Invincible Young Master in the City
Chapter 520 - 520 516 Li Zhaojun's Regret

520: Chapter 516: Li Zhaojun’s Regret 520: Chapter 516: Li Zhaojun’s Regret Wang Siyan withdrew, and Li Zhaojun rose to her feet, making a gesture for Lu Chengqiang to sit down.

She said, “Mr.

Lu Chengqiang, please take a seat.”

“Heh heh, sister-in-law, you’re too polite,” Lu Chengqiang said with a nervous grin.

“I’m no ‘mister’.

Just call me Chengzi or Xiaoqiang.”

“Alright, then I won’t stand on ceremony and will call you Chengzi,” Li Zhaojun replied.

“Please, have a seat.”

“You first,” Lu Chengqiang said, and only after Li Zhaojun had seated herself did he carefully take his seat.

Though he had braved battlefields and bullets, fearless of neither heaven nor earth, facing Li Zhaojun made him sense an aura of superiority, especially knowing that she was Ye Fan’s official wife.

He couldn’t help but become reserved.

Of course, another reason he believed Li Zhaojun wanted to meet with him was to inquire about the relationship between Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman.

This was a headache for him.

He did not want to offend Li Zhaojun, but he also did not want to reveal the specifics of Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman’s relationship.

After sitting down, Li Zhaojun pressed the service bell, and a waiter soon knocked and entered.

“What would you like to drink?” she asked Lu Chengqiang.

Lu Chengqiang randomly ordered a coffee.

The waiter left, and Li Zhaojun looked at Lu Chengqiang, asking in a calm voice, “Chengzi, have you seen me before?”

Discovering that Lu Chengqiang was one of Ye Fan’s people had been an accident for her.

Two weeks prior, after learning of Yang Zecheng’s intentions to secretly deal with Ye Fan, she had been closely monitoring Yang Zecheng’s situation.

Last week, as expected, Yang Zecheng was put under investigation by the authorities.

The Yang family was confused, but she was clear that it was likely Ye Fan’s doing.

Hence, the person who reported Yang Zecheng anonymously came under her scrutiny.

She then had a private investigation firm dig into the whistleblower who targeted Yang Zecheng, quickly learning that this person came from the Qingmu Gang in Hua Hai City.

Furthermore, recalling how the Qingmu Gang had helped deliver the recording of Xiao Yichen’s instructions to kidnap her to her hands, she abruptly concluded that the Qingmu Gang had a significant connection with Ye Fan.

However, she did not know the specifics of the Qingmu Gang’s relationship with Ye Fan, nor could she possibly meet with the gang’s leader Nie Yuling to discuss it.

Therefore, she spent hundreds of thousands more to probe any potential dealings between the Qingmu Gang and Ye Fan.

The result was that the interactions between the Qingmu Gang and Ye Fan were limited to Ye Fan buying the Heroic Bar at a low price from the gang, and then he gifted it to a man named Lu Chengqiang.

With Ye Fan spending twenty million to buy a bar only to gift it, it was evident that Ye Fan and Lu Chengqiang had an especially good relationship.

Thus, she had someone investigate Lu Chengqiang’s background, finding out that he had suddenly came to Hua Hai City to take over the bar and had been discharged from military service.

At this point, she was almost certain Lu Chengqiang was once Ye Fan’s comrade-in-arms.

She was trying her utmost to unearth everything about Ye Fan, and Lu Chengqiang, a close comrade of Ye Fan’s, had undoubtedly piqued her interest enormously, leading to their meeting today.

“Heh heh, I’ve seen you once,” Lu Chengqiang replied.

“A few months back, Ye Fan was worried about your safety and had me secretly protect you once.”

“Oh, I see,” Li Zhaojun said, “Strong Brother, thank you for your protection.

I will keep it in mind.”

Lu Chengqiang quickly laughed, “Sister-in-law, you’re too polite.

It’s what I should do.

Actually, I didn’t do much—there was no real danger for you at the time.”

Li Zhaojun nodded slightly, not dwelling on the matter with Lu Chengqiang, and paused in speaking.

Seeing that Li Zhaojun was silent, Lu Chengqiang chose not to speak either and sat quietly.

However, the longer he sat, the more pressure he felt, mainly because he was sitting face-to-face with Li Zhaojun.

Since Li Zhaojun was extremely beautiful, but also Ye Fan’s wife, he dared not look at her casually.

Sitting face-to-face without looking at the other’s face, let alone making eye contact, would make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Luckily, the moment of awkwardness was somewhat alleviated when a waiter knocked on the door and brought in his coffee.

After Lu Chengqiang took a sip of his coffee, Li Zhaojun looked at him and asked, “Do you know why I asked to meet you alone today?”

“Hehe, I don’t,” Lu Chengqiang said with a forced smile.

“Actually, I don’t know much, especially not about Ye Fan’s private life.

I really don’t understand that.”

“You’re very close to Ye Fan; you must know a lot,” Li Zhaojun said.

She guessed from Lu Chengqiang’s words that he thought she was going to ask about Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman.

About the relationship between Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman, she had already prepared for the worst—that they had already slept together.

Therefore, she didn’t need to get information about the progress of Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman’s relationship through Lu Chengqiang.

But she wouldn’t tell Lu Chengqiang that meeting him today wasn’t to find out about the relationship between Ye Fan and Lu Xiaoman, nor to inquire whether Ye Fan had other women.

She wanted to keep this matter hanging over Lu Chengqiang’s head and, while he was off-guard, extract information about Ye Fan’s military situation or more through their conversation.

Half an hour later, Li Zhaojun had gotten what she wanted and said, “Strong Brother, thank you for taking so much time to chat with me today.

I’m really sorry for taking up so much of your time; I won’t be asking you to lunch.”

“Scared?” Lu Chengqiang couldn’t help but be startled and said, “Sister-in-law, you haven’t asked about Fan Brother and…

uh, the other sister-in-law’s situation yet.”

Li Zhaojun replied indifferently, “What’s there to ask?

No matter how much she stirs things up, she’s just a mistress who can’t show her face, never able to take the main seat.”

Lu Chengqiang was taken aback and couldn’t help but give a thumbs up admiringly, “Sister-in-law, you’re so generous.

It’s no wonder you’re the official wife of Brother Ye.

Only someone like you is truly worthy of Brother Ye in this world!”

Li Zhaojun’s pretty face remained calm, showing no reaction to Lu Chengqiang’s compliment.

After Lu Chengqiang left, Li Zhaojun had Wang Siyan pay the bill and then left with her, heading back to Emali Group.

Back in the office, Li Zhaojun immediately took out the relationship chart she had made of Ye Fan’s connections.

Since Lu Chengqiang was unaware of the focus of the conversation, Li Zhaojun easily extracted a lot of information about Ye Fan from his mouth.

She picked up a pen and added annotations under Ye Fan’s name: Joined the army at sixteen, rank of Major General, active duty in a mysterious foreign unit, and the unit’s highest commander…

After adding the annotations, she looked back over all the labels about Ye Fan, took a deep breath, and thought admiringly, “Ye Fan, I had no idea you were so outstanding and brilliant, so dazzling.

It’s not that you’re unworthy of me but that I am unworthy of you.

How laughable that I judged you on appearances, thinking you were nothing but a wastrel, even worse than a prodigal son.

At that time, with the way I looked at you, you must have been laughing at my ignorance and superficiality in your heart, right?”

“That night when you stepped away from me to take a call, it must have been because it was a work call you couldn’t let me overhear, right?” Li Zhaojun couldn’t help but recall and felt full of regret, “It was me who didn’t understand you, who misunderstood you…”