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1.65% Rebirth of the Entertainment Giant / Chapter 3: Just You Wait

Chapter 3: Just You Wait

Zhang Xiaohua was not a fool. With the shares in hand, it showed that they were still part of the company. These shares were very important as they owned a tipping share and without their shares, no one could take control of the business. In this way, it would be easier to win back the company in the future.

But once they sold their shares, it meant that the company wouldn't even have a single cent to do with them. In this case, even if they have the ability in the future, it would be near impossible for them to get it back.

What's more, today they had been bullied by his father's so-called sworn brother's family and they had to fight back.

So how could they do so without any bargaining chips?

The Buddha fights for a scent of incense, while people fight for wealth!

How could one build a fire without any firewood?

So, no matter what, he had to keep this 4% shares.

But at this time, Zhang Shaofang was shocked, she knew the purpose of Cao Dequan's trip from the beginning, but she never expected that this Cao Dequan would threaten them.

How could he say this? Cao Dequan and Zhang Xiaohua's father were sworn brothers who grew up together! 

Decades of feelings lied between them.

Although Zhang Xiaohua's father wasn't here, before Zhang Xiaohua, Cao Dequan was still an elder. However, today, he actually threatened a junior and his sworn brother's son at that.

What a disgrace!

Zhang Shaofang could not help but release a sigh, so this was what would end the two decades of friendship between their families.

She said, "Brother Cao, ah, the child is still young, you don't have to behave so harshly towards him. What Cao Feifei said was correct, we will be one family sooner or later, so why bother with this affair?"

Hearing that, Cao Huahua was not happy. Zhang Shaofang looked across to Cao Dequan eyes and he didn't avoid her gaze, just staring straight back, unaffected by her plea. 

He bluntly said, "You misunderstand. I mean, I'm rich but we are naturally still family. But now look at your family's situation… You are so poor. Yet you still insist that I marry my daughter to your son, is that fair? Just look at how your son has just spoken to me!" 

After saying that, he shot a glare at Zhang Xiaohua, his face immediately showed a look of hate and ridicule, "What a disappointing second-generation. Though your father is dead, he still left behind debt for you, and instead of accepting help, you talk back and act so arrogantly. Marrying into this kind of family would be a waste and may even cause me to die from anger!"

Zhang Shaofang couldn't resist becoming enraged, she stood up from the couch, tearfully saying, "Yes, our family is not as good as it used to be, but you also seem to forget to think about who gave you money when your family was having a hard time. Step back and think, if Xiao-Hua's father didn't bring your Cao family to do business, would your Cao family have such achievements today?"

Having said that, she sat back down, her tears had already started flowing out unconsciously wetting her cheeks. Her eyes had gone reddish and her face pale, she was trembling as she started to speak again, "For the company, my husband almost became bankrupt and died from stress, and now you have even come to swallow the remaining 4% of the shares? That's what Xiao-Hua's dad left to him as his inheritance and it's our legacy. When did you become cold-blooded to this point? Won't you even leave us orphan and widow a chance to live?"

With a face full of tears, Zhang Shaofang could no longer continue to speak. Not only did this family of three not show her the slightest sympathy at this time, but they didn't even bother to look at her. 

Three stone hearts were clearly revealed.

Cao Dequan, in particular, seemed completely unbothered by the duo's confession and outcry. He continued staring directly at Zhang Xiaohua as if he had already regarded him as a prey that he must have.

After a brief silence, Cao Dequan spoke, "I'll warn you, boy, you don't know what you are doing. Why don't you sell it? Well, I'll hold a shareholders' meeting tomorrow. If you choose not to accept the carrot, I'll use the stick. If you don't believe it, wait and see."

In the face of Cao Dequan's threat, Zhang Xiaohua snorted in disgust and said, "So you mean to unite with other shareholders and unanimously remove my equity. Oh, so you dare?"

"And so what if I dare?" Cao Dequan waved his hand and shouted.

Zhang Xiaohua smiled and sniffed, always maintaining a calm attitude, "If I remember correctly, those shareholders in the company were brought in by my dad. Those employees, my father trained them from when they were rookies. So if you dare to come at me, I can promise you will gain nothing but an image as a greedy old fool. Then I would like to see how you will remain as the chairman and work for the company."

Speaking up to here, Zhang Xiaohua hummed and bowed his head, seemingly too lazy to look at Cao Dequan, as if talking to himself, "Moreover, according to the relevant regulations, unless I take the initiative to sell or violate the law, no one has the right to occupy or dismiss my shares."

"You..."

Cao Dequan suddenly became speechless, his eyes turned bloodshot and he looked like he was about to throw up blood. 

Indeed, Cao Dequan came here to handle the situation privately as he couldn't afford to do it publicly due to the potential backlash from the shareholders and employees, many were still loyal to the Zhang family. He was afraid of carrying such infamy and being removed from the Chairman position, so he was willing to shamelessly come over to find Zhang Xiaohua and discuss. But now, it seemed that it wasn't enough to scare the kid and force him into submission.

Unexpectedly, this kid actually gained the courage to talk back to him, regardless of IQ or eloquence, this kid seemed to have transformed completely, as if he was a whole new person!

At this moment, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly looked down and raised his voice, hoping to chase them out: "Today, I have decided, within five years I will come to get back everything that belongs to me, including the things you owed to my dad that year, I want you to have nothing, I want you to live on the streets, I want you to pay the heaviest price for today's behaviour. This is what I, Zhang Xiaohua, promise you."

"You..."

"I, I, I, what?" Zhang Xiaohua got up from the sofa and wiped his mother tears with one hand. He supported her up with his arms and smiled as he said, "Mum, I will deal with everything. You don't have to worry about it. You should be tired today, so I'll bring you back to your room."

"Liu Yan, help me to send out the guests!" 

After that, Zhang Xiaohua carefully looked at his mother and helped her towards the staircase, about to send her back to her bedroom on the second floor.

Reaching the stairs, Zhang Xiaohua stopped suddenly.

Turning to look at the three uninvited guests, Zhang Xiaohua indulged in the moment, followed by him speaking up in a serious tone saying, "Almost forgot one thing. You should remember that today is the day I broke off the marriage contract with your baby daughter, not the day you abandoned me, Zhang Xiaohua, because this is my home. Afterwards, don't come back here anymore and I hope that, in the future, you don't attempt to contact me to reconcile. Take care!"

At this time, Zhang Xiaohua saw Cao Dequan's pale complexion and his breathlessness.

Cao Dequan had it all planned out, he thought that if he managed to secure his victory today, he would certainly be able to swallow the rest of the shares from those investors. 

Cao Feifei was also feeling a bit guilty. She felt that today's Zhang Xiaohua was not the same as yesterday's, it seemed that overnight he had grown up becoming sensible, mature, and filled with courage and intelligence, even attaining eloquence. It was a tremendous change and, to be honest, it was impressive!

However, Cao Feifei was the kind of girl who would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle.

The heart wants what it wants and she really wanted to marry someone rich not a nobody who had nothing at all.

Fortunately, regardless of who first released the marriage contract, this marriage was finally gone, Cao Feifei also considered her wish fulfilled, so she left feeling pleased.

"My husband, the little animals insist that they won't transfer the shares to us. What should we do?"

"What else can we do?" Cao Dequan could not help but feel troubled and angered, "That kid is a famous prodigal son. He won't survive without the money. When he squanders all his money, he will come running back to me, then he will see if I even give him 10 yuan, let alone 2 billion."

In fact, other than waiting, Cao Dequan had no other way, but he firmly believed that Zhang Xiaohua sooner or later would have to ask him for money and that was when he would get his revenge, along with those shares.

At this time, the servant Liu Yan slowly went to the front of their family of three and then she indifferently requested them to leave.

Under a guilty conscience and embarrassment, the three rushed out of the door and got into their Porsche Cayenne, the driver closed the door in one go and the car disappeared quickly around the bend. 


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Chapter 4: Unlimited Business Opportunities

After he sent his mother back to her bedroom, Zhang Xiaohua couldn't help but laugh, "Mum, you go and have a good rest. I'm going to check out some things."

After Zhang Xiaohua turned to go out, Zhang Shaofang suddenly asked: "Xiao-Hua, are you okay?"

A mother knew her child the best.

Zhang Shaofang knew her own son very well and knew how profound her son's feelings for Cao Feifei were.

This child loved to play with Cao Feifei. Every day, he hoped that he could enter into the marriage hall with Cao Feifei and form a family with her. He almost loved her to the point where it seemed crazy.

But now the engagement was cancelled and she was afraid that her son would be heartbroken and do something tragic like committing suicide. If he couldn't handle it and did those stupid things, then how could he have the strength to carry on living?

"I'm fine." Zhang Xiaohua stared into her eyes and smiled brilliantly. From the beginning to the end, he was indifferent. Of course, for now, there was nothing worth worrying about.

Zhang Shaofang was also relieved and full of loving comfort: "Oh, Xiaohua, you're still young. There are plenty of opportunities. You can't keep dwelling on that girl. You mustn't think about it too much. Your dad has already left me and I really can't withstand any more blows, okay?"

Zhang Xiaohua understood, she was afraid that he couldn't withstand losing Cao Feifei. Her worry wasn't unreasonable after all, the real Zhang Xiaohua did actually commit suicide for that girl.

However, I'm not stupid enough to do such a thing for that trash of a woman, he thought to himself.

"Mum, you can put your heart at rest, I won't disappoint you." Zhang Xiaohua's face was filled with a bright smile, but in his heart he vowed to get revenge on the Cao family.

Listening to him, Zhang Shaofang also finally calmed down and, at the same time, she even felt that this child seemed to have grown up overnight. There was a mature charm about him, it was exactly the same aura his father had when he was younger. 

It is no wonder that everyone says that if one wants to grow up quickly, one must lose something valuable. Without having lost something, one will never know how to cherish it. Only when he knows how to cherish it, will he grow.

It seemed that this child's own growth would sadly be because of his father's death, but at least he became more mature and sensible, which allowed her to finally feel a little bit of joy!

"Well, you should get an early rest, I still have some more things to do." Zhang Xiaohua couldn't wait to sit by the computer and take a closer look at this world. For him, this was the most important thing right now.

"What are you going to do now?" Zhang Shaofang looked at her son with suspicion. In her impression, this child was either going out to drink every day or was hanging out with those pig-headed friends of his. Listening to him now, saying that there are things to do with such a serious appearance, Zhang Shaofang could not help but feel curious.

"I want to start a business and become an entrepreneur!" Zhang Xiaohua said with an arrogant and awe-inspiring voice. 

Although he sounded truthful, it made Zhang Shaofang speechless.

In her mind, the likelihood of the word "entrepreneur" coming out Zhang Xiaohua's mouth was the same as finding out pigs could fly.

Sighing helplessly, Zhang Shaofang sternly said:

"Xiao-Hua, ah, the family's money is running out and your father owes a lot of debt on the outside which we must repay. Although your father is dead, it's a natural thing to do. Mother will try to solve the problem, so you should not worry. You have now grown up and in the future, you just need to give me less trouble, spend money responsibly and learn to keep the house. Do you understand?"

Zhang Xiaohua nodded earnestly, "I understand, but you can rest assured that I will make some money as soon as possible. I want to help alleviate the burden on our family as well."

As soon as his voice fell, Zhang Xiaohua ran back to his room in a burst of smoke and sat in front of the computer to dive head first into researching this world's background.

It wasn't until 2 AM that Zhang Xiaohua finally got a firm understanding of his new world.

It had almost the exact same history to his previous world and it was also divided into seven continents and five oceans. Even the names of various countries weren't too different. Many of the major companies still existed, for example: Lenovo, Apple, Samsung, Mercedes-Benz and BMW were all still internationally known brands.

The Chinese currency of yuan was still here, with only the country name being changed from China to Huaxia.

Unlike Earth, however, where there were loads of classic TV dramas or movies available for people to enjoy during their leisure time. In this world, not even mentioning what the movies and TV drama looked like, this place didn't even have a single decent song.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaohua was a massive fan of television in his past life. He loved to watch movies and he listened to music from nearly every genre. He had some insight into the entertainment industry as well. After all, he had attempted to become a musician himself.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaohua was confident that if he were to enter the entertainment business, it shouldn't be too difficult. It could even be called fate.

Next, in order to thoroughly understand the entertainment industry in this world, Zhang Xiaohua simply watched some scenes of currently popular movies and TV series.

Wow!

It was unbearable!

Although the picture quality was first-rate, there was no plot, no logic, no point of view and even the actors were a mess as there was no temperament and no performance skills at all in their acting.

Zhang Xiaohua listened to several of the most popular songs of the day. As a result, he almost dropped his headphones.

"These song lyrics are so shit, what the actual fuck! There is absolutely no rhythm at all and they have literally just ruined a whole genre. This is even worse than those crappy 80's songs from Earth!"

Zhang Xiaohua was depressed and he almost cried. It wasn't only him, even the netizens were also angry about this. Complaints filled the comments section of all the major record label sites as they all complained about the lack of talent in the entertainment industry. Compared to garbage, it was really hard to spot the difference!

At the same time, Zhang Xiaohua also saw the unlimited business opportunities in this world.

Since the entertainment here was so dry, based on the memories of his past life, he could at any time bring a burst of popular songs and movies to life in this world.

There were no heavenly king level celebrities, so he would create them and rule the entertainment scene.

No big girl groups, then he would cultivate four golden flowers and kill thousands of otaku and netizens.

No "My Love from the Star" which made binge watching TV a weekend ritual. 

Then he would shoot "My Love from the Star" and watch everyone bow before his might.

As for those classic martial arts dramas of old, it was also simple. Grandpa Jin Yong's "The Eagle Shooting Trilogy", Gu Longbo's "Little Flying Knife Series", Liang Yusheng's "White Haired Witch", these immortal classics would all be brought back to life in his hands.

If he entered the movie market, we could start with "Hero" and then gradually enter Europe and the United States. Then have a "Titanic", which would further establish his status as the 'King of Entertainment'.

As for those various variety shows and celebrity interactive programs, he believed that these could also create extremely high ratings. At that time, absolute financial resources would be available. The premise was that he must first train a group of popular superstars.

Fortunately, he could use those classic songs from Earth that everyone was singing, he could make full use of it in this world. In the future, he would come up with a song and create a star overnight.

No... I have to arrange it all!

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaohua became depressed again as he had realized an issue!

Although he could extract the lyrics and tunes of those classic songs from Earth, he didn't know how to produce music and a song without a beat was equal to a person without a soul.

In simple terms, he could only sing and couldn't arrange music.

It seemed that he must first find a person who understood music to fight side by side or build a professional team.

I shall be responsible for writing the words myself. Others will be responsible for the arrangement and follow-up work. After the songs are formed, they can find someone to sing. This will not only make money but also cultivate our own stars and lay a good foundation for the future!

Ah, yes!

Thinking about it, Zhang Xiaohua began to intoxicate himself again. He only felt that the future was bright and his business opportunities were limitless. At the same time, he gradually developed a huge plan in his mind.

The most important thing now was to find a few guys who understood music to create the beat he wanted and then set up a team to create the instrumental and find a singer to perform the song. It really was just a matter of getting manpower.

Taking out his mobile phone, Zhang Xiaohua began to flick through the contacts list.

From top to bottom, most were are all his pig-headed friends who just partied all day. They would definitely be of no help. Since these people learned that Zhang Xiaohua's family situation had plummeted, they have almost severed their relations with Zhang Xiaohua.

These people were useless and it would be pointless to keep these numbers, so Zhang Xiaohua rushed to delete them all.

When he inadvertently saw Cao Feifei's name, he felt a rush of anger burning incessantly, his hatred for Cao Feifei was obviously overflowing!

It would be absolutely impossible for Zhang Xiaohua to have no hatred for Cao Feifei.

After all, Zhang Xiaohua became the master of this body and also a member of this world. Later, he would continue to live with his identity as Zhang Xiaohua. However, Cao Feifei was ruthlessly stigmatized in his new life. 

Enraged, Zhang Xiaohua was about to delete Cao Feifei's number but suddenly hesitated...

In the end, he chose to keep it.

This wasn't because he still had feelings for Cao Feifei, but he hoped that one day the caller ID would reappear with the name "Cao Feifei" because when that day came, he believed it would be the day when Cao Feifei would beg him back and at that time he would get his revenge. 


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