After the wedding, a grand banquet was held at Lotte Hotel. Lee Yoon-rim and Jiang Min were seasoned veterans in Kyoto, and they handled the guests skillfully. Meanwhile, Tang Jinyan and Li Jianxi sat together in a corner.
Li Jianxi was accompanied by an entire medical team. When they saw Li Jianxi sitting down, a group of people brought over the prepared nutritious meals to indicate that Li Jianxi could not eat the food at the banquet.
Tang Jinyan sighed and asked, "Is your body still not getting better?"
"Not really. The doctor didn't allow me to come out this time …" Li Jianxi smiled and said, "I said that it would be meaningless to live if I missed such an interesting show. Only then did the doctor reluctantly let me go."
"It's fine if others say it's a show, but is it okay for you to say it's a show too?"
Li Jianxi said indifferently, "It doesn't matter if you say it's real or not, it doesn't affect the actual situation. You can say whatever you want."
Tang Jinyan thought to himself, 'If you had the face to care about what others say back then, some things probably wouldn't have happened.'
Li Jianxi seemed to know what he was thinking. He said lightly, "A family's reputation and a person's face are two different things."
Tang Jinyan sighed.
"But back then, no one could tell that you were a dragon trapped in the shallows. Given the wind and clouds, you soared to the top."
Li Jianxi smiled again and said, "Now, when people come to visit me, they're always saying that I let Yoon-rim follow you back then because I had a good eye for people. I could tell that you were a hero from the grasslands, so I tacitly agreed."
Tang Jinyan thought to himself, 'Your shamelessness is getting better and better.' He replied, "I'm not a grasslands hero."
Li Jianxi was puzzled. "Oh?
You know how to be humble? "
"I'm not being humble. The Anaconda hero is someone else. His name is Xu Xian."
"…" Even though it was common practice for the upper echelons of Korea to learn Mandarin, Li Jianxi still could not understand the essence of this sentence. This time, he finally understood why Li Fuzhen complained about him behind his back.
He shook his head with a smile and did not pursue the matter.
Anyway, the fact that Tang Jinyan would joke with him was also a sign of closeness. Now that things had come to this point, whatever happened in the past was no longer important. All the previous enmity had been resolved.
"From now on, I will focus more on recuperating in the hospital. I won't spare much energy to pay attention to the outside world."
Li Jianxi ate slowly and said, "Zairong has the ability, but he lacks your beast-like keenness in some aspects. For the sake of Yun … oh, for the sake of Fu Zhen, you should remind him more in the areas where you should. Don't always keep the past disagreements in your heart."
Tang Jinyan lowered his head and sipped his wine. After a while, he said, "If that's the case, Uncle, when you go back, tell Zaiyong that Choi Shunshi wants sponsorships all the time. Don't spoil him too much.
Everything would be fine if nothing happened, but once something happened to Cui Shunshi, those sponsors would not be able to defend themselves.
Although it won't have any substantial impact on the Li family, it's better to avoid it. "
Li Jianxi was stunned. He was in the hospital, so of course, he didn't know such details. After a moment of pondering, he nodded and said, "You're right … but Fu Zhen won't remind him of such trivial matters?"
Tang Jinyan said faintly, "Originally, I was going to use this to deal with Lee Zairong in the future. Today, I'm giving Uncle face."
Li Jianxi fell silent. After a long time, he shook his head and smiled, "Okay."
After a pause, he said, "Based on what you're saying, you don't think highly of Choi Shunshi … in other words, you don't think highly of Kim Jong Un, right?"
"I didn't say that. I'm just being cautious."
Tang Jinyan smiled, "Besides, it doesn't matter whether I think highly of him or not. The political situation in South Korea isn't something that I can really influence."
Li Jianxi said meaningfully, "That's not necessarily true.
Today is Yoon-rim's wedding, and the people who came are all business elites. You might as well see who can attend your own wedding next time. "
*****
There was no honeymoon in this wedding. Lee Yoon-rim and Jiang Minjing stayed in Pusan for a few days, treating it as a honeymoon. In fact, they hid in Tang Jinyan's office every day and were too lazy to go out.
So much so that when Lee Kang-hwan came to admit defeat, he saw the legendary groom of the past two days curled up in Tang Jinyan's arms and slept like a kitten. The desire to ridicule him was unprecedentedly strong.
It was no wonder that there was a poem circulating in the circle, which went like this: "A female gives birth to a male, and the two fly into the harem."
Lee Kang-hwan felt that based on this point alone, Tang Jinyan was better than him.
Seeing that it was Lee Kang-hwan who came to visit, Lee Yoon-rim looked up sleepily, sat up a little reluctantly, and got up to make him a cup of coffee.
Lee Kang-hwan looked at her back and sighed. "In your life, Tang Jiu … there's really no one like you."
Tang Jinyan looked at Lee Kang-hwan, and Lee Kang-hwan looked at him as usual.
Although these two big shots of the North and South couldn't be more familiar with each other's photos, it was actually the first time in their lives that they met face to face.
Tang Jinyan looked at them for a while, and suddenly said with a smile, "There's something I've never told anyone before. Today, I finally meet Big Brother Li in person, and I really want to talk about it."
Lee Kang-hwan said curiously, "Oh?
I'm all ears. "
"At that time, because I wanted to take revenge on those management companies, Big Brother Li called me and told me about it. At that time, I told him that in 2008, thousands of people came to congratulate your son on his wedding. It was really enviable."
Tang Jinyan sighed and said, "I wasn't being polite. At that time, Tang had just opened up some business in Cool Breeze. When I saw your son's grandeur at his wedding, I felt that a real man who had been in the underworld all his life would not have lived in vain.
It could even be said that at that time, this was my life goal. "
So, it was because he had pretended to be a big shot and held a luxurious wedding for his son that a fierce tiger had awakened?
Then, two days ago, they held a wedding that clearly crushed the level of his own wedding, and then he surrendered.
Lee Kang-hwan really felt that life was full of drama. After looking at Tang Jinyan for a long time, he couldn't help but laugh. "Is this how a real man should be?
Or can he be replaced? "
Tang Jinyan was a little surprised by Lee Kang-hwan's China education. It seemed to be better than Li Jianxi's … It seemed that the two of them did have a lot of similarities.
He thought about it and smiled. "To be honest, it's the former."
Lee Kang-hwan nodded. "But now you've done the latter."
When these words came out, it was a real admission of defeat. It was tantamount to admitting that his position in the underworld had long been replaced by Tang Jinyan, and that the boss of the Korean underworld was no longer Lee Kang-hwan.
Lee Yoon-rim brought the coffee over. It seemed that because Lee Kang-hwan had admitted defeat, her expression was much better. She smiled sweetly and said, "Jinyan is only working here temporarily and didn't prepare any daily necessities. Please don't take offense if ordinary coffee is not good enough."
Lee Kang-hwan took the coffee and chuckled. "Coffee brewed by Yoon-rim Xi herself is something that can't be bought with money."
As he spoke, he took a sip of the coffee and said, "We're both from the underworld, so we won't learn from those politicians.
The Ninth Masters said that I was his goal in the early years. In fact, I feel that our goals have always been the same. "
Tang Jinyan pondered for a moment and nodded. "Yes, it's nothing more than wanting to break away from that kind of situation."
"That's why I want to enter Seoul. That's why there's a natural conflict between us.
To be honest, I'm half sighing and half relieved that things have come to this. "
"Because I've proven that you haven't been going in the wrong direction all these years?"
"Yes."
Lee Kang-hwan said straightforwardly, "So be it. There's no point in sticking gold on my face.
I've offended you many times over the years. According to the rules, there's nothing wrong with losing.
Now, how does the Ninth Masters want to deal with it? Why don't you lay it out? "
Tang Jinyan waved his hand, "There's no need for Big Brother Li to pay anything. The Seven Stars can continue to oppose me."
Lee Kang-hwan was expressionless. He knew that there was more to it.
The more generous the conditions on the surface, the more difficult it would be to accept the hidden demands.
Sure enough, Tang Jinyan continued, "My only request is that your son bring his wife and children to Seoul to settle down. The Tang Empire will give them the best treatment.
After a hundred years, he can still go back and inherit the family business. "
Hostage … He's actually playing this game … Lee Kang-hwan was silent for a long time.
His son and grandson were his only children. Tang Jinyan's request was definitely a fatal blow to him.
Even if Tang Jinyan promised not to interfere with the operations of the Seven Stars, his so-called "opposition" wouldn't be able to cause any waves.
Most likely, he could only sit back and watch as his family business was gradually nibbled away. It was unknown how much of the family business he could pass on to his son after a hundred years.
But in the current situation, could he refuse?
If he refused, Tang Jinyan would really dare to start a war of annihilation. Moon Jae-in and the others didn't want Pusan to be in turmoil, but Tang Jinyan wouldn't care about the life and death of the Pusan boss.
Tang Jinyan sipped his coffee calmly and said placidly, "When the Tang Empire gets married, your son can still attend the wedding banquet."
Lee Kang-hwan suddenly smiled, "Who knows? Maybe the Ninth Masters' wedding will awaken another dragon to rise. It'll be a cycle."
Tang Jinyan didn't seem to hear the resentment and curse in his words. He just smiled faintly, "The Tang Empire loves to break the cycle of reincarnation."