Absurd.
Too lazy to bother with this narcissistic woman, Xia Yunfan walked toward Jinxiu Haoting.
"Stop right there!"
A security guard stepped out of the guard booth, looking at Xia Yunfan with vigilance.
Jinxiu Haoting was the most exclusive villa district in Lanhai City, and the people living here were either wealthy or powerful.
The very first task for any security guard on duty here was to memorize the faces of all the residents.
As well as the friends and family members who frequently visited them.
And Xia Yunfan was definitely a completely new face.
The guard interrogated him, "What business do you have here? Why have you come?"
Xia Yunfan replied honestly, "I'm here to find my wife."
"Your wife? Which resident's nanny is she?"
The guard looked at Xia Yunfan with a scrutinizing gaze. Having worked here for a long time had given him an extraordinary eye.
At a single glance, he could tell Xia Yunfan's clothes were cheap stall items, with his entire outfit adding up to less than a hundred yuan.
This man's wife was definitely no noble resident, so after turning it over in his mind, she could only be a nanny.
Xia Yunfan said proudly, "My wife is Chu Xinyue."
Chu Xinyue!
The number one beauty of Lanhai City?!
"Pfft..."
The guard burst into laughter, laughing until tears streamed down his face, and turned to share the joke with the guard booth.
"Brothers, he says Chu Xinyue is his wife."
Following the guard's loud shout, two more guards emerged from the guard booth, doubling over with laughter as well.
"If your wife is Chu Xinyue, then my wife is the Secretary-General of the United Nations."
"Right, right, right, your wife is Chu Xinyue. Go home, find a photo of President Chu online, and just fantasize about her. Anything is possible in your dreams."
In the vast city of Lanhai, ninety-nine percent of the people wished Chu Xinyue could be their wife.
There were always a few muddle-headed people who couldn't tell fantasy from reality.
For idiots like this, the three guards simply urged him to leave.
After all, who would bother arguing with a fool?
The lead guard advised, "This is Jinxiu Haoting, and the residents here are extraordinary people. This is not a place where you belong. Move along and don't delay our work."
"Does nobody believe the truth these days?" Xia Yunfan said earnestly, "My wife is in danger right now, and I must see her."
Seeing that Xia Yunfan was still trying to walk inside, the three guards wiped the playful grins off their faces.
This was the very facade of Jinxiu Haoting, and if anything happened here, all of them would be held responsible.
"Are your ears stuffed with chicken feathers? Didn't you hear us tell you to leave?"
"He's probably a lunatic. Hurry up and kick him out, or if the big shots see him, none of us will have a good end."
"Kid, if you don't leave now, my rubber baton won't be so polite."
The three guards pulled rubber batons from behind their backs, glaring fiercely at Xia Yunfan in hopes of scaring the kid away.
Xia Yunfan couldn't be bothered with their posturing and took out his phone from his pocket.
The marriage contract had contact information on it, so he dialed the number directly.
Yet what awaited him was a long series of automated tones, until finally, after a long while, the call went through.
"Hello, greetings. The Elder is not convenient to take calls right now. I am the butler. If you have any matter, you can tell me, and I will relay it to the Elder later."
The voice of a very polite middle-aged man came from the other end.
"I am Xia Yunfan! Within five minutes, I want to see members of the Chu Family at the entrance of Jinxiu Haoting to pick me up." Xia Yunfan said coldly.
"Mr. Xia! Thank heavens, we've finally been waiting for you! I'll have the young lady go pick you up right now."
The old butler on the other end of the line sounded extremely excited.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Yunfan looked earnestly at the guards, "In five minutes, members of the Chu Family will come personally to pick me up."
Upon hearing this, the guards were laughed into a rage.
"Talk big and you really start huffing and puffing! If the Chu Family actually comes to pick you up, I'll eat five catties of shit!"
"I see your daydream hasn't worn off yet. Let me help wake you up!"
"Hold on, don't use force yet. Didn't he ask for five minutes? Let's just give him five minutes!"
The last guard to speak, seeing his two colleagues walking menacingly toward Xia Yunfan, stepped in to stop them.
In case this was a trap to extort them, wouldn't they fall right into it if they threw punches? They could spare five minutes.
The three of them stood together, waiting to watch Xia Yunfan make a fool of himself.
"Vroom, vroom, vroom..."
In less than three minutes, a roaring engine sound echoed through the air.
Everyone looked toward the interior of Jinxiu Haoting as a luxury motorcade drove up.
Leading the way was a Rolls-Royce.
The three guards were so shocked their eyeballs almost popped out of their heads.
As guards, they not only had to recognize all the residents, but naturally also the vehicles traveling through here.
"Oh my lord, it's the Chu Family motorcade!"
"I've been a guard at Jinxiu Haoting for so many years, and this is the first time I've ever seen such a massive display."
"Just what kind of big shot requires the Chu Family to give them such a grand welcome?"
The three guards glanced at the calm and composed Xia Yunfan beside them, and an incredulous thought arose in their hearts.
Yet a moment later, they cast that thought to the back of their minds.
No matter how they looked at it, this shifty-looking punk couldn't possibly be Chu Xinyue's husband.
Even if he were, it wouldn't be enough to prompt the Chu Family to dispatch such a massive formation.
Very soon, the motorcade came to a halt at the entrance.
The doors opened, and members of the Chu Family of varying ages stepped out.
From middle-aged adults down to youths, each person carried an air of extraordinary arrogance—the confidence bestowed upon them by a wealthy family.
Yet at this moment, all of these people were scanning their surroundings for the young talent mentioned by the Elder—the one who would change the destiny of their Chu Family.
Amidst their sweeping gazes, they automatically filtered out Xia Yunfan standing off to the side.
At the front, Chu Xinyue's heart was fluttering like a trapped fawn, filled with both anticipation and nervousness.
"Young man, where are you?"
The moment she arrived home, she had been informed by the old butler that her fiancé had arrived.
At first she had refused, but she never expected the fiancé spoken of by the old butler to be the very young man she had been yearning for.
Among the Chu family members, she was the fastest to move. She wondered what the young man would look like after fifteen years.
Yet around Jinxiu Haoting, apart from the security guards, there was only that jerk from the plane—the stalker who had followed her all the way here.
Chu Xinyue demanded, "Why are you still here?!"
Xia Yunfan said proudly, "Waiting for my wife here. Besides, I can stay wherever I want; Jinxiu Haoting isn't run by your family, what business is it of yours to manage me?"
"Hah," Chu Xinyue sneered. "You're right, Jinxiu Haoting really *is* run by my family."
The Chu Family operated numerous industries of all sizes, including steel, pharmaceuticals, real estate, and more.
Jinxiu Haoting was one of the Chu Family's properties.
"Sis, he must be the stalker you mentioned. Why are you wasting so much breath talking to him?"
A girl who shared a thirty percent resemblance to Chu Xinyue looked at Xia Yunfan with an unkind expression.
The girl instructed the guards nearby, "You three, hurry up and chase this bastard away. Don't let him delay us from welcoming our distinguished guest."