Meng Xinyi pouted and said coquettishly, "Hurry up..."
Zhan Xiuwen put his arm around her and led her to sit down on the sofa. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "If you insist on staying in the entertainment industry, then we must make concessions on this matter."
"I won't give in!" Meng Xinyi said angrily. "You think I'd give in to Qiao Wanwan? No way!"
Zhan Xiuwen looked at her with a half-smile, his eyes like those of a viper. "It seems you still have feelings for my good nephew, which is why you're taking Qiao Wanwan as your rival."
Meng Xinyi hurriedly denied it, saying, "Brother Wen, what nonsense are you talking about? You're the only one in my heart! I only hate Zhan Jingting, I wish I could cut him into a thousand pieces! As for Qiao Wanwan, I didn't hate her so much before, but now that she has angered me, I naturally can't let her go."
"Not the best." Zhan Xiuwen pinched her chin and warned her quietly, "You are my woman now, and I won't allow you to have another man in your heart, understand?"
"I understand."
“That’s right, I like smart women.” Zhan Xiuwen stroked her beautiful face. “Now you have something on Qiao Wanwan, and she’s not someone to be trifled with. Only by making appropriate concessions can this matter be settled.”
"How can I compromise?" Meng Xinyi gritted her teeth and said, "Do you expect me to tell the truth? I orchestrated this whole thing myself. If the truth is revealed, I still won't be able to make it in the entertainment industry, and I won't even have the face to go out in public."
"Don't worry, you have leverage to negotiate with Qiao Wanwan."
"What kind of bargaining chips?"
"Didn't your grandfather leave all his property to you before he died? Your Meng family is a family of medicinal herbs, so you must have a lot of precious medicinal herbs. Qiao Wanwan is treating Zhan Jingting. Give her the medicinal herb collection you have, ask her to delete the video and let you go. Then hold a press conference and insist that this matter has nothing to do with Qiao Wanwan. I think Qiao Wanwan will agree. After all, in her heart, nothing is more important than curing Jingting's illness."
Meng Xinyi was unwilling. "The Meng family's medicine warehouse is the result of generations of hard work. My grandfather entrusted it to me before he passed away so that I could put down Zhan Jingting and run the Meng family properly. Now you want me to give the medicine warehouse to Qiao Wanwan?"
"This is the only way. If you can't bear to part with it, then obediently leave the entertainment industry and become my kept woman, how about that?"
Meng Xinyi looked at him suspiciously, "Don't you hate Zhan Jingting? Don't you want to kill him as soon as possible? I thought our goals were the same."
"He'll die sooner or later, why should I bother taking matters into my own hands?" Zhan Xiuwen said with a faint smile. "He's 25 years old this year, and he'll definitely die within five years. It's only five years, I can wait that long."
Zhan Xiuwen glanced at her and said, "And I advise you not to go down a dead end. Be patient. Once Zhan Jingting dies, the capital will be my domain, and you will be the First Lady of the capital."
Meng Xinyi's face was extremely tense. "My grandfather's death is like a fishbone stuck in my throat and a thorn in my back. I can't rest easy until I avenge this, let alone wait five years."
"Then don't blame me for not warning you. Zhan Jingting is not someone you can deal with. I can invest in your movies and make you famous, but I will never go against him, much less marry you."
Meng Xinyi wasn't stupid. "You're afraid of being implicated by me, aren't you?"
“Xinyi, risking everything for love is something only a young lad would do.”
Meng Xinyi gritted her teeth inwardly, "So you divorced your wife for me?"
"Why do you think I divorced my wife for you?" Zhan Xiuwen said with a smile. "It's my wife who wants a divorce. Her family has been doing well in recent years, with a huge business empire that she manages."
“Although I don’t have much affection for her over the years, with her around, I have no problem with cash flow. Moreover, her parents value their children’s happy marriages the most. I have always been a good son-in-law in their family. My parents-in-law will never let us get a divorce.”
“My wife had no choice but to negotiate with me, asking me to initiate the divorce and make sure her parents couldn’t stop me. My infatuation with a young and beautiful woman and my insistence on divorcing her is the perfect excuse, isn’t it?”
Meng Xinyi felt a chill run down her spine. "So you don't really like me, but are just using me?"
“Xinyi, I’m the same age as your father. Do you think I’d still be blinded by love?” Zhan Xiuwen’s fingertips traced her face. “And do you think I don’t know that your chance encounter with me was all planned? You just wanted to climb the social ladder by using me to help you get revenge on Zhan Jingting.”
Zhan Xiuwen curled his lips, but his eyes were cold. "Do you also think that I don't know you've been pregnant and had a miscarriage? The reason I didn't tell you is because I just happened to need a woman to help me divorce my wife smoothly, and you just happened to be young, beautiful and able to make me happy, so I just went with the flow and accepted you."
Meng Xinyi shuddered violently. "You're the kind of person who won't do anything without a reason. Your wife must have promised you some conditions, otherwise you wouldn't have divorced her."
"It's alright to tell you. After the divorce, my wife will invest in me and secretly participate in the operation of the Hezhong Alliance. Five years later, when Zhan Jingting dies and the Dijing Group collapses, the Hezhong Alliance will take its place and become an unparalleled entity."
Meng Xinyi gave a bitter smile. "I knew you must be surrounded by countless beauties. How could my seduction of you have gone so smoothly? I thought it was because I was charming. Turns out, I was the clown."
"Xinyi, I like you." Zhan Xiuwen lifted her chin and kissed the corner of her lips. "Five years from now, after Jingting dies, I might marry you. But now, you're going against him, how could I possibly marry you? What if you do something stupid and anger him? Wouldn't that implicate me?"
Tears streamed down Meng Xinyi's face. "Zhan Xiuwen, you are truly despicable."
Instead of getting angry, Zhan Xiuwen laughed, "Darling, how can you say that about me? Aren't you despicable too? You went to great lengths to seduce me, wasn't it just to use me to help you deal with Zhan Jingting? We are actually the same shameless people."
Meng Xinyi pushed him away and got up to walk outside.
"You'd better think this through. Once you step out of this door, you'll have nothing left, and you'll lose even the only thing you have to fight against Qiao Wanwan."
When Zhan Xiuwen's voice came from behind, Meng Xinyi stopped in her tracks!
Zhan Xiuwen continued, “Go out and see for yourself. In the entire country of China, besides me, who dares to take you on? It’s true that we each got what we wanted, but you didn’t get nothing either. Without me, could you have entered the entertainment industry so smoothly? Moreover, if you want your plans to come to fruition, you can’t do without me.”
Meng Xinyi sneered, "You can't live without me now, can you? If I break up with you, your divorce plan will fall through."
"Once you leave, plenty of women will climb into my bed. I'm just giving you this opportunity while I still have some interest in you."
Meng Xinyi closed her eyes in anguish, quickly calming herself down.
She turned to look at Zhan Xiuwen, "Okay, I promise you, but you have to promise me one thing too."
"you say."
"After Zhan Jingting dies, Qiao Wanwan will be handed over to me to deal with!"
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