LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 506 Cao Jingli
Li Zifeng worked extremely hard that night because of those bad news.
The rich woman he was attending to was called Cao Jingli.
She made her way in 1971, and Cao Jingli was considered a legendary figure in her village.
In the 1970s, every place favored boys over girls.
Cao Jingli, being the fourth child in her family with three older sisters,
was not favored by her parents from the moment she was born, almost starving to death.
When she was in her teens, she took the train alone to the big Magic City.
Relying on a fellow villager, she started working as a nanny for the Yang Family.
Cao Jingli was especially capable of enduring hardship since she was young, and it took her three full years to completely earn Mrs. Yang's trust.
At that time, she was just nineteen, in the prime of youth and beauty.
Cao Jingli was fortunate. After another two years in the Yang Family, Mrs. Yang unexpectedly passed away.
She cried profoundly, as Mrs. Yang treated her even better than her own mother.
After crying, she pondered over a problem: Old Sir Yang was now without a wife.
And had no children either.
Cao Jingli began learning to dance, to drink coffee, and she read books diligently whenever she had free time.
Because she knew Mr. Yang liked those knowledgeable and genteel women from established families.
However, no matter how hard she tried, she could not change her status as a nanny.
After one of Mr. Yang's heavy drinking episodes, Cao Jingli made a decision that would change her fate.
That was to take the initiative and get on top of him.
She wanted to bear Mr. Yang's child.
Only in this way could she marry into the Yang Family smoothly.
Reality wasn't like TV dramas, Cao Jingli did not succeed the first time.
Nor did she stay by Mr. Yang's side on that night.
But during the next six months, whenever Mr. Yang was drunk, she would take the initiative.
If once didn't work, she'd try twice; if twice didn't work, then ten times it was.
She believed that one day she would definitely conceive, and only then could she confront him.
Mr. Yang was thirty years her senior, and during those drunken nights, he was actually conscious.
But he didn't care, and the next day acted as if nothing had happened.
When Cao Jingli was truly pregnant, she almost burst with joy.
But Mr. Yang didn't show much emotion, until the child was born and confirmed to be his.
Only then did he lay down some rules and gave Cao Jingli some semblance of status.
The condition was that she was the wife only in name, in reality, she was still a nanny.
Even the child would not be entrusted to Cao Jingli for care.
Mr. Yang still often spent nights out and even brought home some beautiful women.
Cao Jingli endured in silence for a full fifteen years until her child grew up.
Old Yang's health was also not so good.
She once again devoted herself to caring for three years, and no one knew how she endured these twenty years of hidden patience.
In any case, the result was that she inherited all of the Yang Family's assets.
Including five large villas in Magic City, three large companies, and over five hundred million in cash bank deposits.
After Old Yang died, the relatives from the Yang Family still wanted to treat her like a nanny.
Cao Jingli no longer needed to endure. She dealt with the Yang Family relatives with the coldest of means.
Including his brothers and sisters, and the still alive elderly mother.
After taking over the Yang Family Company, Cao Jingli simply sold off all assets.
Retaining only a shell real estate company.
She was smart, knowing that she didn't have much ability to run the company.
And couldn't guard against those old Yang Family members vying for power with her.
She straightforwardly made the wisest decision.
That was to sell all her shares to those old Yang Family veterans.
Gaining their recognition and obtaining cash.
For the next decade or so, she focused solely on real estate speculation.
That was when housing prices completely exploded.
With this decision, Cao Jingli's wealth grew like a rolling snowball, increasing more and more.
Looking back at those old soldiers from the Yang Family, after they got company stock options, they fought for power and profit, all to fall during the 2008 financial crisis.
One can only say that Cao Jingli managed to climb from being a mere nanny to an enormously wealthy and glamorous dame in Magic City.
There must be a reason for that.
She has always believed that the smartest thing about her is knowing herself clearly.
Just like the first night she slept with Mr. Yang, even though she gave away her most precious 'first time.'
The next day, she was still acting like nothing happened, continuing her job as a nanny.
Even when she was pregnant with Old Yang's child, she was still a nanny.
Only after the child was born did she have a bit of a legitimate status.
Even so, she never truly considered herself Mrs. Yang.
She endured in this manner until the day Old Yang's health deteriorated.
Under her conscientious care, Old Yang finally had a change of heart, realizing that she was the woman who had treated him the best in his life.
She was also his one and only true love.
During those three years of sentiment, he signed the entire will for inheritance.
And then… ascended to heaven!
Right up to the day he died, Cao Jingli cried first and then laughed, spending an entire night to come to terms with the fact that Old Yang was finally dead.
Her life could finally be controlled by herself.
After inheriting the wealth, Cao Jingli didn't immediately think about finding a toy boy.
Instead, after selling the companies she couldn't manage well, and speculating in real estate for two years, she began to completely let loose.
Such self-indulgence was hardly worth mentioning to others.
Any male star she fancied basically couldn't escape her grasp.
The older she got, the more she required, and the wilder her pursuits became.
Li Zifeng had also become popular in recent years, known as the dream of a hundred million young girls.
Yet, even such a handsome man couldn't withstand her, Cao Jingli.
At fifty, Cao Jingli found that she genuinely liked Li Zifeng a bit.
That's why she was so angry when she saw the news the next day.
She definitely knew about Tengying Entertainment, Chen Pingsheng's gig.
She was also acquainted with his wife and Cao Jingli absolutely didn't believe Song Yanxi didn't know that Li Zifeng came to Magic City specifically to seek her out.
Under such circumstances, to release negative press without any warning.
Wasn't this a clear slap in the face to her, Cao Jingli?
"Li, you must stand up for me."
"Don't worry, with me around, no one can bully you."
Cao Jingli got up and let the nanny dress her, her level of luxury was unimaginable to outsiders.
The nannies were all that type of twenty-year-old young men, good-looking, and also good at cooking.
As for the salary, casually giving out seventy to eighty thousand a month.
Now, it's not about whether Li Zifeng can continue to survive in the entertainment industry, but that the Chen Family is giving her too little respect.
Cao Jingli hosted a grand soirée at her place, inviting a bunch of rich ladies to support the event.
Similarly, she specifically invited Song Yanxi to come over as well.
The circle in Magic City is neither big nor small.
Those with assets over tens of billions, it's always the same few people.
Cao Jingli, armed with inheritance of over ten billion yuan, successfully made a fortune through real estate speculation in just over a decade.
Speaking of making money, she's way better than those top-tier second-generation rich like Wang Yanfeng.
"Song Yanxi, I recently found a toy boy named Li Zifeng, just out of your Tengying Entertainment, and immediately loads of negative news exploded, we are all in the same circle, could your husband give me an explanation?"
Cao Jingli challenged straightforwardly, the banquet today was specifically for this matter.
Since Song Yanxi was here, of course, she wouldn't be unaware of everything.
She just sneered and said, "What are you, that my husband should explain to you personally?
"I advise you, no one cares if you want to spend money on men, but if you still want to stand up for him, seeking a scene with my husband, you better take a good look in the mirror, do you have the face for that?"
"You…" Cao Jingli's face turned livid with anger.
Song Yanxi's words brought back memories of her childhood humiliations, including kneeling on the ground to scrub floors as a nanny in the Yang Family.
This was her taboo.
In the past, after she inherited the fortune, some from the Yang Family would still mention it to her face.
The end result for such people was always very miserable.
She couldn't believe that even now, being so wealthy, there were still people who disrespected her so much?