Fang Xiao returned to her office, where Chu Mingrui was waiting for her.

Obviously, he knew where she was, and before he could ask, Fang Xiao told him: "Xu Chenrui wants to buy the equity, or persuade us not to disagree at the year-end meeting." ”

Chu Mingrui didn't ask anything, only said, "Then they must be very disappointed?" ”

Fang Xiao was a little tired for no reason, she walked to the swivel chair and sat down with a "hmm", Chu Mingrui saw her like this, and knew that she didn't want to talk very much, so he went back to his own office.

In the evening, the two of them had their own entertainment, it was almost midnight when Fang Xiao went home, Chu Mingrui came back even later, Fang Xiao heard the antique table clock in the living room strike three times, and then heard the sound of Chu Mingrui going upstairs lightly - he thought she had already fallen asleep, but she was still leaning on the head of the bed looking at the computer, and between her expressions, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "You haven't slept yet?" ”

Fang Xiao could hear the wind outside the window coming from one after another, the typhoon had brought majestic rain, but the room was unusually quiet in the wind and rain.

The visor on the ceiling came in handy for the first time, so Fang Xiao felt that everything in the room was quieter and more peaceful than usual, so he turned off his notebook: "I'm waiting for you, typhoon weather, and the driver said that he doesn't know where you are going." ”

He was silent, Fang Xiao smelled a strong smell of wine on his body, and couldn't help asking, "Have you ever drunk?" So how can you still drive yourself? Should call back, I'll call the driver to pick you up. ”

"I went to a club with a few friends and drank a little champagne." Chu Mingrui stood up and took the bathrobe, "I'll take a bath." ”

He didn't close the door of the cloakroom, Fang Xiao saw that he threw his shirt on the carpet, so he walked over to pick it up, and was about to put it in the laundry basket, but he saw a touch of crimson on the neckline.

It was the coral red of the fifteenth, and her lip gloss had never been this color, and it looked unusually gorgeous under the light.

She was stunned for a moment, and casually put the shirt in the laundry basket.

The wind outside was getting louder and louder, listening to the rain hitting the window with a tight brush, she couldn't sleep, and turned over again, Chu Mingrui turned his back to her, breathing steadily and long, maybe she had fallen asleep.

The ends of his neck were neatly trimmed, and he looked like a child, and she suddenly reached out and touched the hairline very lightly. His body stiffened slightly, so her hand froze, and he lay there without moving, and after a while, there was a little tiredness in his voice: "I'm sorry." ”

He didn't feel sorry for her, he took her out of a desperate situation, he took her to Paris, he married her, gave her the capital for revenge, he never felt sorry for her, only she was sorry for him.

She slowly stretched out her arms to wrap around him from behind, his body was still stiff, he finally turned around, but slowly pushed her hand away, his eyes flickered in the darkness, and he said, "Xiaoxiao, don't give me hope." ”

She doesn't understand.

He quickly laughed: "I'm sorry, I've never really had anything - everything in this world that I wish to have is always destined to be lost in the end, so please don't give me hope, I'm afraid I'll be disappointed then, it's too cruel, I can't stand it - don't you understand?" ”

His words were like a sharp knife, cutting gently into her heart, and she looked at him in a hurry, as if she understood, and as if she did not know, and he turned his face away from her, as if he were tired.

At the end of December, the year-end meeting was held as scheduled.

The change in the personnel of the board of directors embarrassed the entire Xu family, but there was nothing they could do.

In business, the cooperation between Chu Mingrui and Fang Xiao reached a seamless level, and the Xu family gradually realized the looming crisis.

In February, due to a mistake in decision-making, the engineering group, a major member of Xu's affiliated enterprises, announced that its debts had reached 340 million, which immediately caused panic and accusations from all shareholders.

In late February, another pillar of Hui's linked enterprises, Rongda Credit, was involved in a financial scandal involving 42 companies, including three major banks.

Xu Shen, the managing director of Rongda Credit, voluntarily resigned, and the board of directors had to adjust the personnel plan, breaking the situation of Xu's monopoly on power, and Chu Mingrui was appointed as the general manager of Rongda Credit, presiding over the asset management work.

In early March, Fang Xiao was appointed by the board of directors to investigate the operation of the project.

This series of quick and fierce blows made the Xu family dizzy and unprepared.

Chu Mingrui said: "It's like the flop is bigger, to their surprise, my cards are bigger than theirs." ”

Fang Xiao knew that he had secretly acquired the scattered shares in the hands of many inconsequential members of the Xu family, and the price he offered made everyone hesitate.

Fang Xiao was worried that it would not be wise to buy these shares at a price much higher than the market price, but Chu Mingrui didn't care at all.

She said to him, "It's too ostentatious, and it's not worth the price." ”

He only pinched her cheek affectionately, and flicked the stack of controlling warrants with his fingers, and the stack of papers fluttered like butterfly wings: "Xiaoxiao," he liked to call her like this, as if she were a child, "We'll surprise them." ”

It was only three days before Fang Xiao knew what his so-called surprise was, and she had accidentally found a stack of photos on his study table.

It's all a close-up of Xu Chenrui and another woman, she flipped through the photos, Chu Mingrui came in, and when she saw that she was looking at the photos, she asked, "It's not bad." ”

She smiled faintly and asked, "How did you get it?" ”

"Of course it's bought with money." "My motto is that money makes the devil grind," he said. ”

She laughed, and after a few days, she heard that there was a problem with the marriage between the Xu family and the Xia family, and the eldest lady of the Xia family had a strong temper and was easy to uncompromise, making a fuss.

Chu Mingrui said: "It's time to face the enemy." ”

Fang Xiaoshen thought so. Yes, they have already begun to face the core characters directly.

At this time, Chu Mingrui suddenly had to go back to the United States because of a business.

He left in a very hurry, and the day after he left, it was the regular meeting of the board of directors, Fang Xiao went to the meeting alone, and he didn't say anything during the meeting, but after the meeting, Xu Chenrui came forward and invited her to the chairman's room to "drink coffee".

Fang Xiao walked into Xu Chenrui's extraordinarily magnificent reception room, and as soon as the guest and host sat down on the sofa, she sighed and said, "It's useless." ”

Xu Chenrui stared at her, with a slight suspicion in his eyes.

She said: "You want to convince me alone, you have tried, you know it is useless." ”

There was admiration in his eyes, and he said, "You guessed right, and I still try to convince you, and that's because I don't want to treat you as an enemy." There's one person I still want to ask you to meet. ”

Then he raised his hand and slapped his hands twice.

The side door was opened, and a tall woman came out, she had long blond hair and charming blue eyes, she was a typical Western beauty, but the Caucasian was forever older than the Oriental, and as soon as she passed thirty, she was defeated like a mountain, and her skin could not be covered by fine lines and freckles, and she looked very haggard.

Fang Xiao glanced back at Xu Chenrui in confusion, and there was no trace of expression on his cold face that could make her speculate.

The Western beauty spoke, and it was actually fluent in Chinese: "Mrs. Chu, hello." ”

Fang Xiao smiled and said, "Hello." ”

She sighed deeply and said, "I really didn't expect that one day I would call someone else 'Mrs. Chu'." ”

Fang Xiao's expression changed slightly, and he had faintly guessed the entanglement. But she still nodded with a smile and said, "The world is unpredictable, this lady, I don't know what to call it?" ”

"My name is AnnaBaker, you can call me Anna by my Chinese name." There was endless pain in her eyes, "The person who chose this name for me back then, alas, ......"

Fang Xiao was silent, picked up the coffee and took a big sip.

The bitter taste cheered her up, and she knew she had a tough fight to fight.

Sure enough, Anna immediately said: "Mrs. Chu, I can't hide it, I am Chu Mingrui's ex-wife, and I have been divorced from him for five years." For the past five years, I have been tormented by pain and regret every day. I paid dearly for my stupidity, and I didn't want to see another victim like me.

Fang Xiao smiled quietly and asked, "Do you think I'm another victim?" ”

A frenzied excitement appeared on Anna's face, and her voice was sharp with excitement: "I know you wouldn't believe it, and I wouldn't have believed it seven years ago. He's a devil, a devil in the real way, and you'll not have a bone left! ”

Fang Xiao shook his head, still with a faint smile on his face: "Miss Anna, you are too paranoid. ”

Anna's emerald blue eyes flashed with resentment, and she said, "Look, I know that he always has a way of making people fall in love with him, and I was like an ignorant fish who swallowed his bait in one gulp." I loved him so much, loved him desperately, betrayed my father for him, and learned Chinese for him. Oh! I'm the stupidest fool in the world; And you, you're even more stupid than I am, and I have the best example right in front of you, and you don't believe it at all! ”

Fang Xiao smiled, turned his face and asked Xu Chenrui: "Mr. Xu, I still have business, can I take the first step?" ”

Without waiting for Xu Chenrui to answer, Anna screamed and rushed over and grabbed her arm: "You stupid fool! Let me tell you what he did to me, he tricked me into marrying him with sweet words and so-called thoughtfulness, and he used me to embezzle my family's fortune step by step. Then he threw me away like a useless broken shoe. Do you think he loves you? Do you think he has any sincerity for you? Wait, wait until you don't have any more use, and see what he will do to you! She yelled at her hysterically, her sharp nails pinching Fang Xiao's bare arms.

Fang Xiao frowned painfully and said to her, "I'm sorry, I really have something to do first." ”

She grabbed her like crazy: "You don't believe it? You don't believe it? You stupid pig! ”

Fang Xiao finally broke free from her grasp with all his strength, and two long blood marks had been cut on her elbow by her long nails. She stood up: "Mr. Xu, that's enough." It's time for this farce to end! Then she turned and walked to the door without looking back.

Anna's shrill voice echoed in the room: "You fool, you will definitely regret it!" ”