"President Yu, is it really not because of Murong Xiao?" Xiang Jin asked.
"Of course, Xiangjin, you have to believe in your abilities. Sometimes it's good to be a little confident."
Confidence? Does someone like her deserve to be confident?
At noon, Bai Ningshuang came to the warehouse and asked Xiang Jin to go out for lunch together.
"Ah Jin, I have some great news to tell you!" Bai Ningshuang said excitedly, her face flushed. "The Lu family's Century Shopping Mall is going to be demolished!"
What? Century Shopping Mall? Isn't that the one we went to the other day?
"Wasn't it just built? Why are you demolishing it?" Xiang Jin asked, puzzled.
"I don't know either. The news said it was due to illegal construction, but they didn't say the specific reason. But it was so satisfying! Seeing the Lu family suffer, I'd be willing to give up ten years of my life!"
The large shopping mall, which was just built at a cost of tens of billions, is about to be demolished. The Lu family will definitely lose everything!
Bai Ningshuang became happier and happier as she thought about it, and even ate two extra bowls of rice.
Xiang Jin remained silent and did not say anything.
"What's wrong, Jin? You look strange."
"It's nothing," Xiang Jin gestured.
She suddenly realized that her recent experiences were all too coincidental: the big man in the BMW bullied her and then got his comeuppance; she was humiliated at her class reunion, and soon everyone else was in trouble; she was bullied in the slums, and later the officials involved were all brought down...
Now, I was just bullied in the mall, and in the blink of an eye, the mall has been demolished.
"Perhaps it really is just a coincidence..."
She thought to herself, otherwise who else would have such extraordinary abilities to do these things for her?
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In the afternoon, Lu Yixuan rushed to Feng Rong in a great hurry.
Century Shopping Mall is about to be demolished, and the Lu family has tried everything they can to get it done, so she has no choice but to come to Murong Xiao.
"Is Brother Xiao here?" she asked the staff member in the secretariat with an arrogant expression.
The employees of Fengrong treated the younger sister of President Fengrong's ex-fiancée with exceptional respect, and their responses were always polite: "Hello, Ms. Lu, President Xiao just finished a meeting and is currently in his office. Do you have an appointment?"
"Do I need an appointment?" She glanced at the employee with disdain and headed towards the president's office.
"Brother Xiao, are you free to have lunch with me?" She ignored the secretariat's attempts to stop her and pushed the door open.
Murong Xiao stood by the window answering the phone.
The incessant noise made him frown. He covered the receiver and said, "Get out!"
Lu Yixuan was stunned.
"Okay, okay... I'll leave now." She rushed out the door in a panic, nearly twisting her ankle.
"Ms. Lu, is there anything you need?" Seeing her come out, the secretariat staff assumed she was going to pick something up and quickly asked politely.
Lu Yixuan looked a little embarrassed: "Brother Xiao is busy, so I didn't want to disturb him and came out first."
The secretariat staff member smiled slightly and replied "okay," but inwardly they knew perfectly well that he had been kicked out. Ha, he thought he had such a big face!
About half an hour later, Murong Xiao called her in.
"What is it?" He was already frowning, seemingly looking at some documents, without even looking up.
"It's nothing, I just haven't seen Brother Xiao in a long time and I wanted to have lunch with him." Her voice was soft, gentle, and extremely tender. "Also, I wanted to ask Brother Xiao's opinion on the Century Shopping Mall matter."
Murong Xiao: "I have no opinion."
Lu Yixuan choked, her words immediately cut off.
She said, feeling wronged, "The Century Shopping Mall was designed by my sister herself before she passed away. It's her life's work, and I don't want to make her sad. Brother Xiao, could you please do me a favor and ask them not to demolish the Century Shopping Mall?"
Lu Yixuan was on the verge of tears.
Murong Xiao: "No."
Lu Yixuan's words were cut off again.
She wanted to say something more, but Murong Xiao's phone suddenly rang. He walked to the French windows and answered the call.
Lu Yixuan could only stand there and watch him answer the call, her gaze inadvertently sweeping over his phone.
Wait, did he change his phone?
Why is this phone so much more ordinary than the previous one? And... the screen is faintly reflecting light, and you can even see a crack?
And why does this phone look so familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.
Murong Xiao quickly finished the call. He frowned as he looked at the dazed Lu Yixuan, even more displeased: "Aren't you leaving?"
"Ah? About the Century Shopping Mall... Brother Xiao, if you're willing to help the Lu family, Yixuan, Yixuan is willing to offer her body..." Her hands trembled slightly as she shyly unbuttoned her clothes, secretly hoping for something.
Murong Xiao paused for a moment, his face darkening.
"If you don't want the Lu family to lose another shopping mall, then disappear from my sight immediately."
"Huh? I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now..." His face was extremely pale, as if he was really about to get angry. Lu Yixuan was most afraid of him getting angry, so she had no choice but to stop taking off her clothes and turn to walk towards the door.
She took a couple of steps and then stopped, mustering her courage to ask, "Hey, Brother Xiao, your new phone is really unique. Who bought it for you?"
Murong Xiao did not answer her.
He seemed very busy, answering another phone call and speaking in Italian, without even glancing at her.
Lu Yixuan had no choice but to leave dejectedly.
It wasn't until she left the Fengrong Building that Lu Yixuan remembered that the phone Murong Xiao was holding was the same Xiang Jin's phone that she had stepped on and destroyed in the mall that day!
That phone is also black, and it's the same brand!
It's her! It's actually her!
That shameless woman actually got involved with Brother Xiao!
Lu Yixuan gritted her teeth in hatred, and a terrible thought suddenly popped into her mind: could the demolition of the shopping mall also be because of Xiang Jin?
The thought had barely crossed her mind when she immediately rejected it.
No, that's impossible. Xiang Jin is such a despicable woman, how could Brother Xiao possibly stand up for her? She must be overthinking it, she must be.
But she was determined to find out the truth about the phone!
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That evening, Xiang Jin received a call from the police station saying that something had happened to Grandpa Liu.
Xiang Jin quickly sent a message to Feng Jianian, saying that he had something to do and would be back later, and told him to find something to eat and not to go hungry.
I rushed to the police station anxiously and saw the old man sitting huddled in the living room with some food beside him, looking very lonely.
“Our patrol found him under the overpass. No one is allowed to live there anymore, so he was sleeping in a haystack. He's so old, we were worried something might happen to him, so we contacted you. You must be his granddaughter?” The person who received us was a policewoman, and she was very kind.
Xiang Jin shook his head, thought for a moment, and then nodded.
After the shed was smashed, she called Grandpa Liu, who told her he had found a place to stay and not to worry. Little did she know he was lying.
He must have had nowhere else to go to sleep in the haystack; renting a place is too expensive, and the sanitation worker's salary is far from enough.
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