Chapter 1709 - 696: Rebirth After Despair

Chapter 1709: Chapter 696: Rebirth After Despair

Zhou Wang’s master bedroom is naturally the room with the best view and decor on the second floor.

But at this moment, he had no intention of appreciating the layout of the room. Instead, after entering the room leisurely, he immediately dashed to the desk at a very swift speed, then took out a blueprint of the main building from the drawer and placed the connected phone on the desk, opening the speakerphone.

"Any movement?"

Zhou Wang asked in a deep voice.

"Boss, yes."

On the other end of the phone, Xiao Wang’s voice was heard, lowered.

"Speak."

Zhou Wang picked up a marker and waited.

"Miss Ding and Miss Jiang entered room 1 on the second floor... Miss Xia is in room 3 across the hall..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Wang quickly marked their positions on the map.

Then, another bodyguard, Xiao Wu, stationed at the corner on the first floor, also reported through the earpieces.

"Boss, President Qi is in room 5 on the first floor, Mr. Jiang and President Xu entered the study together..."

"Miss Gu went to the gaming room... Miss Di is in the audiovisual room..."

Within approximately ten minutes, based on reports from various bodyguards around the estate, Zhou Wang quickly marked all the women’s locations.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, checked the map again to ensure no omissions, before leaning back in his chair, welcoming a moment of brief relaxation.

"Fortunately, as I anticipated, none of them have any intent to leave at this moment..."

Zhou Wang lit a cigarette, tapping his fingers on the desk.

The first step was revealing through "empathy," also called "advance while appearing to retreat," but this was as far as it could go.

Because the current scenario has a huge risk.

That is, all the women are still gathered together.

In this situation, the benefit is that they will restrain each other, temporarily achieving a subtle balance, but once any one of them suddenly "awakens," the whole thing could suddenly go out of control.

The cheat code of [Empathy] is certainly useful, but Zhou Wang never underestimates the IQ of any of them, so in order not to give them time to react, Zhou Wang purposely drops the harsh words, gets up, and leaves, paving the way for the second step of the plan at this moment—

"Divide and conquer."

The entire matter can be summarized as "place in a deadly situation and then revive," the "deadly situation" is already present, but it can’t stop here.

Creating emotions like pity and resentment is just the foundation, but in this impossible moment, in order for their feelings toward him to ascend to a new level and lay a solid foundation for future grand plans, Zhou Wang must create a one-on-one scenario.

...Because some words can’t be said in front of everyone, some actions are the same.

Letting them each be alone counts as smoothly completing the preliminary steps in this plan, but what follows is also crucial.

Because they are all living, breathing people with their own thoughts and judgments, not NPCs waiting in fixed scenarios for the protagonist’s strategy in a dating game, so... Zhou Wang must ensure that before they suddenly come to find him, he goes to find them first.

And when Zhou Wang goes to find them, he can’t be discovered by other women that he’s looking for another woman... In short, the explanation is very complex, but to create the current situation, Zhou Wang has already undergone meticulous calculations.

"According to personality classification, the two women most likely to be unable to resist coming to find him are Ding Yi and Xia Xiwei. Her pride and dignity make her unwilling to back down at this time, and Xia Xiwei, though seemingly bright and innocent, actually has a strong competitive nature and is straightforward..."

"Similarly, there’s Jiang Qingkui, but Jiang Qingkui has an extra layer of tsundere attributes, so unless she really can’t wait any longer, she probably won’t take the initiative. Yeah, Qi Jiayi won’t either; if he’s not looking for her, she’ll wait in the room till the end."

Zhou Wang, following the prior analysis, immediately made a decision. After finishing a cigarette, he quickly ran into the bathroom, thoroughly brushing teeth and washing his face to ensure his inner self was refreshed, then deliberately messed up his hair a bit.

Afterward, Zhou Wang sent a message and made a phone call separately. After hanging up, he cautiously opened the room door and stepped into the hallway.

The corridor layout of the main building of the estate presents an elliptical shape, with Zhou Wang’s room right in the middle. He called Xiao Wang to guard at the door of his room to handle any unexpected situations, then lightly and quietly arrived at room 1 on the second floor.

...Finding either Ding Yi or Xia Xiwei is fine first, but after all, in terms of emotional foundation, the stories between Zhou Wang and Ding Yi are more, so he still decided to find Ding Yi first.

Standing at the door of room 1, Zhou Wang took a deep breath, quickly rehearsing in his mind before knocking on the door with a quick "knock knock knock."

"Who is it?"

From the room came a light inquiry.

Zhou Wang remained silent.

After a moment of silence, the girl in the room might have guessed something, and with a "click," the door was pulled open, revealing Ding Yi at the entrance.

"Yiyi..."

At this moment, Zhou Wang squeezed out a "reluctant" smile that seemed to hover between wanting to speak and holding back.

Initially, Ding Yi appeared a bit surprised to see Zhou Wang, but soon after, Zhou Wang, with keen observation, captured a trace of satisfaction on her bright face, ephemeral though it was, but Zhou Wang knows that Ding Yi knew... he must be the first to come to her.

Precisely because Ding Yi is too smart, Zhou Wang must put her first; otherwise, if visiting half an hour later, Ding Yi would surely sense something amiss.