The CEO’s Substitute Wife Is A Genius

Chapter 80: Chapter 80: First Love, Waited for 15 Years Chapter 80: Chapter 80: First Love, Waited for 15 Years “2.2 billion for the first time!”

At the auctioneer’s first confirmation, the venue fell into silence.

“2.2 billion for the second time! Any further bids?”

Nan Juefeng, seated in the first row, frowned and asked his secretary, “Find out the background of this person.”

“Yes,” Shen Yu nodded, unable to help looking back.

But rows of heads blocked the view, making it impossible to see to the last row.

“2.2 billion for the third time! Sold!”

With the auctioneer’s hammer striking down, the deal was sealed, and the dust settled.

“Now, let’s invite our auctioneer of today to the stage for a photo with Director Wang.”

The host, with the microphone in hand, spoke loudly.

Jiang Man, sitting with her legs crossed, remained unmoved and gave Wu Yingfan a look.

Wu Yingfan felt that taking a photo was really silly, but he had no choice but to toughen up and go.

If not him, who else would do the dirty, tiring work?

Wu Yingfan got up, grinning, and walked towards the stage from the last row under the watchful eyes of everyone.

The entire audience was astonished, never expecting the financial backer to be a young man in his early twenties.

By the looks of it, he should still be in university, right?

“Boss, is it him?” Zhao Huai was surprised.

Lu Xingzhou’s face, handsome and stern, exhibited a look of suspicion as his brows were deeply furrowed.

He took out his phone and rapidly typed on the keyboard with his slender fingertips.

Jiang Man’s phone chimed the very next second, with a clear notification sound.

She lazily opened her phone.

[Are you at the auction, sitting in the last row?]
[Yeah.]
Jiang Man replied with a single word.

Lu Xingzhou turned his head to glance behind him.

“Zhao Huai, go prepare the money, withdraw ten billion from my personal account.”

This auction payment needs to be delivered to the Urban Construction Bureau within a week, and it’s not necessarily required to be paid on the spot.

Zhao Huai was taken aback.

Lu Xingzhou, with a slight curl at the corner of his lips, showed no change in expression, “Wu Yingfan is representing Jiang Man.”

“So, it was the lady who bid 2.2 billion?” Zhao Huai almost bit his tongue in shock.

He couldn’t comprehend why his lady would be there and furthermore, cause such a fuss.

2.2 billion yuan, and the boss himself had to cover an extra ten billion!

That was ten billion, not ten yuan.

For a moment, Zhao Huai didn’t know what to say, just feeling a suffocating feeling for his boss’s loss.

There’s a saying that one should marry a virtuous wife, but the boss, through some mistake, married the wrong person, who also brought him such a great loss!

“Keep this matter from grandma as much as possible; don’t let her find out,” Lu Xingzhou said calmly.

He wasn’t too angry.

Money is an external object; even if Jiang Man hadn’t acted, he was planning to use his own money to secure this land.

The outcome is the same, but the process is different, leading to different consequences.

He was worried that if grandma found out, it could affect her health, which wouldn’t be good.

Moreover, he didn’t want Jiang Man’s impression in grandma’s eyes to be tarnished.

Even he found it funny, for originally, he had agreed with Jiang Man to perform poorly in front of grandma, so that she would be disappointed in her and more readily accept their divorce.

But now, he had this strange idea — he didn’t want to divorce Jiang Man.

“Boss, it’s hard to keep this matter secret… The Urban Construction Bureau is sure to publicize it extensively, and we can’t intervene with the official media,” Zhao Huai said with a troubled expression, really at a loss for how to clean up Jiang Man’s mess.

“Forget it, I’ll handle it myself,” Lu Xingzhou said indifferently, at his wits’ end.

With Wu Yingfan taking the stage, he had no interest in watching, his thoughts preoccupied with how to help Jiang Man.

Jiang Man had no interest in watching the succession of procedures, so she slipped away before the gathering had ended.

Just as she had left, Nan Juefeng also stood up to leave.

However, there was a distance between them, and Jiang Man only left a silhouette for Nan Juefeng to follow.

Seeing that silhouette, Nan Juefeng quickened his pace to catch up.

But after chasing for a while, Shen Yu called out to him from behind.

“President, you dropped your bear.”

Nan Juefeng stopped abruptly, as if he had lost something most precious, turned around, and ran back to Shen Yu, snatching a small bear pendant from her hand.

He brushed the dust off the bear and carefully hid it in his pocket.

“President, who were you chasing just now?” Shen Yu asked curiously.

Nan Juefeng looked back and saw the long corridor was empty, devoid of any figure.

It seemed as though the chase had been just a figment of imagination.

“Nothing, let’s go back.” His tone lacked enthusiasm, his expression indifferent.

Shen Yu nodded, not daring to inquire further.

She had followed Nan Juefeng for five years, and during that time, she had come to understand a bit about his past.

The small bear he always carried with him, rumored to have been with him for 15 years.

For these 15 years, the president had been searching for a girl named Manman.

Beyond knowing her name was Manman, and that she was six years younger than him, nothing else was known.

Over the years, she had never seen any woman unrelated to work appear beside the president.

It wasn’t that there hadn’t been any pressure from home to marry, and they had introduced numerous eligible young women from wealthy families to him, yet he wasn’t interested in any of them.

Others might not know, but Shen Yu was keenly aware that he was waiting, waiting for the girl named Manman to appear.

Many times, the president would suddenly chase after a stranger, only to become as desolate as a child who had been abandoned when confirming she was not Manman.

The world knew of the Nan family’s president as decisive and skilled in the business world.

But no one knew of his vulnerable side in private.

…

[Fanfan, I’m waiting for you in the car.]
After leaving the venue, Jiang Man searched around the parking lot.

Having gotten into the car, she sent Wu Yingfan a message, then opened the gaming app.

Not long after, Lu Xingzhou also left the venue and came to the parking lot to find Jiang Man.

Just as Jiang Man finished her game, someone knocked on her car window.

“Lu Xingzhou?”

She rolled down the window.

With a frown, Lu Xingzhou was somewhat stern: “Weren’t registrations starting today? Why didn’t you go to school and came here instead?”

“Jiang Man, let me tell you, don’t think about skipping school.”

Jiang Man was taken aback, looking at the man with a parental demeanor, she raised an eyebrow: “Here we go again, Uncle Lu, are you my husband, or are you my dad?”

“I am, of course… your husband!” When Lu Xingzhou said ‘husband,’ his ears instantly turned hot, his cheeks flushing red.

Jiang Man crossed her legs: “Well, isn’t that settled then?”

“…” Lu Xingzhou opened his mouth as if to say something but held back in the end.

It was Zhao Huai who couldn’t hold back and muttered, “Causing such a big trouble for BOSS and still not getting a clue.”

“Zhao Huai?” Lu Xingzhou turned back and glared at Zhao Huai.

Zhao Huai shrank his head, looking like a wrongdoer willing to admit a mistake.

Jiang Man’s eyes lit up, then she remembered there was serious business to attend to.

“Xingzhou, get in my car, I’ll take you to meet my eldest uncle.”

“To meet your eldest uncle?” Lu Xingzhou was caught off guard.

They were supposed to meet a few days ago, but it was postponed due to his work commitments.

“Grandma hasn’t informed me yet about the rescheduled date.”

“It’s not about meeting the family,” Jiang Man said with a hook of her lips, smiling as if she were basking in the spring breeze, “it’s about business tonight.”

“Business?” Lu Xingzhou was completely confused.