zhou Yanqing’s famous song “A Deep Love”. He deliberately mimicked Zhou Yanqing’s voice, and managed quite a vivid and accurate copy. If it weren’t for the slight jerkiness in certain parts, which exposed the clues, everyone couldn’t believe that this was actually sung by Cheng Yi and would have absolutely thought it was the original song.

This time, even other bigwigs were a little shocked, let alone netizens who were waiting to eat melons. However, they were also stoked by Cheng Yi, and also began to run to the front to pick songs.

Cheng Yi, who sang four or five songs in succession, put down the microphone, poured a glass of water to moisten his throat, and threw a glance in Tao Mu’s direction. There was quite the demeanor of an expert sage from outside the secular world showing off his skills in immortality to an immature boy. That aura, it was really full of self-satisfaction indeed.

But then, Cheng Yi answered a phone call——it was from Cheng Yi’s wife. After answering the call, Cheng Yi’s expression changed suddenly. He screeched and jumped on Tao Mu: “You actually posted the video of me singing just now on the Internet!”

In the morning, Tao Mu took the two reporters from FlyNews.com to record videos at Zhou Yanqing’s concert. Then at 8 o’clock in the evening, he uploaded all the videos to BulletScreen.com as fan benefits.

Cheng Yi’s wife also knew about this, so she specially stayed in front of the computer, waiting to watch her husband’s video. Then she saw some netizens on BulletScreen.com saying that the video of Cheng Yi singing was posted on FlyNews by Tao Mu. Cheng Yi’s wife followed the guidance of netizens to find it on FlyNews.com, and watched the video of her husband’s ever-changing singing voice with great interest.

In the end, she couldn’t resist it anymore, and while laughing, she called Cheng Yi to break the news. Lest her husband was still foolishly singing non-stop. Bu Cheng Yi’s wife also admitted on the phone that her husband was especially handsome when singing seriously and handling all kinds of voices with such ease.

After that, even Cheng Yi’s agent called and praised Cheng Yi for doing a good job. Especially in terms of publicity. And while he was at it, he also praised Tao Mu’s ability to make headlines. After the video of Cheng Yi singing was popularly searched by netizens, the Hong Kong gossip tabloids who had been following the real-time trends of FlyNews Entertainment also reprinted the news. After catching this wave of popularity, they also pushed Cheng Yi up on to the entertainment headlines.

Cheng Yi’s management company was also preparing to catch this heat wave and promote Cheng Yi’s concert tour that would take place in half a year. Cheng Yi completely did not expect this follow-up development.

Tao Mu was jokingly strangled by Cheng Yi, but still had a fearless expression on his face: “Brother Cheng is indeed the God of Versatile Singing, you have really broadened my horizons today.”

The bigwigs who were singing and chatting finally realized. Recently, Fang Ruoti, the glamorous goddess who was developing in the direction of a teenage Internet addict, was also playing FlyNews with her mobile phone. Hearing Cheng Yi’s outburst, she shook her mobile phone at Cheng Yi in a particularly leisurely manner: “Cheng Yi, not bad. Who knew just doing some karaoking could also make headlines on hot searches.”

However, the God of Versatile Singing did not want to be on the hot search in this way. Although Cheng Yi’s weight had made him completely leave the path of being an idol singer, Cheng Yi’s idol baggage was still present. And Cheng Yi’s image for so many years had always been known to the outside world as aloof and professional. Now suddenly, netizens discovered that he had a flashy jokester side. Cheng Yi was a little embarrassed.

However, when Cheng Yi took Fang Ruoti’s phone and carefully read the comments from netizens, he felt that this change was actually acceptable. Cheng Yi also felt that FlyNews.com was very interesting and even consulted with Tao Mu about how to register an account on FlyNews.com.

Tao Mu informed him step by step. However, he pointed out thoughtfully: “The advantage of registering an account on FlyNews.com is that you can interact with netizens in a timely manner and gather popularity in the shortest time. However, there is also a downside, that is, there are a lot of antis and trolls on the Internet. And they are especially mean and poisonous, deliberately reversing black and white and insulting you. Sometimes it could also affect your mood.”

Fang Ruoti nodded in agreement: “Tao Mu is right. He was scolded by antis himself very badly. He was also deliberately slandered by antis saying that he was taking drugs.”

Of course, those antis were worse off than Tao Mu. As soon as FlyNews.com and Xiaoheng Capital’s legal team came out, those antis ended up being forced to apologize, losing some money, and getting beaten up——when their parents knew that they weren’t studying hard but were instead secretly going online to engage in some kind of fan-anti war, to the point their grades slipped and even got a call from FlyNews.com’s lawyers, those parents served their kid a double beating in a fit of rage.

Cheng Yi heard this, and subconsciously searched for Tao Mu’s name on the Internet. Then he found his horizons being broadened——

As expected of being praised by the industry media as “a man who could set off a bloody storm in the entertainment industry”. The intensity of this fan-anti war was no less than the street melee fans of several heavenly kings engaged in.

Cheng Yi glanced at the words of the antis who liked to reverse black and white, and flip truth and lies, and then followed the search bar to find Tao Mu’s FlyNews, and looked at the real-time comments below. Suddenly, he frowned.

“Who is this Shen Yu? Why are his fans leaving comments under Tao Mu’s FlyNews, complaining that we didn’t bring him with us?”

When all the celebrities heard these words, they came over in unison. And found that the mood in FlyNews, which was originally fun and happy, with all fans hahaha, had suddenly slipped in a few whose styles were not normal.

“Am I the only one who noticed that Yan Sheng and Shen Yu were not among the stars interacting with Tao Mu?”

“Not only are Yan Sheng and Shen Yu missing for dinner and karaoke, after all, neither of them are in Hong Kong. But why was there no sign of the two of them in the interview videos? All the actors in the cast of “Black and White” were there, only Yan Sheng and Shen Yu were missing. Is Tao Mu deliberately ostracizing them?”

Zhou Yanqing and Fang Ruoti frowned subtly: “Shen Yu is an actor in the cast of “Black and White”. The young master of the Shen family.”

As for Yan Sheng, there was no need to introduce him. Everyone knew of the two time film king actor.

With that being said, everyone now understood what was going on. After all, the news of Shen Yu’s fake car accident had spread all over Hong Kong. They didn’t match the name to the person before, but now that they did, everyone knew that Tao Mu and Shen Yu have a bad relationship.

But this Shen Yu’s fans were also a bizarre species. Knowing that the relationship between the two was not good, how could they go to Tao Mu’s FlyNews and ask this kind of question? And even scolding him with the tenacity of a dog with a bone. Even if many of Tao Mu’s fans and passers-by netizens explained below that Yan Sheng and Shen Yu were not in Hong Kong it still didn’t matter, these fans could cover their ears and shout loudly that Tao Mu was bullying their little prince. They scolded Tao Mu for being petty and deliberately ignoring Shen Yu, just because he was afraid that Shen Yu would get along with the bigwigs. As it continued, it even developed into a paranoia that FlyNews.com was deliberately suppressing Shen Yu. Otherwise, why was only negative news about Shen Yu reported and never positive news.

Seeing this, all the celebrities were very speechless. They really couldn’t figure out where Shen Yu’s fans even came from. Cheng Yi originally wanted to register on FlyNews.com to play, but when he saw these unreasonable fans, he was immediately scared away. He didn’t know if he would not be affected if he was trolled like this.

Tao Mu himself was very calm. He also sent a FlyNews post in a particularly leisurely manner: “Out of sight, out of mind, I just won’t play with them!”

Just after this FlyNews was posted, fans left comments below in seconds. Even blindly blowing rainbow farts and saying things like, “Our Mu is just so talented. This FlyNews is so concise, but full of emotions, and even sounds catchy. It even rhymes.”

There were also a lot of fans commenting below who agreed that Tao Mu’s literary attainments were particularly high. How high was it? That was definitely the level of just planting two jujube trees in front of the door, and being able to win the prize!

The celebrities who were still thinking that Shen Yu’s fans were unreliable just now stopped talking. They stared at each other speechlessly.

It turned out that it was not that Shen Yu’s fans have a problem, but that the style of mainland fans was just this way.

——This was not just on the level of blindly blowing rainbow farts. Instead, this is widening the eyes and using them as filters, sincerely and truly believing that their idol was just that supreme and stunning.

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Cheng Yi, who was still hesitating just now, immediately registered a FlyNews.com account without fear. As a top-tier music producer in Hong Kong, Cheng Yi wrote and composed many of his songs by himself. Therefore, Cheng Yi believed that his literary attainments were better than Tao Mu’s.

Since Tao Mu could become a cultured person who could win awards by just planting two jujube trees under the blowing of rainbow farts by his fans. Then he could at least get a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Wasn’t it just blowing rainbow farts and trolling, who’s afraid of who!

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Liang Shuwen’s expression was a little depressed. In the end, he did not answer the question of the smack talk fan.

In truth, Tao Mu was also very curious, secretly wanting to hear the answer. But Liang Shuwen didn’t want to say it, so he didn’t force it.

They drove to the Hung Hom Sports Centre. Zhou Yanqing was indeed a model worker in the industry. As soon as the “Black and White” crew was finished, he began to prepare for his concert in August. It was said that after he finished his concert, he would also record the theme song of the movie “Black and White”. After recording the theme song, he would enter another film crew. After filming that movie, he would also participate in all the promotional activities for “Black and White” before its release. By the time the publicity campaign was over, it would be almost New Year’s Eve. Zhou Yanqing was also invited to participate in the New Year’s Eve concert in the mainland. His schedule was so packed, Tao Mu, who saw it, could barely breathe.

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When Tao Mu and the “Black and White” crew discussed the idea of ​​shooting videos for fans as a benefit, Zhou Yanqing offered to shoot the videos at the concert. He also smiled and said that he wanted to rub off on the popularity of FlyNews.com to promote his concert.

——Although Tao Mu really felt that with Zhou Yanqing’s influence in the entertainment circle of Hong Kong, if he held a concert, there would only be a grand spectacle where tickets would be bid higher and higher, and there was no need for any extra publicity. Instead, it was FlyNews.com that was rubbing against Zhou Yanqing’s popularity, and it was almost the same as using the grand spectacle of the concert to promote itself.

Tao Mu could understand Zhou Yanqing’s sincerity. It turned out that Zhou Yanqing’s sincerity was even more than that when he arrived at the concert.

Looking at the star-studded stage, the two expatriate reporters behind Tao Mu almost forgot to take their next breath.

“I seem to have seen Cheng Yi.”

“Is that beauty over there Liang Xia?”

“Gu Rongtian is actually here as well, he is really getting tanner and tanner.”

Zhou Yanqing also smiled and helped Tao Mu introduce himself to everyone. In addition to several big names from the “Black and White” crew, there were more than a dozen people at the scene. It was no exaggeration to say that almost half of the stars in the Hong Kong entertainment industry were here. And they were all A-list stars.

“Everyone came to cheer me on.” Zhou Yanqing himself was very humble: “I also thought that, since we also have to promote the crew, I asked everyone to help me. And by the way, also cheer on my concert.”

FlyNews.com had been wildly making its existence known recently, and all the stars of Hong Kong have naturally heard of Tao Mu, the founder. Some people wanted to make friends with Tao Mu, while others simply wanted to give Zhou Yanqing face, and they were all very enthusiastic.

In order not to delay the normal rehearsal of the concert, Tao Mu signaled the two reporters to hurry up and shoot the videos while he served as the anchor himself, and before asking questions, he also passed out question cards to everyone very thoughtfully.

“These are some questions that we have summarized based on the comments of netizens and fans. You can answer what you want to answer. If you don’t want to answer, you can tell me before shooting the video, and we will delete the question.”

All the celebrities looked down at the strange and bizarre questions on the cards, and their expressions were very plentiful.

Of course, Zhou Yanqing was the first to be interviewed.

“What should I say?” Zhou Yanqing, who was interviewed by this new media for the first time, turned to look at Tao Mu.

“Let’s say hello to everyone first.” Tao Mu replied with a smile.

“Okay. The audience in front of the TV——the audience in front of the computer, netizens, hello everyone, I’m Zhou Yanqing.” Zhou Yanqing habitually greeted the camera. But his opening remarks were changed twice, and the crowd of celebrities who stood by and watched the interview laughed inexplicably.

It was also the first time Tao Mu took up the profession as an anchor, and he tried his best not to disappoint. After interacting with Zhou Yanqing, he asked Zhou Yanqing to talk about his thoughts on filming “Black and White”, and his thoughts on preparing for the concert, and finally started the interaction with netizens.

In the later years, celebrities had already become deeply poisoned by the media. In fact, they have long been accustomed to this quick questioning and quick answering mode that did not need to be treated too seriously, only requiring one to be witty and interesting, and occasionally crack some jokes. When Tao Mu communicated with Zhou Yanqing, he also mentioned that he could answer in a funny way.

Zhou Yanqing was also an all-around entertainer who had made many comedic movies and appeared on many variety shows. He pondered over it himself, and his answers were indeed quite funny. However, despite Zhou Yanqing cautiously dodging left and right, he still fell into Tao Mu’s trap. Which was the last question——

“We all know that heavenly king Zhou dotes on his fans extremely. If one day, Tao Mu and your fan fell into the river at the same time, who would you save first?”

Zhou Yanqing really thought about it for a long time, and then said very cautiously: “I would save the fan. Because Tao Mu can swim.”

Tao Mu, who was standing by as the host, was suddenly furious: “You should save me first. Because I’m your fan.”

“Ah? Hahahaha…..” Zhou Yanqing slapped his forehead and couldn’t help laughing out loud.

The bigwigs in Hong Kong who were around also burst into laughter. When their turn to be interviewed came, they all became very cautious, for fear of being tricked.

But what everyone didn’t expect was that Tao Mu knew their current situation very well. In addition to the “Black and White” crew, when Tao Mu interviewed other stars, he was able to accurately describe their recent itinerary and ask the questions that fans were most concerned about. And managed to do it with special hilarity.

The last question was always a fancy confession. Making everyone very happy.

By the time the interviews were over, everyone felt like they didn’t have enough. They even suggested eating hot pot together at night, and even go sing karaoke after eating hot pot.

Because of the mention of singing, Zhou Yanqing’s heart moved, and he wanted to invite Tao Mu to be his special guest at the concert.

But Tao Mu’s singing was really soulless. In order to let Zhou Yanqing’s concert come to a successful conclusion, and that no harm to human life would occur, Tao Mu had to regretfully decline.

“Seriously, you’re not exaggerating?” Fang Ruoti didn’t believe Tao Mu’s words in particular. Because Tao Mu’s all-around performance in the crew was very versatile, and Tao Mu danced so handsomely and his voice was so pleasant sounding, there was no reason why his singing would be unpleasant.

“I don’t believe it.” Fang Ruoti was wearing a white T-shirt and slim jeans today, her long wavy hair was combed into a small bun, and her face was painted with fashionable nude makeup which Tao Mu popularized, and looked just like a 20-year-old girl. Looking not at all like her true age. As a result, her behavior and style had also become much more girlish as well. She grabbed Tao Mu’s arm and shouted, insisting Tao Mu sing two songs for her. She also said that if Tao Mu dared to lie, she would post it on the Internet for all netizens to criticize Tao Mu.

In the end, when everyone entered the private room and heard Tao Mu singing for the first time, everyone regretted it——

“How could you sing such a beautiful song like this!” Fang Ruoti looked at Tao Mu in disbelief.

Tao Mu sang Zhou Yanqing’s famous song “A Deep Love”. It must be said, Tao Mu’s voice was really smooth and pleasant sounding with the crisp drawl of the Beijing dialect, but also included a slightly gentle and soft nuance towards the end of syllables, which sounded both sexy and cynically insolent. When Fang Ruoti and Tao Mu acted against each other, she was often seduced by Tao Mu’s voice when he spoke his lines. So she firmly didn’t believe that Tao Mu’s singing was not good.

It was a pity that the facts were all there, and the iron evidence was like a mountain. The objective truth was not based on Fang Ruoti’s subjective will. Even the other big names in the box looked at Tao Mu in shock. They couldn’t believe Tao Mu’s singing was so demonic——

You say he’s out of tune, but his tone was actually very accurate. You say that he’s not out of tune, but when heard by the ears, it felt like what Tao Mu sang was not the same song as the original song. Having said that, if it weren’t for the professional singers and record producers among the big names here, they really wouldn’t be able to hear that Tao Mu’s tone was actually this precise.

“But after getting used to it, I think it’s pretty fun. I can’t stop listening.” Cheng Yi, who was hailed as the “God of Versatile Singing” by Hong Kong media, touched his chin and commented very seriously: “I think you should be quite suitable for singing original songs.”

“Is brother Cheng saying this sincerely?” Tao Mu looked at Cheng Yi eagerly.

Cheng Yi, who had no defense against Tao Mu, nodded, and saw Tao Mu smirk like a thief, and even say solemnly: “Then I can rest assured. I have decided, when registered users of FlyNews.com reach 200 million, I will also send out a benefit for everyone. I’ll sing a song for everyone. I wont forget to tell netizens and fans in advance that this was a decision made with the encouragement of brother Cheng.”

Cheng Yi’s smile froze instantly. Thinking back to the two songs Tao Mu just sang, Cheng Yi really didn’t know, what were the tempers of mainland netizens like?

But even if they have a bad temper, they shouldn’t go as far as buy a plane ticket to Hong Kong just to ask him to settle accounts.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yi no longer worried.

Zhou Yanqing glanced at Cheng Yi, who was in self-denial, and couldn’t help reminding: “Ah Yi, you have plans to go to the mainland for a concert tour next year.”

Cheng Yi: “…..” Is it too late if I regret it now.

Of course it was too late! Tao Mu, this black-hearted and ruthless fellow, had already taken out his mobile phone and sent a FlyNews post. And also attached a selfie and uploaded it to FlyNews. Especially tagging the top-tier music producer in Hong Kong, who was praised by the media as the God of Versatile Singing, letting everyone know that he was praised by Mr. Cheng Yi for his singing voice——

“Having dinner with the bigwigs. Brother Cheng said that my singing is very fun, and couldn’t stop listening to it. I feel that I now have hope to enter the Chinese music scene!”

Then, Tao Mu happily announced his decision to sing a song to celebrate when FlyNews.com’s registered users exceeded 200 million.

The melon eating netizens and fans didn’t know the truth, and they all lined up to like Tao Mu’s FlyNews, and expressed their great expectations.

——They also recalled the dance video uploaded by Tao Mu when Tao Mu’s registered users on FlyNews.com exceeded 100 million. Red against white snow, peerless elegance. To describe it in one artsy sentence, it absolutely stunned the years and gentled time.

“Looking forward to our Mu Mu’s singing. Our Mu has a good voice, good looks, and good dancing skills. So our Mu’s singing must be very good as well.”

“Even Cheng Yi praised our Mu Mu and said that he could enter the music world. Cheng Yi is one of the biggest music producers in Hong Kong. Each of his albums sells more than one million. I especially like Cheng Yi’s songs. I also believe in the music god’s judgement.”

“I’m so envious that Mu Mu could eat and sing with so many celebrities. Out Mu is so popular and likeable.”

I’m not! I didn’t! Stop talking nonsense!

Cheng Yi and Tao Mu knew each other only for a day. He never thought that Tao Mu, as the founder of FlyNews.com, could be so shameless. Taking advantage of the fact that he didn’t have a FlyNews.com account and spreading such rumors.

“Brother Cheng, don’t be so humble.” Tao Mu patted Cheng Yi on the shoulder: “With your character, even if you register a FlyNews account, could you still expose me?”

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Cheng Yi choked and had nothing to say in response. He could only hug his shaking three views and persuade Tao Mu to think carefully: “…..I’m afraid that after you finish singing, FlyNews.com’s registered users will not be able to reach 300 million.”

“That won’t happen.” Tao Mu was very straightforward and looked at Cheng Yi with confidence: “I’m going to ask brother Cheng to be my single’s producer.”

With a ‘crack’, big music god Cheng’s shaky three views were completely shattered.

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