Chapter 82: You’re Even More Handsome In Person
Xie Wenkai, who was reading the interview in the car, seemed to have noticed the gaze outside the window. He turned his head to look and happened to meet Jiang Tong’s eyes. In Xie Wenkai’s eyes, he saw a strange and beautiful woman in a Lamborghini and casual clothes looking at him. She seemed to be a young lady from a rich family. He didn’t know whose family she was from.
Sensing Xie Wenkai’s gaze, Jiang Tong raised her eyebrows and revealed a bright smile. Xie Wenkai also smiled politely and then raised his hand to pull up the window shades. Smiling was his polite way of dealing with people. His smile came and went quickly. He pulled up the window shades because he didn’t like to be stared at.
The green light at the intersection ahead lit up. Xie Wenkai’s car went straight through the intersection while Jiang Tong turned left at the intersection. Of course, Jiang Tong wouldn’t deliberately follow him, but she knew what Xie Wenkai was going to do. He was going to attend a press conference. Although the robbery case that happened at the Six Blessings Jewelry Store a few days ago was solved on the same day, there were still many things to deal with after that.
After turning the intersection, Jiang Tong picked up her phone and typed in a number to send a text message to Xie Wenkai. She might not follow him, but it was still okay to show her face and drop him a greeting message.
In the car, Xie Wenkai was still reading the press release with the window shades still up. At the press conference later, the reporters would ask him a lot of questions, such as security issues of the Six Blessings Corporation and the compensation for the injured store employees, et cetera. The reporters would ask him anything that was written on the press release. These were all given to him in advance by the news media.
At this moment, Xie Wenkai’s phone rang. He frowned with a faint expression. He took out his cell phone and looked at the message from an unknown number. “Grandpa Rice Ball, this is the first time I’ve seen you in person. You’re much more handsome than on the news!”
Xie Wenkai’s pupils suddenly constricted. Not only did his family background and good upbringing make him rarely reveal an overly intense expression, but he was also always calm, restrained, and polite. However, at this moment, his expression changed drastically, and he was even a little frightened!
The text message seemed to be unproblematic, and in fact, it did seem to be fine. However, the crux of the problem lay in the first three words of the text message — Grandpa Rice Ball! This was Xie Wenkai’s online username, but it was not his usual online username! He had only used this screen name in one place. It was a very private forum, and the users had all signed up anonymously.
Xie Wenkai had seen many posts on that forum, but he rarely replied to them. There was only one post where he expressed his inner confusion, he never revealed his feelings on the forum. This was a very secretive thing for Xie Wenkai. Only he knew this username. Moreover, it was impossible for the people on the internet to know that “Grandpa Rice Ball” was him. When he had registered his account, he had not filled in his real information. Even the email account where he had received the verification code had been temporarily registered! More importantly, he did not stand out at all on that forum. There were too many people like him! He only read the posts and rarely posted or commented on others’ posts, so he did not stand out at all! Logically speaking, Xie Wenkai felt that this was a secret that he could hide at the bottom of his heart for the rest of his life! But now… what was going on with this text message?
Xie Wenkai looked at the text message and his expression changed drastically. At the same time, he suddenly turned his head to look at the back of the car. He knew that it was the woman who drove the Lamborghini just now! He did not know who that woman was, nor did he know how that woman knew his cell phone number, let alone how she knew that he was the “Grandpa Rice Ball” in the private forum! This was the scariest part! What he was sure of now was that the person who sent the text message was definitely the woman just now! She said that she was much more handsome in person than in the news. She seemed to know him very well and knew many of his secrets. She even knew his cell phone number, but he knew nothing about her.
Xie Wenkai was extremely anxious. Although he didn’t do anything harmful to society and only said a few things on the internet, he knew that if this matter was publicized, it was enough to destroy him. Or at the very least, it would be a devastating blow to his reputation!
“Wenkai, what’s wrong? What are you looking at?” Xie Wenkai wasn’t the only person sitting in the back row. There was also a very fat middle-aged man who sat there like Maitreya Buddha. This person wasn’t Xie Wenkai’s father, but Xie Wenkai’s elder. He was Xie Guofu’s right-hand man, the senior vice president of the Six Blessings Corporation, and the fourth largest shareholder, Cao Shaowei!