My capital is quite large.

Jinling, Xianlin University Town, a body of water north of Xueze Road.

A gentle breeze rippled across the water, creating layers of waves. Surrounded by bamboo groves and camphor trees, the air was filled with the chirping of cicadas, making the place exceptionally tranquil.

Beside this remote reservoir, which was originally on the outskirts of the city, sits a group of antique-style garden buildings with blue bricks and gray tiles.

This is a masterpiece created by Haofeng Group, which has always kept its distance from the real estate business, after it established a construction subsidiary called Haofeng Real Estate six months ago and spent hundreds of millions of RMB to buy up thousands of acres of water and wasteland in the surrounding area.

Although the official business statement is that Haofeng Cultural Tourism is preparing to test the waters of a high-end eco-tourism resort hotel project.

But to this day, not a single ticket has ever been sold for the place to be open to the public.

On a platform extending from the center of the reservoir, two custom-made non-slip fishing chairs stand side by side.

Li Feng, wearing sunglasses, held the fishing rod with a relaxed expression.

And sitting less than a meter away from him was none other than Pony Ma, the helmsman of Penguin.

To outsiders, this was an almost impossible, magical encounter.

From the initial animosity between "Happy Farm" to the later blocking of micro-clients, anti-monopoly lawsuits, and then to the nearly ten-year-long bloody battle between the two sides in the fields of entertainment, film and television, and PC and mobile games.

The feud between these two internet giants has long been portrayed by the media as an intractable deadlock.

But today, Pony Ma is sitting right next to Li Feng.

He doesn't actually like fishing, and even thinks that this kind of sport, which involves staring at the water under the scorching sun, is a waste of time.

But Li Feng likes it.

Since we are guests, we can only follow the host's lead.

For the pragmatic Pony Ma, so-called "face" and "grudges" are never worth mentioning in the face of business interests.

Haofeng had just amassed a fortune with a single exclusive license to a certain fish, when Tencent seized the opportunity to heavily invest in another platform, Yahoo!, and the convergence of these two forces drove Wang Jianlin's Panda TV to the brink of collapse.

This tacitly coordinated attack is the perfect opportunity to break the ice between the two giants after years of stalemate.

In Pony Ma's view, instead of continuing to fight and waste each other in the quagmire of entertainment, it would be better to sit down and join forces to extract greater interest!

Tencent has been eyeing the e-commerce arena for over a decade!

He has never forgotten the humiliation of being utterly defeated by Jack Ma when he was running Paipai.com and Yixun!

Ordinary netizens only saw that Li Feng, the second largest shareholder of both Jingxi and Pinduoduo, was Haofeng.

But they often overlook the fact that the third largest shareholder behind these two e-commerce giants that are fiercely attacking Alibaba is Tencent!

Since we all share a common enemy in the e-commerce market and have cross-shareholding interests, why should we remain completely estranged?

……

"despair."

The float moved slightly, creating a ripple in the water.

Pony turned his head to look at his overly young opponent beside him and broke the silence first.

His tone was refined, carrying the composure and politeness characteristic of Southern intellectuals:

"Mr. Li is truly a young man of great talent."

Looking at the water, Pony Ma smiled and started chatting casually: "If I remember correctly, Mr. Li was born in 85, right? The Year of the Ox?"

Li Feng's wrist remained as steady as a mountain as he held the pole, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.

"Mr. Ma has a good memory; it was indeed 85."

Li Feng paused, then casually corrected, "However, I was born on February 4th, and Lunar New Year's Eve that year was February 20th."

"According to the rules, it's not Chinese New Year yet, so I'm actually born in the Year of the Rat."

"Haha, being born in the Year of the Rat is auspicious! You're quick-witted, agile, and resourceful."

Pony Ma smiled, his tone tinged with emotion:

"Whether you're born in the Year of the Rat or the Year of the Ox."

"Compared to me, an old guy in my 70s, Mr. Li's achievements at this age are far superior."

Pony Ma took off his glasses, wiped the lenses, and revealed his true colors:

"When I was your age, I was still worrying about server costs of hundreds of thousands."

"During the most difficult period, I even considered... whether to sell the fledgling penguin company to someone else for 300,000."

If someone else heard this self-deprecating remark, they would most likely respond with a polite compliment like, "Mr. Ma started from scratch and is a role model for our time."

However, Li Feng, sitting in the fishing chair, retorted, following the lead of the conversation:

"Mr. Ma is being modest."

"Back in the day, when Mr. Ma had just graduated from university, he had already started the famous Huiduo.net. He can be said to be a geek pioneer of our university's Internet."

"Unlike someone like Li."

"No background, no connections, I just started my internship at a big company right after graduating from university..."

"I hadn't even finished my six-month probation period when I was fired by my boss because of a report, who saw me as a troublemaker."

……

The air seemed to freeze for half a second.

The executives accompanying the penguin, standing in the shade behind them, broke out in a cold sweat on the spot!

Which pot is not open to mention which pot!

In today's entire tech community at Southeast University, who doesn't know the old scandal of Li Feng having his credit stolen by executives from Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group and ultimately being dismissed for "a D grade in performance evaluation and insufficient ability"?

That was the most absurd and embarrassing mess in Tencent's personnel history!

In a fit of rage over this scandal, Pony Ma personally demoted or laid off several vice presidents of IEG, and even sent several middle managers involved to jail through an internal audit!

But now, Li Feng actually ripped open this scabbed sore right in front of Pony Ma!

however.

As a seasoned veteran of the business world for twenty years, Pony Ma's facial management has reached a state of perfection, and his elegant smile remains completely unchanged.

He simply sighed lightly without batting an eye, and naturally shifted the blame to the system's flaws:

"When a company gets big, with tens of thousands of employees, all sorts of birds can be found in a large forest, so it's inevitable that some parasites will emerge to deceive people."

Pony looked at Li Feng with a calm expression, his words carrying a hint of comfort:

"Mr. Li may not know that the managers involved who embezzled funds in that project back then... were sentenced to quite long prison terms."

"I reckon... it will be another three to five years before we can get out of Baimaoling."

......

The gentle breeze beside the reservoir dispersed most of the water vapor from the lake surface.

Hearing that his former superior would be serving another three to five years in prison did not cause any ripples on Li Feng's face.

If it were Li Feng from his previous life, upon learning of his enemy's fate, he would most likely be so excited that he would buy two strings of firecrackers and laugh heartily in the street.

But now...

When your position changes, your perspective naturally changes as well.

Whether it's Zhao Peng or Vice President Lin.

When a dragon soars through the clouds, it hardly remembers which ant tripped it up.

but……

Even so, deep down, Li Feng still felt a tiny bit of secret pleasure.

After all, he's a vengeful person.

As the saying goes: you let go, but you haven't completely let go.

As the lingering resentment in his heart dissipated, Li Feng's tone of voice softened as well.

He shifted to a more relaxed sitting posture and chuckled self-deprecatingly:

"Mr. Ma, you flatter me. In the end, it is because I, Li, am unlucky and have not been able to serve you."

Seeing Li Feng's attitude, Pony felt a little relieved and went along with it, saying:

"Mr. Li, you're joking!"

"Staying at Tencent is certainly a good option, but isn't the world that Mr. Li has built up now even more vast and promising?"