C80 Fortuitous Encounter

For Ann Qianxi, who normally didn't have much exercise, the speed of her legs catching up to the elevator was fatal. Fortunately, Lee Xi's floor wasn't high enough.

She bent her waist and peeked in through the stairs. As expected, she caught up to Tang Mingcheng and walked into the other party's office.

Ann Qianxi couldn't help but furrow her brows. Just what did this person come here for?

Could it be that Chi Shaojun had a mission to discuss?

But if that was the case, there was no need for Chi Shaojun to leave first. Countless questions arose in Ann Qianxi's mind. Since she had already followed him here, she might as well eavesdrop on what was being said.

Noticing that there was no one in the corridor, Ann Qianxi tiptoed towards the office. However, she soon felt that something was amiss.

No matter what, Tang Mingcheng was someone who had fought in the mall for many years. If he didn't have this kind of anti-detection ability, he definitely wouldn't be where he was today.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

Just as she reached the top of the stairs, the office door creaked open.

"Director Tang, I already told you that you were overthinking things, right? Why do you think there's someone following you up the stairs? " The one who spoke was Lee Xi. She crossed her arms. Her eyes were filled with boredom towards this man's overly sensitive actions.

"Search." Tang Mingcheng ignored the other person's complaint and said in a low voice.

"There are so many people coming and going in this office building every day. Director Tang, you can't tell me to stop every stranger and ask them, right?" Lee Xi was obviously unwilling. She pouted her lips and looked at the person in front of her with cold eyes.

"There's no need, just take the man with the duckbill cap." Tang Mingcheng didn't want to talk any more nonsense, so he already started walking towards the guardroom.

Ann Qianxi's heart almost jumped out of her throat when she heard this conversation. She stuck close to the stairs, afraid that the two people not far from her would discover her existence.

However, when she heard the sound of footsteps coming from the stairs, she could no longer stay still. Instead, she quickly ran to the bathroom on the lower floor.

Ann Qianxi threw the clothes she had brought along into the trash bag and walked out of the office building without looking back.

Fortunately, it took them a while to search the building and explained the situation to the security guards. Since Ann Qianxi didn't leave for long, Tang Mingcheng had already brought two security guards to search the building one by one.

She didn't want to linger here for too long. She stopped a taxi on the street in preparation to return to her own place.

Ann Qianxi's heart thumped when she sat down on the soft seat. If she had hesitated just a second longer, she would have been struck by Tang Mingcheng without being able to say anything.

"It's too dangerous." She put her hand on her chest. Her thin clothes were already stained with water from her nervousness.

Her phone rang at an untimely moment. Her heart, which had just calmed down, became nervous again. Ann Qianxi subconsciously took the phone to a place far away from her and hung it up.

However, the other person didn't show any signs of stopping at all as he continued to call her.

Chi Shaojun?

Ann Qianxi couldn't help but feel helpless when she saw the phone number.

After the phone rang three or four more times, a message came in. Although the message was short, it was clear that Chi Shaojun was on the verge of losing his temper.

"I'll give you two minutes. No matter what urgent business you have, you won't be able to get back on the phone! You have to bear the consequences! "

Ann Qianxi shook her head as she stared absentmindedly at the exclamation mark on the screen.

"Director Chi, is there something important that you need me for?" Even if she was unwilling, she still called back. She did not expect the other party to pick up the phone in less than a second.

"Where are you?" Chi Shaojun's voice was low and it revealed an irresistible force.

"I …"

Ann Qianxi was about to blurt out, "Wherever you are, I don't care", but she quickly realized that she still needed to rely on the other party to get the contract, so she had to rely on him to figure out what was going on.

She cleared her throat and said softly, "I just got in a taxi and was about to go to work."

"Is that all? "Then why didn't you pick up my phone?"

"Because..." Ann Qianxi's eyebrows frowned when she was suddenly asked that question. She looked around uneasily and thought of a lie, "Director Chi also knows that someone has been chasing after me for the past few days, right? "I'm afraid these people want to pester me, so I didn't see who was calling. A woman like me doesn't have anyone to take care of me, so the only way to avoid a conflict is naturally to avoid contact with these people as much as possible."

She pretended to be scared and wronged, but there wasn't a single ripple in her eyes. Thankfully, the two of them were separated by a cold screen and the other party couldn't see her current state.

"Afraid?" Chi Shaojun sneered and teased, "A person like you who isn't afraid of the heavens or the earth, would you be afraid of a few phone calls? Yesterday, didn't you arrogantly ask me not to get involved with your matters? "What's the matter, your personality changed overnight." After hesitating for a few seconds, he finally voiced out the puzzlement in his heart. "Ann Qianxi, you didn't mean to lie to me, right? Speak! "Just where are you right now?"

"I'm really in a taxi. If you don't believe me, I can ask the taxi driver to speak to you." Ann Qianxi was very helpless in the face of Chi Shaojun's relentless questioning. She thought back to what he said on the phone yesterday that she couldn't wait to find a time capsule and go back to the past. This way, she could give her another chance to speak.

"Yesterday... "Yesterday..." She let out a long sigh towards the microphone and purposely let Chi Shaojun hear it clearly: "I also don't want to cause trouble for Director Chi because of my own affairs. Since these hoodlums don't know the origin of the trouble, it's fine if they target me. "Therefore, I can only pretend to be powerful so that Director Chi doesn't have to worry about me."

On the other end of the phone, Chi Shaojun clenched his fists tightly. He felt sorry for Ann Qianxi and wanted to protect her, but he didn't have the right and honorable reputation to do so.

It was all too much for him.

"Idiot!" He cursed silently in his heart, but there was only heartache on his face.

"Well, I'll believe you."

The phone calls were really good. People in the south, south, and north could hear each other's voices as long as they tested the signal, but no one knew if any of them were real or fake.