At first, Li Anran kept calling Li You and assuring him, "As long as I return to the Lu family, I will never mistreat you. You can have as much money as you want."

Li Anran also assured, "I'm sure I'll be able to go back because of the baby in my belly."

But before she could even begin her plan, Lu Huayu interrupted her, saying, "Come to the company."

When Li Anran rushed to Lu Huayu's company, Lu Huayu told her, "The secretary has resigned. You'll be filling in for him for two days."

Although Li Anran was unhappy, he didn't dare to say anything.

Li Anran, putting on an act, sat at her workstation processing the documents Lu Huayu had given her.

After disrupting Chengfeng Group's industrial chain, the Lu family launched a heavy-handed attack.

From the very beginning, they swallowed up Chengfeng Group's largest source of revenue, the daily necessities manufacturing plant. Lu Huayu was initially very assertive, saying, "This is our company's flagship industry. He said he would just take it over without a second thought. Where did he get the audacity?"

A group of people surrounded the desk until the finance department handed the report to Lu Huayu.

The data above shows a continuous decline, even indicating a deficit.

Lu Huayu then realized that he couldn't save the company he owned, so he had no choice but to agree to the Lu Group's acquisition.

While Li Anran was in the restroom, she overheard two employees talking quietly.

"Sister Zhang, how much longer do you think our company can hold on?"

"It's hard to say, but I feel like it'll be in a couple of days."

"We haven't received our salaries for this month yet?"

"I don't think the money will be deposited into our account even by the end of the month."

Overhearing them say that the company was failing, Li Anran began to consider running away, especially since Lu Huayu hadn't treated her like a human being during this time.

She felt that even if the two of them continued to be together, her life wouldn't be easy in the future.

The next day, Lu Huayu didn't go to the company and stayed at home.

This made Li Anran, who wanted to escape, very anxious. "Why didn't you go to the company?"

Lu Huayu had his computer in front of him, but his eyes were vacant: "Do I have to report to you whether I go to the company or not?"

Li Anran could tell that Lu Huayu's mental state was unstable, so she turned and headed towards the bedroom.

But then he heard the sound of Lu Huayu slamming his computer to the ground behind him.

Li Anran didn't look back and hid in the bedroom.

Not long after, under Lu Shen's extreme manipulation, Chengfeng Group went bankrupt at an alarming rate.

Before he went bankrupt, Lu Huayu hurriedly contacted his best friend: "Fifth brother, buy me a plane ticket to country B, the sooner the better."

"It would be best if we could leave tonight."

The fifth brother was still joking with him: "What's the rush?"

"Hurry up, I have an urgent matter abroad. I'll give you half after it's done."

Lu Huayu successfully escaped abroad, while Li Anran's whereabouts remain unknown; no one knows where she is.

Lu Shen had been busy dealing with Chengfeng Group for some time, and he only breathed a sigh of relief when the news of Chengfeng Group's confirmed bankruptcy came.

Although Lu's Company is very powerful, Chengfeng Group has been expanding recently.

It would indeed take a lot of time and effort to bankrupt him.

Lu Shen is all set.

However, Huarui is doing very well.

Ran Jie told Lu Jin, "I'm also working for the company, and nobody listens to what I say. Jian Ruoxi has been constantly overshadowed lately."

When Lu Jin arrived at the set, he saw the director saying, "Hu Xuezhi, move to the middle. Jian Ruoxi, you're too far forward."

And so the director kept arranging their positions until Hu Xuezhi and Jian Ruoxi were side by side, and the two looked equally matched in the shot, at which point the director finally stopped.

Jian Ruoxi's expression changed slightly, but she didn't say anything. Although Lu Shen invested in this movie, he didn't have any real relationship with her now, which was why the director dared to bully her like this.

During a break in filming, Lu Jin greeted the director, asking, "Is Hu Xuezhi the lead actress in our movie?"

Everyone knows that Lu Shen invested in Jian Ruoxi to play the role of Jian Ruoxi, so Lu Jin's question was a challenge to the director.

However, the director didn't care. Lu Jinlai wasn't anything to be afraid of, since Lu Shen was the main manager of Lu's Company.

So, changing the subject: "No, our main character is Jian Ruoxi, but Hu Xuezhi appears a little more in this scene."

Lu Jin was furious, but he couldn't confront him directly.

After returning home, he told Lu Shen at the dinner table, "Jian Ruoxi has been severely suppressed at Huarui during this period."

“I went to see their chairman a while ago, and he seems to have toned it down. Lately, they’ve been busy competing with Chengfeng Group for business. What exactly is going on with Huarui?” Lu Shen frowned.

Lu Jin explained to him, "Hua Rui received money from the company and was supposed to make Jian Ruoxi the lead actress, but during filming, the camera kept focusing on Hu Xuezhi."

After learning about this, Lu Shen first led his men to cut off the copyrights of several videos under Huarui Company, causing their income to drop drastically.

The chairman of Huarui couldn't sit still any longer and went to negotiate with Lu Shen: "President Lu, what do you mean by this? Are you trying to steal my business?"

But he only received Lu Shen's indifferent response: "Otherwise what?"

The major shareholders of Huarui Company held an emergency high-level meeting: "What are your opinions on Lu's Company's seizure of our copyrights?"

"The copyrights of small companies aren't really important, but two of the three giants have been acquired by the Lu Group," the secretary reported from the side.

One of the higher-ups said, "Could we negotiate with the Lu family to get them to stop?"

The chairman shook his head: "The fee the Lu family gave this time is 1.5 times that of us."

All the senior executives looked at each other, unable to come up with a better solution.

The chairman really didn't expect Lu Shen to be so ruthless, because Jian Ruoxi wanted to target his company.

The next day, Lu Shen approached the chairman and said, "I will not back down. If you don't want to go bankrupt, you can transfer the company to my control."

The chairman had no choice but to agree to transfer Huarui to Lu Shen's command.

Soon, the news of Huarui's change of ownership became common knowledge.

They also used paparazzi photos to show Lu Shen personally picking up and dropping off Jian Ruoxi from get off work.

This incident has once again attracted public attention.

"Has the main character returned to the palace?"

"Lu Shen truly loves Jian Ruoxi."

So Sister Zhao and the others changed their tune and waited for Jian Ruoxi to start filming, holding clothes and small fans.

The shoot had just ended when he took out a small fan and blew it on her: "Sister Jian, how was this take?"

Another person handed Jian Ruoxi water: "Sister, do you have any tips for taking such good photos?"

Hu Xuezhi, however, believed that she was young and beautiful and had no shortage of resources to promote herself.

Therefore, she was very dissatisfied with Jian Ruoxi, and she also felt that if she had entered the industry earlier, she would have been the one standing next to Lu Shen.

Hu Xuezhi whispered to her assistant behind her back: "Don't be too happy yet. She just entered the industry early and has to fawn over the princess. It's not easy for her to serve the princess every day."

Unexpectedly, Jian Ruoxi overheard these words.

Apologize to me.