Resurrection Empire

Chapter 745 281: Past Events Are Like Smoke_3

Wang Zhaofu glanced at Ju Qingmeng beside him and sighed, "Manager Ju, you certainly found a good partner."

There was something he didn't want to admit.

It was that Ren Zhong never changed; it was he himself who changed.

As Ren Zhong rose faster and fiercer.

Wang Zhaofu watched closely and understood deeply.

Although he had been following Ren Zhong for a long time, Wang Zhaofu, an experienced businessman, gradually couldn't help but feel inferior.

The profound lessons of the past told him that living as a lower class citizen dependent on a higher class citizen was essentially the same as the ancient proverb about a minister living like a tiger.

He quietly acquired a sense of inferiority and gradually stopped being able to casually banter with Ren Zhong as in the past, let alone invite Ren Zhong to be an ally.

He considered his life-and-death vendetta to be trivialities that Ren Zhong might find annoying.

But in fact, even though Ren Zhong remained the same, it was Wang Zhaofu who had unknowingly distanced himself from Ren Zhong.

He hadn't realized this before, but now Ren Zhong's straightforward words suddenly enlightened him.

Ju Qingmeng sat next to Ren Zhong but also laughed, "Boss Wang, you too have found a good brother. It seems our enemies are the same person, or rather, the same group of people?"

Wang Zhaofu nodded, "Yes. But my matter began a bit earlier than yours, Manager Ju. It all started fifteen years ago, when I was just seventeen. As the eldest son with inheritance rights of a Fifth Level Citizen, I was born a Fourth Level Citizen, living the good life of a playboy. But..."

Wang Zhaofu narrates a past event in a delicate manner.

It turned out that old Wang was also a member of the Wang family of Chongyi.

However, his father's blood relation to Wang Dingyuan was distant, considered a collateral line.

But old Wang's father had quite a knack for business, especially skilled in networking and developing high-quality, low-cost channels for incoming and outgoing goods. He unknowingly rose to the position of Purchasing Manager in Tianyuan Military Industry.

In a family business like Tianyuan Military Industry, this was considered a high executive position.

If everything went smoothly without mishaps, old Wang's father even had a chance to enter the board of directors and become an absolute executive.

Until one day, things suddenly took a turn for the worse. That day, old Wang's father was negotiating with a client at the Alson Hotel and happened to witness the fifteen-year-old Wang Jinsou oppressing and humiliating a First Level Citizen employee of the Alson Hotel with some of his lackeys.

Although old Wang's father felt uncomfortable, he didn't stop it openly. He only mentioned it twice to Wang Dingyuan afterwards, suggesting that Wang Dingyuan should restrain his arrogant eldest son a bit.

Wang Dingyuan listened with one ear and out the other, saying nothing but internally thought that his general seemed to be getting a bit carried away, forgetting his place.

Is this the main family's business for you, a collateral member, to meddle in?

What's wrong with tormenting a lower citizen?

If others don't say anything, why should you? Why are you the righteous one?

Later, old Wang's father's action of "reporting to the higher-ups" somehow reached Wang Jinsou's ears. Wang Jinsou launched a rabid revenge.

From then, old Wang's father's and Wang Zhaofu's lives collapsed.

Old Wang's father was first transferred at the same level to a remote mining site of Purple Crystal Mining, leading the concentrated procurement of metal materials over there.

Two or three months later, the material quality had issues. Old Wang's father, unable to defend himself, was accused of embezzling public funds, demoted on the spot to a basic employee, and sent to another mining site to track the materials procurement process. He worked hard day and night without any reward.

A year or two later, old Wang's father passed away in depression.

The old man left Wang Zhaofu and his mother a huge inexplicable debt, reducing both from Citizens to First Level Citizens under examination.

Facing such pressure, Wang Zhaofu's mother didn't last two years before passing away.

Wang Zhaofu himself gritted his teeth and endured for many years until he met Ren Zhong and finally found relief.

After hearing Wang Zhaofu's past, Ju Qingmeng deeply empathized, shedding silent tears.

Comparing their stories, she realized she was the luckier one.

At least her parents were still alive, and she had the chance to be filial.

But Brother Wang had lost his chance to provide for his parents.

Ren Zhong clenched his fists, "So, your uncle ended up like this just for speaking out."

Wang Zhaofu rubbed his eyes, "Yeah, who would have thought. Wang Dingyuan might have thought my father was arrogantly overstepping, but isn't this human nature?"

Ren Zhong nodded, "But some people can't be considered human. Rest assured, this time I've laid a net from which the Wang family father and son can't escape."

Wang Zhaofu nodded emphatically, "Mm! Thank you, Brother Ren! But on my side...I have some ledgers."

"Hmm?"

"My father was quite traditional. When he procured and distributed materials back then, besides using electronic devices, he also had the habit of writing things down on paper with him. Over the years, he filled more than a dozen paper ledgers, which the Wang family father and son didn't know about."

Ren Zhong grinned, "Good stuff. Did you bring them over?"

"They've always been hidden at a childhood friend's house in Chongyi County."

"Great! Let's go get them together!"

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