The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

The three of them went out, and naturally, Li Yan took the driver's seat, driving Zhang Yurong's car.

The destination was a high-class restaurant in the downtown area, where Zhang Yurong had reserved a spot earlier that afternoon. As they followed the waiter towards their reserved table, Li Yan habitually observed the entire restaurant situation en route. To his surprise, he unexpectedly encountered familiar faces here, and not just one!

Both Zhang Yurong and Yue Yao were too striking; even just one appearing would attract a lot of attention. When the two appeared together, it had already caught the eyes of many in the restaurant, and those who hadn't noticed were pointed out by their companions to look at the beauties.

After they were seated, most of the gazes at the beauties retracted, but two tables of people were still focused on them. Each table had three men, one of the tables had three relatively young men, two of whom were acquaintances, Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang. The other one, a young man of similar age, was likely someone of similar status—a second-generation wealthy offspring.

Li Yan didn't bother with Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang, although he could feel Lan Tianci's intense jealousy from afar; such a brat wasn't worth his attention. His focus was on another table with three composed men.

After settling Yue Yao and Zhang Yurong, Li Yan handed the decision of ordering to the two of them; he didn't care.

"You order, I've spotted a couple of friends, I'll go say hi."

Zhang Yurong and Yue Yao also noticed Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang. After the gunfight on the top floor of the Prince Hotel, Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang had greeted Yu Xiao Di to leave. At that time, Yu Xiao Di and Wen Qianyi were searching for Li Yan, and they had joined Zhang Yurong and Yue Yao in their search. Back then, Lan Tianci, in his nervous and anxious state, wanted to hurry Yu Xiao Di away, saying if Li Yan was already dead, further searching would be a waste of time. That remark made all four of them very angry and dissatisfied, Yue Yao even felt murderous intentions. It was only because Li Yan appeared timely that he was dismissed, and they didn't press the issue further.

It was precisely because of this incident that they could now recognize Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang with him.

"What kind of friends are those? Aren't they your little fling's friends? He cursed you last time!" Zhang Yurong couldn't help but mutter grievances quietly.

Li Yan was taken aback, my fling? Talking about Yu Xiao Di?… Is she jealous?

Yue Yao glanced at him and shook her head subtly, "I can't help you now, that guy is clearly pursuing Yu Xiao Di, why bother acknowledging him? You're asking for trouble."

Li Yan didn't explain and stood up to walk over. Zhang Yurong furrowed her brows slightly, yet restrained herself. After finally coming out to dine together, encountering such a situation right away was rather disappointing.

Seeing Li Yan approach, Lan Tianci was also a bit surprised, exchanged glances with Wen Qiang, and whispered, "Why is he coming over?"

"Just saying hi! Maybe he's afraid we'd go over… and interfere with his pursuit of the beauties." Wen Qiang replied with curiosity and admiration. Li Yan really had skill, Yu Xiao Di was already infatuated with him, and the two beauties, he might have only met them at the last banquet, but he managed to date them.

Lan Tianci snorted, "I'm going over to greet him instead!"

Seeing Li Yan approaching, Wen Qiang quickly said, "Not a good idea, right? He's going for new targets, isn't it good that no one's competing with you for Xiao Di?"

"Humph! He's clearly a womanizer and a freeloader, why would he ever have enough?" Lan Tianci lightly scorned.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan didn't walk up to them, but slightly turned and went to the other side. This left Lan Tianci, who was all ready for confrontation, feeling frustrated with nowhere to vent, and Wen Qiang could only smile wryly.

Another person, who had been looking at Zhang Yurong and Yue Yao, listened and grinned slyly, "Causing trouble is my forte! Moreover, seeing such outstanding beauties being charmed by such a mediocre man, how can we handsome guys hold our heads high?"

"…" Seeing his intent to act, Lan Tianci quickly considered, then began to instigate this person, much as he did with Ling Muhang, to cause trouble for Li Yan.

…

"Sister Yurong, he's not going to them." Yue Yao watched Li Yan head not to Lan Tianci and Wen Qiang's table, but elsewhere, and quietly alerted Zhang Yurong.

Zhang Yurong turned to look, a bit puzzled, perhaps his so-called friends were the others?

Li Yan certainly wasn't going over to greet Lan Tianci. As for Wen Qiang, his impression was quite good, feeling that the guy was gentle, courteous, and had a temperament, without those annoying traits of Lan Tianci. Of course, he knew very well that actually, like the first time they met, Lan Tianci also originally had a certain grace, just influenced by Yu Xiaodi. But regardless, the impression wouldn't be great.

He approached another table with three men who, like other guests, noticed Zhang Yurong and Yue Yao. However, unlike the others who were mostly paying attention to the beauties while ignoring Li Yan beside them, these men not only noticed Li Yan but after that seemed oblivious to the two beauties.

The three men seemed to know Li Yan would come over, naturally pulling out a chair for him.

Li Yan sat down directly, looked at the three of them, and asked with a smile, "You three old guys, why do you have time to gather here? Bored?"

"No manners!" one of them jokingly scolded.

The other two asked with grinning eyes, "No wonder you're hiding in S City, turns out you've been flirting with some beauties. Aren't you going to introduce them to us?"

"No way, you three old guys don't look like good people; you'd scare them off." Li Yan shook his head and pulled out cigarettes, handing one to each.

After the four of them took a drag, Li Yan lowered his voice a bit and asked, "I know you, third brother, are in S City. But you, fifth and sixth elder brothers, what are you doing here? Is something big about to happen?"

These three men were all part of his group of mysterious friends. These people weren't part of 'their' organization, even Yue Yao only knew a little, wasn't very clear about their specific identities.

The third brother mentioned by Li Yan was the one who just said he had no manners, who was also the one who last time found him through Queen, informing him that Liu Yunqing and others had betrayed and joined terrorist activities—Zheng Yixuan.

The sixth elder he referred to was a thirty-something vigorous man named Zheng Yuzun, currently a senior inspector in a certain department of the International Criminal Police. And the fifth elder, if Wen Qianyi or Huang Ying were here, they would be greatly surprised, because he was none other than He Zhengyuan, responsible for the Mortal Charity Foundation!

These three were all mature and stable types of men, but each had their differences. Zheng Yixuan was relatively elegant, wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, if younger by a dozen years might appear to be a shady gentleman, whereas now he seemed like a successful person with a certain stature, bringing an air of pressure with a sense of dignity. He Zhengyuan was a bit chubby, regularly wore a smile, bringing positivity even while helping others. Zheng Yuzun was rather stern, with sharp eyes that made one feel a bit guilty under his gaze.

"Big event? Are you eager to stir something big up? Can't we reminisce a little? It's thanks to you we got the chance, anyway." Zheng Yixuan shook his head as he stared at Li Yan. The sixth elder, Zheng Yuzun, wasn't just sharing his surname by coincidence; he was his cousin.

"Because of me? Haha, I'm very honest, never stirred up trouble. Last time you asked me to stir things up." Li Yan chuckled.

Zheng Yuzun whispered, "'They' are gathering on Cloud Island, news of you personally appearing spreads fast, causing quite a few assassins to be drawn. Some are after mission reward, but many more purely wish to challenge you. After disappearing for two years, you've become a legend, surrounded by many more exaggerated tales; likewise, many people view you as a 'former ace assassin'."

"You're worried about me getting into trouble? Thank you, sixth brother!" Li Yan said sincerely.

Zheng Yuzun gave a wry smile, "Do you still need me to worry? I'm just worried you'll blow things up. Indeed, when you visited Cloud Island, a bunch of assassins ended up dead because of you!"

Li Yan was a bit embarrassed, "Cloud Island has seven million people; some die every day. What's it got to do with me? I haven't killed anyone; 'they' handled a traitor, an intruding enemy, and one tracking enemy. The gunfight at Cook Hall had nothing to do with us; we just wanted to check out the most expensive restaurant."

"Jesus, God, Yuan Zhe, whether handled by you or 'they,' is anyhow connected to you, credited to you; The gunfight at Cook Hall had two assassins from Li Country, one former assassin from Celestial Continent dead, and your 'them' organization had six core members, including you, on the scene; common people might not care, but who in the Assassin Realm would not suspect it relates to you? Such coincidence, isn't it? From last night to today, five more assassins met untimely death, including one from 'their' organization. So, ten assassin lives are attributed to you." Zheng Yuzun said gravely.

Li Yan frowned, "I already returned overnight last night. These four have nothing to do with me, and one of my men is dead? Why haven't I heard anything?"

"You're hearing it now, aren't you? What I know is highly confidential, and you, by tomorrow at the latest, Queen will have gathered such news for you."

"Traitor doesn't count, Jesus, God were killed by us, three at Wenhua Hotel were coincidence, these five... looks like someone deliberately wants to 'help' me establish power!" Li Yan squinted his eyes as he instantly identified two targets.

"Right, killing one of your men is intended to prove some are against you, leading you to go on a killing spree, spreading news to say you killed ten assassins in anger over losing a subordinate! Though not all will believe it, it will surely cause most in the Assassin Realm to band together to resist, boycott you! There could be more harm, including using rumors to hinder your clientele, betraying you for international government and law enforcement's wanted notices!"

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