C6

"The company obviously doesn't have any plans to reconstruct your image. The only person who can change the situation now is Li Yan Chen. I'll go talk to him …"

"Don't!"

Li Xiaochu hastily interrupted her. In a moment of desperation, she gripped her phone tightly as her slightly skinny face was filled with panic.

Yang Zhen was silent for a moment, "Then are you just going to watch helplessly as your star path descends?"

Li Xiaoxi understood, whether it was as a manager or a friend, the most anxious person in her life was Yang Zhen.

A trace of warmth flashed through her heart. She deliberately relaxed her tone and said, "I'll go talk to him myself."

"Are you all right?" Yang Zhen was still worried.

Li Xiao Chu chuckled, "I can do it."

It was as if she was trying to make An Yang's heart feel real, but at the same time, it was as if she was trying to cheer herself up. She then repeated softly, "I can do it."

After the call, Li Xiaochu cleaned himself up and sat on the sofa in the living room, quietly waiting for Li Yan Chen.

It was as if from the very beginning, she and Li Yan Chen were in an unequal position.

She needed to think for a long time before she could even speak to him, let alone question him.

The clock on the wall swayed one after another, bringing along an indescribable nervousness within his heart as it lowered and floated …

Ding –

A clear electronic sound rang in the living room.

Li Xiaochu, who was waiting for him to fall asleep, quivered and sat up straight, staring at the entrance.

Outside, the sky had already darkened. The chill of early autumn enveloped Li Yanchen in a layer of coldness. He put down his briefcase and took off his coat, noticing that the woman on the sofa was staring at him without moving.

With a slight raise of his eyebrows, he put on his slippers and walked over slowly.

"There's no banquet tonight." he said.

The subtext is, why aren't you asleep yet?

Li Xiaoxi swallowed his saliva and gave himself some time to recover. She clenched her fists tightly and said confidently, "Those dark materials about me on the internet were all fabricated by someone."

Li Yan Chen sat down across from her and poured himself a cup of warm water. After taking a sip, he raised his eyebrows and asked in a composed manner, "What do you want to say?"

In front of him, she could never make two detours.

He had the ability to see through everything, and all her caution had been turned into a clown's trick.

Li Xiaochu bit his lip, gave up on the idea, and directly said: "I want to ask you to help me suppress those negative news. After such a long time, I can't stay in the entertainment circle anymore."

"What are the conditions?"

"What?"

Faced with his emotionless rhetorical question, Li Xiao Chu choked and reflexively blurted out.

Li Yan Chen put down the cup of water in his hand, leaned back on the sofa and said in a businesslike tone, "You want me to help you suppress the negative news, what conditions can you give me that I'm interested in? Or do you think I'm a charity? "

Ridicule, mockery.

His words were filled with undisguised contempt as he wantonly humiliated her dignity.

Li Xiaochu's face was pale, how could she have forgotten?

Li Yan Chen was a true merchant. In his words, 'I have to pay a certain price to obtain business'.

Price?

What did she have?

A less distinguished face, a less beautiful body.

What else did she have?

A sliver of poor self-esteem that she regarded as her own life.

Time seemed to have frozen. Li Xiaochu fell into a stiff silence. Li Yan Chen was in no hurry, patiently waiting for her to regain her consciousness.

Drip, drip, drip. The entire living room was so quiet that only the sound of the pendulum could be heard.

"Li Yan Chen, count me in begging you."

His vision wavered, and when he looked again, the thin woman was already kneeling beside his legs.

She lowered her head, her long hair hanging down. Other than the faint trembling of her voice, no one could tell that she was in the least bit emotional.

For some unknown reason, a huge sense of frustration rose from the bottom of his heart.

Li Yan Chen tugged at his tie, his face gloomy. He stared at the woman in front of him, and from between his teeth, two words popped out, "Please me."

Li Xiao Chu's figure flashed, and there was no movement.

The man's cold voice sounded above his head, "Your knees are worthless. Your body is more valuable compared to hers. Li Xiaoxi, women are born with an advantage, don't you know that clearly?"

He was keen on all actions that could make her suffer, Li Xiaochu understood him, but how could he not know her well?

Li Yan Chen knew better than anyone what kind of person it was that made her feel truly humiliated.

The pain that slowly flowed from her heart all the way to her entire body spread without restraint. His words were like poison that seeped into her limbs and bones, corroding her so much that she was unable to breathe.

Li Xiao Chu stiffened his body, and finally, he slowly raised his hand.

Her slender white fingers carefully covered his belt.

Little by little, she undid his buttons.

Li Yan Chen remained seated on his back, his gaze focused on her hand on his crotch, his eyes gradually darkening.

The trembling of her white fingertips betrayed her thoughts. He suddenly dropped her hand and stood up, coldly mocking:

"It's boring. Letting a normal man lose interest in you is really a failure."

Li Xiao Chu's eyes flashed, and said in a low voice: "Then what you promised me …"

"Cooperation failed, do you understand?" Li Yan Chen's amplified voice was mixed with a hint of exasperation, he was not willing to suffer a little loss against this woman!

Li Xiaoxi stared at him blankly. The other side's cold and tight jaw line was the angle that she had seen the most on his face since their marriage.

This was completely different from the affectionate Li Yanchen she had seen on the news.

She would always remember the shock of watching his scandal on television that day.

For the first time, she realized that Li Yan Chen could smile so gently. It was just that the one who could make him smile was not her.

"Jiang Luoluo?" Li Xiao Chu said softly.

He should remember correctly, the name of the girl that he saw on the news made him look like a different person.

After speaking, Li Xiao Chu stared intently at Li Yan Chen's face, not sparing even the slightest change in expression.

In fact, there was no need to be so careful.

As she called out those three words, Li Yan Chen narrowed his eyes. This was a type of defensive posture, and the more serious he was, the calmer he became. His eyes stared back at her in a deadpan manner.

In an instant, Li Xiaoxi heard the sound of his heart dropping to the ground.

She held on with difficulty and said softly, "You held a press conference to acknowledge my identity, purposely directing public opinion towards me, causing everyone to focus on me. You paid a hefty price to push me to the peak just to pave the way for this girl, right?"

Unexpectedly, she wasn't hysterical.

She was calmly, even gently, questioning him.

Rather than calling it an interrogation, it would be more accurate to call it verification.

She did not have the slightest bit of aggression, as if she only wanted an answer that he would personally acknowledge.