The President’s Man - Chapter 337

Xiao Lei looked at Fan Xiyue and smiled as she replied politely, “Yes, Mr. Han tends to treat his people with respect.”

“Respect? More like love,” President Wei thought as he continued eating.

“Ah, it’s good to know then. It’s hard to find a good boss nowadays,” Fan Xiyue said. When her glass of wine came, she thanked the waiter before asking Xiao Lei, “You know… You reminded me of someone.”

“Oh?” Xiao Lei raised a brow, wondering where Fan Xiyue was going with this.

Fan Xiyue took a sip before nodding. While putting her glass of wine down, she said, “Yeah…”

She then looked at Xiao Lei straight in the eyes and added, “Like my late cousin, Fan Wushuang.”

She narrowed her eyes as she tried to see if there were any changes in the woman’s expressions, but unfortunately, there was none… which only raised her suspicion. No matter what, this kind of question usually brought some kind of reactions, but in Xiao Lei’s case, there was none at all. It was as if Fan Xiyue had merely said something like “the weather is good today”.

President Wei frowned and looked at Xiao Lei before asking, “Where? I couldn’t see the resemblance.”

Fan Xiyue smiled as she kept her eyes on Xiao Lei. “That’s ’cause you’ve only seen her in pictures before. If you’ve met her in real life before, you’d be able to see what I see.”

Xiao Lei narrowed her eyes at Fan Xiyue and asked, “Oh, what did you see?”

Fan Xiyue shrugged. “Things… Feelings… I might be wrong though…”

She laughed softly, and like a proper socialite, she covered her mouth with her hand as she laughed. After a while, she shook her head and said, “Well, then again, when think about Ms. Xiao’s personality, I know that my feelings are wrong.”

“What do you mean?” President Wei asked. He was curious, and besides, this was the first time Fan Xiyue had spoken so many words to someone she barely knew. In the years that he knew her, Fan Xiyue had always been somewhat reserved, and she was the type of woman who preferred to stay silent in the background while watching others, as if she were trying to catch something out of the people she was with.

To be honest, President Wei was a little wary of her. He knew that if President Fan Chuan had passed the leadership of the company to her, it would only be a matter of time before she started to come after President Wei’s company.

This was a woman with a thirst for power, and so, President Wei was glad that President Fan Chuan was too blind to see the strength in his own daughter, choosing to pass the leadership to his much milder son-in-law as well.

President Wei glanced at Xiao Lei. When he first met her at the Fan Family’s party, his first thought was how she reminded him of someone. However, at that time, he thought that it was just a coincidence. After all, there were a lot of people who could have similar features. Yet it wasn’t just her looks that reminded him; it was her aura, to put it simply.

Fan Xiyue chuckled and said, “When I first saw Ms. Xiao, I thought she was extremely familiar, and I thought she looked like my late cousin. But now that I’ve met her…”

She looked at Xiao Lei and continued, “I mean, now that I’ve met you up close, in your everyday clothes, I can see that you and my cousin are too different. My cousin was quite arrogant and princess-like, and there was no way she would be caught dead in those items of clothing. She only wore the very best, you know… Just the baby clothes that she wore would cost more than an average man’s monthly salary.”

She then sighed and added, “If she had somehow lived on, I’m sure she would still be the same… She was pretty rude, you know, and that’s the thing that differentiates her from you.”

Hearing Fan Xiyue’s describe her right to her face, Xiao Lei could not control herself well, and one of her hands jerked unconsciously, causing a spoon to fall to the ground. “S-sorry,” she mumbled as she tried to pick it up, but President Wei stopped her.

“It’s fine, let the waiter do it,” he said with a smile before signaling the nearby waiter to take the spoon away and replace it with a clean on. President Wei then looked at Fan Xiyue and said, “Now, Ms. Fan, there’s nothing wrong with Ms. Xiao’s clothes.”

“I didn’t say that there’s anything,” Fan Xiyue said to President Wei with a slight frown. She then gasped and reached over to hold Xiao Lei’s hand as she said, “I didn’t offend you, did I, Ms. Xiao? I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

Xiao Lei tried to pull her hand back subtly, but Fan Xiyue’s hold on her was so tight that she could not do it without causing President Wei to suspect something.

“It’s fine, Ms. Fan…” Xiao Lei said while faking a polite smile.

“No…” Fan Xiyue said with a conflicted expression. Suddenly, her elbow knocked the glass of wine over, and she pulled her hand that was holding Xiao Lei’s hand back since it was in the way of the spilled wine.

“Argh!” Xiao Lei cried out softly as she pulled her hand back. When Fan Xiyue pulled her own hand back, some of her sharp, well-manicured nails scratched across the back of Xiao Lei’s hand. There were three long, red marks across them, but thankfully, the cuts were superficial, and from the looks of it, they would fully heal quickly enough.

“I’m so sorry! It was clumsy of me,” Fan Xiyue said with a slightly frantic expression.

“No-no, it’s fine.”

“I have some first-aid kit in my car. I’ll just go and grab it,” Fan Xiyue said as she stood up. She then called a waiter over and said, “Please clean this…”

She then ran off before Xiao Lei and President Wei could say anything.

“That’s weird,” President Wei frowned slightly as he said, “I’ve never seen her act in such a manner before.”

“Really?” Xiao Lei asked dryly.

“Yeah, Ms. Fan is always a calm and composed person,” President Wei replied. They relaxed while the waiters changed the table cloth, and when everything was done, President Wei said, “Now that she mentioned it…”

He leaned forward and took a good look at Xiao Lei’s face before nodding. “I’m not sure if you look like the late Fan Wushuang, but I do see a bit of Chen Qingting in you.”

Xiao Lei chuckled. “I have heard that a lot before.”

“It’s uncanny…” President Wei narrowed his eyes and leaned even further forward. “Yes… Before this, I thought that your aura reminded me of like Chen Qingting, back when she was young, but now that I have a closer look, you do look a lot like Chen Qingting. Not just in aura…”

Even the director told him that as well, but at that time, President Wei did not think much of it since that was the whole reason why he wanted Xiao Lei to join the cast. Now that

Xiao Lei gently pushed President Wei’s shoulder so that he sat back down before saying, “I know… I’ve been told that a lot of times. I guess I’m just a doppelganger. But believe me, it’s mostly because of the makeup. Without makeup, I look completely different.”