Chapter 193 - 170: Giving You a Chance to Fulfill Your Wish

Chapter 193: Chapter 170: Giving You a Chance to Fulfill Your Wish

「Four days later.」

Zhonghai Pudong International Airport.

At the entrance of the VIP terminal, Gu Heng embraced Wang Yan, who had come to see him off with Wang Wan Ning.

"Brother Yan, this is far enough."

"Come visit Ji Province when you have time. The winter snowscapes there are truly something special."

Gu Heng said with a smile, "It’ll be my turn to host you then."

"The whole VIP package?"

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows at Gu Heng, his smile a bit mischievous.

"Guaranteed."

Gu Heng returned a knowing smile, then his gaze shifted to Wang Wan Ning beside her brother. "You should come with your brother when you have time."

"If we wait for him to have time, who knows when that’ll be."

Wang Wan Ning mumbled, then asked with a look of anticipation, "Brother Hang, I’m planning to go skiing in Ji Province for winter break. Can I look you up then?"

"Of course, you can."

"Just send me a WhatsApp message beforehand."

"I’ll send a car to pick you up and arrange your accommodations."

Gu Heng smiled and nodded.

"Okay!"

"Then we’ll get to see each other again soon!"

Wang Wan Ning’s voice was bright and clear, her expression visibly joyful.

"Great."

"I support this plan with both hands."

"This way you won’t be bothering me during your winter break."

Wang Yan gave Wang Wan Ning a thumbs-up.

"Tch..."

"Who wants to hang around you!"

Wang Wan Ning huffed, "You’re an old geezer. Brother Hang is handsome and young. Even if you begged me to hang around you now, I wouldn’t give you the time of day!"

Faced with his own sister’s roast, the smile on Wang Yan’s face froze. He was well and truly triggered.

Watching the bickering siblings, Gu Heng smiled faintly.

"Alright."

"It’s about time."

"You two should head back. I’m going in."

Gu Heng glanced at his watch and spoke to the siblings.

"Have a safe trip."

"Send a message when you land."

Wang Yan reached out and patted Gu Heng’s shoulder.

"No problem."

Gu Heng nodded in agreement.

"Brother Hang..."

Wang Wan Ning suddenly called out to Gu Heng. A faint blush colored her fair, radiant face, and a hint of shyness flickered in her watery eyes.

Gu Heng looked at her. As a fragrant scent wafted over, Wang Wan Ning took two steps forward, wrapped her slender arms around Gu Heng, and gently rested her head on his chest.

"Have a safe trip."

Wang Wan Ning’s voice was quiet, but it was filled with a gentle, flowing affection.

Feeling the delicate body in his arms, Gu Heng’s body stiffened for a moment before he quickly relaxed, raising his right hand to pat her on the back.

"See you in Beichun."

Gu Heng responded softly.

"Mhm."

Wang Wan Ning nodded, then released her arms from around Gu Heng and stepped back to her original spot. Unconsciously, her face had turned a deep, vibrant red.

"I’m off."

Gu Heng waved to the two of them. Without another word, he turned and walked into the VIP terminal, where Jiang Ruan was waiting for him.

The two of them quickly disappeared inside the terminal. After watching them leave, Wang Yan and Wang Wan Ning didn’t linger, getting in their car and driving away.

...

They came as a pair, and they returned as a pair.

Gu Heng and Jiang Ruan took the business shuttle provided by the airport’s VIP terminal, which soon arrived in front of Gu Heng’s private jet, a Bombardier Global 7500.

"Chairman Gu, hello."

A middle-aged man in uniform saw Gu Heng step out of the shuttle and immediately came forward to greet him. "I am Captain Han Gang from the Ruyi Airlines flight department. It is my great honor to be in charge of your flight mission today."

"Chairman Gu, I’m Liu Kuan, co-pilot from the Ruyi Airlines flight department."

"Chairman Gu, I’m Zhao Fengnian, a security officer from the Ruyi Airlines security department."

After Captain Han Gang finished his greeting, the two younger men behind him introduced themselves in turn, their attitudes utterly respectful.

"Thank you all for your hard work."

"Let’s board."

Gu Heng shook hands with Han Gang and the other two in succession, his demeanor quite approachable.

According to the original plan, Gu Heng should have returned to Beichun two days ago. The reason he chose to stay for two extra days was to wait for the paperwork and certification for this Global 7500 to be completed.

Via the automatically descending airstairs, the group boarded one by one.

After boarding, Han Gang, Liu Kuan, and Zhao Fengnian went straight to the cockpit, while Gu Heng and Jiang Ruan went to the lounge area.

"Is the flight crew for this trip just the three of them?"

Jiang Ruan was a bit confused. "Didn’t Ruyi Airlines assign you any flight attendants?"

"They did, but I turned them down."

Gu Heng sat down on the sofa and looked at the cool, elegant, and stunningly beautiful Jiang Ruan. A slight curve appeared at the corner of his lips. "Haven’t you always wanted to be a flight attendant? Today, I’m giving you a chance to make that wish come true."

"I even have the uniform ready for you."

Gu Heng pointed towards the back. "It’s in the master suite. You can go change into it now."

"You..."

Jiang Ruan looked slightly stunned, then a flash of embarrassed anger crossed her beautiful eyes. ’How is this any different from role-playing?’

"That depends on how you look at it."

Gu Heng watched Jiang Ruan with a grin. "I’m the chairman of a publicly listed company, using a six-hundred-million-dollar private jet to role-play with you. You’re not exactly getting a raw deal, are you?"

"Don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking."

Jiang Ruan muttered, then strode off toward the back on her long legs. "Fine, I’ll wear it! Just you wait, I’ll show you what a true professional looks like!"

As Gu Heng watched Jiang Ruan’s graceful, curvaceous back, the smile on his face widened.

You had to admit, the guy who invented the phrase "legs for a year" was definitely a seasoned veteran.

During their two weeks in Zhonghai, Gu Heng and Jiang Ruan had been together practically day and night.

However, Gu Heng’s interest in Jiang Ruan hadn’t waned in the slightest; in fact, it grew with each passing day. The versatility of those long legs of hers was simply too high.

Her legs in stockings felt completely different from when they were bare, just as they were a whole new experience with or without high heels.

Furthermore, girls with long legs looked especially good in those sexy outfits and lingerie, creating a powerful visual impact.

Currently, Gu Heng was still in the "no stockings" phase with Jiang Ruan, because he could never get tired of looking at her flawless, slender legs.

THUD...

As Gu Heng watched Jiang Ruan’s back disappear into the master suite, he withdrew his gaze and pulled out the due diligence report submitted by Jun Cheng Law Firm to continue reading.

For the past few days, Gu Heng had been spending his free time reading those two due diligence reports.

Through these reports, Gu Heng had gained a fairly comprehensive understanding of Xingchuan International and its management.

The origin of Xingchuan International was the Xiyue Club.

Under the efforts of Xingchuan International’s chairman, Chu Zhengxiong, Xiyue Club quickly expanded from one location to three. Then, it advanced from the mid-to-high-end market to the high-end market, which led to the creation of the Platinum Association.

Even today, Beichun’s "music business hospitality centers" were famous throughout the country, a siren call for men from all over. This was even more so over a decade ago, in an era before the internet was so developed.

To say that the four music business hospitality centers under Chu Zhengxiong’s control were raking in money hand over fist would be an understatement, and it was through this that Chu Zhengxiong accumulated his immense capital.

Several years later, the first Celestial Bath Spring opened in Beichun.

Riding on the hype of being ultra-high-end, Celestial Bath Spring quickly cornered the market in Beichun and even Ji Province, attracting countless wealthy patrons.

Beichun bathhouses... well, if you know, you know.

The speed at which they made money was, if anything, even greater than the music business hospitality centers.

Four music business hospitality centers and three large-scale, high-end, luxurious bath centers caused Chu Zhengxiong’s wealth to balloon wildly.

However, his ballooning wealth didn’t make him lose his head.

The sweeping crackdown of 2018 immediately instilled in him a sense of crisis. That was the year Xingchuan International Group was formally established.

After establishing Xingchuan International, Chu Zhengxiong chose to re-enter his old trade, creating the budget KTV brand Roar Hall. Backed by his substantial capital and mature supply chain, Roar Hall rapidly expanded from its starting point in Beichun to cover the entire province.

In just one year, the number of Roar Hall locations in Ji Province exceeded twenty.

In 2019, Sound Wave became the second brand launched by Xingchuan International, focusing on the live house music bar market.

In 2021, Tea Sense was launched as Xingchuan International’s third brand, following Sound Wave and Roar Hall. During this process, Xingchuan International transformed from its original ragtag operation into a standardized, large-scale entertainment conglomerate.

To use the description from the Jun Cheng Law Firm’s due diligence report, Xingchuan International’s chairman, Chu Zhengxiong, was a classic kingpin figure: courageous and cunning, adaptable and resilient, possessed of immense personal charisma, and remarkably forward-thinking.

Gu Heng had read through both the Jun Cheng Law Firm and Deloitte China due diligence reports. Both traced the development of Xingchuan International back to the Xiyue Club.

However, neither report described how the Xiyue Club was first started.

After all, opening a mid-to-high-end music business hospitality center in Beichun required not only a lot of money, but also a very powerful network.

Chu Zhengxiong came from nothing, so where did he get his initial capital? Where did he get his network?

Although the two reports didn’t explain this, Gu Heng could roughly guess.

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.

Not everyone was as lucky as Gu Heng, who had earned the favor of Father Tongzi. The vast majority of people who wanted to defy their fate and make a leap across social classes had to endure the unendurable, obtain the unobtainable, and achieve the unachievable.

Clearly, Chu Zhengxiong must have had quite a story before he opened the first Xiyue Club. But these things weren’t important to Gu Heng; he was merely curious.

With Jun Cheng Law Firm and Deloitte China watching his back, even if Chu Zhengxiong did get into some trouble in the future, it was unlikely to affect Gu Heng.

CLICK...

Just as Gu Heng’s thoughts were swirling, Jiang Ruan, who had gone into the master suite some time ago, gently pushed the door open...