Chapter 28: No Need for Your Protection

  Duan Jiye's huge sweat, if it wasn't the chairman shirking responsibility, then it was Vice Minister Lin telling lies. But Vice Minister Lin didn't need to do that either! Most likely, the chairman just didn't want to take this responsibility.

  The key is that Duan Jiye didn't want to take any responsibility either, and could only say "die together as sworn brothers rather than die in poverty together", directly admitting it, "It was Deputy Director Lin who said it was the Chairman's intention."

  "Lin Zixian?" Qiao Yun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't understand why Lin Zixian would do such a thing. She asked: "Where is Lin Zixian now?"

  "He should still be in the Defense Department!" Duan Jiye said with a guilty conscience.

  "Have him come to my office for a visit." Qiao Yun said and turned around to leave, disappearing into the elevator.

  Duan Jiye had no choice but to take a group of men to look for Lin Zile.

  Lin Zile, sitting in the monitoring room, saw Qiao Yun making another phone call and chatting with Duan Jiye again, and knew that he was going to get a headache. He thought about leaving directly, but then thought that even if he could avoid it for now, he couldn't avoid it forever, so he might as well just sit and wait for the inevitable. After all, he didn't have anything good to be afraid of, and at worst, he could just leave with a slap on his butt.

  As expected, Duan Jiye found him and conveyed the general manager's intention.

  Vice Minister Lin asked for clarification on the details, and in front of a group of people, he scolded the actual minister until his face turned red with rage, accusing him of being unrighteous. However, they still went in the end.

  After taking the elevator to the floor where the general manager's office was located, Qiao Yun's female secretary looked at him curiously and didn't stop him. Instead, she took the initiative to say: "Deputy Minister Lin, hello, I am General Manager's Secretary Zhang Xiaohua. The General Manager is waiting for you in her office. She asked you to come directly to find her."

  Lin Zixian nodded slightly and walked straight to Qiao Yun's office door, suddenly feeling a bit nervous, and couldn't help but mock himself, really not good at this, having been through thick and thin, was he still afraid of a woman?

  However, he himself may not have realized that when he entered Qiao An Tian's office, he didn't knock on the door, but this time he unusually knocked on the door.

  "Come in!" A cold voice came from inside.

  Lin Zi pushed the door open and entered, with black floor tiles and white walls, the entire office was decorated in a simple yet elegant style of black and white. White can help people eliminate distractions, while black can make people calm down, fully reflecting the owner's working style.

  The beauty sat behind her desk, staring at him coldly, without inviting him to sit down.

  Surprisingly, Lin Zixian did not sit down uninvited like he did in Qiao An Tian's office, but instead stood there honestly, making the other person feel uneasy. He couldn't help but think of what happened at the restaurant and cleared his throat, asking with feigned ignorance: "What does the general manager want me for?"

  Qiao Yun was never a wordy person and directly asked: "Vice Minister Lin, why are you doing this?"

  "I'm acting on the chairman's orders to protect the general manager. That Zheng Longqing is clearly up to no good, and now that I know about it, of course I won't just ignore it." Lin Zixian said awkwardly.

  Qiao Yun silently sized him up in his security uniform, thinking it looked really bad, and it seemed like he had never seen the guy wear the big cap straight before.

  She couldn't associate the person in front of her, who was both good-looking and vulgar, with the one she had seen playing on the beach before. She didn't know what to make of it, but whenever she spaced out, she would think back to that scene on the beach. She even downloaded the song from the internet and listened to it every night before falling asleep, dreaming that she was still listening to him play on that sandy beach.

  He said: "Then why don't you show up yourself, but instead instigate the people from the security department to do it?"

  Lin Zi was speechless, and couldn't say that he was jealous. He was stuck for a long time, not knowing what to say, while Qiao Yun showed rare patience, slowly waiting for his response.

  After a while, Lin Zile suddenly realized that something was wrong. It was Qiao An Tian who had come to ask for his help with a deadpan expression. What right did she have to treat him like a prisoner on trial? He immediately became somewhat indignant and said: "Qiao young lady, what do you mean by this? It's your father who asked me to protect you, I'm not the one on trial."

  Qiao Yun paused for a moment and said slowly: "I said I don't need your protection, you can leave if you're not willing."

  She herself may not have noticed that the tone of her casual conversation with Lin Zi had unknowingly lost some of its sharpness, despite still being cold and icy.

  "Damn it! Good intentions are met with ingratitude, I'm not willing to serve you anymore." Lin Zixian didn't want to stay for another moment, threw out a sentence and walked away.

  Nothing came out of the inquiry, and Qiao Yun's expression didn't show any reaction. She sat quietly with her pen supporting her rounded chin, deep in thought for a moment before raising an eyebrow and muttering to herself: "There's no reason to do this even if he wants to protect me... did he get jealous?"

  After Qiao An finished dealing with the things on hand, he remembered that Zheng Longqing's car was smashed by the security department and couldn't help but laugh. However, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something wasn't right. Duan Jiye was an old employee of the company, and he knew him to be someone who wouldn't do such a thing. Could it have something to do with Lin Zixian?

  The more I think about it, the more possible it seems. Immediately, I turned to Ning Lan who was helping me sort out the files and said: "Ning Lan, go to the Security Department to understand the situation and ask what's going on with the parking lot."

  There was something about the Security Department that Ning Lan had been thinking about asking in her free time, and she also suspected it was related to Lin Zixian. Upon hearing the chairman's instructions, she immediately set out to carry them out.

  Upon arriving at the Security Department to ask about what happened, it was discovered that it was indeed related to Lin Zixian and was something he had stirred up. After hearing that Lin Zixian had been called away by the general manager, he returned in a rage, changed his clothes, and then went off-duty.

  Ning Lan went back to report the matter to the chairman, and Qiao An Tian secretly thought that things were going badly. He estimated that his daughter had offended someone again, so he immediately dialed Lin Zi Xian's phone number. The call was answered after a while, but the other party directly hung up on him.

  Qiao An dialed several times with a bitter smile, but the other party hung up directly each time. Then she let Ning Lan call again, but the result was the same, and finally even turned off the phone.

  Qiao An Tian turned around and called Qiao Yun again, asking what exactly she had said to Lin Zi Xian that made him so angry. Qiao Yun replied calmly that she hadn't said anything, just asked Lin Zi Xian why he did such a thing.

  The fact is indeed so, but Qiao An Tian has no confidence in his daughter's temper and doesn't think it's as simple as she said. On the contrary, he rarely scolded Qiao Yun. Qiao Yun did not refute, but quietly listened, making Qiao An Tian lose his temper too.

  "Chairman! I know where Deputy Director Lin lives, why don't I go take a look?" Ning Lan said to Qiao An Tian, who was not in the mood.

  "Let's go together then!" Qiao An Tian waved his hand and Ning Lan immediately made arrangements.

  Under the escort of bodyguards, they arrived at the hotel where Lin Zixing was staying. The lobby manager took one look at the scene and immediately came over to attend to them personally. After inquiring about their purpose, he led the way with a very good attitude.

  The front desk staff who heard it immediately shouted: "Manager, the guest in that room just checked out and has left."

  Ning Lan walked back and asked: "Are you sure?"

  The front desk staff immediately flipped through the check-out records and said, "It can't be wrong. Mr. Lin in room 201 just checked out about five minutes ago."

  Ning Lan was a bit distracted after hearing this, and Qiao An Tian immediately called everyone to get on the car. He felt that Lin Zi Xian had left for a short time and might still be found nearby. So they all got in the car and searched everywhere in the vicinity, but there was no sign of him, as if he had vanished into thin air.

  The next day, Lin Zi was absent from work. Ning Lan and Qiao An took turns calling him, but his phone was always turned off. The second day, the third day, it was still the same...

  On the fourth day, Qiao An couldn't hold it in and finally called Lin Bao. He respectfully told him about what had happened, and Lin Bao said he understood, stating that his fate with the Qiao family had already been fulfilled, telling him not to contact him again before hanging up the phone.

  Qiao An Tian could only let out a long sigh, unsure if he had missed something. With his wealth, he could have easily used Lin Bao's phone to find Lin Bao himself. However, the old man's first words when giving him the phone before his death were: remember not to try to investigate this person's background, or you will bring about your own demise.

  Because Old Man had made things so mysterious, Qiao An Tian never told his daughter the truth, mainly because he was afraid that if he wasn't careful, he would get her into trouble.

  But what makes him protect his daughter is not only for her safety, but also to get along with Lin Zixian, in order to find opportunities to rely on the power behind him to protect the company's development, there is a bit of a taste of no trickery.

  He still didn't give up, and secretly used his connections to investigate the exit records everywhere, but couldn't find any information about Lin Zixian's whereabouts, instead attracting close attention from certain special organizations...

  Lin Zixian actually did not leave Donghai. Normally, he is a trustworthy person. Since he promised Qiao An Tian, unless Qiao An Tian himself wants to cancel the agreement, Lin Zixian generally will not go back on his word. Even if he needs to leave, he would bid farewell to Qiao An Tian and wouldn't just leave without saying anything.

  It's just that Qiao Yun is making things a bit awkward, and hanging out in the security department every day doesn't have much meaning. And for now, it seems like Zheng Longqing won't take action against the father-daughter duo. He might as well play hooky for a while and take care of some personal matters. Actually, it's not a big deal, but living in hotels every day isn't a solution either, so he wants to rent a place to live.

  However, finding a satisfactory place to live is not easy. He thinks it's too noisy in busy areas and too deserted in quiet areas, so he has been wandering around Donghai for the past few days.

  He happened to visit a house in a district that day and was still dissatisfied. He himself couldn't count how many times he had been deceived by the real estate agent.

  When leaving the residential area, a middle-aged woman was standing in front of a car with its hood open, looking worried. Linzi happened to be passing by and asked her what was wrong. It turned out that the car had broken down. After finding that the problem was not serious, he helped her fix it in no time.

  The middle-aged woman was overjoyed and kept thanking him, saying that she had never seen him in the neighborhood before. Lin Zixian told her that he wanted to rent a house and came here to look at houses, but after searching for many places, none of them were very satisfactory.