"I'm sorry, Miss Qiao, I'm just a lowly manager and I don't know where the boss is." The manager forced a perfect smile, polite yet distant.
But in Qiao Xihe's eyes, this expression clearly showed that he was unyielding, which made her so angry that her heart, liver and lungs ached. How dare a lowly person bully her? She would teach him a lesson after the banquet!
"Xihe, what's wrong? It's not resolved yet?" Mo Qi's voice came from the other end.
To Qiao Xihe, these words sounded like a death knell. She turned back and said gently, "Resolve it immediately."
He turned and glared at the manager, then ordered his subordinate, "Go find out where President Song Hengjue is. Tell him I have something I want to discuss with him."
His subordinate was taken aback, nodded, and ran away.
Seeing that several leaders were frequently glancing in their direction, Qiao Xihe felt her face burning with embarrassment.
She didn't pay the hotel for the banquet, and they even chased her to the banquet. It was like they were humiliating her.
If word gets out, the Qiao family will become the laughing stock of everyone. If Dad finds out, I don't know how he'll punish her!
Qiao Xihe felt a chill run down her spine when she thought of Qiao Jiajun's cold and ruthless demeanor.
But then she convinced herself that the Qiao family still had considerable influence in the capital. Song Hengjue was just a businessman, and no matter how powerful she was, she couldn't suppress the local bullies. They would have to give her some face and wouldn't break off relations by demanding money from her.
Just then, the subordinate who had left rushed back, trembling: "President Qiao, we couldn't find President Song in the banquet hall. The waiter said... the waiter said..."
Qiao Xihe had a bad feeling. She kicked him hard and cursed, "Did someone poison your mouth, you piece of trash? What did you say?"
"He said a guy who looks like President Song left half an hour ago, and nobody knows where he went." The subordinate cursed inwardly after being hit, but couldn't help feeling a bit of schadenfreude.
She thinks she's an emperor just because she's been given a few coins; she deserves to be humiliated.
She had just been watching him, but he disappeared as soon as something happened. Qiao Xihe gritted her teeth and dialed Song Hengjue's number several times, but no one answered.
She almost suspected that this damned Song Hengjue was doing it on purpose.
But then she thought, Song Hengjue is the boss of such a big company, he wouldn't make things difficult for her over such a small amount of money.
Subconsciously, she categorized the incident as a coincidence and hurriedly called Pan Zhen: "Uncle, please have someone bring me 10,000 yuan as soon as possible."
Pan Zhen shuddered: "Ten thousand? You've already taken one hundred thousand, my dear, where am I supposed to find that much money for you?"
He's practically emptied the company out of money by taking money so many times. If it weren't for the fact that he could make a lot of money from that big order with Miss Xu, he wouldn't have given her even 10,000 yuan, let alone 100,000!
"This is really important. If you don't come up with this money now, it means you don't consider me family, and our relationship ends here." Qiao Xihe was furious and instantly turned hostile.
Pan Zhen's success in Beijing was entirely due to the Qiao family, so he was unwilling to turn against them. He gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, you just wait."
Just then, the office door was suddenly pushed open from the outside: "Boss, something terrible has happened."
"What a fuss! Who taught you to do things like this?" Pan Zhen said, his face darkening. He vented all the anger he had just directed at Qiao Xihe on his subordinate in front of him.
Normally, his subordinate would be trembling with fear and covered in cold sweat, but now he was stunned by the information in his mind and shouted angrily: "We just went to the place you mentioned, and they said there is no Miss Xu at all. We asked someone to inquire in Hai Province, and there is no Zhapian Technology Company there either."
"What did you say?! How is that possible?!" Pan Zhen's previously arrogant expression instantly collapsed, his eyes widening as if they might fall out of their sockets at any moment.
His subordinates were terrified by his frightening expression, their faces turned pale, and they repeated themselves in trembling voices.
"Crash!" Pan Zhen's hands trembled like a leaf, and the cup beside him fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. He had to enter the number three times in a row before he finally got Song Hengjue's number right.
"Hello? Mr. Song?"
Song Hengjue answered excitedly, but when he heard that it wasn't Yang Qingheng's voice on the other end, his expression visibly worsened: "What is it?"
"Your ex-girlfriend, that Ms. Xu, are you still able to contact her?"
Is Yang Qingheng targeting Pan Zhen?
Song Hengjue understood immediately, and said in a flat tone, devoid of any emotion: "Boss Pan, don't talk nonsense. What ex-girlfriend? When did she become my ex-girlfriend?"
Pan Zhen's mind nearly went blank for a second before he realized what was happening.
Song Hengjue never said that the woman was his girlfriend; it was all just their speculation.
The strange feeling grew stronger and stronger, and Pan Zhen almost thought that Song Hengjue on the other side was actually teaming up with that woman to mess with him!
But he has no conflict of interest with Song Hengjue, so why would they target him? That doesn't make sense!
The most urgent task is to find that woman.
Pan Zhen asked cautiously, "President Song, where did you meet this Miss Xu?"
"Bar? What's wrong?" Song Hengjue took out his fingers and looked at his nails, seemingly nonchalant.
Pan Zhen felt his blood rush to his head, and the ominous feeling grew stronger.
A woman in a bar who claims to be incredibly wealthy suddenly disappears. It seems highly improbable. How could President Song keep such a woman around? Is he out of his mind?
He didn't just ruin himself, he really ruined his small company!
Pan Zhen stared at the phone that had just been hung up and hurriedly dialed the police station.
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