The Anran Club is a private playground built specifically for An Lan by her father. It includes a horse stable, an archery range, a fencing room, a swimming pool, and a golf practice facility. (It’s not a golf course.)
The entire club spans over two hundred acres, and despite being in the suburbs and the land being purchased ten years ago, it cost an astronomical sum.
An Lan’s father, An Zhaozhong, is not like Lin Hao. He should be considered a true business elite. In his grandfather’s generation, they were industrialists during the late Qing and early Republic of China period. Although the family fell on hard tis for a while, after the reform and opening up and with the help of overseas branch capital from the An Family, they quickly flourished again.
Therefore, An Zhaozhong is not only a prominent businessman in H City but throughout the whole Z Province. His business empire includes real estate, trade, clothing, special glass, and other cross-sector comrcial groups.
Of course, because of the complex cross-shareholdings and other factors, his na is not visible on the Forbes Rich List. However, the entire family empire still has assets worth over a hundred billion.
Like all family conglorates, there is always so degree of intrigue. An Lan felt deeply saddened and powerless to change it, so she kept her distance and didn’t get involved in the family business. But as her father’s beloved daughter, An Zhaozhong built her a private playground a few years ago, which was later converted into a publicly run club.
And this club is managed by An Lan and has beco part of her assets. Her brothers and sisters, seeing that she only kept to the club and didn’t compete for family assets, all ca to befriend her. Thus, this beautiful woman beca the most popular mber of the family.
Under An Lan’s managent, the entire club is slightly profitable but not abundantly so.
Such a large club only has an annual net profit of ten million, mainly because An Lan found it too troubleso and intentionally abandoned many businesses and clients. In her heart, this was just her private playground, but she felt it was too extravagant, so she opened it up to avoid too much annual loss.
An Lan has her own career. She is both an equestrian and a fashion designer. She appears to be a female elite, but in reality, she is a drear at heart.
Her equestrian skills are quite high, though she hasn’t participated in the Olympic equestrian competitions, she’s taken part in nurous other competitions of various sizes.
"Miss An, there’s a gentleman looking for you, very handso." Her assistant walked in.
Suddenly, An Lan was startled.
He’s here, already? So quickly?
An Lan took deep breaths, completely forgetting what she was practicing earlier.
"Co on, co on... You’re already twenty-six. If you can’t find a man you love, you’ll beco a leftover woman." An Lan bit her lip, clenched her pink fist, and walked out.
...
Filled with anticipation, An Lan walked to the lobby with a racing heart, only to be imdiately disappointed. Her flushed cheeks instantly cooled down.
It wasn’t the man from yesterday who made her swoon; it was Li Yizheng.
What was her assistant thinking? Did she really consider Li Yizheng handso? Alright, he was indeed pretty good-looking, but compared to the man from last night who was like a drug, he really was like a weed.
However, An Lan knew she couldn’t afford to offend Li Yizheng, or it could cause huge trouble for the family business. So people might not necessarily help you succeed, but they can easily ruin you.
This Li Yizheng can definitely be considered a big shot coming from the north.
"Mr. Li, welco." An Lan greeted Li Yizheng with a polite smile.
Li Yizheng’s bold gaze surveyed An Lan’s face and figure.
At this mont, An Lan was wearing professional riding attire, accentuating her slender and athletic figure, absolutely stunning yet not at all frivolous. Especially her face, with its ticulously applied light makeup, was beautiful and clean.
Li Yizheng, having seen countless won, found this woman exceptionally rare.
Beauty in won is not valuable, but if beauty is combined with cleanliness, intelligence, a good family background, education, wisdom, and outstanding talents, then it becos invaluable.
And this An Lan in front of him undoubtedly t all these criteria.
"With this attire and charisma, my grandfather will definitely like you," said Li Yizheng. "You don’t know, I’ve brought ho three won. All were chased out. If you co ho with , I guarantee the old man will have nothing to say."
These words were exceedingly domineering, as if An Lan was already his wife.
An Lan’s expression turned cold. "Mr. Li, please feel free!"
Then, she was about to walk away.
Li Yizheng said, "An Lan, yesterday Lin Shi, that kid, told that won have Stockholm syndro and advised to tie you up and keep you locked up to develop feelings. I refused. If the old man knew, he would skin . How can such thods be used on a future wife?"
An Lan said, "Mr. Li, there are won prettier than . You shouldn’t waste your ti on ."
"There are indeed many beautiful won, but they are not of value," Li Yizheng grinned. "I don’t lack won, but I lack a wife, a wife who can be presentable."
"Then you can go to a matchmaking event," An Lan said. "There are countless such events each year for people like you, with many beautiful, talented, and well-bred girls waiting for you to choose from."
Li Yizheng said, "Let’s go. I heard you have a few good horses. Let’s take them for a ride."
"Sorry, it’s not very convenient today," An Lan said.
"Why is it inconvenient? Is it that ti of the month?" Li Yizheng glanced at An Lan’s fitted riding pants and said, "Doesn’t look like it, can’t tell at all?"
An Lan finally couldn’t help but say, "Saying such things is really revolting. One day I’d like to ask your father, is this the family education you received?"
"Such a sharp mouth, I like it. I’m just straightforward, you’ll understand after living with for a while," Li Yizheng said. "Let’s go, show your horses. You must go, you know if you don’t, I’ll be unhappy, and the consequences of that will be very serious."
At this mont, An Lan suddenly felt her heart race, and her whole body heat up, as she seed to detect a scent.
She looked up and, sure enough, saw a man walk in.
It was the sa man from yesterday, the impossibly handso man full of magic power.
Imdiately, An Lan forgot all about Li Yizheng next to her and quickly ran towards Lanling.
After running a short distance, she realized that running like this was not elegant at all and lacked any semblance of charm. So, she switched to a quick brisk walk.
"What should I say? What should I say?" An Lan found her mind in a ss.
Lanling handed over a stack of cash and said, "This is twenty thousand yuan, the money for the clothes bought yesterday."
An Lan quietly took a deep breath, reached out to take the money, and warned herself not to let her hands tremble, not to tremble.
"Don’t let my face show any expression, don’t act like a fangirl," An Lan warned herself in her heart.
Then she gave Lanling a mischievous smile and said, "You’ve paid for the clothes, but what about my service fee? I’m quite expensive!"
Okay, that line was really cheesy, but... she was at a loss for words.
"Uh..." Lanling didn’t expect the beautiful woman in front of him to say sothing like that.
"I spent over half an hour buying clothes for you yesterday, right?" An Lan got into character, tilting her face to look at Lanling, desperately holding back her emotions to avoid letting her eyes sparkle like stars.
He was truly too handso, indescribably so. Seeing him at night, he was already gorgeous, but in daylight, he was blindingly stunning.
"Mm," Lanling responded.
"I’m off to take care of the horses now; help and give that half hour back. You look so handso; surely you wouldn’t shirk your debts," An Lan said coyly.
Then, inside her mind, she scolded herself a thousand tis over. Superficial, superficial, superficial. How could you say ’you look so handso’? Are you out of your mind, you idiot? That’s why you’re still single. It’s over, it’s over, you’re going to be looked down on.
Li Yizheng, standing by, was on the brink of exploding as he witnessed this scene.
Damn it! Could she be any more obvious?
An Lan’s gaze directed at this man? It was just short of blatantly saying, "Let’s get a room."
What a family background did Li Yizheng have? What kind of authority? Yet here he was, treated coldly by An Lan. What did that pretty boy have aside from a face? Yet An Lan seed eager to throw herself at him.
Are won’s brains made of nothing rational? What the hell is a handso face good for?
However, what he didn’t know was that what attracted An Lan to Lanling wasn’t just his looks; it was just the foundation. The real killer was his aura.
Of course, Li Yizheng wouldn’t directly step forward and ask Lanling who he was and what his family did.
That would be too shallow. He didn’t think just anyone had the right to be questioned by him.
"I’m discussing sothing with Miss An, so irrelevant people should leave," Li Yizheng said calmly. "Old Five, throw this person out for ."
"Yes!" A trendously muscular man walked in.
Standing at a solid 1.9 ters tall, his muscles were rock-hard, and his punch could flatten an iron door.
This Old Five was Li Yizheng’s bodyguard.
Old Five walked in, stood in front of Lanling, and said, "Will you get out yourself, or do I need to throw you out?"
An Lan’s expression changed, and she imdiately tried to pull Lanling to leave.
She was smart enough to know not to suffer losses or have a direct conflict with Li Yizheng.
"Who is this?" Lanling asked. "Your man?"
"No," An Lan said, pulling Lanling to run outside.
Seeing this, Li Yizheng was even more furious and yelled, "Old Five, go break his arm."
The hulking Old Five stepped forward, grabbed Lanling’s arm, and said, "Sorry, my master wants to break your arm because you touched sothing you shouldn’t have."
Lanling laughed and said, "You took my line."
Then, Lanling gently twisted his arm.
"Ah..." A sharp, agonizing scream filled the air.
This tiger-like Old Five had his sturdy arm twisted into a pretzel, with all the bones in his arm completely shattered!
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