Shen Yuan's beautiful eyes looked at Su Ruo, whose eye circles were still red, with a hint of contempt. Half a second later, they shifted to Xia Tong, who was always standing stubbornly by the door.
Hesitating slightly.
At that moment, the words he said repeatedly in her ear that night suddenly emerged in her mind like a tide: "Xia Tong, you are mine!"
Xia Tong, you are mine! The man she loved deeply, while domineeringly demanding her softness, kept chanting that woman's name over and over again - Xia Tong, Xia Tong, Xia Tong...
Such deep affection almost drove her crazy.
Shen Yin held the drawing, walked slowly to Su Ruo, held her hand, and smiled softly: "Miss Su, congratulations, you won."
***** ****
After the meeting, Mina walked out of the conference room and was about to take the elevator when she was stopped by a voice: "Miss Mina, please stay." Xia Tong walked over with her bag in hand: "I wonder if I can treat you to a cup of coffee, Miss Mina? "
The woman's charming long eyes narrowed slightly: "I don't seem to be familiar with you, Miss Xia...Besides..." She smiled lazily: "I just said those words for you in the conference room, if I are alone with you now I’m afraid it’s not appropriate to go out.”
"I know Miss Mina doesn't care about this, right?"
Mina stopped laughing: "Give me a reason to accept your invitation."
Xia Tong leaned forward and placed his lips on her ear: "Xia Wanlin, long time no see."
***** *****
In the fragrant cappuccino fragrance, her face flashed in and out. Her lightly swept eyebrows were delicate and elegant, her charming eyes covered by long eyelashes were deep and charming, and her snow-white and crystal-clear skin was like the finest silk.
Such a woman can be called a seductive beauty to any man.
Xia Tong lowered his head and sipped his coffee: "You have changed a lot in the past few years."
"Oh? Really?" Mina smiled and said nothing.
"How is the Xia family?" Xia Tong asked: "In the past month since I returned to China, I haven't had time to go back and take a look. And I haven't received any news about the Xia family from around."
She also found this very strange. At that time, Xia Shi Enterprise was considered a tyrant in the entertainment and leisure industry in City A. Even though it may have declined in recent years, there was no way there was no news at all in the newspapers.
"How is the Xia family doing? Do you still care? You should be so disgusted by what Daddy did to you five years ago..." Mina leaned back on the chair casually, smiling, but also Not deep, but slightly mocking: "But there are some things that people do, God is watching. There is retribution, injustice cannot be escaped, and the Xia family cannot escape in the end."
Xia Tong vaguely understood what she meant and hesitated: "Did something happen to the Xia family?"
Mina nodded: "It was over two years ago."
Xia Tong's hand holding the coffee cup tightened: "What happened?"
Mina laughed: "Did Qin Muzhen never tell you what happened?"
Xia Tong was silent.
Mina said with emotion: "At that time, I really didn't expect that he would be so ruthless and leave no room for anything. He pretended to cooperate with dad on a resort project in Asada Bay, and then set up a trick to make dad invest almost all his money. But when it was about to be completed, the government sent a document saying that the surface of Asada Bay contained precious and rich mineral resources, so the entire Asada Bay was designated as a key protected area and could not be touched. The money invested by Dad , lost everything."
Xia Tong opened his mouth: "It turned out to be like this... what happened later."
"Later, daddy had no choice but to go to the bank to borrow money to make ends meet. But during that time, the Xia family was like a rat crossing the street. No one wanted to pay attention to it, so as not to cause trouble. Some friends who had a good relationship with daddy in the past suddenly suddenly
It was like he disappeared from the world, and no bank was willing to lend to him."
"Probably not!" Xia Tong frowned: "In any case, a starved camel is bigger than a horse. Even if something happened to the Xia family, as long as there is money to make Xia Huairen temporarily accommodating, they can still get through it. Why?
Isn’t it possible that no bank is willing to lend a hand?”
Mina laughed: "Isn't this the cruelty of Qin Mu's decision-making methods? Since he took action, he must have brought the Xia family to its death!"
She said: "Later, my father learned that the government's ban document had actually been drafted a year ago, but it had not been released. The reason was because Qin Muzhi secretly gave the instructions. He knew Asada was
Bay was about to be enclosed as a protected area, but he induced Dad to spend a lot of money to invest. In the end, the investment failed, and he secretly instructed the major banks not to help Dad. Everyone was afraid of Di Sheng's powerful background and power, so naturally they did not dare
Against Qin Muzhai, the Xia family was finally forced into a desperate situation and had no choice but to declare bankruptcy."
Mina wanted to drink coffee. When she picked up the cup, she realized that her hands were shaking very badly. She picked it up with both hands, but still couldn't hold it, so she simply put it down.
Xia Tong was a little confused: "Why? Why must he force the Xia family to go bankrupt?"
"For a woman." Mina smiled and said, "Do you believe it?"
"Woman?!" Xia Tong clenched the coffee spoon and vaguely guessed everything: "Is it Lin Manru?"
"Yes." She lowered her head, seeming to be self-deprecating and sarcastic: "At that moment, I realized that the existence of all of us is no more important to him than a dead woman. But he is also forbearing enough.
, I kept it secret before. In the first two years, I got along very happily with my dad. I gave him several big business deals. Otherwise, my dad would not have believed in him so much that he ended up falling in love with him easily.
when."
Lin Manru... Xia Tong was stunned. After so many years, could he still not forget her?
So profound that he would rather sacrifice the livelihoods of thousands of people in the Xia family just to be buried with her?
"Xia Wanlin", Xia Tong lowered his head and asked the question that he had wanted to ask a long time ago: "Is Lin Manru's death really caused by you?"
She leaned back in her chair, "If I said no, would you believe it?"
Xia Tong nodded: "I believe it."
Mina was stunned: "Why do you trust me so much?" She pursed her lips meaningfully: "It seems that the relationship between you and me is not good enough to trust each other without reservation?"
Xia Tong lowered his head and stirred the coffee: "I don't know either, but I always have this intuition that you didn't do this. Besides, the ancients said that people who are about to die are good at words. Besides, Xia Tong
Things have already happened at home, so you can’t lie to me now.”
Mina laughed: "For some reason, I hated you five years ago, but now I suddenly find that you seem to be a little bit likeable."
"I'll just take your words as a compliment."
"Xia Tong——." She hooked her fingers towards her, with an unpredictable light flashing in her eyes. Xia Tong approached hesitantly. She said: "There is one thing that I have never told anyone else.
Even Qin Muzhen doesn’t know——.”
Xia Tong frowned, and his whole body became alert because of these words.
"That is - I suspect that Lin Manru back then... was not dead at all..."
"……."
"Perhaps, she is still alive, in a corner that we don't know about..."