Long Wu is a man, and Li Rui simply dislikes this unpredictable man. For example, a few days ago, in a well-known interview in Country A, he publicly stated that his appreciation for Xia Yixin was "out of a man's feelings for a woman," rather than between businessmen.
Su Bei, the president of the Su Group, is of mixed race. He has the physique of someone who looks slim in clothes but muscular when undressed, and is at least 1.88 meters tall. The man is wearing a silver-gray suit, has deep-set features, and blue-gray eyes. He has the refined demeanor of a mature man. Although he is over thirty years old, he only has the temperament that comes with the experience of a man who has been through many years.
When Xia Yixin first met him, she felt as if she were seeing Lu Yan from ten years later in the original work. At the same time, she had a question: why was such a character not mentioned at all in the original work, except for the sentence "Su Linyu's father is Su Bei, the president of Su Corporation".
With a gentlemanly apology on his face, Su Bei said, "I'm sorry I'm late. I wonder if Miss Xia is satisfied with the situation in the park?"
Xia Yixin snapped out of her reverie and gave a perfectly professional smile. "The Su Group's technology park is much better than I imagined. I'm really looking forward to the new medical community we're collaborating on going into operation." Before he could reply, she glanced at her watch. "It's getting late. I have other appointments to make, Mr. Su. Hope we can meet again in China next time."
As she spoke, she smiled and nodded at the other person, then walked past him toward the company's main entrance.
Su Bei was surprised that she would finish so quickly. Her eyes flickered slightly, but she did not stop her from leaving. Instead, she whispered to her assistant, "Take the things to Miss Xia."
What Su Bei sent was a brand new smartphone, made by the Su family, which has not yet been released. The palm-sized, pure metal black phone is as thin as paper, has a dual-screen design, and is quite expensive to manufacture.
Xia Yixin didn't know what bad luck she had. Her phone disappeared on her first day in Country A. Fortunately, Li Rui had already met up with her. It disappeared after going through airport security. Some of her cash was also lost along with it.
Because she was in Country A, she couldn't get a replacement SIM card yet, so she had been using Li Rui's number. She hadn't memorized Lu Yan's number and hadn't contacted him.
Inside the car, Li Rui opened the black gift box for her. Looking at the high-tech phone, she took a breath and said, "My dear CEO, it seems that President Su was not joking. This phone is not available on the market. It must be a new product developed by the Su family."
"In that case, find a chance to return it to him for me." Xia Yixin glanced at her phone and noticed that he was quite thoughtful, even including a new phone number—an American number starting with 020 and ending with 88. She frowned slightly.
This man from northern Jiangsu was far more sophisticated than her; his smile was impeccably gentlemanly, but she always felt that he had ulterior motives.
"I don't want something like last night to happen again." Xia Yixin sighed and rubbed her forehead.
Upon hearing this, Li Rui was also provoked and threw her phone back into the box. "Fine, you can't be too polite to someone who doesn't give you a gift. I also felt that Su Bei was a scoundrel. If I hadn't been with you last night, I would have been fooled by that gossip magazine. Last night, it was clearly his child clinging to you, and you handed the child back to him for less than a few seconds. That gossip reporter is a Photoshop master; he photoshopped me and the child out!"
Perhaps because Xia Yixin saved her, Xiao Su Linxuan specifically asked his father to invite her to dinner. She could refuse Su Bei, but she couldn't refuse a child's kindness, so after learning about the ambiguous things Su Bei said in the interview after the press conference yesterday, she still accepted the invitation.
However, gossip reporters who make baseless accusations are impossible to guard against.
"Yixin, where are we going now?" Li Rui asked, putting away the box.
The car sped across the deserted wasteland. Country A is vast and sparsely populated, and the science and technology park is located in the suburbs. It may be dozens of kilometers of Gobi desert. She brought six Dragon Guards with her this time, with Dragon Five leading the way. They were fully armed. After the hotel was exposed last night, she secretly changed hotels, but her ominous premonition was getting stronger and stronger.
"We went back to the hotel to pack our luggage and booked the next available flight back to China."
After returning to her hotel, the good news was that the SIM card that had been sent from China to replace the card but not the number finally arrived. She had previously pre-ordered an overseas communication add-on package, and after switching the card to her new phone, she was able to retrieve all her numbers after backing up her contacts to the cloud and verifying the phone's SMS messages.
Just as I finished doing that, my phone suddenly started ringing with a string of missed call notifications, all from Lu Yan these past few days. There were also a lot of messages on WeChat.
Just as she was about to call him back, Grandpa Xia dialed the number.
"What's wrong with Grandpa?"
Grandpa Xia said in a heavy tone, "Yixin, bad news. I just received news that Bai Chou has escaped from the hospital. The hospital director there, fearing that he would be implicated, suppressed the news for a full ten hours before reporting it. Now the capital's police force is searching for Bai Chou's whereabouts. I'm worried that he might do something desperate. You can postpone your return to China until he is caught. Right now, China is blocking information, and no foreign forces can be trusted."
Bai Chou actually escaped!?
She sensed something was wrong. All of Bai Chou's accounts, whether public or private, had been emptied by Zhao Jing. She trusted Zhao Jing's skills; it was a large sum of money. She had originally transferred it to Lu Yan, but it turned out that the hackers in his team had donated it all to the "Justice Foundation" intact.
Bai Chou is definitely broke. As a penniless and powerless burden, it would be difficult for him to escape from the heavily guarded hospital on his own, unless someone helps him. But who would help him, and for what reason?
She went to find Li Rui in another room of the suite, but she wasn't there.
She then contacted Zhao Jing. "Zhao Jing, I need you to check the surveillance footage near the Capital Hospital for me. See if there are any unusual things in it. Satellite images, 24 hours a day, would be best." She checked her watch and calculated the time difference. "It's roughly between 8 pm last night and midnight this morning. The sooner the better."
"Okay, Sister Xia, I'll tell you as soon as I find out," Zhao Jing said worriedly.
“But he has to be rich. I feel something’s not right about this.” She said, hanging up the phone, and made sure to check the bulletproof vest and portable pistol she was always wearing underneath.
During this time, she also called Li Rui's phone again, but the call went unanswered.
Just then, there was a knock on the suite door.
On the other side.
After drugging Li Rui and stuffing her into a car in the underground parking lot, the tall and burly kidnapper leader, dressed in a hotel waiter's uniform, was bald. Beside him were more than twenty other kidnappers, some dressed in waiter's uniforms and others fully armed with black hoods, but without exception, they all exuded a murderous aura.
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