Chapter 255: Deep Friendship and First Come, First Served

Tao Yaoyang’s words were full of sincerity, and for a moment, Chen Feng was a little shaken.

But in the end, Chen Feng still didn’t plan to do so. His “insider trading” matter was currently only known to Qin Zhen and his old company commander. Needless to say, Chen Feng also trusted the character of that old company commander.

But Chen Feng really couldn’t trust Tao Yaoyang’s character. Although Tao Yaoyang had always been very elegant and generous in front of him, and even respected him very much, and even acted as a pimp for him, allowing him to sleep with a beautiful female star like Zhang Yuxi.

But Chen Feng was not the kind of vulgar person who could be easily moved. From the beginning, he had been on guard against Tao Yaoyang and Cai Zhixin. He didn’t mind having some friendship with them, and was even willing to lend them money, but he would definitely not have a deep friendship, let alone the kind of friendship where they could confide in each other.

Introducing them to stocks that were guaranteed to make money involved the problem of deep friendship, which was tantamount to telling them that he had “insider trading.” Of course, Chen Feng would not be so stupid as to do so.

So, Chen Feng directly refused, “It’s not that I don’t want to help, but I don’t have any stocks that I’m particularly optimistic about right now. Let’s talk about it next time if there’s a chance.”

As for next time, Chen Feng didn’t know when it would be. Anyway, he didn’t plan to continue to make money in the stock market for the time being, because he felt a little scared after making money so many times. It was too easy to make money.

So, he decided to temporarily stop in the stock market to avoid being targeted.

Anyway, he felt that he had made almost enough money now, and it was definitely enough. Too much would bring disaster.

In the future, he could find other projects to make money, such as investing in film and television production. Anyway, he had heaven-defying luck, and it seemed that he could also make money in business.

Of course, Tao Yaoyang didn’t believe Chen Feng’s words. He immediately asked, “Then what stocks are you holding now? Are you making a profit or a loss?”

Chen Feng immediately said, “I plan to sell all the stocks I’m holding now in the next two days. After that, I’m going to take a break for a while and not touch stocks for the time being.”

Chen Feng’s light words immediately made Tao Yaoyang’s cold sweat almost come down.

He had originally planned to take a gamble, but now that he heard Chen Feng’s words, he definitely didn’t dare to gamble.

He couldn’t help but secretly rejoice that he had made this call, otherwise he might have suffered a heavy loss.

However, he was really unwilling to miss the opportunity to make big money with Chen Feng. He couldn’t help but ask, “Then do you have any way to make quick money recently? I’m in urgent need of money now.”

Hearing his words, Chen Feng said generously, “How much money do you need? If it’s not too much, I can lend it to you, as long as you can pay me back within a year.”

Hearing Chen Feng’s words, Tao Yaoyang was immediately a little moved.

To be honest, the relationship between him and Chen Feng was not very close. And he knew that Chen Feng had a “deep background,” and it was impossible for him to flatter him because of his family or anything else. Then Chen Feng was now willing to lend him money, which was completely treating him as a real friend.

“Are you really going to lend me money?” Tao Yaoyang couldn’t help but ask.

“Of course, I don’t have much. But within fifty million, I can still lend it to you. If you pay it back within a month, I won’t charge you interest. If it’s more than a month, I’ll charge you the standard interest rate for private financing.”

Chen Feng spoke very directly. Although he knew Tao Yaoyang’s background, he was not afraid of him, and he had no intention of flattering him. And the reason why he was willing to lend him money was, first, because the other party had been relatively well-behaved after getting along with him, and had not shown the arrogance of a young master in front of him. In addition, when he sold the house, he had given him some profit, and there was also the matter of him acting as a pimp for him.

These were all favors. Now lending him money was also considered to have returned this part of the favor.

“Are you really willing to lend me fifty million?” Tao Yaoyang couldn’t help but ask again.

Fifty million was not a lot for him. It was just a matter of a few houses. But it was not a small amount either. What’s more, it was even rarer for someone to take out real money at once without asking for anything in return.

“Of course, I can lend you at most fifty million. If you want it now, I can lend it to you now. I have already stated the conditions. In addition, we must also sign a loan contract. You can bring your lawyer with you.”

After hearing Chen Feng’s words, Tao Yaoyang’s previous anger and dissatisfaction were of course gone.

In his mind, a person with a sky-high background like Chen Feng could lend him so much money at once, which was really treating him as a friend.

And when he approached Chen Feng before, his motives were impure from the beginning. He was thinking of pulling this nouveau riche into the pit to take the blame or the fall for him. Later, after knowing Chen Feng’s “deep background,” he didn’t dare to dig a pit for him, but he also wanted to befriend him so that he could use him in the future.

It could be said that he had been secretly plotting against Chen Feng from the beginning. Of course, in fact, he had not plotted against Chen Feng. On the contrary, he had given Chen Feng a lot of benefits, such as selling the No. 8 villa to Chen Feng at a price lower than the market price, and also forcing the star Zhang Yuxi to sleep with Chen Feng.

These were all real benefits he had given to Chen Feng.

It seemed that after his efforts, the effect was there. Chen Feng was now willing to lend him fifty million.

Unfortunately, his funding gap was almost two hundred million. This fifty million was useful, but it was not enough.

And of course, he didn’t have the face or the guts to ask Chen Feng for two hundred million.

After Tao Yaoyang was silent for a while, he finally refused, “Thank you for your kindness, but I don’t need it for the time being. If I need it, I will ask you.”

It wasn’t that Tao Yaoyang didn’t want Chen Feng’s money, but that he knew very well that Chen Feng had a deep background. After this money was lent to him, his pressure would be great, and it was impossible to default on the debt.

Another thing was that he couldn’t just borrow this money for a month. A conservative estimate would be three or four months. If it was according to the standard interest rate for private financing, it was not low.

Also, if he couldn’t repay it in time in the future, a person with a deep background like Chen Feng would have ways to deal with him. This potential risk was too great. It made him feel like he was borrowing a high-interest loan and might be trapped.

This feeling was very bad, so he refused.

He could borrow this money from others, including those businessmen and speculators who tried every means to flatter him.

Even more, he could get money through some other private means, and get it quickly.

If Tao Yaoyang didn’t borrow, of course Chen Feng didn’t care. He said in a relaxed tone, “Alright! If you want to borrow, you can contact me at any time.”

“Okay. Then I’ll talk to you first. We’ll get together again when we have time next time.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Chen Feng quickly put Tao Yaoyang out of his mind. He lay on the recliner and continued to read online novels with concentration.

He held his phone in his right hand, and with a slight stretch of his left hand, he could reach the coffee table next to him. There was a thermos cup on it, which contained wolfberry and chrysanthemum tea that Wu Mengting had bought for him. They were all top-quality wolfberries and chrysanthemums. The taste was very good.

Life was so easy and comfortable. Chen Feng liked this quiet life very much.

Unfortunately, he had only been holding his phone for less than five minutes when he received a call from Liu Ying, which made him frown slightly.

However, in the end, he still answered it.

“What’s the matter?” Chen Feng asked directly.

“Didn’t you see the message I sent you on WeChat?” Liu Ying asked with a full of grievance.

It couldn’t be said that she had a temper. She had sent a WeChat message to Chen Feng early this morning. First, she said that her mother was nagging, and she was nagged by her mother at home every day. Before, she nagged her for not being entrusted to the right person, and also nagged her to find a job, or find a good man to remarry.

And since she brought Chen Feng to see her parents, her mother had started to urge her to get married, nagging like a Tang monk.

So… she wanted to move out, and then clearly asked Chen Feng if she could move in with him.

Chen Feng had seen this message, but he had completely ignored it.

And so, after waiting bitterly for more than three hours, Liu Ying was in great mental and physical torment. Finally, she couldn’t stand it anymore and called him directly.

“I saw it.” Chen Feng admitted honestly, and then said very bluntly, “It’s not suitable for you to live here. If you really want to move out, and you also want to be close to me, then I’ll give you the other villa in Red Villa Bay to live in. Anyway, that one is empty now, and I don’t plan to rent it out.”

“No. I want to live in the No. 8 villa.” Liu Ying immediately asked back angrily, “Why can that Sun Xiaorui live there?”

Hearing her tone, Chen Feng was not happy. He would not spoil her, even if she was the woman he had liked back then.

He said unceremoniously, “Liu Ying, don’t forget, you are not my girlfriend yet. And first come, first served, do you understand? Xiaorui has been with me since last year, and you?”

“Speaking of first come, first served, I was the first. I was your classmate for four years in college, and you started chasing me in your freshman year…”

“Alright.” Chen Feng directly interrupted her. “Is there any point in you saying these things now? When you talk about college, it will only make me recall the unpleasant experience of the past, and on the contrary, it will make me not like you.”

“I’ve already apologized to you. What more do you want?” Liu Ying said with a choked voice.

“Your apology came too late. It’s been almost twelve years. You’re only apologizing to me now. Do you think it’s really useful? The harm you did to me back then can be said to have directly changed my view of women and love. Forget it, there’s no point in talking about these things now. Anyway, you can’t live in the No. 8 villa. That’s it. You think about it carefully and tell me. It’s fine if you want to break up with me. We’ll just pretend we never met again, let alone that anything happened.”

After saying these words, Chen Feng directly hung up the phone. For Liu Ying, the class beauty of his college days, he had long lost the kind of love at first sight feeling, especially after experiencing a failed marriage. It could be said that he had been hurt twice by two women he had once liked.

So, now, if he wanted to truly like a woman, let alone give his heart and soul to her, it was absolutely impossible.

If you don’t give your true feelings, you won’t be hurt. It’s the same for both men and women.

One was that he had long passed the age of being crazy about love. The other was that he had money now. And as long as a man had money, would he still lack women? Since there was no lack of women, what was the point of talking about love? Adultery was enough.

And on the other end of the phone, Liu Ying, hearing Chen Feng’s cold-blooded words, her tears immediately fell like rain.

It couldn’t be said that her feelings were fragile, but because she had already experienced an emotional trauma, and she valued this relationship with Chen Feng very much. It could even be said that it was her current life, the life-saving straw of her future life. She wanted to hold on to it tightly.

But obviously, the development of things was not as beautiful as she had imagined. Although Chen Feng had a relationship with her, they had renewed their old relationship, and Chen Feng was even willing to go to see her parents with her, but Chen Feng had no intention of treating her as a girlfriend from the beginning, let alone getting engaged, getting married, or anything like that.

Now he had even refused the most basic request of living together, which made her truly feel Chen Feng’s determination and heartlessness towards her.

In addition, she had been suffering for more than three hours, and the result she was waiting for was this. It was normal for her to break down on the spot.

Chen Feng was now her life-saving straw. How could she break up with Chen Feng? So, breaking up was absolutely impossible.

But if she wanted to live with Chen Feng and move into the No. 8 villa, Chen Feng disagreed. Then it seemed that there was only one choice left for her, to live in Chen Feng’s other villa in Red Villa Bay.

As for continuing to live at home, even if her parents didn’t say anything, she herself was not willing. Because she had lived in a big house in a foreign country for these years, she had gotten used to it. In addition, after seeing the luxury of the villa in Red Villa Bay, if she were to live in her parents’ old community that was more than ten years old, the psychological gap would be really big.

It was just that she couldn’t move into the No. 8 villa she had been dreaming of at once, and she couldn’t be proud in front of her aunt’s family. On the contrary, she was directly told by Chen Feng that she could break up with him indifferently, which made her feel a huge sense of loss.

After crying for a while, Liu Ying’s mood finally slowly adjusted. Of course, it was impossible to break up. And she had already slept with him. Now her parents knew about Chen Feng’s existence, and even her aunt’s side knew about it. How could she give up so easily?

So, after quickly drafting a speech in her mind, she called Chen Feng again.

But unfortunately, it was hung up after a short while. She secretly gritted her silver teeth and called again. This time, after the phone rang for a while, it was finally connected.

“I’m sorry… sob, I’m sorry! Chen Feng, I was wrong. I know I hurt you back then, but you also hurt me now. Can we be even? If you think it’s not enough, you can punish me at any time. I’m willing to accept any punishment from you. But please don’t break up with me, okay? I only have you now. I can’t live without you.”

Damn! Hearing her emotional lines, Chen Feng couldn’t help but complain, “Alright! Do you think you’re filming a romance drama? Don’t give me this mushy line.”

“…Chen Feng, these are all my true words.” Liu Ying said with a heavy nasal voice, her voice filled with humility and cowardice.

“Then have you made a decision? Are you planning to continue to live with your parents, or rent a house outside by yourself, or live in my other villa in Red Villa Bay?”

“The No. 8 villa, can I really not move in?” Liu Ying asked in a weak tone.

“No.” Chen Feng was as hard as a rock and refused firmly.

“Alright then. I’ll live in the other villa.”

“That’s right. As long as you are obedient, I will definitely not treat you badly. That’s it then. You can move over at any time.”