Thousands of stars

Chapter 2

In addition to being located in the most luxurious location in the city, the Yafan Group's office building also has a magnificent exterior structure and complete internal facilities, but all Yafan employees can freely enjoy the coffee shop and tennis court in the building... Even an indoor pool.For this reason, this building is also jokingly called the "Imperial Palace" by the industry, and Li Yaofan is standing on the commanding heights of this "Imperial Palace", the emperor who holds supreme power.

In contrast, I am a small person standing at the foot of the palace at this moment, not even qualified to walk in.

"I'm sorry, Miss, please show your work ID." The security guard appeared and stopped me who was going to force my way in.

"Get out of the way, I'm looking for Li Yaofan." I said aggressively.

"There are a lot of people looking for Mr. Li every day, do you have an appointment?" The security obviously didn't take me seriously.

"Yes, wait a minute." I pretended to rummage through my pockets, and when he wasn't paying attention, I rummaged through the security checkpoint and rushed in.

The security guard who came back to his senses chased me and shouted: "Hey, you can't go in! Stop her quickly and don't let her go into the elevator!" As soon as the words fell, several burly men rushed over and blocked me.

This level is not even comparable to debt collection companies, you still want to stop me?
I chuckled, turned sharply, turned into the stairs beside me, and used my hands to climb directly from the first floor to the second floor, and then ran up quickly.

The security guards must have never expected that I would choose to climb the stairs, and only when I reached the fourth floor did I hear panicked shouts from downstairs: "Stop her!" "Don't let her go up!"...

The noise made a passing female employee look at me curiously.

I smiled at her: "Beauty, how about climbing stairs to lose weight?"

"Yeah...you too?"

"It was just now, but it's not now." After I finished speaking, I knocked her unconscious, and then took her badge and swiped to the top-floor direct elevator that only a small number of employees have the right to enter.

The elevator door closed slowly, I stretched out my hand and pressed the button on the 42nd floor.

Those security guards with less seniority will never know why I am so familiar with the structure of this building, just because this "palace" was my father's property many years ago.

He said: "Qianxing, do you know why I set up the office at the highest level? Because only by standing at the top can you step on everyone and make them bow down to you."

I think at that time he must have never expected that one day, someone else would climb to the top of him and trample him under his feet... It can only be said that everything is a coincidence.

Just when I was amazed by revisiting the old place, the elevator had reached the top, and as the elevator door slowly opened, the entire top floor gradually came into view.A familiar yet unfamiliar feeling rushed over my face, which made me suddenly feel a little timid in my originally angry mood.

That's right, I'm afraid of Li Yaofan!
As the saying goes, "Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the well rope for ten years." Li Yaofan, a poisonous snake, has bitten my house more than once or twice. face him.

Prompted by this ambivalence, I gritted my teeth, walked out of the elevator, and stepped into this territory that once belonged to my home, but now it has become something in the hands of others.

In an instant, a gust of dark wind rushed towards my face, and I looked around with chills.I found that Li Yaofan knows how to enjoy life, this whole floor is his property, besides office, there are also private rooms, bathrooms, and even a bar for his use.This is very different from my dad who only knows how to buy elegant antique clothes.

Just when I fell into the memory again, the back of my neck suddenly felt hot, and a joking voice almost sounded close to my ears: "You seem to miss this place very much?"

I almost cried out in fright, turned around, and took a few steps back quickly.

Li Yaofan was still wearing the black suit from the press conference, but he was more imposing than on TV. He watched me quietly. At that moment, I felt a bone-chilling chill spread from my spine to my whole body.

I couldn't help but took a step back, and saw Li Yaofan's mouth hooked up, and his eyes were full of sarcasm.

This look successfully irritated me, I forgot to be afraid, and rushed over to grab his collar: "Li Yaofan, tell me clearly, why are you kidding me?"

"Don't be so excited, violence can't solve the problem, can it?" His eyes are full of confidence, as if he is not worried about any threat I will pose to him.

"What the hell do you want? I told you, I really don't know where my dad is!" I yelled at him hysterically.

"I don't want to do anything, but if you don't let go, I can't guarantee what will happen to you. You also know that threatening me will cost you."

As soon as he said this, I let go of my hand reflexively.The unbearable memories of that day flooded back in an instant, reminding me all the time that this bastard had a skin-to-skin relationship with me.

"You're obedient." Li Yaofan said as he took off his crumpled suit and threw it into the trash can.

I glared at him hard.

"Don't worry, I've never been attached to worn clothes, just like used women."

These words successfully hurt my weakness, and I yelled at him: "Li Yaofan, have you said enough? Since you are not interested in me, don't provoke me! Don't think that you can do anything wrong just because you are rich and powerful! That's right, our family owed you back then, but now everyone is even, if you dare to say a word to insult me, I will fight you hard!"

"OK, it's okay if I don't talk?" He finally shut up, walked around me, loosened his tie, walked to the wine cabinet, and took out a bottle of red wine...

I watched him helplessly, saw him sitting on the sofa with a bottle and a glass, drinking on his own, seeming to completely ignore my existence, and finally couldn't help but rushed to him.

"Have you had enough fun? I'm not here to visit your office, let alone to see you drinking! I just want to tell you that I've already made a deal with you. Please go and clarify what you just said to the reporter immediately. , I don't want to have anything to do with you!"

"What if I don't want to?" He looked at me with provocative eyes.

"Then you're dead!" I rolled up my sleeves.

At this critical moment, my cell phone rang suddenly, and I knew it was my mother from the sound.

"Aren't you going to pick it up?" Li Yaofan looked at me.

I hesitated for a moment, and finally withdrew my fist from beating him, glared at Li Yaofan, walked aside and answered the phone.

"Xingxing." My mother's cheerful tone made me breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that she, who is ignorant of the world, has not noticed this for the time being.

"Mom, why did you call?" I whispered.

"I miss you. You don't know how boring the countryside is. I really want to move back and live with you."

"Don't!" I quickly stopped her.

"What's wrong? Is something wrong?" My mother asked with concern.

"It's nothing! It's just... I think it's too wasteful for me to live in such a big house by myself, so I sublet half of it out. The tenant will move here in a few days. If you come back, you won't have a place to sleep."

"That's right." My mother suddenly realized, "My daughter is smart and knows how to find someone to share the rent, so my mother can rest assured to live in the country for a longer period of time. By the way, how is the new tenant? How is he?"

"Mom, I have something else to do, I'll call you back later." In order to prevent my mother from continuing to talk, I hurriedly stopped her and put away the phone in a hurry, only to find Li Yaofan staring at me when I turned around.

For some reason, I suddenly felt guilty.

"Aunt calling?" he asked.

"What auntie! Did you call me auntie?" I yelled at him.

"Women's Eighteenth Change, you really are becoming more and more like a powder keg." He sighed, put the wine aside, and stood up holding the glass.

I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd, so I looked at him vigilantly.

He suddenly walked towards me.

"What are you doing?" I instinctively took a few steps back and stuck to the glass of the wine cabinet, my back felt cold.

"How about making a deal with me?" He said, and the man had already walked up to me. Due to the height difference, I could only look up at him, which made me more nervous.

"I refuse!" I replied without thinking.

"You reject me before I say what deal to make, but you will regret it." He raised his eyebrows and continued, "The terms I offered are not cheap."

"Even if you can pay off all my family's debts, I will still refuse! Reject! Reject!"

"So you would rather live like a street mouse all your life in hiding? As far as I know, my aunt's health is not good..."

"I told you that Auntie wasn't called by you!" I cried out, but my confidence was clearly lacking.

That's right, Li Yaofan has completely grasped my weakness.For a long time, what I have dreamed of is a stable home, no need to run around because of debts, no need to worry about living every day, no need to let my mother who has no ability to take care of herself live alone in the country to avoid debts...

Everything can be settled with just one word from Li Yaofan, as long as I am willing to put down my dignity and compromise with him.

"Heartbeat?" He looked at me, as if he had a plan in mind.

I gritted my teeth and asked, "So, you want me to be your pawn, at your mercy?"

"You're pretty smart." He laughed and approached me, "What I want you to do is very simple, to be my fiancée, don't ask why, just be obedient. When it's done, I will not only help you Pay off all the debts, and give you a considerable amount of living expenses, allowing you to take your mother away."

"It's rare that you are willing to offer me such a good deal regardless of the past. It seems that I can't do it if I don't agree?" I said.

"Drink this glass of wine, it will be regarded as your promise." He handed the glass to me.

I reached out to pick it up, and saw how confident his side face reflected on the wine glass was, as if everything in this world was in his hands like this glass of wine.As long as he gives an order, everyone will kneel in front of him and bow their heads.

Only this time, he was wrong.

I took the glass and splashed it on his face without hesitation.

Expensive red wine filled the air with a unique aroma. Li Yaofan looked at me, his hand-stitched white shirt was covered with red wine stains. For a moment, I seemed to see the smile on the corner of his mouth froze.

But a profiteer is always a profiteer, and he didn't turn his back on him.

Up to now, I have given up all my strength, and I pushed him away: "Li Yaofan, listen to me, although I, Shen Qianxing, are down and out now, I was also a big lady who spent money like water back then. I don't even have eyes for your stinky money Come on, if you want to make a deal with me, you can give me half of the Yafan Group’s equity in your hand, and I will agree, otherwise you will not appear in front of me! Want Miss Ben to be your fiancee? Do your spring and autumn dreams Bar!"

After I finished speaking, I threw the crystal wine glass in my hand on the ground, and left his office without looking back amidst the heart-shattering shattering sound.

Although I walked out of Li Yaofan's office aggressively with my back straight, my legs went limp the moment I really walked out of Yafan Group.

Nervous, thrilling, exciting... It's not enough to describe what happened to me just now. If I have to use one word to describe it, it can only be said that I "survived the rest of my life" once.

When I returned to Sister Le's apartment exhausted with my life, I found that she was even more embarrassed than me.With disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and blurred eyes, she looked as miserable as a woman from a good family who had been ruined by hundreds of hooligans for three days and three nights.

"It's horrible! It's horrible! Those reporters are not human, they are beasts!" Sister Le cried while holding my thigh.

I knelt down and patted her on the shoulder, and comforted her: "Don't cry, just take it as a lesson, from now on you are also a person who has seen the world, don't be coy, get up and cook, I'm so hungry It hurts."

"You?" Sister Le straightened up, suddenly realized something, and asked, "How are you? Have you seen Li Yaofan?"

Speaking of that guy, I felt my stomach hurt even more, and I frowned and nodded.

Unexpectedly, Sister Le got excited and asked: "How is the situation? Did he say anything? He didn't do anything to you, did he? Let me see..."

"Stop!" I stopped Sister Le's hand from groping me, and explained patiently, "I'm fine, really."

"Then what happened to you guys? You still haven't told the truth!"

I clutched my aching stomach and begged: "Sister, can't you ask me when you're full? I'm really hungry!"

"All right, all right, I'm going to cook the noodles!" Xu took into account that I had fainted from a stomachache before, so Sister Le reluctantly stood up and ran to the kitchen, her gossiping look was the same as being ruined just now. The image of a woman from a good family is completely different.

"Long story short..."

I muttered vaguely while eating instant noodles.

Sister Le stretched her neck while eating noodles, waiting for me to reveal the news.

"Good things...and...bad things..." I swallowed a mouthful of instant noodles and asked, "Which one do you want to hear first?"

Sister Le thought for a while: "Then let's hear the bad news first."

"The bad thing is that I poured wine all over Li Yaofan's face."

The noodles that Sister Le just ate squirted out. I waited aside and watched as she pulled a noodle out of her nose and yelled at me anxiously: "What? You splashed him? You actually slapped Li Yaofan?! You slapped Li Yaofan!!!"

"I just splashed him, can you stop emphasizing it?" In fact, I also admired myself at the time, but now, I might not have the guts anymore.

"Oh my God, Qianxing, you are so courageous!" Sister Le sighed, and then asked me hopefully, "What's the good thing?"

I glanced at her: "The good thing is that I came back alive, and I can start working again tomorrow."

"No, no, no!" Sister Le shook her head, "It's a good thing you came back alive, but you can't start work tomorrow."

"What?" I stared at her with wide eyes.

"I can't help it." Sister Le looked helpless, "The boss has already called me just now, she said that you caused such a big incident this time, and going to the set will definitely cause commotion, and when the director blames it, it will affect everyone. company's reputation."

My heart tightened, and I blurted out: "Then when can we start work?"

"Don't worry, it won't take long. This kind of gossip always comes and goes quickly. When the limelight passes, we can start working naturally."

"Really?" I looked at Sister Le, doubtful.

"Really!" Sister Le patted her chest and assured me, "Based on my many years of experience, everyone will forget about you within half a month. There will be no problem!"

But it turns out that Sister Le's promise was just to cheat her father.

Because Li Yaofan has never clarified the nonsense he said at the press conference that day, my name has become the hottest word in Internet searches this year. In addition to speculation about my identity, the media also made a lot of speculation about me and Li Yaofan. The "emotional story" is full of strong curiosity.

To be honest, I can't bear the rumors of "Love at First Sight in a Nightclub", "Scheming Girl Climbs to the Rich and Handsome", "Cinderella Turns and Meets the Prince", etc. The most unbearable thing is that someone even broke the news that I am an African The princess of a small country got engaged to Li Yaofan because the Yafan Group planned to enter Africa to mine diamonds.

Faced with this revelation, I really want to follow up and ask: Have you ever seen such a white and clean African?
However, I can't stop those crazy netizens and media after all. As those unreliable rumors spread more and more, I began to get scared.

I am afraid that if things continue like this, one day my identity will be exposed. After all, the news that the Asian Group annexed the Lin Corporation overnight was not a trivial matter. How noisy the city is.

Over the years, I took my mother and ran here and there, suffered from hunger and cold, and suffered countless cynicism and ridicule.But I have endured all of these, but I really can't bear others to expose my scars and bring up those old things.Because the reality can no longer allow me to stop and remember the past. Since my mother and I left that mansion, I have no right to look back. Even if the road ahead is full of nails, I can only walk forward barefoot. A bloody path.

But now, those scars that I tried to cover up are gradually being uncovered by Li Yaofan.In addition to pain, I also hate.I hate him for still biting me after so many years, allowing public opinion to push me to the forefront, but myself watching coldly from the sidelines.What good would it do him to torture me?Or, was he just on a whim, trying to have some fun for himself?

I, who claimed to know a little about him, suddenly discovered that I knew nothing about him.

Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road. Just when I was thinking about whether I should rush into the Yafan Group with a bomb and a knife and die with Li Yaofan, Sister Le sent me an exciting and good news. The company decided to Let me go back to work and return to the crew to continue serving as Luo Wei's stand-in.

Although I knew that returning to the crew this time would definitely cause commotion, and Luo Wei would never give me a good look, I was still so happy that I didn't fall asleep all night.For me who has not earned half a penny for half a month, work is really important!
No job, no money, no money, no food, no food, starvation... I don't want to wait until I die on the street and be written by a gossip magazine "The rich girl in the past, now starved to death".

awful!That's horrible!
(End of this chapter)