This was the second time he had mentioned "secret lover" tonight. Since Xiao Yu wasn't present, Lin Xiao didn't want to hold back any longer, so he said to Yang Xile, "Xile, if you think that I or my boyfriend are not respectable and not worthy of being your noble young master's friend, we can simply stop seeing each other in the future!"
Although Lin Xiao didn't raise his voice, his words were extremely harsh. The bodyguard, while driving, anxiously observed Yang Xile's expression through the rearview mirror, because he had never heard anyone speak so harshly to the young master before.
Yang Xile, sitting in the back seat, was indeed furious, his face turning ashen, his nostrils flaring as he breathed heavily. The bodyguard dared not utter a sound, and silently glanced at Lin Xiao in the rearview mirror. Lin Xiao, also pale with anger, turned his head to look out the car window.
"What a pair of sworn enemies," the bodyguard sighed inwardly.
The car quickly arrived at Lin Xiao's new apartment building. Lin Xiao got out of the car quickly, slammed the door shut, and went upstairs without even glancing at Yang Xile.
Yang Xile was left alone in the back seat, panting with anger. The bodyguards, seeing this, didn't dare to move and waited for his orders.
"What? Aren't you leaving? Drive!" Yang Xile roared, venting his anger on the bodyguard.
This bodyguard was assigned to him by his father after his car accident when he was 13 years old; he was like an uncle who had been with him since childhood. He had almost never raised his voice to the bodyguard before, but today he had no other way to vent his anger on Lin Xiao, so he took it out on him.
The bodyguard was a little stunned when he was yelled at for the first time. After he came to his senses, he stepped on the gas and the car quickly disappeared around the corner.
When Lin Xiao entered the room, Yang Xile's car had already driven away.
She stood silently by the window, gazing at the Seine in the distance and the Pompidou Centre nearby, and suddenly felt like crying. What had she and the person she loved done wrong? Why did they have to be discriminated against and ridiculed like this?
How did Yang Xile transform from a well-behaved and righteous younger brother into the sharp-tongued, mean-spirited, and unreasonable person he is today?
She stood by the window for a while, then felt a headache coming on. Just as she was about to get up and rest, her phone suddenly rang like thunder.
Lin Xiao glanced at the wall clock. It was 10 PM in France, which would be 3 or 4 PM in China. Could it be that Wei Changfeng was calling her during a break on set?
She walked to the table, picked up her phone, and was shocked to see that the caller ID showed an unknown number. It wasn't a WeChat call, but an international long-distance call.
Lin Xiao was somewhat taken aback. He answered the phone, and the tone on the other end was urgent and sharp; it was his stepmother's voice.
"Lin Xiao! Lin Xiao, are you listening?"
Lin Xiao's heart raced. Had something happened to her father? Otherwise, her stepmother wouldn't have called her!
She said urgently, "It's me! Why are you calling me? Has something happened to my father?"
When Lin Xiao heard her answer the phone, her stepmother seemed relieved and said to her, "Come back quickly, your father has been arrested!"
"What?!" Lin Xiao was so shocked he almost dropped his phone. He hurriedly asked his stepmother, "Auntie, what happened? Why was my dad arrested? Who arrested him?"
"I don't know the specifics! I don't know whether it was the police or the prosecutor's office that arrested him; they took him directly from the company!"
It seems that it was something that bastard Feng Jinglin's father said that dragged your father into this! Xue'er is so angry she's about to cut ties with him!
What did Feng Jinglin's father say that led to his father's arrest? Lin Xiao felt a sudden dizziness and almost lost his balance.
"Why would Jinglin's father want to harm my father? Aren't they in-laws? Isn't Xiaoxue about to marry Jinglin?"
"Oh dear, I already said I don't know the specifics! Grandpa Feng and Feng Jinglin's father have been arrested for over half a month, and it's said they implicated many people, including your father! Their arrest has been on the front page of the news, didn't you see it?!" The stepmother began to inexplicably accuse Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao was completely bewildered. When she returned to China, she specifically asked her father whether the medical reform would affect him and the company. At that time, Lin Haitao assured her that it would not and told her not to worry. How could such a big change have happened in less than four months since she returned to Paris?
Her stepmother was still yelling on the phone, scolding her for enjoying herself in France and ignoring everything at home, and telling her to come back to China as soon as possible to see how to resolve her father's problems.
Because Lin Xiao's grandparents had passed away and his uncles and aunts were not very close, when something really happened, his stepmother couldn't find anyone to discuss solutions with. In her anxiety, she thought that she had to get Lin Xiao back to China no matter what.
The stepmother thought: Everyone usually says she is calm and smart, and this time it is her own father who is in trouble, she can't just ignore it.
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