Chapitre 72: Ling Qitian

Jinsheng Group was located along Kyoto Trade Street, also known as the "Oriental Wall Street". Any company that could take root here was not to be underestimated.

In the most prosperous location along the commercial street, there was a towering skyscraper, called 'Jinhui Daxia', it was the headquarters of Jinsheng Group. The whole building was 188 meters high and had a total of 66 floors. The skyscraper towered above all the surrounding buildings, no matter which angle you looked at Tianjing City's skyline, it was visible. It could be described as a wonder of the commercial street. An iconic building in the city.

Jinsheng Group had more than 200 branches located all over the world. They provided a wide range of products and services, earning an annual turnover of 30 billion yuan and a net profit of 15 billion yuan. It was an international scale enterprise with strong political connections, they also had a large amount of financial resources at their disposal.

Cao Feifei had arrived at Jinsheng, she entered and took the elevator to the chairman's office on the top floor.

Standing in front of the office, Cao Feifei knocked on the door politely. Soon, there came a voice full of enthusiasm: "Please come in!"

Cao Feifei stepped in and smiled, walking up to a large mahogany desk. Across her, sat a white-haired old man.

Although the man was old in age, he appeared spirited and strong, he wore a white Tang suit, his face appeared kind and amiable. The old man was the chairman and president of Jinsheng Group, Ling Qitian.

When Ling Qitian was young, he had started selling rice crackers he handmade. After more than 40 years of pain and toiling, he had achieved today's success. He was known as the success story of Huaxia, he was highly respected by people from all walks of life.

However, Ling Qitian had one major shortcoming: That was his fanatical belief in all those superstitious tricks, like fortune telling. Of course, this was not without reason.

Twenty years ago, Ling Qitian's only son and daughter-in-law were unfortunately involved in a car accident during a holiday trip. Both of them died before reaching the hospital. Leaving behind their only son, Ling Feng, who at the time had been staying with Ling Qitian while his parents went off on a couple's holiday.

This had left Ling Qitian absolutely devastated, during this time, the business also began to experience a series of difficulties, almost bringing it to the brink of collapse.

During this time, a friend had introduced Ling Qitian to a Thai master who was fascinated with feng shui and divination. He was well-renowned in Thailand, known as "Zilong Wang".

Zilong Wang had pointed out the way for him, not only allowing him to recover from his loss and the pain of losing the child, but also to navigate the turbulent waters of the business world, allowing the company to rapidly increase in size.

But then one day, during one of his sessions with Zilong Wang....

Zilong Wang warned him that his grandson, Ling Feng would face a catastrophic event in 20 years. If this event could be resolved, then his grandson would lead a rich and peaceful life but if they failed to prevent the event in time, then his grandson would suffer the same fate as his son and perish at a young age!

Ling Qitian shocked by the news, he offered millions of yuan seeking Zilong Wang to resolve the issue but was turned away with no answer.

That was until half a year ago, when the Jinsheng Group was going to hold grand annual conference. At that time, in order to show sincerity, Ling Qitian personally went to Thailand and sincerely invited Zilong Wang to the annual meeting. In Ling Qitian's view, today's achievements where as much Zilong Wang's as his own, without him he believed they wouldn't have reached the scale they had today. He believed that it was only right that Zilong Wang should witness everything.

But in fact, Ling Qitian's main purpose was to seek Zilong Wang to discuss how to overturn his grandson's fate. After all, as time went by, the closer the catastrophe was approaching, this left Ling Qitian's unable to sleep, knowing that Ling Feng his only grandson and the last of his bloodline was fated to die before even leaving behind an heir.

Due to the cooperation between New Century Entertainment and Jinsheng Group during this time, Cao Dequan was also invited to attend the annual conference.

In order to let his daughter see the world, he brought along Cao Feifei to attend the conference.

It was the day of the conference when Zilong Wang saw Cao Feifei, he declared Cao Feifei as the reincarnation of the "Seven Stars". And true enough, on the bottom right foot of Cao Feifei, there were seven small gong shaped birthmarks.

In the words of Zilong Wang, Cao Feifei was a seven-star foot. In other words she was destined to live a prosperous life, and she had a pure enough fate star to overturn Ling Feng's fate.

Later, Zilong Wang once again pointed to Ling Qitian, telling him that as long as his grandson and Cao Feifei were to get married, then his grandson's fate would be overturned. As long as they were married for a few years, then Ling Feng's future would be disaster-free.

At this time,hearing such great news, he personally met up with Cao Dequan. Within a few words, a marriage contract was finalised.

Of course, in Ling Qitian's heart, he just wanted to use Cao Feifei's fate star to resolve his grandson's fate. However, in Cao Dequan's and Cao Feifei's view this marriage was a godsend.

Especially Cao Feifei, she felt as if she was dreaming, everyone knew that Ling Feng was the sole heir of the Jinsheng Group. There were millions of ladies and daughters who would love nothing more than to be in her place. However, in the end it fell into her lap.

Ling Qitian became very fond of Cao Feifei, and began to treat her as his own granddaughter.

Cao Feifei, taking advantage of the situation she was in, spent time accompanying Ling Qitian to eat and chat, her performance was extremely considerate and kind, making Ling Qitian become more affectionate towards her.

At this time, seeing Cao Feifei, Ling Qitian unconsciously put down his work: "Hey little girl, have you come to chat with grandfather?"

Cao Feifei smiled awkwardly: "Today Feifei can't call you a grandfather, I think calling you chairman would be more appropriate."

"Oh?" Ling Qitian smiled warmly, following Cao Feifei's words: "So grandfather shouldn't call you granddaughter then, hahaha so why are you here, General Manager?"

Cao Feifei didn't answer. She silently bowed her head, she didn't know how to start.

Ling Qitian had been in business for many years, and he had learnt how read people, so he spoke up: "Let's get straight into it, why did you come find Grandpa?"

Cao Feifei looked up at Ling Qitian, and then lowered her head again: "I am currently in charge of a project, but due to shortage of funds...."

"Oh, so you want Grandpa to invest?" Ling Qitian suddenly sighed.

"If only Ling Feng that stinking brat was more like you, so motivated. Look at your talent then look at my wastrel of a grandson, damn kid only knows how to spend the whole day outside partying!"

Hearing Ling Feng's name, Cao Feifei couldn't help but be infuriated.

It was no wonder, everyone knew that Cao Feifei was Ling Feng's fiancée, but Ling Feng never took care of Cao Feifei's face. He was absolutely arrogant, all she saw in the newspapers every other day was Ling Feng accompanied by either a model or actress.

To this end, Ling Qitian was also unwilling tolerate his behaviour, he knew that he had wronged Cao Feifei, but he was helpless, Ling Feng was his only grandson, he had raised Ling Feng from childhood, he didn't wanna lose him.

In order to compensate Cao Feifei somewhat, Ling Qitian's smiled and said: "How much do you want Grandpa to invest?"

Hearing him agree to invest, Cao Feifei was overjoyed in her heart, but she did not show it, continuing her performance. She slowly raised up her jade like hands and put up five fingers. She whispered: "Five million!"

Ling Qitian smiled, directly picked up the phone and told said: "Notify the Finance Department, let them transfer 50 million to New Century Entertainment as soon as possible, invest it in my name, I'm sponsoring my future granddaughter's project."

Hanging up the phone, Ling Qitian said to Cao Feifei: "However you want to use the money, use it. Go out and earn your fortune, grandpa believes in you. If you don't have enough, tell Grandpa at any time, Grandpa will continue to sponsor you."

Cao Feifei was overjoyed. Fortunately, she had participated in that annual meeting and she was glad that she had those seven small birthmarks under her foot. Glad that she met the Zilong Wang.

Glad that she became the granddaughter-to-be of the old man in front of her. And glad to be the future princess of the Jinsheng Group!