Chapter 171 Please Cancel the Engagement with Me
Fu Shilin didn't expect that he would see Xia Wu again under such circumstances.
At the Longchuan Group headquarters, 8 a.m. is always rush hour, and Fu Shilin has a dedicated elevator, so he doesn't have to wait. Just as he was about to press the elevator button, a young girl with a pink backpack and a ponytail, who looked like an elementary school student, ran over. "Wait! Please wait for me! I'm going to be late!"
Fu Shilin never thought that one day he would see a woman dressed like this in the company. She was almost late. Did she work here?
New cleaning lady?
His clever brain rarely faltered, and before he could react, he had already quickly pressed the elevator button.
The girl didn't seem to recognize him. Noticing there were only two people in the elevator, she didn't realize anything was wrong. Instead, she let out a long sigh and said, "Oh my god, I'm so lucky to have met you. I'm going to the 17th floor, how about you? I'll press the button for you."
The girl is very familiar.
"The 23rd floor." Fu Shilin said lightly.
The location of the 23rd floor is very unique, and anyone with a little common sense can realize his identity.
But the girl was very calm. She pressed the 23rd floor and said with a laugh, "It's so high! Aren't you late every day?"
Fu Shilin had a blank expression on his face. He looked at his watch and said nothing.
The girl pouted in embarrassment. She hated these elites. They were so heartless.
The girl took out her cell phone, put on her Bluetooth headset, and ignored Fu Shilin.
Fu Shilin glanced at her phone. He swore that he had no hobby of peeking at other people's phones. He was just too shocked by this woman's actions. Could she be trying to attract his attention?
I have to say, she did it, but Fu Shilin hates stupid and brainless people.
Fu Shilin felt a little annoyed when someone who shouldn't have entered the small space entered.
But just with that glance, he seemed to see an overly familiar face.
"What are you looking at?" Fu Shilin couldn't help but look at her several times. The more he looked, the more she looked like Xia Wu.
He hadn't seen Xia Wu for a long time, as if this person had suddenly disappeared from his life, and Fu Shilin, who was busy with work, had no time to look for her actively.
His life plan is too full to dwell on love affairs. It doesn't matter who his wife is, as long as she is in that position.
Fu Shilin has always thought so.
Occasionally, on sleepless nights, he would think of Xia Wu, but he would quickly dismiss the idea.
"Do you like Xia Xia too? Great, this is Xia Xia's interview! I didn't expect to meet someone who shares the same concerns!"
The girl's face was full of shock, but soon she became proud and began to introduce Xia Xia to Fu Shilin.
It’s really Xia Wu. She has changed a lot from before.
So the reason why we can't find her is because she has returned to where she came from?
Fu Shilin stared at the girl who was talking on the phone. Apart from her face, everything about Xia Wu was unfamiliar to him.
The elevator arrived, the girl waved and rushed out of the elevator, and the elevator restarted. When Fu Shilin walked into the conference room, there were still fifteen minutes before the meeting, and his core employees had already arrived.
Fu Shilin suppressed his curiosity and forced himself to focus on the document to be discussed in the meeting. When the time came, he immediately started the meeting process.
Half an hour later, the meeting ended.
Fu Shilin stood up and walked out of the meeting room. The simply tailored suit fit his slender figure. Judging from his appearance alone, Fu Shilin was indeed outstanding.
Unfortunately, he is an inhumane workaholic.
There are many people in the company who like Fu Shilin, especially the female employees who have just joined the company. Who hasn't read a few science fiction romance novels about a domineering president falling in love with me when they were young? There are also many who actually take practical actions to force themselves on Fu Shilin.
But after a long time, the female employee realized that this man was a stone, or a robot.
He is not normal at all and does not have the emotions that a human being should have.
Whether it is family or friends, they are all useful in his mouth. Those who are of no use will never appear in his mouth.
Fu Shilin is pretty good to his subordinates, provided they can do what he wants. He has very high standards for his employees, but not even one-tenth as strict as he is with himself.
Longchuan Group has been able to prosper over the years, and even the shareholders have no objections, allowing Fu Shilin to become the head of the group because he treats himself well enough.
The company has never heard of any gossip about him.
After all, the news that Fu Shilin had a fiancée had already spread.
The marriage with the Xia family was decided when he was still young. As for whether there was any affection between them, that was not something that ordinary people could consider.
Rich people seem to live in another world and have a special set of behavioral logic.
Before Xia Wu's identity was exposed, she did not often go to Longchuan Group because Fu Shilin did not like her interfering in his company's affairs. After several arguments because of this, Xia Wu stopped going to his company.
But everyone in the company knows that she exists.
Later, the matter of the real and fake daughter was exposed and became the most talked-about topic in the company for a time. Everyone seemed to have experienced it firsthand and had different opinions.
They thought that Xia Wu and Fu Shilin's relationship should not be affected by their status. After all, Fu Shilin was not a gigolo who needed a marriage to make the company great again. But no one could have imagined that Fu Shilin had no feelings, including towards his fiancée.
He was afraid of trouble, and Xia Wu, who had an illegitimate identity, was trouble to him.
It doesn’t matter who his fiancée is, as long as she is in that position, anyone can be his fiancée.
Yang Wei, the real daughter of the Xia family, is now Fu Shilin's fiancée. People in the company rarely see her coming to the company. She probably only came once or twice at the beginning and would leave after not staying for too long.
The relationship between the two was not very close. Sometimes when they were alone in the office, they wished they were a million miles away from each other.
If Fu Shilin hadn't been so oppressive, someone would have come forward to gossip.
However, the salary he offered was too high, so no one was willing to discuss these matters in front of the boss during working hours.
Fu Shilin returned to the office and continued working, but he was still uneasy. He opened the web page and searched for Xia Wu.
Type out and then cancel to return to the office interface.
After repeating it twice, Fu Shilin finally found it.
The most beautiful internet celebrity, philanthropist, villager's daughter...
Countless praises were bestowed upon Xia Wu. Fu Shilin spent the entire morning trying to get to the bottom of the matter, all the way from the web page to Kuaishou.
It was his first time trying to download a short video app like Kuaishou, and he was not used to it.
I always feel like I'm being invaded by some foreign object.
He patiently downloaded and registered, and immediately searched for Xia Wu. Hundreds of videos popped up, catching him off guard.
Fu Shilin rarely took leave, and it took him five full days to finish watching those hundreds of short videos.
He didn't want to do this, but he couldn't help it.
Whenever he wanted to give up, Xia Wu's tearful face would always come to mind, and then a strange thought would come to his mind, "So I ignored him for so long because I found something else to do?"
Xia Wu is like a playful child. She will spend time with things she likes and monopolize them, not allowing others to touch them. But now, it is Fu Shilin who doesn't allow her to bother him and devotes all his attention to his work.
So, she gave up temporarily and found a new toy.
This is how Fu Shilin understood it.
He looked at Xia Wu in the video and thought that he had never seen her like this, so dirty. Although it was just a video, he seemed to smell the earthy smell on Xia Wu.
How could you think of going to that kind of place?
Fu Shilin sent a message to Xia Wu.
"Have you had enough fun? You can come back now."
The message sent fell on deaf ears.
Did he see it but deliberately not reply, or was he trying to keep him in suspense by playing hard to get?
Xia Wu played this little trick on him countless times.
Fu Shilin frowned for a rare moment.
Send a message to Xia Heng.
"Xia Wu is in the country?"
Xia Heng was isolated for a long time before replying to him.
"ah."
Just that one word, and then nothing happened.
Fu Shilin waited for two days, but he couldn't hold back his anger. "What do you mean? Is he there or not?"
"It seems that whether I'm here or not has nothing to do with you~"
That tilde made Fu Shilin even angrier.
"She's my fiancée."
"Please add that your current fiancée is my biological sister. Do you want to break off the engagement?"
That’s not the case.
The Xia family's main business is overseas, which is beyond the reach of the Longchuan Group. Marrying the Xia family will be very helpful for the Longchuan Group to go abroad.
Fu Shilin finally realized that something seemed to be wrong with what he did.
He didn't make it clear to Xia Wu that she was still the daughter of the Xia family. He just needed to confirm this. If the fact that Xia Wu was an adopted daughter would not affect his cooperation with the Xia family, then there would be no problem for him to marry her.
But there is no need to tell Xia Heng about this anymore.
He didn't like the way Xia Heng spoke to him.
What a coincidence! Xia Heng almost vomited. He could guess Fu Shilin's artificial expression and psychological activities without even looking at his face. What was he so arrogant about? Did he really think he was a boss?
No matter how amazing a person is, he still has to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom, right? Xia Heng found it even funnier when he thought of Fu Shilin's serious expression when he went to the bathroom because he was constipated.
As for why he knew it so clearly.
Of course, because he and Fu Shilin are actually the same person.
But that's all in the past.
Xia Heng felt that after raising cattle on the mountain in Yanggou Village for a period of time, his soul seemed to have been baptized.
The world became much simpler in his eyes.
No matter who you are, the different classes are just rules that people set for themselves when playing the game. What really determines a person's life and death is nothing more than having enough food and clothing.
People are ordinary creatures. Since we are ordinary creatures, we should not act so arrogantly as if we are the best in the world.
Blocked.
Xia Heng transformed his shame for his past behavior into disgust towards Fu Shilin, and felt much more at ease.
Look, he and Fu Shilin are not the same kind of people.
When Fu Shilin sent him a message again and found out that he had been blocked, he was so angry that he laughed.
He also has the contact information of other people in the Xia family.
"Do you know where your sister is?"
When Xia Meng received this message, she was distributing dried sweet potatoes to her classmates during recess. She desperately asked these wealthy kids who had never experienced hardship, "Is it delicious? This is handmade and sun-dried, with no additives. It's absolutely delicious!"
She even exaggerated and described the entire process of dried sweet potatoes from picking to washing, drying and steaming, her tone full of pride.
Of course, there were only a few people surrounding Xia Meng. These children's families were not as well off as the Xia family's, so they gathered around Xia Meng as if they were huddled together for warmth.
There are still different classes in the circle of rich people. Whoever has more money and power will have higher standards and be more praised.
The Xia family's assets can only be considered upper-middle class in the class, and there are probably five or six families that are richer and more powerful than hers.
But Xia Wu has another asset that she can show off, that is, she is very beautiful.
Not all rich people are tall, handsome, fair and beautiful. Appearance is like buying a lottery ticket. Some children from wealthy families are just well-dressed and fair-skinned, and they are willing to spend money on image management when they are young.
But in the face of true beauty, all of the above is useless.
Xia Meng is a school beauty after all. Although she cannot bully others in the class with money, she can still use her beauty to commit crimes. In addition, she has a smart brain, which is enough for her to become the leader of a unique small group in the class.
Ever since Xia Meng boarded the boat to Yanggou Village, she has been going further and further down a road of no return.
The students show off which niche tourist spots they visited abroad during their holidays, which private jets they took, and which top-notch Wagyu beef they ate. Even after enjoying so many wonderful things, they still look disgusted because they can enjoy something better next time.
If you show your love or praise for something, others will cover their mouths in surprise and say, "How could you like this? Don't you feel..."
Once someone says this, you will seem inferior.
After returning from school, Xia Meng became more and more different. When others talked about taking a private plane, she said she took a tractor; when others talked about climbing a snow-capped mountain to watch the sunset, she said she went to the river to fish and climbed a tree to climb a fork; when others talked about eating Wagyu beef, salmon and big snails, she could describe the delicacies she had eaten vividly, and then take out some small specialties from her bag.
"The sunflower seeds my sister grows on the mountain are so fragrant!"
"Dried sweet potatoes! Have you ever tried them? They're all natural!"
"Freeze-dried strawberries, also grown by my sister. Are they delicious?"
As she spoke, she fed her little follower.
Xia Meng was so cocky, squinting her eyes and shaking her legs as she said, "Everyone has been on a plane before. I'm tired of eating beef. But who among you has ever ridden a tractor? Who has ever fished in a river? Sigh, I have no topic to talk about with superficial people like you!"
Xia Meng was so happy that she could experience the unique rural life that she had never experienced before.
As a result, her classmates didn't want to play with her anymore and laughed at her for having tanned skin, saying that she looked like a country bumpkin or a country bumpkin.
Various sarcasms popped up one after another, but Xia Meng didn't mind, but someone in the class stood up for her first.
There is a boy named Liu Qiang in the class. His grandfather's generation was still working hard in the fields, but his father was a truly capable entrepreneur. In just twenty years, the company he created has become unstoppable and even cooperated with the country.
Even among the old rich people, the children were told by their families to get along well with him.
Liu Qiang, the name sounds quite rustic. I heard that he was still young when his father started his business. He was left at his grandfather's home in the countryside and was not taken back until he was in the third or fourth grade of elementary school.
He speaks Mandarin with a slight accent, his skin is not white, he has single eyelids, and he looks a bit rustic. He has no common topics with other students in the class. Usually, he just studies hard and plays by himself.
No one in the class dared to offend him, nor did they think that he would stand up for Xia Meng.
Liu Qiang simply stood up, looked around at his classmates, and asked them, "Are you discriminating against country people?"
So those who laughed at Xia Meng fell silent.
They made fun of Xia Meng because she was not a real village kid, but they didn't dare to really laugh at Liu Qiang who came from the countryside.
Afraid of affecting the family business.
These young people are very clear-headed.
Liu Qiang walked over to Xia Meng and asked her, "Can I have a piece of dried sweet potato to try?"
Xia Meng grabbed a handful for him and smiled, "Of course, Liu, have you ever climbed a tree?"
She had so many new experiences that she wanted to share with others, but she couldn't find anyone at home or at school. She missed her friends in Yanggou Village very much. The followers around her were willing to listen to her not because they were really interested, but because they had no choice.
Liu Qiang said that he had climbed trees and touched fish and shrimp. His area was a plain, and in the spring he would pick all kinds of wild vegetables and locust flowers, and steal fruits and chickens from other people's homes. He had done many things.
Xia Meng found a true confidant, drove away all her followers, and no longer shared snacks with them. She only talked to Liu Qiang and shared snacks with him only.
She even went to the teacher and asked him to change her seat so that she could sit next to Liu Qiang.
When Xia Meng received the message from Fu Shilin, she sat up straight.
"What's wrong?" Liu Qiang asked her with concern.
"Do you still remember the scumbag who abandoned my sister? He actually sent me a message asking about my sister. What should I do? How should I reply?"
Xia Meng panicked for a moment and sought medical help everywhere.
Liu Qiang thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry. Doesn't your sister have a new lover now? And from what you said, she doesn't want to return to the Xia family, so she probably doesn't want to have any contact with him. Think about it from another angle. If he can contact your sister, he won't ask for information through you. So I guess he already knows where your sister is and wants to make peace, but he doesn't know your sister's condition, so he came to inquire about it."
Xia Meng was stunned.
"Have you figured it all out?"
Liu Qiang pushed up his black-framed glasses and said, "I guessed."
"What do you say to him then?"
"It's up to you. You don't have to reply."
"No, if it's really like you said, and he regrets it now, then I have to make him really angry!"
Xia Meng still remembers how helpless Xia Wu was when the incident first happened. Such a strong and confident person must feel bad to be suddenly abandoned, right?
"My sister is married and has children."
These short ten words gave Fu Shilin a huge shock.
It took him ten minutes to recover from the shock. "Are you lying?"
He had heard about Xia Meng's bad character, and he felt that she was lying to him.
"You don't believe it?"
Xia Meng searched for the photo for a long time and sent it to Fu Shilin, "Do you believe it now?"
In the photo, Xia Wu is standing against the light, holding a cradle, looking down at the baby's face in the cradle, but her face is filled with a smile full of maternal love, which does not seem to be a lie.
Fu Shilin was so distraught that he didn't even react when his phone fell to the ground.
Liu Qiang also saw the photo, "Is your sister really pregnant?"
"Hehe, I was kidding!" Xia Meng shook her head, looking very proud. "My sister is holding a little monkey. The monkey is very attached to her, just like a child."
Fu Shilin was so immersed in the blow that he couldn't concentrate on his work. He really couldn't figure out who Xia Wu married?
After returning to the countryside, did she fall for some wild country man?
Just thinking about it, Fu Shilin felt as if someone was strangling him and he couldn't breathe.
He decided to go find Xia Wu in person to find out what was going on.
"Mr. Fu, are you free? I want to invite you to dinner and talk to you about something."
When Xia Wei's message came, Fu Shilin was booking a plane ticket.
He hesitated for a while and replied, "I'm busy. If you have anything to say, just tell me."
"Mr. Fu, I want to cancel my engagement with you."
Half an hour later, in a private booth in the coffee shop, Fu Shilin looked at the girl in front of him. She was different from when he first met Xia Wei. She had changed a lot now.
Although she still looked weak and gentle when she smiled, she now dared to look directly into Fu Shilin's eyes without flinching.
"Why?"
"Mr. Fu, are you asking me why I want to break off the engagement with you?"
Fu Shilin nodded, "There's no harm in marrying me."
Xia Wei smiled and stirred the spoon gently: "I don't like a marriage without love. Marrying you will not do me any good."
Fu Shilin frowned, "If you become Mrs. Fu, you will have endless money to spend."
Xia Wei helplessly spread her hands, "Do you know how much money the Xia family has given me in the past two years since I came back?"
"Let me think about it, about seven or eight million."
"Mr. Fu might think it's only seven or eight million. It's nothing for a rich man like you, but I come from a poor family, and eight million is really a lot. In the past two years, I have been studying hard and using the conditions provided by the Xia family to see a wider world. Although Mr. Fu thinks I am your fiancée, I have never thought of becoming your wife."
Xia Wei did not hide her research. She stared at Fu Shilin as if she wanted to see through his heart.
"Mr. Fu and I are probably the same kind of people. We are both very selfish. We have our own goals in life and we will move towards them unwaveringly."
"If I were born in the Xia family and grew up according to the rules, I might have accepted a loveless marriage with you in order to get what I want."
"But unfortunately, although my adoptive parents weren't very rich, they loved me very much, so I didn't have that strong aspirations for money. When I first learned I was the daughter of the Xia family, I was very happy. Even charity of a few thousand or tens of thousands of yuan seemed incredible to me. It took me more than half a year to adjust to the completely different consumption level."
"This place is like another world, where everything is priced beyond common sense. Marriage, family, friendship..."
Xia Wei sighed, "I have to say, I've seen another world, gained a deeper understanding of it, and I don't plan to stay and be a guest of this world."
Fu Shilin frowned: "What are you talking about?"
"Don't understand?"
"Okay," Xia Wei said helplessly, "I don't like you, so there's no way I'm going to marry you. Even if you don't agree, the Xia family can't force me. In short, I won't marry you."
"If Mr. Fu doesn't want to make things too awkward, I'm willing to give you the initiative. Please cancel this unreasonable child marriage with me."
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