Chapter 321 Encountering the Li Family

Chapter 321 Encountering the Li Family

"I shouldn't have shaken them off just now," Tang Bai suddenly said as they approached the hospital. His vigilance had decreased after being away for so long.

Jiang Ruan: "?"

Mo Mo: "?"

"We're not going to do anything confidential," Tang Bai said with a serious expression. "Go ahead and follow. I'm good at responding to situations and driving, so I can guarantee your safety no matter what they do."

Jiang Ruan thought for a moment.

That's true.

"Now they all know you have a bodyguard with excellent driving skills, so they probably won't put in any more effort in that area and will likely change their tactics," Tang Bai said with an air of certainty.

Jiang Ruan and Mo Mo exchanged a glance and came to a conclusion: he was trying to praise himself indirectly.

The driving skills just now were not surprising enough; local taxi drivers in Haicheng and Jingzhou could easily do that without causing any impact.

“Miss, would you consider letting me take on the position of all-purpose bodyguard?” Tang Bai said in a light and natural voice. “As long as the salary is doubled and I become Captain Mo Mo, you can get a perfect bodyguard.”

Jiang Ruan ignored that sentence and silently looked down at the messages sent by the technical director and others.

Tang Bai persisted: "You really won't consider it?"

Tang Bai: "I'm very capable."

Tang Bai: "Giving you a raise is definitely not a bad deal!"

Tang Bai: "I guarantee it will be worth the price, and you will be satisfied."

"It's already merciful that I didn't dock your pay for disturbing the boss's work." Mo Mo had a problem with him as always. "If you keep chattering inappropriately, I'll manually mute you."

Tang Bai ground down his back molars.

Mo Mo is really capable of doing this.

So what if he's good-looking? He'll bring a dozen of his buddies and beat him up in a bit!

Jiang Ruan was used to the two bickering every day. After arriving at the hospital, she got out of the car and went in with them, but almost got bumped into by someone as she headed towards the elevator.

"Bang!"

The person bumped into Mo Mo's arm, which was positioned in front of Jiang Ruan.

He apologized, his suit giving him a composed air: "I'm sorry."

Mo Mo didn't say much, and protected Jiang Ruan as they left.

Before she had taken two steps, she saw a middle-aged man slowly walking out from behind the person she had just met. Jiang Ruan's gaze met his for a second, but she looked away as if she were looking at any other stranger.

"You must be Jiang Ruan." The middle-aged man had an extraordinary air about him.

Jiang Ruan stopped and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Tang Bai and Mo Mo stood in the safest position to protect her.

"I forgot we haven't met yet." The middle-aged man spoke politely, looking at her as if she were a child. "I'm your father's uncle, you should call me grand-uncle."

Jiang Ruan knew that he was Li Zhishen's uncle.

But Mom reminded us that we shouldn't say we know or are familiar with anyone from the Li family unless we've been formally introduced.

"What are you doing at the hospital?" Li Chengxuan's gaze swept over Mo Mo and Tang Bai behind her. "Are you here to visit a friend or are you feeling unwell?"

Jiang Ruan replied briefly: "Work."

Li Chengxuan asked knowingly, "Are you a doctor?"

Jiang Ruan replied calmly, "No, it's other work. What about you?"

"I'm also busy with work." Li Chengxuan said politely. Judging from his appearance and age, he was not much different from Li Zhishen, but he was a generation higher in terms of seniority. "Let's have a meal together sometime."

"Okay." Jiang Ruan knew these were just polite words.

Li Chengxuan left with the man in the suit who had almost bumped into her, without looking back at him once more.

Tang Bai crossed his arms and looked over casually, offering his usual analysis: "How come I didn't know he had a job here?"

Mo Mo glanced over at that moment.

Jiang Ruan had the same look in her eyes.

Tang Bai was taken aback.

"What I mean is, he's a director of the Li Group, what kind of work would he do at the hospital?" Tang Bai explained. "I've never heard of the Li Group being involved in the medical industry."

Jiang Ruan looked at him for a while without saying anything. It was strange, but as long as the people she hired didn't harm her or break the law, it was fine: "You can chase after him and ask him. Maybe you can get some exclusive first-hand information."

Tang Bai: "?"

Mo Mo: "?"

They both looked at her at the same time.

Tang Bai even started talking to Mo Mo right in front of Jiang Ruan: "Don't you think our young lady is becoming two-faced?"

Mo Mo: "It's not yin and yang, it's growth."

Tang Bai: "???"

How come everything can be related to growth?

Jiang Ruan stopped listening to their nonsense and took Mo Mo to discuss serious matters. Tang Bai stayed in the car to wait for them to come down.

This scene was witnessed by two people in a coffee shop on the second floor across from the hospital: one was Jiang Ruan's uncle, Qin Muchuan, and the other was her great-uncle, Li Chengxuan, whom she had just met.

“I thought Jiang Ruan was some kind of jackal or tiger, that you would go to such lengths to cooperate with me.” Li Chengxuan glanced at Tang Bai, who was sitting in the car with a nonchalant attitude, and said to Qin Muchuan, “From our first meeting, he’s just a naive newbie in the business world with no scheming or cunning.”

“She’s a novice in the business world.” Qin Muchuan never denied this, “but she has Qin An, Li Zhishen, and my father behind her…”

"And then?" Li Chengxuan interrupted him.

Qin An and Li Zhishen are indeed formidable; he suffered quite a bit at their hands back then.

But times have changed. Qin An hasn't appeared for over twenty years. Li Zhishen has handed over many important businesses to the current president of the Li Group. As for Old Master Qin, he's just an old man with one foot in the grave.

Defeating them one by one is not difficult.

"She has many people protecting her, I can't do anything about it." It was rare for Qin Muchuan to say such soft words in front of the Li family.

Li Chengxuan glanced at him again.

They're all shrewd people.

How could they not know that behind this show of weakness lay a deeper conspiracy?

"Is there anyone in the Qin family that they can't control?" Li Chengxuan deliberately emphasized the words "Head of the Qin family." "Even Qin An, who had a promising future, was forced to leave Haicheng by you. Jiang Ruan is no pushover."

"If all else fails, we can just use the same tactics we used against Qin An."

"Who can touch the people Huo Zhizhou is protecting?" Qin Muchuan said bluntly.

Li Chengxuan smiled.

He had investigated Jiang Ruan. She had been married to Huo Zhizhou for five years and had a son. After the marriage, she had been kept at home by Huo Zhizhou like a caged bird. He gave her a birthday gift recently, and she also received a lot of property in the divorce settlement.

But so what?

“The people Huo Zhizhou protects are indeed not so easy to touch,” he said. “Just prevent her from being protected by Huo Zhizhou.”

Qin Muchuan asked thoughtfully, "You mean..."

“There’s only one reason why a man protects a woman: he’s not tired of her yet.” Li Chengxuan’s words were particularly vulgar. “I took a closer look just now, and that girl is indeed quite pretty, making one want to protect her without thinking.”

Qin Muchuan frowned.

I don't think what he said is very reliable.

"Just find someone to flirt with her, get her into bed, and that's it." Li Chengxuan thought he knew men inside and out. "Do you think Huo Zhizhou will continue to protect a woman who's already tainted?"

meeting.

This was Qin Muchuan's first thought.

Judging from the messages Qin Luofeng relayed, Huo Zhizhou seems to really love Jiang Ruan.