"Wait!"
Of course, the little girl would not simply let Ye Lang leave. She had finally found a chance to speak with Ye Lang face-to-face.
She had gone to no small amount of trouble for this opportunity. But the gates of the Ye Clan were not so easy to enter, and she had been turned away time and again. In the end, she set her sights on Zhen Xiaoyan.
Everyone knew that Zhen Xiaoyan had been living in the same courtyard as Ye Lang at the time. She was also the only person who could get close to Ye Lang and was relatively easy to approach. Others, like Ye Lanyu and the Seventh Princess, were on the same level as Ye Lang themselves; approaching them was hardly any easier than approaching him.
As for the relationship between Zhen Xiaoyan and the little girl—how should one put it? They could be considered family friends, and they had often played together as children. But because the little girl was rather unusual, their contact had dwindled greatly over the past few years.
Their families' friendship existed only because the two households had business dealings. The Zhen family's restaurants even had shares owned by the little girl's family.
Unlike the Zhen family, the little girl's family was not aristocratic, but merchants through and through!
Because of her family, the little girl had begun entering the business world from a young age. By the time she was ten, she had already taken over the entire family business!
It was a business family struggling at death's door. It looked grand and prosperous on the surface, but it was already in a state of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Without a turning point, it would be difficult to hold on.
It was also for this reason that