That night's events didn't cause much of a stir. The next morning, Zhi Jinhua simply called Zhang Chulan to give him a heads-up. Zhang Chulan then reportedly called Xu Si to report it. As for Xu Si's reaction, or whether he had contacted the Southwest Region, that remained unknown for now.
Zhi Jinhua hadn't received any reply. Besides, she wasn't a company employee, so even if anything happened, they probably wouldn't tell her. Since no one came asking questions or demanding answers, she naturally couldn't be bothered to think too much about it.
In short!
After what happened last night, the Southwest Region's company employees—the people assigned to watch Annie and the others—had all but withdrawn. At any rate, Zhi Jinhua no longer sensed anyone observing them from a distance.
And so, by the following afternoon, after that troublesome little girl of an old ancestor had finally gotten up and Annie had ordered a lavish spread of freshly stir-fried Sichuan dishes from the hotel and eaten her fill, Zhuge Qing, Fu Rong, and Zhi Jinhua all returned to the hotel together.
Of course, those two lovebirds, Zhuge Qing and Fu Rong, hadn't stayed out fooling around until the afternoon. They'd only spent the night together. Early that morning, they'd met up with Zhi Jinhua and waited outside Tang Clan Martial Arts School. They'd only returned now because Zhang Chulan and the others had gotten into another mess.
More precisely, Zhang Chulan was the main one who'd caused trouble?
Apparently, Zhang Chulan had pulled off something pretty wild this time. He'd taken advantage of a meeting that morning with Tang Miao-xing, the head of the Tang Clan, Tang Qiushan, Tang Miao-xing's junior, and Zhang Wang, and somehow persuaded all three of them to secretly agree to a cooperation deal. Then the