sjar Chapter 419: No Seat
Chapter 419: No Seat
Yuecheng International Airport.
Chen Xiaolin arrived at the airport nearly three hours early. Even though it was the peak season at the airport during the summer vacation, it only took her less than an hour from entering the terminal to getting the plane ticket and going through security check.
She was wearing a long skirt suit today, which made her already well-proportioned legs look longer and her waist look thinner. Moreover, she was in a good mood today. She was pulling a 20-inch suitcase, carrying a delicate small shoulder bag, and a faint smile was on her lips.
This attracted the attention of the opposite sex around her, but she didn't notice it at all or she was already accustomed to the gazes of outsiders. She pulled her suitcase casually and briskly to the rest area at the boarding gate and sat down, as if no one was around.
She raised her fair wrist, looked at the time displayed on the delicate watch on her wrist, smiled again, and turned to look at the planes outside the large glass wall of the airport. She was usually very low-key, but suddenly she had an impulse and took out her mobile phone to take a few photos of the planes outside the airport.
Finally, I picked a photo with the best angle and the most atmosphere, and posted it on WeChat Moments with a line of text:
(The sun) is too dazzling, I have never really looked at it, but when I turn around and look, I see the sky is clear.
The beautiful actress Chen Xiaolin rarely posts such sensational texts, but once she did, there were immediate endless comments in the circle of friends.
Someone asked: Talented lady, are you traveling with your boyfriend?
Chen Xiaolin replied: (helpless) Just on a business trip
The person replied: How can a business trip have such a meaning of "a thousand sails pass by and finally a happy ending"?
Chen Xiaolin replied: You are making too many associations
There were many similar comments. Chen Xiaolin was in a good mood today and responded to them one by one without any bother, with a smile on her face all the time.
At this moment, Lu Yiheng's phone call suddenly came in. The smile on Chen Xiaolin's lips froze instantly. She looked at the caller ID silently for a long time before she swiped the phone and put it to her ear.
"Hey?"
"Hyolin, where are you going?"
"On business trip."
"Have you arrived at the airport so early?" Lu Yiheng sighed and said distressedly, "I really don't want to make you so hard, but... I'm sorry, give me a little more time, and I will soon give you a legitimate identity, so that you can stand by my side, instead of looking at me like looking at the dazzling sun..."
Chen Xiaolin's breath got stuck in her throat, and finally she smiled helplessly: "Brother, I don't quite understand what you are saying."
Lu Yiheng: "Some things happened during this period. My second uncle's daughter was almost kidnapped, my grandma was sick again, and there were a lot of work in the group and the company that I needed to deal with, so I couldn't find time to accompany you. Seeing you post such a circle of friends, I felt very uncomfortable."
Chen Xiaolin closed her eyes and did not continue to expand the topic of the circle of friends. Instead, she changed the subject and asked, "Is Grandma Lu seriously ill? When did it happen? I haven't heard Andy mention it."
"It happened not long ago. It was quite serious. She herself has started to make arrangements for her after death."
"Then I'll find time to visit grandma."
"Okay."
"But grandma won't be unhappy to see me, right?"
"How could that be? She has watched you grow up, too. She will be very happy to see you."
"But, Xingchen and I are close, doesn't she... dislike Xingchen?"
Chen Xiaolin's words made Lu Yiheng speechless for a while, and he said unhappily: "She has been asking Lu Xingchen to go back to the old house frequently recently."
Chen Xiaolin was a little surprised and said with a smile: "It seems that grandma still misses Xingchen and wants her to go home, right?"
Lu Yiheng was also worried about this. He originally wanted to kidnap Lu Yisen and bring down Lu Xingchen, but he ended up kidnapping Lu Xinyue, which not only caused Yang Wenqi to lose Shen Mingzhen, her trusted confidant, but also caused Lu Xingchen to gain more trust from Lu Dingsheng and the old lady because of this incident. He got angry when he thought about this result of losing more than he gained.
“I don’t know, it seems that he wants to entrust Ethan Lu to Lu Xingchen.”
Lu Yiheng had also confided in Chen Xiaolin about Ethan Lu, so Chen Xiaolin was even more shocked when she heard this. The old lady liked Ethan Lu so much that she didn’t entrust him to Lu Dingsheng, but intended to give him to Lu Xingchen. This was not ordinary trust.
"It's understandable that grandma did this. After all, your second aunt is pregnant again. She must be worried that your second uncle and second aunt don't have time to take care of Yisen."
But this reason is obviously far-fetched. After all, in the Lu family, can Lu Dingsheng be without an aunt to take care of Lu Yisen?
Lu Yiheng smiled and did not say his true thoughts in front of Chen Xiaolin. After all, Chen Xiaolin was Lu Xingchen's good friend, and he was afraid that she would be unhappy if he said too much.
Chen Xiaolin continued, "However, if grandma really intends to hand Yisen over to Xingchen, then I guess she also wants Xingchen to return to Lu Corporation. Xingchen herself is very capable, and now her career is flourishing. Grandma will definitely not want to let such an outstanding descendant live outside. By then, you will have an extra capable helper to manage the Lu Corporation together."
"..." If it wasn't Chen Xiaolin who said this, Lu Yiheng would have thrown the phone in her face. He was trying every means to kick Lu Xingchen out, but because it was Chen Xiaolin, he smiled again and said, "Maybe, but these are things for the future. By the way, what time is your flight? Do you want me to go to the airport to accompany you for a while?"
"No need." Chen Xiaolin raised her hand to check the time again, then subconsciously looked around to see if there was the person she was waiting for. "I'm about to fly, and my colleagues on the business trip should be here soon, so I won't tell you for now."
"Don't hang up yet..." Lu Yiheng asked quickly before she hung up the phone, "When will you be back? Send me a message and I'll pick you up."
"…We'll talk about it when the time comes. My colleague is here, so let's leave it at that for now."
Chen Xiaolin hung up the phone after saying this, but the colleague who was on the business trip with her did not show up. She was thinking it was a bit strange because at this time, he should have arrived.
She reopened the address book and found the phone number of "Mr. Li". Just as she was about to dial it, her direct superior, the AI department director Zhou Shuheng, called. Chen Xiaolin picked up his call first.
"Minister Zhou."
"Hyolin, are you at the airport now?"
"Yes, I'm already at the boarding gate, but Mr. Li hasn't arrived yet."
"I was just about to tell you about Mr. Li. He told me that he had something urgent to do and couldn't go to Beijing. He asked you to fly there alone first. The afternoon meeting will be arranged until tomorrow morning. Then, I will take the afternoon flight to Beijing to meet you."
Chen Xiaolin heard this and wondered if she had heard it wrongly. "Boss Li didn't tell me before that he couldn't come, and aren't you in charge of the nursing home project, Minister?"
Zhou Shuheng also smiled helplessly, "I was about to leave for Wenquan Mountain, but CEO Li suddenly called me to switch places, saying that he was going to Wenquan Mountain. I later asked and found out that it was because Zhixing Company also changed people to go to Wenquan Mountain."
Chen Xiaolin subconsciously asked back: "Could it be that Lu Xingchen was replaced?"
Zhou Shuheng said unhappily, "Except for Lu Xingchen, no one else could make President Li do such a love-minded move of turning back when he was on his way to the airport."