Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 669 Fang Miaoyun's Visit to Her Family Home

In the sweltering heat of June, a fourth-tier city in southern China was experiencing a heatwave. At a highway tollbooth, a young woman sat in the toll booth, monotonously collecting tolls and allowing passengers to pass.

In recent years, more and more vehicles have been using ETC, which has made the work of toll collectors less busy. However, relatively speaking, fewer vehicles need to pay tolls manually, the workload has decreased, and the number of toll collectors needed has also decreased.

In recent years, several of her colleagues have been transferred to other positions, while some have simply chosen to leave... Transferring to another position is not so easy; the good positions have already been taken.

She also worries that one day she will face the choice between changing jobs or resigning.

While mechanically and numbly collecting tolls, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a convoy of vehicles approaching from the highway exit ramp ahead!
It wasn't just one car, but a convoy of several cars.

The reason we were able to immediately identify it as a convoy, rather than just ordinary vehicles coming together to exit the highway, was simply because the convoy was too conspicuous—it consisted of four identical black and blue SLCs.

Several models under Hailan Auto are very distinctive, especially the Hailan SLC and Hailan SEV, which feature the classic Hailan futuristic luxury business design language. Anyone who reads a little news will know that these are million-dollar luxury cars under the Hailan Auto Group.

Even people who are unfamiliar with the Hailan car brand will know that these two cars are very expensive when they see them for the first time!

The models from Hailan Auto generally give off a high-end feel in terms of their exterior design...

Especially the Aqua SLC, a large luxury sedan that starts at over one million yuan and can reach over three million yuan with high-end models, has frequently appeared in various TV dramas and movies over the years, becoming the car of choice for domineering CEOs.

In reality, it is common to see many business leaders riding in this vehicle, especially in the high-tech field.

Most business owners in the high-tech industry like to purchase a Blue SLC or Blue SEV to highlight their own and their company's high-tech attributes.

The sales volume of the Aqua SLC in China is several times that of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series, and Audi A8, which are in the same market segment!

The reason is actually not complicated.

The world's richest man's car... Although Xu Shenxue's car is actually a specially customized version, such as the extensive use of titanium alloy and a high level of bulletproofing.

The specially customized Aquamarine SLC that Xu Shenxue rode in actually had little to do with the mass-produced Aquamarine SLC... it just looked similar.

Secondly, there's Hailan Auto, currently the world's largest new energy vehicle company and a top luxury car brand globally. They specialize in luxury, high-tech, and intelligent electric vehicles, not mid-to-low-end new energy vehicle models... Whether in China or abroad, those who can afford Hailan Auto are at least middle-class families or above.

Those who can afford the Hailan LSC or Hailan SEV... fall into only two categories: those who have a large sum of money in the bank, or those who owe the bank a large sum of money!

Without real money, you really can't afford the Aquamarine SLC...

As highway toll collectors, they have seen all kinds of luxury cars, but a convoy of four blue SLC mini luxury cars is truly a rare sight.

As she watched the four cars slowly exit through the ETC lane, she thought to herself, "This is probably a big boss from out of town on an inspection tour."

However, what she didn't expect was that the person sitting in the blue SLC in the middle of the convoy was a very young and extremely beautiful girl, not the pot-bellied CEO she had imagined.

The girl had delicate features and skin as smooth as jade. She was wearing a simple dress... At first glance, the dress didn't seem like anything special.

However, those who follow the latest fashion trends will notice that this seemingly simple dress has a strikingly similar style to a design recently showcased by a top international luxury brand, suggesting it's definitely the work of the same designer…

However, it is clearly not any of those models.

The reason is simple: before the brand's fashion show, the designer's designs were sent to Zhihai Garden in advance, and then the female owners of Zhihai Garden took away some of their favorite styles... These taken styles will never appear on the fashion show, let alone be mass-produced and launched on the market.

The girl wearing this dress is naturally one of the female owners of Zhihai Garden!

To be precise, Fang Miaoyun is the only one who has successfully become one of the female owners of Zhihai Garden in the past year.

Sitting in the car, Fang Miaoyun looked at the scenery outside and then at her child sleeping soundly in the car seat next to her, and suddenly felt a little dazed.

Time flies, and things change a lot!

Not only has she changed a lot, but the scenery of her hometown outside the car has also changed a lot. She naturally remembers the scenery of her hometown. When she was in college, her mother would take her to school, and sometimes she would take a ride home. She could see it when she was going up and down the highway. She had seen it many times and naturally became familiar with it.

But now, these familiar scenes look somewhat strange... It feels like time has flown by.

But in reality, not much time has passed!

She used to go home often when she graduated the year before last, but she stopped coming back last year after she got pregnant to take care of her pregnancy. After the baby was born, it was too small to take the baby out, so she waited until the baby was six months old before taking the baby back to her hometown.

Looking at her child sleeping soundly and looking so adorable, she couldn't help but sigh... Even she herself never imagined that she would get pregnant and have a child so soon after graduating.

However, this was her own choice, and even the result of her hard work. She felt no dissatisfaction or regret. On the contrary, she was very glad that she made the decisive choice.

As a very beautiful woman who received countless love letters in middle school and was voted the school beauty by a group of bored people when she first entered college, she knows very well how beautiful she is!

Similarly, we live in the era of short videos. She was aware of the realities of society when she was in middle school, and as a girl who got into a public university on her own merit, she wasn't stupid.

So she was very virtuous in middle school and remained so in college... Her goal was simple: to maintain her public image and attract more outstanding boys.

It's said online that the best time for a pretty girl from an ordinary family to change her fate is during college. She should find a rich, handsome, and wealthy second-generation heir she likes, and capture him while he's still young, naive, and believes in love... and then get married after graduation.

In this way, love and upward mobility are achieved simultaneously, and they live a happy and sweet life from then on!
Otherwise, after you graduate from university, rich and handsome men will become more realistic. If you approach them at that time, you will often be seen as a short-term dating option... It will be extremely difficult to get them to marry you.

However, after Fang Miaoyun entered university, she discovered that reality was even crueler than what was said online... The rich and handsome guys in university were all surrounded by beautiful women, and there were countless pretty girls in university who shared her thoughts... They were all thinking of tying down a rich and handsome guy in university.

The reality is that most of these beautiful female college students are treated as short-term dating partners... Even if a rich and handsome guy is relatively innocent when he first enters school, he will find in a few months that he is really popular. Young, beautiful and gentle girls are flocking to him like moths to a flame.

After four years, basically every rich and handsome guy will turn into a seasoned veteran of the dating scene!
Expecting them to marry one of their college girlfriends after graduation is nothing short of wishful thinking.

Among the short, rich, and ugly men, some were quite innocent and even believed in love, and might marry their college girlfriends after graduation. However, at that time, Fang Miaoyun was still a bit picky about looks... She couldn't bring herself to date anyone too ugly, even if they were rich.

And so, I kept choosing until graduation!
After graduation, I was in a period of confusion when looking for a job. Although the economy is booming these days and there are many good job opportunities, it is not so easy for a girl who studied liberal arts and was not particularly outstanding in her studies to find a satisfactory and high-quality job.

When she came to Shenzhen to look for a job, she learned from a senior student that a large property management company was recruiting an administrative assistant with a very high salary, starting at over 10,000 yuan, and full social insurance and housing fund benefits.

She then participated in many rounds of interviews with the company and was finally selected to join the company called 'Zhihai Property Management Company'.

I was then assigned to work in the company's logistics department... but the work location was quite unusual; it wasn't in the company headquarters office building, but in a villa area called Zhihaiyuan.

This villa area is also very mysterious and low-key; she couldn't find any publicly available information about it after searching online.

After officially starting the job and signing a confidentiality agreement, she learned that the place where she worked was actually the residence of Xu Shenxue, the world's richest man.

That day, she witnessed what the real high society was like... Damn, it was even more exaggerated than what was shown in TV dramas.

Zhihai Property Management Company is a large property management company with offices in many countries across China and overseas, thousands of employees worldwide, and manages and operates more than ten large resorts and more than ten large high-end luxury hotels. In addition, it also owns a large number of high-end villas and estate properties.

It turns out to be just a company that provides living services to Xu Shenxue's large family...

That's right, it's a whole family... The eastern half of Zhihai Garden, where Xu Shenxue's family lives, has more than ten detached villas and dozens of townhouses, and all of these places are where his family lives.

Besides the photos of Xu Shenxue's wife, Lin Yaxian, which can be found in media reports, there are more than a dozen wives living in detached villas and a large group of secretaries living in townhouses.

There are as many as twenty or thirty children!

In novels and TV dramas, flaunting wealth involves buying all sorts of luxury goods on the street... But in Zhihai Garden, top international luxury brands and some top independent fashion designers hold their own small fashion shows from time to time.

Above, a group of models walked the runway in unreleased new fashions, while below, a group of female residents of Zhihai Garden commented on and selected items.

While ordinary wealthy people buy clothes at luxury stores, these women buy their clothes at private fashion shows held in their own homes!

Once selected, this design will never appear in other public fashion shows, let alone be mass-produced and released to the market.

Every now and then, top-tier manufacturers of jewelry, bags, and watches would send people over with their new products for the ladies to choose from... These products didn't even have price tags on them.

This kind of thing is something they wouldn't even dare to portray in TV dramas... and then Fang Miaoyun witnessed it firsthand.

Occasionally, you can even see top figures from various fields visiting Zhihai Park, and the scene is quite intimidating... These are all big names who can appear in global economic news.

After working for only a few months, everything she saw and experienced completely shattered the perceptions she had formed over the past twenty years!

The lifestyle of top conglomerates far exceeded her imagination!
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Not long after starting work at Zhihaiyuan, after being shocked for a month, she was asked if she was interested in working in the logistics secretary's office... At that time, she already knew the nature of the logistics secretary's office.

Many of the secretaries living in the townhouses are actually just nominal staff in the logistics secretarial office...

Of course, not all the secretaries in the secretariat lived in the townhouses of Zhihai Garden. In fact, only the secretaries who had a relationship with Xu Shenxue would actually move into Zhihai Garden and live in the townhouses.

Secretaries who have no real connection to the company still perform the same routine work as ordinary staff and live in the staff apartment building on the outskirts of Zhihai Park, but their salaries are still very high. Once they get in, their monthly salary starts at 50,000 yuan.

She knew at the time that most of the female owners and secretaries in Zhihai Garden came from this logistics secretary office... and her entry into the office meant that she had become a candidate.

She agreed without hesitation for even half a second.

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After starting work at Zhihai Garden and witnessing its prosperity, especially the extravagant lifestyles of its secretaries and wives, she, as an ordinary woman, found it hard to refuse such an opportunity…

More importantly, the male owner of Zhihai Garden is not some old and decrepit super-rich man, but Xu Shenxue... Xu Shenxue is young and strong, and looks to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. At first glance, he may not seem very handsome, but after looking at him for a while, you will find that Xu Shenxue is actually quite handsome.

Most importantly, Xu Shenxue's identity is extremely special.

Being the world's richest man is just his most common label... He is the boss of Zhiyun Group, as well as Hailan Automotive Group, Yihai Technology Group, Weiku Electronics Group, and a host of other companies. He is the undisputed number one figure in the global high-tech field. Just as many netizens have described, if Xu Shenxue sneezes, the entire global high-tech industry trembles!
This is a man who can make countless news headlines whenever he attends a public event!

A man whose public speech can attract the attention and analysis of a large number of mainstream media around the world, and be studied by countless experts in economics, technology and other fields.

To be honest, Fang Miaoyun would find it hard to refuse an opportunity to become one of his women!
Even if she didn't end up becoming one of his women, earning a high salary for a few years would be great; jobs with a monthly salary of 50,000 are hard to find.

Moreover, if they are not selected after a few years, they can be assigned to other positions in the company. Their salary will not be 50,000, but it will still be at a high level!

So she agreed to go to the secretary's office on the spot.

After entering the secretary's office, she underwent a series of health checks and was then assigned to work as Lin Yaxian's assistant, helping her with miscellaneous tasks on a daily basis.

It was from that time that she truly got to know Xu Shenxue up close... Before that, she could only catch a glimpse of him from afar.

Her looks and figure just happened to fit Xu Shenxue's aesthetic preferences. In less than half a month of following Lin Yaxian, her contact with Xu Shenxue went from close to negative distance.

Then, naturally, they moved out of the high-end apartment dormitory and into a townhouse in Zhihaiyuan.

A few months later, she became pregnant. After the baby was born, she moved into a detached villa and became known as 'Madam' by many staff members at Zhihai Garden...

Of course, there was no shortage of intrigue and backstabbing involved, since there was only one Xu Shenxue, while there were many secretaries who wanted to live in a detached villa in Zhihai Garden.

Even now, when Fang Miaoyun thinks back on it, the whole journey seems somewhat magical, or even... difficult!

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After all, Xu Shenxue was surrounded by a lot of girls!
Lin Yaxian's attitude towards the women around Xu Shenxue was: since she couldn't prevent them, she would arrange for dozens or even hundreds of women to be present so that Xu Shenxue wouldn't even be able to remember their names!

On the one hand, it demonstrates the magnanimity of the principal wife, and on the other hand, it also prevents the emergence of messy so-called love affairs!

In addition, it also allows him to control all the women who appear around Xu Shenxue, preventing any dramatic or melodramatic situations from arising.

Of course, this strategy has also had some failures... Xi Wanqing, who lives in a seaside villa, is the exception!
Xi Wanqing didn't come from a secretariat background; she was a legitimate executive from Liuhe Investment's board office, a PhD from Tsinghua or Peking University, and a top business elite. After being with Xu Shenxue for some time, Xu Shenxue must have developed some feelings for her...

After all, Xi Wanqing was just as beautiful as other women, but otherwise the same.

Lin Yaxian actually had a lot of opinions about this, but there was nothing she could do...

However, apart from Xi Wanqing, all the other women were under Lin Yaxian's control, and no trouble had occurred over the years.

Nowadays, it's natural for women to engage in some scheming and jealousy, but it's generally harmless.

Based on this strategy, Lin Yaxian set up a logistics secretary office in the logistics department, where the secretaries were all young, beautiful, and sensible girls.

Two years ago, at Zhihaiyuan, Xu Shenxue instructed them to set up a dance team, recruiting a large group of young, beautiful girls who were professionally trained and could sing and dance. However, the team was still under Lin Yaxian's management.

So there are actually a lot of young and beautiful girls in Zhihai Garden, and it is quite remarkable that Fang Miaoyun was able to stand out from them!

Being pretty alone is far from enough!
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After becoming a secretary, Fang Miaoyun also wanted to move into Zhihai Garden and even become the mistress of one of the detached villas.

However, not all women in Zhihai Garden can obtain a separate villa.

There are strict conditions; you have to have a child first!

This could mean either she has exceptionally good fertility and gets pregnant in one or two tries, or Xu Shenxue has a particular fondness for this girl for a period of time, spends a lot of time with her, and gets pregnant after a long period of time.

If she doesn't get pregnant during the period when Xu Shenxue is fond of her and she feels a sense of novelty... then it will be very difficult for her to get pregnant again.

Because Xu Shenxue is also fickle, his enthusiasm for new people usually only lasts for a few months or even less. Once that period is over, Xu Shenxue will slowly look for new lovers... After all, there are a lot of fresher and prettier women waiting for him.

Fang Miaoyun's pregnancy wasn't particularly auspicious, but she had a gentle personality and a very pure and innocent appearance. So, not long after she started working with Lin Yaxian last year, she gained Xu Shenxue's favor.

For several months, Xu Shenxue spent a third of his nights at Zhihai Garden.

Over time, and with repeated occurrences, pregnancy will naturally result!

After becoming pregnant, she received a detached villa within Zhihai Garden, which was the residential area for Xu Shen's family...

They no longer have to share a townhouse with three or four other secretaries or dancers who stayed at Zhihai Garden.

Not only do they have detached villas, but they also have a full suite of staff, including a dedicated car, driver, chef, administrative assistant, bodyguard, and a nanny to take care of the children after they are born...

She was even given a secretary in the secretariat to help her with errands and share some of the workload, just like when she was Lin Yaxian's assistant.

A team of seven or eight people were surrounding her and her child!
Of course, there were also a lot of assets... As is customary, Xu Shenxue and his mother gave her and her child a sum of money, the value of which was staggering for ordinary people.

However, Fang Miaoyun felt that these assets were not important... After all, her man was the world's richest man, with assets measured in trillions, so he wouldn't be short of her money.

Besides, all the women in Zhihai Garden have these assets; most of them entered the garden earlier than Fang Miaoyun and are wealthier, so there's nothing for them to flaunt...

Fang Miaoyun cared more about her status in Zhihai Garden!
There are more than a dozen married women in Zhihai Garden who have already given birth to children. However, not every woman can receive Xu Shenxue's attention for a long time. The status and position of each woman in front of Xu Shenxue, and even in front of Lin Yaxian, are not the same.

When having a family meal, there are specific guidelines for where you and your children sit and how far away you are from Xu Shenxue.

The environment at Zhihai Garden is, frankly, somewhat unique. A group of women revolve around one man, and inevitably, some jealousy and rivalry will arise.

Moreover, even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your children... When your children grow up, will they just live off the trust's allowance and do nothing, or will they be able to secure a position in the family business, or even become independent and successful in the future?

Besides your own abilities, it all comes down to Xu Shenxue's attitude... If Xu Shenxue doesn't give it to you, no matter how capable you are, it's useless.

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After Fang Miaoyun became pregnant and gave birth, her parents visited her many times. She still remembers the panic on her parents' faces when they learned that she had followed Xu Shenxue and was pregnant!

Yes, it was panic!

It wasn't anger, nor joy, but panic!

In her parents' minds, Xu Shenxue and his family were far removed from their own world... They never imagined that their daughter would become the world's richest woman!

They even worried that their women might encounter some kind of accident living in such a place... After all, the Xu family was a top-tier wealthy family; in ancient times, it would at least be the residence of a duke or marquis.

TV dramas depict the fierce power struggles within wealthy families, which can be quite brutal!

They were also afraid that their daughter would be unhappy living inside, or even suffer some kind of accident.

It took her parents a long time to realize that things had returned to normal.

When she gave birth, her parents came to see her. Her mother stayed with her during her postpartum period and didn't go home until the baby was two months old.

Now that the baby is six months old and can walk around outside, and since she hasn't been home for a long time, I thought I'd go home to see my parents.

She couldn't expect her parents to keep traveling to Shenzhen to see her while she, as their daughter, never came back to visit them.

So after asking Xu Shenxue and receiving permission, she took her child back to her parents' home.

She was going back to her parents' home, and naturally she couldn't go back alone with her child, so Lin Yaxian arranged for the logistics department's vehicles and staff to go back with her.

Fang Miaoyun used to work with Lin Yaxian. She had a good personality, a sweet tongue, and was quite sensible, so Lin Yaxian treated her very well and personally helped her arrange her return home.

The trunk of her car now contains some gifts for her parents, some of which were ordered to be taken by Lin Yaxian. These are all high-quality items that cannot be bought or even seen outside.

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After exiting the highway, the convoy drove straight ahead and arrived at a villa area in the core new urban area of ​​this fourth-tier city about half an hour later.

This villa is quite large. Fang Miaoyun arranged to buy it a few months ago for her parents to live in.

Her parents were unwilling to quit their stable jobs with low salaries and move to Shenzhen with her, and her younger brother was still young and in high school, so it was not advisable to change his environment easily during this crucial period of his studies.

So she simply bought a large villa in her hometown for her family to live in.

This way it will be more convenient for me to come back. I can't possibly go back to my old family home in a small apartment of about 100 square meters when I come back...

Putting aside the question of whether she was used to it or not, the problem was that she had brought back an assistant, nanny, driver, bodyguard, and other staff members arranged by the logistics department. Not counting Fang Miaoyun and her son, there were more than ten people in total.

The house is too small to fit everything!

The car drove through the villa community and soon stopped in front of a large villa.

Fang Miaoyun got out of the car first, and the nanny from the other car quickly came over, took the child out of the car seat and put him in the stroller.

At this moment, Fang Miaoyun saw her parents walking up quickly. The two elders had joy on their faces, and behind them was a boy with a curious and even excited expression. That was her younger brother whom she had fought with since childhood!
Although her younger brother was already in his second year of high school, standing at about 1.8 meters tall, and about 10 centimeters taller than her, and looked quite strong, Fang Miaoyun still felt that she could take him down with a single slap... This was the absolute suppression from their bloodline!

Fang Miaoyun looked at her parents and younger brother in front of her, and a smile appeared on her face!
It feels so good to be home!

(End of this chapter)