Meanwhile.
After Housekeeper Chen threw Zhang Xiaoran out of the villa, he seethed for a long time.
His first chance encounter with Hua Jian at the villa had already been utterly sickening.
That same day, the Qi Family Villa received a call from Bo Lin, and Zhang Xiaoran had no choice but to slink away.
Then Xue Pan humiliated him.
He had thought getting close to Bo Lin could only ever be a dream. Who knew that less than two days later, an elderly man with an imposing entourage would "invite" him somewhere for tea?
He sat there trembling, and only after a while did he learn that the old man was Bo Lin's grandfather.
The early autumn afternoon sun was scorching.
The Bo Family's ancestral estate occupied an enormous stretch of land, yet there wasn't even a tree outside the gates to provide shade.
Before long, he felt a burning sting at the back of his neck.
He scrolled through his phone with a gloomy expression.
Ding.
An app he rarely used pushed a news notification.
He instinctively swiped it away, only to suddenly realize afterward that the news had been about Feng Rong.
He opened Weibo. Sure enough, a red trending topic appeared on the homepage—B Brand's newest ambassador, Feng Rong.
A huge "Explosive" tag sat right beside it.
It wasn't just on the homepage. The trending searches were even more striking.
All five top searches were about B Brand and Feng Rong.
Zhang Xiaoran opened the first trending search. It was the official announcement posted by B Brand's verified Weibo account in China.
"Feng Rong, huh. Isn't he the only celebrity at Hua Jian's talent agency? How does Hua Jian get so lucky?"
Zhang Xiaoran came from an ordinary family. His parents had scrimped and saved to