Hearing this, Jian Fan also scanned his surroundings, "Yes. Did she go to the restroom?"
"I'll go check. You look around other places. We'll meet back here later," Xie Yifei said, then quickly walked out the door.
Jian Fan had just finished searching the lobby when the banquet began.
At this moment, Xie Yifei also walked in anxiously and shook her head at him.
"Did you call her?" Jian Fan asked anxiously.
"I did. No answer." Xie Yifei took out her phone, shook it, and looked distressed.
As the two were about to search elsewhere in a panic, the host announced that no one in the hall was allowed to move around freely anymore.
They could only stand in place, their eyes constantly scanning the hall, hoping to see Shen Xi's figure.
The host first invited a leader from the K City Industry and Commerce Bureau to give a speech, and then invited a famous local business tycoon to speak, talking about their company's achievements and future development direction.
Qin Si Ye was among the invited speakers.
When he took the stage to speak, he was surprised to see Jian Fan and Xie Yifei, and kept glancing at them.
Jian Fan was also surprised to see him, his gaze uncertain, and he lowered his head in thought.
Xie Yifei, like a child who had done something wrong, dared not meet his gaze.
After a while, Xie Yifei felt that this state was wrong. Shen Xi was not his concern, so why was she so afraid of him?
She quickly adjusted her mindset and met his gaze with a natural smile.
Finally, all the speeches were over, and the banquet officially began. Everyone could freely converse and move about.
Xie Yifei hurriedly tugged at Jian Fan's arm and continued to search for Shen Xi in the hall.
"Jian Fan, you go to the left, I'll go to the right, and we'll search separately again."
At this time, the hall was crowded, with clinking glasses and loud conversations. It was really not easy to find someone in there.
Just as Xie Yifei was weaving through the crowd, sweating anxiously, she saw Shen Xi calmly walk in from the door.
She quickly walked forward, grabbed her arm, and complained, "Xi Xi, where did you go? Jian Fan and I have been looking for you for several laps, you really scared us to death."
"There are so many people here, would someone kidnap me?" Shen Xi said nonchalantly, patting her hand, then continued with a serious expression, "I saw Zheng Jinghe just now and chased him all the way to the fifth floor, but I lost him.
He might have discovered me and deliberately hid."
"Oh. Why didn't you call us to come with you? If the three of us surrounded him, we might have caught him," Xie Yifei frowned slightly.
"I was afraid of alerting him," Shen Xi said with a slight smile. "Besides, your play was still ongoing at the time, how could I disturb you?"
Hearing this, a blush spread across Xie Yifei's fair cheeks, "I was also angered by Zheng Tong and that arrogant woman."
Seeing her reaction, Shen Xi couldn't help but laugh.
Xie Yifei was always carefree, and she never expected to blush. She teased, "Look how poised you were when you touched Jian Fan's face, why are you blushing now?"
"Alright, alright, can you stop talking about it?" Xie Yifei stomped her feet shyly and reached up to touch her face, which was indeed hot.
Seeing her expression of anger mixed with shyness, Shen Xi didn't continue on this topic, but looked at her with confusion, "While I was tracking Zheng Jinghe, I heard Zheng Tong call him Second Uncle. Are they uncle and nephew?"
"I really don't know about that. But they both have the surname Zheng, so it's possible," Xie Yifei replied thoughtfully.
When she dated Zheng Tong before, she only knew that their family was in business and had a certain status in K City.
Her getting an internship at the TV station was also through his father pulling strings.
As the two walked into the hall, after just picking up a glass of red wine at the counter, Zhou Maocai walked over with a glass of wine, a smile on his face, "Miss Mia, it's a pleasure to meet you here."
"Director Zhou, I'm also very happy to see you again. Let's have a drink." Shen Xi boldly raised her glass to him.
"Okay." Zhou Maocai gently touched his glass with hers, and they each took a sip of red wine.
Standing together, they chatted back and forth.
Not far away, two women with similar appearances kept looking over, lowering their heads and whispering.