"What's wrong with how I'm dressed? Is there a problem?"
Niu Qiuling looked at her outfit, feeling there was nothing wrong with it.
"You look like a cop. Do you think there's no problem?" Wan Yunting glanced at her and said.
"Qiuling, you could dress a bit more naturally, like in a dress or something, since you're playing Yun Ting's girlfriend."
At this moment, Pang Yuan and Zhou Dong also came out. They looked at Niu Qiuling's cool attire and her police combat boots. If people didn't know better, they would think she was Wan Yunting's bodyguard.
"Director Pang, I'm just that kind of girl."
Niu Qiuling rolled her eyes, thinking they were making a fuss over nothing. She pouted and said, "I dress like this usually, so I don't have dresses or anything like that."
"If you don't have them, then buy them," Wan Yunting said.
"Then you buy them for me," Niu Qiuling glared at him, annoyed.
"If you want me to buy them, I will. It's no big deal. Let's go."
Wan Yunting rolled his eyes at her, greeted Pang Yuan and Zhou Dong, and headed straight for the police station lobby. Niu Qiuling only then reacted and chased after him, saying, "You said it yourself!"
"It's just buying a few clothes. You can pick whatever you want tonight."
Wan Yunting opened the car door and got in. Niu Qiuling also pulled open the door and sat in the passenger seat, a mischievous smile on her face. "Okay, then let's go directly to the Tian Yu Mall."
Wan Yunting glared at her, started the car, and drove straight to Tian Yu Mall.
Tian Yu Mall was the most famous luxury mall in Hua Du City, housing luxury brand stores from all over the world. Therefore, most people who shopped here were women, and wealthy ones at that, perhaps looking to catch a rich man to pay for them...
A white Mercedes sedan slowly stopped in the mall's underground parking lot. Fang Yanxi, dressed in Loewe professional attire, got out of the car with a cold, expressionless face. Following her was Lin Ya Nan, wearing a red dress with a small jacket over it, carrying a designer handbag. As soon as they parked, they headed for the elevator.
"Yan Xi, you're in a bad mood, so you're out shopping. Why didn't you bring Old Wan along, and instead brought me? I'm not going to carry your bags for you," Lin Ya Nan said as she followed Fang Yanxi into the elevator, looking puzzled.
Lin Ya Nan naturally knew about the Wan Shi Da Group incident, which is why she thought Fang Yanxi was in a bad mood because of it and had dragged her to the mall to vent.
"Don't mention him to me!"
Upon hearing about the man, Fang Yanxi became angry.
Lin Ya Nan's expression was startled. She looked at the angry Fang Yanxi and asked, "Yan Xi, what's wrong? Did you have a fight with Old Wan?"
Fang Yanxi turned to Lin Ya Nan and huffed, "Do you know who the real chairman of Chao Ting Group is?"
"How would I know that?"
Lin Ya Nan glanced at her and said, "Your group's chairman is so mysterious. I don't know if he's someone who can't be seen in public..."
"It's Wan Yunting!"
Fang Yanxi said coldly.
"What?"
Lin Ya Nan's expression froze. Fang Yanxi's eyes widened, and she said indignantly, "He's been deceiving me from the start! He funded our family, then had Jiang Wenhao trick me into becoming the executive president of Chao Ting Group. It was all planned and calculated by him..."
"Wait a minute."
Lin Ya Nan was shocked. She tugged Fang Yanxi's arm and asked, "Are you sure Old Wan is the chairman behind Chao Ting Group?"
"Yes, he admitted it to me personally today," Fang Yanxi nodded and snorted coldly.
"Heavens, how is that possible?"
Lin Ya Nan was completely stunned and couldn't believe it. "Chao Ting Group is such a huge company, with a market value of trillions. It's the number one financial technology investment group in our country, and one of the top globally. How could Old Wan be their chairman? How did he do it?"
As for how Wan Yunting managed to achieve this, Fang Yanxi wasn't as surprised as Lin Ya Nan.
Ever since college, Wan Yunting had already shown an extraordinary talent in finance. Furthermore, Fang Yanxi had investigated Jiang Wenhao before and knew he had served time in Hua Du Prison. Perhaps they met back then.
In fact, Fang Yanxi had long suspected that when her Fang Shi Group encountered difficulties, and Jiang Wenhao suddenly approached her and funded her to overcome the crisis, she already sensed that Wan Yunting might be helping her.
Especially after Jiang Wenhao approached her again and offered her the position of executive president of Chao Ting Group's domestic headquarters, Fang Yanxi was almost certain that Wan Yunting was behind it.
This was because Fang Yanxi always felt that Jiang Wenhao approaching her was a very abrupt matter.
After all, he wasn't short of capable people around him, and she was just a newcomer who had returned from abroad to take over her family business. Fang Yanxi believed she had some ability, but it shouldn't have caught Jiang Wenhao's eye.
Not to mention other aspects, Xie Zhihao's ability was stronger than hers, yet Jiang Wenhao insisted Fang Yanxi was capable and hired her as the executive president of Chao Ting Group's domestic headquarters.
Also, the name Chao Ting Group, Chao Ting, Ting! Isn't that Wan Yunting's name?
"I just don't understand why he would deliberately deceive me!"
Fang Yanxi considered her pride to be very strong. If Wan Yunting had helped her openly, she would have refused. However, she felt Wan Yunting shouldn't have lied to her.
"Yan Xi, are you being silly?"
Lin Ya Nan rolled her eyes at her. Seeing that the elevator doors had reached the luxury goods section on the third floor, the two women walked out. Lin Ya Nan continued, "Old Wan knows you too well. He knows you have pride and don't like to accept help, so he chose this way to help you."
Fang Yanxi walked into a luxury store, and a beautiful sales associate immediately came forward to greet them. Fang Yanxi picked out clothes and said to Lin Ya Nan, "Yes, I can understand that, but he could have told me later instead of dragging it out until now. So I think he did it deliberately."
Lin Ya Nan, who was helping her pick out clothes, shook her head and sighed, "You know, you're like a bird in a gilded cage, not knowing your blessings. If Old Wan treated me like this, I'd be overjoyed. I wouldn't complain like you that he deliberately deceived me."
These words made Fang Yanxi turn her head and glance at Lin Ya Nan with a playful hum, "Ya Nan, who are you on the side of?"
"Hehe, of course, I'm on your side," Lin Ya Nan turned and smiled at her, then added, "But seriously, Yan Xi, Old Wan is already great. Compared to other men, if they had Old Wan's capabilities, their tails would probably be in the sky."
"But Old Wan is different. He's very low-key in his dealings. You said that as the chairman of Chao Ting Group, he keeps his identity hidden and is willing to be a small TCM doctor in a hospital. What a good man like this is hard to find even with a lantern. So, be content."
These words made Fang Yanxi laugh in anger and say, "Ya Nan, you call him a good man? You have no idea!"
This made Lin Ya Nan's expression falter. She turned and looked at her questioningly, "What's wrong now?"
Fang Yanxi said, "Do you know who went to find him when he had an accident in the disaster area?"
"Didn't you, Xiuwen, Peipei, and Yuqing go? Who else?" Lin Ya Nan asked doubtfully.
"You know Ling Wei, right? The chairman of Ling Wei Group," Fang Yanxi said.
"I know, but I haven't met her in person. I've heard she's a great beauty, though," Lin Ya Nan nodded.
"She also went to the disaster area!" Fang Yanxi said softly.
Lin Ya Nan exclaimed, "Was she also looking for Old Wan?"
"Yes," Fang Yanxi nodded. Recalling Ling Wei's flirtatious eyes staring at the man, she gritted her teeth and said indignantly, "You don't know, that vixen hugged Wan Yunting when she saw him, right in front of me. I was so angry I wanted to rush up and hit her."
"No way."
Lin Ya Nan was surprised. "So, does that mean Old Wan has some ambiguous relationship with her?"
"Definitely," Fang Yanxi's eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth, snorting, "He even went to Macau specifically to find Ling Wei before."
"Ah, that happened too?" Lin Ya Nan put on a look of a gossiping bystander. "How do you know about this?"
"He told me," Fang Yanxi snorted. "Although he said it was a business partnership with Ling Wei, my female intuition tells me he definitely has an improper relationship with Ling Wei!"
Lin Ya Nan raised an eyebrow. "If that's the case, then Old Wan really shouldn't have."
"And Peipei!" Fang Yanxi huffed again.
"Peipei?" Lin Ya Nan was surprised again. "Yan Xi, you don't seriously think Old Wan has something going on with Peipei, do you? That's impossible. Given Peipei's straightforward personality, she and Old Wan act like buddies. How could they have anything?"
"No, that's because you haven't observed Peipei's recent changes carefully!" Fang Yanxi gritted her teeth and said earnestly to Lin Ya Nan, "When Wan Yunting had an accident in the disaster area, Peipei and Yuqing rushed to find him. The worry in her eyes told me that she cared about Wan Yunting a lot."
"Look at what you're saying. Yuqing also went, didn't she?" Lin Ya Nan rolled her eyes at her.
"It's different," Fang Yanxi shook her head and said, "Although Yuqing was worried, it was just the worry of a friend for a friend. But Peipei's eyes were different. She was worried just like me. Do you understand what I mean?"
"I understand," Lin Ya Nan nodded, but she still shook her head with a smile. "But I still don't believe Old Wan has anything with Peipei. They usually act like buddies. How is that possible?"
"Alright, let's not talk about Peipei. But there's another woman by his side, Gu Luotang!" Fang Yanxi's eyes widened, and she said again.
This made Lin Ya Nan speechless. "Yan Xi, are you having delusions lately? You can't just assume that every woman who appears around Old Wan has a relationship with him, can you?"
"Oh, it's not like that. I just feel that he and that Gu Luotang really... um!"
As Fang Yanxi was speaking, she suddenly saw a man and a woman walking in hand-in-hand, looking like a sweet couple shopping. It was none other than Wan Yunting and Niu Qiuling.