Chapter 137: I Beg You to Help Me
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Sun Shiyun’s eyes reddened, and her hands trembled faintly. “I… I didn’t help you on purpose! I came here to ask you to help me.”
Ye Fei froze. It seemed the crisis facing the Sun family this time was far more serious than an ordinary financial emergency. He sighed and put on a show of masculine resolve. “All right, I’ll help you. How do you want me to help?”
Tears streaked Sun Shiyun’s face. She seized Ye Fei’s hand with sudden excitement and stammered, “Really? You’re truly willing to help me?”
Beside them, Bai Yaoyao said helplessly, “Miss, my junior brother already said he would help. How many more times do you need to ask?”
The crisis confronting the Sun family was a rupture in its cash flow. Unless they could secure fresh outside investment, they would face even greater trouble.
And in Hangzhou, the only family capable of providing them with the money they needed was the Gao family.
That was why Gao Yangwei had dared to make such an outrageous demand. He knew perfectly well that the crisis facing the Sun family was something they could never overcome on their own.
“My family needs a massive injection of capital, but the Gao family has monopolized the flow of funds. Not a single family in all of Hangzhou is willing to help us.”
Ye Fei knew the Gao family’s methods all too well. Gao Yangwei was not the only one calling the shots there. Xie Yanzi knew exactly what her stepson had been doing, yet she had allowed him to run wild because she, too, intended to seize the Sun family.
In that sense, the Sun family was just like Senior Sister’s Eternal Group. No matter how they played this hand, they were bound to lose in the end. They might as well give up early and sell the company, preserving themselves in the process.
“By the way, are you the one in charge of the Sun family now?”
Sun Shiyun nodded repeatedly. “I am. My father has retired, so he handed the company over to me. But the moment I took office, I caused the group’s cash flow to collapse. I truly don’t want to become the family’s disgrace. Everyone in the family is demanding that I step down immediately, but I refuse to accept it! I haven’t even had the chance to accomplish anything. Why should I surrender a position that was rightfully mine?”
She shouted at Ye Fei and Bai Yaoyao, leaving the two of them staring at each other in bewilderment, neither knowing how to respond.
Bai Yaoyao merely glanced down at herself and said in a faint voice, “But it wasn’t the two of us who cut off your family’s cash flow. Why are you yelling at me?”
Sun Shiyun immediately realized that she had been rude and hurriedly apologized. “I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to. I was just too agitated.”
Seeing that the two women were on the verge of quarrelling, Ye Fei quickly cut in. “All right, I understand! I’ll invest five hundred million in you. Will that do?”
She stared at Ye Fei in astonishment, scarcely able to believe that the poor boy he had once been could now casually speak in terms of hundreds of millions.
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The entire Sun family was worth less than five hundred million, yet Ye Fei had offered that amount without hesitation. For a moment, she did not know how to respond. If his five hundred million were added to the Sun family’s assets, its valuation would soar—not merely by a little. It might even be enough to propel the family into the ranks of Hangzhou’s second-tier clans.
“Really?”
Ye Fei shrugged. “Of course. All right, go home for now. I still have something to do—I need to go check on my senior sister.”
Sun Shiyun swiftly climbed out of the car, her face bright with delight. “Sorry for disturbing you both. I’ll be going now.”
Watching her cheerful retreat, a smile also appeared on Ye Fei’s face. As the saying went, enemies were better reconciled than created. How could he stay angry with such a beautiful girl forever?
“Let’s go, Junior Brother!”
Once Ye Fei was back in the car, he lightly tapped out a rhythmic melody on the steering wheel with his fingers. Bai Yaoyao teased him, “Oh my, does our Junior Brother have someone in his heart?”
“She was my fiancée. I merely broke off the engagement.”
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Bai Yaoyao looked as though she had just heard the most astonishing gossip. “Why? That girl may not be as pretty as I am, but she’s still a stunning beauty.”
It seemed that only he knew about the marriage arrangement their master had made years ago. The old man had always done things alone, and Ye Fei had no idea why he had taken in female disciples.
Those senior sisters were all exceptional figures in their respective fields, yet their martial abilities were no better than those of ordinary people. What, then, had been their master’s purpose in taking them as disciples?
Ye Fei was genuinely curious. Turning his head, he asked, “Senior Sister, why did Master take you in back then? Why did he accept you as his disciple? And what did you learn after becoming his disciple?”
The string of questions left Bai Yaoyao dazed. She stared blankly at Ye Fei.
“Senior Sister?” Ye Fei snapped his fingers.
With intelligence like hers, what possible reason could their master have had for taking her as a disciple? Had she not been born into a wealthy family, she probably would not even have been able to afford a hot meal.
“Ah… I don’t know. Master took us as his disciples because I was pretty.”
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Ye Fei nearly rolled his eyes a hundred times inwardly. In a quiet voice, he said, “Master isn’t some lecher. Why would he take nine beautiful women as disciples?”
Bai Yaoyao licked her lips, genuinely stumped by Ye Fei’s question. She had been a natural beauty since childhood and had never needed to work especially hard at anything. After being treated as nothing more than a pretty ornament, she entered the entertainment industry, where she enjoyed a carefree life.
But Ye Fei’s question disrupted the thoughtless existence she had led for so long. She hesitated for quite some time, yet still could not come up with an answer.
“Senior Sister, when you first met Master, what did he say to you?”
Bai Yaoyao’s eyes were clear. She rolled them slightly as she searched her memory, then suddenly recalled it. “I remember now. Master said I was exceptionally gifted, and that if I became his disciple, I would live a smooth and peaceful life.”
Good grief.
Ye Fei marveled inwardly. It seemed the old man had simply been attracted to his senior sisters’ beauty back then, yet had dressed it up as extraordinary talent. Where was the intelligence in this girl? She was nothing more than a sweet, airheaded beauty.
“That old man truly had no good intentions from the very beginning!” Ye Fei muttered to himself.
Before meeting Ye Fei, Master had supposedly spent most of his life surrounded by romantic entanglements, living freely and carelessly. He had also taken quite a few attractive young disciples.
Yet he had accepted Ye Fei as a disciple in order to pass on his legacy. As for his senior sisters, he had taught them practically nothing. So why had he taken them in at all? Was it for his own enjoyment? That could not be right. At the time, he had not yet accepted Ye Fei as his disciple, so how could he have done it for Ye Fei’s sake?
A whole chain of questions whirled through Ye Fei’s mind until it buzzed. Although he knew that his master had always been unfathomably mysterious, he still wanted to find the old man and ask him personally what exactly had happened.
The moment Ye Fei returned to the villa, he informed several of his senior sisters that he intended to seek out Master and ask him a few questions. His Second Senior Sister immediately declared, “No!”
“You’re going to look for Master?” His Ninth Senior Sister, Zhou Danzhuang, looked even more horrified.
Bai Yaoyao’s usually expressionless face suddenly came alive—but with horror as well.
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