Fu Minghao's heart skipped a beat. So there was a problem after all. "What happened?" he asked, and Li Qianye narrated what Fu Mengyao did at the party.
Fu Minghao's eyes narrowed in anger. This daughter of his!
"Thank you very much for talking me. We will come and apologize to you personally. Please forgive her, she's just a child."
"Heh, such a big "child" will be a disaster", Li Qianye said bluntly.
What a joke, even the child they had at home —Li Yuchen— would not do such a thing, but the Fus wanted to use the excuse of being a child? A lady like her? Ridiculous!
"I apologize again. Please help us speak to Chairman Li to forgive us and have mercy." He did not need a genius to tell him that the recent crisis was most likely Li Chuanmo's doing.
"I will try my best, but the main thing is to talk to your daughter." Li Qianye said.
Immediately they ended the call, Fu Minghao stood up and went to Fu Mengyao's office. Fu Mengyao was the Director of sales in her father's company, a fact she was very proud of. She was not exactly competent, but her father doted on her and had high hopes for her.
He bypassed her secretary, who was wondering whether or not to announce his presence, and strode in.
"Dad, welcome. Is there any urge—" She was cut short because her father gave her a dirty slap.
She was shocked. Her father had never raised his hands on her in all her life. Infact, her mum was more likely to beat her than her dad. What could have happened?
"Dad, what did I do?" She asked as her eyes filled with tears.
Fu Minghao regretted it almost immediately. He was never one to beat his children, he was just carried away by anger. But as he remembered what Li Qianye said on the phone, that trace of guilt vanished. She wasn't a child, she was a debt collector!
"What didn't you do? Is that what you learned after all those years of education? To use filthy drugs on people like a petty criminal? Is this how your Mum and I raised you?" Fu Minghao seethed with anger.
Fu Mengyao held her cheek, startled. The Li couple had threatened to tell her parents, but since her parents didn't say anything, she thought they had decided to forget the matter.
One week had already passed, and she had almost forgotten that anything happened. She had also been very busy with the crisis affecting the company, so she threw the matter to the back of her mind.
She tried to bluff her way through, "But dad, it was all a misunderstanding, I already explained to Auntie and Uncle."
"Misunderstanding my foot! Then why would your uncle Li ask me to warn you? They are very angry with you currently. Just prepare yourself, we are going to plead with them tomorrow."
"Plead? what for?"
"Can't you think? Who do you think is responsible for the current crisis in our company?"
It took her a few moments, but she finally said with incredulity, "Chuanmo ge? That's impossible!"
"Really?" Fu Minghao sneered. "I don't want to find out if it's possible or not at the expense of my company. Most importantly, we must go and see his parents tomorrow!"
He paused, trying to calm down, "Aren't you being too much? When they actively pushed for your engagement, you cried and threatened us so that it could be cancelled. You totally embarrassed their family. If not for your mother, they would have cut ties with us long ago!
"Since then, we have been trying to mend our relationship with them. And now, you decide you want him? Do you think you can have both the fish and the bear's paw?* Stop dreaming!
"I'm warning you Yao'er, you have to clear up this mess you have made, else, you don't need to remain the director of sales in a crumbling company!"
Fu Mengyao's face changed at the threat. She gritted her teeth and said, "I'm sorry Dad. I'll try to sort everything out. I'm very sorry for the trouble I've caused."
Fu Minghao gave her another glare and walked out. He slightly regretted not listening to his wife and spoiling this daughter, and now she had grown up crooked. She was constantly fawning over the rich and looking down on others. He sighed.
When he left, Fu Mengyao swept off all the things on her desk in anger. The crashing sound startled her secretary, but only for a moment. Those that worked closely with Fu Mengyao knew how violent she could be.
The secretary looked towards her office worriedly. The rest of the workday would be torturous.
Inside the office, Fu Mengyao looked menacing. Her "Chuanmo ge" could not possibly do harm to her parents' company, so it had to be that s**t Pei Yueran!
It seemed like she still needed to be taught a real lesson. The laxative she luckily avoided was nothing compared to what she was going to suffer.
As long as Pei Yueran remained alive and around Li Chuanmo, her dreams of marrying him would only remain dreams.
She smiled sinisterly, looking like a deranged person. She took her phone, scrolled through her contacts and dialed a number saved as "A"
When he picked, she said, "I have a job for you."
****
These days, Fang Bo felt like he was out of a job. He was Pei Yueran's chauffeur alright, but she seemed to always take Li Chuanmo's car home these days.
Whenever they went out on field work, it was certain that Li Chuanmo would drive her home from there. More often than not, he only picked her up from her home to the company in the mornings.
It was only when Li Chuanmo went out of town for a few days that he resumed his duties.
"Would you be going to eat dinner at Swallows tonight?" Swallows was Pei Yueran's favorite restaurant in City M, and she went there after work occasionally for dinner.
Pei Yueran decided to go. She had a busy day at work, even without Li Chuanmo, and she wanted to unwind. Besides, she needed time to sort out her thoughts, and she wanted to do it in an environment where she was alone but not alone.
Fang Bo drove to the restaurant and they sat at a table with a nice view. They ordered Western food and ate with no conversation.
Afterwards, they went back to the car and started on to Pei Yueran's house.
"Special Assistant Pei, I think a car is following us."
*You cannot have both fish and bear's paw at the same time—the Chinese equivalent of "you can't eat your cake and have it."