At Gandou Golden Airport, a little past six in the evening.
The female bodyguard who had come to pick her up kept her eyes fixed in the crowded terminal, quickly locking onto the most eye-catching pretty girl at the arrival exit.
The girl had a gentle and quiet face, cradling a bouquet of roses in her arms. She was dressed very casually, with a cool halter top revealing her slender waist, paired with a pure black short skirt, her long legs straight and slender, and her whole body—down to every strand of hair—exuding beauty.
The girl did not notice the surrounding gazes, walking while lowering her head to adjust the roses in her arms without a care for others, a pretty curve hooked at the corner of her mouth.
“Miss Kexin.”
The female bodyguard stepped forward quickly, calmly relaying the message to her: “The old lady asked me to tell you that you will officially meet with the Qin family at eight o’clock tonight. Please make sure to be on time.”
Hearing this, the smile at the corner of Lin Kexin’s mouth froze.
It might also be because the girl had bodyguards following her behind, attracting many people around her to cast gazes in her direction.
“I still have to go somewhere later, you don’t need to follow me.”
Lin Kexin’s voice was very soft, but upon seeing that the bodyguard did not follow instructions, she frowned and gave a cold warning: “Don’t make me say it a second time.”
The two female bodyguards looked at each other, and only then stopped in their tracks, not daring to follow.
Coming out from the airport, Lin Kexin quickly got into a waiting taxi.
Suddenly, her phone buzzing in her short skirt pocket vibrated.
Lin Kexin didn’t check it, a trace of disgust flashing in her eyes.
Originally, she was away on a business trip when her aunt called her, telling her that the Lin family and the Jiang family were jointly cooperating on a hundred-billion-yuan project, and the two families were about to strongly combine to monopolize the market, intending to let her and the Jiang family enter into a marriage alliance.
She was a hundred times unwilling in her heart.
She had a girlfriend she was dating, and their relationship was pretty good, so naturally, she wouldn’t agree to go on a marriage alliance.
Wanting to make her grandmother and aunt change their minds was a bit difficult, so she ended her business trip schedule early.
She wanted to see her girlfriend Wang Yuan sooner and take Wang Yuan home to meet her grandmother.
Her girlfriend Wang Yuan had a very good personality, and they had been dating for over a year. Their daily interactions were very happy, at least much more relaxed and pleasant than her life in the Lin family.
Her father was a matrilocal husband who married into their Lin family, and her mother managed the family business.
Her parents pampered her into the happiest princess.
Pity that when she was 10 years old, her parents had an accident in a plane crash, and everything in life changed.
Ever since then, because of this matter, her grandmother started practicing vegetarianism and chanting Buddhist scriptures at home, remaining indifferent to many things.
Her aunt took over the management of the company from her grandmother.
Her cousin Lin Zhiwei was also groomed as the family heir, and all family resources and connections were tilted toward Lin Zhiwei, while she became an awkward presence at home.
Whatever Lin Zhiwei didn’t want would fall to her to choose.
Just like the marriage alliance with the Jiang family, it was also because Lin Zhiwei looked down on Jiang Fei that she was asked to go into the marriage alliance.
As for this marriage alliance partner, Jiang Fei…
She was not familiar with the other person.
She only remembered that the two families had business dealings when they were young, and she and Jiang Fei seemed to have a dispute over something.
The other party couldn’t argue with her and wanted to use violence.
She had practiced taekwondo and easily beaten the other party until she kept calling for her mom.
Growing up, she had no idea what kind of ghost Jiang Fei looked like.
For this reason, she stayed up all night at the business trip hotel writing a fifty-page PPT, just to perfectly reject this absurd marriage…
The car quickly arrived at its destination.
Lin Kexin entered the single apartment, pressed the button for the 6th floor, and looked down at the bright and vibrant roses in her arms, a trace of shyness and anticipation showing in her eyes.
She would be able to see Wang Yuan in a moment.
Since she came back early from her business trip, the other party should find it quite a surprise.
Coming out of the elevator, Lin Kexin walked to Wang Yuan’s door, and just as she was about to press her fingerprint to open the door, she heard a “beep” sound.
The door opened from the inside.
“I’ll see you off, it’s too late and I’m worried.”
Wang Yuan lowered her head, whispering softly to the girl in her arms to admonish her, before abruptly seeing Lin Kexin at the door.
“Xinxin, you…”
Wang Yuan’s face changed abruptly: “You, didn’t you go on a business trip?”
Lin Kexin ignored the lack of joy over her arrival in Wang Yuan’s words, her calm gaze moving downward, landing on the waist of the girl Wang Yuan was hugging.
They were almost stuck together.
“You cheated.”
It was not a question.
No matter how Lin Kexin thought about it, she wouldn’t have expected Wang Yuan to cheat, and in her heart, she only felt a sense of absurd and laughable irony.
“That thing…”
Worried that Lin Kexin might do some overly drastic action, Wang Yuan instinctively comforted the girl beside her gently: “Babe, why don’t you go back to your room first, I’ll explain it to you later.”
The girl stood frozen in place.
The girl looked at Lin Kexin, who was holding roses and came knocking with a murderous aura, and then looked several times at Wang Yuan, who was pushing her away, her expression turning pale in a flash.
“No!”
Realizing only then that she was being treated as a mistress caught in the act, the girl pushed Wang Yuan away with an ugly expression, clearing her relationship: “I, I didn’t know, Wang Yuan invited me to her house for tea and told me she didn’t have a partner… I’m not a mistress.”
Lin Kexin’s eyelids twitched, her emotions on the verge of erupting.
The girl panicked and fled with her belongings.
After the girl left, Lin Kexin took a deep breath, stepped inside with an expression as calm as usual, and hooked her foot backward to kick the door shut.
A look of terror appeared on Wang Yuan’s face as she looked at Lin Kexin, trembling and explaining: “Xinxin, don’t be impulsive, listen to my explanation, I did do something to let you down… But you don’t even have time to eat with me…”
“Damn you!”
Lin Kexin fiercely threw the bouquet of roses in her arms toward Wang Yuan’s head.
It hit right on target.
Wang Yuan lost her footing and fell backward onto the ground, feeling dizzy and wanting to say something more, but when she raised her eyes, she saw the “demon” approaching her like a rakshasa from hell…
“No, no, no, I know I was wrong, Xinxin you can’t hit me…”
Wang Yuan pleaded, covering her face in fright: “I, really nothing happened between me and her.”
“No way.”
Lin Kexin clenched her fists until they cracked, smiling harmlessly on the surface: “Who gave you the nerve to ride two boats at once? If you wanted to break up, you should have said so earlier, I’m not someone who would pester endlessly.”
“—Ah!! Help!!”
Two hours later, Lin Kexin returned to her own residence.
Although Lin Kexin fiercely beat up the cheating Wang Yuan, she still didn’t feel very relieved in her heart.
She was still quite sad.
She had thought her interactions and relationship with Wang Yuan during their time together were pleasant, but she never expected the other party to have shifted her affections long ago.
She always felt that her romantic path in this life was extremely bumpy.
She still remembered the first person she liked, who was her cousin’s classmate. The other party had a gentle personality, but unfortunately, it fizzled out before she even had time to confess.
This past year of dating Wang Yuan had also been this kind of tragic situation.
Lin Kexin felt utterly exhausted and lonely all over, as if she were the only person left in the entire world.
She didn’t frequent this house much, and because it was in disrepair, even the living room lights flickered on and off. Anyone timid would surely feel that this villa was comparable to a haunted house.
While the bathtub was filling up with water, Lin Kexin finally had the mood to open her phone and selectively look at messages.
Da Piaoliang (Big Beauty):
[I checked Jiang Fei’s information. Turns out she has a partner just like you]
[Sent the info to your email, haha.]
[Otherwise, why don’t you confess to Wang Yuan about your family forcing you into a marriage alliance, and let Wang Yuan go to the engagement banquet to snatch the bride]
[Just thinking about it is so exciting]
Da Meinv (Gorgeous Beauty):
[Think it over and you can come to me, I’ll help you contact a private jet]
The messages sent by her two friends were both very good.
After reading the messages, Lin Kexin replied “Let me think about it first” to each of them.
When the bathtub water was about to overflow, Lin Kexin finally withdrew her thoughts and began to soak in the bath.
Soaking in the comfortable warm water, thinking about how there were still friends in the world treating her sincerely, the gloomy emotion of feeling like she was the only person left in the whole world and wanting to die was now washed away by the warm water.
The matter of Wang Yuan cheating…
She hadn’t discussed the details with her friends yet.
Sadness is sadness, but matters still need to be sorted out.
She opened her email on her phone and began to check Jiang Fei’s information.
Jiang Fei didn’t look much different from her memory.
Still just as annoying.
The Jiang family had a good family background, and Jiang Fei, also being the second miss of the family just like her, didn’t need to shoulder the responsibilities of a family heir, so her hobbies were entirely about eating, drinking, and having fun.
Jiang Fei’s partner was a mixed-race woman who raced cars at the same club and looked quite pretty, but unfortunately, her taste was poor since she actually took a fancy to someone like Jiang Fei.
Suddenly, Lin Kexin’s gaze fell on the family members listed in Jiang Fei’s information:
On the name Jiang Qing.
She and Jiang Qing were also not familiar.
All things considered, she had only met Jiang Qing on a handful of occasions.
Speaking of Gandou’s new generation of elite youth, Jiang Qing was definitely the favored daughter of the heavens.
Jiang Qing was the Jiang family member most likely to take power, having traveled all over the country with her mother since childhood. She was outstanding in her career, and rumors had it that she was decisive and ruthless in the business world, making countless men and women want to woo and marry her while holding a sense of awe and fear.
Quite a few people had also obscurely mentioned that Jiang Qing was the person you least wanted to mess with in the Jiang family.
“Tch.”
Lin Kexin felt she had strayed off topic and irritably rubbed her hair.
Anyway, she didn’t plan on entering a marriage alliance.
Why think so much?
Half an hour later.
Lin Kexin finished her bath, put on her pajamas, and intended to return to her room when she heard a commotion coming from the courtyard gate outside.
Before she could go downstairs to check, several familiar bodyguards broke through the door.
“Miss Kexin.”
The two familiar female bodyguards from the airport ran upstairs, came up to her, and spoke with a serious tone: “The old lady said tomorrow is your engagement banquet with the Qin family’s second miss. From this moment on, I will stick close to protect you.”
Lin Kexin: “…”
She knew she would be monitored and didn’t feel panicked.
It was just a bit tricky.
It looked like her escape route needed to be replanned.
The next day, Dingsheng Luxury Hotel.
Starting yesterday, several female bodyguards had been monitoring Lin Kexin without leaving her side.
Makeup artists and stylists surrounded Lin Kexin to dress her up. Lin Kexin sat in front of the dressing room mirror, closing her eyes in doze, while her mind was thinking about the route for her elopement plan.
After being “kidnapped” back home by her grandmother and the others last night, she was lectured again for failing to attend the formal dinner meeting of both families on time yesterday, emphasizing that the marriage alliance between the Lin family and the Jiang family was very important.
They told her to be obedient and sensible, and to look at the big picture.
Sigh.
In the early morning, Lin Kexin had already contacted the friends coming to pick her up.
The private jet would arrive before eleven o’clock at noon, and her ID card and overseas visa had been prepared in advance.
Her funds overseas were very plentiful.
As long as she escaped abroad, she would be free as a bird.
“What did you say?”
“The Jiang family’s second miss is missing?”
The door to the dressing room was open, and a rather unclear exclamation drifted in from the hallway outside.
Hearing this, Lin Kexin opened her eyes languidly, only to find that the makeup artists and stylists had disappeared at some point, leaving her sitting alone in the room like a fool.
Jiang Fei was missing?
Lin Kexin’s eyelids twitched violently, guessing: could it be that Jiang Fei ran away from the marriage?
She quickly opened her phone and sent a message to the reliable bodyguard.
The message was quickly replied to:
[The Jiang family’s second miss hasn’t been found since this morning, the Jiang family has already sent people to search, and there is still no news so far]
Lin Kexin was inwardly thrilled to death; this was simply fantastic news.
She hadn’t even started escaping the marriage yet, and Jiang Fei couldn’t sit still!
She walked out of the dressing room, and there were many fewer people in the corridor.
Presumably, everyone was busy looking for Jiang Fei right now, and no one was paying attention to her.
Just to be safe,
She had to slip away quickly too.
Just as she was grinning and planning to take off the cumbersome wedding dress weighing her down, before she knew it, someone grabbed her arm from behind.
Everything happened too fast, and Lin Kexin didn’t even have time to gasp in surprise.
When Lin Kexin reacted, she was actually pinned against the wall, and the first thing she smelled right at her nose was a citrus-scented fragrance.
The scent was very familiar, as if she had smelled it somewhere before?
No way??
Who the heck is this!