"Is that so? But you escaped once, making me worried sick for a long time. We had to mobilize a lot of manpower to find you," Shen Xi said, anger rising as she recalled the incident.
Seeing her expression, Zheng Jinghe immediately kowtowed repeatedly, "Miss Mia, I was wrong. I apologize again. As long as you don't hand me over to the judicial authorities, I'll do anything."
Abruptly standing up from her chair, Shen Xi paced back and forth in front of him.
After a long pause, she said, "Alright. It seems you don't have a choice, you'll have to go with the second option."
"Okay. What is the second option?" Zheng Jinghe immediately looked up, his face a little more relaxed than before.
Shen Xi looked down at him, "The second option has two parts. First, you will completely transfer your Xin Xu Company to Jian Fan. Second, you will leave here, go abroad, and never return."
"Ah?" Zheng Jinghe looked at her in utter shock.
The part about transferring the company was within his expectations.
However, living abroad presented a challenge. He didn't understand the foreign languages, was unfamiliar with the surroundings, and survival itself would be a problem.
"What? Do you have a problem? Otherwise, you can still choose the first option. Perhaps you'll be released after a few years in prison," Shen Xi's lips curled slightly, but a cold glint flickered in her eyes.
"No. I choose the second one," Zheng Jinghe replied decisively.
He would rather wander abroad than go to prison.
Those places were not fit for human habitation. He might even be killed before his sentence was over.
Years ago, his wife had passed away from illness, leaving him without any children.
He was alone in a foreign country, with no attachments. As long as he could earn a living, he would be content to just survive.
"Good. You will stay here peacefully for the next few days. Someone will come to arrange everything for you," Shen Xi said, then walked out of the room with light steps.
Jian Fan followed her and asked, "Sister Xi, why didn't you hand him over to the judicial authorities? Wouldn't that be more satisfying?"
Stopping, Shen Xi looked at him with a smile, "Handing him over to the judicial authorities would certainly bring me some relief. However, having one more person in prison doesn't hold much significance for us. Moreover, all his assets would be confiscated.
During this period, you've been managing Xin Xu Company. Its assets and income are already unrelated to him.
Are you content with that?"
Upon hearing this, Jian Fan quickly shook his head, "No, no, no, Sister Xi. I don't have the thoughts you mentioned. Everything I've done is to help you."
"Alright, no more discussion. The matter is settled," Shen Xi continued walking. "You've helped me a lot during this time. Xin Xu Company is my reward to you.
Yi Fei is with you now, and I have my godmother to take care of. As a man, you can't always work for me; you need to have your own career."
She considered this very important. Of course, it wasn't just men who needed their own careers; women did too.
In this society, with gender equality, women with their own careers wouldn't be dependent on men and could live freely and comfortably.
Hearing this, Jian Fan finally understood Shen Xi's well-intentioned plan. He replied with gratitude, "Thank you, Sister Xi. I know what I need to do and I will not let your expectations down."
Qin Si Ye returned to Xinglan Bay and received a call from Zeng Jian.
"President, our people tracked him to Country C. After a few days of investigation, we were close to the truth, but that person surnamed Su managed to escape again."
"What? It seems he's truly cunning," Qin Si Ye's pupils contracted. "Do you not have any photos of him?"
"No. We apprehended a few low-level operatives, and they said that the person surnamed Su always wore a mask and never showed his true face." Zeng Jian replied cautiously.
Sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, Qin Si Ye lit a cigarette with a "snap," exhaled a stream of white smoke, and slowly asked, "What about Su Chengyu?"
Zeng Jian immediately replied, "No news. However, according to those low-level operatives, the person surnamed Su has been accompanied by a young man recently, but he has always worn a mask."
"Oh?" Qin Si Ye's heart leaped, and he sat up straight. "Continue the investigation. You must find out who these two people are."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Si Ye walked onto the balcony, looking at the sunset over the western mountains, bathed in the afterglow.
However, his eyes were extremely cold, filled with a chilling aura that made one tremble.