The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

”Xiao Yanzi, when is your flight? I’ll pick you up!”

On the phone, Yan Yan’s gentle voice, filled with laughter, came through.

”No need! Yan Yan, you should just be a good bride-to-be and patiently wait for your grand wedding!”

Zhao Yan, holding her mobile phone in one hand and finding her suitcase on the luggage conveyor belt with the other, exclaimed boldly, ”I’ve already arrived and am picking up my luggage now!”

”What? You’re already back? Oh dear, hold on a moment, I’ll head to the airport to pick you up right away!”

Yan Yan was a bit surprised and quickly rushed out.

”Oh, really, there’s no need! It’s not like I don’t know the way, and besides, my mom’s also here to pick me up!”

Zhao Yan said nonchalantly, ”Come on, there’s no need to rush over.”

Upon hearing Zhao Yan say this, Yan Yan ceased her insistence, ”Alright, then you and Auntie be safe on the road!”

”Don’t worry, I won’t miss your grand wedding!”

Zhao Yan laughed and teased Yan Yan for a bit before finally hanging up the phone.

After retrieving her luggage, she stepped out of the airport and saw He Tiantian, who had been waiting at the exit.

”Yanyan! Here!”

He Tiantian waved her arm energetically.

”Mom!” Zhao Yan, who had spoken so lightly with Yan Yan on the phone as if her return to the country was no big deal, suddenly felt an inexplicable excitement upon seeing her beloved mother at the familiar airport.

She rushed forward, directly into her real mother’s embrace. Sensing the familiar scent, Zhao Yan finally felt at peace and secure.

She’s back!

After four years abroad, she finally returned!

This time, she’s not only back for her friend Yan Yan’s wedding but also to embark on her entrepreneurship journey.

Having studied for three years abroad and spent one year on Wall Street, she is no longer the naive young girl she once was.

She has enriched her academic pursuits, completed her initial capital accumulation, and is filled with ambition to establish her own empire.

Stepping onto the land of the Provincial City once more, observing the ever-changing scenery outside the car window, she felt both familiar and unfamiliar.

But above all, there was a surge of courage—this will be my stage!

Apart from her career, her family and attachments are all in the Provincial City.

Her stepfather, Professor Qiao, has retired, but he hasn’t rested; instead, he continues to serve as a consultant for some major enterprises.

Her real mother, ”He Xiutian,” also owns her own business and is known as a powerful woman and virtuous wife in the Provincial City.

Zhao Yan herself no longer carried the vanity or insecurity she once had.

She is confident, flamboyant, proud, and radiant.

Even without the halo of her stepfather and real mother, she herself is extraordinarily outstanding—

A top student from an Ivy League business school, a young rising star on Wall Street, and soon to be a new star in the business community of the Provincial City!

Her naturally beautiful appearance, coupled with her outstanding temperament, undoubtedly makes her a goddess.

A group of college friends saw her and couldn’t help but exclaim, ”Oh my god, Yanyan has become more and more remarkable, just like Xiao Yan, she’s definitely a leading figure straight out of an online novel!”

”That’s right! Yanyan is an Overbearing Boss, while Xiao Yan is the gentle yet strong-willed powerful woman!”

”... Ha, inexplicably feel that Yanyan and Xiao Yan have such a CP (couple) vibe. I can’t help but imagine an 8000-word fanfic!”

”Actually, it’s no big deal, back in college, they had the best friendship—”

Friends from room 309 reunited because of Yan Yan’s wedding.

They nestled comfortably in a star-rated hotel suite, chatting and laughing, discussing and reminiscing.

”Yes, in our sophomore year, Xiao Yanzi started following her senior classmates to invest in the stock market, and Yan Yan followed along!”

Recalling their past, Li Sangzi’s tone was full of emotion.

She is a wealthy second generation, never short of money.

However, she dared not lightly dip into stocks or investments.

Because her father, being in the industrial field, often said, ”The stock market has risks, investment needs caution.”

Stocks and investments seem too intangible, with no real commodities, just sets of invisible, intangible data.

Without adequate professional knowledge and luck, it’s really hard to make money.

One wrong move, and she could get trapped, and a vast amount of money could shrink overnight!

Li Sangzi kept her father’s advice in mind, even though she knew Zhao Yan’s family had experts and her senior classmates were ”leading her to fly,” she dared not try lightly.

Instead, it was Yan Yan, who came from a normal family, perhaps because her relationship with her boyfriend, Zhou Zhou, wasn’t smooth, she was affected by stimuli from the Zhou Family;