The Cunning CEO's Contract Wife

Chapter 34 Could it be her?

Ye Chuchu squatted down, looking at Lin Ran's disheveled appearance, her dark eyes filled with schadenfreude.

"I can't believe you're so stupid. Brother Xiao will definitely divorce you this time."

"You're really shameless. Can you really bring yourself to sleep with just any man?"

Ye Chuchu's voice lingered in Lin Ran's ears like a spell, but there was nothing Lin Ran could do.

Ye Chuchu is right, this is her home.

Lin Ran gritted her teeth and endured the insults, showing no reaction no matter how outrageous Ye Chuchu's words were.

"Tch, it's boring."

After talking for a while, Ye Chuchu seemed to get bored and turned to go upstairs. Wang Mei naturally didn't care about her. Without their orders, the servants in the house could only pretend they hadn't seen Lin Ran.

Lin Ran lay on the ground like a rag doll. After an unknown amount of time, she slowly opened her eyes.

The warm yellow light overhead shone on Lin Ran like the sun, but she couldn't feel any warmth at all.

She felt excruciating pain all over her body, but she still managed to stand up and limp upstairs.

Fortunately, her original room was still there, but it was filled with a lot of clutter. Perhaps because it was too small, neither Wang Mei nor Ye Chuchu paid any attention to it.

Looking at this familiar place, Lin Ran wanted to smile, but her face was in so much pain that she had to give up the idea.

The blankets on the bed were dusty, so Lin Ran patted them off and carefully lay down on the bed.

On the top floor of the Xiao Group building, Xiao Jingchen was processing documents in his hands with a blank expression when Zhou Qing knocked on the door and came in shortly afterward.

"Mr. Xiao, these are all the newspapers that published articles this morning. What do you think we should do with them?"

Xiao Jingchen didn't even raise his head, his voice was very calm, but what he said was chilling.

"Get rid of them all."

"Don't let me see them again."

Zhou Qing opened his mouth, but still didn't say anything.

Given Mr. Xiao's personality, the fact that these people are still alive is already a great blessing.

After all, gossip about President Xiao is not so easy to write, let alone something as important as this.

Without anyone's knowledge, all the newspapers underwent a reshuffle, and all the newspapers that had been sold were recalled and destroyed.

"By the way, how's the investigation into that woman going?"

Just as Zhou Qing was about to leave, Xiao Jingchen seemed to suddenly remember something and looked up to ask a question.

"We have some leads, and we should be able to find that lady within a week at most."

"Ah."

Xiao Jingchen nodded, his expression unreadable.

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the Ye family's residence, a burly man stood furtively at the door for a long time, seemingly hesitating about something.

Not long after, the door of the Ye family opened, and Wang Mei walked out with a gloomy face, her eyes filled with disgust when she saw the man.

"What are you doing here?"

The man was burly, but a long scar on his face made him look quite unsettling.

He was released from prison and didn't have many hobbies except gambling.

But he had no money.

So when Wang Mei approached him, he agreed without hesitation. After all, she was just a woman; he wouldn't have to take responsibility for sleeping with her, and he could still get a large sum of money.

"Scarface, we're even now, what brings you here again?"

Wang Mei led him to a corner of the backyard, afraid that they would be discovered by others.

The man known as Scarface rubbed his hands together and laughed.

"I didn't want to contact you either, but recently I've been kept getting calls from people. You said this wouldn't affect me, but now it is. Shouldn't you give me more money?"

As he spoke, Scarface glanced greedily at the Ye family's villa.

If this house were sold, it would bring in so much money, enough for him to live on for a long time.

"Who is harassing you?"

"He seems to be the president of the Xiao Group. I'm not sure, but his secretary has come here many times."

Scarface waved his hand dismissively, seemingly unconcerned, but he didn't notice Wang Mei's eyes widen suddenly upon hearing the name "Xiao Shi".

"The Xiao family? Explain yourself."

"It's not that we can't explain things clearly, it's just the money..."

Scarface came here only for money; he didn't care about anything else.

Wang Mei could hardly hide the disgust in her eyes; she took a deep breath to calm herself down.

"Explain yourself clearly, and I'll give you 100,000 yuan."

"Only 100,000? Are you trying to fob me off like a beggar?"

Before coming here, Scarface only wanted 50,000 yuan, but after seeing this villa, he couldn't help but have a new plan in mind.

"Two hundred thousand, that's more than enough. Tell me everything you know, and don't come here again, or I'll send you back to the police station."

Wang Mei narrowed her eyes and said bluntly.

Scarface seemed hesitant, but upon hearing the second half of her sentence, a hint of fear appeared on his face, and he quickly nodded in agreement.

“After that night, a man has been looking for someone. I overheard it last time. It was something like Mr. Xiao slept with a woman and now they’re looking for him.”

Wang Mei's expression remained unchanged, but she had a vague idea in her heart.

“Scarface, I’ll give you 300,000. The next time that secretary comes to you, just say that the woman from that night was the second young lady of the Ye family.”

"Three hundred thousand is already a lot. If you ask for anything else, you won't get a single penny."

Wang Mei knew what kind of person Scarface was, so she quickly blocked his escape route.

After all, the Ye family's company is currently in an unstable situation, and she doesn't have much money to spare.

"Okay, give me the money, and I'll do as you say."

Scarface nodded in agreement; for someone like him, 300,000 was already a considerable sum.

Moreover, this amount of money is much more than he planned to ask for.

Once Wang Mei had dealt with Scarface's matter, she couldn't wait to go upstairs and enter Ye Chuchu's room.

"Chuchu, come here quickly."

"what happened?"

Wang Mei's excitement was so obvious that it made Ye Chuchu a little curious as well.

Wang Mei quickly told Ye Chuchu everything that Scarface had just said.

“Scarface didn’t see that little bitch at all that night. It seems that the woman Xiao slept with was probably Lin Ran.”

The mother and daughter exchanged a glance and both saw the excitement in each other's eyes.

Since Xiao Jingchen sent people to look for the person from that night, it means he cares about that person a lot.

"Mom, we absolutely can't let Brother Xiao know about this, otherwise he definitely won't like me anymore."

Wang Mei gently patted her head and offered words of comfort.

"Don't worry, I've already told Scarface. Now we just need to wait for Xiao Jingchen to come find you."

Ye Chuchu blushed and hugged Wang Mei affectionately.

"Mom, once I become Mrs. Xiao, I will definitely make sure you live a good life."

Upon hearing this, Wang Mei's smile widened, and both of them looked confident of victory.