Back at Stanford, Lin Zhijie had met Muteng Yiyang, who was then an energetically ambitious young talent, while Muteng Yiyang, as an entrepreneur of an RB pharmaceutical company, had expressed his admiration for Lin Zhijie and promised him opportunities at RB once he graduated.

At that time, Lin Zhijie was captivated by Muteng Yiyang's smile and his seductive visions of the future. Of course, what attracted him the most were the money and the women that Muteng Yiyang was lavishing on him!

Under the dual onslaught of US Dollars and RB beauties, Lin Zhijie quickly succumbed. He naively believed that it was his own talent that had conquered Muteng Yiyang. Back then, Lin Zhijie fantasized about the wonderful life he would lead at RB.

It was after a trip to the casinos of Las Vegas, however, that he became drawn to gambling. In just two days, he had already lost millions of US Dollars! It was at this time that Muteng Yiyang revealed his true colors!

In his dealings with Muteng Yiyang, he had been drawn into a mire from which there was no escape.

Promiscuity, drug addiction, gambling, and even several rape cases! When Muteng Yiyang laid all this evidence and the photos before Lin Zhijie, combined with the pressure of huge gambling debts, Lin Zhijie collapsed!

It was then that he realized there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world; everything Muteng Yiyang had spent on him was to ensure his firm control over Lin Zhijie one day!

And Lin Zhijie's awakening had come too late; it could be said that greed and desire had blinded him, dragging him into a swamp of sin!

He had always presented himself as a diligent and studious person at school. Once his misdeeds were exposed, not only would his academic and professional careers be destroyed in an instant, but he might also likely spend the rest of his life in an American prison!

Under this threat, Lin Zhijie compromised!

He did not know why Muteng Yiyang had put so much effort into him, but one thing he was clear about was that his life was thoroughly ruined!

Especially when he saw Muteng Yiyang personally skinning a traitor, Lin Zhijie completely extinguished any thoughts of resistance and escape!

Thanks to Lin Zhijie's cooperation, Muteng Yiyang quickly gave him a task, which was to get close to Yun Hanrui and gain her trust!

Yun Hanrui was a stunningly beautiful woman, which made Lin Zhijie secretly rejoice.

Through his deliberate efforts, Lin Zhijie quickly earned Yun Hanrui's trust and became Brother Lin, whom Yun Hanrui trusted and admired!

But even now, Lin Zhijie was unclear about the true purpose behind Muteng Yiyang's order to approach Yun Hanrui!

It was only after Yun Hanrui returned to her country and sent him an invitation that Muteng Yiyang told Lin Zhijie to accept Yun Hanrui's invitation and at any cost to find the research project Ling Guoliang had worked on fifteen years ago!

The organization Muteng Yiyang was part of had received information that Ling Guoliang had made a breakthrough in the field of biological genetics years ago, and it was the leak of this achievement that led to Ling Guoliang's violent death!

Although Ling Guoliang was dead, the organization believed that those research files and materials were still in the hands of the Chaoyang Group, and Lin Zhijie's mission was to obtain these research projects and materials!

Lin Zhijie initially thought it would be an easy task, given that Yun Hanrui was now the president; surely she would know the whereabouts of that information!

But to his disappointment, after two years at the Chaoyang Group, even as he had become a core member of the Chaoyang Group, he still had no idea where those research projects were!

Lin Zhijie even doubted the existence of such groundbreaking research findings, as it had been fifteen years already. He harbored these doubts, but he dared not voice them in front of Muteng Yiyang.

And now, with Muteng Yiyang himself stepping in, it meant that the acquisition of the research projects had become urgent!

Every time he thought of that man who had been stripped to a mere stick figure, Lin Zhijie's heart shuddered.

"Since the tender approach no longer works," Lin Zhijie ground his teeth, his eyes turning cold, "why not go all out..."

With this thought, a faint trace of color and a smile finally appeared on Lin Zhijie's pale face.

He took out his phone, checked his contacts, and dialed Sun Xiaofei's number.

Meanwhile, at Chaoyang Group, Sun Xiaofei looked at the incoming call from Lin Zhijie, her expression extremely conflicted.

On one hand, she really wanted to answer Lin Zhijie's call, but on the other, she feared Lin Zhijie might make some difficult-to-refuse demands.

"Why aren't you answering the phone?" Just then, a frivolous voice came through, Feng Tianyi leaned against the door, watching her with a smile brimming with mirth.

Sun Xiaofei hurriedly declined the call and pretended as if nothing was amiss, "It was just a prank call, no need to answer! By the way, did you need something?"

Feeling guilty, Sun Xiaofei was especially scared of seeing Feng Tianyi! But it seemed President Yun really didn't know about the things she had done, as Tian Yi had promised that day, which gave her some relief.

"I'm here for work assignments, of course!" Feng Tianyi said with a laugh, "I came here to work, you wouldn't keep me without tasks forever, would you?"

Only then did Sun Xiaofei snap to her senses and quickly said, "The main task of the international market department right now is to liaise with various multinational corporations, currently..."

"That's right! Why is your office so empty?" Feng Tianyi looked around Sun Xiaofei's office and interrupted her, "You are a department head, after all. It doesn't make sense for you not to have an assistant. That's unacceptable!"

"President Yun offered me an assistant, but I declined since there isn't too much work right now!" Sun Xiaofei involuntarily explained.

Feng Tianyi sternly said, "That won't do. The international market department is the face of Chaoyang Group. How could you, the head of the department, not have an assistant? It would make others look down on us!"

Sun Xiaofei was somewhat stunned; this was a turn of conversation she hadn't expected, focusing on her assistant now!

Feng Tianyi said with a mischievous grin, "Sun Xiaoniu, how about this? I'll be your assistant. That way we can save office space, I can learn more by following you, and most importantly, my good looks are definitely fitting as the face of the marketing department!"

Sun Xiaofei was dumbstruck, immediately exclaiming, "No way, I refuse!"

"Why not?" Feng Tianyi asked, his smile teasing.

Sun Xiaofei bit her lip, "I say no, and that means no! How could I make you my assistant?"

"Do you have something to hide?" came Feng Tianyi's inquiry.

"I don't... I..." Sun Xiaofei was so flustered she was close to tears.

"It's settled then!" Feng Tianyi didn't give Sun Xiaofei any chance to offer reasons for refusal, declaring, "This afternoon I will move my desk in here, and you'll handle the rest. From now on, during work hours, I'll stick to you every step of the way. Minister Sun, you'd better set a good example for me!"

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