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The System's Golden Standard

Lee Minho, a bright but impoverished college student, stumbles upon a mysterious system. The system offers him unlimited wealth by drawing, but with a peculiar condition: he must constantly flaunt his newfound riches. Initially hesitant, Minho accepts the offer out of desperation, hoping to secure a better future for himself. As Minho's life transforms into a whirlwind of luxury, he grapples with the moral implications of his newfound wealth. He must navigate the challenges of maintaining his lavish lifestyle while trying to remain grounded and true to himself. Along the way, he encounters both envy and admiration, forming complex relationships with his peers and family. The system's demands push Minho to the brink, forcing him to question the true meaning of happiness and success. As he becomes increasingly entangled in the system's web, Minho must decide whether the pursuit of wealth is worth sacrificing his integrity and the relationships he holds dear.

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Chapter 54: Paying the Price

"I'm so frustrated."

Lee Minho drove his e-bike home angrily.

Originally, he thought that Zhong Yujie's parents will asked and beg him to reconcile and let Zhong Yujie go.

Unexpectedly, they didn't give him a good face and even came up, wanted to throw money at him?

Everything inside and outside the words seemed to have confirmed that they were thinking the he is really being fostered by old people.

That look of contempt, that look of giving alms, really think he is short of that 300,000 dollars?

Not to mention that he has hundreds of millions of deposits now, even if he didn't have those hundreds of millions of deposits, he would never compromise for 300,000.

Once a person compromises once, there will be a second time.

The system watched the whole process, and couldn't help but say.

{Host, those two humans are looking down on you. They're humiliating you!}

"I know." Lee Minho said unhappily.

What happened this time was caused by Zhong Yujie himself, and his parents should not be involved.

Therefore, if his parents were sensible people, Lee Minho might have forgiven him. Let Zhong Yujie record a video for him and apologize to him in front of the whole country.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Yujie's parents were actually the same as Zhong Yujie.

The father is no different with his wife. No wonder such a son is taught, really thinking that he's easy to bully.

The system gloated a little.

{Now, is the host going to let them go?}

Originally, the system wanted to teach Zhong Yujie a lesson, but Lee Minho stopped him.

"Let it go?" Lee Minho sneered.

"Today, I will pretend that I have never met these two people. The system can do whatever you like. I have no objection."

{Okay, then leave this matter to this system. If they dare to humiliate the host of this system and threaten this system, then they have to pay a terrible price.}

Father Zhong and Mother Zhong did not catch up with Lee Minho, so they had to go back home angrily.

They have no choice but to ask someone to inquire about Lee Minho's benefactor. Which is the two old people backing Lee Minho.

Father Zhong's cell phone rang suddenly.

Seeing that it was his secretary calling, Father Zhong asked impatiently.

"Hello, what's the matter?"

In just a few seconds, the expression on Father Zhong's face changed from impatience to shock.

"What did you say? The building materials company stopped our supply of materials?"

"Are they crazy? We signed the contract. What are you talking about? Our funds are not in place? Impossible. Shouldn't the bank make the payment today?"

The male secretary on the other end of the phone was about to cry.

-"Boss, the bank suddenly called and said that our loan application was not approved. The building material supplier said that if our payment for the goods is not in place today, they will not deliver the goods."

"The loan is not approved? Impossible, let me ask, what is going on."

Father Zhong immediately hung up the secretary's call, and called a familiar number.

Seeing Father Zhong like this, Mother Zhong couldn't help but ask.

"What's going on?"

Father Zhong was so anxious right now that he had no time to answer Mother Zhong's words.

After the other end of the phone rang several times, it was finally connected.

"Hi, hello President, I'm Zhong Xiang from Jianxiang Construction Company, and I want the loan from our company. Didn't we agree that the payment will be made in a few days?"

"But my secretary said, your bank....What did you say? The application was rejected, is this what your bank said? But, didn't we already agree.. Hey, hey..."

That president is big man of a large company, it's Zhong Yujie's parents big backer that the Deputy Director of the police wanted to please.

Unexpectedly, the other party would hang up his phone, and Father Zhong angrily threw it on the sofa.

"Who the hell is punishing me!?"

"Honey, what's going on?"

Mother Zhong panicked when she saw Father Zhong's appearance and what he said just now.

Father Zhong said angrily.

"The loan we agreed with President before will be paid today. It was rejected by the bank. The building material dealer did not get the money, and now the building material company has stopped."

"Of there's no building material, then the project was over, and there is no way to start construction. This one-day stoppage is a huge blow to our construction company."

Mother Zhong said anxiously.

"Why is this happening? Didn't you make an agreement with President before?"

"How the hell do I know what's going on?"

Just as he finished speaking, Father Zhong's cell phone rang again.

It's the secretary's phone number. Father Zhong picked up the phone.

-"Boss, it's not good, something happened on the construction site. The principal of the kindergarten came to the construction site suddenly and found out that we used cheap materials instead of the materials signed in the contract."

-"Now he is taking people from Education Bureau and the Urban Construction Bureau to inspect the materials on the construction site."

"What?"

Father Zhong's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said in horror.

"Go and stabilize them first, I'll rush over now."

"There was an problem at the kindergarten construction site, I need rushed over immediately."

After Father Zhong said this to her and left in a hurry. Mother Zhong stood there, a little at loss and said.

"What's going on today, why are there so many things happening all of a sudden."

That kindergarten is a public kindergarten.

Back then, Father Zhong relied on his connections to finally get the bid for this kindergarten.

Public kindergartens have strict requirements on building materials.

If the materials signed according to the contract was used, then the money they will earned is not much.

Therefore, Father Zhong secretly replaced the raw materials with cheaper ones.

It's just that he didn't expect that someone suddenly reported it.

The director of the kindergarten went to the construction site to have a look, immediately found the problem, and reported it.

The principal of this kindergarten is no pushover, he was specially hired by the superiors.

As soon as he reported it, people from the Education Bureau and the people from Urban Construction Bureau came over immediately.

It's nothing if you don't check it. Once you check it, you will find out a big problem!

More than half of this kindergarten has been built, but the quality of the materials used is not only poor, but also seriously exceed the standard from the contract.

None of the building materials used meet national regulations.

This is a kindergarten, a place where the flowers of the motherland are cultivated.

With such inferior materials, this is really a tantamount to murdering the little flowers of the motherland.

This problem is too serious.

Moreover, the problem is not just that simple. When the people from the Education Bureau and the Urban Construction Bureau inspected the construction materials, they had a dispute with the workers on the construction site.

Among them, two leaders of the Education Bureau and the Urban Construction Bureau were injured by the leading workers.

The police from the police station and the 120 ambulance arrived soon. And more than a dozen policemen have controlled the violent workers.

But after the leading worker was controlled by the police, he continued to shout.

"My brother in law is the boss of Jianxiang Company and knows your deputy police chief. You dare to arrest me. When my brother in law comes, don't even think about it."

When Father Zhong arrived, he happened to hear these words, and suddenly his legs went limp, and he almost knelt on the ground.

No need to look, just by hearing the voice, Father Zhong knew that the man was the idiot brother of his mistress outside.

'Damn it, in front of so many people, he said that I knew the deputy police chief.'

Not only would it kill him, it would kill the deputy chief of police.

Father Zhong supported himself firmly, and rushed over in front of that idiot.

Seeing Father Zhong, Mother Zhong's younger brother immediately struggled harder and shouted excitedly to Father Zhong.

"Brother in law, you are here. Save me quickly, these people dare to arrest me, you have to decide for me!"

"Shut up!"

Father Zhong directly raised his hand, and slapped his mistress younger brother on the face.

Immediately afterwards, regardless of the astonishmnent of the third brother, he kept bowing and bowing, apologizing to the police, the education bureau and the urban to the construction bureau.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. As a worker, I'm a little out of my mind, that's why I..."

Before he could finish spealking, he was interrupted by the police.

"Okay, stop talking, let me ask you, are you the boss of Jianxiang Construction Company?"

"I am." Father Zhong nodded.

The policeman said with a look of impartiality in handling the case.

"Then please come with us."

After finishing speaking, the police took Father Zhong with them to the police station.

Mother Zhong was at home, waiting anxiously, suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Mother Zhong walked out and opened the door. As a result, when the door opened, there were actually two police officers outside.

"Hello, are you Ning Nianxin, Zhong Xiang's wife from Jianxiang Construction Company?"

"I am, what's the matter with you?"

Mother Zhong asked with a guilty conscience.

"Now, someone has reported that you and your husband Zhong Xiang bribed some government officials for bidding for the kindergartens. Now, please come with us to the police station and accept the investigation."

"What? We didn't, we were wronged." Mother Zhong struggled and was taken to the police.

After the maid heard the movement, she ran out of the house and saw her boss wife being taken into the police car, she was surprised

and asked.

"What's the matter, why are all of them taken away by the police?"

In just two days, all three members of the family entered the police station.

Originally, Ning Nianxin and Zhong Xiang wanted to save their son, but unexpectedly, they also went in.

Someone anonymously reported them for bribery. Very clear evidence was also provided, along with photographs.

Soon, the officials who accepted the bribes were arrested.

And one of the officials is Zhong Xiang's backer the president of some big company.

Deputy Director of the police station was also brought into the police station because of Zhong Xiang and it was brought back to the police station by the chief of the police station himself.

Jianxiang Construction Company is a typical construction company with a market value of 2 billion.

It was founded by Zhong Xiang and some several shareholders.

Father Zhong is the chairman of the Company and owns 30% of the shares. The remaining shares are in the hands of the remaining shareholders.

Soon after Father Zhong was arrested, news spread about his bribery and violation of the contract by using inferior building materials for public kindergarterns.

Several shareholders of the company heard the news, they immediately reacted and sold their stocks.

The other stockholders saw that the several shareholders of Jianxiang Company had sold their stocks, and immediately followed suit.

Before the market closed, the stock of Jianxiang Company directly fell by the limit.

Soon, Jianxiang Company was seized, and all the senior leaders of the company were taken away.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that Jianxiang Company is over.

People in several circles got the news very quickly.

In Kyoto, there are quite a few companies worth tens of billions, and even giants worth hundreds of billions.

In front of these behemoths, Jianxiang, a construction company with a market value of only 2 billion, is nothing at all.

However, it is not easy to bring down a company with a market value of 2 billion in one day.

Among them, several senior government officials in office were also involved, and the evidence was solid.

This matter can be described in three words.

That is, fast and ruthless.

And the cause of this incident was actually starts from a defamation incident.