Leng Jiaying didn't recognize the cold, elegant woman in front of her at all.
From her words, she could tell that this woman had a connection with Chen Jin Chao. She suddenly laughed, "Sister, what if I pester Chen Jin Chao? It's my freedom, you have no right to interfere, do you?"
"Could it be..."
"You want to cling to Chen Jin Chao, and you're afraid I'll affect your status?"
The woman was expressionless. Even when she heard this, her face showed no trace of emotion. Instead, she calmly said, "Don't mind who I am, just remember what I said."
Leng Jiaying found it amusing, "I won't. What can you do to me?"
The woman's brows furrowed almost tightly, and she raised her hand, intending to grab Leng Jiaying's neck.
Leng Jiaying reacted instantly and dodged, causing the cold, elegant woman's first attempt to miss. The elegant woman let out a soft "yi" sound, increasingly feeling that Leng Jiaying's deliberate approach to Chen Jin Chao was malicious.
Without many words, the two began to fight.
Leng Jiaying had thought she could easily defeat the elegant woman, but unexpectedly, several of her attacks were fended off by the opponent.
Wrong!
This woman is only C-level, how can she block several waves of her offense?
Leng Jiaying became impatient and increased her speed and strength, wanting to suppress the woman, forcing her to retreat step by step. But strangely, even though Leng Jiaying used all her strength, she could only suppress the woman, not defeat her completely!
This made Leng Jiaying feel very ashamed.
The woman also felt a surge of fatigue, completely not expecting Leng Jiaying's combat power to have reached B-level!
Fortunately, her foundation was solid and she possessed rich combat experience, otherwise, she would have been defeated by Leng Jiaying long ago! She gritted her teeth, still determined to defeat Leng Jiaying and keep this woman away from Chen Jin Chao.
If Chen Jin Chao were here, he would definitely recognize this woman as Shangguan Yu An.
Shangguan Yu An was constantly monitoring Chen Jin Chao's movements. When she learned that Leng Jiaying was persistently pursuing Chen Jin Chao, she came to his door directly. She originally intended to warn Leng Jiaying not to get close to Chen Jin Chao in the future, but she didn't expect Leng Jiaying's combat power to have reached B-level.
Fortunately, Shangguan Yu An had rich combat experience, otherwise, she would have lost.
Neither side could do anything to the other, and they eventually stopped fighting.
Leng Jiaying snorted coldly, "It seems you are also a woman fooled by Chen Jin Chao. I advise you to wake up, Chen Jin Chao will never like you."
Shangguan Yu An said expressionlessly, "Whether he likes me or not, I don't care."
"As long as you don't pester him."
She had already felt that Leng Jiaying was not right, and now that she had tested and found Leng Jiaying to be a B-level expert, it further confirmed her suspicion in her heart—
Leng Jiaying has problems!
"Sister, do you want to fight again?" Leng Jiaying said playfully.
Shangguan Yu An also smiled, "You, a B-level, can't even defeat a C-level. If I were you, I would have jumped off from here and died."
Leng Jiaying's face instantly turned ashen, this was absolutely her disgrace.
Shangguan Yu An was too lazy to entangle with such a brainless woman. After leaving a few harsh words, she left Leng Jiaying's apartment. Leng Jiaying gritted her teeth and said, "Who exactly is that woman? Her strength is actually so strong? She's clearly only C-level, yet she can..."
If this got out, wouldn't she become a joke?
What worried her even more was—
If Shangguan Yu An told Chen Jin Chao about Leng Jiaying's combat power, it might arouse Chen Jin Chao's suspicion.
After all, B-level is not common.
Leng Jiaying's eyes were deep as she murmured, "It seems I can only take it one step at a time."
At that time.
After leaving Leng Jiaying's apartment, Shangguan Yu An immediately called Chen Jin Chao to report the matter. Chen Jin Chao frowned and said, "You fought with her?"
"Yes!"
Shangguan Yu An heard the wrong tone in Chen Jin Chao's voice, and her confidence suddenly weakened, "Did I mess things up?"
Chen Jin Chao took a breath, "Yu An, you almost messed things up this time. This Leng Jiaying is a member of Black Blood. I've been in contact with her recently. If I weren't waiting for the bigger fish to surface, I would have captured her long ago without you intervening."
"Ah? Then what should we do? I must have alerted the snake!" Shangguan Yu An blamed herself.
Chen Jin Chao pondered for a moment and said, "It's not a big problem. Next, you keep an eye on her. If she shows any signs of running, notify me immediately, and I will activate the second plan."
Since Chen Jin Chao could replace Zhu Zi Qian, he could also find someone to replace Nightingale.
"You don't need to blame yourself."
"After all, your intentions were good, but it's best to notify me in advance for any future actions."
Shangguan Yu An said "oh," feeling a little wronged.
But despite feeling wronged, she also knew that she hadn't handled this matter well. After Chen Jin Chao's persuasion, she regained her spirits and promised that she would never make the same mistake again.
The impact of this incident quickly subsided.
Leng Jiaying found that Chen Jin Chao showed no unusual signs, and she again stuck to him like a piece of plaster.
If it weren't for the purpose of luring the snake out of its hole, Chen Jin Chao would have been impatient long ago.
Days passed by.
During his experiments, Wen Fu Lai often provided guidance for Gou Chen Pharmaceutical's new drug. This led to the quick market release of Gou Chen's improved cold medicine, which was met with a strong market response and soaring sales. Yu Meng Zhi also seized this momentum and launched many new drugs in one go, causing Gou Chen Pharmaceutical's market value to rise steadily.
Under Yu Wen Dong's operations, Gou Chen successively acquired some small pharmaceutical companies, continuously expanding its scale.
The most noteworthy was—Yu Wen Dong introduced capital from another group and acquired an old, well-established pharmaceutical company in Jiangnan Province that was on the verge of bankruptcy due to a broken capital chain, successfully pulling off a "snake swallowing elephant" move, easily pushing Gou Chen Pharmaceutical's market value past twenty billion!
And the controller of that mysterious group was Li Qiu Tao.
The outside world was abuzz with discussions about this acquisition, believing that the capital chain of that old pharmaceutical company had been broken due to someone secretly disrupting it!
All signs pointed to Li Qiu Tao orchestrating everything.
When Chen Jin Chao learned about this, he was stunned. He didn't know why this mysterious uncle was injecting capital into Gou Chen Group, and it sparked his strong interest in this uncle he had never met.
Things didn't go as planned.
Chen Jin Chao didn't get to meet his uncle; instead, he received some very bad news.
That afternoon, Chen Jin Chao was on patrol at Ninghai University when he suddenly received a notification from Zhen Hai saying someone was looking for him. Zhen Hai's tone was very strange, which gave Chen Jin Chao a slight premonition of something bad.
He didn't dare to delay and immediately headed towards the security office.
Two minutes later.
Chen Jin Chao appeared at the entrance of the security office.
Zhen Hai, with an anxious expression, rushed to meet him. Chen Jin Chao frowned and asked, "Old Zhen, who is inside?"
Zhen Hai hesitated to speak, finally letting out a deep sigh, "It's not good for me to say who it is. I only know she is an unfortunate soul. Little Chen, if we can help, don't let your brothers be idle."
Chen Jin Chao's unease intensified.
After taking a deep breath, Chen Jin Chao walked into the security office. The air conditioning in the office was very cold, making Chen Jin Chao shiver involuntarily.
A woman was standing in the middle of the security room, with her back to him.
Hearing Chen Jin Chao's footsteps, the woman immediately turned to look at him. Chen Jin Chao then saw half of her face, which had been disfigured by burns, sending a chill down his spine!
Who is she?
Before Chen Jin Chao could react, the woman suddenly knelt down with a thud.
"Mr. Chen, please save us mother and daughter!"
"We have been pushed to a dead end! If it weren't for this, we wouldn't have come to beg you!"