Listening to Ye Cheng, Mi Xue was confused again. Could it be that it wasn’t the other party who had sabotaged, but someone else.
Although she had offended some people before, she knew in her heart that those people were not from as prestigious families as hers, which is why she had dared to be so brazen.
Looking at Ye Cheng, Mi Xue stared, "Sir, do you really not know who I am?"
Ye Cheng laughed, "Why should I know you?"
With her face changing suddenly, Mi Xue was both angry and annoyed, "Then you don’t know who owns my family’s hotel either?"
Ye Cheng laughed again, "Why should I care about the hotel owner’s name, could it actually get me a discount?"
"If it’s not you, that makes things easier." Mi Xue looked at him; though he appeared imposing, he wasn’t accompanied by anyone, and he didn’t seem influential, "If I ever find out who’s been undermining me from behind, I’ll make sure they regret it."
She glanced at Manager He, "Manager He, my mom said the hotel is no longer owned by my uncle. Call and check if that’s actually true."
Mom too, is this really something to joke about? Thinking about the face-slapping she had just given herself, her skin still felt burning hot.
Manager He hurriedly used the hotel’s landline to contact his boss. The boss’s wife answered, her voice weak and having obviously cried, "The hotel isn’t ours anymore. My dear Du was hospitalized because of that deadly girl Mi Xue. This deathly girl, who has she offended to drag our Du family down ? I won’t let her off."
It dawned on Manager He that the situation was indeed real. Slowly hanging up the phone, he approached Mi Xue listlessly, "Miss Mi, Mr. Du is indeed hospitalized, and the hotel is no longer under Mr. Du’s name. I think I’m out of a job too. Miss, excuse me, I need to go settle my salary."
Manager He, without waiting to see how Mi Xue reacted, walked away.
The others watched Manager He leave, looking at each other, and followed him to the finance department to get their salaries.
They hadn’t walked far when a group of people approached.
Each one dressed in a suit and tie, carrying briefcases, clearly business elites.
They went straight to the upstairs general manager’s office, completely ignoring the restaurant staff.
Watching them, Mi Xue understood; these people were probably the ones taking over her uncle’s properties.
The irony was, she didn’t even know who they were. With a quick step forward, she spread her arms to block their way, regardless of her disheveled appearance or lack of poise; she just wanted to understand one thing—who had she offended.
Blocking their path, she almost gritted her teeth, "I am Mi Xue, who are you?
This is my uncle’s property, please leave."
The person glanced at her lightly, taking a document from his briefcase, "Ten minutes ago, Mr. Du signed off all his properties to us. We are now officially taking over Mingzhu Hotel. If you have any doubts, Miss, you can confirm it yourself by calling Mr. Du Yonghe directly."
Without regard for Mi Xue’s reaction, they walked past her, never looking back.
Something clicked inside Mi Xue; it was real, seriously real. Why was this happening, and who was it?
Once again, she rushed forward to block their path, "Who are you? Who is your boss?"
"It is not necessary for you to know who our boss is, but he did say, since the Du’s can’t discipline a niece properly, someone had to do it. If he can’t bring himself to educate her, someone else needs to make that tough decision. Miss, we need to go downstairs to settle the assets; please step aside."
Their boss wasn’t just someone anyone could know.
After speaking, they brushed past Mi Xue and went upstairs.
Feeling soulless, Mi Xue collapsed to the ground.
She never thought she would fall to such a state, the most ridiculous part being, she didn’t even know who was behind it. Isn’t that laughable?
Her pride, her dignity, her image, in that moment, all were trampled underfoot by the other party.
Ye Cheng sat at the dining table and snapped his fingers at the waiter, "Place an order."
Xiaofeng saw him and remembered that just now, several security guards and the lobby manager seemed to say they were quitting, "The boss has changed, they probably won’t be open for business today."
"We just received notice that the new boss is paying us more than the previous one, so we will continue to work, and the restaurant will operate as normal." The waiter placed the menu in front of Ye Cheng, "Sir, you can order whatever you like. Our boss said that you had been frightened just a moment ago, so this meal is on us to calm your nerves."
Ye Cheng nodded and marked the menu with a pen, "Let’s have these few dishes for now, and we will order more if it’s not enough."
The waiter smiled and left.
Ershun was still watching Mi Xue’s spectacle. Indeed, what goes around comes around, no one escapes karma. The haughty Miss Haicheng, who just minutes ago was high and mighty, now sat on the ground like a beggar, listless.
Looking at her , she probably couldn’t be proud anymore.
It was also strange, this Miss Mi, who exactly had she offended? In just a few minutes, someone had settled both her maternal family and her own family.
Whoever could manage that in just a couple of minutes must be influential, at least someone who could turn the skies and stir the seas in Haicheng.
Turning around, he found that Brother Cheng and his wife had already started eating, he pulled back his gaze from the excitement and with an embarrassed smile sat down beside Ye Cheng, "Brother Cheng, weren’t you back in your hometown? How come you are here?"
Thinking of something, he suddenly realized, "I got it, your family is in Haicheng, right? When you said you were going back to your hometown, you meant Haicheng. No wonder my sister-in-law insisted on coming to Haicheng, it’s because you were here."
Upon realizing this, Ershun complained to Xiaofeng, "Sister-in-law, you should have told me Brother Cheng was here."
Xiaofeng curled her lips, propping her chin with her hands and looking at the person eating gracefully across the table, "He didn’t mention where he was going back to, and I didn’t ask, who knew he was in Haicheng."
Ershun, hearing Xiaofeng’s words and looking between Xiaofeng and Ye Cheng, was astounded.
So Brother Cheng returned to Haicheng without telling his wife, and she didn’t ask either; these two are quite the characters, what are they doing, acting like spies?
All mysterious, they didn’t look like a couple newly wed at all.
Listening to Xiaofeng’s words, Ye Cheng’s attractive lips curled up, "I’m not in Haicheng, just called the factory, and Chief Zhou said she was coming to Haicheng, so I came over. It was also a coincidence that I met her just as I arrived. Don’t you think it’s telepathy?"
Ershun, hearing this, gasped with his mouth wide open, "Really? That really is a coincidence. Brother Cheng, where is your hometown, where did you come from, is it very close to Haicheng?"
Definitely very close to Haicheng, otherwise, he couldn’t have gotten here so quickly.
"From a town just below Haicheng." Ye Cheng answered lightly, glancing as Wu Yifan and Yang Zhenye hurried in, his eyes flicked.
"Brother," Ershun waved to Wu Yifan, "Over here."
Wu Yifan looked around the restaurant, where Mi Xue sat deflated like a fool, and in the center of the restaurant were Ershun, Xiaofeng, and—Ye Cheng. What was he doing here?
"Brother," Ershun stood up, already eager to share the events that had just unfolded with Wu Yifan, the scene was just like a movie, truly exciting.
"Brother, you really missed it. Just now, several people came, each dressed in a suit and carrying a briefcase, saying they were taking over Mi Xue’s uncle’s enterprises. Did you see her just now? Nothing like her arrogant self earlier. They say fortune turns like a wheel, no one expected it would be her turn to fall so low."
Yang Zhenye looked at the extremely disheveled Mi Xue sitting on the ground, listening to Ershun’s words, he was taken aback, "This hotel isn’t Mi Xue’s uncle’s anymore, what about Mingzhu Mall?"
"I heard that he took over all of Mi Xue’s uncle’s assets." Ershun was delighted with schadenfreude, "Brother Yang, it’s good that you resigned just in time. With her temper, she might offend the wrong people any moment, just thinking about it feels satisfying."
Not having to lift a finger yet someone else takes care of the annoying people, the outcome is certainly satisfying.
Yang Zhenye’s lips twitched, unsure whether to feel fortunate for himself or to sympathize with Mi Xue’s plight.
It had only been half an hour, and he had not expected such a huge change to occur. Of course, he was even more curious about who it was that could deal with someone like Mi Xue in just half an hour.
You see, Mi Xue’s parents were people of status and her uncle was a wealthy businessman in Haicheng with considerable assets and backed by her parents’ connections. It hardly seemed possible that someone could just take him down so easily.
But seeing Mi Xue’s current state, Yang Zhenye believed that there must be no falsehood in what Ershun said.
So, who really was behind this?