The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

Chapter 272: Chapter 272: The Company is in Trouble

"How about... just this once?"

Lin Liping didn’t struggle. She turned and looked deeply at Jiang Xinghai.

Just as Jiang Xinghai was about to sweep Lin Liping into his arms, Feng Lulu suddenly returned.

"Auntie, you two..."

Feng Lulu had only come back to tell Jiang Xinghai that they wouldn’t be having breakfast at the Feng Family’s home. She was getting ready to go register at her university.

But when she pushed open the door, she saw Jiang Xinghai about to make a move on her aunt.

"Lulu, Xinghai and I were just discussing the Jishan Hall branch. I’ll let you two talk." Lin Liping quickly suppressed the loneliness in her heart and turned to leave the room.

After Lin Liping left, Feng Lulu stared at Jiang Xinghai and asked, "Were you... were you just trying to get handsy with my aunt?"

"How could I?" Jiang Xinghai, of course, wasn’t about to admit it.

"But my aunt came to your room in her pajamas. Since when did she become so forward?" Feng Lulu hadn’t actually seen Jiang Xinghai touch Lin Liping; she was just highly suspicious.

Jiang Xinghai explained methodically, "Don’t forget, if I had been a step later last night, both you and your aunt would have been in danger. Besides, she was kidnapped not long ago, and I was the one who rescued her. She probably already sees me as family."

"That does make sense," Feng Lulu nodded.

Ever since she’d met Jiang Xinghai, she and her aunt had received a great deal of help from him.

In her heart, she too had long since come to see Jiang Xinghai as family.

Otherwise, she never would have been able to get over the fact that Jiang Xinghai had given her acupuncture and massages on two separate occasions.

"So, was there something you needed? Why did you suddenly come back?" Jiang Xinghai needed to start getting dressed.

"My classes start tomorrow, so I have to go register today. I was hoping you and Auntie could come with me. Then, after I’m done, we can go with her to look at storefronts," Feng Lulu said, snapping out of her daze and getting it all out in one breath.

"Of course, no problem."

This was what Jiang Xinghai had planned anyway. Besides, this afternoon was the official grand opening of the AM Cosmetics company.

He had to leave by ten o’clock at the latest to get back to Jizhou.

"Okay, then. I’ll go pack my things. Let’s eat at a breakfast spot near the university," Feng Lulu said with a smile before she left.

After Jiang Xinghai got ready, he dialed Shen Lingxue’s number.

In Jizhou, Shen Lingxue was in her car, about to arrive at the Shen Group’s headquarters.

"Great Divine Doctor Jiang, are you in Central State or the Provincial City? What’s the occasion for you to call little old me?" Shen Lingxue’s voice was tinged with a hint of jealousy, but it was mostly happy.

"A day apart feels like three autumns. Can’t I call you just because I miss you?" Jiang Xinghai said with a slight smile.

"With all those stunning young women around you, you’d think of me?" Shen Lingxue chuckled, pursing her lips.

"No matter how stunning they are, aren’t they all just there to make you shine brighter, like stars around the moon?" Jiang Xinghai chuckled slyly.

Shen Lingxue smiled to herself. "Enough with the sweet talk. Go on, what is it?"

"I’m still in the Provincial City right now, but I can make it back before noon for the AM company’s ribbon-cutting ceremony," Jiang Xinghai said.

"That’s good."

Shen Lingxue smiled, pleased. Just then, a call from Su Yanyun came in. "I have to go, Yanyun is calling."

"Then just start a conference call," Jiang Xinghai suggested as he walked downstairs, still on the phone.

"I’m still driving. Talk to you later."

Shen Lingxue had no choice but to hang up on Jiang Xinghai and answer Su Yanyun’s call.

"Lingxue, we have a problem at the company."

Su Yanyun was in front of the AM Cosmetics building, her face etched with sorrow and frustration. "Early this morning," she said, her voice strained, "a bunch of powerful people from Central State showed up. They’ve completely blocked off the main road in front of our company!"

"What!"

Shen Lingxue’s expression grew tense.

She couldn’t afford to panic. Pulling the car over to the side of the road, she said calmly, "Yanyun, today is AM’s grand opening. We can’t let anything go wrong. First, make sure you’re safe and don’t get hurt. I’ll figure something out immediately."

"Don’t worry, I’m safe. Those people are staying about a hundred meters from the entrance; they haven’t come any closer," Su Yanyun replied urgently. "But this is having a huge impact on AM’s reputation. I’m worried this is a bad omen for our launch."

What both women feared was that someone was trying to sabotage AM’s grand opening and create negative publicity. freewebnøvel.coɱ

"I’ll figure something out right away. Talk to you later."

Shen Lingxue hastily hung up and her first thought was to contact Jiang Xinghai.

But Jiang Xinghai was far away in the Provincial City. ’Distant water can’t put out a nearby fire!’

If she wasn’t mistaken, the group from Central State was definitely planning to cause trouble during the AM company’s opening ceremony at noon.

That meant they still had five hours!

Jiang Xinghai had promised to be there before noon, so there was no need to inform him.

As for now, she needed to urgently contact her father and ask him to intervene!

However, when she called home, it was her mother, Qiao Huimin, who answered.

"Your father took a Gathering Essence Pill last night and has been in closed-door cultivation ever since. If we wake him up now and he suffers a Qi deviation, wouldn’t that be..." Qiao Huimin sounded helpless as well.