Top Grade Immortal Emperor in the Flower City

The next morning, Ye Ling arrived early at the entrance of a high-rise building, where a busy crowd was rushing inside, some holding food, others holding drinks.

This was a top-tier office building in Donghai, and many internationally renowned companies chose to rent office space here.

Included among these was Han's Corporation, a Huamei Group division, and the partnership Ye Feng had arranged for Ye Ling to find. A giant in the Huaxia real estate industry, ranked among the top three: Evergreen Gardens.

Watching the bustling crowd around him, Ye Ling couldn't help but smile. If he hadn't been a reincarnated immortal, he probably would have been just like them.

Ye Ling found a small open space, swept the already clean ground, and then sat down on the floor with a sigh of relaxation and lit a cigarette.

"Life, oh life, with all its flavors. Everyone has their own path to walk, a path with bumps and thorns, and people have their misfortunes and fortunes, and day-to-day existence, haha, enjoy it while it lasts!"

Suddenly, Ye Ling heard a loud shouting voice. He turned and saw a middle-aged man, scruffy with a beard, his face etched with the signs of hard life, holding a bottle of strong liquor from which he had already drunk most.

"It's him again, Han Sheng, what a mighty man he used to be, and look at him now. Tsk tsk, it's such a pity."

"Hey, I heard that his girlfriend and a bastard conspired against him, leading to his investment failure and tricking him out of his entire fortune of several billion."

"Wow, several billion? No wonder. How long would that take to spend? Probably a whole lifetime couldn't exhaust it!"

"Hey, really, I don't know what that woman was thinking. They say she only got tens of millions out of it. What an airhead, tossing aside a cornucopia for a piece of scrap metal!"

Listening to these people, Ye Ling suddenly paused. Han Sheng?

That sloppy drunkard, could that really be Han Sheng? In just a few years, how could he have ended up like this?

Ye Ling knew Han Sheng, or rather, many people knew Han Sheng, but Han Sheng didn't know Ye Ling. An absolute genius, once the darling of the masses.

Han Sheng rose to prominence three years ago. Using the principle of leverage, he earned his first pot of gold. Then his brilliant business mind started to whirl like mad.

In three days' time, he never once failed. In just three short years, he became an absolute idol in the eyes of many, a model entrepreneur promoted by the government.

This late bloomer proved his talent to the world with his strength, proving everything, proving all those who looked down on him wrong.

Ye Ling had been one of his admirers back in the day, among countless others, even the Financial Evening News called him a genius to praise his super brain.

But in the past six months, the name Han Sheng had not been heard anymore. The man who had been invincible on the business battlefield had fallen at the hands of a woman.

Women, venomous as vipers, are frightening when they turn harsh. Han Sheng, once the favored son of the heavens, had fallen, fallen for a woman he once deeply loved.

Ye Ling stood up, walked over to Han Sheng, and patted his shoulder. The disheveled, dirt-covered Han Sheng with a strong smell of alcohol on him lifted his head.

"What? You want to laugh at me too? Go ahead, laugh all you want. I'm a loser, a loser, haha!"

However, Ye Ling just shook his head and smiled slightly, "I just want to have a drink with you, and the stuff you're drinking is too low-grade. I've got Wu Long Drunk right here. How about we find a little restaurant and have a few drinks?"

Wu Long Drunk?

Han Sheng nodded repeatedly upon hearing the name, "Haha, let's go, let's have a few drinks. If you can cheer me up, I might just change your fate, haha!"

Ye Ling nodded and took Han Sheng to a breakfast shop that had just opened, "Boss, a thousand bucks, give me two meat dishes and two vegetarian dishes to go with the drinks, any problem with that?"

The disdainful-looking shop owner, upon hearing this, walked up to Ye Ling wearing a smile and slipped the banknotes into his pocket, "Alright, boss, you just wait."

Ye Ling asked Han Sheng to wait while he went to his car to get some wine. He always had a supply of Wu Long Drunk in the car, and while at it, he sent a message to Ye Feng, asking him to wait a bit for him.

Inside the room, Han Sheng drank the liquor, gulp after gulp. Perhaps from now on this would be his life, one of dissipation and haze.

Ye Ling arrived with two bottles of Wu Long Drunk. After he opened them, Han Sheng took a deep sniff, "Great wine, great wine. I've only heard of Wu Long Drunk recently, never saw or tasted it. It really is amazing!"

While speaking, Han Sheng grabbed a bottle and took a big gulp, then burst out laughing. It wasn't clear if he choked or what happened, but there were tears in his eyes.

"I know, do you pity me? Or mock me? It doesn't matter, none of that matters anymore. My business empire collapsed overnight, my brothers have distanced themselves from me, I'm just a loser, a good-for-nothing!"

Han Sheng laughed loudly, while the people eating around him looked at him with disdain. Some people didn't recognize who he was, their faces full of contempt – who is this guy? Blowing his own trumpet, saying something about a business empire.

"I don't pity you, nor do I mock you. Instead, I hate you. Do you know why?"

Ye Ling said slowly, smiling. At that moment, the owner brought over four hot dishes, two meat and two vegetarian, looking quite pleased with himself. These four dishes cost no more than a hundred; the rest was all profit.

Han Sheng looked up and listened as Ye Ling continued, taking a bite of the food, "You were my idol, you always have been. Known as a prodigy, you could be knocked down on the battlefield of business, but you shouldn't be brought down by a woman!"

"You're a coward! I despise you, but as you are my idol, I despise you even more!"

"If I were you, I would rise again and fight. A so-called business empire, with mere billions in assets, is that an empire? At best, that's a somewhat larger company!"

"I don't believe that's all you're capable of, you still have a long road ahead. If you want to continue drinking like this, you can drink to death for all it matters!"

"But remember, your woman is being slept with by someone else, and that person, sleeping with your woman, spending your banknotes, then what?"

"He's laughing at you, cursing you, calling you a weakling, a piece of trash!"

"You can continue like this if you want, but I think that as a man, you're Han Sheng, and you will retaliate. If given the chance, you'll overturn them in one go!"

By the end of his talk, Ye Ling pointed excitedly at Han Sheng's nose and cursed, frustrated at his idol, who had fallen so low.

Han Sheng was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and slammed his palm on the table, "Shut up!"

"What right do you have to talk about me? Han Sheng, defeated by a woman, I may be spineless, but no one can question my business acumen!"

"Rising again after a downfall, heh, easier said than done. What do I use to rise again? I'm in debt by hundreds of millions; I might never be able to turn things around in this lifetime!"

As Han Sheng spoke, he seemed to lose all his strength and slumped over on the stool with tears sliding down from his eyes.