Chapter 3289

"Juan'er, any new prey lately?"

"That sounds terrible, what prey or not prey, stop teasing me."

"Hurry and tell sister, how many men have come this week..."

Wang Juan rested her chin on her hands, lowered her charming phoenix eyes, her long eyelashes fluttering, and a faint blush appeared on her face. She almost hummed out a few words: "Yesterday afternoon... rented out..."

"Ah..." Ma Lili's beautiful eyes instantly widened, as if she had heard unbelievable news, "How is that possible? You..."

As they were talking, the waiter brought the food. Ma Lili had to stop her words. As soon as the waiter turned around, she grabbed one of Wang Juan's hands, shaking it while urgently pursuing the question: "You didn't agree to the previous three... who is this person... you... you agreed? Hurry and say it! What kind of man is it exactly?"

"Oh! Sister Lili, keep your voice down..." Wang Juan looked around, and seeing several male customers looking over with lecherous gazes, she hurriedly reached out to cover her cousin Ma Lili's mouth.

Ma Lili also realized her lack of composure. Ignoring the food, she moved and sat beside Wang Juan, almost putting her little mouth close to her ear: "Juan'er, what exactly is going on? Did you really see it right?"

Wang Juan's ears were tickled by the hot air exhaled by Ma Lili, so she tilted her head and muttered: "Anyway, I agreed to him... the deposit has been paid... I don't understand what's going on either... I wanted to tell you last night... but my heart was so chaotic at the time..."

"Heart so chaotic? Heavens! Juan'er, Old Liu couldn't mess up your heart, but another man messed up your heart?!" Ma Lili couldn't help but widen her eyes, her curiosity not decreasing but increasing. She grabbed one of Wang Juan's arms, shaking it while continuing to pursue the question: "What kind of man is it exactly?"

Damn! Could it be that Wang Juan, this official's wife, has an illicit affair behind Liu Deliang's back? Eavesdropping on Ma Lili's words, Zhao Desan couldn't help but feel confused in his heart.

Wang Juan looked at the pedestrians on the street, a group of mist seemed to rise in her eyes, and her gaze became blurred, as if she were muttering to herself in a low voice: "Yesterday afternoon..."

It turned out that half a year ago, Wang Juan was transferred from the Municipal Finance Bureau to be the vice president of the Linbei District Industrial and Commercial Bank. Yesterday afternoon, after writing her negative opinion on a loan project report involving billions of RMB, she felt a wave of annoyance for no reason, because she knew that what would follow would be the hostile gaze of the president, and this Lin Construction Group under the Lin Group, which had submitted the loan application, wouldn't let it go easily either. She knew that the boss of the Lin Group, Lin Lin Dafa, was a coal boss by origin and was now gradually shifting the group's focus from coal energy to real estate development. His interpersonal relationships in the entire Xijing City were very complex, and he would definitely use various relationships to force her to submit. Wang Juan knew the background of the Lin Construction Group very well, especially that the founder, Lin Lin Dafa, was a person with eyes reaching the heavens.

Perhaps feeling a bit empty in her heart, Wang Juan called her secretary. When she learned that the president hadn't returned from being out, she slipped out of the bank building. After a slight hesitation, she drove the Toyota car Liu Deliang had bought for her back to her own home.

Wang Juan's home was a two-story duplex apartment, and the room area was very large. Wang Juan's range of activities at home was basically on the second floor. As soon as she returned home, she would kick off her high heels, throw off her coat, throw her keys on the cabinet in the foyer, and then go upstairs. As long as there was nothing special, she would basically stay upstairs. So, the space on the first floor was like a passage for Wang Juan, this beautiful wife, to enter and exit. Although she had lived here for a few years, perhaps because she was too busy, or perhaps because Liu Deliang was rarely at home, she had never regarded the first floor as her home.

Perhaps it was this inexplicable sense of strangeness toward the first floor that led her to make the absurd decision that left her cousin Ma Lili with her mouth agape in surprise.

At this moment, Wang Juan was lazily half-lying in an Italian leather sofa, one crystal-clear leg resting on the armrest, her thin silk long dress sliding down, revealing a section of snow-white, rounded calf.

Although the air conditioning was already on, Wang Juan still felt a bit hot. She simply pulled down the thin dress strap from her shoulder, letting the dress, thin as a cicada's wing, slide down slowly, revealing an apricot-yellow bra with lace edges. Only when a cool breeze from the air conditioner swept across her semi-naked body did she feel that the inner heat had eased a little.

Unknowingly, Wang Juan's thoughts returned to the loan contract she had denied. At the same time, the president's chubby face appeared in her mind. That face usually carried a smiling expression, giving people a feeling of humility and kindness, but Wang Juan knew what kind of face was behind this smiling human skin mask.

Thinking of these things, Wang Juan somewhat regretted her initial desire to hang a post at the bank. It would have been better to stay at the Finance Bureau. Although the power wasn't as great as hanging a post at the bank, she just drank tea, read newspapers, and reviewed documents every day, and there was nothing particularly important. But since hanging a post at the bank, she felt that this job wasn't as comfortable as she had imagined.

"Vice President Wang, I hope this is the last time. For the sake of your ex-husband, I won't argue with you." This sentence was a warning issued in a low voice by the president at the entrance of the hotel after a business dinner a few days ago. At that time, the president's signature smile had vanished, and the ferocious expression and the fierce light revealed in his narrow eyes made Wang Juan feel heart-palpitating.

That was the first time Wang Juan had challenged the president's consolation. She publicly denied a 300 million yuan loan supported by the president. Unexpectedly, apart from issuing a verbal warning, the president chose to compromise and didn't fall out with her over this matter. Of course, Wang Juan knew very well in her heart that the reason the president chose not to fall out with her was entirely for the sake of Liu Deliang. In fact, just a few days later, the president's face had recovered its Maitreya-like kindness, coming to Wang Juan's office from time to time to say a few bland jokes, and always asking about Wang Juan and Liu Deliang's marital relationship with great concern, seemingly very interested in it.

At that time, Wang Juan really couldn't figure out the true intention of the president, Wu Shibing. She thought to herself, could it be that he was really forgiving her challenge for the sake of her husband Liu Deliang? No, because Wu Shibing had already known and told her a while ago that he saw Liu Deliang with other women outside, and knew that she and Liu Deliang were going through a divorce during that time, so how could he care about Liu Deliang's face? Perhaps it was because he feared her father. Although her father had retired for several years, his influence in the district's banking system still remained. To fall out with her over a 300 million loan project would probably be more trouble than it was worth. Of course, there was a third possibility... Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Wang Juan's face, and she couldn't help but reach out to touch her own cheek. Although she was also a woman in her thirties, this face was still as smooth and beautiful as a girl in her twenties, and it was still quite lethal to men. Wu Shibing should count as a man, right? Although there were no signs of him touching her yet, it didn't mean he didn't have this motive and idea, and this motive made him show a man's magnanimity...

However, that matter hadn't even passed for a few days. Today, regarding the loan project applied for by Lin Lin Dafa, Wang Juan really challenged Wu Shibing's presidential authority for the second time. This time, the amount was even larger. Wang Juan, who had been in charge of financial work at the Municipal Finance Bureau for many years, knew very well the various dark secrets that existed in bank loans, and she wasn't surprised by the fact that a wealthy tycoon like Lin Lin Dafa wanted a loan, because she knew that often, the richer these people were, the more they would never use the money in their own pockets when doing business, but would borrow from the bank through relationships, using other depositors' money to turn around in the capital market. And in this loan project of billions, Wu Shibing would definitely take a kickback from it. Although Wang Juan couldn't be considered a particularly competent president, as a vice president hanging a post from the Municipal Finance Bureau, she naturally maintained a particularly cautious attitude toward such a large loan project. She couldn't explain why she had become so combative lately. She wasn't like this before. She felt that perhaps there was a reason that could explain it, and that was the crack that appeared in her marriage, which had seriously affected her life state and work state.

Although relying on Liu Deliang's relationships and her father's network resources, as well as her qualifications as a master of finance, she had been doing whatever she wanted at the Municipal Finance Bureau, mixing well. A woman became a deputy division chief in charge of finance at a young age. A while ago, she operated through various relationships and hung a post as a vice president at a bank in the district. She had never bothered to ask about things in the bank that she shouldn't manage, and even for her own responsibilities, she would push them away if she could. On the contrary, the president, Wu Shibing, often smiled and pretended to blame her for not fulfilling her responsibilities as a vice president.

Then, when did she start to realize her responsibilities as a vice president? Although Wang Juan was unwilling to admit it, she understood deep in her heart that all of this happened after she divorced Liu Deliang a week ago. However, due to their special status and position, the divorce of the two was completed quietly, and few outsiders knew about it. As compensation, Liu Deliang transferred the large duplex apartment they usually lived in to Wang Juan. It was ever since she divorced Liu Deliang that Wang Juan began to have all kinds of ideas. Some ideas even she herself felt were absurd, but...

... deep down, she felt inexplicably excited about her own actions and thoughts. Sometimes, she wondered if she had been stimulated by the breakdown of her marriage, or if it was because a mature woman hadn't been nourished by a man for a long time, leading to endocrine disorders, thereby causing changes in her temperament.

Wang Juan was a young woman with normal physiological needs. How could she endure the loneliness of being alone? Thinking of these things, she felt that it seemed she had to find a man for herself. But men were everywhere on the street. Which one was the man she, Wang Juan, wanted? The first one she thought of was Zhao Desan, who had initially made her taste the happiness of being a woman to the point of wanting to die. But she knew this idea of hers was impossible. Thinking and thinking, she felt that it seemed there was no man who could match a woman with her conditions—good job, beautiful, in other words, she looked down on the men around her.