Chapter 7: Disaster (2)
As soon as a woman's voice suddenly interjected from the corner of the trade show, Ronald and everyone else turned to the voice and saw a girl against the wall with a slightly lighter shade of black hair, gorgeous black beautiful eyes, and wearing a one-shoulder gown.
It's Xie Ruolin, the second heroine!
Xie Roulin is the eldest daughter of the Xie family who is well connected with a lot of the major families besides the Kuangge family.
Her family was so well-connected, in fact, that even Ronald's own family didn't dare retaliate against them, as long as it didn't directly involve Ronald, but this wasn't known publicly.
In the novel, after Xie Roulin witnessed Ye Fan's fighting prowess during the trade show, which was suppose to happen after Ronald got face slapped and hired some people to mess with him, Xie Roulin wanted to get acquainted with him and slowly fell in love with him.
Since she's the second heroine in the story, her role in the novel was also significant.
Whenever Ye Fan got into a predicament with any of the major families he faced in China, Xie Roulin was usually there to back him up.
And it seems like Xie Roulin's character hasn't changed at all whatsoever.
'Thank fucking god.'
If Xie Roulin's character had also changed, Ronald genuinely would've had a brain aneurysm on the spot.
But here she is, there to back him up as always.
'See Luna, this is how you're suppose to behave around the protagonist.'
"..." Ye Fan's gaze moved over to Xie Roulin's body after hearing her voice.
Naturally since he investigated Ronald and Luna's background information, he has also investigated everyone else close to them.
When he was looking through Xie Roulin's information, he also saw that in terms of appearance, she wasn't inferior to Luna's apperance and it could even say that she had a more womanly charm to her.
She also had a powerful background that was superior to Luna in terms of power, so his original idea was to meet her after the trade show was over and take her down in one fell swoop and make her his woman.
But it seems like he didn't need to get active since Xie Roulin was interested in him already.
As expected of his charm.
"Why does it matter to you what he did wrong to me?" Hearing such a familiar and despicable voice talking to her across the trade show, Luna narrowed her eyes before even seeing who it was.
She knew the voice belonged to Xie Roulin, her former best friend after all.
That's right, former, and not current best friend.
Maybe for Xie Roulin, who hasn't regressed yet, she might still consider Luna as her best friend.
But she doesn't plan on giving her face ever again.
"Because you always vent to me about everything that makes you upset. What's the difference here now?" Xie Roulin asked with a faint smile on her face.
Since she had actually been watching Ronald secretly the moment he had came into the trade show, she naturally saw all of the events that transpired between them just now.
And so she was skeptical about it.
However, she wasn't skeptical about why Luna was being nice to Ronald all of a sudden.
No, she was skeptical about something else.
"The difference is that I only vent to you privately alone, not when thousands of people are watching. Are you that stupid?" Luna scoffed.
"No, but I recall you saying that you needed some initial investments for your company's new product, and that you were going to the trade show to collect some. Now that he's presented you with such an opportunity, why aren't you taking it?" Xie Roulin inquired.
"..." Luna didn't immediately respond and secretly gritted her teeth.
Xie Roulin was right, her former self had actually applied to go to this trade show today because her company wanted money to be able to market her new product.
But now that she had regressed back and not only knew all the future trends but also had become significantly more knowledgeable in business, making money was as easy for her as reciting the ABCs
However, she couldn't simply tell Xie Roulin that.
While Luna was dangerously staring at Xie Roulin silently coming up with an explanation though...
"Miss Xie is completely right! I'm offering such a large amount of money for such a small stake in your company and ye-" Before Ye Fan could join in and fully finish his sentence...
"Who allowed you to talk on my behalf, you bastard." Xie Roulin cut Ye Fan off sharply.
"Wha-" Ye Fan was utterly confused once again.
Why was Xie Roulin staring at him as if she was looking at her lifelong enemy?
Wasn't she supposed to be on his side?
Plus, when he looked into Xie Roulin's background and information, he read that she rarely showed any hostility and would usually keep it hidden.
But it's clear that Xie Roulin wasn't even trying to hide her disdain for him whatsoever!
Could it perhaps be due to the fact that Luna doesn't like him, so Xie Roulin doesn't like him as well even though she believes that he's right?
It makes sense, after all, Luna and Xie Roulin are completely best friends, and even if they have disagreements with each other, they will always support each other.
"Sorry about that, Miss Xie. I didn't mean to inter-"
Ye Fan's sentence was cut short again.
It wasn't because he got interrupted this time again though, it was because...
'There's a sniper team.'
That's right, there were a sniper and a spotter up on one of the buildings near the trade show with the sniper pointed at him.
If Ye Fan hadn't gone up to Luna's gigantic exhabition stand, he would've not seen them through the glass window up in the ceiling as they were sat at an angle where it was hard to spot them.
'Wait, those emblems...'
'Isn't that Xie Roulin's sniper team she managed to recruit with her connection?'
'But why are they targetted at me!'
As Ye Fan pondered, he subtly scanned around the buildings outside and found out that there were four more additional sniper teams eyeing him, and they had him fully surrounded!
What the hell!
He could manage with one sniper team, but five?!
Why did Xie Roulin get 5 snipers just for him?
What has he ever done?
Whatever the reason was, Ye Fan was so terrified in his heart right now.
He knew he'd be able to make out of this predicament alive, but still, he was so terrified that water started dripping down his pants.
"..."
"BWHAHAHA, what the hell? He seriously pissed himself?!"
"Holy cow, is he seriously that scared of Xie Roulin?"
"Haha nah, he must've finally learnt the severity of messing with Ronald Kuangge."
"Imagine! He should've just gone home after exposing the face wash product. That way everyone would've remembered him as a hero."
"Hey, gotta give him where credit's due though. At least he has some balls trying to approach Luna."
"Yeah, and he won't have any after tonight."
"Hahaha."
The whole crowd, who was once on Ye Fan side, now errupted with laughters and mockery directed at him.
Ye Fan felt so embrassed that he drooped his head down, not daring to to show his face.
Fortunately in the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity, and while the entire crowd was causing a ruckus and laughing at him, he managed to run away while the snipers were distracted.
Ronald, who knew the reason why Ye Fan pissed himself in the first place, couldn't help but drop his jaws as he saw him run away.
'...'
'Well there goes today's plot.'
'...'
'Can I get regressed for the 3rd time?'