After Divorce, Hidden Marriage Husband Became Addicted to Me
Chapter 389 - 273: Inferior Tricks

Chapter 389: Chapter 273: Inferior Tricks

Tang Xi, "So, are they all still here? Why don’t they think of getting out? Liang Zheng, do you know which families they are?"

Liang Zheng scratched his head, seemingly not understanding but still asking her. "Xixi, do you really want to get out?"

As he spoke, he grabbed Tang Xi’s hand, his eyes shining with a childlike innocence, "I’ll take you out to play."

Tang Xi’s eyes dimmed for a moment, "Liang Zheng, let me repeat myself, I have a family, I have a daughter, my daughter is very cute, and she is waiting for me to return. She will be very upset if she can’t see me."

"Is it like how I feel distressed when I can’t see Grandma?" Liang Zheng hung his head low.

He was much taller than Tang Xi, probably around one meter eighty, wearing a black short-sleeved shirt. The breeze slightly clung to the contours of his body. He was thin, with hair a bit long, the wind lifting his hair revealing a look of confusion in his eyes.

"Little Zheng will cry if he can’t see Grandma."

Tang Xi felt it was useless talking to an imbecile.

She couldn’t get out, and even if she walked out of this courtyard and this door, the village still trapped her.

Tang Xi returned to her room and lay on the bed, closing her eyes to rest.

Liang Zheng played outside happily by himself.

It was not until Feng Jiamei came back that she started to get busy cooking, and when lunch was ready, she hustled Tang Xi to come and eat together.

Lunch was fried fish, steamed buns, and a side dish.

While eating, Feng Jiamei kept mumbling, as soon as the village chief came back, she would arrange the marriage certification for Tang Xi and Liang Zheng right away.

Tang Xi helplessly retorted, "This marriage is useless, it does not meet national standards, keeping me trapped here is pointless."

Feng Jiamei was just an old woman who had lived in the village for over 70 years, she didn’t understand these things.

"The village chief’s words are effective."

She had never seen an official larger than the village chief.

Tang Xi pursed her lips, not wanting to argue with the old woman in front of her, whose thinking had decayed and was committing illegal acts.

Eating well and drinking well gives one strength. By staying nourished, she could find a way to escape.

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It was as if Tang Xi had vanished from Beidao Island.

For the first time, Fu Tingzhou felt powerless.

Shangguan Nanxian, under pressure, dispatched countless people to search for Tang Xi’s whereabouts, but they found nothing.

Having no choice, Shangguan Nanxian had to check the fishing villages around Beidao Island one by one.

But the fishing villages around Beidao Island, large and small, added up to more than a dozen.

It was simply not something that could be searched in two or three days.

Moreover, each village has its own clan rules.

It’s hard for outsiders to get in.

Fu Tingzhou was aware of this too, although he wanted to know Tang Xi’s whereabouts, he was not pressuring Shangguan Nanxian.

At this time, Gao Yufeng, joining with relatives of two trapped socialites, looked for Shangguan Nanxian to demand an explanation.

According to them, although the socialites had not received any substantial harm, their spirits had been traumatized, and Shangguan Nanxian was driven to distraction because of this incident.

She knew that these people were not coming for money.

They came purely to disgust her intentionally.

Because of this incident, the jewelry design contest was even put on hold.

On one hand, she tried to stabilize Shen Qinglin, and on the other, she pacified the relatives of the socialites.

Then all of a sudden, a designer came forth with a revelation that she was kidnapped by kidnappers on her way to the jewelry design contest three days ago, which tarnished her reputation.

She demanded a public apology and compensation from Shangguan Group.

Once this news broke out, the whole internet was set ablaze instantly.

After two days of calm, Beidao was immediately abuzz.

After all, news of the abrupt halt to the jewelry design competition caused a stir, with everyone speculating about the reasons. However, the major media were sufficiently handled by the public relations of Shangguan Group, which vaguely mentioned technological equipment issues as the cause.

This time, netizens realized that such an abduction had occurred on the day of the competition.

Onlooker netizens rushed to the forefront.

The designer emerged as an image of an underprivileged victim.

She released a video under her real name, tearfully recounting her difficulties in making it to the finals and resigning from her former job.

Moreover, she was from out of town.

She had invested a lot for this competition.

Unexpectedly, she came to participate and suffered abduction and violation.

And with the competition terminated without a stated resumption date, she now had no source of income.

She demanded compensation from Shangguan Group.

In reality, Shangguan Nanxian had already instructed Lin Ke to compensate these individuals two days prior.

Each designer received a compensation of one hundred thousand yuan, effectively hush money.

In the morning, Shangguan Nanxian convened an urgent public relations meeting.

Two hours later.

The public relations department began to hire people to delete posts.

Major media platforms started to implement a blockade.

And Lin Ke sought out the lady to renegotiate the compensation amount without strings attached.

However, Lin Ke soon called saying the other party refused to talk money.

Lin Ke offered one million, but the other party rejected it and even enlisted a professional legal team.

Shangguan Nanxian instantly understood.

The other party came prepared.

Or rather, had been directly bought off.

At eight in the evening, a café at the street corner.

Shangguan Nanxian removed her sunglasses; she looked at the woman sitting across from her—a minor jewelry design company’s designer, with no original design works. However, her entry for this competition was decent enough to make it to the finals.

"Chen Yue, state your terms directly."

Chen Yue lifted her head; she hesitated, a little unconfident, yet she spoke up, "I want to become the disciple of Shen Qinglin, to become the chief designer in Shangguan Group’s jewelry design department. As long as you agree to this one demand, I’ll apologize publicly immediately—right away."

Shangguan Nanxian scorned this notion.

She disliked such low tactics, and would not agree to the demands of Chen Yue before her.

Perhaps the mockery on her face was too evident, as Chen Yue, feeling provoked, clenched her fist and became agitated, "You have no other choice. If you refuse me, your jewelry design competition will also not be able to proceed smoothly again. And it will affect the stocks of Shangguan Group, too. I only want to be the disciple of Shen Qinglin."

To be the disciple of Shen Qinglin was much more valuable than a compensation of a million yuan.

The status of Shen Qinglin in the luxury jewelry industry cannot be articulated with mere words.

Shangguan Nanxian’s delicate and serene face spoke, "Chen Yue, I least like being threatened, and your work merely qualified for the final round—it didn’t stand out. To be the disciple of Shen Qinglin, you don’t qualify. But, if you wish to join Shangguan Group’s design department as a designer, that much, I’ll concede to you."

"I insist on being Shen Qinglin’s disciple!!" Chen Yue said, "I have a complete medical report for sexual assault. If I release it, stating that I was kidnapped and forced to suffer sexual violence because of participating in your contest, by your arch-enemy no less, there won’t be any benefit for your company! Why won’t you agree!"

But her words fell flat, as if hitting cotton.

Not a trace of fear or horror appeared on Shangguan Nanxian’s face.

Instead, she looked at her, bored.

As if watching a low-quality farce.