"Mr. Lu, stop calling. Your wife is having lunch. She's doing very well right now."
Seeing Lu Fan so excited, Liu Shuang smiled and walked to Lu Fan's side, putting one hand on Lu Fan's shoulder and pointing to Jiang Manyue on the screen with the other.
"I'm warning you, Liu Shuang, if even a single hair on my wife's head is missing, I'll never forgive you!"
Lu Fan grabbed Liu Shuang's wrist and slammed her to the ground. He gritted his teeth and pressed Liu Shuang's head down, wishing he could kill her. But Lu Fan couldn't do that. Liu Shuang was a person without any manners. If he did it, Jiang Manyue would definitely be implicated. He pressed Liu Shuang's head down and warned her.
"Hahaha, if it weren't for me, your wife would have been kidnapped by the Dongfang Group. What would that mean? Instead of thanking me, you attacked me!"
Liu Shuang first gave a cold laugh, then spoke to Lu Fan, who was holding him down.
After listening to Liu Shuang's words, Lu Fan also fell into thought. Yu finally understood that it was indeed as Liu Shuang said. If he were captured by the Oriental Group, the situation might be even worse.
Just as Lu Fan was stunned, Liu Shuang kicked him directly in the chest. Lu Fan, who had no time to react, was sent flying.
Once Liu Shuang regained her mobility, she got up and attacked Lu Fan. Liu Shuang had a past as a hoodlum and had never been afraid of anyone, so she always used desperate moves. Lu Fan could only passively block. Lu Fan knew very well that in order to rescue Jiang Manyue, he could not fight back.
"Hmph, Lu Fan, aren't you always so high and mighty? Now you've been beaten down to your knees, haven't you!"
Exhausted from fighting for a while, Liu Shuang stood up, put her hands on her hips, and said to Lu Fan with a disdainful look.
"Hahaha, you're the same. You still need my help. Without my help, you're just delusional if you think you can take down Liu Shang!"
After being knocked to the ground, Lu Fan coughed up blood and then laughed loudly, looking at Liu Shuang with disdain as he spoke to her.
"You, Liu Shang, in what way are you better than me? Why is it that we fought side by side to build this empire, yet he became the chairman? Answer me!"
Liu Shuang hated it most when people said she was inferior to Liu Shang, so she grabbed Lu Fan by the collar, pulled him up from the ground, and questioned him.
"Hmph, he wouldn't use other people's families to blackmail them. In that respect, you're no match for him!"
Seeing Liu Shuang's angry expression, Lu Fan replied to her with disdain.
"Hmph, your provocation won't work on me. Just hurry up and send the money over. I'll be waiting for you right here. Don't try anything funny, or I can't guarantee your wife won't end up at the Oriental Group."
Liu Shuang regained her composure after her anger subsided and realized why Lu Fan had provoked her. She then released her hands, straightened Lu Fan's clothes, and smiled at him.
"After I send the money over, I hope I can meet my wife."
Seeing that his trick had failed, Lu Fan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and made his demands to Liu Shuang.
"Sure, once the money is in place, I'll decide the time and place."
Upon hearing Lu Fan's request, Liu Shuang didn't know what he wanted to do, but looking into his determined eyes, she figured that even if she disagreed, he might do something drastic. After thinking it over, she agreed to Lu Fan's request.
"Okay, I'll go back and prepare now."
Lu Fan checked the time. He had been out for quite a while, and if he didn't go back soon, the people from the Oriental Group who were keeping an eye on him would probably find out.
The demands were all agreed upon, and he put his hat back on before leaving Liu Shuang's private room.
"May I ask how you got out?"
As he reached the door, Lu Fan turned back and asked Liu Shuang the question that had been on his mind.
"It's very simple. The people Liu Shang kept to watch over me are all my own men. If my own men are watching me, how could I not get out?"
Hearing Lu Fan ask her about this, she had nothing to hide and smiled as she spoke to him.
"I see."
After hearing the answer, Lu Fan nodded and left the room. The person who was already waiting at the door led Lu Fan away the way he came.
As Lu Fan walked out of the teahouse, he looked back at the teahouse he had just entered and silently memorized its name.
Lu Fan was also thinking. He wasn't just asking the last question casually; he wanted to know how Liu Shuang had gotten out. He hadn't expected her to be so thoughtful.
Seeing that his people were all his subordinates, he realized that Liu Shuang's scheming was something that even two Liu Shangs couldn't match. He began to worry that once Liu Shuang became the chairman of Shanggong Group, he might become even more outrageous than Liu Shang.
If they try to betray us later, we can still deal with Liu Shang now. If Lu Fan had to choose between Liu Shang and Liu Shuang, he would choose Liu Shang without hesitation.
I won't make enemies with someone like Liu Shuang. Often, a calm enemy isn't scary; it's a crazy person like that who's the most terrifying.
"Chairman, are you in the hospital room right now?"
Secretary Ge received a call from Nangong Qi. Lu Fan asked her to come to the hospital. When she arrived at the hospital, she was blocked at the entrance by bodyguards who wouldn't let her in. She sensed that something was wrong.
She thought to herself that if Lu Fan were here, he would never let anyone stop her from entering. Sensing that Lu Fan wasn't in the ward, she leaned against the wall by the door, dialed Lu Fan's number, and listened carefully to the sounds coming from inside the ward, but couldn't hear a phone ring.
There was no phone ringing in the ward. After Lu Fan answered the phone, Secretary Ge cautiously asked him a question.
"Hmph, you know I'm not in the ward, why don't you ask me where I am?"
Lu Fan knew that Secretary Ge must have figured something out, otherwise she wouldn't have asked him directly if he was in the ward. His trick might work on others, but it would be strange if Secretary Ge, an old hand, didn't see through it.
Not wanting to hide anything from Secretary Ge, he smiled and said to her.
Knowing that Jiang Manyue was safe, Lu Fan, who had been depressed, was much happier, since he would be able to rescue his wife soon.
"Mr. Lu, where are you now? I'm coming to find you right away. I've brought you what you asked for, as you instructed."
When Secretary Ge heard that Lu Fan really wasn't at the hospital, she looked around, covered her mouth with her hand, and whispered to Lu Fan, "I'm not at the hospital."
Since Lu Fan had security guards stand at the door and didn't follow them out, it was to create the illusion that Lu Fan was still in the ward.
Secretary Ge dared not leak this matter; if the people from the Oriental Group heard about it, things would really be bad.
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