"...When we arrived, we saw her covered in blood, it was terrifying."
"She didn't let us call the police or an ambulance."
"She said she was afraid of further retaliation and asked us to call her."
"We were just passing by."
"We live in the neighborhood across the street, and across the street, and across the street."
"My grandson was bored, so I came here to clear land and plant some vegetables to pass the time."
"...Blah, blah, blah..."
Mu Li listened to the continuous chatter of the several elderly women, his head about to spin.
"Thank you."
After expressing his gratitude and leaving his contact information, Mu Li ordered his men to give the women some compensation for their trouble, and then asked them to leave.
Looking at the evidence left at the scene, a self-service barbecue grill?
Those kidnappers had quite a lot of leisure time!
They were eating barbecue while beating someone!
Just now, he clearly felt a killing intent flash in his master's eyes.
He wondered who Ai Wei had offended to be beaten so badly? And was she... violated? Or gang-raped?
Alas!
His master was so angry, if Madam found out...
Madam disliked Ai Wei, even detested her. If she knew that her master was seeking revenge for Ai Wei, and was enraged because of Ai Wei, she might cause trouble at home again?
With great difficulty, the relationship between her master and Madam had shown signs of improvement and was heading in a good direction. They couldn't let it turn sour again.
Mu Li's expression was somewhat displeased.
It wasn't because of Ai Wei's ordeal of being beaten and violated, but because he thought of Madam's potential hysterics...
Alas!
Sighing again, Mu Li could only pray that Madam would remain calm and not confront her master head-on at this critical juncture!
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The airport design voting was scheduled to commence today at nine o'clock and would last for three days.
From the moment the official website released the announcement and opened the voting channels, Du Ruoxin's company's design plan took the lead, with its votes doubling, quadrupling, and then increasing tenfold compared to the second place, showing a trend of strong growth and securing the championship.
The manager of Xinyang Company was stunned by the results.
This, this—
It's unscientific!
Although the airport construction was a major undertaking, the most crucial project in E City, this level of popularity was too much—
It felt like they had mastered the secret to traffic, no, it felt like the backend data was falsified!
It was too exaggerated; in less than an hour, there were already tens of thousands of votes.
Naturally, everyone in the company was happy with this outcome, but there was still a faint sense of...
Never mind, never mind, who told their boss to be the young madam of Rong Shi Group? Just the hundreds of thousands of employees of Rong Shi Group, each casting a vote, could propel their boss to the top.
Regardless of whether the public vote was fair or not, the design plan undertaken by Xinyang Company was essentially a done deal.
Yang Fei clapped her hands, "Let's start the morning meeting."
Everyone rushed to the conference room, but the seat to Yang Fei's left was empty.
"Where is Liu Li?"
She asked.
Wen Yuhan, as Du Ruoxin's secretary, sat to Yang Fei's right. "I called Sister Li, but her phone is off."
Yang Fei: "..."
Thinking that her subordinate was busy, she didn't pay much attention.
After the meeting, she was busy for a while.
Around noon, Yang Fei called Du Ruoxin to report, "General Manager Du, our design has a commanding lead in the total votes."
Du Ruoxin responded with a cold "Mm," seemingly not showing any pleasure at the good news. "I know."
Hearing her boss's indifferent reaction, Yang Fei was momentarily unsure how to continue the conversation and stood there stunned.
Du Ruoxin's voice was clear and crisp as she said, "I'll contact you later," and hung up.
She raised her eyes, her cold, almond-shaped eyes filled with sharpness, and looked at the man. "Is this your doing?"