Cao Ming flipped through the monthly report in his hand, his eyebrows raised high.

Since Wang Shuo came along, he has had a much easier time. He only goes to investment promotion meetings occasionally, and spends the rest of his time busy with his Mingtian Real Estate business. As for Yuan Zhuan, that hands-off manager, he doesn't even bother to look at the monthly reports. She calls it trust, but she's just being lazy.

"Profits have been rising by leaps and bounds. Zhu Qian's proposal was really good, and the implementation was also excellent. Notify the administration department to promote her to team leader of the promotion department."

“Okay, Mr. Cao.” Wang Shuo wrote it down in his notebook.

"President Cao, the vegetables from the farm have been running low on supply lately because our sales volume is too large." When Wang Shuo first found out that the vegetables at Yuan's Supermarket were all grown and sold by people hired by the boss, he was somewhat reluctant to agree because it was too much trouble and would affect the speed of making money.

It wasn't until he tasted the farm's vegetables that he realized how different they were from the greenhouse vegetables outside. They were so delicious that they could be cooked simply with a few seasonings. No wonder they were twice as expensive, and customers would fight over them, even taking away the old leaves.

"Not for now. A saturated market isn't a good thing either." Cao Ming smiled as he looked at the total profit figure at the end. The revenue from the first half of this year was equal to the revenue from the entire previous year, and this was just the revenue from one of the supermarkets.

"Apart from leafy greens, everything else will be based on market demand."

"Okay, Mr. Cao."

Guangshi.

Yuan Zhuan only got up after receiving Wu Tianqing's call, and when he checked his phone, it was already ten o'clock.

"Hey, I slept for way too long."

After packing his things and walking to the door, Yuan Zhuan suddenly remembered something. He stood at the door of room 304 next door, looked around for a while, but didn't see any evil aura. After thinking for a moment, he prepared to knock on the door.

"Sir, wait a minute, don't touch it!" a panicked female voice called out.

She was a middle-aged woman in her forties, dressed in a plain light green cheongsam. She was well-maintained, but the dark circles under her eyes told others that she was not in good spirits.

Lifting his eyelids, Yuan Zhuan asked, "Is this your room?"

The woman nodded, then, as if avoiding something, said, "Excuse me, I need to go in." She took a few steps forward, intending to push the door open, but found that there was an extra hand on her right arm.

"Is there something you need?" The woman's gaze shifted upwards, landing on Yuan Zhuan's face. Her expression was cold, clearly taken aback.

Yuan Zhuan finally realized that he was dressed as a man, and somewhat embarrassedly lowered his hand and took a step back. "I'm sorry, I just wanted to remind you that if you keep immersing yourself in your grief, your fortune will be completely changed, which is not what your daughter wants."

After saying that, without waiting for the woman's reaction, the elevator arrived, and Yuan Zhuan entered and left.

As the elevator doors closed, the woman seemed to wake from a dream, covered her mouth and gasped, then rushed towards the elevator, pressed the buttons several times, and found that the elevator had reached the first floor. The woman then rushed towards the stairwell.

When Yuan Zhuan arrived on the first floor, he saw Wu Tianqing waiting by the car.

"boss."

Yuan Zhuan got into the car, and Wu Tianqing got into the driver's seat.

"Have you eaten? How about we go for dim sum?"

"Okay, boss."

The car headed towards the best dim sum street in the vicinity, and the woman who chased after it to the hotel entrance rushed out, only to see the rear of the car.

She didn't give up. With a wave of her hand, a taxi that was waiting nearby drove over.

"Boss, we're being followed." Wu Tianqing spotted the taxi chasing them from behind, and the woman in the back seat kept sticking her head out to wave at them.

"Ignore her."

Yuan Zhuan got off at the entrance of a less crowded tea and snack shop, and Wu Tianqing went to park the car.

I had just ordered and put the menu down when a gust of wind rushed past me from behind. A stranger, yet someone familiar, was already sitting across from me.

"Sir, I apologize, I may have been a bit presumptuous, but I really couldn't wait for you to come back... My apologies." The woman sat down, still catching her breath, and apologized.

Yuan Zhuan smiled and said, "It's alright." She had only come here for morning tea because of this chance encounter. It was almost lunchtime, and it was fortunate that this shop's morning tea service continued until 11 o'clock, otherwise there would have been no food available.

"Sir, I..." The woman's eyes welled up with tears before she could speak. Yuan Zhuan sighed and handed her a tissue.

The woman apologized and took the item. "Sir, my name is Xu Meilian. What you said at the hotel just now made me feel that you know something, right?" Xu Meilian asked, her voice choked with tears.

“I am a Taoist priest. Last night, I was woken up many times by your daughter. She kept kicking the wall.”

Perhaps Xu Meilian had considered many possibilities, but she never expected it to be like this. She was stunned and stared at Yuan Zhuan in astonishment, her eyes filled with the same look as if she were looking at a lunatic, and also with anger at being offended.

Yuan Zhuan felt that if this woman hadn't been well-mannered, he probably would have hit her.

Yuan Zhuan: ...

"Your daughter, Xu Tiantian, 18 years old, committed suicide by burning charcoal in the room you lived in on the 3rd of last month, am I right? You stayed in that room because you wanted to see her and find out why she committed suicide, right?"

At this moment, the tears in the woman's eyes disappeared, replaced by a sense of defensiveness, which was clearly visible in her upright posture and subtle facial expressions.

"What are you trying to do by deliberately using news reports from the newspapers to lure me here?" The Xu family in Guangzhou, although not a top-tier family, is still among the upper class. It's perfectly normal for them to be followed and reported on. She thought that this person told her those things because he knew something about Tian Tian's death, but she didn't expect him to be a liar.

So, the whole thing—him running and her chasing—was a pre-arranged setup.

"Excuse me, I have something to attend to, so I'll take my leave now. Please continue with your business." Without waiting for Yuan Zhuan's reply, Xu Meilian stood up and was about to leave.

Yuan Zhuan: Okay, I've been mistaken for a liar.

"She committed suicide." A guided suicide.

"Impossible!" Upon uttering those four words, Xu Meilian became agitated, her whole body trembling with emotion.

“She was led astray, not acting voluntarily. By the time she realized what was happening and tried to call for help, it was too late.” Yuan Zhuan’s gaze fell on a trace of black ash on Xu Meilian’s shoulder, clearly left by Xu Tiantian.

"What do you know?" Xu Meilian sat down again, her suppressed emotions making her feel so weak that she seemed about to collapse at any moment.

"Your husband has a mistress and an illegitimate child, who is about the same age as her, right?" Yuan Zhuan dropped a bombshell.

Xu Meilian's beautiful eyes widened. "How did you know?" This matter was only discovered a week after Tian Tian's death. To this day, besides her, only that beast knows. Even the media doesn't know.

Staring intently into Yuan Zhuan's eyes, Xu Meilian had a fleeting moment of doubt about Yuan Zhuan's identity, wondering if someone had set a trap for him.

“I know you’ll doubt anything I say right now. So, tonight at 11:30, have your younger brother wait for me in the next room. I’ll let you meet Xu Tiantian.”

...

Wu Tianqing didn't come up until Yuan Zhuan had almost finished eating.

"Want some more?"

"No, I ate a lot this morning." Wu Tianqing never neglected his stomach; he believed that a healthy body was essential for a future, and he always understood this very well.

"Alright, let's go, let's meet that big boss who wants the strongest security."

This is why Wu Tianqing came to pick her up. A boss from Guangzhou somehow found out she was here, so he decided not to go to Beiyu and insisted on meeting her here to discuss security details.

She certainly didn't want to serve this kind of customer, but the other party was giving too much, and had even paid half the fee just to see her, so she had no reason to refuse.