Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 301 Little People

That evening, after the meal, the next day, Tang Lan and Shao Qingyun left Huai City as planned and boarded a plane back to Southeast Asia.

On this day, the entire city of Huai was calm and peaceful as usual, as if nothing had happened.

Tang Xu's day was just like any other day, without any abnormalities. She arrived at the company on time and spent the afternoon conducting interviews to find new managers for the freight company's cargo yard.

After an afternoon of interviews, we basically finalized the candidates we wanted to hire.

The company's administrator and HR also spent an afternoon with her screening and interviewing. When it was over, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, stretched their necks, and invited Tang Xu to have dinner together.

Tang Xu was about to agree, but her phone suddenly rang as she turned her head.

She glanced at the incoming call, waved to the caller, and then returned to her office before answering the call.

A slightly tense voice came from the other end of the phone: "Miss Tang, do you know what happened?"

"Which aspect are you referring to?" Tang Xu asked casually as she tidied her things.

“About Meng Liancheng,” Shu Chen said, “he was acting very strangely this afternoon. I’ve been following him for half a year and I’ve never seen him like this before… I have a vague feeling that something big has happened, but I can’t find out, and even if I did, he wouldn’t tell me…”

Tang Xu chuckled upon hearing this and said, "That's good news. It's alright, let me go and inquire about it and see if I can find out anything, then I'll let you know."

After listening, Shu Chen seemed to hesitate for a moment before asking again, "Miss Tang, do you really not know what happened?"

"What do you mean?" Tang Xu couldn't help but ask, "Don't you believe me?"

"No!" Shu Chen quickly said, "I just felt that if even you don't know what happened, it might be difficult to find out..."

Tang Xu replied, "What does it matter? We're not the only two on this path anyway. If we can get help from others to achieve the result we want, does the process really matter?"

Hearing her say that, Shu Chen didn't press for further questions and simply responded with a soft "Mm".

After hanging up the phone, Tang Xu, who was originally preparing to leave work, sat down in the office again after tidying everything up.

About an hour later, Tang Xu's phone rang again.

This time, it was Meng Liancheng who called.

On the phone, Meng Liancheng's voice was still cheerful, "Still at work?"

Tang Xu sighed softly and said, "We ordinary little people are naturally not as good as Mr. Meng. When we have a shift, we should work hard, otherwise we will go hungry."

Meng Liancheng's laughter deepened. "You, a nobody? If you said that publicly, you'd probably get a lot of flak. Look at all the people you're involved with, aren't they all big names? And you call yourself an ordinary nobody?"

"No matter how famous others are, they are still others and have nothing to do with me," Tang Xu said. "I've always been clear-headed; I won't touch what isn't rightfully mine."

Meng Liancheng, completely ignoring her implied meaning, calmly asked, "You must be hungry by now, right? Do you have time to have dinner together?"

Tang Xu readily agreed: "Okay."

……

At the same time, the Yan family mansion was brightly lit.

Yan Shiyu's car drove in from outside and parked in the parking space in front of the door. The driver quickly got out of the car and opened the door for Yan Shiyu. However, Yan Shiyu, who was sitting in the car, just looked at her phone and did not seem to want to get out of the car immediately.

Seeing this, the driver had no choice but to quietly close the car door.

Inside the car, Yan Shiyu's gaze was deep as he skillfully opened an app. On the map, the small red dot was currently stationary at Fengzheng Company's location, just as it had throughout the day—occasionally moving within a small area, but never leaving the company.

Such small-scale activities only exist in the monitoring data, while the little red dot mostly remains unchanged.

But he sat there quietly, watching this little red dot that hadn't changed at all, for a very, very long time...

Inside the mansion, the butler, Old Li, came out after hearing the commotion. Seeing that the driver was just standing next to the car and Yan Shiyu hadn't even gotten out, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "What's going on? Why didn't you go inside after you got back?"

The driver immediately gestured to Yan Shiyu, who was motionless inside the car.

Seeing this, Old Li frowned, then stepped forward and gently opened the car door, speaking softly to Yan Shiyu inside: "Third Young Master, the guests for tonight have all arrived. They are all political and business figures valued by the Old Master. You've already come back late, so hurry up and go inside."

Yan Shiyu sat there upright, her face remaining unchanged regardless of the light or shadow on it.

In the past, Yan Shiyu would never have done such a thing—

He was ultimately raised by the old man himself, and no matter what he was thinking, he always appeared composed, considerate, and impeccably polite.

But Lao Li could also clearly sense that he was a completely different person since he returned from Helsinki.

Taciturn and aloof.

Sometimes, Old Li could even clearly sense the gloom emanating from him—

He is completely different from before.

Even so, on a night like tonight, Old Li had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue speaking: "Third Young Master, we really can't delay any longer, everyone is waiting for you."

After he finished speaking, he waited for a long time before Yan Shiyu inside the car reacted.

He finally put away his phone, got out of the car, and went inside.

Inside the room, several prominent and powerful figures from Huai City were already seated around the dining table. When he entered, some smiled slightly, while others remained expressionless.

"Why are you so late?" Old Master Yan sat at one end of the long table. "Knowing that we had guests today, you should have put aside whatever important business you had."

“Grandpa is right.” Yan Shiyu stood by the dining table. “Everyone, I’m sorry.”

His tone was flat and his words were simple, quite different from his previous style of doing and speaking.

Grandpa Yan glanced at him, but ultimately didn't say much, only saying, "Everyone here is an elder. As the host, and you're late, you know what to do."

"Yes." Yan Shiyu did not sit down, but instead took the wine dispenser on the table and poured wine for each of the guests at the table.

Seeing this, Old Master Yan's expression improved slightly, but overall it was still not very good.

After pouring the wine, Yu returned to his seat. I thought he would say something, but the first thing he did after sitting down was to look at his phone.

Someone nearby chuckled and teased, "It seems Young Master Yan is really busy with work."

Old Master Yan chuckled awkwardly, looked up at Yan Shiyu, and waited for his response along with everyone else at the table.

Unexpectedly, Yan Shiyu seemed not to hear anything and kept looking down at her phone.

For a moment, he felt that something must be wrong with his phone.

The little red dot that had been on his phone for a long time disappeared the moment he opened the app.