20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3884 Menopause Has Arrived

Just like Mu Yongjin and his gang wanted to play with the beautiful women in the group, Mu Yongjin set his sights on Yan You, Xie Shaoxin set his sights on Mai Fei, and Shang Zeyuan set his sights on Nan Qiuli.

Shan Qiang knew all of this.

Zhao Chang'an had a very unpleasant falling out with Mu Yongjin and his group because of this incident.

However, in Shan Qiang's view, this was just a harmless personal matter. Men, after all, pursue nothing more than sleeping on a beauty's lap and waking up to wield power over the world.

As long as Mu Yongjin and Xie Shaoxin can subdue those women and make them willingly become their lovers, it's a matter of mutual consent, and they won't concern themselves with other people's business, let alone Zhao Chang'an's.

Why is he meddling in other people's business and sticking up for them?
Running a business is like being an emperor, especially the First Emperor who fought for the world. When it comes to appointing subordinates, one should not look at whether they are people with noble sentiments, but rather whether they have the ability and loyalty.

Throughout history, there have been countless strategists and generals who were lustful and greedy, yet remained loyal to their lords, risking their lives to help them conquer vast empires and establish powerful states.

If someone as heinous as Wei Zhongxian hadn't been executed by Zhu Youjian upon ascending the throne, but instead allowed to continue raising military funds and suppressing the Donglin Party, the Ming Dynasty might not have ended so easily.

Besides, Zhao Chang'an isn't lustful, Niu Meng'en isn't lustful, Jin Guangren isn't lustful, and among all the wealthy and powerful men she's met over the years, which one hasn't been lustful throughout history?

Just like her subordinate Huang Yiqun, such a loyal old man, who is extremely responsible to his wife, children and family, but he just loves to accept invitations to go to KTV to play the role of a beverage salesman.

Li Yongzhang had a rough life. After being released from prison, his wife divorced him, his children disowned him, and he left with nothing. When he was destitute, he even rummaged through garbage cans.

Now he is highly valued by himself and has married a wife who is more than ten years younger than him. Logically speaking, this young wife who is not even forty years old should be enough for him to serve, but rumors have circulated that he is having an affair with his female secretary.

Shan Qiang once casually asked Li Yongzhang a question, and the man in his fifties, blushing, admitted that he was drunk that day. His female secretary helped him to bed, and she was so sweet and soft that she fed him water. He couldn't resist and ended up in bed with her.

And he promised to handle the matter properly and get the female secretary out of the company.

Shan Qiang was pleased with her subordinate's honesty in exposing his own shortcomings, but she told Li Yongzhang that while it's okay to have fun, work comes first. He shouldn't engage in power-for-sex transactions and should be mindful of the impact.

As long as the woman doesn't cause trouble, there's no problem, and there's no need to be so heartless as to kick her out of the company.

In Shan Qiang's view, lust is a man's nature, and preventing him from being lustful is as difficult as preventing a cat from eating fish or a dog from eating excrement.

Moreover, if the core men under her command are not lustful, then Shan Qiang needs to be wary. If they are not lustful, then they are greedy for money and power, which are the two things she fears most.

Therefore, after Zhao Chang'an and Mu Yongjin had a fight because of Yan You, Shan Qiang knew that she was in a high position and her words were precious and could not speak carelessly, lest someone with ulterior motives use it against her.

However, deep down, he still had more opinions about Zhao Chang'an, whom he was already quite disappointed in.

Yan You is neither your girlfriend nor your lover. Mu Yongjin is openly pursuing her. What does that have to do with you, Zhao Chang'an? Does Zhao Chang'an think he has to monopolize all the beautiful women in the world and have his eyes on other women while eating what he has?
Besides, this is her green garden!
Thinking of Zhao Chang'an, Shan Qiang immediately felt very uncomfortable, even experiencing some negative emotions.

Actually, whether she's lustful or not isn't the most important thing. What's most important is something her pride and self-esteem won't allow her to say.

If Zhao Chang'an had spoken to her properly last year and encouraged her to invest in BlackBerry by selling everything she owned, her current net worth would be astonishing!
This thought, which began to gnaw at her heart like a venomous snake, started in late September last year when BlackBerry became famous worldwide and its stock price hit new highs every day.

Especially towards the end of the year, after BlackBerry helped Zhao Chang'an rise to the prestigious position of China's richest man on the Forbes list, she often suffered from sleepless nights. The insomnia, anxiety, anger, and resentment she had experienced years ago—

These negative emotions resurfaced, to the point that she started taking sleeping pills again and drinking a large glass of red wine to barely fall asleep.

Moreover, I am easily awakened by the slightest noise at night. I often wake up several times a night because of car horns on the roads around the building, and then I am in a drowsy, light sleep. In the morning, I either can't wake up or I wake up before six o'clock and can't fall back asleep.

My sleep quality is worse than it was a few years ago!

In just two or three months, Shan Qiang clearly felt that these negative emotions had affected her in various ways, from her energy levels to her hormone secretion.

Her skin, which used to have a moist and radiant glow, began to slowly become dry and rough, and its elasticity decreased.

The wrinkles on her forehead and around her eyes reappeared, her eye bags became heavier, and her cheeks became a bit saggy. Her eyes, which were once as clear and bright as a young girl's, had lost much of their sparkle and spirit.

The white hairs that had disappeared for several years started to reappear, and the situation is getting worse. Having Jiang Xian help pluck the white hairs has become a must for Jiang Xian every two or three days.

And my period, which had finally become regular and normal, started acting up again. Since the end of September last year, it has only come three times, with two of them only a few days apart, and the flow has also become very light.

This imbalance in estrogen secretion made her aware that she was aging rapidly. Although she understood that this was an inevitable path of aging for everyone, the fact that it was happening to her still filled Shan Qiang with fear and apprehension.

Therefore, she consulted the old Chinese medicine doctor, but he prescribed the same Chinese medicine from a few years ago, only adding one or two nourishing and beautifying ingredients, and increasing the dosage as before. He also advised her not to be too stressed at work and to learn to relax.

In this short period, Shan Qiang picked up all the high-end foreign cosmetics she had previously stopped using and resumed injections of botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid.

Although she maintained the beauty of her face, she was aware of the looseness and roughness of her body's skin.

Moreover, after receiving these injections, her facial skin became increasingly delicate. She couldn't be exposed to the sun, couldn't get too close to heat sources, and couldn't come into contact with any irritants, otherwise it would easily become red, swollen, and peel.

As the CEO of a large real estate group, Shan Qiang's basic job is to inspect the various branches and construction sites of large-scale projects. If this happens, she can't even go out on sunny days in spring and summer.

Shan Qiang believed that Zhao Chang'an was responsible for all of this, causing her to suffer from neurasthenia and premature menopause.

Sometimes I even secretly resent, thinking, 'Why can't you be like an old ox, obediently and willingly letting me eat you clean?'

If Zhao Chang'an had spoken to her properly back then, and she had invested all her money in BlackBerry, then at least half of the BlackBerry shares Zhao Chang'an owns now would belong to her.

Perhaps in terms of assets, she and Zhao Chang'an are about the same, the difference between the first and second Forbes billionaires is that she is first, or Zhao Chang'an is second.

And the richest woman in China according to Forbes is definitely Shan Qiang!

In this way, her business empire shifted from primarily Green Garden Group to also controlling the world-class high-tech company BlackBerry.

The marriage between Shan Cai and Xiao Zijie will be an even stronger alliance.