The CEO Bought the Villa With the Ghost Cultivator Inside novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Gala

The anniversary gala filled the ballroom of a Pudong hotel with three hundred people and a great deal of gold.

Meiyin walked in at eight with Bai Ling on her arm.

Bai Ling wore a qipao of deep red silk with a high collar, cut close over her hips, with a slit up one thigh.

Tang Fei had chosen it that afternoon.

Over her shoulders hung Meiyin's own charcoal coat, because Bai Ling had refused to be parted from it.

Every head in the room turned.

"They are looking," Bai Ling murmured.

"They are looking at you."

"They are looking at us."

"Does it trouble you?"

"No."

Bai Ling lifted her chin.

"I have been looked at by a sect of two hundred swordswomen and an emperor's envoy.

I can bear a room full of men in suits."

Meiyin squeezed her hand.

They had barely reached the first champagne tray when a ripple went through the crowd.

Jiang Xue had come in by the side doors.

She wore a cream gown and diamond drops, and beside her walked a man in a dark suit with a leather briefcase.

She went straight for the stage at the far end of the room, where a microphone stood on a stand under the company's gold crest.

"Good evening," she said, tapping it.

The room fell quiet.

"I'm sorry to interrupt.

I am Jiang Xue, until recently the chief financial officer of Gu Harbor Logistics.

I have a short announcement about Ms. Gu's fitness to lead this company."

Meiyin did not move.

Bai Ling's fingers tightened in hers.

"For the last month," Jiang Xue went on, in her smooth lawyer's voice, "Ms. Gu has been living at a lakeside property with a woman who, I have learned, has no passport, no name on any register, and no history."

She smiled at the crowd.

"I believe the board should ask who this person is, and what she has been doing with the company's chief executive."

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