Flash Marriage: The Billionaire Addicted to Her

Chapter 409

Faced with the butler’s firm stance, Ye Yuning lost her temper again. Not caring about anything else, she turned and went straight back to Manlang.Before leaving, she added to the butler, "I don’t care if you believe me or not, but I have nothing to do with that Seventh Master of your Xiao Family! No relation now, and there never will be! Never in this lifetime!"

The butler was silent.

Hearing Ye Yuning’s resolute tone, he found it surprisingly credible. Could they really have been mistaken? But Third Young Master Xiao Shuo had clearly said he’d seen the two of them together. And more than once.

Instinctively, he wanted to follow her, but seeing Ye Yuning’s cold departing figure, he eventually decided against it.

He got into the car, took out his phone, and called Old Master Xiao.

The call connected quickly. "Hello?"

"Old Master, it’s me."

"What’s the matter?"

"There’s been an incident here. Miss Ye probably won’t be coming today."

Hearing this, Old Master Xiao’s mood instantly darkened.

The butler said, "It’s my fault. She was robbed today!"

"Someone dared to rob her?" Old Master Xiao sounded surprised.

After all, according to rumors, this foster daughter of the Ye Family was not someone to be trifled with. Moreover, after the losses Xiao Shuo had suffered at her hands, the entire Xiao Family now considered the Ye Family’s foster daughter a tigress.

Who would dare rob such a tigress? Weren’t they courting death?

"I thought so too, at first..." the butler admitted. He’d assumed Ye Yuning wouldn’t lose out to those robbers. Who would have thought that while he was watching, she’d just taken off?

"Alright, you can all come back first," Old Master Xiao said, not wanting to discuss it further.

He had initially been a little angry hearing that the Ye Family’s foster daughter wasn’t coming to the Xiao Family, but his feelings changed when he learned she had been robbed. That was a legitimate reason, then.

Ye Yuning returned to Manlang fuming. The office was nearly empty at this hour.

Chen Wei was eating takeout she had ordered when she saw Ye Yuning return in a disheveled state. Her shoes were in her hand, and her hair and clothes were a mess. She looked for all the world as if a man had just had his way with her!

Chen Wei was startled and immediately rushed to her side. "Boss? You... what happened to you?"

As she asked, she instinctively glanced out the window. It was broad daylight! Who could be so audacious?

Glancing Ye Yuning up and down again, Chen Wei asked, "Your bag?"

"Stolen!" Ye Yuning’s rage was uncontrollable.

The few people in the office jumped when they heard Ye Yuning say she had been robbed.

Chen Wei’s eye twitched. "Robbed? You? Who was it?"

Who was so short-sighted as to rob *her*? That was practically asking for a death wish!

Ye Yuning fumed, "If I knew who it was, do you think they’d still be alive?"

Chen Wei was speechless. Right. From the looks of it, she hadn’t caught them. If she had, she wouldn’t be back so soon.

"Was your phone stolen too?"

"Yes!" Ye Yuning seethed.

Chen Wei fell silent. That was the new phone the brand had just sent her! Stolen, just like that! What a huge loss!

The thought of being robbed made Ye Yuning’s blood boil.

As she walked towards her office, she said to Chen Wei, "Order some food for me, anything will do."

"Sure!" Chen Wei nodded.

She went out, didn’t even get to eat, and got robbed on top of it all, Chen Wei thought. She couldn’t understand it. "Where on earth did you go that you got robbed?"

"Right outside the door!"

"What?" Chen Wei was shocked. Robbed right at the entrance of their office building? Could something like that actually happen in a lawful society?

Ye Yuning was also fuming. "You tell me! How could I get robbed right at the entrance?"

Chen Wei was silent again. This was an office tower in the center of Upper City, and it was always bustling with people!

Ye Yuning looked at Chen Wei in confusion as fragmented thoughts surfaced in her mind. But it was all too chaotic; she couldn’t put the pieces together!

"Alright, just go get me some food. I’m starving."

After all that running, Ye Yuning was indeed famished.

Chen Wei nodded and left.

Left alone, Ye Yuning felt even more agitated.

She picked up the phone to report the robbery, only to learn the police were already downstairs; apparently, several people had called it in during the chaos. They had been about to leave because they couldn’t find the victim, but Ye Yuning’s call prompted them to resume their investigation.

Ye Yuning gave them her studio’s location and hung up.

Next, she called Xiao Linye, worried he wouldn’t be able to contact her later that afternoon.

The call connected, and a pleasant male voice came from the other end, "Off work?"

"Mhm, just finished."

Hearing Xiao Linye’s voice, Ye Yuning suddenly felt aggrieved, and her eyes reddened involuntarily. Consequently, when she responded, her voice was thick with nasal congestion.

Perhaps it was because she’d been independent for too long. Now that there was suddenly someone she could completely rely on, she subconsciously wanted to lean on him. She hadn’t realized this before making the call. But now, hearing Xiao Linye’s voice, she wanted to allow herself to be weak for a moment.

Xiao Linye, on the other end, clearly heard the heavy nasal tone in her voice and asked, "What’s wrong? Do you have a cold?"

"No."

"Then what is it? Have you been crying?"

Ye Yuning fell silent. Instinctively, she didn’t want to tell Xiao Linye she’d been robbed, fearing he would worry. But in that moment, she really couldn’t hold it back any longer!

She blurted out, "I was robbed!" Her voice cracked, and she immediately burst into tears, "WAAAH!"