Chapter 1705 - 694: Story

Chapter 1705: Chapter 694: Story

The silence spread like suffocating air, instantly enveloping the entire living room, from left to right, from inside to outside.

There is a line in a certain novel:

"Love without material wealth is just a pile of sand; you don’t even need the wind to blow it apart, just take two steps and it scatters."

Interestingly, the female protagonist who delivers this line is not only a top student but also a rich heiress, someone who entirely lacks nothing in terms of money.

In our typical understanding, only people who are very short of money would care excessively about it. Logically, when a person is wealthy, they shouldn’t be so concerned with material things.

But the reality is quite the opposite.

The more one has experienced a life of abundance and seen the scenery at the top, the more they value material things. Their indifference to money only extends to small amounts or those amounts that do not affect their quality of life.

Reflecting on the girls we missed out on during those years, the pure feelings only present during our student days, you’ll find that they didn’t have much money either, but they were still willing to give everything they had to the equally poor you...

Even if it was an eighty-dollar cheap motel, even if you didn’t even have the consciousness to prepare a condom.

The same goes for friends, "Loyalty often comes from the simplest of people."

It’s often not the wealthy who lend you money or help you without expecting anything in return.

Having come this far, Zhou Wang has profoundly understood the human heart, so he could keenly sense the subtle change in the living room’s atmosphere in their silent moments.

This was after Zhou Wang had already laid the groundwork emotionally, maximizing the amplification of the soft side in their hearts.

"This is the destructive power of damned reality..."

Zhou Wang mockingly said to himself, not finding her silence at this moment or being lost in thought inappropriate.

It’s as if Zhou Wang has always been very clear about his self-awareness.

Without Brother Tongzi’s arrival, without the cheats, these girls in the room may be only a few; he could possibly encounter them in the real world by sheer good fortune.

But that’s about it.

Take Ding Yi for instance. Even if he had been brave back then, the most likely scenario would have been a relationship that fizzled out, eventually leading them to part ways at a certain intersection and never cross paths again.

This has little to do with whether they loved each other and more to do with Zhou Wang not being outstanding enough to overcome all the barriers reality imposed.

His youth is his greatest asset and, simultaneously, his greatest weakness.

As for the scene now filled with numerous beautiful women, he wouldn’t have envisioned such a scene in his life without previous experience of it, not even in dreams.

"Zhou Wang, make it clear, what do you mean by ’bankrupt in a certain sense’?"

At this moment, Ding Yi, who had taken a deep breath, finally broke the silence in the room, being the first to speak, "Bankruptcy is bankruptcy, and not being bankrupt means not bankrupt, I’ve never heard of this ’certain sense’ kind of saying."

"Yes, what’s going on exactly, the whole story, you need to explain it clearly to us, first."

Xia Xiwei followed up, her expression still bright but her gaze somewhat cold, "Also, I don’t understand, why didn’t you tell me when you encountered difficulties, or do you think I couldn’t help you?"

She seemed somewhat angered by Zhou Wang’s way of handling things.

The words of Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei appeared to awaken the other women; indeed, they didn’t even know what had happened, and Zhou Wang’s phrasing was definitely problematic, that ’certain sense’ just seemed very odd...

Zhou Wang smiled and lit a cigarette from the coffee table, neither Ding Yi nor Xia Xiwei on his sides stopped him; Xia Xiwei even clumsily helped him light it up with a lighter.

But they’re not really fond of the smell of smoke... This indicated Zhou Wang’s "pity-selling strategy" had initially yielded results.

"It seems I’ve never told you all how I started."

Zhou Wang’s eyes turned deep, as if lost in some memories, "Of course, I know that some among you may have, to varying extents, somewhat understood parts of my past... But it’s unlikely anyone knows the full picture."

When Zhou Wang said this, not only did Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei, but Qi Jiayi and Jiang Qingkui also nodded slightly. ℯℯ𝑙.

Who wouldn’t be curious about such a man?

Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei had specifically checked into Zhou Wang, while Qi Jiayi, who previously worked at Yunshangyun Law Firm, already knew part of the inside story. As for Jiang Qingkui, after accepting Zhou Wang’s invitation back then, she naturally tried to learn about him...

But just as Zhou Wang admitted, they can only find out or see the tip of the iceberg.

...Of course, this is a useless statement; the past bestowed upon Zhou Wang by the unfathomable Brother Tongzi is something Zhou Wang himself doesn’t dare say he can explain clearly, let alone others.

And as for girls like Su Yajing, they don’t think much, but that doesn’t mean they’re not curious, their expressions at this moment inadvertently became more focused.

"Firstly, we need to clarify a fact, I am, in fact, just an ordinary person from a plain background, and I don’t have any superpowers, even during certain periods, my family situation might have been worse than ordinary people."

Zhou Wang started with a "useless" statement, laying out this premise before continuing: "But I was too unwilling to be ordinary, so when I realized that if things continued as they were, I’d never be able to turn it around in this lifetime, I made a choice that most people would make... to try entrepreneurship."

Ding Yi pursed his lips and then remembered something.