The Billionaire's Hidden Affection-Chapter 608 - 605: Shocking Turnaround 8_1

"Li Zhen is my classmate, not someone of bad character..."

Classmate! Classmate! I hate the word "classmate" the most. Huang Xiaojue, for example.

"Does being a classmate make him so great? Gai Long said the people who can truly hurt you are always your acquaintances. You should be most wary of classmates."

Yan Xixi was completely speechless.

With him, it was always the same. He had no respectable image. Whenever I asked him for help, he’d start groping and fooling around. Whether the problem could be solved was secondary; it would definitely waste most of the day. He’d just be laughing and messing about, completely lost in his hedonistic ways.

It was the sunny spring of March, when the grass grows and warblers fly. For several consecutive nights, Yan Xixi had suffered from insomnia. On Friday morning, she woke up particularly early.

Just after washing up, her phone rang.

"Sweetheart, give me a quick kiss..."

"Why?"

"I have good news for you."

"Tell me quickly..."

"HAHA. There’s a Miss Yan Xixi who passed all the tests and has been successfully admitted to South Country University..."

Yan Xixi leaped up, ecstatic.

After all this hard work, finally, the dust has settled.

"You rascal, when are you coming back? We need to celebrate..."

"It’s still early. Just wait patiently. I’ll be back once I’m done with my business. Give me another kiss..."

She hung up the phone and immediately dialed Xu Xiaoya, too excited to speak. With so much excess energy and no way to vent it, she just started jumping up and down on the terrace for several minutes.

She returned to her computer, casually opened a news website for a quick look, and suddenly saw a headline: "Large Outflow of Hot Money Suspected in February; Authorities Crack Down Hard."

She clicked on it immediately. It was a key financial news article, and its main point was a severe criticism of the Wan Family for their massive withdrawal of funds, which had led to dire consequences. The news had a very strong slant. The comments below were filled with netizens hurling insults like ’traitor to the country,’ ’scoundrel,’ ’dishonest business,’ and ’unscrupulous merchant,’ which were heard endlessly.

She searched further and found a large volume of similar news. It had apparently started as early as December of the previous year.

She had been busy with various tests before this, and then with numerous worries, so she hadn’t noticed this news at all. Moreover, Wan Donglin had never mentioned these matters to her. He had just been frequently away on business trips these past two months.

In contrast, Old Zhou was appearing frequently and prominently at various major events. His competitors, however, hadn’t been seen in a long time.

Even someone like Yan Xixi, who paid little attention to current affairs, slowly understood that Old Zhou seemed to have the upper hand in the fierce struggle.

What’s going on? Is Old Zhou unhappy with the Wan Family and planning to make a move? Or at least, to give them a rap on the knuckles?

She decided to open all the financial news. As she did, she was even more taken aback by a brief news item: Huang Xiaojue had been appointed as the general manager of a certain company.

This company was a very well-known financial firm, and this piece of news was actually old, dating back three months.

For quite a while, she couldn’t process it. Given Huang Xiaojue’s background as a senior executive in a Fortune 500 company, how had he entered such a major financial circle? It didn’t match his credentials at all.

The car stopped outside the small store at dusk, which was when foot traffic was heaviest.

As soon as store manager Zhu Fangting saw Yan Xixi, she immediately came over. "Sister Yan, I was just looking for you."

Yan Xixi was surprised. "What is it?"

Zhu Fangting said in a low voice, "The city management and the tax bureau have both been here to conduct inspections a few times. Every time, they found a ton of problems."

Yan Xixi asked in surprise, "What’s the city management doing here? We’re not street vendors illegally occupying the roadway."

"Sigh, you probably don’t know yet, do you? The head of the city management team in this area is now Yang Wei. He’s also colluding with the tax bureau to harass us every few days."

Yan Xixi’s heart sank. She suddenly had a very ominous premonition.

Yang Wei, that good-for-nothing, has become the city management team leader? Isn’t he just here to cause trouble?

(The new climax of the plot is about to arrive, please stay tuned. HEH HEH.)