Xu Jing couldn’t care less about where Li Xiang and Zhang Wei would stay.

The next day, he was quite cautious when going to Asia, fearing Li Xiang might pop out from some corner. While he didn’t feel guilty facing Li Xiang, her shamelessness worried him. He feared she might cause a scene in the mall without any regard for face, affecting Asia’s business.

Though he didn’t see Li Xiang, he spotted a familiar face—that female police officer. Why was she at the mall again?

After some hesitation, Xu Jing approached her: “Comrade, thank you for last night!”

He thought it was embarrassing for others to know about such matters, but then realized he wasn’t at fault, so why should he feel ashamed? In this world, it wasn’t just women who got betrayed; men like him could be just as unfortunate. After treating him that way and continuing to harass him, Xu Jing felt he was extremely unlucky.

Xu Jing was a tech-focused person who wore his emotions on his face. Zhuo Weiping also recognized the unfortunate Director Xu.

“I just helped right a wrong. You’re Xiaolan’s friend, and so am I. Though I don’t know you well, I trust Xiaolan’s judgment. I hope I didn’t help the wrong person last night?”

So she was Director Xia’s friend? No wonder she frequented Asia!

Xu Jing quickly shook his head, “No, you helped the right person. Thank you for helping me escape their harassment. Hello, I’m Xu Jing, I work for Director Xia.”

Xu Jing extended his hand, and Zhuo Weiping shook it: “Zhuo Weiping, from Shangdu City Police Department. What a coincidence, I suppose I’m working for Xiaolan now too.”

The police working for Director Xia?

Before he could inquire further, Zhuo Weiping had already skillfully changed the topic. High intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean high emotional intelligence, and when it came to casual conversation, ten Xu Jings wouldn’t match one Zhuo Weiping.

After chatting for a while, Xu Jing revealed his entire background. Where he was from, and his previous work experience—he gave a brief introduction of everything. Plus, after Zhuo Weiping witnessed Li Xiang’s harassment last night, Xu Jing wasn’t afraid of losing face in front of her and directly expressed his concern about Li Xiang coming to the mall today:

“Director Xia asked me to handle my personal life well. If Li Xiang comes to cause trouble today, I’ll have failed Director Xia’s trust.”

Zhuo Weiping sympathized with him.

Xu Jing’s personality must have an indecisive side, otherwise he wouldn’t have been entangled with his ex-girlfriend.

Having worked at a local police station for several years, Zhuo Weiping had seen many relationship disputes. Not just obsessive ex-partners who wouldn’t let go, some extreme cases even resulted in the murder of former partners—when dealing with obsessive people, you couldn’t always blame the victim!

Although men killing ex-girlfriends or ex-wives was more common, what if Xu Jing was particularly unlucky and encountered an ex-girlfriend capable of murder?

So hearing Xu Jing’s concerns, Zhuo Weiping not only didn’t mock him but nodded seriously: “I’ll keep an eye out for you in the mall today. Everyone, regardless of gender, needs to have crisis awareness. She tracked you down to Shangdu from another city, right? In the future, keep your travel plans private, and your residence…”

As Zhuo Weiping spoke, Xu Jing nodded along.

Americans value privacy, while awareness in China was relatively weak. People at the factory probably knew he came to Shangdu, and Li Xiang could easily find out his schedule if she put in some effort. He would be more careful about this in the future!

At worst, after returning from Shangdu, he’d just live and eat in the factory area and never go out, instructing the security guards not to let Li Xiang in. He’d see how she could harass him then—

Also, who knew if Zhang Wei would “promote” Li Xiang’s story? Since he’d already lost face once, he might as well be thorough and spread Li Xiang’s reputation in their former social circle!

He’d said what needed to be said, and if anyone else tried to persuade him to reconcile with Li Xiang… such muddle-headed friends weren’t worth keeping, better to cut ties directly.

Without realizing it, Xu Jing had chatted with Zhuo Weiping for a long time.

Comrade Zhuo Weiping was indeed easy to trust, she was completely different from Li Xiang.

Xu Jing had had enough of women like Li Xiang. What good was beauty? If someone was just beautiful on the outside, packaging themselves as an independent, hardworking woman while still seeking success through shortcuts—Xu Jing had experienced one such woman and now dreaded them.

Li Xiang’s thick skin showed she would use any means to achieve her goals!

Xia Xiaolan and Song Minglan were inspecting the mall when they stopped on the second floor.

“Director Xia?”

Had Director Xia noticed something unusual?

Song Minglan was nervous.

Xia Xiaolan shook her head, “It’s nothing, continue with what we were discussing, today’s stock…”

She had spotted Xu Jing and Zhuo Weiping chatting together.

Xu Jing and Zhuo Weiping?

What could those two have to talk about? Xu Jing, that fellow, was alternating between looking worried and animated, like a peacock showing off its feathers.

Xia Xiaolan had thought Li Xiang had scared Xu Jing so badly that he’d developed gynophobia and would marry his work instead.

There were many female workers at the factory, even a female researcher in the R&D department interested in Xu Jing, but he avoided them all—how did he end up talking with Officer Zhuo?

Xia Xiaolan was somewhat suspicious, but she had only played matchmaker for Bai Zhenzhu and Pan Bohua because their situation was special. Even if Xu Jing really had feelings for Officer Zhuo, it wasn’t something Xia Xiaolan needed to worry about.

If he didn’t even dare pursue a woman, he deserved to stay single forever!

Xia Xiaolan quickly put this small incident aside.

Today, Asia was still crowded, not just with customers coming to get cards, but also those who had already gotten cards but hadn’t had time to shop.

Zhuo Weiping estimated several state-owned malls would make their move these days, and Xia Xiaolan thought the same. She had held an emergency meeting last night, not only to arrange the next day’s work but also to alert all Asia employees to stay vigilant and prepare for enemy attacks—

“Many strong fortresses fall from within. We’ll do what we can, provide the best service to customers, guard our posts with the most sincere attitude, and strictly follow Asia’s rules and regulations. From top to bottom, inside and out, we won’t give our opponents any openings to exploit, and naturally, no one can defeat us!”

Fed this carefully prepared pep talk by Xia Xiaolan, all Asia employees were on high alert today, not only doing their jobs well but also keeping their eyes and ears open, afraid that they might unwittingly let enemies infiltrate and destroy Asia.

Everyone in Asia waited and waited, but nothing unusual happened in the morning.

In the afternoon… they caught several speculators disguised as customers. Huang Guoqiang was disappointed, everyone was disappointed—another false alarm!

By past seven in the evening, after being tense all day, everyone was getting tired when suddenly there was a commotion at the milk powder counter—finally, something was happening! Could this be a trick from the state-owned malls?

The somewhat deflated Asia employees perked up, and the female clerk at the milk powder counter thought her luck must be amazing!

“…Are you saying there’s something wrong with our mall’s milk powder?”