88: A dog under his command

"Ding—"

Guo Fandong was about to retort when the elevator doors behind him opened at that exact moment.

The two of them walked into the narrow elevator car one after another.

Without even looking at the floor buttons, Guo Fandong reached out and pressed "19."

The elevator doors slowly closed.

In the enclosed space, his oppressive voice rang out again.

"Colleague?"

He sneered, as if he had heard the world's biggest joke.

"Are you even worthy?"

Guo Fandong finally turned his head to look Lin Chao in the eye, his gaze filled with undisguised contempt.

"You're not a damn colleague!"

"At most, you're just a dog under Zhi Xia's command!"

...Meanwhile, in Room 1902.

In the spacious and bright living room, Shen Zhixia was holding her phone, listening quietly.

When Guo Fandong's sharp, mean, and insulting words came clearly through the phone's receiver,

her brow suddenly furrowed tightly on her already pale face.

On the other end of the line, Shen Zhixia's breathing became almost imperceptible at that moment.

In front of her, Guo Fandong had always been gentle, elegant, and poised.

Let alone such foul language, he had never even spoken a harsh word to her.

Today, he seemed like a completely different person.

Inside the elevator car, there was a deathly silence.

Guo Fandong's contemptuous gaze was like two poisoned daggers, stabbing fiercely into Lin Chao.

Lin Chao didn't even lift an eyelid, as if the phrase "a dog" referred to someone else.

He even had the leisure to look down at the clay pot and medicinal herbs he was carrying.

Seeing his unfazed attitude, like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, Guo Fandong's anger flared even more.

His gaze inadvertently fell on the elevator floor buttons.

The button representing the 19th floor was glowing with a faint light.

While the other floors were pitch black.

Guo Fandong's eyes narrowed dangerously.

He noticed that since entering the elevator, Lin Chao had never pressed a floor button.

A thought flashed through his mind like lightning.

"You're going to the 19th floor too?"

There was a hint of suppressed shock and suspicion in Guo Fandong's voice.

He immediately realized that this guy in cheap casual clothes was heading to the same destination as him!

In the next second, that shock turned into overwhelming rage.

Guo Fandong suddenly stepped closer, his tall frame almost pressing against Lin Chao's face.

"Are you going to see Zhi Xia?!"

He questioned furiously, spit almost flying out.

After all, in his view, a top-tier luxury residence like Qinglan Garden was definitely not somewhere people like Lin Chao could afford to live!

Therefore, there could only be one reason for him being here!

Facing Guo Fandong's interrogation, Lin Chao finally slowly raised his head.

Not only did he show no fear, but a very faint, almost provocative curve formed at the corner of his mouth.

"Heh."

A light chuckle escaped his lips.

"I'm going to see her."

"So what?"

Lin Chao's tone was as flat as if he were saying "the weather is nice today," but every word was like a slap across Guo Fandong's face.

"You brat!"

Guo Fandong's face instantly darkened to the point where it could drip ink.

He clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking, as if he were about to swing them the next second.

"I'm warning you, you'd better not have any bad intentions!"

"Otherwise, I'll make you pay dearly!"

Lin Chao acted as if he didn't see his murderous expression.

He looked Guo Fandong up and down with interest, a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

"Sir, the way you are today is quite different from when I saw you yesterday."

"Yesterday you were pretending to be all decent, so why have you shown your true colors today?"

"You!"

Guo Fandong's face turned blue and white with anger at those words.

Lin Chao didn't give him a chance to retort; he let out a long "Oh," drawing out his words.

"I see."

"Could it be... you're afraid I'll seduce Director Shen?"

This sentence was like a needle, accurately piercing through the self-esteem Guo Fandong had disguised with arrogance.

"Seduce?"

Guo Fandong sneered immediately, as if he had heard the funniest joke of the century, the contempt in his eyes almost overflowing.

"With just you?"

His voice suddenly rose, filled with disdain and mockery.

"Why don't you take a look in the mirror and see what kind of person you are!"

"Do you even know who she is?!"

Just as Lin Chao was about to speak, Guo Fandong's sharp and mean voice rang out again, striking down like a heavy hammer.

"She's Yang Shengli's mistress!"

"Yang Shengli! The big boss of Kangyang Group!"

"You think someone like you can make a move? Yang Shengli could crush you like an ant with just one finger!"

Boom—!

Lin Chao was completely stunned.

His brain instantly stopped thinking the moment he heard the name "Yang Shengli."

Yang Shengli?

Wasn't that the Chairman of their Kangyang Group, the elusive top boss he had only seen a few times from a distance at company annual meetings?

Shen Zhixia... is his mistress?

How is that possible!

Meanwhile, on the other end of the line.

In the luxurious and empty living room of Room 1902.

Shen Zhixia stood frozen in place, holding her phone.

Guo Fandong's categorical statement, "She's Yang Shengli's mistress," was like a vicious curse, piercing through the phone and her eardrums, burrowing deep into her heart.

Her head buzzed, and her mind went blank for a moment.

What was Guo Fandong saying?

What kind of nonsense was he talking?!

Back when he had gone to great lengths to pursue her, hadn't he vowed that he knew those rumors were all baseless nonsense and that she wasn't that kind of person?

He said he believed in her character and felt sorry for her being hurt by the rumors.

That was why she had been moved, and why she had never explained a single word to him.

Because she naively thought that someone who truly understood you wouldn't need an explanation.

But she never imagined... that in his heart, she really was that kind of disgraceful woman!

It turned out he was no different from all those other people who pointed fingers at her behind her back!

An even more absurd and chilling question surfaced in her mind.

Since... since you already decided I was Yang Shengli's mistress,

then why... did you still come to pursue me?

After a brief, dead silence, a surge of nameless fire flared up from the bottom of Lin Chao's heart!

He suddenly looked up, staring fixedly at Guo Fandong, and questioned him word by word: "What the hell kind of nonsense are you talking!"

"Director Shen... isn't she your girlfriend?!"

Hearing this, Guo Fandong didn't show the slightest bit of guilt, but instead gave a cold snort.