Bai Lu glanced at Yun Ruolin indifferently, her gaze calm and unwavering, but she smiled without saying a word.
Yun Ruolin already understood.
White Dew.
Bai Jia Neng.
It can send someone to the guillotine, or it can erase their innocence and ensure their safety for life.
The Xiao Group was able to rise to the top of the business world in such a short time entirely because Xiao Cheng had connections in both the legal and illegal worlds.
Xiao Cheng had blood on his hands.
There is darkness...
The Bai family... Yun Ruolin had considered this possibility, but Xiao Cheng and Bai Lu had never crossed paths.
The only connection between the two was that pearl hair clip, but Xiao Cheng never took the hair clip to find Bai Lu.
It was clearly just a casual acquaintance, or the hairpin was merely a token, having no connection whatsoever to the person.
In other words, Bai Lu and Xiao Cheng have only met once, which does not mean they have a relationship.
After clearing her mind, Yun Ruolin slowly released her hand, which had left purplish-red marks, and regained her composure.
"Your connection with Xiao Cheng is just an ordinary hair clip. Xiao Cheng hasn't met you with a hair clip in all these years, and he has no memory of you at all."
"No matter what your reason is for giving him the card, he can't possibly become completely obedient to you after just one meeting and risk his life for you. Xiao Cheng has been celibate for so many years and is no longer interested in love, including you."
"The little bit of goodwill you're guessing about is worthless in the eyes of a businessman. As long as the world organization offers Xiao Cheng enough incentives, Xiao Cheng will cooperate."
"In Miss Yun's eyes, how many chips are enough?" Bai Lu asked with a smile.
"A trillion assets are enough?"
Yun Ruolin's expression froze, and her relaxed demeanor was once again shattered by the blow.
Bai Lu added fuel to the fire: "Xiao Cheng has already voluntarily transferred the Xiao Group to my aunt, would he care about the World Organization's bargaining chips? Would the World Organization offer more than trillions of assets to win over Xiao Cheng for cooperation?"
Obviously not.
As for those below one trillion, such as hundreds of billions, tens of billions, or billions, Xiao Cheng looked down on them even more.
Yun Ruolin had no choice but to accept the facts, but said, "Who said it was necessarily a voluntary transfer? Perhaps Xiao Cheng ran into trouble while abroad and had to temporarily hand over the Xiao Group to Qiao Yue. He will take back the Xiao Group when he comes back after he finishes his business."
Bai Lu calmly countered, "What kind of major event would make Xiao Cheng give away the Xiao Group, which he founded? —Is it something planned?"
Yun Ruolin instinctively retorted, "That's just your guess!"
Bai Lu continued to speculate: "Xiao Cheng knew that stopping the plan was risky, so he signed the equity transfer agreement in advance, transferring the Xiao Group to my aunt?"
Yun Ruolin's face was no longer ashen with jealousy and resentment, but rather filled with panic and astonishment.
All the words of rebuttal that came to his throat were refuted by Bai Lu's reasoned analysis.
In her panic, her logical thinking was disrupted, and without thinking, she blurted out: "No matter what you say, it's just a deduction. Xiao Cheng disappeared after going abroad."
"Whether he went to cooperate or to stop the plan, no one knows, and no one can draw a conclusion. Anyway, before I came, the plan was still in progress, and Xiao Cheng had not returned to China."
"Who knows if Xiao Cheng is playing a bigger game in the World Organization?"
Bai Lu cut to the chase and got to the point: "So, you're not even sure if Xiao Cheng is involved in the plan."
“My family members weren’t tricked by Xiao Cheng into going to the Bermuda Triangle and dying. After I left, my family members are still alive and well. What you said before was all a lie.”
Yun Ruolin instinctively retorted, "You..." but Bai Lu interrupted her with, "What do you mean, 'you'?"
"What other nonsense are you trying to spout?"
“I disappeared for five days, and you investigated Xiao Cheng and my whereabouts for five days, but found nothing. There were no reports on TV news or in newspapers about the safety of my family, proving that my family is still safe and sound.”
"Moreover, my aunt also personally visited the Xiao Group, held three meetings and one floor, and completely took over the Xiao Group."
“My aunt values family ties the most. If something happens to a family member, she definitely won’t appear at the Xiao Group so quickly. She will only take over remotely in another way.”
No matter how perfectly Yun Ruolin phrased her words, they couldn't compare to Bai Lu's understanding of her family.
The lie was shut down by the facts before it could even be uttered, and there was no chance to use it to attack Bailu again.
Instead, they were hit by a series of attacks from Bailu.
"Didn't you assume that my hair clip wasn't very useful to Xiao Cheng, and that he wouldn't risk his life for me?"
Bai Lu smiled at Yun Ruolin, her tone certain and resolute: "I'm telling you, it will happen."
"Because Xiao Cheng saved my life, that pearl hair clip was a token of gratitude I gave to Xiao Cheng. I promised Xiao Cheng that if he came to me with the pearl hair clip, I would grant him one request."
Before Yun Ruolin could say anything, Bai Lu's clear voice rang out, word by word: "Anything."
The moment the words "anything" were uttered, the rosy complexion on Yun Ruolin's face vanished instantly, turning her face deathly pale.
Still clinging to a sliver of hope, he coldly looked at Bai Lu: "Xiao Cheng doesn't care about your promise at all. Otherwise, he wouldn't have received so many cards and never asked you for a promise."
"It's obvious that they don't want to have anything to do with you."
Bai Lu chuckled and leaned back, shifting to a more comfortable sitting position. She spoke slowly and deliberately, "You're wrong."
"Xiao Cheng hasn't brought me the pearl hair clip not because he doesn't value my promise, but because—"
"He's waiting for me to grow up."
Yun Ruolin stared intently at Bai Lu.
What is the greatest fear when you like someone? Bai Lu knows it best, and it can pierce your heart the most.
“When I gave Xiao Cheng the pearl hair clip, I was still young. Early romance is not good and will delay my studies. I am not of marriageable age yet. Xiao Cheng wanted to make a promise, but I could not give it to him.”
Yun Ruolin didn't want to listen anymore, but Bai Lu insisted on saying, "Xiao Cheng is waiting for me to grow up so I can marry him."
You don't believe me?
Looking at Yun Ruolin's pale and ashen face, Bai Lu laughed and said, "Then why do you think Xiao Cheng values my hair clip so much? Female employees get fired just for touching it?"
"Of course it's because..."
A clear female voice came from across the room to her side. Just like when Yun Ruolin gave Bai Lu the bad news that her family had been killed by Xiao Cheng, Bai Lu returned the shocking news.
"Because when I gave Xiao Cheng the pearl hair clip, I told him that I would marry him when I grew up."
Yun Ruolin was struck dumb, her whole body stiffened, her mind and spirit were shaken, and her face was paler than white bones.
His hands and feet went numb for a moment, leaving only his fiery gaze fixed on Bai Lu.
The White Dew season remains peaceful and serene.
With a broad smile, he continued, "So, the reason why Xiao Cheng has remained abstinent for so many years, ignoring you, the daughter of the prestigious Yun family, and repeatedly rejecting your advances, is all because..."
"Xiao Cheng likes me and is keeping himself pure for me."
Bai Lu admitted that she had acted despicably, spouting nonsense to achieve her goal.
He fabricated a story: "When you saw Xiao Cheng smiling outside the teahouse because of my second invitation, that was the clearest proof that he liked me. Xiao Cheng was willing to risk his life for me, his fiancée, so what's wrong with that?"
fiancée……
Xiao Cheng's fiancée is Bai Lu...
Xiao Cheng risked his life for his fiancée, Bai Lu...
Yun Ruolin looked dazed and lost, and had already walked out of the coffee shop without realizing it.
People and cars were coming and going on the street, but she couldn't hear anything—not the horns, not the sounds of cars honking...
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