Chapter 16

Zhai Xu has been terrified these days. Since the boss went to Ruan family to discuss cooperation, he came back like a different person.
In the past, although the boss was demanding, his attitude was not strict. These few days, it has been frosty, and there is no easy-going attitude.
The day before yesterday, Manager Lin made a small mistake when he received the partner. The boss directly asked Director Xiang to dismiss the him.
That is Miss Lin's cousin, and the boss arranged him to enter the company! Even Lin Zhe was fired, Zhai Xu didn't dare to make mistakes. He was trembling every day.
If he knew that the boss went to Ruan's family not only to fail to coax Miss Ruan, but also to become like this, Zhai Xu would definitely not let himself talk too much.
He is regretting it now, very regretful.
Looking at the dignified look of the boss, Zhai Xu sweated for Director Xiang who had just handed in the plan.
The phone in his trouser pocket vibrated twice, Zhai Xu took out his phone and glanced at the familiar caller ID.
It could be seen that Qin Jue was displeased at this moment, so he hurriedly cut off the phone first.
Qin Jue squinted and looked back lightly, his face still grim. He closed the project plan submitted by Director Xiang about the Linhu Lake project, and dialed the internal number.
"Hey, President Qin."
The director's voice was tense.
"Who is in charge of the research section..."
Before he could finish speaking, Qin Jue put away the scolding from his lips when he heard the faint quarrel, and frowned, "What's happened there?"
Director Xiang seemed to hesitate for a while, then said cautiously, "It was Manager Lin who refused to accept that he was fired, and was clamoring to see you."
Lin Zhe was arranged into the company, also the cousin of Mr. Qin's confidante, Miss Lin. Although he couldn't get into the Qin family by normal recruitment, no one in the department dared to offend him.
Of course Director Xiang didn't like having such employees under his command, but because his background was tough enough, he couldn't do anything about Lin Zhe.
A few days ago, Lin Zhe made a mistake in receiving the partner and was directly informed of his dismissal by Director Xiang.
He thought that Director Xiang was deliberately harassing him, and he got into trouble with the company today, and even moved out of Qin Jue to threaten him.
But... Director Xiang is very clear that Lin Zhe’s dismissal was clearly informed by President Qin.
But the other party didn't believe what he said. After all, Qin Jue arranged people to work under Director Xiang.
Hearing that Lin Zhe came to the company to make trouble, Qin Jue's bad mood became worse.
Ruan Zhiyin's last words made him understand that she was not simply getting angry with him now.
Qin Jue was shocked by her heart-breaking words. And these days, he has also thought carefully about the disputes between the two of them in the past few months after returning to China.
She has a good temper. Even argued with him because of Lin Jingfei, there was no real gaffe moment.
Except when he arranged for Lin Zhe to join the company, Ruan Zhiyin asked him hysterically about the reason.
In the eyes of Qin Jue at the time, this was a trivial matter that did not need to be arguing about.
But it was the first and only time that he and Ruan Zhiyin had a real quarrel because of Lin Zhe.
Qin Jue never wanted the two of them to say hurtful things when they lost their minds. But that time, he hurriedly accused her when she questioned him and Jingfei meanly.
The Qin family and the Ruan family are on good terms, and his engagement with Ruan Zhiyin was made since childhood. It's just that Ruan Zhiyin was lost when she was three or four years old. After that, he vaguely remembered that little sister who liked to be shy, but the impression became more and more blurred as he grew up.
Later, Aunt Ruan and Lin Jingfei moved back to Ruan's house. Qin Jue has been calm since he was a child, and he is also an older brother. He gradually transferred his regretful love to Lin Jingfei.
After giving birth to Qin Xiang, Qin's mother suffered from postpartum depression, which was so severe that she could not see the child, so he and Qin Xiang lived in Ruan's house for two years.
Grandma Ruan's pure care and kindness towards Qin Jue and Qin Xiang was not found in the complicated Qin family. For Qin Jue, the other party is the elder he most admires.
When Grandma Ruan died, Aunt Ruan had just passed away for a year. She worried about Lin Jingfei, and she held Qin Jue's hand and asked him to take care of Lin Jingfei, and he agreed.
A few years later, Ruan Zhiyin was taken back by Grandpa Ruan. Qin Jue saw the shadow of the young girl in her, and naturally took care of her a lot.
Qin Jue didn't know when he fell in love with Ruan Zhiyin. At first, it was just people around them who brought up their engagement, and he made fun of it, helping her get rid of embarrassment.
Lanzhong's education is outstanding. When she first transferred there, she couldn't keep up with the progress. She always shyly asked him about topics, and said with a smile that the tutor Lin Cheng helped her find was not as good as his.
The two had a marriage contract, and she always followed behind him. Almost everyone thought she liked him, but Qin Jue wasn't quite sure. It was clear that they had never spoken.
Ruan Zhiyin would indeed follow him, and she was too good-natured. He was able to rescue her from gossipwithout offending anyone and avoid a lot of trouble.
There is indeed a marriage contract between the two, but he is not sure whether Ruan Zhiyin's 'straightforward' love is just because of the marriage contract and because of her grandfather's expectations.
At the end of his freshman year, his relationship with his mother became more and more rigid due to his major change, and his relationship with his father also became tense.
Fang Weilan's depression was quite serious back then, so Qin Jue had been sensible and filial for 20 years, always tolerant of her mother's temper, and never had a trace of rebellion.
But that day, Qin's mother tore up his application for transferring majors, and said "hard-heartedly" about the ambitions of the second uncle and the third uncle, and asked him to marry Ruan Zhiyin and take over the Qin family.
For the first time, Qin Jue quarreled with her mother.
Afterwards, he accepted Lin Jingfei's suggestion of pretending to be a 'couple', partly because of the resistance to Fang Weilan and partly because he wanted to test Ruan Zhiyin's love.
However, it didn't take long for Grandpa Ruan to give Old Master Qin a message, discussing whether to break off the marriage or replace the marriage candidate with Lin Jingfei.
When Old Master Qin asked him with a sullen face, Qin Jue knew that Ruan Zhiyin was going abroad.
He rejected the Ruan family's request to break off the engagement, and then 'break up' with Lin Jingfei, and went to the United States not long after.
When Qin Jue appeared in front of Ruan Zhiyin again, he clearly felt Ruan Zhiyin's alienation from him.
Maybe it's because of a different environment, her temperament has been relaxed a lot, and she has made many friends.
She hadn't asked about Lin Jingfei, and when he pursued her for a year, she suddenly agreed to date after Christmas that year.
During the few years abroad, without the constraints of the Qin family and the marriage contract, their relationship became much more natural.
Although both of them were busy with their studies and seldom made time to enjoy their relationship, Qin Jue was still very happy, at least he was finally sure that Ruan Zhiyin liked him.
This determination became more firm when he was discovered by his parents when he changed his major, was cut off his economic contacts, and started his own business from scratch.
Ruan Zhiyin has been with him all the time, even giving up the recommendation that her mentor wanted her to continue her studies, and gave up returning to China, giving him the greatest support she could give.
On the eve of t&d's listing, he gave her a 30% stake as a wedding gift. From then on he decided that she was the only wife in his life.
Even after several disputes after returning to China, Qin Jue always felt that the relationship they had supported each other was stable.
It's just that he wanted to resolve Ruan Zhiyin's prejudice against Lin Jingfei, but there were contradictions again and again.
He had promised that Grandma Ruan would always take care of Lin Jingfei, and it was impossible to abandon his promise. However, every time he argued with Ruan Zhiyin, Qin Jue didn’t know how to deal with it.
That quarrel because of Lin Zhe, her aggressive attitude made his sanity weaken for the first time. Emotions prevailed, and he even said hurtful words.
It wasn't until a few days ago that Qin Jue knew that Ruan Zhiyin had directly expelled Lin Zhe from the Ruan family as soon as she returned to China.
In fact, he should have thought that. How could she be really mean and let her do this, presumably Lin Zhe had had a profound unhappiness with her.
Qin Jue was silent for a long time. Director Xiang waited for a long time, and asked again, "Mr. Qin... do you want to drive Lin Zhe away?"
"Well, inform the front desk and the security guard not to let him in in the future."
After speaking, Qin Jue hung up the phone. His eyes were filled with contemplation, and he even forgot to communicate with director Xiang about the plan.
After a while, he looked at Zhai Xu and said, "Go and check what Lin Zhe has done before."
If Ruan Zhiyin is really disappointed, only by finding out the crux can she reconcile with him. Qin Jue believed that the relationship between the two would never break up so lightly.
"Yes, boss." Zhai Xu nodded in response.
When the phone vibrated again in the office, Zhai Xu subconsciously glanced at his trousers pocket, making sure that it wasn't his phone this time, and he was relieved.
When he looked up, Qin Jue was already on the phone.
Jiang Anzheng's voice came clearly, loud and anxious, "Jue! When Jingfei returned to her apartment, she was kidnapped by Feng Qian bastard!"
In one sentence, Qin Jue's expression changed.
Feng Qian in Jiang Anzheng's words was the one who squatted on the set last time and attacked Lin Jingfei during the chaos.
At that time, the crew's martial arts consultant reacted quickly and pushed Lin Jingfei away, so that she was not seriously injured.
But in the beginning, Feng Qian wanted to be ruthless.
He was originally targeting Qin Jue, and Lin Jingfei was also involved because of the scandal with Qin Jue.
After all, she was implicated and injured by her, and Jiang Anzheng vaguely did not clarify the injury. Qin Jue couldn't turn a blind eye, so he hurried to Beiyao and missed the wedding.
Unexpectedly, Feng Qian dared to come again after being detained at the police station. Last time, because of Feng Qian's son, he let him go, but it didn't mean that Qin Jue would be soft-hearted again.
After all, in his opinion, Feng Qian was the culprit that caused him to miss the wedding.
Hanging up the phone with Jiang Anzheng, Qin Jue was about to get up when Qin Xiang's phone came in—
"Brother! Why can't I get through to Zhai Xu's phone? Kang Yu was so anxious that she came to me."
Qin Jue glanced at Zhai Xu, who was dumbfounded.
The call just now was indeed from Kang Yu, but he didn't dare to answer Kang Yu's call because the boss's eyes were too aggressive!
"Xiangxiang, I have something very important right now. I'll call you back later."
Seeing that Qin Jue was about to cut off the phone, Qin Xiang hurriedly stopped, "No, no, no! Brother, Kang Yu just called me and said that something happened to Sister Zhiyin! I can't get in touch with her, so hurry up and find her!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Jue stopped in her footsteps and held the phone tightly, her face becoming more and more gloomy.
Seeing this, Zhai Xu, who was beside him, hesitated to speak: "That, boss..."
The oppressive gaze hit him, Zhai Xu handed him his cell phone and finished his words quickly: "It’s… the kidnapper started a live broadcast!"
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Ruan Zhiyin and Kang Yu met at a coffee shop near the company.
She and Kang Yu had been in close contact with each other for two months about the wedding, so they knew a little bit about it.
Kang Yu's hometown is in the county seat below Beiyao. She was admitted to a QS-Top University of Finance and Economics with her own efforts, and entered a bank after graduation.
Later, because the family was in urgent need of money, she resigned and entered Merbeil with a high commission.
Ruan Zhiyin admired Kang Yu's tenacity.
She didn't expect Kang Yu to be fired by Merbeil for helping her, but it was a coincidence.
Not long ago, she promoted Xiang Bin, but she had to recruit an assistant again. Kang Yu was definitely the best and most trustworthy candidate in Ruan Zhiyin's heart.
Ruan Zhiyin likes Kang Yu, and the treatment is also very generous. Kang Yu was already looking for a job, and after being surprised, she naturally wouldn't reject Ruan Zhiyin's offer.
The meeting was very pleasant.
The two sat in the cafe and kept talking about the time to get off work.
It's just that Ruan Zhiyin never thought that she would be kidnapped just after talking with Kang Yu.
She has always been low-key and dressed luxuriously.The Ruan family is not a top-notch wealthy family in Landbridge, and she has never appeared in the media. How could the kidnappers target her?
However, as soon as she noticed the danger, Ruan Zhiyin calmly pressed Kang Yu's name in the latest call log.
After graduating from high school, she went to study fighting for two years, but there were so many people on the other side that she did not choose to resist, lest the other side directly discover the call on the mobile phone.
However, after being blindfolded and tied into the car from the back, the mobile phone in his pocket could not escape the fate of being found and taken away.
The view is completely blocked, the interior is hot and bumpy, and the shock absorption is poor, perhaps a van.
Ruan Zhiyin tried her best to maintain her composure, telling herself that even if the call to Kang Yu just now failed, Cheng Yuelin would definitely find her missing when she came to pick her up after get off work.
It was also strange that at such a time of panic, she was extremely sure that Cheng Yuelin, who was not pleasing to her, would try to save her.
There were at least three people in the car besides her. They seemed to have been trained and remained silent all the way.
It was not until she got off the car and was dragged into the abandoned warehouse full of rust smell that Ruan Zhiyin heard the first voice.
"This is what you said, the woman Qin Jue likes?"
The blindfold was rudely removed, and the light was a bit dazzling for a while, Ruan Zhiyin closed her eyes subconsciously.
When she saw the woman tied to the stool, she finally understood the reason why she was kidnapped by the kidnappers——
At the same time, she could no longer maintain her upbringing, and cursed in her heart.