Hazy memories of a past life swirled, and the people before him...
Were no longer the familiar faces he remembered.
For the sake of survival, they had long been stained black by the dye vat that was society.
Li Yun didn't look down on them.
Because he himself had become one of them.
In his past life, he had secretly complained about those so-called rich people countless times.
He complained because of jealousy.
And a strong sense of envy.
He watched their performances with amusement, both of them wearing masks of pretense, seemingly indifferent.
But in reality, they were both weaving their own lies.
Suddenly, he felt a sense of boredom, an inexplicable sense of alienation.
It wasn't that he was being pretentious.
But he found the scene somewhat amusing.
Hadn't he experienced similar scenes back in his school days?
It was just that he was ignorant back then, unable to see through their true faces hidden behind the masks.
He had become the person he hated the most.
Glasses clinked softly, and the wine went down.
He smiled as he watched them put on airs and complain, their eyes full of blatant seduction, as if they had written "I'm easy to flirt with" all over their faces.
Zhou Laoshi, on the other hand, surprised Li Yun somewhat.
Her alcohol tolerance was unexpectedly good, while her husband left in a hurry midway through.
Claiming he had urgent business to attend to.
But the real purpose was self-evident.
As an outsider in reality, it was indeed inconvenient for him to be present at the occasion where matters were about to be discussed.
He Wei, feigning drunkenness, suddenly stood up and said with a smile, "Ladies, how about we go sing karaoke?"
As he said this, he undisguisedly hinted to them that Zhou Laoshi had something to discuss with Li Yun.
The women had already guessed it.
But they pretended to be reluctant to leave, as if they had a close relationship with Li Yun.
Li Yun maintained a calm and composed smile on his face, but he didn't even glance at them.
After everyone had walked a little further away.
Zhou Laoshi then explained her purpose.
It turned out that she wanted Li Yun to help connect her with a foreign health product company that he was currently working with to discuss business.
Perhaps she wanted to become an agent for the company's products and earn the price difference domestically, or perhaps she had other purposes.
In short, her goal was pure: to obtain cooperative resources from Li Yun.
Li Yun had never even heard of that company, probably a cooperative resource obtained by the employees of the business department under his command.
Li Yun had been busy with overseas deployments recently.
He only took a look at the domestic business every day, as well as the important intelligence sent by the parent company.
He had already partially delegated power.
He basically didn't care about projects like this that cooperated with the company.
"Zhou Laoshi, I'm afraid you've misunderstood something."
Li Yun placed his wine glass on the table.
In her surprised gaze, he explained softly, "Zhou Laoshi, cooperation isn't something that can be successfully negotiated just by having an acquaintance pull strings behind the scenes."
"You have to show your own strength, capital, and convincing cooperative ability to negotiate with the other party."
"So you've made the wrong choice in coming to me, after all, my company's main business isn't health products, I don't have the ability to help you connect the dots."
After saying that, Li Yun got up and left the private room.
Zhou Laoshi sat there with a strange expression, watching him leave.
In fact, what Li Yun wanted to say was.
So what if I help you negotiate the cooperation?
The world is bustling, all for profit.
You don't want to pay anything, you want to get resources from me empty-handed, based on what?
Just based on the so-called teacher-student relationship?
Tch.
Where were you when I was down on my luck?
What a naive woman.
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When Li Yun came out of the restaurant.
He seemed to sense the coldness in the air.
He subconsciously turned his head to look at the window on the second floor of the restaurant, meeting a pair of slightly frosty eyes.
He snorted coldly.
He casually hailed a taxi and drove away.
Not long after, He Wei's phone call came, without mentioning anything about Zhou Laoshi being angry, only mentioning that the dinner party that night was canceled.
Li Yun hummed indifferently, then told him to quickly go to his residence.
Now that he was preparing to return to his old business.
Then He Wei's placement problem had to be rearranged.
Li Yun only felt that time was tight, now was the Internet age.
If you want to play a global layout, you have to be strong yourself.
The layout on the Eagle Country side doesn't need to be taken care of for the time being.
Now, that trick in South Korea has to be implemented as soon as possible.
Game competitions are just a gimmick.
If you really want to keep those guys who want to jump on the chessboard at the table, you have to build the framework first.
At the same time, set a trap for them.
And this trap was actually born in China long ago.
The so-called e-commerce is only one of them, Lao Ma is doing well.
The second is the short video platform.
Now, there are already many short video platforms in China fighting and competing with each other.
And there are less than two years left before the birth of that super behemoth, Douyin.
Perhaps the company ByteDance is already planning it.
Back home.
Li Yun gritted his teeth and made a call to a familiar leader, talking for as long as two hours.
Mainly stating what he wanted to lay out.
If he accidentally hits a friendly army by then, he won't be able to save face.
After all, the bait he throws out by then will be very tempting, and even the friendly army may not be able to help but get involved.
"Mr. Li, you... sigh!" The leader on the other end of the phone sighed deeply.
Surprised by Li Yun's methods, what was even more shocking was what he discovered.
A gold mine?
Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
Although Li Yun didn't say exactly where the gold mine was.
But he knew with his toes that this was a gimmick that Li Yun came up with, whether this thing exists is a question.
"My purpose is very simple, to control the platform for displaying goods in our own hands, so I have to act in this big show, the mere diamond business is insignificant to me."
"I'm just afraid that some greedy guys in China won't be able to resist biting the bait, and if I beat them to death with one blow by then, don't blame me for not reminding you in advance."
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time, and finally agreed to Li Yun's suggestion.
It's not easy to persuade some domestic capital not to get involved.
Especially some self-righteous guys.
Three days later.
The official DNF that Li Yun won suddenly released an announcement.
The game will be in June this year.
Hold a national speed challenge.
The challenge map is the newly launched Luke raid.
And the winning speed team will receive a beautiful gift prepared by the official.
A custom-made all-star photo album inlaid with 88 diamonds.
Worth up to 888,888 US dollars!
As soon as this news came out, the national DNF players were in an uproar.
And the news was quickly synchronized to South Korea, and under the secret promotion of Park Jin-cheng, the entire South Korean youth became restless.
