Chapter 1: The Beginning of It All, Encounter (4)

  Having lived for twenty-five years, the greatest realization is that one cannot be overly attached in life.

  If one is too serious, life will lose its fun.

  The vast majority of people, subjectively conscious, are: I, how I am, what I think, what I want, what I am... No matter when facing anyone or anything, the first thought and starting point is always to express, affirm and insist on oneself. If someone goes against my will or my ideas don't work out, I immediately feel a thousand grievances.

  Nor did she know in which year she broke through this point.

  After growing up, her personality is very gentle and soft. It can be said that there's nothing she must insist on, in her opinion, it's all the same. The people around her, such as Wen Rou, let her do whatever she likes, if she wants to stay by her side, she'll just stay, she doesn't mind at all.

  Ninety percent of the things in the world don't need to be worried about, even for Zhu Linluo, who has been his girlfriend for three years since senior year.

  In the private club, Zhu Linlu cut the beef patty on the plate into small pieces for her and said, "Aren't you going to tell me that you've become Yan Xuan's secretary?"

  She raised her eyes, "Does it matter whether I say it or not? You always find out right away anyway. Besides, when have you ever told me who the girls are that you're chasing after each time?"

  Zhu Linlu was speechless from her words, and his eyes sparkled with a smile as he asked for the 1,100th time, "Follow me home to meet my parents?"

  She looked at him with infinite sympathy, "Your sister is forcing you to get married again? How pitiful."

  "He was indignant, 'You always treat me like I'm nothing!'"

  "What's going on?" she said, stroking her wounded heart. "Zhu Gongzi, would you mind taking a look at the newspaper? The whole city knows that you were arm-in-arm with a star on the front page last night, and it was a model the night before, and a noble lady the night before that... Am I not worthy of your attention? For three years, I've been pretending to be oblivious to your romantic escapades, foolishly waiting for the day when you'd return from your wanderings."

  She recited the lines from the newspaper.

  Zhu Linlu was so angry that he almost threw his napkin on the table, "Warmth!"

  "It's small." She replied.

  He glared at her fiercely.

  Taking a warm breath, putting down the utensils and spreading both hands, "You see, you asked me out and I wouldn't dare stay home, you asked me to eat beef and I wouldn't dare eat pork or mutton. With such a good girlfriend like me, where else would you go looking?"

  Zhu Linlu's face twisted in extreme laughter, her mouth splitting wide open. At the same time, she clearly heard a faint, extremely soft whisper of a smile, as if someone was trying to stifle their giggles and only let out a slight snort. Although it flashed by instantly, that familiar shallow - she suddenly turned her head back.

  Across the two empty tables, facing her line of sight, Nan Xuan did not avoid it, relaxed his back against the soft chair, and his body was lazy and sleepy. A pair of black pupils, however, shone like stars in a clear and cold night sky.

  "What are you looking at?" his female companion asked softly, just about to turn her head around.

  Warmly turned around, Zhu Lin Road had already called the servant to settle the bill with a displeased face. After signing, he took her away, and when they passed by Zhan Nan Xuan's table, she politely said, "General Zhan."

  He didn't say anything, still just nodded at her, while Zhu Linlu and Wang were like monarchs who refused to see each other, neither looking at the other.

  Sitting opposite Zhan Nanxuan was a stunning woman famous throughout Asia, but in that instant, she looked slightly stunned, "Warmth?!"

  She smiled, "Hey, Yixin, long time no see."

  Zhu Linluo let out a cold hum and quickly dragged her away from the scene. Only after they had walked far did he complain, "There are many positions in Daimonli that suit you, why must you insist on taking a low-paying job at Shallow Universe?"

  "I've been working at Shallow Universe for two years now, and I've never heard you say anything before."

  He scowled and shouted, "In the past, you wouldn't see him once in 300 years, of course I wasn't worried. Now what's going on? You and he are together every day, who knows when you'll become inseparable and ascend to heaven together, leaving me alone to suffer, no choice but to become a monk."

  Warmly smiling, "Don't forget it was you who helped me send out dozens of resumes back then."

  Although many companies invited her for an interview, in the end, only Shallow Universe hired her.

  Zhu Lin Road opened his mouth, wanting to speak but hesitated.

  "What's wrong?"

  He turned his head and looked at her, "Wen Rou has been in close contact with a Singaporean recently."

  She was taken aback, "I've never heard her mention it."

  "Maybe she hasn't made up her mind yet, or maybe she doesn't know how to bring it up with you."

  She nodded and stopped talking.

  After going home, I couldn't sleep all night, tossing and turning.

  Since Zhu Lin said it out loud, it's clear that Wen Rou and that person have an unusual relationship, so why does Wen Rou want to hide it from her adopted sister?

  Didn't sleep well, woke up early next morning and saw a dark circle under my eyes in the mirror.

  After returning to the company, Assistant Secretary Ding Xiaodai warmly handed over the materials she had already prepared and walked into the conference room. Soon after, Gao Fang and Guan Qi from the Technical Department arrived one after another, and Xuan Nan also arrived on time. When the three of them saw the neatly arranged materials on the table, they were all slightly surprised.

  Here is the translation:

  "Warmly dispatched, 'This is Shallow Universe's profile, qualification certification, company capital structure, investment returns for the past few years, audit report from one of the world's top four accounting firms, and concept planning for the bidding case - only missing the bid book, which needs to be submitted by the technical department.'"

  Gao Fang was shocked, "Did you prepare all of these yourself?"

  "What's wrong? Is something not right?"

  "There's nothing wrong, I'm just curious, your speed is too fast." Gao Fang looked at Zhan Nanxuan who had already sat in the chairman's seat, and it seemed that his judgment was indeed accurate. Chi Bika really had a unique perspective.

  Zhan Nanxuan opened the file in front of him, flipped through it for about a minute before closing it, and then looked up.

  "Let's get started, this time Leng's going to build the most luxurious resort in all of Asia, with a budget of over 10 billion invested. An investment of over 10 billion means that the projects subcontracted by Leng are not something that any one company can swallow alone, I estimate there will be eight to ten companies respectively undertaking different engineering projects, but my interest is only in the entire resort's fully intelligent automated control system."

  Gao Fangdao said, "As far as we currently know, the big companies that plan to bid for intelligent control besides us are Daimler, Nanxiang, Changhong and Jingxing. The latter three are not enough to be our enemies, our true opponent is Daimler."

  "Arrange for your team to come up with a technical plan and bidding document within a week. I'll be in charge of procurement, as long as the supplier is willing to give us a lower discount than other companies, we can sign a long-term cooperation agreement with them. In short - " Zhan Nanxuan glanced at the three people, his gaze lingering silently on their warm faces for a moment before withdrawing his gaze, and his lips curled up slightly, "I must get this case."

  The next business discussion made arrangements for all matters that needed to be decided in each special case.

  After the meeting, Wen Nuan went to the restroom to wash up. She splashed water on her face and didn't even bother to wipe away the stray hairs that got wet. She patted dry her face, removing excess water droplets, dried her hands, and then walked out.

  When she returned to her seat, Ding Xiaodai said to her, "Wen Jie, Zhan Zong just looked for you."

  She knocked on the door and walked in, approaching a dark, luxurious, high-end solid wood desk.

  "Sit." Zhan Nan didn't lift his head, only focusing on the screen of the ultra-thin white gold notebook, his slender fingers flying across the keyboard.

  She sat down as she was told.

  He finished writing the email and pushed his laptop aside, clasped his hands together on the desk and said, "I'd like to invite you out for a meal."

  She seemed a bit surprised and smiled, "Okay, one day I'll invite Wen Rou and we can all get together."

  His calm and clear eyes floated with a hint of mockery, "What does it have to do with gentleness?"

  "She blushed and said, 'Everyone knows each other, even if I invite my sister together, it won't cost you much.'"

  The phone in his hand showed a new email, and Nan Xuan's line of sight was drawn over, and he didn't respond for a moment.

  She lowered her eyes warmly, really, when did she learn to say polite words? In fact, she didn't want to reunite with anyone. Since returning from the UK for so long, she had neither new friends nor old friends. Friendship was something she wasn't interested in at all.

  He took up his pen to reply and casually asked, "What do you usually do in your leisure time?"

  Nothing much, just reading books and cooking.

  His fingers paused on the keyboard as he turned his head to look at her, "Not simple at all, you can even cook?"

  She smiled and said, "People will always change."

  He hooked the corner of his mouth, and his gaze turned back to the computer screen. "Since you don't want to come out, we won't force you either. I'll tell Yixin about it. It's nothing, go ahead and get back to work."

  "Okay."

  When the two intricately carved doors were pulled shut from the outside, the warm smile on his face faded away completely.

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