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In the hospital.
“Doctor, doctor please you must save my son, I only have this one son, he absolutely cannot be harmed!!”
Mrs. Qin, Jiang Yuyao, nearly fainted from crying at the emergency room door. She never expected that Yun, in order to remove scars from her burn, would go to an auction and spend all his savings to buy herbs for her while still not fully recovered.
In the end… he actually ended up back in the hospital like this.
Nobody knew if he would survive. Also, could that leg still be saved?
“Chuchu, how is Chuchu?”
“Muyun… I saw Chuchu and Yun being sent to the hospital together. She was sent to the emergency room too. Was she attacked by that bastard Qin Jiang too?”
“He’s always liked to snatch things from Yun…Since he couldn’t have Chuchu… he just destroys what he can’t get?”
Mrs. Qin’s face went pale and she cried uncontrollably. The burns on her body were inflamed because of Qin Jiang’s kick.
Fortunately the anti-inflammatory treatment was timely, but it still wouldn’t heal easily.
Leaving scars was almost certain now.
Fortunately, Qin Muyun still had half a jar of the burn ointment to use, but it would only last a week.
To have scar-removal effects, it needed to be applied continuously for a month.
But now the Qin family’s reserves were clearly insufficient.
“Mom, Bai Chuchu is not a good choice for a daughter-in-law. She cheated with another man and was exposed publicly, that’s why she was beaten like this…”
“Also, the herbs needed for the burn ointment were auctioned off to me for $70 million. Now Yun has already given me the formula for making the burn ointment, so I will personally formulate a new ointment for you, and I absolutely won’t let you have scars.”
“I’ve examined the handwriting and the age of the paper of the burn ointment’s formula. There’s no way Qin Jiang can lie and claim Yun’s formula again, right?”
“My boyfriend Gu Hai will use this evidence as proof to sue Qin Jiang for plagiarism and theft!!”
“A bad seed like Qin Jiang must be given the most heart-wrenching lesson so he’ll behave…”
A deep shadow covered Qin Muyun’s eyes. She could never forget the scene of Qin Jiang deliberately putting a bullet into Qin Yun in her presence.
He was scaring her, as well as warning and threatening her!!
But what right did Qin Jiang have?
He was a little bastard! If he was born and raised by the Qin family, he would never have turned out like this! They would never have raised an unfilial, rebellious bad seed!
Hearing Qin Muyun say this, Mrs. Qin finally relaxed. She couldn’t help but embrace Qin Muyun gently. “Muyun, it’s still you and your fourth sister who are the most obedient and considerate!”
“The Qin family all seem like they’ve been cursed by that little catastrophe, making me… always restless and unable to sleep.”
“Now your eldest sister and fifth sister won’t come home. They’re blaming me, as their mother, for being biased…”
The more Mrs. Qin spoke, the more waves of guilt and depression washed over her.
At that moment, Mrs. Qin’s mood felt as if gripped by an invisible giant hand, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.
A once fine family was about to be torn apart by Qin Jiang!
It’s all Qin Jiang’s fault!!
“Mom, don’t worry.”
“Eldest sister and fifth sister are just confused right now. I’ll find time to talk to them properly.”
Qin Muyun’s thoughtfulness finally let Mrs. Qin breathe a sigh of relief.
…
The next day.
Inside the Huajing University finance department counselor’s office.
“Brother Lei, you really don’t plan to partner with me?”
“I’ll give you a salary of $100,000 a month, you know.”
Qin Jiang sat opposite Lei Ming, not hiding his purpose for coming today.
Yesterday, the counselor, Lei Ming, had messaged him to come to school today to collect the $200,000 prize for the University Student Research Competition.
As for the patent, since Yanyan liked it, it had already been automatically included in the QinYan International patent library.
Of course, Yan Liang would never let Qin Jiang be shortchanged.
The marketing department immediately offered him $30 million, and it was quickly transferred into Qin Jiang’s card.
Therefore, Qin Jiang could live well even without starting a group, just coasting.
Alas, he was an active and ambitious young man.
If he wanted to stand by Yan Liang’s side through effort, he couldn’t stop here.
JiangYan Group also needed to start operating.
Now the venue was ready, and using his identity as the Huajing University student union president, he had recruited many talented students as employees.
Currently, management was greatly needed.
So Qin Jiang came directly to recruit people~
“Qin Jiang, Brother Lei really admires your talent, but as a counselor of the finance department, I have things I must do…”
“$200,000!”
Qin Jiang held up two fingers.
He immediately offered Lei Ming double the initial salary offered.
Lei Ming could hardly believe his ears.
Everyone knows you’re sponging off a wealthy woman, and that’s already terrible enough.
Now you plan to give me a part of your spoils?!
“Ahem… that’s not what I mean. I’m saying that I still have to supervise master’s and doctoral theses and graduation experiments…”
“$400,000!”
Qin Jiang continued to raise the offer—so this was how satisfying it felt to throw money at someone? It’s exhilarating.
“Brother Lei, your master’s and PhD students can be brought to my JiangYan Group to do hard (labor)… ahem, I mean, to work~”
“Free internship certificates will come with that~~”
“By then, Brother Lei, the employment rate under you will be absolutely 100%~~”
What Qin Jiang said was indeed tempting.
After all, when graduation season came around, every university counselor was practically begging students to get their employment agreements stamped!
After all, this affected the program’s employment-rate statistics for the next year’s enrollment reports.
Although Huajing University students were highly sought after, there were still people who intentionally delayed this process…
In short, Qin Jiang had, for the moment, seized Lei Ming’s lifeline.
“But Jiang, this is against the rules… (and discipline)…”
“$800,000!”
“Hey! You brat… you have such good judgement!!”
“Brother Lei just loves this kind of leader who’s brave enough to solve problems for his subordinates~~”
“CEO Qin, when do I start?”
Lei Ming stood up excitedly, almost climbing onto the desk to do a middle-aged man’s disco routine to celebrate.
Qin Jiang’s smile was harder to suppress than an AK rifle for a moment!
Brother Lei stunned reaction to the sheer amount of money was pretty cute.
And Lei Ming was absolutely worth that price.
He was originally a professor across finance, physics, and chemistry. Selling patents to companies earned him a fortune.
His pool of master’s and doctoral students was absurdly large.
That said, he was still doing him a favor.
This was Brother Lei giving him face. He couldn’t bite the hand that fed him.
So Qin Jiang spoke modestly, “Brother Lei, you will always be my counselor, my teacher!”
“Just call me Jiang.”
“Also, to celebrate your successful onboarding in the first month, I will unilaterally add this $200,000 prize as your signing bonus.”
“That makes $1 million! I wish you can score a hundred percent at JiangYan Group~~”
Qin Jiang slapped the table, recruiting a powerhouse for JiangYan Group.
Currently JiangYan Group’s primary ventures were AI technology development, while also venturing into the flourishing short-video market.
Right now a short-video platform called DouLe was on the rise, competing with the KuaiShou short-video platform for traffic.
At present, the industry’s ad spending wasn’t that high.
Everyone was still losing money to attract traffic, experimenting with building big influencers.
And Qin Jiang knew clearly that in the future, DouLe would capture a large share of the market’s traffic retention.
Moreover, DouLe was backed by a big capital group which invested heavily early on. It needed major capital support right now, making it a good time to buy option shares and original stock.
However, both required substantial background to qualify for purchase at the moment.
Fortunately, Qin Jiang’s current backing had exactly that qualification.
If he didn’t use the resources his wife had, he’d be an idiot!
So Qin Jiang pulled $300 million from his black card and, in the name of the Yan family financial group and in his personal name, bought a large amount of options and original shares.
But for larger capital flows, he was still recruiting more future AI industry bigwigs at high prices to invest early in R&D.
Qin Jiang knew well that doing only this wasn’t enough.
After all, these were long-term investments.
To see short-term results, it had to be in fields he was already skilled in and had invested in.
Qin Jiang had just left the office.
He soon heard classmates’ unrestrained gossip.
“That must be Qin Jiang, right? Just a kept pretty boy of a rich woman, who knew his character could be so bad—plagiarizing his own sister’s script, and now there’s going to be a lawsuit…”
“What’s Qin Jiang even doing coming to class? If the school knew, he’d be sent to prison— they should just expel this social scum!!”
“The social media account Qin Jiang registered in our school’s name is about to explode. He’s really shaming Huajing University, making our school have a criminal!!”
Qin Jiang walked down the school’s tree-lined avenue with one hand in his pocket.
He ignored the gossip and just glanced at his phone to see how quickly his followers were growing.
Excellent. An actress’s impassioned long accusation had made his name carry its own online traffic now.
When haters found that following him could give them $200, Qin Jiang’s follower growth skyrocketed.
In just two days of doing nothing.
Qin Jiang’s small account that originally had only a few hundred followers had already surged to over 7 million.
However, now the account’s follower reward changed from a fixed $200 per follow to random cash distribution.
It could be just 10 or 20 bucks, or it could be a few thousand bucks.
Following him was like gambling for money!
And each person could only claim once. The little program he wrote was devious—unfollowing would automatically refund the account.
Some hating fans who got burned exposed the scheme, and for a time there were no unfollowing fans left.
Yet in two days, Qin Jiang’s follower growth rivaled many breakout internet celebrities.
Qin Jiang glanced casually and then turned off his phone.
He wasn’t short of money now. What he had to do now was to make money generate more money!
What he spent would all be earned back.
And now, his most important task was to go buy a gift for Yanyan.
Qin Jiang was still wearing aloose white T and jeans, but the formerly submissive look on him had long transformed.
Even dressed plainly, he walked like the most handsome kid on the whole block.
He returned to a jewelry counter.
The same manager as before greeted him.
When the manager saw him, he nearly knelt to polish Qin Jiang’s shoes and welcome him.
“Qin- Qin- Qin… Mr. Qin, which jewelry pieces have caught your fancy?”
“I’ll have someone wrap them up for you right away.”
Qin Jiang stood again in front of the counter with the pink diamond ring. It still shone brilliantly, stunningly beautiful.
“This pink diamond ring.”
“Wrap it up.”
“I’ll pay by card.”
Qin Jiang walked out of the jewelry store holding the box satisfactorily. The $5 million he paid came from selling paintings—money he earned himself.
To provide for his wife-to-be, he wanted to use real effort and his own money.
Qin Jiang then went to a bakery to buy some pastries.
He arrived downstairs at the QinYan Group building.
“Ms. Liang, Mr. Qin is downstairs. Please wipe the blood from the corner of your mouth first.”
“From now on, eat less of this kind of undercooked food.”
Recently, Yan Liang really hadn’t had much appetite.
At home she ate the delicious meals Qin Jiang personally cooked, but she was never satisfied.
So she secretly ate a rare steak at the company.
The bloody scene made Zhou Ning grimace.
Young Mistress*, how is this any different from gnawing it raw!!*
“Who says I was the one who ate it?”
“Zhou Ning, stop adding extra meals behind Jiang’s back in the future.”
The Young Mistress elegantly wiped her mouth with a handkerchief. The color in her eyes was like a strange black-red whirlpool.
Zhou Ning gasped.
Oh come on, am I taking the blame again?
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