Chapter 101: Commercial Espionage
Qi Yu took the wine and said, “I’ll talk to him alone in a bit.”
Fu Yansheng understood. Although he was Qi Yu’s “friend”, Si Hang wasn’t on very familiar terms with him, after all and so there might be things he couldn’t ask so easily.
Seeing that Si Hang had finished ordering food for them, Fu Yansheng got up and said, “Then you guys talk. I’ll go talk while Xu Yizhou for a while.”
“…Alright, go.” Qi Yu gave a casual glance at Xu Yizhou who was sitting on the sofa in the corner. He took a sip of wine and turned thoughtful.
Si Hang sat down beside Qi Yu. Seeing Fu Yansheng walking towards Xu Yizhou, he asked, “What’s your friend heading there for?”
Qi Yu had never told Si Hang that it was because of him that he got to know Fu Yansheng. He only said, “He and Secretary Xu know each other. He said he wanted to reminisce with him.”
“What a coincidence!” This didn’t bother Si Hang and he gestured towards Qi Yu, “I just ordered a special dish for you tonight, their ‘Christmas platter’. It’s huge, it’s got roasted turkey, roasted pork leg, and muffins. The works.”
“Thank you,” Qi Yu raised his glass of wine towards him. “I remember you told me that it was one of your brother’s assistants that found Secretary Xu?”
Si Hang clinked his glass against his. “Yeah.”
Qi Yu: “Which assistant? The one surnamed Song?”
Si Hang: “Yup, that’s him.”
Qi Yu’s heart sank, and he continued to ask, “How is your relationship with him?”
Si Hang: “Me and him? It’s fine. He’s one of my brother’s people and we have very little contact… Why are you asking?”
Qi Yu deliberately joked, “I’ve been working with your brother recently, right? I need people and he’s seems kinda good. Your brother doesn’t seem to use him very much so I wanted to see if I could entice him over. I’m asking you to see if there’s any hope. ”
It seemed that Si Hang never expect that Qi Yu would say such things to him. He let out a laugh “Ha. My brother doesn’t use him much? Where’d you get that stupid idea? My brother likes him to death!”
Qi Yu said in surprise, “Really?”
Si Hang: “Yeah, he’s been with Si Holdings for three years. At first, he was just an analyst in Si Holding’s investment department. He was promoted by my brother to become his personal assistant in just half a year. This person is very competent and he’s very obedient to my brother. My brother also values him very much and takes him everywhere!”
Qi Yu was puzzled. Obedient? Values very much?
Si Hang’s statement was obviously different from what Qi Yu had observed and heard.
To say nothing of being “competent”, in the few meetings they’d had together, Qi Yu has only ever seen Song Puxin help to take the meeting minutes for Si Ze. He never took the initiative to express any opinion of his own during the meeting. Qi Yu thought that this person wasn’t taken seriously at all.
As for being “obedient”, Qi Yu was even more puzzled. That night at the manor, he had clearly heard Fu Yansheng ask Song Puxin if he was being “forced” and Song Puxin replied affirmatively.
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Qi Yu was still lost in thought when Si Hang leaned in close and whispered into his ear, “To tell you the truth, Assistant Song is even sleeping with my brother. There were several times when I went home and saw him come out of my brother’s room in the middle of the night… …”
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Zhu Lin and Qin Han, who hadn’t been too far from them, saw that they were having a good time chatting and so made their way over. They asked, “What are you talking about?”
Tang Weiye, who was sitting next to them, explained while making room for them. “They’re talking about that handsome assistant of Si Hang’s brother.”
“Oh, Assistant Song.” Zhu Lin had also apparently heard of this man. He said, a wicked smile on his face, “I saw him once when I went to hang out at your house. He really is quite handsome… Has he already tied your brother down?”
Qi Yu pretended to be puzzled, “What do you mean ‘tied down’?”
Zhu Lin said, “It used to be that his brother was even more of a player than Si Hang, but because of that assistant, he sent a great many of his bedmates away.”
Qin Han: “Is it true? I heard that this assistant of his was sick once, and your brother was so nervous that he didn’t show up at the company for several days?”
“Hai! Don’t bring that up. My dad got angry because of that. He said that his relationship with his subordinate was too close and that it was inappropriate. Dad told him to transfer Assistant Song to a different post and my brother refused. He even talked back and quarreled with my dad…” Si Hang said with a smile, “But frankly speaking, among the people around my brother, I also like this person the most. Whenever I ask him for help, he never refuses me.”
Qi Yu thought to himself, Xu Yizhou was introduced to Si Hang by Song Puxin, and Fu Yansheng was introduced to him by Xu Yizhou. And, it just so happened that Fu Yansheng knew Song Puxin too…
The people closest to the Si Yuan Group’s two largest shareholders’ children were all connected in a line together!
And these people shared obvious commonalities: highly educated, extremely competent, and full of personal charm…
But what was the purpose of these people hanging around them?
…Commercial espionage?
Qi Yu was shocked by the words that came out of his mind. He suddenly remembered his suspicions about Fu Yansheng during summer vacation.
In the beginning, Fu Yansheng had expended a lot of effort to lay a trap for him. If it was just because he liked him, even Qi Yu found it hard to believe. By considering this other possibility, he felt that this made more sense and that it was more in line with what Fu Yansheng would have done…
Zhu Lin pointed at Si Hang and added, “Back then, when his brother sent him the game company, he was looking for someone to manage it. He even told us to find him someone who was as capable as his brother’s Assistant Song.”
Tang Weiye smiled wryly, “At the time, I didn’t know your brother had this kind of relationship with him. Now, I gotta ask, which kind of ‘capable’ did you mean?”
Si Hang laughed and scolded, “Get outta here! I’ve got no interest in that.”
His friends burst into laughter.
Qi Yu also pretended to smile, letting the corners of his mouth tick up. His heart though, was going up and down.
It turned out that they all knew about the relationship between Song Puxin and Si Ze. No wonder Zhu Lin and the others joked before that Xu Yizhou could do everything except accompany Si Hang to bed…
Zhu Lin teased once again, “Fortunately, you don’t like men. Otherwise, with how devoted Xu Yizhou is towards you, wouldn’t you have also been tied down by him long ago?”
Qin Han: “That’s right, no need to be embarrassed. Who doesn’t know that you’ve got ‘girlfriends flowing like water but an iron-clad Xu Yizhou!”
Tang Weiye put his arms around Si Hang’s shoulder and urged him, “What’s wrong getting it on with a man? Try it once, I’m sure you’d like it!”
Si Hang scolded, “Do you think everyone is the same as you?”
Seeing that their conversation was becoming more and more unpleasant, Qi Yu quickly changed the subject and said, “Si Hang, I heard that your game company is going to go public?”
Si Hang’s eyes lit up, and he looked triumphant: “How did you know?”
“I heard it from the people around your brother.” Qi Yu certainly couldn’t say that he had heard it in the bathroom, so gave this little white lie. He continued, “I asked you when we met last time, didn’t you say that the team’s record wasn’t very good, that it was half-dead and hanging on by a thread? Why is it going to be listed?”
Si Hang: “The team is in charge of the team and the company is in charge of the company. My game company not only plays competitions but it has also expanded into many other businesses.”
Qi Yu: “Oh? How’s business going then?
Zhu Lin roasted him with a smile, “Is there any profit to speak of? You’re still burning money every day.”
Si Hang glared at him and snorted. “As long as I use the Si Holding’s name, even if I burn money, there’s still tons of people who’ll invest!”
Seeing how he was saying all this so lightly, Qi Yu wondered, “Can you go public even if your business isn’t doing too well?”
Si Hang stretched out his arms and leaned on the sofa. “You’ve just got to make the financial reports look good.”
Qi Yu: “Who told you this? Xu Yizhou?”
Si Hang: “No, one of my brother’s secretaries. That one named Huang.”
Qi Yu: “…” Huang Junwen?
“But we’re only just planning to go public for now. My brother said that we will have to wait until next year’s holiday at the earliest. After the Spring Festival, we plan to raise another round of funding.” Si Hang looked at Qi Yu and said with a smile, “How about it? Are you interested in making an investment when the time comes?”
Qi Yu looked at him suspiciously. “I still remember the last time you asked my friend to invest in your stock and he suffered a loss. It won’t be another loss this time, will it?”
Si Hang said quickly, “That time was just an accident. This time there definitely won’t be any problem!”
Qi Yu: “How are you so sure?”
Qin Han sneered. He looked at Qi Yu and said, “Isn’t your Qi family business partners with the Si family? Don’t tell me you don’t know there are people above his family? What problem will there be for his company to go public?”
Si Hang gave Qin Han a look, as if to imply he shouldn’t have said those things. Qin Han pursed his lips and kept silent.
Si Hang: “Anyway, you can rest assured. As long as we can successfully go public, you are guaranteed to make a lot of money. When the time comes, you can choose to continue to hold your shares or cash out and leave.”
Qi Yu smiled. “Fine, later, ask Xu Yizhou to send me an investment report. I’ll take a look at it first.”
Si Hang said, raising his glass of wine, “Come on, let’s have a toast.”
Qi Yu and Fu Yansheng left Si Hang’s club at midnight. On the way back, Fu Yansheng asked him, “I just saw you guys chatting happily over there. How was it? Did you find out anything?”
Qi Yu shook his head and said, “We just talked about Si Hang’s game company. I heard that it will go public next year.”
Fu Yansheng: “Really?”
Qi Yu told Fu Yansheng about the current situation of Si Hang’s company and said, “Si Hang asked me to invest in him. What do you think?”
“Si Hang’s company is obviously a shell company. All the document for their public listing will be faked, which is very risky.” Fu Yansheng looked at him, a cold light flashed in his eyes, “Do you even have to ask me what I think about this kind of thing?”
Qi Yu: “…”
Fu Yansheng’s words reminded Qi Yu of the things the other party had taught him in the past two years. If Fu Yansheng was really a commercial spy, he would probably use this information he’s fraudulently gotten from him to catch them, right? But it’s been so long, apart from teaching him and guiding him with all his heart, Fu Yansheng didn’t seem to have done anything to trap him…
Including the last time Si Hang raised funds to invest in stocks, Fu Yansheng even prevented him from getting involved.
Qi Yu was lost in thought once again…
If they weren’t commercial spies, what could be the identities of these three people?
The author has something to say: [Little Theater]
Si Ze’s assistant: Assistant + bed partner.
Si Hang’s secretary: a full-time nanny.
Qi Yu’s assistant: teacher + boyfriend.
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Complex Number: The highest realm of undercover work!
Wooo. Can’t wait for 🦊➡️🐕🏚️
Omg me too! 😁😆 So close now!
Qi Yu: …commercial spies?
Me: YES! BASICALLY YES BUT NOT FOR PROFIT!!! YOU’RE ON THE RIGHT TRA-Qi Yu: Nah, it can’t be.Me: GDI you little fish.
The plot thickens! So fascinating. I wonder when Fu Yansheng’s cover will be, well, uncovered. Highest realm of undercover work, eh? Hehe that’s right, gotta put real emotions into it, after all.
… Why is the formatting so weird. Lol my enter key must be worn out-
I hope song puxin will be saved quickly 😰
thanks for the chapter!
i’m still worried about song puxin. please get him out of there!!
Im anxiously waiting for the drama 😅😅😅
Last time that stock play went bad because FYS gpt jealous and secretly exposed some scandal about the stock issuer. This time too the game company will not make profit since FYS knows about it, righ? QY pls rescue xiao game god pls pls