Chapter 369 The Origin of the Fiancée Rumor
Chapter 369 The Origin of the Fiancée Rumor
Lu Xingchen stared at the computer screen, her slender fingers tapping the keyboard quickly. After importing Zhao Wenjing's data, lines of code kept scrolling on the horizontal screen. Because of her professional skills and proficiency in operation, she could see each line of code clearly even at a glance.
There was a knock on the open office door. She pressed the enter key with precise precision and looked over.
When she saw Li Zhen standing at the door, she knew the general purpose of his visit, so she just curled her lips slightly and continued typing on the keyboard without saying a word.
Li Zhen walked in and closed the office door that she usually left open. Seeing that she was concentrating on her work and not looking at him, and there was a pile of work documents spread out on the desk, it was obvious that she was indeed busy. He pulled a chair and sat down next to her.
After waiting for about four or five minutes and seeing that she showed no sign of stopping, he cleared his throat and said, "Would it be convenient for us to chat for a while?"
Lu Xingchen didn't even glance in his direction and asked directly, "Is it about Feng Qianyu?"
"..." Li Zhen was a little helpless but still admitted, "I didn't expect her to come directly to you."
Lu Xingchen didn't comment on this, but just asked again: "You came to pick me up this morning, kissed and hugged me, just to tell me this?"
"I was going to tell you when you finished your work today."
After hearing this, Lu Xingchen looked over and said, "Do you think this matter may affect my work, so it is not convenient to talk about it in the morning?"
In the eyes of others, Lu Xingchen might have no reaction to this, but Li Zhen knew that she was a little unhappy in her heart, and he also knew why she was unhappy.
"I have already explained this matter to Feng Qianyu and Mr. Feng, so I don't think she would come here because of this matter, so I haven't mentioned it to you."
No one would proactively tell his girlfriend without any prior experience that someone pursued him in the past but he rejected him, right?
But after hearing this, Lu Xingchen finally stopped typing on the keyboard, looked at him and asked, "What is it?"
Li Zhen was stunned. It seemed that Lu Xingchen really knew nothing about the Feng family. Li Zhen also reflected at this time. Should he have told her earlier? Although the timeline was far away, if he wanted to talk about this matter, he had to start from the part that Lu Xingchen should know, otherwise the misunderstanding might be even greater.
Li Zhen explained: "I founded Zhencheng when I was about to graduate from graduate school. I thought that if I could complete the project at that time, I should be able to run the company smoothly after graduation. However, it was not smooth."
Lu Xingchen knew that Li Zhen was working on a project during his graduate studies, but she broke up with him before the project was completed, and she never had the chance to see the results again.
She said nothing, waiting for him to continue.
Li Zhen: "In order to find investment, I went to wait for a client who used to go to Yunshan for a morning run on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I followed him for a long time until it started to rain lightly. He took a special car down the mountain, while I returned empty-handed in the rain. When I was hiding from the rain in a pavilion halfway up the mountain, I found an old man who had fallen unconscious in the woods."
Lu Xingchen's first reaction was: "That person is Feng Yuesheng, Mr. Feng Sanye?"
It wasn't that she reacted quickly, but as the daughter of the Lu family for twenty years, she certainly knew Feng Yuesheng and had this natural guess.
Li Zhen nodded: "I didn't know him at all at the time, I just thought he was an ordinary old man who fell off a cliff and was rescued. But when I was about to call the emergency number, he stopped me and asked me to send him to the person he designated.
I even suspected at the time that he was some unidentified fugitive, but he was seriously injured at the time, and I was also overwhelmed by my own affairs, so I didn't want to make any more noise and just did as he said.
About half a month later, when I was almost desperate because I couldn't find an investor, he came to Zhencheng, which was just renting an office of dozens of square meters at that time, and found me and asked me if I wanted to cooperate with him.
His appearance after recovery was very different from his appearance when he fell. It was not until he took off his hat, revealing the wound on his head, that I recognized him and became certain that this man, who was probably in his seventies, was not here to play a joke on me.
Finally, he gave me two options. One was that he would provide the capital and I would provide the technology, and then we would each hold a corresponding proportion of shares and establish a company that belonged to both of us. The other was that he would invest in my Zhencheng Company, but would not hold any shares. I would bear the profits and losses myself, and I would have to pay him interest and dividends.
Hearing him say this, Lu Xingchen immediately thought of Li Zhen, who had said something similar when he helped her.
... "I give you two choices. One is that I invest and you provide the technology, and then we each hold corresponding shares. The other is that I invest but do not hold shares, you bear the profits and losses, and pay me interest and dividends."
She frowned slightly and looked at Li Zhen, "You chose the latter."
Li Zhen knew what she was thinking and nodded to her, "Yes, I made the same choice as you did. I accepted his investment and continued to run Zhencheng at my own risk. First, I have confidence in my abilities and feel that I am just short of money. Second, I don't want to take advantage of other people's favors too much, because favors are harder to repay than money."
This was exactly the same idea as Lu Xingchen had at the beginning, so she could immediately understand Li Zhen's idea at the time. Although her results still need to be verified in the long term, Li Zhen's choice was obviously very correct. The current glory of Zhencheng is the best proof of this.
Lu Xingchen didn't say anything.
Li Zhen looked at her and continued, "At that time, I still didn't know his identity. It wasn't until Xingyao Engine and Xingyao Cloud were successful that I suddenly heard that these successes were due to the Feng family's manipulation behind the scenes. I thought the public opinion was ridiculous at the time, but Jiang Haicheng came to me and said that it turned out that the person who invested in our Zhencheng was Feng Yuesheng himself. So, more than a year later, I learned that the person I saved was Feng Yuesheng.
Although those public opinions are false, it is undeniable that Zhencheng was invested by Mr. Feng. Because of this favor and relationship, Mr. Feng and I did have dealings. At that time, Zhencheng and I had low social status, and Mr. Feng was also willing to help me expand my network, so he would take me to some business occasions and let me do some things for him.
As I got to know him more, I inevitably got to know and became known by his family, including his daughter Feng Qianyu.
Later, Mr. Feng asked me to attend a banquet. I thought it was just a normal business meeting, but it was Feng Qianyu's 26th birthday. Then someone made a joke in front of everyone, saying that I was the son-in-law that Mr. Feng was cultivating, and Feng Qianyu responded in public that no matter whether Mr. Feng was cultivating her or not, she was interested in me.
I said at the time that Miss Feng was really good at joking, but no one believed me, a small person. Just like that, I was given the title of son-in-law of the Feng family and Feng Qianyu's fiancé."
Having said that, Li Zhen spoke seriously to Lu Xingchen.
"But I promise you, I later privately emphasized to Mr. Feng and Feng Qianyu that I had no such feelings for Feng Qianyu, nor for the Feng family. But because Feng Qianyu refused to give up and kept appearing in my life, this title kept being mentioned.
Later, Zhencheng became bigger and bigger, and the rumor changed from "I am Feng Qianyu's fiancé" to "Feng Qianyu is my fiancée."
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