Wu Huang sat in the waiting area of Lukou Airport, with an old IBM laptop on his knees, staring at the curved index on the screen. Many of his classmates were involved in the fund and stock market, and they all encouraged Wu Huang to invest. One of them, a bold guy who had entered the Industrial and Commercial Bank after graduation through family connections, was now working as an assistant to the fund manager at a publicly offered fund company, and was expected to take over as the head of a currency fund with 6 billion yuan in assets this year. Wu Huang admired these guys who were making a fortune in public or private funds, and perhaps breaking billions in a single day, their mental nerves must be extremely strong.

  He played with stock investment funds, but couldn't hold on, the investment was not large, and neither profit nor loss could make him anxious, so he was relaxed, looked up at his watch, because of the weather, the flight was delayed, and he also had to wait for another half an hour. Wu Huang looked towards the direction of the main hall entrance, thinking that Tan Xin and Xiao Ma would arrive at Lukou Airport soon.

  Today's alumni gathering in Nanjing seems more lively than ever, with some individuals who can be called hermits or wanderers making an appearance, rarely surfacing to catch their breath. If not for this, Wu Huang wouldn't have pushed aside a investment conference held by Morgan Stanley in Canada and rushed from Lianyungang to Nanjing. Today he's at Lukou Airport picking up a university buddy who hails from Henan but is now making a name for himself in Tianjin.

  They were brothers sleeping on the upper and lower bunks, with an extraordinary friendship. The most ridiculous thing is that after four years of studying together, Wu Huang only found out after graduation that this kid was even more low-key than him. His grandfather was a high-ranking official, his uncle was a big shot, and now he's making waves in Tianjin and Shanxi. On one hand, he's working on modern Chinese medicine research at the International Innovation Park for Biotechnology and Medicine; on the other hand, he's socializing with coal bosses in Shanxi. Both hands are grasping, and both seem to be overflowing with success. It's worth noting that this guy studied administrative management in college, which has nothing to do with what he's doing now. In the past, no one thought Wu Huang and he would amount to anything, but it turns out they're the most reliable ones after all.

  Just as Wu Huan was reminiscing about his university days with that guy watching adult videos together, a familiar warm and clear voice sounded beside him, "Wu Huan, what kind of perverted thing are you thinking about, smiling so slyly? This isn't like you. Others don't know that you and Xu Bei Chan are both rotten inside and out, but as long as Xu Bei Chan is by your side, a good socialist youth becomes a hypocritical and cunning petty person."

  The speaker was Tan Xin, and this time she didn't wear a cheongsam to seduce the nation. This woman from the Tan family was also a university classmate of Wu Huang's, one of the few "talent scouts" who had been optimistic about Wu Huang and Xu Beichen from the beginning. She was also one of the few who were good at making positive investments from the start, and she had formed a deep friendship with the two low-key and introverted young masters since their university days, which continued to this day, a rare feat. Tan Xin stood beside her, with Xiao Diao, Du Ying, who had just sneaked back into the country to relax. Because there were children present, some topics were not suitable for minors, so Tan Xin didn't reveal the scandalous deeds that Wu Huang and Xu Beichen had done together in university. She was a student union cadre at the time, and several school leaders had good relations with her family, so Wu Huang and Xu Beichen's feats of seducing beautiful teachers from the foreign language college had not escaped her notice.

  "Wu Huang, your classmate hasn't arrived yet?" Xiao Dian looked around with wide eyes. In her mind, Tan Xin was almost the most excellent woman. Although Wu Huang wasn't as suitable to 90s girls' taste like Zhao Kunpeng, he had a strong masculine charm in her opinion. Without saying anything boastful, he could always surprise people and make them often mention Xu Bei Chan at the same time.

  "It's still about 20 minutes away. You guys just rushed over from Shanghai, are you hungry? I'll take you to eat something first." Wu Huan said with a smile as he shut down the computer.

  "I'm not eating, look at this airport, it's so run down, what good food can they possibly serve? I'll save my appetite for dinner. Wu Huang, you have to treat me to the best and most expensive." Xiao Diao glanced at the Luogang Airport, which was too small and shabby compared to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, with a look of disdain.

  "The most expensive is not invited, but I will invite you to the best." Wu Huang smiled and made room for Tan Xin to sit down. After all, Duan Yi was a restless master, with or without a position, it didn't matter. Wu Huang put his nearly four-year-old laptop into an old computer bag and winked: "You can't look down on Lukou Airport, although the flight attendants here are not beautiful enough, the service attitude is not friendly enough, and the hardware facilities are not perfect enough. But I am about to become a partner of Lukou Airport, Xiao Tiao, this slap you gave me, half of it was slapped on my face."

  The little comma stuck out its tongue and made a face.

  "Wu Huang, I heard a few days ago that Lukou Airport has been having debt ratio problems. It's said to have dropped to the industry's normal level of 30%, but how much water is in this 30%? Can the 500 million policy-based guarantee really be settled in one step? Are you so eager to invest in the second phase of Lukou Airport because there's something fishy inside?"

  "No dirty secrets, no gray areas, my investment this time is very clean. The new terminal building international solicitation scheme has five, except for me, the other four are all European and American famous airport design institutions. I'm fighting on home turf, with a home advantage, and playing the nationalist card again. Moreover, my design plan is not worse than those foreigners. As a Jiangsu person, I should do something practical for the people of Jiangsu." Wu Huan said with a smile, probably the last sentence made himself laugh too, ignoring Xiao's rolling eyes.

  Wu Huang's investment field is very broad, basically anything that can make money he does, not putting all his eggs in one basket, this economic principle has been taken to the extreme by him. Although the projects are too scattered and numerous, unable to form a cluster effect, but after in-depth examination of Wu Huang's project system.

  "How is Xiao Xiong now?" Wu Huang is currently busy with the airport bidding project, and as a equipment supplier, he is secretly negotiating procurement orders with China Mobile. He is so busy that his eating and sleeping patterns are completely irregular, fortunately his physical condition was well-trained in the army, otherwise he wouldn't be able to withstand the exhaustion. Due to his busyness, he hasn't contacted Zhao Kunpeng yet and doesn't know how his injury is recovering, nor does he know if the Beijing trip has been delayed.

  "As soon as he recovered from his illness, he went to the Beijing Military Region. His body was fine and his mental state wasn't bad either," Tan Xin said softly.

  "I don't know where that scoundrel Chen Er Gou is hiding, he should be caught and thrown into prison to serve a life sentence." Duan Ting interrupted, her face filled with indignation. To her, there were no good people in the world, only acquaintances and strangers. She didn't care what Xiong Zi Ge did to Chen Er Gou, but when Chen Er Gou stabbed Xiong Zi Ge, it left a deep impression on her.

  Wu Huang smiled lightly and made no comment.

  She didn't feel like saying anything, it's human nature to be biased towards oneself. Although she wasn't as naive as Du Ying, thinking that Chen Ergou should be punished by law, deep down she hoped he could suffer a bit, kill his arrogance. As for who was the real culprit, who cared? Wu Huang suddenly stood up and said: "He's here."

  Dòu Yǐ was very disappointed.

  Because the guy who came out wasn't even a bit as handsome as Xiongzi Ge, and didn't have Wu Huang Ge's calm and collected masculine aura. He was over 1.7 meters tall, but his height was somewhat crippled, with an ordinary appearance and average temperament. His clothes were completely lacking in taste, and his hair had no discernible style to speak of. What made Duan Yao almost scream out loud was that this man who looked like he was only in his thirties was wearing a shiny gold Rolex watch on his hand - it was so tacky, so unbearable, it was simply pitiful. The man was dragging along a suitcase that looked like it wouldn't even be accepted at a junkyard. Duan Yao's fantasies were shattered one by one, her interest suffered a devastating blow. She hid behind Tan Xin and lowered her head to play with her PSP3000, she really couldn't bear to look at a man whose appearance was so ordinary and uninteresting that it didn't even make her want to get to know him better. Duan Yao thought to herself, Wu Huang Ge actually slept in the same dorm as this guy for 4 years, how sad is that?

  "PSP 3000? Do you want me to get a limited edition PSP Go that hasn't been released yet?" The man's eyes were sharp and he immediately spotted Du Ying playing with the PSP 3000.

  Dong Ou's eyes sparkled, and she suddenly raised her head, staring intently at this ordinary-looking but lovely man. Her heart was in turmoil, struggling with internal conflict. Wu Huang and Tan Xin exchanged a knowing smile, not finding it unusual. This was Xu Bei Chan's strong point - he had always been good at making unexpected moves, whether playing Red Alert or chasing after the school beauty. At their graduation banquet, Xu Bei Chan had appeared with the number one school beauty, Xiao Niao Yi Ren, and almost got his classmates to dig out their eyeballs and trample them. Dong Ou finally overcame her rationality, and Xu Bei Chan's image in her mind skyrocketed.

  Wu Huan glanced at Xu Beichen's luggage, which had remained unchanged since his student days, and laughed: "Beichen, you still won't change this suitcase? In college, your red and black sneakers turned white from wear, but you wouldn't throw them away. You cherished that copy of 'White Deer Plain' you stole from the library for years, but I've never seen any woman last a year by your side."

  Xu Bei Zen said in a low voice, "Actually, I secretly bought and collected Jia Pingwa's 'Abandoned Capital' from a private library back then, but I never dared to share it with you."

  "Wu Huan scolded with a smile: 'You little rascal, I'm the one who took the blame for you back then, but it turns out that all the good scripts were hidden away by you. You even lied to me saying they were stolen! The pages of "White Deer Plain" with the most exciting parts were also torn off by you. You're a thorough scoundrel!'"

  "Xiao Dou is here, you two don't mention those things." Tan Xin said helplessly.

  "In the evening, classmates will gather somewhere, if it's too noisy a place I won't go. I still have some things to do, after the gathering is over, I'll take care of my business and come find you for drinks at the first opportunity. If you're willing, we can also invite a few university buddies who get along well, no need to bother with polite small talk." Xu Beichen leaned against Wu Huang's shoulder, although they hadn't seen each other in nearly three years, there was no awkwardness between them.

  "Tonight, you'd better not think about slipping away. The women who were secretly harmed by you back then, as soon as they heard that you're attending, one of them specially flew back from Australia, abandoning her husband and son, to deal with you. Another one, who's currently an assistant vice president at Morgan Stanley in the Asia-Pacific region, just like me, pushed aside meetings to rush over here, wanting to cut you into a thousand pieces. If you leave, they'll shift their anger onto me. You'd better honestly follow me." Wu Huang said with a smile.

  "Which son of a bitch leaked that I'm attending this reunion?" Xu Beichen cursed with a smile.

  "I've already told you, anyway." Wu Huang said with a hint of schadenfreude, pulling him along as they walked out of the airport hall. These two men, who didn't look like they had any airs about them, were living proof that life isn't always what it seems - not every rich kid is arrogant, and not every second-generation rich kid is spoiled rotten. Wu Huang, who was driving a new Kia K9 to pick up Xu Beichen, still wasn't well-known among his classmates outside of Nanjing.

  She glanced at Xu Bei Chan with an innocent expression and said, "I was just casually talking to a few close friends, who would have thought that the speaker had no intention but the listener did. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being unpopular. Besides, you committed the unforgivable crime of ruining reputations in college, so it's only natural that everyone wants to get rid of you. I'm just indirectly helping those girls whose names were tarnished by you to get justice."

  "Talk heart, I curse you to remain single for at least 3 years." Xu Beichen said with a bitter smile. After not seeing each other for several years, the eldest daughter of the Tan family was even more charming. In their university days, Xu Beichen and Wu Huang, who were born in the same year, month and day, made a bet on who could win over Talk Heart first, and whoever did would become the big brother. As a result, neither of them was able to conquer Talk Heart by the time they graduated from college, which was their biggest regret besides not having the chance to beat up that damned department head.

  "Can't find it." Tan Xin laughed and sat in a newly changed white Audi TT, two-seater.

  "You've made a lot of money in these two years, why are you still driving a Junwei?" Xu Beichen asked with a smile after getting into Wu Huang's car.

  "You think I should drive a Ferrari or Lamborghini? I have a Cadillac that I took over from Chen Xingjun, but it's been driven only a few times in a year. In Jiangsu, I don't dare to drive it out at all, so it's left in Shanghai and only taken out occasionally when going clubbing with young people to show off. You can take it if you want, I won't charge you a penny, but just maintaining it costs me hundreds of yuan every month." Wu Huang handed Xu Beichen a Nanjing cigarette while starting the car.

  "I'm afraid I'll bring shame to the Wu family, a young master like me is not popular in the imperial capital under the emperor's feet. You're different, in Jiangsu, you can't be considered top-notch, but at least you can be considered second or third-rate young master, if you don't drive a luxury sports car on the main road and recklessly snatch ordinary women, it would be a humiliation to your identity as a young master of the Wu family." Xu Beichen joked.

  "Sorry, I'm not a spoiled rich kid, but a law-abiding citizen, a Party member with strong convictions, and also an honorably discharged veteran who was awarded 1 second-class merit citation and 2 third-class merit citations." Wu Huang said with a light smile.

  Xu Bei hesitated for a moment, then handed the cigarette back to Wu Huang, leaning against the chair and saying lazily: "I've been quitting smoking for two months now, I'll at least hold on for another year or so."

  "Bei Chan, what brings you to Nanjing besides meeting old classmates? Someone like you who's fallen so low as to rush into Kong Fang's arms the moment you graduate without any benefits, wouldn't possibly come all the way to Nanjing just for that little bit of shallow classmate friendship," Wu Huang said sarcastically.

  "I've heard that the women of Nanjing and Suzhou are of high quality, so I'll come to cause some trouble." Xu Beichen only spoke freely like this in front of Wu Huang, one of his very few close friends.

  "Don't be too naive, honesty is the best policy." Wu Huan was well aware of Xu Beichen's personality. If he said that he happened to have business in Jiangsu and came to visit him on the way, it might be possible, but if he said that he would attend a classmate reunion for no reason, the probability was as low as that of Yangzhou Slim Horse being a virgin. Xu Beichen never did anything meaningless. He would always be at odds with things or people that he didn't like. In college, Xu Beichen had always looked down on most of his classmates who acted as yes-men to their instructors or department leaders. Moreover, he liked to speak in a mysterious and sarcastic tone, often making veiled attacks, which made him very unpopular. At that time, Xu Beichen's low-key and introverted personality was completely different from Wu Huan's.

  "I'm here looking for someone." Xun Bei Chan said with his eyes closed.

  "Who's so big-faced that we let Xu Daxian come all the way to unfamiliar Nanjing and suffer?" Wu Huang asked curiously.

  "Let me tell you, you don't know, there are several people in the circle who want to come to Jiangsu to meet him, if no one stops them, they would have killed him already. From what I know, these days, apart from me using the excuse of a class reunion to go to Nanjing, there are also a few troublemakers who have slipped out, I reckon they won't be able to commit murder or arson, after all, Nanjing is your territory, but there will definitely be some small conflicts. I just want to see the excitement up close, so I don't have to hear them exaggerate and make things up in Tianjin." Xu Beichen said with a smile, his face full of anticipation.

  "What did that person do to provoke public outrage?" Wu Huan was also stirred up with intense curiosity, although he rarely got involved in such trivial disputes among the wealthy, but as Xu Beichen said, being one of the top wealthy young masters in Su Bei, he would inevitably see and hear things.

  "A tough guy worshipped by all the big and small circles of spoiled rich kids, who in their eyes is almost invincible and extremely intelligent, was dumped by a woman of similar caliber, and the key point is that this woman's reason for doing so is to spend her life with an unknown nobody, causing a complete explosion."

  Xu Beichen stretched his waist and said, "I don't have the habit of being a leader, although I have a deep relationship with him in the same circle, and I have to admit that I have some admiration for him. But after passing the age where you rush to the library to smash her new lover when you hear that she has been dumped, this time I came half for that poor guy who is still unaware of what's going on, a quarter to see if you've gained weight or lost weight, and the remaining quarter is to test whether my old ship ticket can board her brand-new luxury liner. We didn't get married, but we used to be able to talk, even without feelings or sparks, being together wouldn't lead to an awkward situation like mutual respect. I calculated it accurately, if I really marry her, it would be beneficial for both families. If I have an affair, she will definitely have one too, and that's good, no burden, no need to love to the death, no tiredness." Xu Beichen sighed and said, "My two old men were unlucky, one was stuck in a position for nearly ten years without any promotion, and the other finally managed to retire with honor but encountered bad luck, almost being pulled down by his wife's infidelity. As their grandson and great-grandson, I had to use their prestige to achieve my current status, so I have to do something for the Xu and Han families."

  "Filial piety indeed." Wu Huang curled his lip and said, Xu Beizhen was always practical, and he was surprised to hear these words, but it wasn't easy to deceive Miss Tan into the Xu family.

  "You don't believe in me?" Xu Beichen laughed loudly.

  "It's not that I'm undermining your positivity, it's just that I really don't have confidence in you." Wu Huang said with a kick while he was down.

  "You're so sour." Xu Beichen fiddled with the Zippo lighter in his hand, which had not been refueled for a long time and could no longer light up.

  "You're coming to Nanjing at the right time, I just heard about something, a young Northeastern man rose to power with his clever brain and two knives in hand, it's said that he's incredibly fast, leaving people speechless. I don't know the inside story, but recently everyone in the Nanjing circle has been talking about this. As a Jiangsu native, this is also Nanjing's turf, my biggest wish now is for those unscrupulous rich kids from the Beijing-Tianjin circle to clash with him, then we can sit back and watch the two tigers fight, while us locals reap the benefits." Wu Huang said with a smile.

  "This is a narrow regional consciousness that should be strongly criticized." Xu Beichen joked.

  Wu Huang pretended not to hear, smiled and put it aside. Not to mention the differences between provinces, just the rivalry between Southern Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu is not easy to talk about, and it has been escalating, but it has never subsided at all levels.

  "Talk to your sister, is that man the money-making machine who is best at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger in your mouths?" asked Du Yin, sitting in the passenger seat of an Audi TT, playing with a PSP, looking dissatisfied.

  "That's right, don't look at his shabby appearance, this is the effect he wants. In college, he deceived many girls with his fake image, and finally suffered at his hands. It was only after the fact that we knew about it, all the things he did were extremely secretive underground work. As for the money-making machine, there's no derogatory meaning, only praise. Although he himself uses shabby things, he is very willing to spend money on friends, whether they are sworn brothers or business partners. There's a saying that only people who know how to spend money can make money, and he's one of them. Xu Beichen is an undisputed legendary figure in our school, and many walls still preserve his casual scribbles and paintings. These heroic deeds were revealed one by one after his graduation. You didn't experience our era, so you won't understand Xu Beichen's alternative style." Tan Xin smiled and said, speaking of Xu Beichen with unreserved praise.

  "Why don't you just marry him?" Du Yi's words struck a chord in Tan Xin's heart.

  "It's not good for a man to be too smart, wait until you're older, you'll know that when finding a husband, you should find one who is a bit stupid, or wise enough to make you think he's not smart. A man who doesn't flirt with other women and lives a simple life is what I want." Tan Xin sighed, Xu Beichen was so smart, but lacked the spirit of being untouched by worldly desires, only a line away from great wisdom. In fact, the strong-willed Tan Xin just wanted to find a man who would stand behind her and be content with being unknown, obviously Xu Beichen and Wu Huang were not suitable, they couldn't conquer Tan Xin's pride, and Tan Xin couldn't overshadow their brilliance, so there was no spark between them.

  This may be one of the reasons why various princesses often elope with horsemen after eating their fill.

  "Talk about it, sister, when I arrived in Nanjing, my right eyelid kept twitching, and nothing good will happen." Dou Yi suddenly raised her head with a sad face.

  "Nonsense." Tan Xin laughed and said, she was a staunch materialist.

  "Last time I met that what-the-heck Second Dog and Big Fella, my right eyelid had been twitching nonstop." Du Ying's face was a picture of the kind of suffocating anxiety that comes from being bitten by a snake in one's youth.

  "Don't worry, China is so big, the probability of running into them again is smaller than you finding a husband in Nanjing." Tan Xin smiled and said.

  "I really hope that next time I see that good-for-nothing, he's begging on the side of the road with a broken arm and leg, then I'll reward him with a small 10-yuan note, and finally take it back and put it in my pocket." Dou Ying said through gritted teeth.

  "It's all right." He said casually without putting his mind to it. (If you want to know what happens next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support the genuine version!)