TVCEO Chapter 52.3

She waited and waited in the restaurant lobby for Lin Qiao, but she didn’t come. So she followed the signs upstairs and found this place. She didn’t expect to see this scene as soon as she got close.

Caught off guard, Zhou Yuan was struck hard and fell to the ground.

Yu Xiaoxiao seized the opportunity to help Lin Qiao up and shouted, “Help! Someone help! Is anyone there?!”

After their two tables of people left, the restaurant, which was nearing closing time, was almost empty. The restaurant was quite large, and even if there were people, they were on the first floor. Therefore, no one came to the spacious third-floor corridor for a while.

But the shout terrified Zhou Yuan. He stumbled to his feet and covered Yu Xiaoxiao’s mouth, snarling, “Shut up! Don’t make a sound!”

In his nervousness, Zhou Yuan also covered Yu Xiaoxiao’s nose as he covered her mouth. The sudden suffocation rendered Yu Xiaoxiao speechless; she could only struggle desperately.

Seeing Yu Xiaoxiao struggling so fiercely, Zhou Yuan panicked. His face contorted with rage, he threatened sharply, “I’m warning you! My dad is Manager Qian of your public relations department! If you want to stay in the public relations department, shut up, do you hear me!”

Zhou Yuan was ultimately a weakling. He had already exhausted a lot of energy by failing to drag Lin Qiao earlier, so now that Yu Xiaoxiao, who was fully conscious, was struggling, she was easily freed in a few moves.

He tried to attack again, but Yu Xiaoxiao, who had caught her breath, struck him hard with an elbow. This strike used almost all of Yu Xiaoxiao’s strength. Zhou Yuan immediately cried out, clutching his chest and bending over in pain.

This wasn’t Zhou Yuan’s first time doing this kind of thing, but he had never encountered such strong resistance before. Yu Xiaoxiao didn’t even take his threats seriously. He knew that things were definitely not going to work out now, and he might even suffer the consequences. He panicked and ran away.

Exhausted, Lin Qiao collapsed to the ground again, teetering on the edge of unconsciousness. No matter how Su Zhengxing and Yu Xiaoxiao called to her, she couldn’t respond. Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier until the last glimmer of light disappeared completely before her eyes.

Seeing that she had fainted, Yu Xiaoxiao quickly looked for the phone on her body, unlocked the screen with her fingerprint, found Su Zhengxing’s number in the contacts, and called him.

When Su Zhengxing received Lin Qiao’s call, he and Qin Shen were in a video conference. His phone, lying face down on the conference room table, kept vibrating.

He didn’t have the habit of answering calls during meetings and was about to hang up, but Qin Shen flipped the phone over first and saw Lin Qiao’s name on the caller ID.

“Your intern is calling you so late? Did you assign her work again? Can’t you have a conscience? You don’t have a personal life, but others do!”

Qin Shen’s first reaction was that this workaholic must have been exploiting his employees again. He took off the Bluetooth headset from his ears and advised him gently.

“Although we are in China now, you should at least tone it down. Contacting employees outside of work hours like this would be illegal in some countries. Do you know that they could sue you?”

Su Zhengxing rolled his eyes at him speechlessly, then got up and went out to answer the phone.

As soon as the call connected, he heard soft sobbing on the other end.

Thinking it was Lin Qiao crying, he asked anxiously, “What’s wrong?”

Hearing his voice, Yu Xiaoxiao said with a sob in her voice, “Mr. Su, something has happened to Lin Qiao!”

Almost without catching his breath, Su Zhengxing rushed to the scene.

The rain outside was falling in fine threads, splashing in the puddles under the streetlights like water fireworks.

After getting out of the car, he didn’t even bother to take the umbrella from the trunk, letting the raindrops hit his dark suit, which was as black as night, and went straight into the restaurant that Yu Xiaoxiao had mentioned.

When he arrived, Yu Xiaoxiao was still holding the unconscious Lin Qiao, sitting on the floor tiles outside the restroom. The restaurant staff had already found them and called the police and an ambulance.

 

 

 

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