Chapter 354: Chapter 354 Occupying the Pit…
“I’m really envious of you.”
Su Lu turned her eyes and gave Zhuang Cainan a glance, “What’s there to be envious of about ?”
“I haven’t seen much of Bo Jingshen in recent years, but I’ve still heard things about him,” Zhuang Cainan laughed and said, “He’s really… just like a monk who’s gained so spirit.”
“Pfft.” Su Lu couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Why would a monk gain spirit?”
“It’s just an expression. Like he’s detached from everything, focused solely on making money. He seems to have no other hobbies, just exercising, practicing boxing, and such. That’s all. And then later on, he disappeared; I heard it seed that he…”
It was apparent that Zhuang Cainan had also heard about Bo Jingshen’s arrest.
Zhuang Cainan thought for a mont, “But it seems he didn’t have many other interests to begin with. I t him when we were both abroad, you know about that, right?”
Su Lu wasn’t particularly clear on the details, but she had heard sowhat that Zhuang Cainan had helped Bo Jingshen with his business quite a bit while they were overseas.
So, when Boss expanded to China, Zhuang Cainan followed him back, and actually, she had put in quite an effort in developing Boss’s dostic market, but later she withdrew from Boss.
Su Lu nodded slightly, “I’ve heard about it.”
“Even when we were overseas, he didn’t have many hobbies. Well, that’s not exactly accurate to say, but because of financial constraints, it seed all his hobbies revolved around making money,” said Zhuang Cainan, her gaze drifting off as if she was reminiscing about those morable old days.
It was a past that Su Lu hadn’t heard about.
She did know more or less that Bo Jingshen, due to a lack of funds for his business overseas, had been desperate to make money, participating in electronic sports competitions and underground racing, all to round up so startup capital for his business.
This she had learned from Jiang Li, but what Zhuang Cainan was saying seed to present yet another perspective of Bo Jingshen.
As if it bore a different hue.
“My family is quite rich,” said Zhuang Cainan, with no intention of showing off, simply smiling as she stated a fact, “My family does well with hedge funds overseas, so… we are fairly wealthy.”
“When he participated in those underground races, I was young, my family was strict, and I usually obeyed the rules, but I always had so hobbies that didn’t quite match my elders’ tastes. I liked watching car races, starting with the official ones, and then I discovered these underground races where you could also place bets.”
Zhuang Cainan seed to find the mory amusing when talking about the past, just as anyone might find certain monts in their own history worthy of a knowing smile.
Zhuang Cainan chuckled, “I went there to bet. Those underground races are just like horse racing. I’d place large bets, and at that ti I had my eye on a racer. Then suddenly, an unknown dark horse erged. I had never seen him before; I only knew his na was Bambi. To be honest, until I knew you, I never understood why he would choose the na Bambi.”
Su Lu’s gaze drifted off, listening as Zhuang Cainan narrated the past.
“He won three races in a row, unstoppable. I was betting on points, and if he won another one, I’d lose a huge amount. So, I went to find him and tried to bribe him into throwing a match. Despite being so desperate for money and entering the races just for it, he actually refused . He said that…”
Zhuang Cainan hadn’t finished when Su Lu softly interjected, “… it would go against his principles.”
Zhuang Cainan looked puzzled, “… Right.”
That’s exactly what Bo Jingshen had said at the ti. He told her, “No, thank you. It would go against my principles. We’re fellow countryn, right? Then you should know there’s a saying passed down from our ancestors that makes sense, ‘A gentleman seeks wealth in the proper way.'”
Zhuang Cainan started to laugh, “It was because of this that he left a deep impression on , and I started to look at him differently. After that, I began betting on him. To tell the truth, since he was the dark horse, the odds were high; but he really was formidable, and I won a lot of money. He was even threatened over it. There were others who wanted him to throw a match or lose on purpose. Of course, it wasn’t just , Zhuang Cainan, but not everyone was as easy to speak with as .”
“He was even had a gun pointed at his head, but he didn’t compromise,” Zhuang Cainan’s words made Su Lu shudder.
She suddenly rembered that after he had announced his engagent at Yunding, she had been in a bad state due to ectopic pregnancy surgery, and it was also the ti when she had just begun to recognize her mother and brother.
Later, she and Jiang Li planned to visit the Fierce Eagle Team’s training as a distraction, but Bo Jingshen insisted on bothering her and following along. At that ti, she had called him shaless, and Bo Jingshen, seemingly with a defiant air, had ntioned to her…
Su Lu rembered him saying that he had been held at gunpoint.
“They probably don’t know what I’ve been through overseas…”
“I wasn’t fazed when soone pointed a gun at my head abroad. I’m certainly not scared of a little intimidation from Su Zhe.”
That was apparently exactly what Bo Jingshen had said at the ti.
So, that was what had happened.
“And then what?”
Su Lu finally asked softly, looking at Zhuang Cainan.
Zhuang Cainan thought about it, “Well, luckily nothing serious happened, and he really had guts. After I heard about it, I proposed to just fund his business; these dangerous underground races weren’t worth it. He still didn’t agree, and even asked … who are you?”
This truly matched Bo Jingshen’s temperant. Su Lu felt a bit helpless; when she dated him in college, she had heard many tis that Bo Jingshen was a cold person.
At the ti, Su Lu had thought, how could that be? Where does this so-called coldness co from? She had never seen him be cold, as he always seed so warm to her.
It was only after seeing how without rcy Bo Jingshen refused other girls that she believed it. He was definitely not one to drag things out.
That kind of clear-cut rejection, avoiding any hint of leading people on, truly gave a sense of security to a partner and was actually more respectful to other girls, not wasting their ti.
“At that ti, I told him that I made a good amount of money betting on him, and thought of giving him a portion in return. But he wouldn’t accept it, clung to the principle of not taking ill-gotten gains,” she continued.
“So, I suggested, why not let invest in him for a share in the business, but he wasn’t pleased with that either, only agreeing when he learned my expertise was beneficial for the company’s developnt. That’s how I ended up with original shares in Boss.”
“According to his view back then, he felt he could figure out the money part, but for those who couldn’t contribute to the company’s early growth, they shouldn’t be ‘occupying the pit and reaping the profits,’ as he put it.”
Zhuang Cainan, smiling, asked Su Lu, “Don’t you think he was a bit too much? ‘Occupying the pit and reaping the profits,’ that was his exact phrase.”
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