The intelligence department of Xu Corporation was extremely capable.
Basically, any information they wanted to investigate could be obtained quickly.
After all, they had hired world-class talent with high salaries to work for them.
In the conference room, Xu Mo was feeling anxious and restless.
He believed that soon, his subordinates would surely follow the trail and uncover the irregularities of Hongtu.
Then they would come in and report everything to him.
Under everyone's watchful eyes.
Even if he was the antagonist, even if he wanted the protagonist to face a setback.
He couldn't possibly jump into a pit knowing it was right in front of him.
Antagonists aren't truly brainless.
Without some intelligence, the readers wouldn't buy it.
The author's setup was to make the plot seem reasonable, conforming to the standards of face-slapping stories.
Bang-------
The sound of a bottle cap being popped open rang out.
Xu Mo came back to his senses and saw the she-devil opening his treasured champagne, pouring the liquor into two flutes without a care.
Under Xu Mo's surprised gaze, Zhou Qiaoqiao walked over with a smile, holding the glasses, and offered one to him.
"Care for a drink?"
"You're in the mood to drink?"
Xu Mo asked reflexively, looking at the glass.
Zhou Qiaoqiao smiled coyly, "Why wouldn't I be in the mood? I helped you recover over a hundred billion in funds, shouldn't you be thanking me?"
"Other people do business hoping to make more money, darling, do you do business intending to lose money?"
Xu Mo realized his earlier slip of the tongue and put on a slight smile.
"Not at all, you saved the Xu family from an unwarranted disaster, I can't thank you enough!"
[Zhou Qiaoqiao, I 'sincerely' thank your whole family!]
"Oh, and don't call me darling, it sounds sappy, and you're only my fiancée, not my wife yet!" Xu Mo added.
Zhou Qiaoqiao gently swirled the glass in her hand and said softly,
"And you say you're thanking me."
"There's no sincerity at all, is a man's gratitude just empty words?"
Her tone, her actions, her demeanor....
She was the very picture of a long-suffering wife.
Just as Zhou Qiaoqiao said.
In business, everyone hopes to make money, not lose it.
The amount of funds Zhou Qiaoqiao had recovered this time was substantial.
Xu Mo's reaction was too bland.
Neither happy nor sad.
As if nothing had happened.
This was very much out of character.
Xu Mo forced a smile, "Miss Zhou, what do you want me to do?"
"First, call me 'honey' and let me hear it." Zhou Qiaoqiao smiled.
"Don't push it!" Xu Mo's face turned cold.
[I want to call you that too, but my sycophant character setting won't allow it]
Zhou Qiaoqiao's smile became more playful, her heart sweeter than honey.
The role Xu Mo was currently playing didn't allow him to say these things.
This was his bottom line.
Zhou Qiaoqiao now knew this point.
So she didn't continue to insist on this aspect.
"Drink this glass of champagne, my hand is getting sore from holding it."
Zhou Qiaoqiao changed her condition.
Xu Mo nodded, he could accept this condition.
As he took the champagne.
The she-devil's fair and slender fingers grazed Xu Mo's hand.
Like a little kitten toying with one's heart.
Xu Mo's hand holding the champagne trembled slightly, taken aback, but fortunately, the drink didn't spill.
"After you finish this glass of champagne, you can go."
This life's she-devil wasn't playing by the usual rules.
Xu Mo was having trouble handling it!
In the later stages, the protagonist Lin Fan was toyed with by the blackened Zhou Qiaoqiao.
Dragon King Hall suffered a heavy blow.
It was enough to see that Zhou Qiaoqiao wasn't as simple as she appeared on the surface.
[Zhou Qiaoqiao, you're not right, you're very not right!]
[After sending you away, I need to make new plans, if I don't acquire Hongtu, how will Lin Fan have a chance to show off and face-slap?]
[Ah... it's all because of this damned dog-shit plot]
"Ding, congratulations host, personal power +1"
"I can't leave when there's a failed investment plan involving hundreds of billions, don't forget, the Zhou family's funds are included in this as well."
Zhou Qiaoqiao finished speaking and drained her glass in one gulp.
She poured herself another glass without asking.
She had intended to refill Xu Mo's as well.
Xu Mo, somewhat irritated, didn't accept at first, but then thinking that this champagne was expensive and his personal property.
It would be a waste not to drink it, so he extended his glass back.
Zhou Qiaoqiao just smiled without saying much, and dutifully filled Xu Mo's glass.
Knock knock knock--------
A series of knocks sounded from outside the conference room door.
"Come in!" Zhou Qiaoqiao called out.
Xu Mo now looked like he didn't want to deal with anyone, sitting there questioning his life choices.
So Zhou Qiaoqiao spoke up.
The person who entered was Li Ming.
At this moment, Li Ming was covered in sweat, his face pale, walking unsteadily, and speaking with a stutter.
"Mr. Xu, Ms. Zhou, we... we have the results."
Although Zhou Qiaoqiao knew the truth would be the same as what Xu Mo had said.
But before the facts were confirmed.
She couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy in her heart.
After all, she wasn't Xu Mo, who had personally lived through the entire novel's plot.
However, seeing Li Ming's current state of disarray and extreme timidity.
Zhou Qiaoqiao's heart leaped with joy, it seemed like everything was set.
Her pretty face turned cold, her eyes flashing with a chilling light, "I hear you calling me Ms. Zhou, and not Madam, pack your things and leave today."
Xu Corporation offered annual salaries and benefits three times that of their industry peers.
Their reputation was also first-class in the industry.
Li Ming didn't want to lose this job, his eyes seeking help from Xu Mo, only to find that Xu Mo wasn't even looking at him.
"Ma... Madam." Li Ming thought Xu Mo had tacitly agreed.
He was dead either way.
The issue with Hongtu Real Estate was discovered by Zhou Qiaoqiao.
She deserved the due respect.
Zhou Qiaoqiao nodded with satisfaction, "Out with it!"
Li Ming, mustering his courage, said: "Hongtu Real Estate indeed has problems, completely consistent with the information you obtained!"
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
