The Shen Group took the lead in establishing the Lost Children Gene Bank, which they originally wanted to use as an opportunity to create a good corporate image and family image. In the end, while they spent all the money and the energy, it was FlyNews.com and Xiaoheng Capital who made the most of their money. In fact, even the Li family’s Fengxing Group got a share of the huge profits.

This result made Chairman Shen very uncomfortable. In his opinion, the Shen Group was the one that cooperated with FlyNews.com, and it was the Shen Group who led the creation of this project, so these limelights should have belonged to the Shen Group.

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But now, because of Shen Yan’s noisy tantrum, the Shen Group lost the opportunity to make friends with FlyNews.com and Xiaoheng Capital. There were also some rumors floating around about Shen Yan in the outside world, which were very detrimental to the image of the Shen Group and the Shen family.

“It’s all my fault. I usually spoiled you too much and condoned your deplorable behavior. That’s why you have such an ignorant character. From today onwards, you are not allowed to go out. Stay at home and accompany your mother, as well as reflect on your behavior.” Chairman Shen’s face was dark. He felt that his punishment to Shen Yan was very light.

However, Shen Yan was still dissatisfied: “I don’t agree.”

“Father, Big Brother, I don’t understand, that Tao Mu is just an orphan with no father and no mother. He used to be a body double for our Xiao Yu back then. Why do you value him so much? He just has a good-looking face. He’s just an actor. What kind of charm does he even have that our Shen family need to rush to cooperate with him?”

“Also, at the contract signing ceremony between FlyNews.com and the Shen Group, Tao Mu publicly announced the news about the Skynet system that FlyNews.com and Xiaoheng Capital will be cooperating on. It can be seen that he did not care about our Shen family or take the Shen Group seriously at all. Even without me, he still won’t cooperate sincerely with the Shen family. That person is hostile to our Shen family.”

Although Shen Yan’s brain was not very good, her sixth sense was still very keen. From the first time she saw Tao Mu, Shen Yan didn’t like that young man at all. Especially since the other was the same age as Shen Yu and had the same birthday, his facial features and even his temperament were very similar to those of her older brother. These similarities always reminded Shen Yan of the younger brother she secretly replaced nineteen years ago.

So every time she saw Tao Mu, Shen Yan always felt guilty and scared, and subconsciously didn’t want the Shen family to have anything to do with that Tao Mu.

“Dad, Big Brother, don’t place any more hopes on that surnamed Tao. He doesn’t like our Shen family at all. Have you forgotten how he treated Xiao Yu at the beginning——”

“Shut up!” Before she could finish her sentence, Mother Shen, who had been hugging a pillow and didn’t say much, suddenly became furious: “What kind of Shen family member is Shen Yu? His father’s surname is Tan not Shen. A little bastard who stole my real son’s spot and occupied the resources of our Shen family, but made my real son suffer outside. How dare you mention his name in front of me?”

“Mom!” Shen Yan frowned at Mother Shen and shouted in disapproval, “Don’t say that about Xiao Yu, he will be sad too——”

“Sad? What right does he have to be sad!” Mother Shen sneered: “It’s because of him that my biological son had not been known until now, all the while he had been pampered in the Shen family for so many years, and was called “young master” wherever he went. If he had any conscience, he should hope that our Shen family would find the real young master soon. Instead of pretending to be sad. Oh, my mistake, he is truly sad, sad that he will not be treated as the young master of the Shen family in the future.”

“Mom——”

“And you!” Mother Shen stared at her daughter with hatred on her face: “You replaced your brother back then. For so many years, you clearly knew that that little cuckoo who occupied the magpie’s nest was not the blood of the Shen family, was not your real younger brother, yet you still watched everyone in the Shen family raise that little bastard and spoil that little bastard——”

“Mom!” Shen Yan couldn’t take it anymore, and interrupted Mother Shen’s scolding loudly: “Don’t do this. I’ve said it before, this had nothing to do with Xiao Yu. It’s all my fault. It’s me——”

“Slap!” Shen Yan covered her cheeks in astonishment: “Mom, you actually hit me?”

“That’s right, I hit you.” Mother Shen’s face was indifferent, staring at her daughter with red eyes: “I want to see if I can beat some clarity in you. Your little brother, because of you, who knows where he is suffering now. Yet you still have the heart to yell at me for a little bastard. I’m curious, what kind of drug did he give you that you can’t even care about your own blood brother.”

“You actually hit me.” Shen Yan looked at Mother Shen in disbelief, and said in a choked voice, “Growing up, you haven’t ever slapped me before. Now it’s for a stranger who we haven’t even met. Mom, you actually hit me?”

“That’s not a stranger, he’s your little brother.” Mother Shen also didn’t understand why her always obedient and filial daughter became so cold and heartless: “Because of you, who knows where your little brother is now, and whether he’s doing well or not. Don’t you feel any guilt?”

“No.” Shen Yan cried and shouted: “I don’t admit that that stranger is my little brother. I only know that Xiao Yu has been raised in our family for nineteen years, and he is my little brother. I hate that person!”

With that, Shen Yan ran upstairs crying. After a few minutes, she came back downstairs with a suitcase.

Mother Shen was shocked and angry: “What are you doing?”

“I’m leaving here!” Shen Yan carried her suitcase and walked out: “You don’t like me. Well then, I’ll leave the Shen house, and I’m going to move in with Xiao Yu. From now on, us siblings will depend on each other. Just look for that stranger all over the world. He is your Shen family!”

“Miss!” The Shen family’s housekeeper and servants all gathered around to dissuade Shen Yan: “Don’t make trouble with Madam. She is not feeling well, you should be considerate of her.”

The Shen family servants didn’t know what the eldest miss was thinking. Making such a fuss with the whole family for the sake of the young master. Although when the madam first drove the young master away, everyone felt that she was being too cruel. After all, the young master had been raised in the Shen family for nineteen years, whether he was biological or not, the feelings developed over these nineteen years were still there. Besides, the young master was well-behaved, filial, kind and lovely since he was a child. They all liked the young master very much. Knowing that the young master was going to be kicked out of the Shen family, everyone was very worried. And even secretly complained that the madam was too cold-blooded.

But it had been a long time, and seeing how the madam would sit in the nursery and wash her face in tears every day. Everyone gradually understood. A child was a piece of flesh that fell from a mother’s body. The baby who was born after 10 months and a night of painful laboring. Only to be replaced by her own daughter, tricking her to raise a child who was not related by blood for nineteen years.

Now that the truth had been exposed, as soon as the madam saw the young master, she would think of the real young master. Seeing the young master being pampered and loved in the Shen family, she would think about whether her own son would be mistreated by others. After thinking about this every day, who knew how much her heart had bled. Therefore, when she expelled the young master from the Shen family, it was just so she wouldn’t be reminded of painful things.

Speaking of which, although the young master moved out of the Shen family’s mansion, the chairman and the eldest young master did not leave him alone. He now lived in a high-end apartment on the Bund, and he also carried his debit card with him. Even the things that the young master usually used, the clothes and shoes he liked to wear, they also had the servants send them to him.

They heard that the chairman also made the decision to put the house in the name of the young master. Needless to say, the Shen family had done their best for the young master.

Now, the eldest miss was still making trouble with the madam for the sake of the young master. Nobody said anything, but they all had some thoughts in their hearts. They felt that the young master was too insatiable. Although he was not from the Shen family, he had been raised by the Shen family for so many years. Now that his birth background had been exposed, he didn’t know to persuade the family to be considerate of the madam, and instead urged the eldest miss to go home and make trouble. They didn’t want to think so badly of the kind and well-behaved young master. But who let Shen Yan come back home to make a fuss every time she went to see the young master.

The young master clearly knew that the eldest miss liked him the most. If the young master was willing to persuade the eldest miss to be more considerate of the madam, would the eldest miss not listen?

“Don’t stop me. Didn’t you see it? My parents and older brother don’t like me anymore. Dad thinks I’m useless and will only cause trouble for the family. Mom thinks it’s me who lost us little brother and should apologize with my death. They don’t even treat me as a daughter anymore, so why should I still stay at home and beg for their forgiveness?”

Shen Yan was truly sad this time. From childhood to adulthood, no matter how noisy she was, no one in the family touched a single finger on her. Now, for a little brother who they had never met, Mom actually slapped her. Dad and Big Brother also reprimanded her for that Tao Mu. Shen Yan’s face was covered with a red handprint, and she felt that she had no face to see others with. She didn’t want to stay at home anymore.

Chairman Shen watched with cold eyes as Shen Yan was making a fuss under the obstruction of the servants at home, and couldn’t help but get angry: “Let her go. She has been living too leisurely. Not knowing the suffering of the world at all.”

“Shen Yan!” Chairman Shen looked at his daughter angrily, and even called out her full name: “You can leave today. But let me remind you, if you walk out of this door, I will stop all your cards. You are twenty-three this year, and you have been sitting at home doing nothing since graduating from college. I was originally being considerate as you are a girl, and you will eventually get married in the future. And when you arrive at your in-law’s house, you will no longer be as free as you are at home, so I condoned you. Let you do whatever you want. But I didn’t expect you to be so spoiled and unreasonable.”

Chairman Shen became more and more angry. He originally wanted to leave his daughter at home to accompany his wife. But he didn’t expect that Shen Yan not only didn’t know how to be considerate of her mother’s mood, she even caused such unrest at home: “You want to live with Shen Yu, right? Well, I’ll give you this chance. From today, I will stop all your cards. Go out and find a job yourself. You’re a college graduate too. Go out and see how many girls your age make in a month and what kind of lives they lead. Then you’ll know just how well your parents treated you.”

“Wh-what?”

In the past, every time Shen Yan was reprimanded by her family for making trouble, she would throw a tantrum, until her parents softened and bowed their heads first. Then she would go down the steps offered. As for the reprimands, of course, it was all forgotten. So Shen Yan was used to making a fuss every time she got into trouble. As if this way she could get out of any trouble just with the sheer power of her tantrums.

However, what she didn’t expect was that this time, neither of her parents would cave in. She had even raised the fuss to the level of running away from home, but Father Shen not only didn’t stop her, but even went so far as to stop her bank cards and forcing her to go out and find a job.

Shen Yan, who was just acting originally, now truly didn’t have any stairs to go down from. She looked at the Shen family anxiously and angrily, her eyes red with anger: “You really don’t want me anymore? Fine, I will do as you wish. I will leave the Shen family now, and I will never come back in this life.”

After speaking, Shen Yan left the Shen family mansion angrily carrying her suitcase. She also didn’t forget to call the Shen family driver over to take her to Shen Yu’s house.

“Chairman——”

“Shiyuan…..”

The housekeeper, old Chen, who had been working at the Shen family for many years, and Mother Shen looked at Shen Shiyuan worriedly: “Just letting her leave, is that really a good idea?”

Although Mother Shen was angry that Shen Yan didn’t feel any guilt over the matter of replacing her little brother, Shen Yan was her daughter after all. No matter how angry Mother Shen was, she would never really be angry with her daughter. Even if she was angry, when something really happened, she would be more worried than angry. This was the heart of a parent.

“This is Shanghai City. What’s there to worry about.” Shen Shiyuan frowned tightly. If it weren’t for the recent incidents, he would never have thought that the clever daughter in his original impression had such a recalcitrant and ruthless side to her.

“But…..” Mother Shen thought for a while: “With you stopping her bank cards, how will she live?”

“For a girl as old as her, who doesn’t go out to work and earn money to support herself? Compared with those female employees in our company who come from other provinces, having to pay rent, water and electricity every month on just a several thousand yuan salary. I just stopped her bank cards.” Although Chairman Shen was the chairman of the Shen Group, he had always been known for caring about his subordinates and caring for employees. He naturally knew how most of the employees in the company lived: “Even if there is no bank card, she is still living in an apartment on the Bund. She just needs to find a job to support herself. If she doesn’t even have such an ability, and only knows how to eat her parents’ food and use her parents’ money, then she should learn to not throw tantrums at her parents.”

“Chenchen…..” Mother Shen couldn’t win against her husband, so she could only look to her eldest son who had been reading the documents in his hands and said nothing the whole time the “war” was breaking out in his home.

“I think what Dad said is right. Shen Yan really should learn some lessons. Otherwise, with her current temper, our family can endure her, but when she marries into her in-law’s family in the future, should we let her in-law’s family endure her too?”

As the CEO of the Shen Group, Shen Chen was actually busier than Chairman Shen. So he seldom took care of family affairs. For, once he actually said so many words this year, and it was also because Shen Yan was too unreasonable, and even Shen Chen, who had never cared much about his family’s daily life, couldn’t stand it.

After all, in Shen Chen’s view, it didn’t matter how the family made a fuss at home, but if it affected the interests of the Shen Group, they needed to be taught a lesson.

However, Shen Chen’s thoughts were nothing more than that. The Shen family had always believed in the old tradition of men being in charge outside and women being in charge at home, and if Shen Yan was the son of the Shen family, then Shen Chen would have the heart to discipline her. But she was just the daughter of the Shen family, destined to marry into another family in the future. She would be other people’s wife and mother, and whether her attitude was good or bad, it was naturally up to the in-laws to take care of. Anyway, as long as the Shen family did not collapse, even if Shen Yan poked a hole in the sky, her husband’s family would still naturally endure it for the sake of the Shen family’s power and influence.

So Shen Chen didn’t care much about Shen Yan’s IQ. It was like when he asked Shen Yan and Shen Yu to apologize to Tao Mu. He would patiently and meticulously reason with Shen Yu——though Shen Yu’s brain circuits were not very understandable——of course, it turned out that the ultimate reason why Shen Yu could not understand was that he was not a man of the Shen family and not because there was something wrong with Shen Chen’s teaching method. And when it was Shen Yan’s turn, Shen Chen simply and crudely threw a bank card over. Shen Yan would naturally be obedient.

In the eyes of the Shen family, as a woman of the Shen family, so long as she was obedient and docile, she would naturally enjoy endless prosperity and wealth. It was a pity that Shen Yan couldn’t even be obedient and docile now. Naturally, a lesson was required.

However, in the eyes of the Shen family, the so-called “severe lesson” was just to stop the bank cards. After all, the economic base determines the superstructure. If a person wants to throw a temper tantrum, they must first achieve economic independence. If she couldn’t even do this, then Shen Yan should just obediently be the eldest miss of the Shen family and stop making trouble for the family.

After consciously believing he had solved Shen Yan’s matter, Shen Chen picked up the phone and called his assistant, and asked the public relations department of the Shen Group to publicize the existence and importance of the gene bank as soon as possible in conjunction with FlyNews.com’s “Just Snap A Photo” public welfare activity——After all, all the photos taken for the “Just Snap A Photo” promoted by FlyNews.com were uploaded to the website of the “Lost Children Gene Bank”, and the gene bank was also used in the final DNA identification.

And in addition, bring some attention to the original intention of the Shen Group to establish a gene bank in order to find the Shen family’s biological son. Shen Chen decided to take advantage of the popularity of FlyNews.com’s “Just Snap A Photo”, and also set up a reward, directly posting the information of the surrogate mother to the Internet. Setting up a raffle with prizes system for those who shared the post and awarding cash to those who provided news and tips.

Tao Mu, who was far away in Beijing, did not expect that Shen Chen would actually learn the publicity stunt that was the FlyNews lottery. And laughed out loud involuntarily.

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On the other side, Shen Yan, who was standing at the door of the apartment waiting for her little brother to come back, looked at Shen Yu who was covered in bruises in shock, and asked: “Xiao Yu, you, why did you become like this? Did someone bully you?”

AN: Small Skit——

Shen Yan: Although I play the role of the vicious female supporting character, a brain-dead NPC whose only use is to facilitate the plot, I want to say that people with the blood of the Shen family are all big pigs’ feet. Do you agree with me? ! ! ! !

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Due to Shen Yan’s scene and Tao Mu’s sudden revelation, FlyNews.com and the Shen Group’s cooperation promotion signing ceremony for the Lost Children’s Gene Bank ended in a noisy state of chaos.

However, the impact was far-reaching and lasting.

First of all, was the news that Tao Mu revealed during the signing ceremony, in which FlyNews.com would cooperate with Xiaoheng Capital, Skynet Technology, and the Beijing Police to implement the Skynet system nationwide. Especially since as soon as the news was exposed, the Beijing police responded with a confirmation.

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In fact, after seeing the news that the Shen Group and the Shanghai police had jointly established a gene bank for lost children and established an anti-trafficking fund, Tao Mu thought of the Skynet system developed in his previous life, which was also developed to curb the crime of human trafficking.

That was a smart system developed by China’s future richest man himself that covered the whole country with automatic networking of monitoring equipment and face recognition. Whether in terms of technicality or practicality, the former was obviously more valuable than the lost children gene bank prepared by the Shen Group. Of course, once the project was established, the capital that needed to be invested in the early stage was also a huge sum that was unimaginable for ordinary people. However, it was obvious that once this project was implemented, the effect it could play was absolutely huge.

——At least it could be guaranteed that within the scope of monitoring, all criminal acts would never remain out of sight. It allowed the police to get first-hand on-the-spot information when investigating a case. And then follow the clues of the suspect. This alone could at least deter some less timid offenders, and they would not dare to carry out atrocities within the monitoring range in the future.

Under the writings of some optimistic media and special reporters from FlyNews Entertainment, the Skynet system that had not yet been implemented was praised to the skies. However, these were not just blind praising and flattery. At least in Tao Mu’s memory, after the Skynet system was implemented nationwide in his previous life, the crime rate in the country was indeed much lower than before, and the success rate of case detection was also greatly increased.

However, the important reason that prompted Tao Mu to join forces with various allies and the police to insist on implementing the Skynet system was because the actual benefits that could be obtained during the implementation of the entire project were very rich indeed——not mentioning anything else, only just the monitoring equipment needed to be installed nationwide, if they could sign this order, even if it was signed at the cost price, the profit obtained was unimaginable. Not to mention the huge fame that promoting the project itself could bring to the company.

In the previous life, the main ones who implemented the Skynet system were the China Police, Xiaoheng Capital and Skynet Technology. Now Tao Mu happened to know people from all three parties. Although under the butterfly effect of this life, Yun Yi was not very interested in the IT industry at first, but under Tao Mu’s persistent edification and temptation, China’s richest man in his previous life finally stepped back on to the path of fate——

It was worth mentioning that a bigwig was worthy of being a bigwig. Even if Yun Yi became a programmer halfway through his life, with Tao Mu’s careful advice, the bigwig absorbed the basic knowledge of IT programming as quickly as possible, and it took less than half a year for the Skynet system’s  prototype code to come out——that was, the code regarding monitoring equipment and the national Internet network. Of course, this was also due to the good product planning plan given by Tao Mu, the product manager.

As for the higher-end technology of face recognition, Yun Yi was still in the process of experimenting. Li Xiaoheng, who had listened to Tao Mu discussing this information before, had already been looking for similar technologies in Silicon Valley and other high-tech industrial areas around the world.

In the end, what Li Xiaoheng got was not the dynamic face recognition function that Tao Mu had in mind. It was similar to the screening and comparison of pictures in the database. To put it simply, it was assumed that after the case occurred, the police could take screenshots of the suspects based on the surveillance video of the crime scene, and then put the pictures into the national online archives for comparison, so as to screen out the criminals’ identities and background in the fastest time.

Of course, the disadvantage of this function was that you must take a screenshot of the criminal’s face or profile.

It was naturally incomparable with the powerful functions of the Skynet system in later years, which could even be compared to sci-fi high-tech. However, compared with the old mode of handling cases, which basically relied on investigation, experience and inference, it could be regarded as a breakthrough and innovation.

Tao Mu intended to launch this project, in addition to wanting to compete with the Shen Group, so as to be prepared, but also because he sincerely wanted more people to benefit from it.

In the last life, Yun Yi achieved the height of being the richest man in China with only this project. Xiaoheng Capital had more than doubled the company’s market value because of its investment in Skynet Technology. Ordinary melon eaters could also get a safer living environment.

This was a good thing that benefited more than just one group of people. For the Beijing police, this was also an absolutely glorious achievement that could not be ignored. Speaking of which, they were envious of their colleagues in Shanghai City for launching such a good public welfare project as the Lost Children’s Gene Bank with the support of the Shen Group. But unexpectedly, a few days after feeling such a feeling of envy, a better cooperation project landed in their laps.

Even the media reporters who have been paying attention to news hotspots were eager to make follow-up reports on this project. It could be foreseen that for a long time, they would not be short of reporting topics.

It was indeed a real joy for everyone involved.

After the contract signing ceremony with the Shen Group, Tao Mu also specially held another press conference. He was interviewed by the media along with Xiaoheng Capital, Skynet Technology and the Beijing Police. The main purpose was to introduce the important functions of the Skynet system to the public, as well as details such as when the project was expected to be implemented.

Among them, Tao Mu’s FlyNews.com was really just responsible for taking the lead. Most of the remaining specific matters were handed over to Xiaoheng Capital and Skynet Technology for implementation, and the local police were responsible for cooperating with the installation.

The reason for this division of labor was mainly because Tao Mu’s energy was limited. Moreover, this should have been the project of Li Xiaoheng and Yun Yi. Tao Mu had already benefited a lot from the opportunity of rebirth. He didn’t want to take away his friend’s career because of it. In particular, the Skynet system was very important to Yun Yi.

In contrast, Li Xiaoheng and Yun Yi were more than happy to bring in Tao Mu, a resourceful and intelligent friend who could really be called a sage who could touch base matter and turn it to gold, to carry out the project together. But Tao Mu’s thinking was very righteous, and the things he decided on would basically not change. Therefore, in this project, Tao Mu only had FlyNews.com promote it, and he gained some fame himself. As for interests side of things, he really didn’t get involved.

However, Tao Mu suggested that Li Xiaoheng could pull the Li family in. He could remember that the Fengxing Group, which the Li family was in charge of, was not only in the real estate business, but also invested in department stores, supermarkets and electronic equipment. Therefore, the monitoring equipment could completely be given to the Fengxing Group to be responsible for.

Li Xiaoheng never thought that Tao Mu would think so thoughtfully for him. With his normal disposition, he had always been too lazy to participate in the daily management of the family business. Otherwise, Li Xiaoheng would not have preferred to create Xiaoheng Capital himself rather than go home to take over the business when he was studying abroad. It was not that Li Xiaoheng was not interested in running a family business, he just hated being constrained by others. The Fengxing Group was a big family business, and especially in this kind of family business, most of the shareholders were relatives, friends and elders within the family. Relying on seniority and age, they lectured and bossed the younger members daily.

Li Xiaoheng was domineering by nature. When he was dragged by his father to manage the family business, he often had conflicts with his elders because of different ideas. The elders of the family believed themselves to be experienced, and no matter how much of a prodigy Li Xiaoheng might be, how outstanding his vision was or how he acted decisively since he was a child, no one was willing to listen to him when he was still a child.

Later, Li Xiaoheng founded Xiaoheng Capital, and he even managed to be more successful and prosperous than that of the family group. And Fengxing Group, which had always been focusing on industry, had to rely on Li Xiaoheng’s investment vision instead. The positions of the two sides were immediately reversed. This time, it was the elders of the family who begged Li Xiaoheng to return to the group to take care of the family business, but unfortunately for them, Li Xiaoheng had no eyes for the family business. After a few years of tossing about outside, especially after getting to know Tao Mu, an investment consultant with a big golden finger, he was even more out of control. Taking advantage of the unfavorable global situation, the market value of Xiaoheng Capital had exceeded that of even Fengxing Group, which had been operating for decades.

Now, Li Xiaoheng’s position in the Li family was even more special. The elders of the family were greedy for the powerful capital-absorbing ability of Xiaoheng Capital, and have always wanted to share a piece of the pie. However, although Li Xiaoheng didn’t care much about the management rights of Fengxing Group, he would never allow others to meddle in his business. Not even his own father. Let alone those elders who relied on their seniority to boss people around.

After several rounds of fights, those elders who once underestimated Li Xiaoheng finally became obedient.

However, as Tao Mu said, he was part of the Li family, so after teaching them a lesson, he would still have to share some profits that should be shared. If Xiaoheng Capital ate meat, then he at least could ensure that Fengxing Group could also drink some soup.

In fact, since Tao Mu held a press conference to announce the start of this cooperation project, the elders of the Li family were quite eager as well. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see the fame and fortune to be found in this project. It was just that Li Xiaoheng had hit them hard enough for them to remember, and the elders who had been hit were still recovering. Although their hearts coveted, no one dared to mention it in front of Li Xiaoheng.

In the end, it was Li Xiaoheng who took the initiative to invite the electronics company under Fengxing Group to take over the monitoring equipment when he went home for dinner.

This was changing a bit fast. It just didn’t fit the character of Li Xiaoheng. The group of old fellows didn’t say anything on the surface, but they did go back to inquire secretly, and learned that it was the idea given by the business consultant hired by Li Xiaoheng. And Li Xiaoheng actually agreed.

It seemed that that business partner, who was always stirring up waves, was really highly valued by Li Xiaoheng. Li Xiaoheng even listened to suggestions that had nothing to do with finance.

Therefore, Tao Mu, who thought that the matter had nothing to do with him any longer, was stunned to find that there were a lot of companies willing to show goodwill to FlyNews.com recently. All of them were in a hurry to send money and ask FlyNews.com to help with publicity and promotion. There were even people who came waving cheques to ask BulletScreen.com to help shoot advertisements.

As everyone knew, the most revenue of FlyNews.com and BulletScreen.com now was in advertising and publicity expenses. However, due to various restrictions, FlyNews.com’s previous business model could only be said to barely reach a balance of payments. After all, FlyNews.com purchased the server itself, and after the registered users exceeded the 100 million mark, Tao Mu also had FlyNews.com add the functions of online video calls and uploading small videos. This had led FlyNews.com to increase capital investment in server and background operations in order to ensure smoothness and quality when watching videos.

It could be said that if Tao Mu himself was not a business partner of Xiaoheng Capital, often able to provide a large amount of funds to support the operation of FlyNews.com and BulletScreen.com. These two websites would have faced the embarrassing situation of going bankrupt because they could not make ends meet a long time ago.

Now, a lot of companies were waving cheques to ask for publicity and advertising. Although the final result was mutually beneficial, it was definitely a good thing that money flowed into FlyNews.com at this juncture.

Tao Mu went back and asked his Yao Dad to check, and found that most of those companies were suppliers who had close ties with Fengxing Group and largely figured out what was going on.

——He was actually secretly shown goodwill by the Li family.

Tao Mu told Li Xiaoheng about this. And Li Xiaoheng just laughed and told Tao Mu not to pay attention to those people. Tao Mu was of the same thinking. Since they came with cheques for his publicity service, then he would have FlyNews.com do a good job of online publicity for those companies. Especially as Xiaoheng Capital was still preparing to build an online shopping platform. He could take this opportunity to get in touch with these product suppliers. So long as their goods were guaranteed to be real and authentic, even if it was not an internationally famous brand, he was willing to sign a contract. At that time he would then create another propaganda slogan that stated something along the lines of supporting domestic products. After all, it was not like he could let the website suffer losses.

Li Xiaoheng had long known that Tao Mu always liked the habit of maximizing profits in everything. So of course he was not surprised and let Tao Mu toss about to his heart’s content.

At the same time, when Tao Mu was helping the Lost Children’s Gene Bank to promote nationwide, he also launched a public welfare activity called “Just Snap A Photo” on FlyNews.com, which was to take pictures of disabled children begging on the streets with one’s mobile phone and upload them online, and with the cooperation of the police in various places, find a way to get their DNA to input into the gene bank, so that parents who have lost their children could conduct DNA comparisons. See if these children were kidnapped and trafficked by bad guys.

Tao Mu also specially asked the production team of BulletScreen.com to produce a program in conjunction with the Beijing police, in order to popularize the various methods and routines used by human traffickers to abduct and sell children to the general public. One of the most worthy of attention was the case of children begging on the streets.

“You could save a child’s life and a family’s happiness with a single photo.”

With such a slogan, once this public welfare activity was promoted, it immediately aroused a response on the Internet. For the safety of the majority of netizens, Tao Mu also specially urged netizens to try not to be too obvious when taking pictures, and to avoid attracting the attention of interested people.

At first, no one took this activity to heart, just following along out of a herd mentality, and of course FlyNews.com’s call to action, when they took a few photos. However, just after a certain netizen recognized that one of the begging children was probably a child abducted by traffickers in their neighborhood a few years ago, and notified the parents of the child to report to the local police, and really cracked down on a criminal gang that used disabled children for begging. Successfully rescuing their own child and more innocent victims. With the reporting of this news, the entire Internet instantly exploded.

However, what the excited netizens didn’t know was that just when they were excited about this matter and were delighted that a photo they took casually might really save a child or even a family, some people were not so happy.

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Chairman Shen, who first led the two activities of the Lost Children’s Gene Bank and the Anti-Trafficking Fund, looked at FlyNews.com and Tao Mu, who were the most prominent names among all the news reports, and turned off the TV with a displeased face.

Then, he looked at Shen Yan who was sitting on the side with an impatient face, and scolded: “Look at what you have done!”

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Tao Mu sneered, he didn’t believe a word of what the Shen family father and son said.

However, what Shen Chen said was right. The establishment of the Gene Bank for Lost Children and the Anti-Trafficking Fund was a good deed with boundless merit. It was also very helpful in enhancing the corporate image. Now that the Shen Group had set up a gene bank with great fanfare, outsiders didn’t know the truth and would only think that the Shen family had done everything they could to find the child who had been lost for 19 years.

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If there was such a preconceived idea, then one day, when Tao Mu’s birth background was exposed, it was not difficult to imagine what netizens who have paid attention to this matter would say. It was not difficult to imagine what the Shen family would make of this matter.

Therefore, even if Tao Mu did not want to recognize his birth family, he must stand on the moral high ground. Only by occupying the high ground of public opinion and allowing netizens to fully understand his current situation could he have full room for development after the truth was revealed. At least he should not let the Shen family have all the say in this matter.

But forget about being the spokesperson. Tao Mu didn’t want to have too much involvement with the Shen family, lest after the truth surfaced, the Shen family hired the water army to spread disgusting remarks like “coincidence of fate” or “familial bonds will always shine true” and so on on the Internet to lead the public astray.

Thinking of this, Tao Mu smiled calmly and said, “I think words like kindness and universal love would be more appropriate to describe the young son of the Shen family. Since the two of you are looking for promotion ambassadors, why not ask the youngest Shen family son to play this role? In order to find the child who had been lost for 19 years, the Shen family had set up a gene bank and anti-trafficking fund with such a huge momentum, wanting to also benefit the parents and orphans all over the world. It really achieves the phrase: promoting social welfare when one has the means. This is originally a good thing, and if you have your youngest son serve as a promotion ambassador, the whole family working together to find the lost child, wouldn’t that make an even more wonderful story?”

“Also, the young master Shen is an actor. This profession naturally possesses the ability to focus attention. Having young master Shen as the promotion ambassador would not only promote the gene bank smoothly, but also create a harmonious atmosphere in the Shen family, and it would also make young master Shen’s image a positive one that is accepted by netizens. Three birds with one stone. Isn’t that great?”

The father and son pair of the Shen family looked at each other and smiled. Chairman Shen couldn’t help but say: “Outsiders think that Mr. Tao hates our Xiao Yu. Now it seems that Mr. Tao is also very considerate of Xiao Yu. Your good intentions, after I go back, I will definitely tell Xiao Yu. I believe that Xiao Yu will be very happy when he knows about Mr. Tao’s attitude.”

Tao Mu frowned. The Shen family was not stupid, so they could naturally see his attitude towards Shen Yu. So there was no need for him to dismantle such polite chit chat and social niceties to their face.

Tao Mu didn’t answer, and said: “…..As for FlyNews.com helping to promote the gene bank, the two of you don’t need to worry, FlyNews.com is a conscientious company, and it will naturally accept the responsibility of this kind of public welfare activities. We will definitely do our best. For the sake of orphans and parents who have lost their children all over the world.”

Tao Mu said this with true feelings. He grew up in an orphanage and was used to seeing children who were abandoned for various reasons. Among these children, some were abandoned by their biological parents because they were seriously ill, some were girls who were abandoned at birth because of their parents’ preference for sons, some were sent to orphanages by relatives and friends after both parents died, and some were abducted and sold by human traffickers. After solving the case, the police could not find their families and so they had to be sent to an orphanage. There were children abandoned for all kinds of reasons.

So what Tao Mu hated most were those irresponsible parents, and the traffickers who kidnapped other people’s children for profit.

No matter what the Shen family’s plans were. This time, the lost children gene bank and anti-trafficking fund jointly established by the Shen Group and the Shanghai police could indeed help many families with difficult finances to continue to find their lost children, and could also help those adopted children find their biological parents. Even if the hope was slim.

Tao Mu had always done things regardless of the original intention, and only concerned himself with the results. So in the promotion of the lost children website, he would definitely spare no effort to help the gene bank. Not only for those parents and children who were sincerely looking for their families, but also for the image of FlyNews.com.

Having had the experience of his previous life, although Tao Mu was heavily vigilant against the Shen family, he was not so naive that he would directly push these people he hated thousands of miles away. It was all business after all, of course, one must talk about interests and nothing else. With Tao Mu’s character of “profit first”, facing the Shen Group’s sincere invitation, and knowing that it was obviously a win-win cooperation project, if he still blindly refused, he would only end up drawing suspicion to himself.

So if it was time to eat meat then eat meat, and if it was time to drink soup then drink soup. So long as he just spit out the bones that would choke in his throat then all was fine.

Of course, the father and son pair of the Shen family could also hear the underlying meaning in Tao Mu’s words that Tao Mu was really not very interested in this promotion ambassador position. It was also not that surprising as the gene bank for lost children established by the Shen Group and the Shanghai police was to help parents find their lost children, or help children find their biological parents. But in Tao Mu’s case, he was afraid that his biological parents would indeed find him.

The interests of the two were not the same. Forcing Tao Mu to serve as the promotion ambassador of the gene bank would indeed lead to a case of deception. It was not like Tao Mu could be the promotion ambassador of the gene bank while also publicly telling the world that he didn’t want to recognize his biological parents at all.

According to Tao Mu’s consistent behavior, the Shen family had no doubt that Tao Mu would definitely reveal his true attitude on the matter in an interview. Then things would indeed get a little awkward. While Tao Mu was helping others find their children and parents, he was afraid that his own parents would find him. He also swore that once he was found, he would definitely sue the other party for abandonment or even intentional homicide.

Putting these two together, the picture was really too ‘beautiful’ to look at. The Shen family father and son pair could not even imagine what that would be like.

So the matter of asking Tao Mu to be the promotion ambassador was of course brushed to the side. Fortunately, the Shen family father and son pair’s visit was not in vain, and Tao Mu finally agreed to help promote the gene bank nationwide.

According to the original thoughts of the Shen family father and son pair, of course, they hoped that FlyNews.com could open the data interface and directly convert FlyNews.com users into registered users of the gene bank. In this way, the Shen Group could not only successfully spread the gene bank to all parts of the country, but also convert more than 110 million registered users of FlyNews.com to their own use. Therefore, even if a certain price had to be paid in exchange for such benefits, the Shen family still preferred this kind of cooperation.

But Tao Mu was not interested in this kind of cooperation. He only agreed to help promote the gene bank on the homepage of FlyNews.com, and he could even do pop-up promotions after each user logged in to their FlyNews account. Call on more people to join the fight against child abduction and human trafficking.

Although the cooperation model that maximized the benefits had not been realized, the promotion done by FlyNews.com had indeed helped the gene bank spread to the whole country in the shortest time. Although the Shen family felt that the outcome was not as perfect as they hoped, to be honest, they never thought that Tao Mu would agree to the first set of cooperation plans. So at present, the follow-up cooperation plan was still negotiated with satisfaction.

But they didn’t expect that after the cooperation plan between the Shen Group and FlyNews.com was announced, the first person to come knocking at the door was actually Shen Yan, the unfilial daughter with a confused mind.

“Father, Big Brother, why do you have to work with someone like Tao Mu? You clearly know that Tao Mu doesn’t like Xiao Yu the most, and he even hurt Xiao Yu so many times. Our Shen family not only doesn’t help Xiaoy Yu to get revenge and vent this anger, you even looked for the enemy to cooperate. Is it because Xiao Yu is not the blood of the Shen family, so you don’t care about Xiao Yu’s feelings?”

Because the headquarters of FlyNews.com was located in Beijing, the contract signing ceremony of the cooperation between the Shen Group and FlyNews.com to promote the gene bank of lost children was set at the headquarters of FlyNews.com. It could also be regarded as a moment of publicity for FlyNews.com.

At the contract signing ceremony, Tao Mu also invited a number of media including FlyNews Entertainment. However, he didn’t expect that the contract signing ceremony had not yet even started and there was already a problem. Having learned that the Shen Group had actually approached FlyNews.com to cooperate, and was even interested in inviting Tao Mu to be the promotion ambassador of the gene bank, Shen Yan crashed the ceremony, kicking up a stink and causing quite the scene.

Under the guidance of the staff of FlyNew.com’s administrative department, the eyes of the media reporters who were preparing to take their positions lit up. They did not expect that they would still be able to eat such a big melon when they were invited to participate in just a contract signing ceremony, so with conditioned reflexes voice recorders, camcorders and cameras began shooting the scene all at once.

Noticing the flickering and flashing lights, the Shen family father and son pair’s expressions darkened, and they reprimanded sternly: “Yanyan, what kind of occasion is this, how can you talk such nonsense. It seems that I dote on you too much, actually spoiling you to the extent of forgetting the most basic manners. Hurry up and apologize to Mr. Tao.”

“I won’t apologize to this kind of person who only angles for fame.” Shen Yan gave Tao Mu a vicious look: “All in all, I will never accept this kind of person to cooperate with our Shen family.”

Originally, he didn’t want to get involved in the quarrel of the three Shen family members, but Shen Yan actually pointed at his nose and scolded him to his face. Tao Mu had never been a timid person so hearing this, he immediately sneered and said: “Angling for fame? As we all know, when Miss Shen was five years old, she could swap her younger brother with other people’s children because of her likes and dislikes, and she kept the secret for nineteen years. I think it’s better to be a person who angles for fame than a ‘sincere’ person like Miss Shen.”

After a pause, Tao Mu added: “At least people who angle for fame know to have some shame.”

“What did you say?” Shen Yan’s face flushed from Tao Mu’s words. Feeling guilty and angry, she even rushed up and raised her hand to slap Tao Mu: “I’ll let you talk nonsense——”

“Miss Shen!” Brother Da Hui, who was standing behind Tao Mu, rushed to Tao Mu with quick eyes and feet, raising his hand to grasp Shen Yan’s arm, and exerting a little force: “This is the public eye, Miss Shen, please have some respect for yourself.”

“It hurts, let me go.”

Da Hui sneered and pushed Shen Yan away.

Shen Yan clutched her red and swollen wrist and took several steps back before she stood up straight. She looked at Da Hui in shock and anger: “How dare you do anything to me?”

“Miss Shen went to the headquarters of FlyNews.com to cause a scene and even want to commit assault. The only reason I didn’t call the police and kicked you out was because of the two Mr. Shen’s.” Tao Mu said coldly: “Also, so many people are watching. Miss Shen should restrain yourself and think before you slander people. You clearly raised a hand first, my people just stopped Miss Shen from assaulting others casually.”

Before Tao Mu could finish speaking, a reporter from FlyNews Entertainment immediately answered: “That’s right. We have surveillance video and cameras. If Miss Shen insists on lying, we will release the video.”

They still remember that time the mother and daughter of the Shen family brought Shen Yu and Yao Wenxiao to the headquarters of FlyNews.com to make trouble, and in the end, even slandered FlyNews.com for oppressing people.

Shen Yan was furious when she heard the words, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Shen Chen.

Noticing her older brother’s cold eyes that resembled ice, Shen Yan’s heart sank, and she finally stopped making trouble.

Shen Chen’s expression warmed slightly, he nodded at Tao Mu, and apologized: “I’m very sorry. Our Shen family’s family education was not strict, Mr. Tao has seen something ridiculous.”

“If the family education was not strict, you should lock her up at home and discipline her well then. With all due respect, this is the second time your sister has come to my place to make a scene. I can let it slide after once or even twice but not a third or fourth time. If this kind of thing happens again, then don’t blame me for not being polite anymore.” Tao Mu said coldly.

The faces of the Shen family’s father and son darkened, but it was their fault in this matter, and they couldn’t say anything else.

Chairman Shen had a fatherly look on his face, and even explained patiently to Shen Yan: “Don’t misunderstand Mr. Tao. This time we asked Mr. Tao to be the promotion ambassador of the lost children’s gene bank. Mr. Tao thought over his own situation and felt that it was not quite suitable, so he refused. He also recommended Xiao Yu as the promotion ambassador. He felt that Xiao Yu’s kindness and universal love are invaluable. It could be seen that Mr. Tao’s impression of Xiao Yu is still very good. It was just some misunderstanding before. It’s not too late to solve this misunderstanding.”

When Shen Yan heard the words, she looked at Tao Mu in shock and suspicion: “Does he even have such a good heart?”

Tao Mu was too lazy to bother with the self-absorbed Shen family. In front of the media reporters, he explained the reason why he didn’t want to be the promotion ambassador——he was an orphan who was abandoned by his biological parents, and now he had a very harmonious family in his adoptive fathers and family, so he didn’t want to find his biological parents, and he didn’t want his biological parents to look for him either when they saw that he had made a name and fortune for himself. It was best for everyone to find their own happiness in life and to not ever meet up again, otherwise he would really pursue the other party’s crime of abandonment and intentional homicide.

So his situation was completely opposite to the original intention of the lost children’s gene bank. As for why Shen Yu was recommended as the promotion ambassador——

“That’s because young master Shen’s image in the entertainment circle had always been that of a kind and innocent little prince. I think his image and birth situation are very consistent with the original intention of the Lost Children’s Gene Bank. Letting young master Shen be the promotion ambassador is just the right thing to do. If the biological son of the Shen family is found because of this, I believe it would also make for a wonderful story.”

“FlyNews.com will do its best to support the promotion activities of the gene bank nationwide. In addition,” When Tao Mu spoke up to here, he paused slightly, and then immediately announced to all the media: “FlyNews.com has decided to cooperate with Xiaoheng Capital, Skynet Technology, and Beijing Police in joining forces to implement the Skynet system nationwide. That is, a system in which street surveillance cameras are networked with computers across the country and can perform automatic face recognition at the same time. The so-called Skynet is thrown wide and nothing will slip past. We hope that under the coverage of Skynet, all criminal activities will no longer be able to remain out of sight.”

As soon as Tao Mu said these words, it immediately caused an uproar throughout the venue of the contract signing ceremony. Working with the police to promote street surveillance cameras across the country, and even connecting to the computer network nationwide for face recognition. This kind of project, which sounded very high-end and technical, was definitely beyond the level the gene bank of lost children that the Shen Group was going to set up was on.

The former fought against all criminal activities nationwide, and the impact of the project would be immediate once it was launched; the latter only fought against abduction activities, and the establishment and promotion of gene bank data would also be a long process. To be realistic, under the large base of nearly 200,000 children being lost every year across the country, the probability that parents could really find their children through the gene bank was limited. It could be said that hope was extremely slim.

The most important thing was that in order to assist the police in developing the Skynet system, it would cost countless funds just to install a large number of cameras across the country. Even if most of the money would be allocated by the state, FlyNews also would have to fork out a large amount.

This was really parting with capital that arose from one’s blood and sweat.

And what was the Skynet technology mentioned by Tao Mu? Why haven’t they heard of it at all?

There was an uproar at the scene for a while. All the reporters stood up excitedly and raised their hands to ask Tao Mu a question. The Shen family, who was originally the other main character, was now treated coldly and ignored. Even the gossip reporter who wanted to ask Shen Yan what she thought about her replacing her biological brother didn’t bother to ask any further. If it wasn’t for FlyNews.com’s employees who had been presiding over the order, all the reporters would have wanted to swarm Tao Mu.

It was simply that Tao Mu’s sudden reveal about this upcoming cooperation project was just too surprising. There was no wind at all. It seemed like Shen Yan causing a scene made Tao Mu so angry that CEO Tao, who had always been unwilling to suffer losses and be bullied, would come up with such a project to slap the Shen Group in the face in a fit of anger.

It was not just some media reporters who got this idea, even the Shen family father and son pair vaguely got the same idea. The two glanced subtly at Shen Yan, the fool that always pulled on the back leg of the Shen family.

Originally, they had wanted to take this opportunity to make friends with FlyNews.com and Xiaoheng Capital. But they didn’t expect that even Tao Mu himself had compromised, only for their Shen family to mess it up in the end.

Noticing the dissatisfaction of her father and brother, Shen Yan’s face changed slightly. Yet she had no regrets. She just hated Tao Mu, and she must not let Tao Mu have any chance to cooperate with the Shen family, or even curry favor with the Shen family.

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She absolutely would not allow the relationship between surnamed Tao and the Shen family to be eased in the slightest. Even if Tao Mu tried his best to please Xiao Yu, it was useless.

He was just an urchin who grew up in an orphanage without a father or mother since childhood. What right did he have to want to get close to the Shen family, and even get the favor of her father and brother? She absolutely wouldn’t allow it.

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