Chapter 113 Her Feelings Are Too Cheap

She burst into tears, her face full of grievance, "That one million... I explained to you, it was really me who sold an antique piece of jewelry at home... It just happened that the first wife bought it... How could you connect these two things together and insult me ​​like this, insulting the relationship between me and Sheng An..."

She acted with such sincerity and tears in her eyes.

Any man who sees this tearful face would probably feel sorry for her.

However, Lu Tingzhou just thought it was ridiculous and her feelings were too cheap.

He just looked at her quietly, his eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses showing no emotion, only bottomless coldness.

He didn't even take another puff of the cigarette, letting the scarlet fire burn quietly between his fingers.

Song Xinran's crying gradually weakened.

Because of the cold and murderous look on Lu Tingzhou's face, her heart sank to the bottom bit by bit, feeling cold and numb.

After a long time, Lu Tingzhou finally moved.

He put out the half-smoked cigarette in the crystal ashtray.

He turned his eyes away, no longer looking at her pale face, and his tone was calm and unperturbed.

"You used to work as a designer at Xingmao Garment Factory, right?"

“…”

Song Xinran's sobbing stopped abruptly and her whole body froze.

The topic jumped so quickly that her brain froze for a moment.

Xingmao Garment Factory...

That was the first company she worked for after graduating from university, and it was also there that she met Lu Shengan through a cooperation project with Lu's.

In order to suppress Lu Tingzhou, Sun Meixi had secretly made many obstacles in his business. Naturally, she knew all about the manufacturers that Lu cooperated with.

And Xingmao was one of those who had made things difficult for Lu Tingzhou.

A flash of shock and panic flashed across her eyes, but she nodded subconsciously.

Since Lu Tingzhou asked this, he must have found out something.

“Yes… yes.”

Lu Tingzhou looked at her, and suddenly a very faint and cold arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The smile didn't reach his eyes, which made Song Xinran shudder.

"Xingmao's boss, Li Kangyuan, has connections with Sun Meixi."

He stated a fact, his eyes like a pair of scissors, accurately cutting through Song Xinran's layers of disguise.

"Do you know?"

Song Xinran bit her lip, not knowing how to respond.

He found Li Kangyuan.

That……

Then he should have found out that she and Sun Meixi knew each other before the car accident and the one million transaction. Did he know that?

Fear, reaching out from all directions, strangled her throat tightly.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She could only stare at Lu Tingzhou, as if all the strength in her body had been drained.

Just then.

The door of the studio was pushed open again, and Lin Hao came in with someone.

Song Ziqian had been crouching at the stairs and eavesdropping. Obviously, she also saw the person coming in.

A slightly plump middle-aged man with sleek hair walked in with a smile on his face.

It was Li Kangyuan, the owner of Xingmao Garment Factory.

Li Kangyuan obviously didn't know what he was about to face. He only knew that President Lu's special assistant personally called to invite him, saying that President Lu wanted to discuss a high-end garment production cooperation with him.

This is a great thing!

As soon as he entered the room, he saw the noble and indifferent man on the sofa. He smiled at him and approached him with a nod and a bow.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu! I never thought you would still remember a nobody like me and even ask Assistant Lin to invite me to discuss cooperation."

He extended his hand warmly, wanting to shake hands with Lu Tingzhou.

"This studio is obviously high-end. Leave the garment production to us at Xingmao. You can rest assured."

Lu Tingzhou leaned on the sofa without moving his body, and didn't even lift his eyelids.

Li Kangyuan's hand just hung awkwardly in the air.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

He smiled awkwardly and was about to take his hand back when he caught a glimpse of the pale-faced woman next to him from the corner of his eye.

“Yo!”

Li Kangyuan's eyes lit up, as if he had found the stairs.

"Isn't this Xiao Song? Long time no see! You've made it big, sitting with a big shot like Mr. Lu."

At that moment, Song Xinran felt as if she had fallen into an abyss.

Li Kangyuan's appearance made her completely panic.

She was like a rabbit cornered by a hunter, all her fur standing on end, with nothing but fear in her eyes.

She could feel Lu Tingzhou's cold gaze falling on her.

The man finally spoke, with a faint smile on his lips, but his tone was as cold as ice.

"Miss Song."

"Your old boss is here, why don't you say hello?"

His voice was soft, but every word was heart-piercing.

"how?"

He leaned forward slightly, and Song Xinran's pale face was reflected on the lenses of his gold-rimmed glasses.

"Do you feel that your current status is different, so you look down on the people and things from the past?"

"Or..."

He paused, staring at Song Xinran sharply, "Want to wipe out all the past?"

Song Xinran shuddered suddenly.

She raised her head and met Li Kangyuan's eyes, which were filled with inquiry and a hint of flattery, and then quickly glanced at Lu Tingzhou out of the corner of her eye.

The man was admiring her plight with the eyes of a prey, coldly and cruelly.

She had nowhere to escape, and her fingertips were icy cold without a trace of warmth.

Her lips trembled and she squeezed out a smile from between her teeth that was uglier than crying.

"Mr. Li...Mr. Li, long time no see."

Li Kangyuan's fawning fat face and the familiar "Xiao Song" were like two loud slaps in Song Xinran's face.

It hurts so much.

Lu Tingzhou looked at her panic-stricken appearance and was very satisfied.

He raised his hand and gestured casually with his slender fingers towards the sofa opposite.

"Mr. Li, please sit down."

Li Kangyuan was flattered and quickly bowed, sitting down on the edge of the sofa with his butt touching the edge, in a humble manner.

Lu Tingzhou leaned back on the sofa, his body contours sinking into the soft leather, making him look even more lazy and dangerous.

He spoke in a calm voice, which was not loud, but could be clearly heard by everyone present.

"Mr. Li, please tell me the truth when I ask you this."

He paused, and his gaze from behind his gold-rimmed glasses lightly fell on Li Kangyuan's increasingly nervous face.

"If you are sincere, I can let go of the obstacles you once set for me."

"and……"

His ending tone was drawn out, like bait on a fishhook, full of deadly temptation.

"We can also transfer some of Lu's high-end garment business in Beijing to your factory."

Li Kangyuan's eyes lit up instantly. Lu's business was a high-end garment line.

It was like a gold ingot falling from the sky, hitting him in front of his eyes with a bang.

The fat on his excited face was trembling, and his hands were subconsciously rubbing his legs.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, you are truly a magnanimous person. I... I, Li Kangyuan, am ashamed of myself, ashamed of myself."

The look of him wanting to take his heart out made Song Xinran, who was standing by, tremble with fear.

She knew she couldn't hide it anymore.

Faced with huge interests, Li Kangyuan will tell everything like spilling the beans.

Lu Tingzhou was indifferent to his compliment. He just raised his eyelids and spoke in a calm tone.

"The quality of your garment factory is quite good."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have become Lu's partner in the first place."

Lu Tingzhou's words seemed to be spoken to himself, but they made Li Kangyuan subconsciously straighten his back a little.

He glanced at Li Kangyuan and spoke directly without beating around the bush.

"Do you and Sun Meixi know each other?"

"Was it her idea that you tripped up my goods?"

Lu Tingzhou had not investigated this matter in depth before.

Back then, he had just established himself in Lu's company and needed performance to shut up those old guys.

He signed a pledge that if he failed to meet the sales target for that quarter, he would resign from all his positions.

Just when all the stores in Beijing were waiting to stock the goods, Xingmao Garment Factory suddenly failed.

The factory warehouse was leaking, and the most critical raw materials imported from Italy were all soaked in water.

Unable to deliver on time.

In that case, paying liquidated damages is a small matter; the collapse of the entire sales season would be a disaster.

He still remembers that during that period, he worked almost 24 hours a day, mobilized all the connections he could, and finally managed to meet the deadline.

It was also because of that incident that he was extremely busy.

So much so that...

He heard that Sang Wan's mother happened to be in Beijing and took her home for summer vacation.

He originally wanted to find time to meet her, but because of this sudden "accident", he could only rush to meet her before Sang Wanlin arrived.

It also caused the tragedy of Sang Jingchu's car accident.

Thinking of this, the air pressure around Lu Tingzhou became even colder.

Li Kangyuan's scalp tingled when he looked at him, and cold sweat ran down his forehead.

He knew that if he didn't tell the truth today, let alone new cooperation, there would probably never be a Xingmao Garment Factory in the industry again.

He raised his hand tremblingly, wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve, and nodded repentantly as if he had made a huge decision.

"Mr. Lu...Mr. Lu, this matter...I can't hide it from you even if I don't tell you."

"Yes, it was Mrs. Lu...it was Sun Meixi who found me."

He swallowed hard, and his voice was filled with tears.

"She...she gave me some money and asked me to find a pretext to ship a batch of your goods."

"I figured...it wasn't a loss to me anyway, and it rained a lot that summer, so a few 'minor issues' with the warehouse were understandable."

"I... I just went with the flow. It didn't affect our company's reputation, and I could get more money. I was really blinded by it. Mr. Lu, I'm so sorry!"

Every word Li Kangyuan said was like a heavy hammer, hitting Song Xinran's heart hard.

She was on pins and needles.

No, it's like sitting in an ice cave.

The sounds of the whole world seemed to disappear.

She could only hear her own heartbeat like a drum and the "clacking" sound of her teeth chattering uncontrollably.

Lu Tingzhou glanced at her paper-white face with satisfaction, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly, almost imperceptibly.

It was an extremely cold and mocking arc.

He withdrew his gaze, looked at Li Kangyuan again, and asked again.

This time, the blade was aimed precisely at Song Xinran.

"Ms. Song, did you introduce her to Sun Meixi?"