"Now?"

Looking at Xia Yanyu's bewildered expression, Xu Fan smirked and directly sampled those alluring red lips on her beautiful face.

"We've been apart for so long, naturally we should cherish the moment."

"Oh, stop! You're being silly!"

With a mischievous grin, the two started playfully wrestling, and it was about half an hour later when Xia Yanyu finally freed herself from Xu Fan's embrace.

"Alright… alright, they should all be here by now."

Half an hour had already passed, presumably the directors of the Xia Group had all arrived. Xia Yanyu hastily tidied her clothes and prepared to head to the conference room with Xu Fan.

"No rush, let them wait a little longer."

Xu Fan checked his phone and said.

He rose, pulled Xia Yanyu to the mirror, and said, "My lovely CEO, you should put on some makeup first."

"You can't meet them like this, can you? Wait for the beauty, I'm sure they won't mind."

"Alright… alright then…"

They were just one step away earlier, and indeed, it was proper to touch up her makeup.

Otherwise, going in there would surely stir up lots of gossip, Xia Yanyu nodded with a flushed face and obediently started doing her makeup as instructed by Xu Fan.

Speaking of which, Xu Fan's delay tactics were indeed meant to block these folks.

But it wasn't just to obstruct them.

Waiting breeds anxiety, and anxiety exposes weaknesses. The more frazzled these folks are later on, the easier it will be for Xu Fan to help Xia Yanyu eliminate dissenters!

Soon enough, Xia Yanyu finished her makeup, and Xu Fan's phone buzzed with messages.

From the information, Sister Lan had completed the tasks as instructed.

Everything was ready, just need to deal with these folks, Xu Fan put away his phone and gently kissed Xia Yanyu on the cheek.

"Alright, you're beautiful enough, let's go."

...

Walking with Xia Yanyu out of the CEO's office, soon they reached the entrance of Xia Group's conference room.

This conference room was indeed the venue for Xia Group's board meetings. Unlike usual board meetings' tranquility, now one could see it was chaotic inside.

It was almost as if the roof was about to be lifted off.

There were faint sounds of blame directed towards herself coming from the conference room, and Xia Yanyu's palms couldn't help but sweat slightly.

Indeed, this time she firmly protected Xiao Die and Xu Fan, which seemed to be her own selfishness. Otherwise, they wouldn't hold such a strong opposing attitude.

But she didn't feel she had done anything wrong. Since they're family, shouldn't everything be discussed based on feelings rather than just interests?

If they disregard human affections, can it still be called a family?

Reflecting on the past few days, the unkind measures these people took to force her hand brought a bitter smile to Xia Yanyu's red lips.

She suddenly realized, the burden left by her father was truly heavy…

"Don't be afraid, you just need to keep smiling later. As for making these folks realize who is the real leader of the Xia Family, I'll handle it personally."

Feeling Xia Yanyu's inner tension, Xu Fan smiled and held her soft hand like jade.

Sitting inside the conference room, each person was an old fox who had been rolling in the business field for decades. Moreover, for the sake of profit, they would stop at nothing.

Human affections in their eyes? Totally absurd.

Dealing with such ruthless folks, valuing family above all else, Xia Yanyu was doomed to suffer losses.

Seeing his woman suffer was absolutely unacceptable to Xu Fan.

Hence, if they want to play, let him play with them.

Knowing Xia Yanyu couldn't bear to do these things, he wouldn't blink when doing them himself.

"Keep smiling huh…"

Regarding Xu Fan's instructions, Xia Yanyu felt rather insecure.

Dealing with these meat-eating, bone-spitting directors, should she just quietly keep smiling?

Seriously doubting, but since everything was arranged by Xu Fan, and now at the conference room's door, she could only comply.

With a deep breath, Xia Yanyu pushed open the conference room door and walked straight in.

The creaking of the door sounded, and the Xia family directors, who were red-faced and angry, stopped immediately.

One by one, with an unfriendly look, turned towards Xia Yanyu.

"President Xia, you really kept us waiting, didn't you?"

"Hmph, calling us all today, have you finally made up your mind?"

The voice was full of sarcasm, and the shareholder meeting hadn't even started yet, but the atmosphere was already tense. Facing these ridiculing eyes, Xia Yanyu's body slightly trembled.

She suddenly realized keeping a smile was not easy either.

Under the harsh words of everyone, Xia Yanyu sat at the conference table, took a deep breath, and intended to explain her purpose.

"Everyone, the reason for today's shareholder meeting is because..."

Bang!

"Xia Yanyu, what do you mean!"

"Why is he here!"

Before she could explain the cause and effect, the directors had already noticed Xu Fan entering from the conference room door.

Angrily pounding the table, they began questioning.

"What's this? Have you forgotten what we told you before!"

Xu Fan, to them at this moment, was like a ticking time bomb!

To know, Xu Fan had completely severed ties with the Huang Family now!

Yet Xia Yanyu wouldn't follow instructions quickly to dissociate from Xu Fan and his folks, inviting him here?

Does she want Xia Family to perish faster!

"Xia Yanyu, what are you still standing there for! Get this outsider out!"

Suddenly, the reprimanding voices filled the whole conference room! Just shy of laying hands on Xu Fan.

Xu Fan seemed oblivious. Just like his instruction to Xia Yanyu earlier, he kept smiling, dragged over a chair, and sat directly beside Xia Yanyu.

He rested his cheek on one hand, gently tapping his finger on the conference table, and his eyes scanned every shareholder present.

The smile looked bright, yet it sent a chill down everyone's spine.

Seeing it, they instantly forgot to curse and slowly started feeling a deep-seated fear creeping out.

The shouting gradually quieted down, and soon, only the rhythmic tapping of Xu Fan resounded in the conference room.

"Ha, done shouting?"

Xu Fan grinned at everyone and said, "Remember the last time I attended the shareholder meeting, Xia Yanyu was still the president. What's this now? After so long, you think you can boss her around?"

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