Chapter 61: Chapter 61 He Spares No Expense
After leaving the newspaper office, Lu Wanwan immediately gave Xu Yuan a call.
A sleepy voice came through from the other end, “Her Majesty hasn’t woken up yet, can we talk later?”
Lu Wanwan gritted her teeth, “The first thing you do when you come back isn’t to find me, but to get into a fight! Could you be any more disappointing?”
“Ahem, about that… But how did you find out, Wanwan?”
“You made the headlines, how could I not know? If I hadn’t seen it, were you planning on never telling me?”
The voice on the other end pledged earnestly, “Absolutely not, I didn’t lose; why would I be afraid of people finding out? It’s just that I accidentally got a bit disfigured, and I’m embarrassed to go out…”
“If you didn’t lose, how did you get disfigured?”
“That green tea bitch had such long nails, anyone can have an off day, right? Let’s talk when we meet; I’ll treat you to a meal as an apology.”
An hour later, at Huajin High-end Restaurant.
Xu Yuan, with a battered face, was venting her frustrations.
Lu Wanwan saw the nail mark, at least four or five centimeters long, scabbed over, showing the ferocity of the attack.
“Anyway, it’s as simple as that.” Xu Yuan clenched her fork, angrily saying, “How could I let it go without giving her a beating? That toilet smell disgusted me for a whole day and night.”
“She attended Fashion Week in New York; you were traveling in New York. She locked you in a bathroom so you couldn’t get out, and you took it out on her when you came back to the country.” Lu Wanwan looked at her, “May I ask, Miss Xu Yuan, why on earth would a celebrity, who was nicely attending Fashion Week, lock you in a bathroom for no reason? Your story is missing too many pieces.”
Xu Yuan’s hand loosened, she hemmed and hawed, “Well… there’s a bit of a personal grudge, it’s trivial, just her own paranoid delusions.”
Lu Wanwan wanted to ask more, but Xu Yuan immediately called a halt to the topic, “Let’s eat, let’s eat. Look at you, your very first gig as an entertainment reporter and I’m showing you such support, treating you to a big meal. Don’t you feel incredibly moved?”
Lu Wanwan: “I’m so moved I could strangle you.”
In a private room not far from the main hall of the same restaurant, Gu Annan sat with a finger raised, pushing the closed file across the table, “Take a look for yourself, if there’s no problem, then sign.”
The middle-aged man across from him laughed respectfully, taking the file with both hands, “You jest, Sir, of course there’s no problem. Actually, I’ve just taken over this hospital, which I heard was operating at a loss. But rest assured, sir, there are definitely no problems with the hospital. I guarantee it will start turning a profit within a year. Your investment is absolutely worth it!”
Gu Annan looked up indifferently, “My requirement is not profitability.”
“You can be assured, Mr. Gu, we will spare no expense in hiring the best doctors and will move quickly to find a kidney source. And we will not disclose your identity as the investor to anyone.”
The middle-aged man quickly signed the contract, and seeing that Gu Annan had no interest in further conversation, he took his leave very conscientiously.
“General Gu.” The middle-aged man had just left when Zhao Chen came in, “I just saw Miss Lu. What a coincidence, she’s dining here with a friend.”
Gu Annan was about to leave with the contract in hand, but paused at Zhao Chen’s words, handing over the contract, “Keep it safe.”
He had just stepped out of the private room and he gave the hall a quick, indifferent glance, spotting Lu Wanwan almost immediately.
“Aren’t you going over, General Gu?”
“No.” Gu Annan turned around, ready to leave.
Suddenly, several burly men with unfriendly expressions, rushed in from outside the restaurant and headed straight for Xu Yuan and Lu Wanwan’s table.
“Miss Xu, we finally found you.” The man who spoke had a rough and boorish tone.