Chapter 7: The Stepmother’s Friends, Part 2!

In Hong Kong, who around a tycoon didn’t have a few beautiful lovers? Illegitimate sons and daughters were even more countless. Old Li’s case really wasn’t anything unusual, but from Li Changsheng’s features alone, one could tell that his mother must have been a peerless beauty back in the day.

They always said that among the Four Heavenly Kings, Leon Lai was the most handsome, with that aura of a noble young gentleman, but compared with Li Changsheng, it was really hard to say who came out ahead. A face like Li Changsheng’s was enough to secure a place in the entertainment industry just on looks alone. He was exactly the type these young aunties adored most.

Wang Zuxian noticed that Zhou Huimin was actually blushing a little as she secretly spaced out, and immediately leaned in close to Zhou Huimin’s ear and teased her on purpose. “Snap out of it. What’s wrong, fallen for him? Ah-Min, you like guys like Changsheng?”

Zhou Huimin instinctively nodded, then blushed as she shook her head shyly. “What nonsense are you talking? I’m his aunt, at the very least I’m from the older sister generation. Me and him... how could that be!”

Seeing Zhou Huimin wearing that flustered, girlish expression, Wang Zuxian found it very amusing, though she did quite agree with her.

Young Master Li was outstanding, a genuine mathematical prodigy, tall and broad-shouldered with fair, clean features. A perfect man like that would have no shortage of respectable, wealthy young socialites wanting to marry him. Very few young women could resist a super-handsome man with no visible flaws from any angle.

It wasn’t a matter of vowing never to marry anyone else, or falling in love at first sight and ruining the rest of your life, but when you really ran into someone like that, feeling your heart skip a beat was perfectly normal. It was the same as when men saw a stunning beauty. There weren’t that many cases of true love at first sight; most of the time, it was just lust at first glance.

Li Changsheng hadn’t been eavesdropping on his stepmother and her girlfriends’ conversation, or he would have learned that they were lusting after his looks.

As for his appearance, Li Changsheng didn’t care. Anyway, in this life he was destined to have little fate with women, and most of the time he even found his own good looks troublesome. So he often put on smoky makeup and made himself look like a listless, dead-eyed, shabby pauper.

After Li Changsheng went upstairs, he basically shut himself in his room like a shut-in. Wang Zuxian, feeling curious, asked Li Jiaxin gossipyly, “Has he always been like this, or did he only turn this way after seeing us today?”

Li Jiaxin glanced upstairs and said worriedly, “He’s always been like this. Every morning he accompanies his husband in the yard for a bit of health-preserving boxing, then he locks himself in his room. He barely even comes out the door, and he doesn’t really make any friends, which is why I’m worried.

I’ve read a lot of news online about the Tsinghua juvenile class. They say many geniuses don’t have much social ability and even have serious psychological problems, so I’m honestly worried about Changsheng.

So, Ah-Min, if you’re free, could you help me take Changsheng to the gym to work out? Just let him be your assistant and go train with you, walk around, and get out more. Compared with them... I’d feel more at ease with you.”

Zhou Huimin was completely dumbstruck, but she didn’t refuse either. To put it selfishly, a man like Li Changsheng was hard for most women to turn down. More importantly, Li Jiaxin was about to take over TVB and was very likely to become the next Madame Six. By then she would be Zhou Huimin’s real boss, and it was important to build a good relationship with the boss’s family.

Zhou Huimin didn’t think about it for long before taking on this “arduous” task.

Li Jiaxin was naturally very happy. She also wasn’t worried that anything would happen between Ah-Min and Li Changsheng. She couldn’t see through Li Changsheng at all, so it was necessary to understand him better. He was obviously the family’s most cherished baby son.

Normally Li Weiguo didn’t necessarily come home exactly on time for dinner every day, but now that his youngest son, Li Changsheng, was back, he had been coming home on time for dinner almost every day lately. From that alone, you could tell he really adored this youngest son.

As a stepmother, Li Jiaxin naturally understood the importance of building a good relationship with Li Changsheng, especially at this critical moment when Old Li was going all out to acquire TVB. So she put her thoughts on the table.

Li Jiacheng didn’t voice any opinion, but he seemed to agree. Staying home all the time really wasn’t appropriate. Going out for a walk and getting more exercise was a good thing. The only issue was that the choice of person had some points that could be criticized, but it wasn’t anything fatal.

Li Weiguo nodded in agreement. “Changsheng, I think what your Aunt Xin said makes a lot of sense. How about starting tomorrow you go be an assistant? Staying shut in your room all the time really isn’t suitable. Young people should learn more things.”

Li Changsheng nodded and agreed. He didn’t mind either way. Staying home was fine, going out for a stroll was fine, and even hitting the gym to lift weights was no big deal. After five years of cultivating, he had already forged a heart of Dao-seeking that would not break no matter what.

Xu Ziqi, sitting nearby, didn’t see it that way. It was obvious this was preparation for having Li Changsheng take over TVB, and Li Jiaxin, who knew nothing, was just sewing wedding clothes for someone else.

But she wasn’t exactly losing out either. If Li Changsheng accepted her goodwill and acknowledged her, then although TVB wouldn’t be handed to her, it was very likely that she could directly get involved in running TVB’s business power the way the former Madame Six had.

After all, from the very beginning, Li Jiaxin couldn’t possibly have been so naive as to think Li Weiguo would gift her the entire TVB. However you looked at it, that wasn’t realistic. The entire Li family had less than two hundred billion Hong Kong dollars in assets, while TVB alone was worth more than thirty billion.

Sensing the pressure growing stronger and stronger, Xu Ziqi made up her mind to take a gamble. If she made her move now, there was still a chance to fight for something. If she really waited until Changsheng had TVB in his hands, a lot of things would be hard to say.

Since he had already agreed with his father, the next morning after finishing morning Tai Chi with him, Li Changsheng directly called Zhou Huimin and arranged to meet at the gym in the Elite Center, starting with weight training at the gym first.