After Rebirth, I Became the Richest Woman - Chapter 1

At the edge of the cliff, a black car sat crookedly on the slope. The person inside was only a step away from death.

“You lunatic!”

Ye Xinuo forced the words out of her throat with great difficulty.

She had been injected with a drug that paralyzed her nerves, and her body was already beyond her control.

“Little Yezi, don’t blame Uncle Tang. Who told you to be the last stumbling block in my way of swallowing up Yesheng? I’ll send you to reunite with Brother Sheng right now.”

The man sitting in the passenger seat looked to be around fifty. He wore a suit, leather shoes, and gold-rimmed glasses, appearing quite refined.

“You will… you will definitely get what you deserve!” Ye Xinuo was filled with regret. She had been blinded by hatred, which was why she had been so easily used. While the snipe and the clam fought, the fisherman benefited.

“Hahahaha! Little Yezi, you’re still so naive. There is no such thing as retribution in this world. Look, now you’re about to go find your dear old dad, while I’m still perfectly alive in this world. And you still think there will be retribution?” Tang Jie straightened his collar, opened the door, and got out of the car.

“Ye Xinuo, chairwoman and CEO of Yesheng Group, unable to bear the company’s bankruptcy, commits suicide.”

After saying that, he bent down, released the handbrake, and retreated to the side with a smile.

The black metal box slowly slid forward, and in the end, it plunged into the raging sea.

Water poured in little by little, but the person inside the car could do nothing except wait helplessly for death, until she was swallowed by the icy seawater.

Ye Xinuo had not cried in a long time. At the final moment of her life, a single tear slipped from the corner of her eye. All this time, she had trusted the wrong person and taken revenge on the wrong person. She had raised a tiger to become a threat. Now, it was too late for regrets.

If there was a next life, Ye Xinuo really wanted to ask Qin Moyan: on the day her father died, what did they talk about when they met? Why, when Qin Moyan clearly knew Ye Xinuo treated her as an enemy, had she not offered even a single explanation?

How wonderful it would be if she could start over.

“Miss! Miss, how are you?”

Hearing a voice that seemed both near and far, Ye Xinuo’s fingertips moved slightly. Her eyes opened into a narrow slit.

“Thank heavens!” A woman dressed in a black business suit let out a sigh of relief.

From the television came the emotionless voice of a female news anchor: “This is the National Finance Channel. We now bring you a financial report: the passing of Mr. Ye Qisheng, former chairman of Yesheng Group, has had a massive impact on the stock market. Recently, Yesheng Group has once again been caught in the turmoil of a Hesen Fund acquisition. Its stock price has fallen by twenty percent to date.”

After Ye Xinuo adjusted to the glaring light, she licked her dry lips and asked hoarsely, “Where am I?”

“Miss, you…” The woman grabbed Ye Xinuo by the shoulders and shook her hard a few times. “Miss, did you lose your memory?”

The person speaking was Ye Xinuo’s special assistant, Yu Qing. She was also a trusted subordinate personally trained by Ye Qisheng.

“No, it’s just…” Ye Xinuo could not understand what was happening right now. Hadn’t she fallen into the sea? It seemed her life was not meant to end yet. She had been rescued.

“Who am I?” The woman let go of Ye Xinuo and pointed at herself.

“Sister Yu Qing.” Ye Xinuo rubbed her head with one hand. Then, as if suddenly remembering something important, she grabbed Yu Qing’s hand in panic. “Where’s Tang Jie? Call the police! Hurry and call the police!”

“Miss, what are you talking about?” Yu Qing touched Ye Xinuo’s forehead. “You don’t have a fever. Don’t scare me. You suddenly fainted, and now you’re talking nonsense.”

Out of the corner of her eye, Ye Xinuo caught sight of the television. Her expression became slightly dazed.

“Miss, are you all right? Can you hold on? Hesen Fund has acquired ten percent of our shares. Their head of China operations, Qin Moyan, has passed the vote at the extraordinary shareholders’ meeting. She’ll be joining the board today.” Yu Qing glanced at her watch. “Today’s meeting is very important. You can’t be absent. We have to leave now.”

“Qin Moyan. Qin Moyan.” Ye Xinuo repeated the name twice.

Hadn’t Qin Moyan died in a car accident? Ye Xinuo had even attended her funeral.

She pinched the space between her brows. “What’s the date today?”

Yu Qing lit up her phone screen. “Here, look for yourself.”

Ye Xinuo looked at the glowing screen. Displayed on it was a date from five years ago.

Could it be that she had returned to five years ago?

The suffocating sensation of being swept up by seawater still lingered in her body. Was everything happening now real?

Or was this just empty joy, nothing more than a dream?

“Miss? Chairwoman? Nuonuo?” Yu Qing waved her hand a few times in front of Ye Xinuo’s eyes.

A long while passed.

“You’re so noisy.” Ye Xinuo grabbed Yu Qing’s hand. Her brows and eyes curved into a smile, and the corners of her eyes grew moist. “No matter what, it’s so good to see Sister Yu Qing again.”

“You didn’t fall for me, did you?” Yu Qing tightened her grip on her collar with her other hand. “I-I-I’m a professional special assistant!”

Ye Xinuo burst out laughing with a “pfft.” “You’re already so grown up. Aren’t you embarrassed to act so childish?”

Yu Qing said, “All right, Chairwoman. I’ll help you up. Freshen up, and then we need to leave.”

Ye Xinuo nodded, got up, and went to the restroom to wash her face.

She looked at herself in the mirror. Her youthful brows and eyes, her skin full of collagen—it truly was the appearance of a twenty-two- or twenty-three-year-old.

“Did I really return to five years ago?” Ye Xinuo murmured to herself. “Can a person really… be reborn?”

Ye Xinuo’s hand rested on the faucet and slowly tightened until the veins on the back of her hand bulged.

If this really was a second chance given to her by heaven, then in this life, she would never again trust the wrong person. She would never again allow the people by her side to die one after another.

She believed that in this world, cause and effect truly existed.

At the top-floor conference room of Yesheng Tower.

Ye Xinuo looked at the woman who pushed open the door and entered, falling into a slight daze. Although in her previous life she had treated Qin Moyan as an enemy, after hearing of her death, there had still been a faint sense of loss in her heart. Now that she could see her again, there was an indescribable hint of joy.

Tang Jie, who was beside her, patted her shoulder and comforted her. “Nuonuo, don’t worry. With Uncle Tang here, I won’t let someone like Qin Moyan threaten your position.”

“Thank you, Uncle Tang.” Ye Xinuo gave Tang Jie a grateful smile, like a sheltered young girl who knew nothing of the world.

Qin Moyan wore a custom-tailored black-and-white striped women’s suit. Her ink-black hair fell to her waist. She had the face of a refined young lady from an esteemed family, yet she carried a powerful aura that warned strangers to keep their distance.

The moment she sat down in the seat just below Ye Xinuo’s, even the air around them seemed to grow colder.

“Directors, I am Qin Moyan. I hope we will have a pleasant cooperation from now on.”

Ye Xinuo raised her eyelids slightly and glanced sidelong at Tang Jie. Then she glared angrily at Qin Moyan and said coldly, “I advise Hesen to give up on this idea. I will not let my father’s life’s work fall into your hands!”

Qin Moyan’s gaze drifted lightly onto Ye Xinuo’s face. “Then let us wait and see.”

Ye Xinuo’s throat bobbed. In her heart, she thought, It must be because I attended Qin Moyan’s funeral before. Now, suddenly seeing a living, breathing person staring at me makes my heartbeat speed up.

“Well, to be honest, I don’t care who has the final say in the company, as long as we can make money. Don’t you all agree?” The one speaking was Wei Gang, one of the directors of Yesheng Group.

“That’s right. Whoever can make money for the company is the one we’ll listen to,” another director echoed.

Tang Jie cleared his throat and said, “That’s not quite right, gentlemen. When Brother Sheng was alive, he helped everyone make plenty of money. Now that he’s gone, we uncles should still give Nuonuo a hand.”

Ye Xinuo sneered inwardly. On the surface, she still wore the obedient look of a gentle little white rabbit and said softly, “Thank you, Uncle Tang.”

At the same time, her two watery eyes blinked a few times, causing some of the directors present to feel as if their souls had been captured.

“Chairwoman, please get to the main topic of this meeting as soon as possible.” Qin Moyan glanced at the women’s watch on her wrist. “I’m in a hurry. I have to go to the airport in half an hour.”

Ye Xinuo gave a mocking laugh. This time, it was not an act. She truly found Qin Moyan’s robotic manner extremely annoying.

Qin Moyan lightly tapped the tabletop with her fingertips. “Did Old Mr. Ye never teach Miss Ye that the chairwoman of Yesheng Group should never show joy or anger on her face? Even if you dislike me, you should keep it inside. Isn’t that so?”

“Director Qin really knows how to joke. How could I possibly dislike you?” Ye Xinuo lifted the corners of her mouth, forcing out a smile, and opened the folder in front of her.

“Now, let us begin today’s agenda. At present, our group’s most important project is seizing the mobile payment market. As everyone knows, our social platform has already covered eighty percent of young users…”

After the meeting ended, Tang Jie patted Ye Xinuo’s shoulder and comforted her. “Don’t take your uncles’ and elders’ difficulties just now to heart. Don’t worry. Uncle Tang will always stand on your side.”

“Thank goodness I have Uncle Tang!” Ye Xinuo pressed her palms together in front of her chest.

Watching Tang Jie leave, Ye Xinuo’s gaze darkened. Then she jogged a few steps to catch up with Qin Moyan, blocking her path. Pretending to be unreasonable and deliberately making things difficult, she said, “Director Qin, are you in a hurry to catch your flight?”

“I’m not in a hurry.” Qin Moyan brushed Ye Xinuo aside. “I simply didn’t want to waste time earlier.”

Ye Xinuo was not angry. Instead, she laughed—and laughed so hard that her shoulders shook like flowers trembling in the wind.

Qin Moyan frowned slightly. This young lady of the Ye family did not seem very bright.

After Ye Xinuo had laughed enough, she patted Qin Moyan’s shoulder and walked past her.

Everything was exactly the same as in her previous life. Even this person’s lies were exactly the same. She really had been reborn and returned to five years ago.

In this life, what others owed her, and what she owed others, would all be settled together.

One hour later, at Hucheng International Airport.

“Miss, slow down!” Yu Qing, wearing high heels and dragging a suitcase, followed with great difficulty behind Ye Xinuo, who was sprinting all the way.

That old fox Qin Moyan—serving one side while secretly working for another. She had become a director of Yesheng, yet still wanted to compete with Yesheng for business. Fortunately, Ye Xinuo had already suffered a loss once in her previous life. This time, she was determined to beat her to it.

Panting, Ye Xinuo slammed into the VIP check-in counter and slapped her ID card onto the surface. “Seat… select a seat!”

“Hucheng Airlines is delighted to serve you. May I ask what you would like—”

“8L!” Ye Xinuo gasped a few times. “No, I mean the seat next to 8L!”

The ground staff member in the red uniform twitched at the corner of her eye. She wondered inwardly whether there was some treasure hidden under that seat. Why did everyone want to choose it?

She smiled and replied, “I’m sorry, but the passenger in that seat has already checked in. May I select another seat for you?”

“Then give me a window seat behind it.” Ye Xinuo felt indignant. Even though she had rushed with all her might, she was still one step too late. In an era when seat selection by phone was not available, this really tested one’s physical strength.

The staff member operated the screen for a while, then smiled and said, “Here is your ticket. We wish you a pleasant journey!”

At this moment, Yu Qing finally dragged the suitcase over and caught up. She looked as if half her life had been taken from her, gasping heavily. “Miss, I watched you grow up. How come I never knew you practiced track and field?”

“You’re not that many years older than me, okay!” Ye Xinuo made a face at Yu Qing. “Then I’m going in. I’ll leave the company to Sister Yu Qing for these next two days.”

“Go on.” Yu Qing’s gaze softened. “Don’t worry.”

Ye Xinuo said “Bye-bye,” then pulled her suitcase into the security checkpoint.

She had just passed security when she heard the broadcast in the waiting hall: “Passenger Ye Xinuo on flight KN9696, your flight is about to take off. Please proceed to boarding gate 32 as soon as possible.”

Ye Xinuo took a deep breath and once again sprinted all the way in high heels, barely making it onto the plane.

Qin Moyan, who was already on the plane and chatting with the gentleman beside her, saw the person who appeared at the cabin door. Her brows lifted slightly, quite surprised.

Ye Xinuo’s chest rose and fell. After catching her breath, she handed her suitcase to the flight attendant and walked straight to Qin Moyan’s side. With a bashful expression, she complained in a coquettish tone, “Ah Mo, why didn’t you wait for me and got on the plane by yourself? Didn’t we just have a fight last night? As the saying goes, couples quarrel at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed. Don’t be mad at me anymore, okay?”

Qin Moyan frowned slightly, inwardly wondering what exactly Ye Xinuo was up to.

Ye Xinuo turned her gaze to the delicate-featured gentleman sitting on Qin Moyan’s right. Pressing her palms together, she pleaded, “Sir, could I possibly switch seats with you? I had a fight with my girlfriend yesterday, and she’s still ignoring me!”

Girlfriend?

Qin Moyan’s usually quick mind suddenly seemed unable to process that word.

The man by the window looked at Qin Moyan, then at Ye Xinuo, and answered readily, “No problem.”

Ye Xinuo sat down by the window and looked outside, the corners of her lips curving slightly upward. Hmph. Fight me? If I let you steal him away, I’ll take your surname!

“I hear I’m your girlfriend?”

Qin Moyan’s voice suddenly sounded behind her ear. Ye Xinuo’s heart jolted in shock, and the back of her head jerked backward, slamming into Qin Moyan’s nose.