It didn't take long for the international call to go through. Since it was lunchtime in Hua Xia, Yang Cheng didn't think that Anxin would go to bed early.
Sure enough, the call was picked up after two rings. Anxin's gentle voice came through, and she said with a hint of surprise, "Hubby, why did you suddenly call me? I didn't have this habit before. Did you miss me?"
"You didn't call me when you were in trouble, so I could only call you." Yang Cheng was a little unhappy. It was embarrassing that his woman was in trouble, but he only found out about it through his friend.
Anxin fell silent. After a long silence, she said faintly, "I thought … I would be able to settle the matter by the time you came back, so I didn't want to tell you immediately."
"Hmph, you didn't want to tell me at all!" Yang Cheng could guess the woman's thoughts. "Don't say useless things. Tell me what it is."
Anxin hesitated for a while. It was obvious that she was struggling on the other end of the phone. In the end, she was afraid that she would make Yang Cheng even angrier, so she briefly told him what had happened …
After listening, Yang Cheng's face darkened. He hung up and said to Edward, "Prepare a plane. I need it at any time."
"You're going back to Hua Xia early?" Edward said with a smile.
Yang Cheng nodded, but before that, he had to go to the Louvre to inform Lin Ruoxi. When he got up, he thought of something and said to Edward, "As for Catherine, tell her to take care of Ron's people when she wakes up. Ron is getting old, so he can't always be so considerate."
Edward expressed his understanding. "Don't worry. Even if Aunt doesn't help, we will help you take care of the back garden."
About half an hour later, Yang Cheng arrived at the banquet hall of the Louvre. At this time, Lin Ruoxi should have already come out of the exhibition area.
Shuttling through the crowd of men and women, it took Yang Cheng a while to find Lin Ruoxi in the inner corner.
Lin Ruoxi, who was wearing a white dress with pleated straps, sat quietly on a leather chair with a string of fine pearls hanging in front of her chest. Her delicate face, which was devoid of any makeup, was expressionless. She was so cold that even if the people around her wanted to come forward and strike up a conversation, they would retreat and leave a space around her.
Holding a glass of champagne in her hand, Lin Ruoxi didn't even take a sip. She was looking at the crowd in front of her and lost in thought.
Yang Cheng walked to the woman's side and stood still. Lin Ruoxi slowly turned her head around.
Seeing that it was Yang Cheng, Lin Ruoxi's expression didn't change in the slightest. It was as if she had seen a stranger. This made Yang Cheng's heart ache. He really didn't understand what was going on.
"What's the matter?" Lin Ruoxi asked in a clear voice.
The tone of a complete stranger made Yang Cheng want to drag her out of the venue and ask her about it. But at this time, thinking about the trouble with Anxin in Zhonghai, he could only think about it later. So he said, "I want to go back to Zhonghai in advance."
Lin Ruoxi still didn't react and nodded, "Got it."
Yang Cheng felt very depressed and added, "It's Anxin who is in some trouble. I'm worried that something will happen if we delay too long."
"Got it." Lin Ruoxi still said these three words, as if everything was not something she cared about.
Yang Cheng clenched his fists. The current Lin Ruoxi was even colder than when he first met her. She was like a porcelain doll without human feelings, an ice sculpture. Not only did she make people feel sorry for her, she was also so dull that it seemed like she didn't know how to communicate.
The more Lin Ruoxi behaved like this, the more scared Yang Cheng was. But this woman didn't want to communicate with him at all, and he didn't know how to find a way out.
After a long time, Yang Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Then I'll leave first."
"Okay." Lin Ruoxi didn't have any intention of asking any more questions. That one word was equivalent to sending Yang Cheng off.
Yang Cheng didn't delay any longer, he turned around and left the banquet hall in big strides.
It wasn't until Yang Cheng's figure disappeared into the crowd that Lin Ruoxi raised her head and looked in the direction of his back, her eyes rippling.
…
Zhonghai, Yu Lei International Entertainment Company, director's office.
Anxin was wearing a black lady's suit and a light coffee-colored pleated knee-revealing skirt. She walked into the office with a white handbag in her hand. When she walked into the company, she maintained a sweet smile, but as soon as she entered the door, it disappeared immediately. She leaned against the door listlessly and closed her eyes for a while.
Anxin had been troubled these past few days. What made her feel even more pained was that all of this was caused by herself.
When Star of Yu Lei was held, she begged Yang Cheng to let her take part in the hosting job because of her passion and competitiveness. Although she achieved her goal and the results were good, and the broadcasting station even tried their best to invite her to be a permanent host, she wasn't an ordinary girl after all. It was impossible for her to keep showing her face in the same broadcasting station.
Originally, she thought that after Star of Yu Lei passed, her hosting career was almost over. Who knew that just because she appeared on TV a few times, she would be targeted by someone who wanted to attract attention!
The director of Zhonghai's Radio and Television General Administration, a young high-ranking official's son named Lu Min, actually took a liking to her. As soon as she withdrew from her job at Star of Yu Lei, he began to pursue her relentlessly.
In the past, when the An family was still a second-tier family in Zhonghai, Anxin had many suitors. However, because of the Liu family, who was engaged to her, many people flinched.
After that, as the An family became the second largest family in Zhonghai, very few people dared to pursue her casually. Moreover, An Zaihuan, her father, only wanted to curry favor with Yang Cheng. Of course, he would do everything he could to please his daughter. If ordinary people dared to pursue his daughter, wouldn't they be sent flying without any reason?
However, Lu Min was different. According to An Zaihuan, the power behind this man was not to be underestimated. If it wasn't for his powerful background, how could a thirty-one-year-old young man become the director of a municipal government agency? This was a department level official, and an official who held the power of information and media channels!
In a country like Hua Xia, where the government held absolute power, a department that could control the media and public opinion was equivalent to controlling the direction of half of the society's attention. Many people who worked hard in the government until they were fifty or sixty years old rarely reached the level of a department level official, let alone a thirty-one-year-old man.
And according to some people who were more familiar with Lu Min, Lu Min had only been transferred to Zhonghai for less than a year. His actual foundation was in the capital city of Yan Jin.
In a dangerous place like Yan Jin, any second-tier family would be no worse than a first-tier family in Zhonghai. Which family didn't have a ministerial figure as their backer? Perhaps it would even implicate the real power holders in Hua Xia. How could a businessman like the An family touch them?
Because of this, An Zaihuan, who was unsure of Lu Min's background and was incomparably afraid, hoped that his daughter Anxin could tell Yang Cheng about the situation here, and let Yang Cheng decide what Anxin should do.
To put it bluntly, whichever side was stronger, An Zaihuan felt that his daughter should follow. He didn't want to offend either side!
This matter made Anxin quite angry. Ever since she received Yang Cheng's care and the Rothschild family invested in the An family, An Zaihuan's status rose with the tide, and he also cared about Anxin.
No matter what her father's main purpose was, at least Anxin tasted the warmth of being loved by a family.
Unexpectedly, when someone with real power came to harass her, her father, who had just improved his image a little, immediately became a coward again. Not only did he not dare to touch his daughter's matters, but he also directly asked her to look for Yang Cheng! He didn't even dare to express his opinion!
As a result, it was as if Anxin was exposed to the air without any cover. She could only hide from Lu Min and use all kinds of reasons to reject him.
An Zaihuan asked her to call Yang Cheng, but Anxin didn't dare to do so.
She wasn't worried that Yang Cheng wouldn't stand up for her. Although she wasn't clear about Yang Cheng's identity, as someone that even the Rothschild family had to respect, how could he be simple?
The problem was that Hua Xia was different from other countries. From the fact that the Rothschild family only came to invest and didn't dare to actually operate the industry, it could be seen that no matter how arrogant the foreign forces were, when it came to Hua Xia, they still had to listen to the face of the Hua Xia government.
If that Lu Min really had an extraordinary background, and Yang Cheng offended them because of her, causing irresistible trouble, how could Anxin forgive herself?
Therefore, Anxin wanted to drag it out as long as she could. She could only hope that Lu Min was just acting on a whim and would retreat when he saw that she didn't listen to him.
She didn't expect that Yang Cheng, who was far away in Europe, would know about her. She didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Hearing Yang Cheng's heavy tone, she couldn't hide it anymore, so she simply told him what happened.
"I don't know if he will be angry," Anxin muttered to herself and sighed. She carried her bag and walked to Yang Cheng's desk. She sat down and prepared to deal with the documents that Wang Jie and the others sent.
However, before Anxin could sit down, there was a knock on the office door.
"Come in," Anxin tried her best to cheer herself up and said in a clear voice.
After the door was pushed open, a man wearing an Armani suit and well-tailored trousers walked in. The red and black tie on his chest made him look like a successful person. His face was fair without any facial hair, and there was a hint of maturity in his youth. He wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and was about 1.8 meters tall.
"Miss Anxin, it's a meaningful morning to be able to see you at your workplace in the morning," the man said with a smile.
Anxin's pretty face turned pale. She bit her thin lips, stood up and walked to the desk, "Lu Min, what do you want? I already said I won't agree to it."
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