Chapter 151: The Regret of Zhou Wan and Ning Cai

Stepping out, Zhou Wan immediately called Shen Xian.
His phone was powered off!
She then sent him a WeChat message, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response for a long time.
Zhou Wan gripped the steering wheel anxiously with both hands and drove toward Nanzhou Garden.
Arriving at Shen Xian's doorstep, she found the front door wide open, and the sound of voices drifted out from inside.
A surge of joy welled up in Zhou Wan's heart—he was home.
Walking inside, however, she discovered a young man and woman pointing around the room and saying, "I think we can keep these tiles."
Inside the room, a renovation worker in work clothes was holding a notebook, recording the young couple's requests: "Alright, we will renovate according to your specifications."
Seeing Zhou Wan walk in, the young man and woman turned around simultaneously, instantly struck dumb by her breathtaking appearance.
This wasn't a high-end residential complex; how could there be a woman with such an aura here?
"Who are you?" The young woman walked up to her, looking at Zhou Wan.
Wait, she looked somewhat familiar...
The Heavenly Queen!
Isn't this the ballad queen Zhou Wan?
The woman instantly became excited, flustered as she stammered, "Queen Zhou..."
Zhou Wan looked around the room, her gaze resting particularly on the recording studio area, but that space was now completely empty.
All the equipment had been moved away.
Every trace of Shen Xian's existence seemed to have vanished.
"Where is Shen Xian?" Zhou Wan asked, her voice trembling slightly.
The man was stunned for a moment before stepping forward to say, "You must mean the previous owner. He sold the house to us a few days ago."
The house was sold?
Zhou Wan felt her heart tremble violently.
"Okay, thank you." She walked out of the complex in a daze, looking up at the sky. It was overcast and gloomy.
Sitting in her car, tears fell uncontrollably.
But a moment later, a look of firm determination settled on her face: "I must find you!"
Right, find Xiao Yang. Xiao Yang was a good friend of his and would definitely know where he was. She would look for him later when Xiao Yang went to work.
Specialized Breeding Base.
Ye Yuning sat in her office, carefully reading through the proposal Shen Xian had given her, her eyes dazed.
Seeing Zhou Wan return, Ning Cai asked, "Did you find Shen Xian?"
Zhou Wan shook her head and sighed, "His phone is off, WeChat messages go unanswered, and... he sold his house."
All three women fell into a heavy silence.

The internet had completely exploded.
Various marketing gurus began publishing articles online.
"Shen Xian's move is a classic case study in marketing warfare. He single-handedly manipulated all the traffic!"
"A strategist entering the fray personally, bearing countless curses, and achieving fame in a single battle!"
"Shen Xian's maneuver belongs in textbooks!"
The vice dean of Kyoto University's Business School accepted an interview: "I have understood the ins and outs of the matter quite clearly. Let me calculate how much external momentum he borrowed."
"First is Yu Tianshu. It is said that Yu Tianshu privately gave him five million, and then donated several million more to hype up the buzz. Red Queen Entertainment also seems to have intervened, spending one million on internet trolls. Here in Kyoto, at least two or three financial magnates took action."
"In other words, when it came to generating hype, Shen Xian didn't spend a single penny, while those who hated him all played right into his hands!"
"Secondly, he naturally carried a negative traffic stigma. He acutely perceived this, plunged himself into the game, and bore the brunt of the abuse!"
"Finally, once the momentum had sufficiently accumulated, he used the authentication certificates to turn the tables. In terms of marketing, this man is simply a genius!"
Not only that, professors from the business schools of Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China were all accepting interviews or publishing articles.
This was a grand feast in the marketing world. Both universities and marketing agencies began dissecting this classic case study.
Netizens also began to react, each dropping expressions of sheer astonishment.
"Damn, Shen Xian is too ruthless! He allowed people to curse him like that, all for the sake of this traffic!"
"I actually admire his mindset!"
"He single-handedly manipulated half the nation's public opinion and traffic. Impressive!"
The internet was in an uproar, and the trending topics once again soared to number one.
"Damn that Shen Xian!" Yu Tianshu smashed an ashtray in his office in rage.
He had spent over ten million back and forth, preparing to shatter Ning Cai's psychological defenses in one fell swoop, and subsequently crush Ye Yuning's breeding base.
By then, Ning Cai would hate Shen Xian, and Ye Yuning's base would carry the stigma of infamy—he would kill two birds with one stone.
Yet now, Shen Xian had actually staged a comeback against the wind!
"Son of a bitch Shen Xian, he really is Qin Shi Huang eating Sichuan peppers—he's won to the max!" Yu Tianshu roared toward the ceiling.
His secretary stood nearby, trembling as he cleaned up the wreckage: "President Yu, don't be angry. Shen Xian's moves are beyond what ordinary people can guess; it's truly..."
Yu Tianshu asked coldly, "Truly what?"
"Truly a kitchen knife cutting through buttocks—it really opened our eyes," the secretary said. "It's also like wiping your ass with a mesh screen—leaving us thoroughly exposed!"
Hearing this, Yu Tianshu flew into a rage and hurled another teacup: "A mouth full of rhyming slang, why don't you go take the graduate school entrance exams?!"
"Did you forget, President Yu? I'm already a graduate school alumnus," the secretary replied.
"Get out, you moron!" Yu Tianshu pointed at the door.
...
Not only was President Yu in a bad mood, but Chen Feng was not feeling well either.
Considering he had spent one million on internet trolls, had he merely paved the way for Shen Xian?
As for young masters like Qi Zhengqing and Suulong, needless to say, they couldn't even speak of this to outsiders. They were truly like mutes eating Coptis chinensis—swallowing their bitterness in silence.
Inside the room, Ye Yuning's older brother knocked and walked in.
Seeing Ye Qiu, Ye Yuning immediately stood up to greet him.
"I've heard all about what happened..." Just as Ye Qiu finished speaking, Ye Yuning's phone rang.
"Answer your call first," Ye Qiu said.
"Director Ye, good news, earth-shattering good news!" It was an assistant calling. "On the website, orders for red-crowned geese broke the five-thousand mark in just one hour, and the order volume on your personal account link has surpassed ten thousand!"
"Furthermore, Golden Fox Down Apparel Co., Ltd. and the Kyoto Meat Processing Plant have both called in, requesting cooperation and placing massive bulk orders!"
"And our advance booking orders are already scheduled all the way through the year after next!"
Boom!
Ye Yuning felt a buzzing in her head, utterly stunned and overwhelmed by this sudden stroke of good fortune.
Everyone in the room stood in a daze.
Could it really be this ferocious?
Is this the terror of traffic?
Did Shen Xian know this outcome all along?
"Shen Xian..." Ye Qiu's eyes flashed. "I wronged him. That day, when he was so sick, I was even prepared to hit him."
"I am truly damned!"
Recalling the frail, sickly state of Shen Xian that day, Ye Qiu was filled with self-reproach.
"For the sake of this matter, Shen Xian paid an unimaginable price and bore unimaginable pressure," Ye Yuning said.
Crack!
A bolt of lightning exploded within Zhou Wan's heart.
On the very night Shen Xian fell ill, he had gone to her residence, but she had rejected his explanations and pleas to stay.
Later, she saw in Meng Yanzhou's WeChat Moments an image of Shen Xian walking alone through the autumn rain.
Thinking back, it must have been because he was drenched in that autumn rain that Shen Xian fell ill!
Shen Xian's figure felt like a heavy downpour, blurring Zhou Wan's vision. Her almond-shaped eyes grew misty as countless emotions surged within her heart.
Regret, coupled with a deep panic, as if she had lost something irreplaceable.
"Director Ning, this is the data Shen Xian left behind..." Chen Rumeng walked in, her head lowered, not daring to meet Ning Cai's eyes.
Ning Cai took the documents, flipped them open, and was instantly struck as if by lightning.