Chapter 208 - Not Needed?
Chapter 208: Not Needed?
Fu Wei returned with Fu Enterprise to the country, and sent out his business cards with invitations, inviting celebrities and nobles from the upper echelons of the Imperial Capital.
Fu Enterprise was a large international company, and to be suddenly stationed in the Imperial Capital caught a lot of people by surprise. Because of Fu Enterprises’ special status in the Imperial Capital, nobody dared to underestimate them.
The Fu family were holding a banquet today, and all the top brass of the Imperial Capital would attend, to give the Fu family face.
Fu Wei sat in the car, listening to his secretary report on the progress of the banquet. He turned and saw a figure outside the car, and suddenly shouted, “Stop!”
His voice sounded urgent, and the driver, not knowing what was going on, stepped on the breaks immediately.
The car stopped, and the pitter-patter of the rain outside could be heard in the silence. He glanced at the secretary and asked, “Do we have an umbrella?”
As a secretary who was capable of anything, he had already checked the weather reports earlier and had prepared an umbrella beforehand.
“Give her the umbrella.” Fu Wei said, looking at the figure outside the car window.
Although the secretary didn’t understand the reason behind Fu Wei’s order, he still got out of the car and handed the black umbrella to the girl standing at the side of the road.
Seeing an umbrella appear in front of her suddenly, Gu Xiqiao was taken aback. She was holding Haha in her arms, and she raised her head to see a young man in front of her.
Finally being able to see Gu Xiqiao’s face, the young man was stunned. He mechanically placed the umbrella in Gu Xiqiao’s hand and turned around to leave, his face seemingly looked like he had seen a ghost.
The black car drove off slowly.
Gu Xiqiao looked at the car as it left, her eyes deep in thought.
Suddenly, a shadow fell on her, and the umbrella in her hands was taken away and replaced with a cup of hot milk tea.
“Let’s go.” Jiang Shuxuan looked at the extra umbrella in his hands, seemingly unhappy about it.
He had just left for a moment!
“You’re going to the cave side later on.” Gu Xiqiao raised the phone in her hand, flashing a smile at Jiang Shuxuan.
Jiang Shuxuan lowered his head to look at her, his face darkening. “Did they look for you already?”
Speaking of this, Gu Xiqiao wanted to laugh a little. The one called Yi Bing had somehow managed to get his hands on her number from somewhere, and he had expressed his grievance the moment she had picked up the call. “If Yi Bing didn’t tell me, I wouldn’t know that you hadn’t been there for a long time.”
Jiang Shuxuan was silent at that, not wanting to reply.
It had been a while since he had been there.
“What are you up to later?” The two of them walked to the car and he opened the door for her.
“Zhu Yuan mentioned that Divine Doctor Rong is looking for me.” Gu Xiqiao narrowed her eyes, and thought about it for a while before deciding not to get into the car. “Take Haha back home, Brother Jiang. A University isn’t far from here.”
Hearing those words, Jiang Shuxuan’s face darkened further. He gave his umbrella to Gu Xiqiao, and threw Haha into the backseat.
Gu Xiqiao smiled brightly as she watched him drive away with obvious reluctance.
Two minutes later, the smile on her face vanished completely. She pulled out her phone, dialing Luo Wenlang’s number.
Zhu Yuan had indeed told her that Divine Doctor Rong was looking for her, but the meeting time had been set for five in the evening. It was currently still morning.
Receiving a call from Gu Xiqiao, Luo Wenlang was caught off guard. “Boss Gu?”
“What are you doing?”
“Calculating some reports,” Luo Wenlang replied honestly, glancing at the computer screen in front of him.
Gu Xiqiao thought for a while before continuing, “Fu Xuejun gave you a call today,” She stated, instead of asking.
She did give him a call, and he even told the people in the office. But how did Boss Gu know about it?
Thinking of what Fu Xuejun had said to him, Luo Wenlang sneered. “She wanted me to join Fu Enterprise, and gave me a lot of benefits to entice me.” Obviously, he turned down the offer.
The Imperial Capital had been flooded with news of Fu Enterprise for a while now, and Fu Xuejun had been the limelight in A University at the same time.
Fu Enterprise had a high status with a mysterious background, and was a noble family from England. They were considered to be another uprising ‘Nine Heavens’, so when they heard that Luo Wenlang had refused Fu Xuejun’s offer, his classmates had thought him to be crazy.
Only a few of them knew the truth, and they were quiet about it.
“Hm. I’ll be heading to the company for a while in the afternoon.” Gu Xiqiao let out a sigh of relief.
Fu Enterprise’s main business was internet and finance, and their structure was very similar to Nine Heavens. Opening a business like this in the Imperial Capital was basically digging your own grave, and before this she hadn’t cared about it.
She believed that Mu Zong and the others would be able to handle these things well, and even if they didn’t, she could still step in in the end to save the entire thing.
She knew that the people behind Fu Enterprise were from the ancient martial arts world, and were quite influential in the Imperial Capital. Even the top brass would give them a lot of face and leeway.
But Nine Heavens was also not far behind, especially the group of people that Yao Jiamu was currently leading. Yin Shaoyuan had also specifically described to her that Yao Jiamu could probably take his bunch of people and walk through the entire ancient martial arts world with them with ease.
Gu Xiqiao wasn’t very clear on the division of strength in the ancient martial arts world, the only person she had in contact with the place was Jiang Shuxuan, and The Forum. However, the two weren’t a good comparison to use to represent the entire world, mainly because Jiang Shuxuan was just too strong.
After getting information from Yin Shaoyuan, she came to know that the ancient martial arts world was not how it once was. Most of the families were already in decline.
But it wasn’t only China, the special forces around the world were changing much in the same way.
That was the reason why there were often people going crazy, because they weren’t able to control their powers.
It sounded great on the surface, that there were three great families in the ancient martial arts world in China, but in reality, everyone knew that only the Jiang family was supporting the entire world.
In other words, when something big happens, there was only one person who could handle it.
And because of this, Gu Xiqiao was indifferent to the Fu family, although she had known much earlier on.
But because of what happened today, she thought about the umbrella she had received and let out another sigh.
“I’ll tell Yu Ning right away!” Luo Wenlang’s eyes lit up. After waiting for so long, Gu Xiqiao was finally coming to visit Nine Heavens. Before he hung up the phone, he suddenly remembered something and asked, “By the way, did you blacklist Director Cheng?”
Gu Xiqiao: “…” Maybe? She couldn’t remember!
“Sigh, Boss Gu, Director Cheng has gone through Yu Ning, and he finally managed to reach me too.” Luo Wenlang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and he felt that Gu Xiqiao’s lazy attitude really needed to be changed. “When you have the chance, go and look for Director Cheng in person. Ning Qing mentioned that their movie is almost done.”
“Alright.” Gu Xiqiao hung up the call.
She suddenly recalled the fact that she still owed the director a movie? Was this considered to be digging her own grave?
‘Little system, you mentioned that Fu Wei’s favorability towards me was 70, is it possible that there’s a bug in the system?’ Gu Xiqiao walked forward slowly, holding the umbrella in her hand.
She walked slowly, but in the next second, she was already a hundred meters ahead.
The system spirit manifested in front of her, flapping its transparent wings. “How can the great system have bugs!”
Gu Xiqiao sighed again. ‘Then how do you explain that?’ It made her hesitate to make a move on the Fu family, but Fu Xuejun really was too unpleasant to leave alone.
Digging into Nine Heaven’s walls at one moment, and the next she was trying to dig for Jiang Shuxuan’s attention!
These were completely unbearable!
“Fu Wei is a good person.” The system spirit waved its hand, a transparent panel appearing in the air with some flashing text on it. “He has set up charitable funds all over the world, and has helped many people.”
The pages jumped and changed quickly.
If it was anyone else, they probably wouldn’t be able to read and understand the things flashing so quickly in front of them.
But Gu Xiqiao looked at it all with a serious expression on her face, and it looked like she could see everything clearly.
The system spirit was astonished for a moment, seeing her like this. It hadn’t been controlling its speed when it started, and just when it thought it should slow down a little, it realized that Gu Xiqiao was following every single thing clearly!
After its moment of surprise, it adjusted it to a higher speed, and Gu Xiqiao still kept her eyes on the panel without blinking.
It showed that she was still able to keep up at this speed.
In the end, the system spirit gave up on further testing Gu Xiqiao.
“Beauty Qiao, how did your mental power grow so fast?” It was a little sad again, because it was afraid that one day, Beauty Qiao really wouldn’t need it anymore.
It would be nice if it had a real body like Xixi and Haha.
What happened if the host developed too fast and didn’t need the little system anymore? Hold on, this was urgent!
Gu Xiqiao had finished reading Fu Wei’s information, and replied easily, “Don’t know, it just got better the more I practiced.”
‘You should just hurry and mow down all those people in the ancient martial arts world!’ The system thought to itself, this girl was really just too terrifying.
“He’s a good person.” Gu Xiqiao rubbed her chin thoughtfully. “But then, why did he give birth to this kind of… daughter?” She really couldn’t think of any other words to describe Fu Xuejun.
Fu Xuejun’s personality was neither like Baili Wenxi or Fu Wei.
The system spirit inserted, “In the eyes of the outside world, Fu Xuejun is the image of a perfect goddess.”
“You just said ‘outside’.”
The system spirit thought about it a bit more, trying to find words that were used on earth. “… it’s possible that it’s the next door kingdom.”
Gu Xiqiao: “…” Little system, why did you even think to that point? What have you been experiencing these days?
The system spirit floated next to Gu Xiqiao, and grew slightly afraid at the smile that it saw on Gu Xiqiao’s face, a chill running down its back. “What are you thinking, Beauty Qiao?”
“I’m thinking…” Gu Xiqiao stopped suddenly, squinting at the empty street. “I seem to have found something interesting again.”
“?”
‘Why have you stopped, Yin Shaoyuan is waiting for you!’
Ten seconds later, the system spirit paled, all color drained from its face as it stared at Gu Xiqiao in horror. There was only one thought in its mind. Beauty Qiao, she seemed to really not need it anymore.