"There's always a way," Feng Taibao said with a smile.

Bai Yifan frowned, feeling that something wasn't quite right.

"Since that's the case, I'll leave everything to you," Bai Yifan glanced at Feng Taibao.

"Haha, Mr. Bai, it's a pleasure doing business with you!" Feng Taibao extended his hand in friendship.

Bai Yifan shook his hand, then stood up and left. After stepping out of the door, Bai Yifan wiped his hand with a handkerchief—the one he just used for the handshake—then tossed the handkerchief into a nearby trash can, his eyes revealing a hint of disdain.

For someone like Bai Yifan, with his many laurels, cooperating with Feng Taibao was extremely distasteful. After all, he was a prince of the provincial city, a member of the party, yet he had to stoop to work with such third-rate individuals. Bai Yifan felt it beneath his dignity.

Of course, if it wasn't to kill Lin Chuan, or to win Tang Yumeng's love, Bai Yifan wouldn't have done this.

Every cause has its effect.

......

Inside the Amazon Forest, the occasional flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a tornado in Texas, United States.

This is the legendary butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect suggests that a very small change in the initial conditions, through amplification over time, can have an immense impact on the future state. Some trivial matters can be overlooked, but others, if systematically magnified, can be very important to an organization or a country and must not be confused.

And Lin Chuan's trip to Southeast Asia triggered just such a butterfly effect.

Two weeks later, the United Kingdom government announced that it would step up its surveillance of drug trafficking and would severely punish any traffickers found in accordance with the relevant law. Two weeks after that, the Kingdom of Holland also enacted a temporary law specifically targeting drug traffickers from the Golden Triangle. For a kingdom that had never had the death penalty, now, the temporarily enacted law stipulated that trafficking over a hundred grams would face the death penalty.

Southeast Asia, especially the Golden Triangle, quickly became the focal point of the political agendas of various countries.

If Lin Chuan was a butterfly, then this butterfly had whipped up a tornado over the territory of the Golden Triangle, making the situation there extraordinarily unstable. When the whole world tightens its purse strings, when the whole world starts to clamp down on drugs, the situation in the Golden Triangle immediately becomes very unstable and turns into a source of insecurity.

And all of this, Lin Chuan was completely unaware.

The guy Lin Chuan was living carefree in Jiangbei City. Ever since coming back, Zhou Rui had become utterly obedient to Lin Chuan, even avoiding arguing with him. After this incident, Zhou Rui was all about Lin Chuan—that kind of deep thought was never present before, only now.

"Lin Chuan, this is the braised pork ribs I made for you. Do they taste good?" Zhou Rui looked at Lin Chuan with a smile, watching him taste her cooking.

"Mmm, not bad," Lin Chuan nodded.

In the office, it was just Lin Chuan and Zhou Rui. Zhou Rui had called Lin Chuan in the morning to arrange dinner at Feixiang Company after work, saying she would cook for him personally at noon. Lin Chuan agreed without much thought, not expecting such a luxurious feast for lunch. There were actually eight dishes on the table. Braised pork ribs, spicy diced chicken, lion's head meatballs...

There was a generous amount of each dish, and what mattered most was that Lin Chuan was eating continuously while Zhou Rui just sat with folded hands and blushing cheeks, watching him.

"Why are you just staring at me? Go ahead and eat!" Lin Chuan hurriedly said, "The food tastes good, why aren't you eating?"

"Me?" Zhou Rui smiled, "I'm full already."

"But you barely ate anything!" said Lin Chuan, looking embarrassed.

"Hehe, you weren't around when I ate," murmured Zhou Rui.

Lin Chuan didn't care much, the food was delicious, and most importantly, there was a genuine beauty sitting across from him, which was even more appealing. The table had eight dishes, but in truth, only Lin Chuan was eating, which indeed seemed a bit wasteful.

As Lin Chuan ate, he exclaimed, "Young lady, you're so beautiful, and your cooking is amazing too. Whoever marries you will have earned a fortune of eight lifetimes."

"Really?" Zhou Rui blushed.

"Of course!" Lin Chuan immediately nodded.

"Actually, I'm not asking for much," Zhou Rui said with her eyes downcast and a shy tone, "I just like to cook for the man I love every day. When he comes home from work, I'll give him his slippers, massage and beat his back, then serve tea and water... I think that's the ideal life for me."

"That's great, really great," Lin Chuan heartily ate and nodded vigorously: "Just for this meal alone, I'll introduce you to a high-quality man later."

"You!" Zhou Rui's face turned bright red at his words.

"What's wrong?" Lin Chuan quickly asked, blinking innocently.

"You..." Zhou Rui glared at Lin Chuan and scolded, "You jerk!"

"What did I do to offend you now?" Lin Chuan said awkwardly.

"Stop eating!" Zhou Rui shouted angrily, quickly taking all the dishes away and placing them on a table behind her. Lin Chuan looked at the empty table in front of him, with more than half his bowl of rice still unfinished, wondering why she had taken the food away.

"Don't... don't do that!" Lin Chuan reached out with his chopsticks, but Zhou Rui slapped his hand away.

"Don't eat anymore." Zhou Rui coldly huffed: "This lady's cooking is reserved for my future husband only."

"Come on, don't be like that. I did save your life after all." Lin Chuan hurriedly said: "What's the big deal about eating a little bit of your food?"

"I wish I had let you die back there." Zhou Rui angrily swore.

Lin Chuan put down his chopsticks innocently, saying: "Don't be like this, it's not easy for me to get a meal."

"Either marry me or go hungry." Zhou Rui was too lazy to be subtle anymore. Being subtle with a blockhead like Lin Chuan, she felt like she could be suffocated to death by him, or at the very least, pissed off to death.

"Ah!" Lin Chuan was suddenly stunned.

"Marry me!" Zhou Rui stood up; since she had already lost face, losing a bit more didn't matter anymore.

People always say it takes climbing mountains for a man to chase a woman, but just a layer of gauze if a woman chases a man. However, Zhou Rui felt like chasing Lin Chuan was like navigating through eighteen bends on a mountain road. One mountain after another. That's why she decided to confess to Lin Chuan like this.

Gurgle...

Lin Chuan swallowed his saliva and said: "Silly girl, don't... don't joke around. My... my heart is weak. Look... here!"

Lin Chuan pointed to the location of his heart and said: "There's still a bullet that hasn't been removed here."

"Who's joking with you?" Zhou Rui glared at Lin Chuan and said: "This lady has decided to marry you! Happy now?"

Lin Chuan wore a stupefied expression, then shook his head vigorously.

"You! What do you mean by this?!" Zhou Rui glared at Lin Chuan and said: "Are you rejecting me, or are you not pleased?"

"Is... is there a difference?" Lin Chuan awkwardly looked at Zhou Rui and said: "Silly girl, don't... don't get the wrong person. I... I'm like your brother."

"Brother what brother, we're not even blood-related." Zhou Rui glared at Lin Chuan, hands on her hips, seemingly determined to marry no one but him.

"Stop it." Lin Chuan hurriedly shook his head and said: "I... I haven't even decided on getting married yet."

"When do you plan to get married?" Zhou Rui asked: "When you marry, I'll marry."

"This..." Lin Chuan was again in a dilemma and awkwardly said: "Besides, I already have a girlfriend."

"Nonsense, with you like this, where would you get a girlfriend?" Zhou Rui shook her head in disdain and said: "Don't try to trick me with that old ruse. I'm not falling for it!"

Lin Chuan gave a wry smile and said: "Who's tricking you, I'm telling the truth."

"Even if you're telling the truth, it makes no difference." Zhou Rui snorted lightly, then said: "Even if you have your friend, I won't give up. I want a fair competition with her, that's alright, isn't it? After all, there's only one person you can marry, and that is me. As for whoever you are dating now, or who you'll date in the future, they are just passersby in your life. Understand?"

Dominant!

Such a bold confession, likely no other woman except a tomboy like Zhou Rui would utter such words.

Gurgle...

Lin Chuan swallowed his saliva again and nodded, saying: "Understood!"

"Hmph, good that you understand." Zhou Rui revealed a smug smile, then cheerfully brought those dishes back over and said: "Actually, don't be scared by the side of me just now, I was just infuriated by you, otherwise, I wouldn't be like this."

"Right, right, I understand." Lin Chuan hurriedly nodded.

"Good that you understand." Zhou Rui nodded and said: "Eat up."

Lin Chuan reached out with chopsticks to pick up the food, but where did he have the appetite to continue eating? The appetite he had was long gone. He hurriedly put down the chopsticks and said: "I'm full, um... I have things to do this afternoon, I have to leave first."

After saying this, Lin Chuan hurriedly stood up and slinked away from Zhou Rui's office.

"Hey, what do you mean, wait, don't go!" Zhou Rui quickly stood up to chase after him.

But Lin Chuan had already been frightened into running away, jumping into his car and speeding off.

By the time Zhou Rui chased out, Lin Chuan was already out of sight, leaving only the car's tail lights getting further and further away. Zhou Rui stood with her hands on her hips, shouting at Lin Chuan's distant figure: "Jerk, you spineless coward!"

Li Qiang and the others were snickering to one side.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhou Rui glared at them and cursed: "You men are all no good."

"Zhou... Mr. Zhou." Li Qiang awkwardly said: "It's not that there are no good men, it's... it's your temper that will sooner or later scare our brother Chuan impotent."

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