Ye Yanxi had actually walked quite a distance by now. Suddenly, she felt a shadow flash before her eyes. Lin Yuanyuan actually rushed over and blocked her way, glaring at her angrily.
Ye Yanxi frowned. She was quite unhappy about being blocked.
"Vice President, may I ask what this is about?"
The phone call just now must have really angered Lin Yuanyuan. Her heavily - made - up face was full of hideousness. "Did you hear what I just said on the phone?"
Ye Yanxi didn't want to have too much contact with her. She casually glanced at Lin Yuanyuan and replied in a surprised tone, "What did you say on the phone just now?"
Ye Yanxi was always calm when lying, making it impossible for others to tell the truth from the falsehood.
Lin Yuanyuan stared intently into Ye Yanxi's eyes. After a few seconds of eye - contact, she squinted and asked doubtfully, "You really didn't hear anything?"
Ye Yanxi calmly looked back at her. "Should I have heard something?"
Only then did Lin Yuanyuan compose herself.
"Whether you heard it or not, I'm putting it out there today." Lin Yuanyuan half - squinted her eyes, seemingly threatening. "If you dare to breathe a single word about today's matter, I won't let you off easily."
"Sorry, I'm really not interested in your affairs." Ye Yanxi responded calmly. "Vice President, have you finished? Could you please move aside?"
Seeing Ye Yanxi's indifferent expression and thinking that she didn't seem to have heard anything, Lin Yuanyuan slowly moved to the side, making way for Ye Yanxi.
After Ye Yanxi left, Lin Yuanyuan stared at her back for a few seconds. With a disdainful snort, she left the spot.
Feeling that Lin Yuanyuan had really left this time, Ye Yanxi stopped in her tracks. She turned around and looked in the direction where Lin Yuanyuan had left, feeling an inexplicable sense of uneasiness.
Just now, Lin Yuanyuan had indeed mentioned on the phone that there was a problem with Chu Beize's contract.
Could it be that the problem was exactly with the project that was in cooperation with the Xiao Group?
In the building of the branch company of the Chu Group.
In the general manager's office, Chu Beize was holding the contract he had signed with Xiao Yu. Perhaps he was squeezing it too hard, for the veins on his wrist were bulging. At this moment, he was shouting angrily into the phone, "What did you say? The Xiao Group didn't even win the bid for that land in the north city. How could that be? I've already signed the contract with the Xiao Group, and now you're telling me they didn't even get that land."
In front of Chu Beize, his secretary was lowering his head, seemingly organizing some documents on the desk, waiting for him to finish the call.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be anxiously arguing something. After Chu Beize shouted another angry sentence, he finally hung up the phone. As soon as he hung up, he slumped down in his chair, looking a bit desperate.
After he finished the call, the secretary then handed those documents to Chu Beize.
"Mr. Chu, these are all your expense details for this month. You need to sign and check them. And there are also those debt - collection receipts from outside." The secretary said in a matter - of - fact tone.
Hearing this, Chu Beize really started to have a headache. He took the receipts and glanced at them.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a receipt. His face darkened immediately. He angrily threw the receipt on the table. "What's going on? Is this hotel a money - eater? It costs ten million. Why don't they just rob? When did I spend so much there?"
The secretary took a closer look and immediately replied, "Mr. Chu, not long ago, you entertained your friends there almost every day. And you always went for the most luxurious options. Just those few bottles of red wine cost almost hundreds of thousands."
Only then did Chu Beize belatedly feel remorseful.
At that time, he thought that this project with the Xiao Group was a sure thing. So, in his excitement, he indulged in extravagance. Along with those so - called friends, he always went for the most expensive and high - end options. Each meal cost between one and two million.
But he never expected such a setback. He thought that the money would surely fall into his pocket, but now it was gone.
Not only the hotel expenses, but he had also really had a good time recently. He had been in and out of entertainment venues, getting drunk many times. And he had met a girl who looked a lot like Ye Yanxi.
Just buying her luxury goods and jewelry had cost him a lot of money.
At that time, he didn't even blink an eye, because he thought the money he was going to get was calculated in billions. Naturally, this amount of money didn't matter to him.
The receipts brought by the secretary suddenly woke him up from a beautiful dream. After checking these receipts, the total amount was at least about one billion, which was even larger than the capital gap of his previous project.
How could he possibly come up with so much money now?
Chu Beize finally couldn't stay calm anymore. His eyes were blazing with anger as he picked up the phone and was about to call Xiao Yu. But to his surprise, the phone was turned off.
This result made Chu Beize's heart skip a beat.
Then he changed his mind and called Xiao Yu's office. But the person on the other end told him that Xiao Yu was on a business trip and hadn't come back yet.
In this situation, Xiao Yu was the only straw he could grasp.
After all, two billion was not a small amount. Even the Chu Group only had a dozen billion. But if he wanted to get the money, he couldn't hide it from his father. He was afraid that his father, Chu Yan, would break his legs. So he still pinned his hopes on Xiao Yu.
He had to get a result today.
Since he couldn't get in touch with Xiao Yu, he had only one way left.
Just as he took out his phone and was about to call Ye Yanxi, he suddenly remembered dejectedly that Ye Yanxi had blocked his number long ago. He couldn't get through.
After thinking for a while, he took the secretary's phone and was going to call Ye Yanxi.
When Ye Yanxi's phone rang, she was in the library, reviewing for the upcoming exams.
As soon as she entered the library, she had set her phone to vibrate to avoid disturbing others. When the phone vibrated slightly, Ye Yanxi glanced at the caller ID. It was an unknown number.
Ye Yanxi never answered unknown numbers. After all, most of them were meaningless advertisements and sales calls. Moreover, last time when she asked He Chuyan to help her find a house and left her number, she had been constantly receiving calls from real - estate agents and investment companies ever since. It was really annoying.
After answering a few of them, Ye Yanxi even thought about changing her number.
Since then, Ye Yanxi thought that if you really hated someone who always bothered you with phone calls, you could just give their number to the real - estate agents, and then you wouldn't have to deal with them yourself.
Normally, a call from an unknown number would automatically hang up after ringing for a while if no one answered.
So Ye Yanxi muted the phone and waited for the caller to hang up. But unexpectedly, the number called again.
This determination to keep calling made Ye Yanxi a bit impressed. It called for the third time, the fourth time...
Finally, Ye Yanxi couldn't stand it anymore and answered the call.
"Hello, who's this?" Ye Yanxi said impatiently.
"It's me, Xiaoxi." With just a few short words, Chu Beize blurted them out eagerly.
As soon as she heard it was Chu Beize, Ye Yanxi almost hung up the phone without hesitation.
But just as she was about to do so, Chu Beize on the other end seemed to know her intention. He immediately threatened, "Ye Yanxi, if you dare to hang up on me, I'll go to your school right now and tell your classmates about how we dated for eight years and then you got together with my uncle."
Now Chu Beize was completely a psycho with a seriously distorted mind. Ye Yanxi almost tried to avoid him at all costs.
Ye Yanxi still didn't hang up. She frowned and walked to a more secluded place. Then she said coldly, "Just say what you want to say."
"I'm asking you, is Xiao Yu with you now?"
"No." Ye Yanxi frowned. "Why are you looking for him?"
"Why am I looking for him? Humph, don't you know better? The Xiao Group didn't even win the bid for that land in the north city, but they signed a contract with me. Did you know about this long ago and kept me in the dark?"
Ye Yanxi thought for a while and then suddenly realized. So... the land for the contract that Chu Beize signed with Xiao Yu hadn't even been obtained. How could they carry out the project then?
Normally, a contract wouldn't have such a mistake. This meant that the contract was invalid.
It seemed that since Chu Beize couldn't find Xiao Yu for the moment, he had called her.
"Chu Beize, when you signed the contract, you should have read it carefully. You didn't do any investigation and just signed and stamped it rashly. As long as they get that land, the contract will take effect."
Chu Beize seemed to be suppressing his anger. He gritted out a few words, "That land has been won by another company. The contract is just a piece of waste paper!"
"The contract you signed hasn't even started yet. You haven't paid the deposit either. You haven't suffered any losses." Ye Yanxi said calmly.
"If it weren't for that contract, I wouldn't have spent so much money during this period. Did you and Xiao Yu collude to frame me?"