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Chapter 102 - 096 [The Bells that Toll Must Be Silenced by the Ringer] Asking for First Subscription and Monthly Ticket!

Chapter 102: Chapter 096 [The Bells that Toll Must Be Silenced by the Ringer] Asking for First Subscription and Monthly Ticket!

The afternoon sun filtered through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the spacious office on the top floor of Yang Guang Mansion, where Su Hongyuan, the chairman of Lv Hu Group, sat at his grand desk, attentively listening to Su Yuxin reporting on the Jiangnan investment attraction conference for the latter half of the year.

"Yuxin, did Ye Wenhao meet with Ye Fan alone?" Halfway through the report, Su Hongyuan lost his patience, interrupted Su Yuxin, and cut to the chase.

Just as Su Yuxin had predicted, Su Hongyuan had sent her and Ye Fan to the investment conference solely to probe the relationship between Ye Fan, Ye Wenhao, and the Ye Family.

He hoped Ye Fan was part of the Ye Family and was eager for Ye Fan to have ties with them.

Upon hearing this, Su Yuxin couldn’t help but sigh secretly before shaking her head and saying, "No."

"Then, did he exhibit any unusual behavior towards Ye Fan? Like eye contact, for example." Although he was prepared mentally, Su Hongyuan still felt a bit disappointed after hearing Su Yuxin’s answer, his disappointment mixed with reluctance.

Su Yuxin shook her head again.

"Sigh..."

As Su Yuxin shook her head, the last sliver of hope in Su Hongyuan’s heart was crushed. He couldn’t help but let out a sigh and then lit a cigarette, silently smoking without a word.

"Grandfather, the Divine Doctor has already helped the Su Family so much. Even if he has no relation to the Ye Family, it doesn’t matter," Su Yuxin said, unable to refrain herself.

Obviously... she didn’t care at all whether Ye Fan had connections with the Ye Family or not!

"I know."

Su Hongyuan nodded with a wry smile and sighed, "Everyone tends to think of things in the best possible light, and Grandpa is no exception. Grandpa can see you have feelings for Ye Fan, and he feels the same about you..."

"Grandfather..."

Startled by Su Hongyuan’s words, Su Yuxin felt as if her private thoughts had been exposed. Immediately, she blushed and interrupted Su Hongyuan.

"Hehe..."

Seeing her reaction, Su Hongyuan couldn’t help but laugh, "If Ye Fan were a member of the Ye Family, or related to them in some way, that would be a great boon for you and our Su Family.

This time, Su Yuxin didn’t utter a word but hung her head and shyly said, "Grand... Grandfather, my relationship with the Divine Doctor isn’t what you think."

"Really not?" Su Hongyuan probed playfully, "Then, later on, I might introduce someone to you."

"No!" Upon hearing Su Hongyuan’s comment, Su Yuxin reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on—immediately anxious.

"Look at that reaction, you still say there is nothing?" Su Hongyuan teased, his smile tinged with complexity.

In desperation, Su Yuxin explained, "Grand... Grandfather, what I mean is, I’m still young and all my energy is invested in the company affairs. I haven’t thought about those things and I don’t want to be distracted by them."

"Ding ling ling..."

As Su Yuxin finished speaking, Su Hongyuan was about to say something else when the office phone started ringing.

"Grandfather, I still have things to take care of, so I won’t disturb you any further."

Fearing a further discussion about marriage with Su Hongyuan, Su Yuxin grasped the ringing phone like a lifeline. She quickly spoke up, not waiting for Su Hongyuan’s response, and swiftly turned and left the office.

Su Hongyuan didn’t stop her, but instead picked up the phone. The voice of the receptionist came from the handset: "Chairman, a Mr. Wang who claims to be the Director of the Provincial Office wants to speak with you; should I put him through?"

The Director of the Provincial Office, Mr. Wang?

Su Hongyuan was initially startled, then immediately remembered that the secretary brought by Ye Wenhao to Jiangnan, who was recently appointed as the Director of the Provincial Office, was also surnamed Wang.

Could it be... Had Ye Wenhao deliberately refrained from showing any concern in front of Ye Fan to avoid affecting him?

At this thought, Su Hongyuan’s heart began to beat rapidly, and he hurriedly said, "Quick, put him through!"

"Yes, Chairman!" The receptionist said and then transferred the call.

"Hello, may I speak to Director Wang?" As the call connected, Su Hongyuan didn’t wait for the other party to speak but took the initiative to greet him, his tone extremely respectful.

"Mr. Su, it’s really hard to get a meeting with someone as busy as you," came the cold and sarcastic voice of Wang Zheng, who served as Ye Wenhao’s secretary and also as the Director of the Provincial Office.

Whoosh!

The sneering comment from Wang Zheng hit Su Hongyuan like a blow to the head, instantly evaporating the excitement and anticipation in his heart, and replaced by tension; his face also shifted slightly!

As the wielder of power in the Su Family, Su Hongyuan had weathered many storms and met countless people; his experience dealing with political figures was extensive. He instantly picked up on the hostility in Wang Zheng’s tone.

"Director Wang is too kind. Compared to your daily myriad duties, I am nothing but an idle crane," Su Hongyuan cautiously replied. With his status, he would not have lowered his posture so much if the other was merely the Director of the Provincial Office, but Wang was not only the director but also Ye Wenhao’s secretary!

In such a scenario, if he offended Wang Zheng, and Wang later whispered in Ye Wenhao’s ear, the Su Family would be in big trouble!

After all, with Ye Wenhao’s status, it would be as easy to bring down the Su Family as it would be to swat a fly.

"Su Hongyuan, do you think our provincial committee and government are too minor to invite someone of your stature?"

As if to confirm Su Hongyuan’s guess, Wang Zheng indeed had ill intentions, and quickly showed his anger, "Or do you think that Governor Ye’s influence isn’t significant enough?"

"Clank!"

For Su Hongyuan, who had spent a lifetime grappling in the business world, reading people and situations was a basic skill. Hearing Wang Zheng say this, he immediately understood the reason and hurriedly explained, "I’m sorry, Director Wang, it’s my fault. I was only thinking of letting my granddaughter experience the grand scene and neglected other considerations."

"Hey! You think a simple oversight can be easily forgiven?" Wang Zheng coldly said, "I’ll tell you, Governor Ye is very unhappy about this, so you better figure it out!"

"—Slap!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Zheng didn’t wait for Su Hongyuan’s response and hung up the phone.

Understanding the intentions of leadership is a skill every secretary must possess.

Although Ye Wenhao had only asked Wang Zheng to send over the information on Su Yuxin and Ye Fan in the morning, Wang Zheng subconsciously believed that Ye Wenhao was dissatisfied with Lv Hu Group sending two young people to the morning meeting.

Due to this subjective judgment, he made the phone call, partly to vent his frustrations through the ’kick the cat effect’ and partly to warn Su Hongyuan, making it clear to him that although the Su Family had deep roots in Jiangnan, they should not offend Ye Wenhao!

"Dudu..."

The dial tone echoed in his ear, and cold sweat uncontrollably seeped from Su Hongyuan’s forehead, even the hand holding the phone trembled slightly.

He had never dreamed that his cleverness would backfire so badly, inadvertently offending Ye Wenhao!

As Su Hongyuan was in turmoil, Wang Zheng steadied his mind, holding the information of Ye Fan and Su Yuxin, he headed to Ye Wenhao’s office.

"Governor Ye, here is the personnel information of the Lv Hu Group who attended this morning’s meeting." Entering the office, Wang Zheng, as if worried about being implicated, carefully handed over the information to Ye Wenhao.

Ye Wenhao, holding the documents, indifferently said, "Put them down."

"Okay." Upon hearing this, Wang Zheng hurriedly placed Ye Fan and Su Yuxin’s information on the desk and then hesitated before asking, "Do you..."

"It’s fine, you can go now." Not letting Wang Zheng finish his sentence, Ye Wenhao interrupted, his tone gentle yet unmistakably decisive.

Hearing this, Wang Zheng dared not waste words and quietly exited the office, pulling the door shut behind him.

Watching Wang Zheng leave, Ye Wenhao quickly set aside the red-headed file in his hands and grabbed the information of Ye Fan and Su Yuxin.

At that moment, as the most likely successor of the third generation of the Ye Family, he was unusually agitated, to the extent that his eyelid muscles twitched crazily as he grabbed the documents.

Because Su Yuxin was Su Hongyuan’s granddaughter and the general manager of Lv Hu Group’s Jiangnan Company, Wang Zheng had placed her file on the top.

However—

Ye Wenhao had no interest in Su Yuxin’s information, not even glancing at it before he directly flipped over, leafing through a dozen pages without finding Ye Fan’s information and directly went to the last page, intending to look from back to front.

Huh?

When he reached the last page, Ye Wenhao’s pupils dilated, and even his typically expressionless face showed some surprise!

The surprise was because Ye Fan’s file was less than a page long, and the information only contained some simple records about him after he had arrived in Hanghu, with only a few sparse lines about him before arriving in Hanghu.

After the surprise, Ye Wenhao read the less than one thousand words of information word by word, then after some thought, took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Lei, help me check someone’s information, his name is Ye Fan, currently the deputy general manager of Lv Hu Group’s Jiangnan Company." As soon as the phone connected, Ye Wenhao got right to the point. "I’ll wait for your news, the sooner the better!"

"Okay."

On the other end of the phone, a big shot from a certain intelligence department in Huaxia didn’t ask further but immediately replied and hung up.

An hour later, this intelligence department big shot sent Ye Wenhao detailed information about Ye Fan, which was only slightly more detailed than what Wang Zheng provided, still only about Ye Fan after he had come to Hanghu, and there was no record of Ye Fan killing Wu He, Qu Feng, Qiao Bazhi, and others.

This result made Ye Wenhao even more certain of a certain possibility, and he immediately picked up the phone to dial Chu Ji’s number.

"Sorry, the number you have dialed is temporarily unreachable."

As the phone connected, the voice of the telephone operator, though melodious, entered Ye Wenhao’s ears, causing the usually unflappable man the urge to throw the phone.

Meanwhile, in that courtyard in Yanjing, Chu Ji looked at the phone screen displaying a rejected call, hesitating with words unspoken.

"To untie the bell, the person who tied it must be involved."

Suddenly, Chu Xuanji opened his eyes, his expression complex.

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