What? The villain wants to marry me?

On the sixth day of the New Year, we officially started work.

Early that morning, Fu Ruoan packed up and went to work with his bag.

When he arrived at the company and met his colleagues after half a month's absence, Fu Ruoan felt as if everyone had just had their holiday yesterday.

Qu Xilan smiled and said to the people in the secretariat: "Welcome back to work, everyone. Here, each of you has a red envelope. It's what Mr. Xie ordered."

Several secretaries rushed forward, took their own red envelopes, and couldn't wait to open them and take a look.

"Wow!! President Xie is so domineering and majestic!"

All the secretaries cheered.

Really, the money in here is enough to cover half a year's salary, so how can they not cheer?

But the next moment, it was like a cat with its neck strangled.

"You all seem to be in good spirits. Let's work hard today and sort out the various reports from the previous year. They'll be used for the meeting tomorrow."

After saying this, Xie Qingran walked straight into the office, ignoring the shocked expressions of several secretaries.

Is this considered as excessive joy leading to sorrow?

There’s no other way, just keep working on it.

Lunch break is a chance for people to take a break.

While drinking tea, Fu Ruoan felt that tea was more refreshing than coffee.

Suddenly the phone rang.

She picked up the phone on the table and it showed that it was Zhou Keke.

Fu Ruoan answered the phone and said immediately: "Hey! Miss Zhou is willing to call me? What's the matter? Please tell me."

But after waiting for a while, there was no sound in the receiver.

Fu Ruoan sat up straight, frowned, and asked, "Hello? Zhou Keke, what are you doing? Are you talking? Are you pantomiming?"

Fu Ruoan was about to hang up the phone with doubts when Zhou Keke's voice came from the receiver.

"An An, can you lend me some money?" His voice was hoarse and tired, as if he hadn't had water for a long time.

Fu Ruoan was startled: "Keke, what's wrong with you? Your voice is not right? What happened to you?"

Zhou Keke on the other end of the phone was helpless, but couldn't say it directly, so she said: "It's nothing, I just have a cold. Do you have any money? Lend me some."

Fu Ruoan was stunned: "Ah? Borrow money? You? No, Miss Zhou is also short of money? Did you have a falling out with your family?"

Zhou Keke tried to hold it back, but couldn't help herself: "Fu Ruoan! Why are you so hesitant to borrow some money from you?! I'm broke and stuck, will you lend it to me or not?!"

Fu Ruoan: "How much do you want to borrow?"

Zhou Keke: "It has to be at least 11 million. Any less would be beneath my dignity."

Fu Ruoan rolled his eyes when he heard the number: "Twenty million is enough, right? Eleven million more."

Zhou Keke hurriedly stopped him: "No, I know you don't have that much money, just 11 million. Remember, it's 11 million. Forget about the extra money."

After saying that, the phone hung up.

Fu Ruoan looked at the hung up phone and felt something was wrong for some reason, but after thinking about it, he couldn't figure out what was going on.

It happened that Xie Qingran passed by the secretariat at this time. Seeing Fu Ruoan frowning and thinking, he walked over as if possessed.

He coughed and said, "What's wrong? Are you too tired from work?"

Fu Ruoan looked up at Xie Qingran and said, "Ah? No, it was Keke. She called me suddenly and said she wanted to borrow money, but she only wanted 11 million and didn't want more. I thought it was a bit strange, but I couldn't figure out what was going on."

Xie Qingran pondered for a moment and said, "Zhou Keke? The daughter of real estate tycoon Zhou Chongyi?"

Fu Ruoan nodded: "Yes, how could Keke be short of money? Putting aside her identity, Keke has never been short of money. In addition to receiving dividends from the Zhou family's shares, she also set up a studio of her own. Why would she borrow money from me?"

Xie Qingran spoke without hesitation: "She might be in trouble and can't leave for the time being. What else did she say besides asking for money?"

Fu Ruoan: "She said she was trapped and couldn't leave, so she wanted to lend me money."

Xie Qingran nodded: "Something must have happened to her."

Fu Ruoan was anxious: "What should we do? Yes, we should tell her father first."

After saying that, he called his father and asked him to call Zhou Chongyi and tell him that something had happened to Zhou Keke.

After hearing this, Fu Mingde did not hesitate. He hung up the phone with Fu Ruoan and called Zhou Chongyi to explain the situation.

When Zhou Chongyi learned that his daughter was in trouble, he was shocked and very angry. After thanking Fu Mingde, he hurriedly asked someone to investigate Zhou Keke's whereabouts.

But Fu Ruoan felt uneasy.

Xie Qingran thought for a moment, then said to Ruoan, "Come with me to a place."

Fu Ruoan didn't understand where Xie Qingran asked her to follow, but she followed him obediently anyway.

Xie Qingran took Fu Ruoan into a special elevator, and then she found that the elevator was moving downwards.

Fu Ruoan's eyes were filled with shock and confusion.

How come she didn't know there was something else underneath this building?

The elevator arrived quickly.

As he walked out of the elevator, Fu Ruoan saw two men in army green clothes standing not far away, with a door behind them.

Even though they were so far away, Fu Ruoan could still feel the oppressive feeling coming from the two men.

She shrank unconsciously, then pretended to be calm and followed Xie Qingran.

"Miss." The two men called Xie Qingran like this.

Xie Qingran nodded, took out a card from his suit pocket, swiped it in a card slot next to him, and the door opened with a click.

Then there was another door, but the material looked different.

Only a mechanical female voice sounded: "Please perform iris verification."

Then an LCD display extended from the door, and Xie Qingran stood over it.

Then comes verification.

The verification was completed with a beep, and a mechanical female voice sounded: "Verification successful, welcome master, please come in."

The door was then fully opened.

Fu Ruoan was stunned by this operation.

She was genuinely surprised. Was this thing so advanced? What was going on inside?

She followed me here like this, does that mean she knows Xie Qingran's secret?

Fu Ruoan was startled and suddenly she didn't dare to move.

Xie Qingran turned to look at Fu Ruoan, who was standing there in a daze, and said, "Come here, don't you want to know about Zhou Keke's situation?"

Fu Ruoan swallowed, feeling caught in a dilemma.

But the next moment, he gave it a try again. He had already come this far, so a few more steps wouldn't make a difference.

As the two entered, the door was closed again.

Fu Ruoan followed Xie Qingran through the corridor and came to a spacious studio.

Judging from the appearance, there are about thirty computers inside, and there is a person sitting at each seat, all of them staring at the computer intently.

Even when Xie Qingran came, no one stood up or looked up.

The sound of footsteps was heard, and Fu Ruoan turned around and saw a woman with short hair and a man with a flat head next to her.

The two came to Xie Qingran and respectfully called out, "Miss."

Xie Qingran nodded, and then said: "Please clear two computers and let the two of them check something."

The woman immediately arranged for the two closest people to handle it.

Xie Qingran asked Fu Ruoan to give them his cell phone and tell them the number they wanted to check.

Fu Ruoan did as he was told.

The short-haired woman turned to Xie Qingran and said, "Miss, why don't you go and have a rest? It will be fine in a moment."

Xie Qingran refused: "No, I'll stay with her."

Upon hearing this, the woman glanced at Fu Ruoan.

Fu Ruoan felt the other party's scrutiny and took a step forward silently.

There's no way, the other person's eyes are a bit scary.

Xie Qingran looked at the short-haired woman and frowned: "Nightingale, put away that look in your eyes. An An is just an ordinary person."

Only then did Fu Ruoan realize that the short-haired woman was called Nightingale.

Nightingale suddenly felt rude and said, "I know I was wrong."

"I found it."

By this time the two men had been found out.

Fu Ruoan didn't care about being scared and hurried over to ask: "Where is she? Is she in danger?"

The person in front of the computer paused before saying, "At the border between the Middle East and China, there's a no-man's-land, a chaotic place."

Fu Ruo'an was immediately at a loss: "Isn't that dangerous? Why would Keke go there? Isn't she going to Country M for further studies?"

Xie Qingran patted her gently: "Don't worry, at least she is safe for now."

Fu Ruoan: "But...should I tell her dad?"

Xie Qingran gave her a strange look: "If you don't tell her father, are you going to save her?"

Fu Ruoan felt a lump in his heart and was speechless.

If she goes, then she's not going to save people, she's going to get killed.

He immediately hung his head and pouted in grievance.

Xie Qingran looked at her with amusement and said, "Don't worry, Zhou Keke is not stupid, she will be fine."

Fu Ruoan had no other choice. She couldn't ask Xie Qingran to send someone to rescue her, right?

Why?

Xie Qingran is not familiar with her.

Without staying long, Xie Qingran took Fu Ruoan away.

Looking at Fu Ruoan and Xie Qingran leaving, Nightingale suddenly said: "Chameleon, what do you think is the relationship between the young lady and her? She actually brought her here."

Chameleon, the flat-headed man who came with Nightingale.

Apart from calling out "Xie Qingran", he didn't say a word else.

Hearing Nightingale's words, he turned his head and glanced at Nightingale, then said: "I don't know, but it must be very important to you, Miss."

After saying that, he went to another room.

The nightingale was stunned for a moment and then left.

Back upstairs, Fu Ruoan pursed his lips and asked, "Why did you take me to that place? It looks so important. Aren't you afraid that I might leak the secret?"

Xie Qingran smiled brightly: "You won't."

Then he went into the office by himself.

Fu Ruoan stood there in a daze, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

Xie Qingran's smile just now appeared in her mind.

It was a different kind of smile from usual.

Sincerity and relief.

It was no longer the stiff smile from before.

Fu Ruoan touched his head, not understanding why Xie Qingran was relieved.

He shook his head to get rid of this weird idea, then sent a message to Fu Mingde about Zhou Keke's situation.

As for whether I can help her, I really have no way. The only thing I can do is probably pray silently.