Chapter 80: The Beauty is Too Cunning
"Really?" Zhong Xiaofei was a bit skeptical, because in the two conversations he had eavesdropped on between Li Sanshi and Wu Yujie, he hadn't heard anything.
"Of course it's true." Xiong Huilin raised her white and round chin, saying softly: "And the matchmaker is Yang Tianzeng."
Yang Tianzeng?
"It was just five years ago, when that woman had just joined the company. Yang Tianzeng was the president and San Shi was the chief analyst of the investment department. His career was taking off, he was the rising star of the company, and more importantly, his father, my husband, was working in the banking industry in Haizhou at the time, with a large amount of financial resources at his disposal. That autumn, TY Company encountered difficulties and urgently needed a large loan. Unfortunately, TY Company had already exceeded its credit limit, and under normal circumstances, the bank would not have been able to provide another loan. If they couldn't get the loan, TY Company would go bankrupt. So Yang Tianzeng pushed that woman out to marry San Shi, in order to persuade San Shi's father to grant a loan to TY Company."
"What happened next?"
Xiong Huilin gave him a cold glance: "Do I need to say more? The loan was given, but the engagement was just a scam."
"Oh, how deceitful!"
"It's very simple, just like how I'm deceiving you now, use and discard after crossing the river." Xiong Huilin said with a face full of disdain.
"I don't understand..."
"You're so stupid!" Xiong Huilin glared at Zhong Xiaofei with annoyance, continuing to say: "That woman is really good at acting, she deceived San Shi into being as foolish as you are now, thinking that she really likes him. But in fact, she doesn't like anyone, she only likes money. And she's especially good at pretending. Look, she's clearly the best PR person at TY company, but she insists on not working in the PR department, instead working in the administrative department. Don't you think this is intentional?"
Zhong Xiaofei smiled and didn't say a word, he didn't believe Xiong Huilin at all. Even if Wu Yijie and Li San Shi had indeed been engaged before, it couldn't prove anything, let alone change his feelings for Wu Yijie. Of course, Zhong Xiaofei could sense that there must be more to the story behind this.
"It seems you don't believe what I'm saying, so I won't say anything more!" Xiong Huilin suddenly glared and made a move to jump up from the sofa.
Zhong Xiaofei hastily pressed down on her: "Who said I don't believe? I believe, I believe, you continue speaking."
Zhong Xiaofei's hand landed right on Xiong Huilin's snow-white and plump thigh.
Xiong Huilin's legs moved away like an electric shock, her face turned crimson, and the half-closed eyes suddenly shot out a cold light, and the two willow eyebrows also rose.
Zhong Xiaofei felt a chill in her heart and quickly withdrew her hand.
However, Xiong Huilin did not get angry. She glanced at Zhong Xiaofei and continued: "It wasn't until later that I found out this was a play co-starring Yang Tianzeng and Wu Yijie! I don't know what tactics Yang Tianzeng used to persuade Wu Yijie, but Wu Yijie performed extremely well, completely bewildering San Shi. Hmm, just like you are now. But in the end, when the loan was secured and TY Company's crisis was resolved, Wu Yijie ruthlessly kicked San Shi away!"
Xiong Huilin's face was filled with resentment and jealousy, for this stunningly beautiful woman, who had always been the object of others' envy and admiration, had today become the opposite.
Zhong Xiaofei laughed: "So that's how it is, but Huilin sister, you should be happy, if Yijie married Manager Li, wouldn't you have no chance? Hehe, this is fate, you and Manager Li are destined to be a pair."
"Brown-noser!" Xiong Huilin gave Zhong Xiaofei a white eye, thought for a moment, and seemed to agree with what Zhong Xiaofei said. Then she relaxed her eyebrows and smiled softly: "Maybe you're right, San Shi is mine after all. That fox spirit can't ruin it even if she wants to!"
Zhong Xiaofei was not fond of the three words "fox spirit", but he couldn't correct Xiong Huilin.
"So, you have to believe me, Wu Yijie doesn't like you, she's just using you. Once the shareholders' meeting is over and Yang Tianzeng's position is secure, she'll ruthlessly kick you out." Xiong Huilin sat up from the sofa, warning Zhong Xiaofei very seriously.
Zhong Xiaofei nodded repeatedly, looking very grateful: "Oh, I see. Thank you for reminding me, Huilin sister."
"So you should get ready early, and I have something else to tell you." Xiong Huilin smiled mysteriously.
"What's wrong?"
"Wu Yijie is about to go to prison."
"Go to prison? No way?" Zhong Xiaofei actually knew the inside story a long time ago, but he still pretended to be surprised and nervous.
"How could she not?!" Xiong Huilin said with a tone of schadenfreude: "She has been embezzling public funds to speculate in stocks for a long time, it's just that no one knew because there was no audit. Now the shareholders' meeting is about to take place, and once it's over, the new shareholder representative will naturally conduct an audit. By then, she'll be waiting to go to jail!"
"Is that so? Can't she just return the money?" Zhong Xiaofei said calmly.
"Make up for it?" Xiong Huilin grunted, "The key is that she's lost a fortune in stocks! It's impossible to make up for it! And another thing, you think it's just 100,000 or 200,000? You can't just make up for it by saying so. The numbers would scare you to death."
"How much?"
"20 million." Xiong Huilin said word by word, and stretched out her round and pointed jade fingers: "20 million Hong Kong dollars."
As for this number, Zhong Xiaofei had known it long ago, but when he heard it coming out of Xiong Huilin's small mouth, he still felt a little shocked.
I don't know what Wu Yu Jie was thinking at the time. How could she embezzle so much public funds? Now that the stock market is not doing well, it's no wonder she lost money. But TY company itself is an investment firm that frequently manipulates the market, and as the company's secretary, didn't she hear any insider information?
There is only one possibility, that is Li Sanshi designed a trap, revealing false insider information to Wu Yijie, and Wu Yijie believed it, under Li Sanshi's instigation, invested a large amount of funds, and the result was naturally a complete loss!
"Are you scared now?" Xiong Huilin said with a smirk: "This woman can't stay in TY company, and you won't have a good result with her."
Her goal is to pull Zhong Xiaofei away from Wu Yijie and destroy Wu Yijie's image completely. If Zhong Xiaofei doesn't know the truth, she might really be persuaded by her.
"Thank you, Hui Lin sister, you're so good to me, I really don't know how to repay you?" Zhong Xiaofei smiled with a grateful face.
Xiong Huilin glanced at him and smiled: "No need to repay me, I just think you're not a bad person, otherwise I wouldn't bother with you."
"Could it be... Hui Lin likes me?" Zhong Xiaofei said with a mischievous grin.
"What a beauty!!" Xiong Huilin glared at him fiercely, but wasn't too angry, and said in a hushed tone: "Although I don't like you, that necklace... Hehe, I quite like it."
No mention of the necklace, it's fine. Once the necklace is mentioned, Zhong Xiaofei's anger erupts. The 80,000 yuan necklace, Xiong Huilin said to just throw it away, not being polite at all. Perhaps for a rich woman like her, the necklace doesn't mean much, but for Zhong Xiaofei, it's his flesh and blood!
"If you liked it, why did you throw it away!" Zhong Xiaofei said loudly with a bad tone.
Xiong Huilin glanced at him and burst out laughing, her body shaking with laughter, her arms waving wildly.
"What's so funny?" Zhong Xiaofei was perplexed.
Xiong Huilin smiled and picked up the small bag beside her, unzipped it, and a beautiful necklace with a delicate style and a unique crescent-shaped pendant appeared in front of Zhong Xiaofei.
But didn't Xiong Huilin already throw away the necklace?
