Chapter Two: Buying a "Worthless" Team

"You mortgaged your private shares to buy garbage?" "News travels fast." "Undo it. I will pretend tonight never happened." Chenzhou stood beneath a leaking grandstand as Qin recalled the players. Some wore shoes coming apart at the soles; others still had luggage on the bus. "Didn't you say I could do nothing without the Gu family?" "This childish act proves I chose correctly." "Then wait until tomorrow." Chenzhou hung up and deleted Wanqing's message urging him not to gamble away his future. In his first life, he had mistaken every such warning for love. Now it read like a risk notice issued when an asset escaped control. Lu Ye refused to join training.