After Becoming a Spare Tire, I Was Targeted by the Villain and the Male Lead at the Same Time

 

Li Nian deliberately said: “Isn’t it true? Everyone knows what Jing Yicheng looks like.
If he thinks you’re his companion, doesn’t that mean you’re the same?”

Xu Chenghao argued reasonably: “Then why don’t you say that both he and I are handsome? Maybe we’re just too lonely being handsome, so we want to find an equally handsome companion!”

Li Nian laughed, “Hahahaha.”

Xu Chenghao: “…”

Today is another day without brotherhood!

“Okay, stop messing around.
I’m still busy…” Li Nian laughed enough and then restrained himself.
He stood up and said, “Anyway, just be careful and be prepared for situations like this!”

Xu Chenghao nodded, indicating that he understood.
When he watched Li Nian leave, he also glanced in the direction of Jing Yicheng.

Recently, Jing Yicheng’s busy schedule has skyrocketed.
When Xu Chenghao looked over, he was typing on his computer, looking focused and serious, completely different from his previous crazy talk about liking to eat raw chili peppers.

… He was quite reliable when it came to work; it would be even better if he didn’t act crazy at normal times.

 

Xu Chenghao sighed and withdrew his gaze before continuing to busy himself.
The workload had not decreased at all, but the only good news was that after a week of tug-of-war, Ruan Chenxuan had finally decided to close the deal.
He contacted Xu Chenghao directly to express his desire to meet and discuss, and the meeting was scheduled for lunchtime today.

Xu Chenghao could guess the purpose of the meeting, but he still agreed.

At the meeting, there was a series of insincere pleasantries, and Xu Chenghao maintained a smile while shaking hands with the other party, calmly assessing him with his gaze.

Ruan Chenxuan’s condition was really bad.
His dark eye circles couldn’t be covered up, and his whole body was filled with an overwhelming sense of exhaustion from overwork.
It was the perfect portrayal of the male lead’s painful and depressed search for the female lead after she had left with the ball in the plot.

It seemed that Xu Chenghao had guessed correctly.

Sure enough, as soon as Ruan Chenxuan sat down, he went straight to the point, “I came here today to talk to President Xu about two things: first, I want to discuss a cooperation opportunity, and second, I want to ask President Xu a question.”

Xu Chenghao: “Please go ahead, Mr.
Ruan.”

Ruan Chenxuan stared at him intensely, not missing any change in Xu Chenghao’s expression, “Do you know where Rouyu is?”

“An Rouyu?” Xu Chenghao raised his eyebrows in feigned surprise, “What happened? Is something wrong?”

Ruan Chenxuan continued to press, “Yes, she’s missing.
I want to know if President Xu has any involvement in this matter.”

 

Xu Chenghao counterattack: “Of course not, but I am more curious about why she disappeared.
President Ruan always protects her carefully and knows everyone she meets with.
How could he let her disappear?”

Ruan Chenxuan stared at him closely: “That’s why I suspect someone might have hidden her.”

Xu Chenghao looked straight at him: “Then I can clearly tell President Ruan that it has nothing to do with me!”

Ruan Chenxuan tried to discern if he was telling the truth, his sharp gaze almost turning into knives: “I believe that if Rouyu was wronged, the first person she would think of finding is you.”

Xu Chenghao remained calm: “Oh, it turns out she was wronged.”

“It’s just a small misunderstanding.” Ruan Chenxuan didn’t want to talk more about his personal affairs and continued: “I want to know, even if it’s not Mr.
Xu who hid her, has she contacted you?”

Xu Chenghao half-heartedly replied: “I don’t know if she contacted me or not, but I haven’t seen her.”

Ruan Chenxuan frowned: “That’s impossible.
Rouyu must have gone to find you.”

Xu Chenghao said half-truthfully: “Regardless of that, the truth is I haven’t seen her.”

Ruan Chenxuan was quiet for a moment, then suddenly placed a file folder on the table and said calmly: “Regardless, I still want to tell Mr.
Xu that Rouyu and I only have a small misunderstanding right now.
Her physical condition is very fragile, and if Mr.
Xu knows anything, I hope you can tell me.”

Xu Chenghao opened the file folder and glanced inside.
It contained a copy of the female lead’s physical examination report, and as he scanned through it, he finally saw the part that Ruan Chenxuan wanted to boast about – the female lead was pregnant.

So the male lead already knew at this point… How come it’s different from the plot? Shouldn’t it be the female lead returning with the child and the male lead realizing that the child looks exactly like him and saying something like, “How dare you run off with the ball?” or something along those lines?

Xu Chenghao pondered how much he had changed the plot while calmly putting the file folder back together: “Congratulations.” 

“Thank you.” Ruan Chenxuan’s lips curled into a shallow smile, then quickly returned to the main topic: “So, Mr.
Xu should understand what I mean, right?”

Xu Chenghao remained unaffected: “I understand, but I don’t know where An Rouyu is.
I can only wish Mr.
Ruan good luck in finding her, but I’m unable to help with anything else.”

Ruan Chenxuan: “I hope Mr.
Xu really doesn’t know.”

Xu Chenghao replied with a smile, deflecting all the probing questions perfectly.

In fact, in terms of strength, Ruan Chenxuan did not think that Xu Chenghao was the one who helped An Rouyu disappear.
Because the two of them were evenly matched, especially since he had someone tracking Xu Chenghao for a long time.
If An Rouyu wanted to find him, he would have received a message himself.

 

However, emotionally, An Rouyu trusted Xu Chenghao very much.
After the incident, the first person she thought of relying on was definitely Xu Chenghao – although Ruan Chenxuan was very jealous, he had to admit that if he had been taken care of for twenty years, he would also rely on this person.

 

But the problem was that after testing him, Xu Chenghao insisted that he had never seen An Rouyu and had no knowledge of the matter.

 

How could this be possible… An Rouyu didn’t have the ability to disappear so cleanly on her own; someone must have helped her.

 

Could it be Jing Yicheng?

 

Ruan Chenxuan suppressed his doubts and decided to talk to him another day to see how he would react.

 

Now that his attempts to probe had failed, he could only give up and turn to talk to Xu Chenghao about the project they were meeting for.

These days, the Jiang Group has split into two teams.
One was facing the Xu Group, telling Li Nian that someone was trying to intercept their deal and asking if they could cooperate, with various hints and price increases.
The other was facing the Ruan Group, telling them that the Xu Group had raised their offer and hoping that Ruan Chenxuan would also show sincerity and lower their percentage.

Sometimes people are like this – greedy and wanting to swallow everything at once, but they have to bear the risk of choking to death.

Ruan Chenxuan has had too many frustrating things these days and has completely lost patience.
He came this time to discuss the final steps of their cooperation with Xu Chenghao.

Naturally, Xu Chenghao was willing to cooperate.
After all, they were also busy, too busy to spare time to act and be abused.
It was completely self-inflicted punishment, and Li Nian had exploded several times.

So after the two discussed and ended their meeting, Xu Chenghao went back and announced in the meeting that they would give up cooperation with the Jiang Group because the Jiang Group was asking for too high a price.

Li Nian was the first to applaud.
God knows he was almost driven crazy by the people from the Jiang Group these days.
At first, they were coaxing him with kind words, but when their true colors were revealed, they became arrogant and dismissive.
They were like the emperor turning over the palace ladies with a strong sense of superiority when answering phone calls.

If he didn’t know that there was still a chance for them to be proven wrong, Li Nian would have exploded and smashed his phone long ago.

Fortunately, he finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel!

Li Nian raised his hand and said, “If Jiang’s family contacts us again, just leave it to me.”

Xu Chenghao nodded: “Okay, it’s all yours.”

Li Nian made a gesture of victory, looking forward to receiving a call from the Jiang Group as soon as possible.
They had been getting stronger one after another, and now it was time to see who was the real boss!

After a morning of meetings and appointments, when Xu Chenghao returned to his office area, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon.
He collapsed into his chair, exhausted, but before he could rest, someone suddenly appeared in front of him.

Xu Chenghao sat up straight: “What’s up?”

Jing Yicheng was silent for a few seconds before handing him a piece of paper: “Here’s the design you wanted.
Take a look and see if there’s anything that needs to be changed.”

“So fast.” Xu Chenghao eagerly took the paper and was stunned by the intricate internal structure.
He couldn’t understand it!

Jing Yicheng sat across from him, waiting for a response: “What do you think?”

Xu Chenghao frowned and stared at the paper for a long time before asking, “How is this used?”

Jing Yicheng pointed to the side: “You can connect it directly to the central management system.
Once you set the instructions based on your own needs, it will work on schedule.”

 

Xu Chenghao nodded with a look that suggested he understood but actually understood nothing: “Oh… what about the management system?”

Jing Yicheng: “It’s still in the development stage; it may take some time to complete.”

Xu Chenghao: “Oh, it looks good.”

Jing Yicheng: “If there’s no need for further changes, I’ll have them manufacture it directly.”

Xu Chenghao: “Alright.”

Anyway, he couldn’t understand it… To be honest, did they really need to show others the precise internal structure of this kind of thing? He thought that having the external shape was enough.

Xu Chenghao flipped through the paper several times before finding the mechanical design, taking a picture, and sending it to the designer for review.

Throughout this process, Jing Yicheng remained sitting across from him, his gaze calm and focused, with a rare seriousness.

Xu Chenghao looked up at him curiously and asked, “Is there anything else?”

Jing Yicheng replied seemingly casually, “No, not really… I just received a call from Ruan Chenxuan who suddenly came to see me and said he wanted to talk to me.
Can you guess what it’s about?”

Xu Chenghao packed up the paper and didn’t notice anything wrong: “It must be about An Rouyu, he came to see me too.”

 

Jing Yicheng said with a sigh: “I was wondering why he suddenly contacted me, turns out you two had already met.”

 

Xu Chenghao felt that there was more to the story and looked up at him for a few seconds before realizing that he had misunderstood.
He explained directly: “He actually contacted me to test me and see if I had hidden An Rouyu.
I denied it and didn’t say anything else.”

 

Jing Yicheng: “Is that all?”

 

Xu Chenghao: “That’s all.”

 

Jing Yicheng: “You swear on the chili?!”

 

Xu Chenghao: “…… en, I swear on the chili.”

 

Only then was Jing Yicheng satisfied and left.
He sent a message to Ruan Chenxuan when he returned to his office area, “Sorry, I’m not available to meet!”

 

 

The author has something to say: Xu Chenghao is the spokesperson for Chili pepper, and Chili pepper is the representative of Xu Chenghao’s sincerity.

 

T/N: I made it~