"—Sister, should I leave?"
As soon as Xiaomi spoke, Lin Leyao waved her hand to interrupt her.
"I'll make a phone call."
After Lin Leyao finished speaking, she made a phone call.
The phone rang for a few seconds and was quickly answered.
"Grandpa," Lin Leyao called out sweetly.
The people present were quite surprised to see Lin Leyao suddenly call her grandfather, but Lin Leyao quickly answered everyone's questions with her next sentence.
"Grandpa, could you please contact Uncle Qin Rong's son, Qin Hao, and see if he can help me get in touch with the manager of the Yami Western Restaurant branch? I need his help with something."
The old man, who was learning how to use the internet with his teacher, immediately sat up from his chair when he received the call from his granddaughter. He asked anxiously, "What's wrong, sweetie? What happened?"
"It's nothing, I just need the restaurant manager's help."
"Okay, I'll contact them for you right now."
The old man hung up the phone and immediately dialed Qin Rong's number.
Ji Hongchen knows his granddaughter well. She is very stubborn and independent, and rarely asks him for help. This time, she called him to ask him to handle something, so Ji Hongchen was quite happy.
He couldn't wait to hang up the phone and get things sorted out for Lin Leyao the next second.
Lin Leyao hung up the phone, and the restaurant manager and the noisy woman fell silent.
They realized then that they had run into a tough opponent.
Less than a minute later, the restaurant manager's phone rang. Upon seeing the caller ID, the manager's expression changed instantly. He quickly answered the phone and cautiously called out, "Boss Qin."
The call ended quickly, and the manager's expression towards Lin Leyao instantly became much more polite: "Ms. Lin—"
Lin Leyao nodded, and asked in her usual calm tone, "Manager, what's the situation now—?"
The restaurant manager immediately said, "Miss Tang is drunk, I'll arrange for her to rest first."
As he spoke, the manager instructed the waiters who had been waiting for a long time to ask the woman to leave.
At this point, the woman realized she had messed with them. The woman who had been threatening to kill herself and make them leave suddenly became normal and left on her own initiative without the waiters having to "invite" her.
"Wait a moment."
Lin Leyao suddenly shouted, and everyone stopped moving immediately.
Lin Leyao pulled Xiao Mi, who had been standing stiffly beside her, behind her, and then walked step by step to the woman who had been making a fuss.
“There’s a saying that there are always people more capable than you. You were so confident and arrogant just now because you thought that since this girl comes from an ordinary family, you could use your power to suppress her without any scruples or regard for reason. Even if you clearly know that it was your boyfriend’s fault and that this girl is also a victim, you couldn’t save face and had nowhere to vent your anger, so you wanted to make this girl suffer. You have money and can certainly do many things you want, so now I can use the same method to deal with you.”
The woman had calmed down and said through gritted teeth, "You're right. There's a saying that there are always people better than you. You can beat me, but one day you'll be kicked out like this too."
"Who dares to kick her out?"
A cold voice suddenly rang out.
The people present were taken aback. Lin Leyao turned her head and saw that Xin Ying had already come downstairs.
"Are you done?" Lin Leyao asked.
Xin Ying nodded, her gaze sweeping over everyone present, observing the scene without asking what had happened.
When the restaurant manager saw Xin Ying appear, he cursed under his breath.
He couldn't recognize the others, but he couldn't possibly not recognize President Xin of Huanning Group. If he had known that these people came with President Xin, none of this would have happened.
The restaurant manager gritted his teeth inwardly and reached out to the woman, saying, "Miss Tang, let me take you to rest first."
Tang You glared at the restaurant manager, snorted coldly, and walked away without looking back.
After the woman named Tang You left, the restaurant manager breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to Lin Leyao, asking cautiously, "Miss Lin, would you like me to rearrange your menu?"
Lin Leyao shook her head and suddenly called out, "Miss Tang."
Miss Tang, who caused trouble earlier, has already left, and no one understands who Lin Leyao is calling for.
Lin Leyao walked straight up to a masked woman who was watching the show with her arms crossed not far away.
Everyone suddenly recognized that the woman wearing a mask had come in with Tang You to catch the mistress, but she wasn't very enthusiastic about it and just stood to the side with her arms crossed.
Lin Leyao walked up to the woman and called out, "Tang Ran."
Tang Ran raised an eyebrow in surprise when she saw that Lin Leyao recognized her.
Lin Leyao didn't waste any words and said, "There have been a lot of rumors about me in the industry lately, and you're the one who spread them, right?"
Tang Ran remained silent, looking at Lin Leyao in silence.
Lin Leyao continued, "I could ignore it before, but please be more restrained in the future. I'm not as easy to control as you think. If you dare to do something, you have to think about the consequences. Just like your sister today, she did it and suffered the consequences."
Upon hearing this, Tang Ran's eyes immediately turned cold.
Lin Leyao spoke softly, and no one else could hear what she was saying.
All you can see are two beautiful women wearing masks standing face to face, creating a rather aesthetically pleasing scene.
After Lin Leyao said those words, Tang Ran left the restaurant without looking back.
The previously noisy restaurant suddenly fell silent. Lin Leyao breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Shall we continue eating?"
Iris nodded: "Go ahead, go ahead."
Lin Leyao and Xiao Mi asked, "Are you coming with us too?"
Xiaomi ultimately declined, and the original four of them continued to dine on the second floor.
Xin Ying went upstairs, her eyes fixed on the direction Tang Ran had just left, her expression inscrutable.
She recognized the woman. She had investigated Tang Ran before and knew that Tang Ran had a half-sister, who was the woman causing trouble today.
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Chapter 95
After taking a few steps, Tang Ran suddenly stopped. She turned around and looked at the backs of Lin Leyao and the others as they went upstairs, her eyes flickering, as if she was thinking about something.
Only after the figures of these people had completely disappeared from her sight did Tang Ran turn her gaze away and walk out of the restaurant.
Once outside the restaurant, all the gazes and stares that had been fixed on Tang Ran vanished instantly.
She didn't go far; not far from the restaurant, she took out her phone and dialed a number.
Tang Ran called out a name: "Hailan".
Tang Ran asked Xin Hailan on the other end of the phone, "Are you still in N City?"
"I ran into your family today, and they don't seem to have been affected by your disappearance. I advise you to stop hiding and just come out and go back to Australia."
"With their capabilities, it would be easy for them to find you. Have they contacted you since you started hiding?"
"Lin Zhipei? She's been very busy lately, preparing to study abroad."
"Okay, I'll contact her for you."
Tang Ran hung up the phone, glanced back at the upscale restaurant behind her, and then left without looking back.
There were no further incidents after Lin Leyao's meal, and the group finished their meal smoothly.
The video taken at the restaurant that day was never circulated on the internet; it's unclear whether Xin Ying had already dealt with it.
Everyone's life continued as usual, except for Lin Leyao's side.
Because Lin Leyao has been staying at home and doesn't need an assistant, she hasn't seen Xiaomi for a while.
After meeting at the restaurant, Xiaomi didn't contact Lin Leyao again, and Lin Leyao didn't contact Xiaomi either. A few days passed like this, and then Xiao Yan suddenly messaged her, saying that Xiaomi wanted to resign.
Lin Leyao was stunned for a moment, but quickly accepted it; she could understand Xiao Mi's feelings.
Xiaomi is young and just starting out in the workforce. It's already extremely hurtful to her self-esteem to encounter something like this in a restaurant, let alone to have Lin Leyao witness the whole thing.
Even though she knew she wasn't at fault, her strong sense of pride wouldn't allow her to continue being Lin Leyao's assistant.
Xiaomi feels embarrassed every time she recalls what happened that day. This embarrassment comes from the awkwardness and shame of being seen in such a state by someone very close to her.
If Xiaomi continued to stay by her side, she would repeatedly relive the experience of that day, so choosing to resign might be a relief for her.
During this period, the number of times Xin Si returned to Xinzhai in the south increased significantly.
That evening, Xin Si Nan returned from a drinking party. As soon as he stepped onto the stairs, he looked up and saw a dark figure standing on the stairs.
In the dead of night, without the lights on, a figure stood on the steps, staring at him intently. Xin Si Nan was so startled that he instantly sobered up considerably.
After staring at her for a while, Xin Si Nan let out a breath and said with dissatisfaction, "Mom, what are you doing standing here in the middle of the night? You scared me to death!"
The old lady, Dai Jiaozhi, wearing a dark silk nightgown with a peony pattern, stood on the stairs with a cane, blocking Xin Sinan's way upstairs to his room.
The old lady was in a bad mood, and with a gloomy face, she looked at Xin Si Nan and said unhappily, "Why are you back so late?"
Xin Si Nan hissed and grinned, quite surprised: "Mom, I'm almost forty! Shouldn't a man this age have his own career? Why are you still telling me what to do?!"
The old lady's face darkened, and she said coldly, "Why aren't you sleeping at your other home? What are you doing back here now? Why didn't you come back when Hailan was home?"
Hearing the old lady's aggressive words, Xin Si Nan took a deep breath, observed the expression on the old lady's face, and said seriously, "Don't you know why?"
A moment of silence fell between them, and the old lady just stared at Xin Si Nan without saying a word.
After a long time, Dai Jiaozhi sighed, "Fourth brother, you shouldn't have done this—"
Xin Sinan's eyes darkened for a moment, but he quickly grinned and asked, "Then what do you think I should be like, Mom?"
“You and the third brother were very close when you were young, so why did you side with others and target your brother at every turn when you grew up?”
Xin Si Nan lowered his eyes, seemingly lost in thought, and soon his smile widened.