Chapter 1481 - 1480
At Celestial Aviation Headquarters, Wei Yue’er met Li Zixia.
Lin Fan had been abroad for a week already, and hadn’t even called once. Wei Yue’er missed him badly. Many times she wanted to take the initiative to call him, but was afraid of disturbing his work. Before leaving, Lin Fan had told her that if nothing urgent happened at the company, she didn’t need to call him. And it just so happened that things had been very calm at the company these days, so she didn’t even have an excuse to call.
As soon as she heard that there was a woman who had just returned from the United Kingdom, saying that Mr. Lin had asked her to come find her, she immediately went over to meet Li Zixia.
When the two great beauties met for the first time, they were both stunned by the other woman’s peerless looks. The two of them stared at each other, both drawn in, unable to help sizing the other up.
"Who is she, she’s so pretty!"
"She’s Mr. Lin’s assistant? An assistant who’s even prettier than me!"
Both of them were secretly exclaiming in their hearts.
It was still Wei Yue’er who came back to her senses first. She said, "Hello, I’m Wei Yue’er. And you are?"
Li Zixia let out an oh, and hurriedly shook hands with Wei Yue’er. "My name is Li Zixia. Mr. Lin asked me to come find you. There’s something he wants the company to keep safe."
Wei Yue’er asked curiously, "Miss Li, how did you get to know Mr. Lin?"
Li Zixia said, "Mr. Lin is my savior. This time he went to the United Kingdom, it was to rescue me."
Wei Yue’er was stunned. She hadn’t known why Lin Fan had suddenly rushed off to the United Kingdom, and she hadn’t asked him much either. So it turned out that the reason he’d left so hurriedly was actually for the girl standing in front of her!
Wei Yue’er felt a stab in her heart, a kind of indescribable discomfort. For Lin Fan to go that far for this girl, that alone was enough to show what kind of place this girl held in his heart, right?
While she was talking, Li Zixia handed the Twelve Beast Heads to Wei Yue’er and said, "This is what Mr. Lin entrusted me to bring back. It must be kept safe."
Wei Yue’er nodded. "I will."
Li Zixia smiled and said, "Miss Wei, Mr. Lin trusts you so much, your work ability must be outstanding. Have you been with Mr. Lin for a long time?"
At first sight of Wei Yue’er, Li Zixia only thought that she was very pretty—so pretty it was almost unreasonable. It was hard not to overthink it. Was her relationship with Lin Fan really just that of an assistant?
At this first meeting, the two women were already doing a bit of guessing about each other. Just the thought that the other might have an unusual closeness with Lin Fan made them both feel rather uncomfortable inside.
Wei Yue’er said, "Not very long. I only came here last month."
Li Zixia responded with an oh, which only further confirmed her own suspicion that Wei Yue’er’s relationship with Lin Fan was definitely not simple. She couldn’t help feeling even worse. Well, with a guy as outstanding as Mr. Lin, how could he possibly be lacking women?
How would she dare to hope that Mr. Lin was single?
"What about you, Miss Li? Have you known Mr. Lin for a long time? Are you two good friends?" Wei Yue’er couldn’t help asking back.
Li Zixia shook her head. "No, I only met Mr. Lin the day before yesterday."
Wei Yue’er made a puzzled sound in her heart. She’d only met Lin Fan the day before yesterday? But hadn’t she just said that Lin Fan had specifically gone to the United Kingdom to rescue her?
Wasn’t that contradictory!
This only further confirmed the speculation in Wei Yue’er’s heart: the relationship between Li Zixia and Lin Fan was definitely not simple, and the two of them were probably still in some kind of unpublicized phase.
Wei Yue’er realized how little she actually knew about Lin Fan. Before this, she had never heard Lin Fan mention anyone called Li Zixia. So it turned out he already had Li Zixia as a lover.
Thinking of this, Wei Yue’er felt indescribably dejected.
Lin Fan would never have imagined that it was precisely because he trusted Wei Yue’er and asked Li Zixia to hand the Snake Head over to her that the two women ended up preoccupied and troubled on his account.
If Lin Fan knew, he’d probably be both amused and helpless.
"Miss Wei, I’ll leave this with you then. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going." Li Zixia stood up. Wei Yue’er’s probing had put her in no mood to stay any longer.
Wei Yue’er didn’t try to keep her, even though she very much wanted to sound her out a bit more. But the moment she thought that if it were confirmed that Lin Fan and Li Zixia were secretly involved, it would only make her feel worse, she lost the desire to talk.
"Alright, take care, Miss Li," Wei Yue’er said, with no intention of asking Li Zixia to stay.
Feeling a bit puzzled, Li Zixia left Celestial Aviation.
Her third stop was Longheng Group.
Sitting in the taxi, Li Zixia went online to look up information about Longheng.
Before she returned to the country, apart from asking her to bring the Snake Head to Mortal and hand it over to Wei Yue’er, Lin Fan had also told her to first visit Longheng Group and call on Feng Ruolan.
She hadn’t known who Feng Ruolan was before. Lin Fan had only told her that Feng Ruolan was his older "sister" and also his partner, and that the one in charge of acquiring Golden Jade Group was Feng Ruolan.
Li Zixia quickly found out that Feng Ruolan, known as a financial she-devil, was Yun City’s richest woman, and that Longheng Group could be called the financial behemoth of Yun City.
Li Zixia was once again shocked. Lin Fan was Yun City’s richest man, and his "sister" was the richest woman!
According to Lin Fan, the very first person to show interest in Golden Jade Group and consider taking it over was Feng Ruolan. One had to know that at that time, Golden Jade Group was already a mess, on the brink of bankruptcy. For Feng Ruolan to still take a fancy to it, she must have seen the value in Golden Jade Group.
When a company is in its prime, everyone knows its merits. But when a company is on the verge of bankruptcy and someone can still see its value, that person must have very unique investment vision.
Li Zixia very much wanted to meet this financial she-devil.
Longheng Group.
In her top-floor office in Longheng Mansion, Feng Ruolan received Li Zixia.
Seeing Li Zixia, Feng Ruolan was a bit surprised. As far as she knew, the reason Golden Jade Group had fallen to the point of bankruptcy was because its boss, Li Huashan, had died unexpectedly, the group’s eldest daughter, Li Zixia, had gone missing, and the company had fallen into the hands of Li Huashan’s younger brother, Li Jianshui.
This Li Jianshui was an idiot. Golden Jade Group had originally been pretty good, but he’d played a great hand of cards into complete trash and ran a perfectly good company into the ground.
And now, Li Zixia was back?
"Please sit, Miss Li," Feng Ruolan said.
Li Zixia sat down opposite Feng Ruolan. Faced with this Feng Ruolan, she couldn’t help feeling nervous.
It was hard for anyone not to feel nervous when they met Feng Ruolan. Her aura was simply too strong. Her beauty was suffocating, making people not dare to look straight at her.
Li Zixia felt that she’d suffered two blows in a single day—one from Wei Yue’er and one from Feng Ruolan. They were both top-tier beauties. Standing in front of them, Li Zixia felt a bit inferior.
Fortunately, Feng Ruolan was Lin Fan’s adoptive sister, not his lover. She didn’t need to compete with Feng Ruolan; otherwise she might have given up on the spot. This opponent was way too strong.
"Miss Feng, Mr. Lin asked me to come see you," Li Zixia said.
Feng Ruolan responded with an oh. "I heard you went missing. Where did Little Fan find you?"
Li Zixia said, "I’ve been in the United Kingdom. Because of some things, I lost contact with everyone back home. Mr. Lin went to the United Kingdom and found me there..."
And so, Li Zixia began to tell Feng Ruolan about her experiences...