When Shen Yu was at his most desperate for funding, he ran into his former schoolmate Zhou Ciyuan at a birthday party.
A graduate student with deep pockets and a major investor among the students. Rumor had it his first project got its founder sent to prison, and his last project saw him kick out the founder.
This schoolmate saw Shen Yu and immediately offered to invest.
Shen Yu: I wouldn't dare accept...
He turned down the lucrative investment contract Zhou Ciyuan offered. When Zhou insisted on being his good friend, Shen Yu backed away. When Zhou tried to set him up on a date and get him married, Shen Yu hurriedly said he'd be busy for the next ten years.
But Shen Yu was the sort of person who held grudges and squeezed every last drop out of an opportunity. When a classmate humiliated him, he retaliated by taking their business. He also used Zhou Ciyuan to create a misunderstanding, making outsiders wary of targeting him, and made a fortune by posing as the bearer of timely help to the Zhou family.
Later, Zhou Ciyuan got drunk and cried bitterly. Shen Yu wondered if he'd gone too far. Maybe Zhou Ciyuan really did only think of him as a good friend. Feeling unusually softhearted, Shen Yu decided to treat him sincerely. That was when all the things he'd done came to light...
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Zhou Ciyuan resented Shen Yu for making him cry when they were children. But it had been his own fault, so he had no grounds for revenge. Besides, he was a man of high moral character and deep principles, unwilling to stoop to despicable methods and abandon his standards.
Then, as an adult, he met Shen Yu again at a schoolmate's birthday party and learned that Shen Yu was short on funds. At last, a perfect opportunity had arrived, and he immediately went over to offer his business card. Anyone who's ever worked a job knows there are times when you want to strangle a colleague... But after all the twists and turns, his plan still failed.
Zhou Ciyuan had no choice but to try another approach: compete with Shen Yu's best friend to be his best man. To that end, he got his mother to introduce Shen Yu to someone. Shen Yu's response was that he didn't want to date or get married for the next ten years.
Zhou Ciyuan fell first, his feelings invested. He got drunk and sobbed in Shen Yu's arms. Just as he was about to give up, Shen Yu's misdeeds were exposed, and he became the target of some bad people.
Zhou Ciyuan quickly lied to his family and asked them for a billion yuan in betrothal gifts. He drove the bad guys away and brought Shen Yu home. After all, he didn't have many chances left to take revenge in a reasonable way...
Theme: Authenticity
