Li Ting stood quietly there, wearing a black one-shoulder tight-fitting knee-length cocktail dress, paired with black high heels!

The dress was extremely simple in style, with no excessive embellishments, yet it perfectly accentuated Li Ting's curvaceous figure. The exposed half of her fragrant shoulder and the faintly visible collarbone added a touch of allure to her sexiness.

Li Ting also wore a string of pearl necklaces. Although the pearls weren't large, each was perfectly round and smooth, uniform in size, exuding a silvery glow, making her skin look even fairer!

At the same time, her pearl earrings peeked out from behind her black hair.

Li Ting's features were more exquisite than before, especially her eyes, which seemed three times larger than before, obviously due to meticulous grooming, making her look like a vibrant and glamorous star from a promotional poster.

She gracefully turned around, giving Lin Jie a flirtatious glance, and asked, "How do you feel, alluring?"

Lin Jie nodded, with a slight frown, and said, "Naturally very attractive, but this outfit makes you seem much more mature, completely devoid of a twenty-year-old girl's youthful vibe!"

Li Ting gently smiled, stepped forward, and took Lin Jie's arm, saying, "I'll take your words as a form of praise. Aren't cocktail dresses and soirées meant to symbolize sexiness, allure, and maturity?"

"Hurry up and get changed, I've already picked out an outfit for you."

Lin Jie's outfit was very simple, just a dark formal suit!

After Lin Jie got dressed, Li Ting put on a light-colored trench coat, grabbed a delicate handbag, and followed Lin Jie downstairs and got into the car!

Shortly after getting on the road, they encountered a red light at an intersection. Lin Jie stepped on the brake, and once the car stopped, he turned to look at Li Ting.

Her trench coat was unbuttoned, and the black seatbelt crossed through the middle of her cocktail dress's bust, creating a deep, unseeable crease...

Noticing Lin Jie's intense gaze, Li Ting blatantly pushed her chest out, but warned with a smile, "Be careful of the surveillance cameras. If your hands are caught misbehaving and it's leaked online, you'll become famous."

Lin Jie gave her a sideways glance, withdrew his gaze, and threatened, "You're always tempting me like this, yet don't allow this or that, be careful not to play with fire. If you provoke me too much one day, I might just drug you..."

"Hmph... Let you know the consequences of messing with me!"

Li Ting rolled her eyes at Lin Jie dismissively, and said with a hum, "If that's the case, you might just succeed once, but afterwards, you'll lose me forever."

At this point, the red light turned green, and Lin Jie started the car and drove on!

The location of Han Wenbin and Xiaoxiao's engagement party was at the Han family's main residence in the Nanshan Villa District, located in the southern suburb of Binhai City!

Nanshan Villa is a high-end villa area developed by Han Real Estate, backed by the legally protected Nanshan National Forest, with good air quality and beautiful surroundings, far from the city's hustle and bustle, yet only an hour's drive from Binhai City.

It's said that when this villa area first started construction, when it was still on paper, all seventy-two villas were pre-booked.

Han Real Estate's subsequent plans for villas in phases two and three were directly prohibited by the government for environmental protection reasons.

This made the first phase villas at Nanshan an exclusive edition, tripling in price with no market availability.

After an hour's drive, Lin Jie drove to the Han family's main residence, a very extensive courtyard!

Lin Jie slowly parked in front of the main gate and was stopped by a few security guards.

It was then he noticed, with occasional flashes of light, quite a few people around were holding long cameras and shooting!

Lin Jie suddenly remembered that Xiaoxiao is still a hot and much-discussed celebrity, so this engagement party naturally attracted the entertainment reporters' attention.

After presenting the invitation, Lin Jie's car was allowed to proceed and drove into the courtyard!

After getting out of the car, the Han family's arranged staff drove the car elsewhere for parking!

Lin Jie looked around and marveled, "These are truly the wealthy ones! I thought living in Xiangtai Apartment was quite good, but this is just incomparable!"

The Han family's main residence is a compound, with both buildings and courtyards, more like a small estate.

The main building is a classical glazed-tile building with three stories above ground, covering about a thousand square meters, with a front courtyard that includes a garden, rockery fish pond, resting viewing pavilions, and large lawns.

At this moment, as the night fell, all the landscape lights in the courtyard were lit, making the courtyard even more beautiful.

"As long as living comfortably at home, anywhere is a paradise!" Li Ting, arm in arm with Lin Jie, stepped onto the marble steps and said, "Let's go inside!"

Entering the hall, a wave of heat came over them, dispelling the chill from them!

They were relatively late, and the grand hall, mainly in gold tones, was already filled with over a hundred people, quietly conversing in groups of three or four.

Lin Jie spotted several familiar faces.

An Kexin, in a light purple cocktail dress, radiant and maturely alluring; also Lin Miao's vocal teacher Li Hong, Han Wenbin's sister Han Xue, Dr. Chen Qiuhua from Tongren Hospital, Li Haoxiang from Xiangtai Apartment, and others!

In addition, Lin Jie noticed a few people frequently appearing on television but couldn't name them—they were probably Xiaoxiao's friends in the entertainment circle.

An Kexin saw Lin Jie and Li Ting, bid farewell to the two people by her side with an apology, and came over first, smiling, "Tingting, you look really beautiful today! Lin Jie, you look very handsome too."

"Kexin Sis, you're very beautiful today too!" Li Ting politely responded, but she leaned even closer to Lin Jie.

An Kexin glanced at Lin Jie's arm being held, then looked into Lin Jie's eyes, and softly said, "Last night, Hu Yuanqing got drunk at the bar and had a scuffle with someone."

"As a result, he got beaten quite badly, and his left arm got broken!"

Lin Jie was startled and anxiously asked, "Is the arm break serious?"

"It's said to be an open fracture, quite severe!"

An Kexin sighed and said, "I hope he can fully recover, without affecting the stability and flexibility of his left hand. After all, there are very few neurosurgeons of Dr. Hu's level in Binhai."

Lin Jie couldn't help but furrow his brows tightly.

Just a simple arm fracture, with some recuperation time, is naturally no issue. But if the brachial plexus is injured, and the recovery doesn't go well, for someone like Hu Yuanqing who relies heavily on both hands, the outcome is uncertain.

"What did the police say?" Lin Jie pressed further!

An Kexin laughed and said, "Lin Jie, are you overthinking it? What else could the police say?"

"It's just a drunken brawl, supposedly started by Hu Yuanqing himself. Such incidents are quite common in bars."

Lin Jie smiled lightly, hoping he was indeed overthinking.

He joked, "Kexin Sis, I realize you're like a know-it-all, aware of everything happening early on."

An Kexin raised an eyebrow, saying proudly, "That's because I have spies in every hospital."

She said with some helplessness, "This is actually something unavoidable!"

"Nowadays competition is fierce, and hospitals are the bosses. Whatever significant event occurs in the hospitals, leaders' sons marrying, grandsons' one-month birthdays, moving homes, changing wives, we have to seize the opportunity to present a gift."

"These gifts might not necessarily help, but if others give and you don't, you'll certainly be remembered by these people, making future dealings hard!"

An Kexin took a glass of red wine from a passing waiter, sipped, and continued, "We can't have someone monitoring every day for such news, so we employ an insider within the hospital to notify us of all significant and minor events."

Lin Jie somewhat understood why the An Family is so focused on building a hospital.

Apart from rightful competition in business, these external relations and activities could leave an enterprise's manager exhausted.

At this moment, two more people entered the hall!

Seeing them, Lin Jie's eyes tightened—it was Du Feixue and Li Donghai!

Du Feixue also noticed them, instinctively moved to come over, but restrained herself after half a step, turning instead towards a friend approaching her!

Li Donghai hesitated for a moment but strode over, politely saying, "Ladies, I'd like to have a private moment with Lin Jie. Could we have a bit of space?"

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