I Became Super Rich After Resigning

Chapter 87: Chapter 87 Can I Borrow the Dowry First?

Chu Yan had been feeling uneasy since yesterday, but in this moment, everything settled down. “Bo Fan…you said you truly loved me and that it wasn’t because I am a daughter of the Chu Family that you married me. Have you forgotten?”

Bo Fan, no longer gentle as he usually was, looked terrifying, “But you shouldn’t have deceived me!”

Bo Fan shook off Chu Yan’s hand and hurriedly left, leaving Chu Yan on the stage, surrounded by mocking eyes. She just found it ridiculous.

Bo Fan hadn’t even left the door when he saw Fu Yi blocking his way, “President Huo.”

Fu Yi said coldly, “Yanyan loves you so much! How can you abandon her at the wedding just because she is not the Chu Family’s daughter? If you leave today, Shixi Finance will definitely not invest in you again!”

Hearing Fu Yi’s words, Bo Fan, suppressing his annoyance, went back to continue the wedding with Chu Yan.

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Fu Yi watched Chu Yan, helpless and awkward on stage, wanting to go up and hug her, but he couldn’t. He knew Bo Fan was the best person for Chu Yan.

Today, netizens had their fill of gossip.

Fan Yan’s wedding trended across major platforms.

There were more and more media outside.

When Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyan went out, the door was crowded with reporters, cameras, and microphones all pointed at Yuan Xi.

A reporter asked, “Yuan Xi, do you know why the Chuneng Group cut ties with Chu Yan? Was it really because you forced the Chu family to choose between you two?”

Yuan Xi replied, “No, Chu Yan made a principled mistake. She misused the Chu Family’s power to barge into someone’s home and cause harm. The Chu Family despises family members who abuse their power, so they cut ties with her.”

“Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi, is it true about your betting a billion? If Chu Yan’s Pink Aurora is fake, can you afford to pay a billion?”

Next to Yuan Xi, Xiao Shihuo took out a handful of diamonds from his small trouser pocket and handed the pink diamonds one by one to the female reporters nearby.

Yuan Xi smiled lightly, “Yes, if the one in Chu Yan’s hand is the Pink Aurora, I will give her a billion.”

“Yuan Xi, how is Mi Chen’s IPO plan progressing? Is it expected to be successful this year?”

Among the crowd, Yuan Xi recognized a high-pitched female voice as a reporter from Jiangcheng Finance, “Mi Chen is still preparing for the IPO.”

The reporters had more questions, but a group of bodyguards came and escorted Huo Shiyan and Yuan Xi into the car.

After getting into the car, Yuan Xi leaned back in the seat and fell into a light sleep.

Huo Shiyan, hearing the voice of Xiao Shihuo from the back seat, gestured for Xiao Shihuo to be quiet, and Xiao nodded his head, making no more sound.

Unlike the quiet inside the car, the bride’s resting room at the convention center was noisy.

Bo Fan coldly asked Chu Yan, “Before the Chu Family cut ties with you, did they give you the promised ten billion yuan dowry?”

Chu Yan saw the greed in Bo Fan’s eyes and then looked at Bao Yan and Madam Bo, who were no longer kind as before.

Bao Yan frowned, “Truly the daughter of some villager, with nothing but despicable and shameless blood running through her veins, knowing that the Chu Family was going to break ties yet still deceptively entering this marriage!”

Madam Bo also looked at Chu Yan with disdain, “Bo Family’s future descendants cannot have the bloodline of cheap rural people. Bo Fan, you two should go get a divorce tomorrow!”

Chu Yan looked at Bao Yan and Madam Bo and felt like they were strangers. They had previously said that bloodline did not matter, what mattered was upbringing since childhood.

Chu Yan said, “My parents cut ties with me only because Yuan Xi forced them to make a choice!”

“But I am still the daughter they have loved for twenty-five years. They still gave me ten billion yuan worth of shares and a hundred million yuan in cash as a dowry.”

Chu Yan thought she absolutely couldn’t get divorced the day after the wedding. As long as she could get pregnant, she could still be the young madam of the Bo family.

Upon hearing Chu Yan’s words, Madam Bo cursed herself for speaking too hastily.

Bo Fan scolded Madam Bo and Bao Yan, “Mom, sister, how can you say such things about Yanyan?”

Chu Yan threw herself into Bo Fan’s arms, “Bo Fan.”

Bo Fan ran his fingers through Chu Yan’s hair, “Yanyan, Fan Yan is facing some issues right now. Can you lend me the dowry for a while? I promise, once our movie succeeds, I can give you double.”

Chu Yan felt uneasy. Where could she get ten billion yuan?

She didn’t know how much she could sell the luxury items left by the Chu family for, and adding the properties and vehicles to the twenty million yuan, it was less than a billion yuan in total, difficult to liquidate in a short time.

Chu Yan looked at the pink diamond ring on her hand and came up with an idea — hadn’t Yuan Xi said he would give her a billion if it was verified as a natural diamond?

She would not refuse Yuan Xi’s money!

Chu Yan chuckled, “Bo Fan, I can’t touch the shares, but I can give you one hundred million for now. However, you’ll have to wait two days.”

Bo Fan thought that one hundred million was acceptable. He planned to visit Myanmar in a few days to try his luck and perhaps win back all that he had previously lost.

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Yuan Xi was awakened by the sound of thunder.

In the middle of the night, a terrifying thunderclap rang out. She found herself alone and turned on the lights to see it was eleven-thirty before putting on her slippers to take a shower.

After her shower, she changed the bedsheets.

While changing the bedsheets, a photo slid out from under Huo Shiyan’s pillow.

Yuan Xi picked up the photo. It was an old one, showing a little girl dressed in a Chanel tweed checkered skirt and wearing a Dior wool hat. Yuan Xi thought the girl looked very much like she did as a child.

But Yuan Xi knew well that her childhood self could never afford a Chanel skirt or a Dior hat.

Her family was financially okay, but even skirts costing three hundred yuan in the stores were considered expensive since they could only last a year before she grew out of them.

However, her parents would still buy those skirts, which were seen as both expensive and unworthy by relatives.

A skirt costing nearly a six-figure sum was something she could never have worn as a child.

Yuan Xi continued to place the photo back under the pillow.

When Huo Shiyan came in, seeing Yuan Xi had changed the bedsheets, he asked, “Why are you changing the bedsheets in the middle of the night?”

Yuan Xi responded, “I went to bed earlier without taking a shower.”

Huo Shiyan smiled faintly. Yuan Xi had always been a bit of a clean freak since her childhood.

As a child, she wouldn’t let anyone touch her bed. When they came to play in her room, they could only stay on the wooden floor.

Back then, the summers weren’t as hot as now.

Without air conditioning, the children would lie on the wooden floor, a fan blowing over them as they watched cartoons on a laptop. And just like that, over a decade had passed.

The same Yuan Xi who once wouldn’t let him share her bed was now sharing one with him.

Huo Shiyan, holding Yuan Xi in his arms, said, “You mentioned a thank-you gift you wanted to give me last time. Have you thought about it?”

Yuan Xi, embraced by Huo Shiyan and sitting on the bed, looked at him and said, “Then I’ll try to increase Mi Chen’s stock price to help you make more money.”

Huo Shiyan said, “I never planned to make money from Mi Chen. Once Mi Chen goes public, I’ll transfer all the Mi Chen stocks under my name to you.”

“What?” Yuan Xi was stunned.

The stocks under Huo Shiyan’s name were probably worth at least seventy billion…

If Yuan Xi took over Huo Shiyan’s shares, her holdings would far surpass those of Gu Hanchen…

Huo Shiyan continued, “The past five years under Gu Hanchen must have been tough, right?”

Yuan Xi shook her head lightly, “Although work keeps me busy, and I think about resigning after getting the annual bonus every year, Gu Hanchen pays well, so I can’t speak ill of him.”

Huo Shiyan chuckled lightly, “Once the board is established, your shares will be sufficient for you to run for Chairman of Mi Chen. You could then have Gu Hanchen report to you.”

Although Yuan Xi also liked the idea of being Gu Hanchen’s boss, she couldn’t rightfully claim such a huge asset from Huo Shiyan.

“Shiyan, I can’t just take so many shares from you for nothing.”

Huo Shiyan gently stroked Yuan Xi’s abdomen, “We are married now, what is mine is yours. Transferring them to you can give you more say in Mi Chen and even allow you to turn the tables and become Gu Hanchen’s boss.”

Yuan Xi said, “Thank you.”

Huo Shiyan softly said, “I don’t want a verbal thank you. I want a thank-you gift.”

“I see you seem to not lack…”

Before she could finish, Yuan Xi was silenced by Huo Shiyan’s kiss. It lasted a good while until another peal of thunder sounded, and Yuan Xi’s face was flushed red by the time Huo Shiyan released her.

Huo Shiyan’s voice, slightly hoarse with emotion, breathed, “Now you know what kind of thank-you gift to give, right?”

Yuan Xi quietly replied, “Mhm.”