Chapter 4: A Ghost from the Past Returns

Three years passed as quickly as a dream. Su Wanzhi rose from a rising actress to the most powerful producer and content advisor at Huarong Entertainment, the force behind three blockbusters in a row.

Just as she had predicted, Zhou Yifan began to rise in the financial world, with his flashy image and the warm, fake smile that in her past life had blinded Wanzhi into giving him her whole heart.

This time, when he approached her at a charity gala, Wanzhi’s eyes passed over him as if he were a complete stranger.

“Wanzhi, it’s been a while,” he smiled, trying to act familiar. “I hear you’ve become someone with real influence at Huarong. Any chance of an investment partnership with my company?”

“You flatter me, Mr. Zhou,” she replied, her voice flat and emotionless. “Huarong only works with partners whose funding is transparent. I hear your company has been under investigation lately for suspected money laundering through phantom projects?”

Zhou Yifan’s expression changed in an instant. That information hadn’t been made public. Even within his own company, only a handful of people knew.

“You… how do you know about that?”

“I just happened to overhear.” Wanzhi took a sip of wine, her eyes cold, like watching a moth about to fly into a flame. “Oh, and while we’re at it, Ms. Lin Xiaomeng, the former assistant who worked under you a few months ago, seems to be holding quite a lot of interesting evidence about those deals.”

That was the moment Zhou Yifan realized the woman in front of him was not as simple as her cool, elegant exterior suggested. She had quietly laid a huge trap long ago, and was only waiting for the right moment to pull the noose tight.