Tang Zhiyuan looked at the imposing Su Xiyan and pointed at the seat next to him, "Sit down! Young people are impulsive, why can't we talk things through peacefully?"
Su Xiyan didn't bother giving Tang Zhiyuan any face. She asked coldly, "Are you investigating Chen Shuo?"
Tang Zhiyuan knew there was no use hiding it anymore. He nodded, "Yes!"
Su Xiyan felt a little flustered. After all, Chen Shuo was a vampire. She didn't know if Tang Zhiyuan had found out anything suspicious about him.
However, since Tang Zhiyuan was investigating Chen Shuo, it meant that there was something questionable about Chen Shuo.
She also wondered how much Tang Zhiyuan knew about Chen Shuo now.
Although she felt nervous, she had to appear strong on the surface!
"You were suspicious of Chen Shuo, yet you came to ask me in person a couple of days ago. Isn't that redundant?"
"I already told you that it was just a coincidence that Chen Shuo was spotted near the Demon King's whereabouts. He lives with me. Don't I know clearly if he is the Demon King or not? He is just an ordinary college freshman, why are you so fixated on him?"
"The way you're acting, isn't it obvious you don't trust me?"
Su Xiyan had her arms akimbo, glaring at Tang Zhiyuan.
Tang Zhiyuan looked meaningfully at the agitated Su Xiyan and said slowly, "Little Su, you didn't use to be like this."
"No matter what happened in the past, you were never so anxious."
"This Chen Shuo must be very important to you, right?"
Since things had already reached this point, Su Xiyan saw no need to evade further.
She answered directly, "Yes! He is the most important person in my life."
"Now that I've made myself clear, let me tell you plainly."
"Chen Shuo is just an ordinary college freshman. There is absolutely no need for you to go through so much trouble planning a party to probe him."
"In fact, you didn't find out anything from probing him, did you?"
"Why make things unnecessarily complicated? This isn't your usual style, Chairman Tang!"
Su Xiyan threw Tang Zhiyuan's words back at him.
Tang Zhiyuan took a sip of his tea, "Did you come to find me just to say this?"
"You've already said your piece, you may leave the company now."
"Seeing as I have a long-standing friendship with your father and am considerate of your youth, I won't hold you accountable this time."
"Don't let this happen again."
Don't hold me accountable? What kind of bizarre pick up line is this?
Su Xiyan wasn't buying any of it.
Please! I was the one who came to confront him!
However, she remembered that her purpose in coming here was not just to confront Tang Zhiyuan in person, but also to probe how much Tang Zhiyuan knew.
Su Xiyan suppressed her anger for the time being, "Chairman Tang, you're an experienced and perceptive senior Demon Hunter. Other than the coincidence of Chen Shuo's whereabouts overlapping with the Demon King's, there must be other reasons why you suspect him, right?"
"Just the overlap in locations alone cannot prove anything."
Tang Zhiyuan was indeed not hiding anything. He answered directly, "What if I said it was intuition from many years as a Demon Hunter? Would you believe it?"
Su Xiyan: "......"
I'm giving you evidence and you're talking about intuition??
Tang Zhiyuan definitely wasn't telling Su Xiyan something. And it didn't seem like he planned to come clean either.
But he definitely didn't have any solid proof. Otherwise Chen Shuo would have already been hunted by now.
Su Xiyan didn't want to continue sparring with Tang Zhiyuan. After attempting several times to probe Tang Zhiyuan's thoughts, she still had no idea what he was thinking.
As long as she had startled Tang Zhiyuan, that was enough.
Tang Zhiyuan looked at Su Xiyan and said solemnly, "Young lady, don't be too impulsive when doing things. Don't trust the people around you too easily either."
"One misstep could lead to lifelong regret! Little Su, I hope you'll stand on the right side of this."
"These are my parting words to you. You're an intelligent woman, you should listen."
Su Xiyan's brows twitched as she smiled coldly, "I don't need you to lecture me. I only know that I must protect the people I care about."
"Let me warn you one last time. Don't touch my people!"
It was obvious Tang Zhiyuan understood Su Xiyan's meaning. The deep look in his eyes gradually faded away.
From this moment, he knew that no matter his identity as Su Xiyan's father's old friend, her boss, or his seniority as a Demon Hunter, none of that could restrain Su Xiyan anymore.
Without another word, Su Xiyan turned and strode resolutely out of the conference room.
There were several gossipy colleagues lingering outside the conference room entrance. But upon hearing the sound of Su Xiyan's heels approaching, they immediately retreated to their workstations with record speed, pretending they hadn't heard a thing.
However, their expressions had betrayed them.
When they stole glances at Su Xiyan, they didn't dare look at her directly, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
After Su Xiyan left, Tang Zhiyuan remained seated in the conference room.
He gazed at the teacup before him, lightly tapping a finger on the table, looking to be pondering some very important matters.
His changing expressions were also quite subtle, from struggling at first, to being torn, before finally settling into determination.
It was as if he had made a very important decision. Tang Zhiyuan dialed the office's intercom, "Secretary Zhao, please come to the conference room."
As company president and the person in charge of the Su City Demon Hunters, Tang Zhiyuan had more than one secretary.
The young female secretary who had intercepted Su Xiyan earlier was only in charge of some daily tasks.
The true core personnel could only be accessed by a select few higher ups.
This Secretary Zhao was one of them.
Secretary Zhao had also been in the conference room earlier, but had left when Su Xiyan arrived and interrupted their core meeting.
Now that Su Xiyan was gone and Tang Zhiyuan was summoning him, it showed that Tang Zhiyuan had made up his mind about his next steps.
Secretary Zhao was balding with hair surrounding his head like a monk's tonsure. He looked to be in his forties, small in stature, seemingly just an average middle-aged balding uncle. But his eyes shone with a meticulous, profound depth.
Secretary Zhao had just entered the office and seeing Tang Zhiyuan's expression, he basically guessed what was going on. He asked, "Chairman Tang, have you decided?"