When Lin Luo woke up, he was already lying alone in bed, with the quilt tightly covering him. Ji Qianan left a WeChat message: I have to go to the company for a meeting, you should get ready, the holiday is over tomorrow, it's time to go back to work, your salary will be deducted if you are late or absent, don't be lazy.
Lin Luo pouted in dissatisfaction, replied with a "humph" expression, and continued to eliminate the red dots of various message prompts on his mobile phone.
When he swiped to the "SMS" column, he was about to delete all of them, but suddenly noticed a text message from an unfamiliar number: Hello, Ms. Lin, this is Chu Xiao, if it is convenient, can you contact me?
Lin Luo took out yesterday's coat and business card. After checking, he found that it was indeed Chu Xiao's number, so he immediately called back: "Hello, Mr. Chu Xiao, what can I do for you?"
Chu Xiao replied quickly: "It's a long story, but in short, we may need Miss Lin's help in our plan to deal with Chu Ling, but President Ji does not agree to Miss Lin's intervention, so I would like to ask if Miss Lin is willing to cooperate with me alone. Of course, I will ensure Miss Lin's safety in all aspects.
Lin Luo hesitated. Ji Chi'an must have disagreed because he knew that she hated Chu Ling and did not want her to do things she did not want to do or contact people she did not want to contact. But if she could provide some help to solve the problem faster, wouldn't that be better?
Lin Luo thought of Ji Qian's almost non-stop schedule in the past week, and then thought about his tired look yesterday, gritted his teeth, and replied: Mr. Chu Xiao, please tell me the details.
If possible, I actually want to protect myself. If possible, I actually hope you don't have to work so hard.
After a large piece of land purchased by Chu Group a few years ago was about to be put into construction bidding, the good news caused its stock price to rise wildly in the past half month, with an increase of more than seven points for ten consecutive working days, attracting various institutions and retail investors to scramble to buy, and the stock price was pushed higher and higher, but there were fewer and fewer retail shares on the market.
In the Chu Group building, at the new board of directors meeting, Chu Ling, with a 43.3% share, led the former chairman Chu Xiao by 10 percentage points and became the largest shareholder of the group, with absolute right to speak and veto power.
Chu Ling stood up and bowed slightly to the board members: "Thank you all for your kindness, and I hope you will give me more advice in the future."
Chu Xiao, who was originally sitting in the chairman's position, stood up, straightened his suit, smiled and said: "Very good, I announce that I resign."
Then he left directly, neatly and without any lingering feelings.
Chu Ling finally got what he wanted and sat in the highest position of the Chu Group.
That chair was no different.
But he had never felt so happy before.
Chu Xiao finally rolled out of the building in disgrace. He lost, but he won.
He had to thank Lin Luo for all this.
Sure enough, she still loved him, and she would always love him as long as he was willing.
Chu Ling's face softened when he thought of Lin Luo. He took out his cell phone: "Luoluo, I have dealt with my things here. Let's have dinner together tonight."
"Okay."
"What do you want to eat?"
"Well... let's go to Yifeng Mansion."
"Okay, I'll pick you up in the evening."
"No need. I happen to be meeting a client here today. I'll go there and wait for you."
"Well, that's fine. See you in the evening."
Chu Ling hung up the phone, called his secretary, and brought his custom-made suit and a large bouquet of flowers.
The bouquet was Lin Luo's favorite Julia rose. Every button of his suit was engraved with the exquisite L&C, the initials of Lin Luo and him. In the pocket of his suit was a velvet box with a diamond ring in it.
He said that Chu and she would both be his, today.
The day after the car accident, he got drunk and suffered from alcohol poisoning. He was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, and then used Ning Fei to pass the news to Lin Luo's ears.
That was his last gamble, betting that Lin Luo would still remember their past.
He has been allergic to alcohol since he was a child and cannot drink. Everyone knows it. At a party, he talked a few more words to a girl, danced a few more times, and ignored Lin Luo. She was jealous. He couldn't coax her no matter how hard he tried. She was so anxious that Lin Luo said, "If you drink all the wine today, I will forgive you."
She was so willful, unreasonable, and unreasonable that even her friends couldn't stand it. But Chu Ling didn't say anything and finished the wine.
As a result, he lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. In his blurred consciousness, he kept repeating one sentence: Luo Luo, don't be angry, okay?
He saw Lin Luo holding his hand and crying. From then on, she never quarreled with him again.
How could one be so childish, so playful and yet so sweet when young?
He liked her, he really liked her, he liked her unruly beauty, her innocence and willfulness, living in the sun and doing whatever she wanted, which was a brightness he had never felt before.
He used to be inferior and cowardly, and Lin Luo was the light of his youth, the only pair of hands that reached out to him when his parents scolded him as a waste and useless and not as good as Chu Xiao.
But he was too incompetent, at that time he had not yet been recognized by his father, did not own any shares in the Chu family, and could not even return to China, because if he returned he would have to live in the shadow of the outstanding eldest son of the Chu family with the name of an illegitimate child.
So he had to rely on other forces, and he had to give up Lin Luo.
Because he was destined to do something that would let Lin Luo down.
When he had a good relationship with Lin Luo, he gained the trust of Lin's father, and then told his father about the Lin family's investment plan, asking him to increase the investment in Lin's company, so that this development plan was nailed on the board, and then secretly made some tricks to lock up the working capital of the Lin family, so that the Chu family would slowly gain the initiative.
However, he did not expect his father Chu Yi to be so cruel. In the end, he simply designed to let Lin's father die in a car accident, leaving a pile of broken stalls. In addition, the previous funds were locked up, and the bank was unwilling to lend to Lin's company. Chu Yi took this opportunity to introduce some private loans to Lin's mother as an old friend for many years. Lin's mother was simple-minded and believed him, so she made a lot of money, which led to an uncontrollable situation in the end.
Lin Luo, who was far away in the United States, knew nothing about this.
All of this was hidden from Chu Xiao, and Chu Yi ordered it in the name of Chu Xiao.
This man only cared about interests and his own body, and his wife and children were not important. Chu Ling's position in his father's heart surpassed Chu Xiao, so he had the confidence to return to the country and compete with Chu Xiao for the top spot in the Chu family.
Chu Yi knew everything, but he acquiesced, and the condition of his acquiescence was that Chu Ling had to find a way to get the transfer deed for the Lin family's land.
At that time, Lin's mother committed suicide too suddenly. Before her death, she did not transfer the land to the Chu family as Chu Yi had planned. Therefore, the land was apparently occupied by the Chu family, but the reason why it had been idle and not developed was because they did not have the reasonable and legal right to use it. However, they were unwilling to give up this piece of fat meat, so they suppressed all the news, and even Lin Luo did not know about it, just waiting to slowly replace the land with another one.
But recently Chu Xiao seemed to have found out something, and the more he investigated, the deeper he got. It seemed that he was about to get to the bottom of it. Chu Ling had to return to China early to find Lin Luo. He wanted to confess the land directly, let her inherit it as her child and then transfer it to himself, and then frame those crimes on Chu Xiao.
If it was the Lin Luo of the past, as long as he told her that he would marry her after this matter was done, she would definitely agree happily. But the current Lin Luo has been hurt by him once, and he must do whatever it takes to gain her forgiveness.
He deliberately got himself poisoned by alcohol this time to tell her that he still loved her as much as before, and also to remind her of the sweet times they had together in the past, and to remind her that he was willing to sacrifice his life for her.
Sure enough, she softened her heart. She came to the hospital, cried heartbreakingly in front of his bed, scolded him severely, then listened to him, inherited the land worth 3 billion yuan, and promised to transfer it to him as long as he could take the dominant position in the Chu Group and avenge her, because she didn't want her father's things to fall into the hands of Chu Xiao, who caused her family to be destroyed.
Chu Ling used all these as bargaining chips to convince Chu Yi to allocate large sums of working capital to him. He bought back the shares of the scattered shareholders and small shareholders at high prices, which caused the stock price of Chu's company to soar. He eventually replaced Chu Xiao as the new chairman with a high shareholding. At the same time, he also sent the fabricated evidence of Chu Xiao's crime to the police station.
He won a great victory.
And tonight, he will propose to Lin Luo.
Chu Ling felt that he had never lived such a happy life.
He changed into a new suit, dressed neatly from head to toe, took some flowers, and headed straight to Yifeng Mansion.
When he arrived, Lin Luo was already waiting for him. He was playing with his phone out of boredom. Hearing the noise, he looked up at him lazily and smiled: "Why are you dressed so formally and brought flowers? Look at me, I came here right after work and didn't have time to dress up. You'll make me look particularly rude."
She was wearing a standard business suit and her hair was neatly combed. It was indeed not suitable for a proposal, but he didn't mind.
Chu Ling smiled and handed the flowers to her: "It's okay, you look beautiful anyway."
Lin Luo didn't reach out to take it, but just lowered his head to play with his phone, and said lightly: "Put it aside, I can't eat with it."
Chu Ling knew that her attitude was already good, and she had always been a proud person. If she suddenly became very enthusiastic towards him, that would be a problem.
"Drinking?"
"Do you want to go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning again? I don't have that many tears to shed for you." Lin Luo finally put down his phone and gave him a reproachful look. His words were not nice, but inexplicably carried a coquettish meaning.
Chu Ling lowered his head and smiled: "Don't worry, I won't make you cry again in the future."
Lin Luo pretended to be shy and lowered his head, curling his lips: "You are the only one who is poor. Have you dealt with all the company's affairs?"
"It's been handled. Chu Xiao has resigned. I will officially take over tomorrow."
"Are you happy?" Lin Luo propped his head with one hand and tilted his head to look at him, "Chu Ling, after all these years, are you finally happy?"
Chu Ling looked at him and curled his lips: "I'm happy because you finally came back to me."
Lin Luo pursed her lips and smiled. When she smiled like this, she looked like a fox, with a charming look in the corners of her eyes, which was a bit provocative: "Chu Ling, do you love me?"
"Of course I love you."
"Then are you willing to tell me the truth?"
When Lin Luo asked this question, Chu Ling's heart tightened: "What?"
"Did you deliberately set a high price for this acquisition, and then sell it off crazily after you get the shares, and then reap the profits?"
"Luoluo, what are you thinking about? Am I that kind of person?" Chu Ling lowered his head and smiled vaguely.
Lin Luo suddenly moved closer and stared at him seriously: "Chu Ling, did you want to give up the Chu family from the beginning? Did you take this position just to destroy it?"
Chu Ling didn't know when Lin Luo became so smart. This was indeed his plan, because as long as he stayed in the Chu family, his past would be gloomy. He might as well take the money and start his own business.
As for Chu Xiao and Chu Yi, the term father and brother is nothing but a joke, they are just enemies.
He concealed it very well and moved quickly. Chu Xiao was caught off guard and had no time to fight back. Chu Yi also trusted him completely and was unaware of it. So how did Lin Luo realize that something was wrong?
Lin Luo saw his nervousness and smiled: "Don't be afraid, Chu Ling, don't you know who I am? I don't care what you did, I just want to know if you did this for me? To avenge my parents?"
The girl's eyes were sparkling with emotion and expectation, which moved Chu Ling's heart.
So that's what she thought. If she thought so, it would be good.
So he looked at Lin Luo tenderly and dotingly: "Yes. Chu Xiao is indeed evil, but my father was the murderer who killed your parents in the end. You can forgive me, and I must live up to your forgiveness. He should be punished for his wrongdoings to atone for your Lin family. And I will treat you well all my life, which is also to atone for my sins."
Lin Luo bit his lip, his eyes reddened: "I knew it, after all these years, I still know you best. But why bother? What your father and brother did has nothing to do with you. Malicious manipulation of the stock market is illegal. What if you are found out by others? Wouldn't you be a widow then?"
Seeing her like this, Chu Ling's heart was broken, and he quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, I know the consequences of manipulating the stock market, but I have done this very secretly and safely, and it won't be discovered. We will be fine, don't be afraid."
"Is it worth it for you?"
"It's worth it, of course. You are willing to unconditionally transfer such an important piece of land to me as a support. Why should I not deserve it? And we are both going to get married, so why are we still being so polite?"
"marry?"
Chu Ling nodded, stood up, took out the ring, and knelt on one knee: "Luoluo, marry me."
Lin Luo looked at him and suddenly smiled. It was not a happy or shy smile, but a faint mockery: "Chu Ling, get up. I will not marry you."
Chu Ling was a little unresponsive for a moment.
Lin Luo patted his clothes, stood up, picked up his bag, and looked down at him: "I have said everything I should say today, there is nothing more to say, put away your flowers and your ring, and eat your meal by yourself."
Chu Ling stood up, blocked her way, and frowned: "Lin Luo, what do you mean by this?"
Lin Luo knew that Chu Xiao was next door and the police were on their way, so he was not afraid at all, and just smiled: "It's just the surface meaning, I've said everything today."
"Did you ask me here today just to trick me?" Chu Ling reacted, his expression was frighteningly gloomy, and he was about to snatch Lin Luo's phone.
Lin Luo didn't argue with him and smiled: "I'm not that stupid. I'll record the conversation with my phone and wait for you to destroy the evidence. It's all remote, so don't bother yourself."
"Lin Luo!" Chu Ling gritted his teeth, his gentle features were now only sinister, and he squeezed out two words viciously from between his teeth.
Lin Luo smiled at him politely and walked out.
Chu Ling reached out and grabbed her arm. Lin Luo immediately turned around and hit him hard in the abdomen with one elbow. With the other hand, he took out the pepper-flavored perfume from Fengyoujing and sprayed it on his eyes. At the same time, he raised his knees hard and pushed up against little Chu Ling with the greatest strength and the fastest speed.
Chu Ling's eyes were stimulated and he felt a sharp pain in his lower body. He immediately loosened his hands and squatted on the ground, curling up into a ball. Lin Luo clapped his hands and said lightly: "My lawyer told me that this was legitimate defense, because your behavior constituted malicious harassment, and you probably won't use the part of your body that was injured just now if you squat inside. Listen, doesn't the sound of the police car siren sound particularly nice?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Xiao pushed the door open and the bodyguards behind him swarmed up and subdued Chu Ling.
Chu Xiao handed Lin Luo a handkerchief: "It's clean, Miss Lin, wipe your hands to avoid getting any dirt on them."
Lin Luo took it and smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Chu Xiao."
"I should thank you. President Ji and I have already obtained most of the evidence of his and Chu Yi's crimes, but we haven't yet fully confirmed them. Now that we have this confession, it will be much easier to prove that he maliciously manipulated the stock market and Chu Yi committed premeditated murder. Miss Lin, you have worked hard."
"It's okay. This is what I should do. I was able to get this land back and bring the murderer who killed my parents to justice. I also want to thank Mr. Chu Xiao for his help. Otherwise, I definitely couldn't have done it alone."
Chu Xiao paused, then slowly said two words: "Sorry."
These two words were extremely sincere, so sincere that it didn't seem like a simple business thank you. Lin Luo looked up at him in confusion.
Chu Xiao's eyes were very dark and solemn, and his voice was low and gentle: "I am sorry for all the harm that the Chu family has brought to you. This is what the Chu family owes to the Lin family. Even if Chu Yi and Chu Ling get the punishment they deserve, there is no way to make up for it. If you need me in the future, please feel free to ask. This is my compensation to you on behalf of my blood. I used to feel sorry for having this surname, but there are still many innocent employees in the Chu company, so I had to hold up this group. All I can do is try my best to compensate you, and I hope Miss Lin can forgive me."
Lin Luo didn't expect Chu Xiao to say such a thing, which surprised her, because she thought that everything Chu Xiao did was fundamentally just for his own benefit, and she didn't think that he would want to atone for his sins.
"Mr. Chu Xiao, there is no need. These things have nothing to do with you. If possible, we may be friends, but you don't need to have such a strong sense of guilt. Everyone in this world is independent. As long as you have a clear conscience, it's fine."
Chu Xiao lowered his head and thought for a while, then smiled: "Yes, Miss Lin is right, maybe we can be friends. But I still say that, I will do my best on behalf of the Chu Group to make up for the mistakes we have made."
Lin Luo was too lazy to argue with him. This seemingly gentle person, once he starts to be stubborn, is more stubborn than anyone else.
After the prosecutors arrived, they arrested Chu Ling on multiple charges including premeditated murder, illegal fund-raising, and economic crimes. Lin Luo also successfully entered the police station for the second time. However, because she was well prepared this time, the accusation of Chu Ling for illegal surveillance and harassment was established, so her trick of killing her son and grandson was also considered as legitimate defense. In addition, with Chu Xiao's arrangement, she could leave after recording a record.
This time she could go home boldly by herself, but as soon as she and Chu Xiao walked to the door of the police station, she saw a yellow Lamborghini drifting and stopping at the door of the police station, which was extremely arrogant.
Lin Luo was just about to curse at who was so blind as to act so arrogantly at the gate of the police station when she saw Ji Chi'an walking down angrily. He walked straight to her, grabbed her arm and hid her behind him. He looked straight at Chu Xiao and said coldly, "Chu Xiao, did I ever tell you not to drag Lin Luo into this?"
Lin Luo was so scared that she trembled. Although Ji Chi'an could be fierce sometimes, she had never heard him swear. He was really angry.
Chu Xiao's tone was very gentle: "If Lin Luo hadn't come forward, this piece of land wouldn't have been transferred so quickly, Chu Ling wouldn't have been so eager for success, and he wouldn't have gotten the final confession. Facts have proved that doing so is indeed more effective."
"Chu Xiao, the reason why I helped you deal with Chu Ling is because he hurt Lin Luo, and if helping you deal with him would put Lin Luo in other possible dangers, then I don't mind uprooting the entire Chu family, do you understand? I'm polite to you, but don't push your luck or cross the line." Ji Chi'an's voice was not loud, and his tone was not sharp, but he spoke coldly word by word, giving people a sense of oppression.
Lin Luo suddenly felt that the Ji Chi'an she had seen before was still relatively gentle.
However, Chu Xiao was not annoyed, and still just said lightly: "I think the autonomy of this matter is still in Lin Luo's hands. It is up to her to decide her own affairs. If she is willing to come forward to deal with Chu Ling, then Ji Chi'an, you actually have no qualifications and position to stop her."
Lin Luo also carefully poked his head out and whispered: "Mr. Ji, I really want to do this..."
"Don't talk!" Ji Chi'an couldn't help but turn around and say something fierce to her. Seeing her uneasy and aggrieved eyes, and looking at Chu Ling beside her, he swallowed the rest of his words and only uttered two words, "Go home."
Then he dragged Lin Luo into the car and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
Lin Luo sat next to Ji Chi'an, feeling inexplicably guilty. He rubbed his seat belt with his hands, secretly looking at his cold profile. After a long time, he finally spoke cautiously: "Mr. Ji, what are you angry about? I just got off work and went there. I didn't delay my work. Besides, Chu Xiao has prepared everything. It's really safe."
Ji Chi'an frowned, and couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "Lin Luo, are you really stupid? Whatever Chu Xiao says is the truth? What if... "What if he is a bad guy? What if he has bad intentions? Or he is not prepared and Chu Ling bullies you when you are not paying attention? Have you ever thought about what kind of danger you might encounter? Who is Chu Xiao to you that you dare to trust him so much?"
He was really angry. He didn't want her to know these methods. He felt disgusted when he thought that Chu Ling looked at her a few more times. He thought that if something went wrong and Chu Ling bullied her, he even wanted to kill her. As for more, he didn't even dare to think about it.
He tried his best to protect her, but she just listened to others and ran out to wade in the muddy water. Fortunately, nothing happened. If something happened, he would have gone crazy. He is really a worrying guy.
Lin Luo listened to him getting angry and bit her lip. She wanted to say that she was not stupid and could judge good from bad. She wanted to say that she was well prepared and could beat Chu Ling. She wanted to say that she just didn't want him to work too hard because of her. She wanted him to rest early.
But the words turned into a sentence: "But Ji Chi'an, who are you to me? Why should I trust you?" As soon as
the words fell, the car braked suddenly. Because of inertia, Lin Luo fell forward. She raised her head and was about to question Ji Chi'an what was wrong, but she found that Ji Chi'an had unbuckled his seat belt and pressed his upper body over her, trapping her in the passenger seat. He pinched her chin and forced her to look directly at him. His eyes were deep and bottomless, as if he wanted to drown her.
He said word by word, "Lin Luo, who am I to you?"
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