An Ran had already given up. No matter what she did, it was wrong. Even if she was as careful as walking on thin ice, she couldn't satisfy the demon who was nitpicking everything.
Since she was going to be punished anyway, she might as well keep some dignity before the punishment...
An Ran thought to herself, at least this way she wouldn't appear so despicable.
"Fu Lengyu, if you keep pushing me like this, one day...you will push me to death,"
An Ran said to Fu Lengyu, enunciating each word.
Fu Lengyu remained silent for a while before finally speaking up, "You won't choose to die."
An Ran's eyes were sore, and she had the urge to cry, but she held it in, "How do you know I won't?" Her choked voice was heart-wrenching.
She really had thought about dying before. What was the difference between living without any dignity and being dead?
Fu Lengyu took his gaze off An Ran and turned around to pull out a document from the coffee table. He handed it to An Ran coldly.
An Ran watched him warily and didn't take the document. Fu Lengyu looked at her and suddenly laughed, but thesmile didn't reach his eyes, "After you read this, you definitely won't want to die anymore! Even..." He didn't finish his sentence.
Because Fu Lengyu keenly sensed that An Ran's emotions were about to reach a breaking point. An Ran looked at him suspiciously, hesitating whether or not to take the document. She had a feeling that there was something bad inside.
Fu Lengyu seemed to ignore An Ran's wariness and said indifferently, "Open it and take a look."
An Ran had no choice but to reluctantly take the file from Fu Lengyu. As she opened the folder and saw the words "An Group" at the top, her pupils suddenly dilated. After reading through the contents, she trembled as she asked Fu Lengyu, "What do you mean by this?"
It was a document about the auction of An Group's assets for debt restructuring. An Ran couldn't believe it, and didn't even want to think about it. Wasn't Yang Xu taking over An Group now? Why was it being auctioned off again?
An yuchun and Yang Xu had snatched An Group away, and now they were callously squandering her father's life's work like this? How could An yuchun do such a shameless thing? She knew that An Group was her father's life's work!
Fu Lengyu looked at An Ran, whose face had turned pale from shock, and found her fragile and contradictory emotions both amusing and pitiful. An Ran was strong and unyielding when it came to family matters, but she was often depressed and hopeless due to her own experiences.
The contradictory combination of strength and weakness in this woman was perfect. In the face of this document, An Ran, who had been passive and weak just moments ago, had become much stronger without even realizing it.
Fu Lengyu, almost without realizing it himself, had become deeply interested in An Ran. "My intentions are clear. Do you want An Group?" he asked, as he calmly sat on the sofa, lit a cigar, and squinted his eyes, taking in every change in An Ran's emotions.
Although he was sitting down, his gaze gave people a sense of powerful oppression from above. An Ran clenched her fists so tightly that her nails pierced her palms, but she didn't feel any pain. In the face of his questioning, An Ran struggled to answer, "I want it..."
She couldn't bear to watch her father's lifelong efforts fall into someone else's hands, even if it meant making a deal with a devil..
"If you want it, I can help you," Fu Lengyu said casually, and in fact, buying a bankrupt An Group was not worth mentioning to him as the CEO of the Imperial Group.
He had the confidence to say such things.
"I..." An Ran looked at him, and the excitement in her heart was quickly suppressed by reason. "What do you want me to do?""It's simple, you just need to..." Fu Lengyu looked at this fragile yet strong woman in front of him, his smile full of malice. "You just need to make me happy like a dog! If you can make me happy and satisfied, tomorrow the legal owner of An Group will be changed to your name!"
An Ran looked at the undisguised malice in Fu Lengyu's eyes, and suddenly felt a chill all over her body.
His gaze was like that of an enemy with an irreconcilable hatred, but she had clearly never offended this devilish man.
An Ran wanted to explain something, but what she finally said was insincere: "How can I satisfy you?"
The spacious villa had no extra people, and when the butler saw that the atmosphere between them was not right, he had already instructed the other women to leave.
An Ran was even somewhat fortunate that at least this embarrassing scene was not seen by anyone else.
"What are you best at in pleasing others? Don't you know that yourself?" Fu Lengyu's slender and elegant fingers, with distinct knuckles, casually pulled at his tie, unbuttoning two shirt buttons, revealing his chest, collarbone, and skin.
He had a great figure, with well-proportioned bones and distinct muscles. The thin layer of muscle covering his body seemed to emit a faint glow under the light, silently conveying a sense of ambiguity and seduction.
An Ran shuddered and instinctively took a step back, shaking her head desperately as she met Fu Lengyu's cold and indifferent gaze. Her hoarse voice struggled to escape her throat, "Don't you... hate me the most? Why are you doing this to me?"
She didn't understand. If he hated her so much, why was he doing this? That night was his nightmare, and it was also a terrifying shadow that An Ran would never dare to recall for the rest of her life.
"Yes! I do hate you, but instead of watching you go out and flirt with other men, I'd rather satisfy you! At least..." Fu Lengyu pulled An Ran onto the sofa and pressed her down, hooking his finger under her chin. "At least I can relieve my anger, and that's another use for you!"
...
The next day, An Ran dared not even think about what had happened the night before. She was like a self-deceiving child, trying to numb herself with work and putting on a facade of nonchalance.
When Lu Ye Bai saw An Ran's appearance in the office, he asked casually out of concern, "Are you okay?"
But An Ran seemed to have heard nothing, focusing only on the document in her hand.
"An Ran?" Lu Ye Bai reached out and pushed her. An Ran finally snapped out of it and forced a smile. "I'm fine."
But did she really look fine? Lu Ye Bai wanted to ask more, but An Ran quickly found an excuse to leave. She didn't even give him a chance to talk.