Han Xuanxuan finally took a deep breath, looked out at the bustling traffic, and told Lu Jingxiu everything.

Just as Lu Jingxiu had predicted.

An Jia's methods of threatening Han Jia were as simple and brutal as ever.

First, they warned them that the consequence of not cooperating would be death. Then, they sent people to follow Han's father, mother, and Han Xuanxuan around the clock every day.

Whether they are going to work or coming home, they can always see a black sedan following them at a distance, like a stubborn plaster that they can't shake off.

At night, these cars are parked downstairs at their house, with their lights on and figures sitting motionless in the driver's seat.

After listening, Lu Jingxiu picked up his teacup, took a sip, and then poured himself a full cup.

That's right, very much in line with the methods of a domineering CEO.

He discovered that these outlaws were generally not very bright, and their methods were always the same few.

Stalking, threatening, creating psychological pressure, and a more sophisticated method is to call in people to fight in groups.

It's like bullying in elementary school, except "Don't leave after school" has been replaced with "Your whole family should die."

"Your father is a deputy director-level official, don't you know to call the police?" Lu Jingxiu asked.

He thought this question was reasonable. When faced with a stalking threat, shouldn't the first reaction be to call the police?

"It's no use reporting it; they have connections in high places." Han Xuanxuan shook her head slightly, looking at him with a "you're too naive" expression.

"Why do you all always think the other person has connections?" Lu Jingxiu frowned. "If that were the case, the higher-ups would be overflowing, there wouldn't be enough room for everyone."

Han Xuanxuan suddenly became agitated, her speech quickening: "Fine, Young Master Lu, you want me to call the police, but have you considered how to do that?"

"They say An Xiaozhao wanted to kill our whole family? Did she do it? She didn't!"

"She just had people follow my dad to work every day, follow my mom to buy groceries, and follow me to the newspaper office."

"When the police arrive, they just say, 'We're on this road too, what a coincidence!' What can you do then?"

"The An family never takes direct action; they just send people around you so you know they can act at any time."

"Can the police protect our family 24 hours a day? No, so what's the point of calling the police? Are they going to come and collect the body after they've already taken action?"

Her voice trembled with a hint of tears, and her eyes were already red: "Do you think I didn't try anything? I asked a colleague at the newspaper to help me report it anonymously, and the very next day, he resigned."

"He's staying at home now, drinking every day. His mother calls my dad every day, saying it's all my fault."

Her nose stung, and a wave of bitterness rose in her throat, but she stubbornly held on and didn't break down.

"My dad is a cadre, but what good is that? We have the power to expose these behaviors, and we control the official media. But the result of the exposure is that the whole family disappears."

"The only outcome of a head-on confrontation would be to make room for someone else to become the newspaper editor-in-chief, then the An family would send the murderers to jail, and finally pay a sum of money. But who would get the compensation? Could our family afford it in the afterlife?"

Her tears fell one by one.

After saying that, she wiped her eyes, stood up, and bowed deeply to Lu Jingxiu, her hair falling down to cover her face.

"Young Master Lu, we really have no other choice. We just want to live and don't want to get involved in your affairs."

"I beg you, if you just go see An Xiaozhao, they promise they'll let us go."

Lu Jingxiu was speechless for a moment. He looked at the girl in front of him who was bowing and refusing to get up, and remained silent.

"Please sit down." He took the tissues and handed them to her.

Han Xuanxuan sat down again, took the tissue and said "thank you," then wiped her eyes, blew her nose, crumpled the tissue into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

The sound was a bit loud, but she didn't seem to care much.

She took a few deep breaths to calm her emotions, then looked up, her face full of apology: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I didn't control my emotions just now, please forgive me."

Lu Jingxiu did not blame her.

He could tell that she had just unleashed all the pent-up despair and fear she had been holding in for days, and that his rebuttal had triggered it all in an instant.

She wasn't taking her anger out on him; she just couldn't take it anymore.

After all, although Han Xuanxuan is pretty, she obviously doesn't meet the standards of the female lead that the domineering CEO likes.

Therefore, for CEOs, this is just a supporting role.

And the domineering CEOs never care about the fate of the supporting characters.

Supporting characters are just there to drive the plot forward; once they're done, they can be discarded.

Through his interactions with Han Xuanxuan over this period of time, he realized that the girl was actually very smart.

Last time, she taught him how to win over the president of the Polytechnic University. She spoke in a methodical manner, and every step was carried out precisely within the framework of the rules. This shows that she understands the rules of the system very well and is also good at using the rules.

But that's where the problem lies.

She's a rule-abiding player, but when faced with an opponent like An Jia who doesn't play by the rules and resorts to violence and coercion, she's completely at a loss for how to fight back.

Rules? They don't follow the rules with you.

The law? They're just skirting the rules with you.

You try to reason with him, but he acts like a thug.

You try to be a scoundrel with him... most people can't outsmart them.

What Han Xuanxuan said earlier actually makes sense.

The other party simply sent people to follow their entire family; they didn't actually do anything else.

Legally, stalking is a gray area; it is difficult to obtain evidence, difficult to determine its nature, and even more difficult to handle.

But if they really don't listen, and one day Anjia decides to go all the way and just get rid of them, all the police can do in the end is bring a few of the perpetrators to justice.

As for An Jia himself, he simply replaced a few of his henchmen and continued to live a carefree life.

Therefore, the Han family dared not gamble, and no one else would dare to gamble in their place.

Lu Jingxiu had also experienced the domineering CEO's methods firsthand.

Yesterday, forty or fifty people drove Porsches and followed him into the provincial party committee's residential compound, making a huge show of force and showing great momentum.

As a result, they were wiped out by the armed police and security guards, and are now all in detention.

"I'll help you figure out a way to solve your problem," Lu Jingxiu said slowly, his tone gentler than before.

"But have you considered that even if I go to see An Xiaozhao, do you think they'll really let you go now that they've used this method to control you?"

He paused, looked into Han Xuanxuan's eyes, and reminded her, "There are too many things you can do with a newspaper editor."

"Today you make me contact you, tomorrow your dad might publish something they want in the newspaper, and the day after tomorrow they might get your dad to cooperate with something else. Once they get a taste of the benefits, they'll only want more and more."

Let alone in real life, even in movies, do you think those murderers who have something on their neighbor's wife would be satisfied with just one threat?

No, they will only push their luck again and again.

This analogy may not be entirely accurate, but the principle is the same.

Han Xuanxuan shook her head, a look of confusion on her face: "I guessed they might not let us go so easily, but... we have to try, just in case?"

She knew all this, of course, but there was nothing she could do about it.

At this point, she turned her gaze to the window again, her voice lowering as if talking to herself: "If it really doesn't work... then we'll see."

Lu Jingxiu didn't say anything more.

He took out his phone, tapped the screen a few times to turn off the recording, then found Lu Feng's WeChat, dragged the audio file over, and clicked send.

This way, her father will be aware of the situation, lest the disciplinary committee actually comes to investigate Han Xuanxuan's father, which would be a real disaster.

The Han family is now a victim of coercion, not a traitor who took sides voluntarily. This nature of the situation needs to be clarified.

As for the matter of Han Xuanxuan being followed and threatened by people sent by the An family, we can just ask Lu Feng how to resolve it when the time comes.

Having a cunning father who doesn't consult anyone and racks his brains every day to come up with solutions is exhausting.

Leave professional matters to professionals.

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