"Ye Chen, are you back yet? Are you at home?"

"Why isn't Liu Shihua at home? Where has she run off to like a madwoman?"

At this moment, Zhang Xinlan's calling voice suddenly came, catching both of them off guard.

"Ye Chen, Xinlan is here, I'm scared!" Liu Shihua said, her face drained of color in fear.

Domineering and proud, Zhang Xinlan was not afraid to challenge Su Binglan. Even though Liu Shihua's schemes were devious, she was still too green to face this older sister.

If Zhang Xinlan did not find out about Liu Shihua and Ye Chen, it would be fine. But once she discovered it, the big star would be utterly miserable, extremely miserable!

"Don't be afraid, I'll go out and keep her occupied. You take the chance to slip away!" Ye Chen said, his heart racing too. Their relationship was not ready to be exposed yet.

Ye Chen hurriedly went out, and Liu Shihua was also eager to get away. But before she left, she didn't forget to take her cellphone. Liu Shihua had one bad habit; no matter what she did, she liked to record it…

"..."

"Ye Chen, you're okay, right?"

After seeing Ye Chen, Zhang Xinlan began to express concern for him, showing a tender warmth.

"I just did some breathing exercises, and my body has mostly recovered, nothing serious!"

"But, you must never hit me with your car again, otherwise I will die!" Ye Chen said, looking pitiful.

"Hmph, if you dare to upset me, I will still hit you with the car, until I kill you!" Zhang Xinlan said coldly.

However, Zhang Xinlan might have spoken fiercely, but upon hearing that Ye Chen was unharmed, she also felt relieved.

"You wouldn't!" Ye Chen wailed.

Zhang Xinlan's threat to run him over with her car made Ye Chen have an expression as bitter as a gourd. After all, once Ms. Zhang became fierce, she was quite intimidating.

"Can't you be a little gentler with me, can't you be nicer to me?!"

Ye Chen pleaded pathetically, acting like a bullied little wife, protesting against Zhang Xinlan's violent behavior.

"Don't you like violence?" Zhang Xinlan asked teasingly with a seductive smile.

"But, I'm only violent towards men!" Ye Chen said earnestly.

"The problem is, I am only violent towards men too. Aren't you a man?!" Zhang Xinlan asked innocently, batting her beautiful eyes.

"..."

"Ye Chen, as long as you are obedient, I'll be very gentle with you!" Zhang Xinlan said with a gentle smile.

Ye Chen blinked. Ms. Zhang was acting very strangely! After the incident with Su Binglan broke out, this beauty seemed to have gone mad. Why had she suddenly become so calm?

"I just went to negotiate with Su Binglan, and we've reached some agreements. We are now in a truce!" Zhang Xinlan said, finally speaking up to the suspicious-looking Ye Chen. "I know she isn't pregnant with your child, but from now on, even if you have some contact with her, you don't have to hide it."

Zhang Xinlan wasn't willing to continue the upheaval because it could lead to mutual destruction, and Ye Chen might be snatched away by another woman.

Ye Chen was surrounded by many women, that female police officer who sought him out, that ice-cold beauty…

With enemies on all sides and numerous formidable opponents, these people represented huge potential threats to Zhang Xinlan!

However, Zhang Xinlan really couldn't understand—are all the women in the world blind?

Why would they fall for such a country bumpkin!

"May I know what you two talked about?" Ye Chen asked curiously. Liu Shihua had told him that Su Binglan was keeping Zhang Xinlan busy, but how exactly had that witch Su managed to do that?

Seeing Zhang Xinlan's demeanor, she seemed to have temporarily accepted Su Binglan. Yet Ye Chen knew she was a proud woman. What kind of agreement could make them bury the hatchet?

"Quite simple, it's about redeeming you!" Zhang Xinlan said. "You accepted Su Binglan's Wanshi Medicine. Before Empress Chu became a shareholder, the company's total market value was only about twenty billion!"

"You're giving her twenty billion?!" Ye Chen exclaimed in surprise, beginning to suspect something.

Even though Zhang Xinlan had made quite a bit of money over the years with Liu Shihua in the entertainment industry, her current assets were at most one billion. Where would she find twenty billion to give to Su Binglan?

"You're underestimating me. I promised to pay her one hundred billion within ten years, and then you two will no longer have any ties!" Zhang Xinlan said assertively.

"Are you crazy, where are you going to get one hundred billion to give her!" Ye Chen was shocked.

One hundred billion—that was massive. Even Empress Chu would need a long time to mobilize such an amount of funds, so how could Zhang Xinlan possibly manage it?!

"With ten years' time, as long as I want to, I certainly can do it!" Zhang Xinlan said proudly. "She's now thirty-one or thirty-two. In ten years, she will be past her prime, and you won't like her anymore, right?"

"I suppose so!" Ye Chen said with a sheepish smile.

"You'd better believe it!" Zhang Xinlan gave him a cold glance.

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