"Su Xuan, I’ll wait for you!" "If I can’t see you, I won’t leave even if it kills me!" Alice cried into the microphone, her voice choked with sobs as large tears slid down from her beautiful eyes. "My precious daughter, please don’t cry," her father, Richard, said, trying to comfort her when he saw her weeping so pitifully. "Seeing you so sad makes Daddy very upset, too. Look, Daddy came to pick you up personally today. Can’t you cheer up for me?" But Alice only cried harder. She had thought she was going to be flown away, that she would never see Su Xuan again. She never imagined that Su Xuan would actually use three planes to intercept her father’s private jet. He was really coming! He was coming for her! "Alice, stop crying!" Su Xuan’s voice came through the phone again. "If you still want to be my woman, you will smile for me for the rest of your life. Never shed another tear." Alice nodded vigorously, then raised her arm to wipe her eyes. And just like that, she really stopped crying. The world’s wealthiest man, Richard, was stunned. My daughter, whom I couldn’t console no matter what, was calmed by a single sentence from the man on the phone? Who on earth is he? Richard began to feel an intense curiosity about Su Xuan. But his expression immediately darkened. He said to Alice in a deep voice, "Alice, Dad has a ten-billion-US-dollar deal to discuss in Turkmenistan. Please ask your... *boy*... to move his planes." "I’ll wait for you, Su Xuan!" Alice said into the phone before hanging up. She then lifted her peerlessly beautiful face to her father. "Dad, I’m waiting for him today. If I can’t see him, I won’t go with you even if it kills me. Also, please don’t call him a boy. He’s my boyfriend." Frustrated, Richard rubbed his forehead. "Good God, is he more important than your father and our family’s business? Why must you be so stubborn?" "Fine," Richard conceded. "You can wait for him and see him, but he’ll have to pay a price of ten billion US dollars." "Dad, in your eyes, can everything truly be measured in money? There’s an old Chinese saying that describes people like you perfectly: ’Merchants value profit and think little of parting.’" "Oh, damn it! How dare you speak to your father that way!" Richard threw up his hands in exasperation. "If your mother heard you, she would be heartbroken!" "And now you bring up my mother?" Alice retorted. "For your empire of money, you left Mom and me in China, wasting nearly twenty years of her youth. Have you never felt that was cruel?" Richard gestured at the luxurious cabin. "Without my efforts, would you have the kind of wealth that others couldn’t accumulate in several lifetimes? Besides, your mother is Chinese; she enjoys living in her homeland. "And I’m getting old. Everything I have will be yours. When you take over my fortune, you’ll understand that you can’t have both a career and a family!" He paused, then continued, "I’ll give you an old Chinese saying, too: You can’t have your cake and eat it too." "I’m going to wait for him," Alice insisted. "Impossible!" Richard shot back. Alice glanced at the three planes outside the porthole. "If he can’t see me, then you can’t leave either." "You’re underestimating me," Richard said. "I have formidable connections in China. With just one phone call, I can take everything from your boyfriend and make him vanish from your world forever." "You wouldn’t dare," Alice said, her tone incredibly firm. "Alice, you are being far too presumptuous!" Richard rubbed his face, giving up on arguing with his daughter. He sat back down in his seat and returned to his whiskey. His brow remained furrowed and his hands were clenched into tight fists. Clearly, he was suppressing a great deal of anger. Alice, meanwhile, leaned against the porthole, staring unblinkingly outside, waiting for the arrival of the person she missed so desperately. After a moment, her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, her pretty face filled with excitement and elation. She sprang to her feet and ran toward the sealed cabin door. "Susanna!" Richard lifted his bloodshot eyes and gave the flight attendant a meaningful look. "Understood, Mr. Richard." The flight attendant, Susanna, immediately intercepted Alice and pushed her back down into her seat. "He’s here! He’s come to see me! Quick, let me go! Let me see him, please let me see him!" Alice shoved at Susanna but couldn’t budge her. She had no choice but to struggle over to the porthole, shouting to the person outside, "Su Xuan! Su Xuan! I’m here! I’m right here!" Su Xuan really had come. At that moment, he was standing alone on the tarmac, right outside Alice’s private jet. He looked up at Alice, who was struggling against the flight attendant’s grip, and his brow furrowed into a sharp line. He first nodded to Alice, signaling for her not to worry. Then, his gaze fell on the brunette flight attendant, Susanna. "You wretched woman," he said coldly. "You are going to regret this. How dare you lay a hand on my woman!" Su Xuan then made a phone call and said in a commanding tone, "President Xia, send an airstair vehicle over here!" "Understood, Boss Su!" Xia Zhengye, the president of Fei Lian Airlines, immediately agreed. Soon, an airstair vehicle, complete with an automatic escalator, pulled up beside Su Xuan. "Get me up to that window," Su Xuan told the driver, pointing to the porthole where Alice was. "Right away, Boss!" The driver immediately moved the vehicle closer, raising the stairs toward the window. "Do you have a hammer in here?" Su Xuan asked the driver just as he was about to climb the stairs. The driver searched the cab but couldn’t find a hammer. He did, however, find a large wrench used for tightening bolts. "Will this do?" he asked Su Xuan. Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn 𝗻𝗼𝘷𝗲𝗹•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝕟𝕖𝕥 "Perfect." Su Xuan took the heavy metal wrench from the driver’s hand. And so, carrying a large wrench, Su Xuan climbed the stairs. He emerged outside Alice’s window, standing majestically against the airport wind. "I’m here," he said, pressing his face to the glass. Alice immediately nodded. "Mm!" Su Xuan then used the wrench to strike the windowpane forcefully. BANG! BANG! BANG! The shocking sound made everyone’s heart jump. Then, Su Xuan glared at the flight attendant Susanna, who was still restraining Alice. "Let her go," he said, his voice dangerously low. "Or I’m breaking through this window and smashing your head in." Susanna was completely taken aback by Su Xuan’s actions and words. In her flight attendant training, she had learned how to handle all sorts of emergencies, but this was clearly not one of them. She turned to look at Alice’s father, Richard. "Oh, this damned young man!" An exaggerated, yet furious, expression crossed Richard’s face. He stood up and walked over to the window. It seemed he felt it was necessary to teach Su Xuan a lesson. He would show this kid that he, one of the world’s richest men, was no paper tiger. As he stood, a bodyguard wearing imposing sunglasses, a black suit, and a crew cut rose from a seat in the back of the cabin and moved to stand behind Richard. The foreign bodyguard reached to his waist and drew a handgun. He chambered a round, held the weapon with both hands, and aimed it directly at Su Xuan outside the window. Su Xuan ignored Richard and his menacing bodyguard, turning to Alice with a warm curve of his lips. "Alice, give your future husband a smile." In truth, Alice had already started smiling the moment she saw Su Xuan appear so heroically outside her window, wrench in hand. But hearing his words made her even happier. A beautiful smile blossomed on her face, one her father, Richard, had never seen before. That smile was for Su Xuan and Su Xuan alone. Su Xuan smiled back from outside the window and said, "My woman is so beautiful when she smiles."