Ji Yuning looked up.
If the Lu family's influence in the capital is not to be underestimated, then the Jiang family is on par with the Lu family. Although they are not exactly rivals, they suppress each other.
Jiang Qingyue, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, is already the head of the Jiang Group in her early thirties.
Ji Yuning had met her a few times, at banquets.
She is very beautiful and speaks with grace, but the shrewdness and sharpness in her eyes cannot be ignored.
He is a smart person.
I just don't know how the aunt and she met?
The waiter walked ahead, and Fang Bai carefully considered his words before speaking in a voice only she and Ji Yuning could hear: "Our cooperation with the Lu family has ended, and we need a new partner. After thinking about it, the Jiang family is the most suitable."
The phone call this morning was from Jiang Qingyue's secretary, asking to meet today.
The location was chosen by Jiang Qingyue.
Fang Bai felt that she did it on purpose.
Lu Zheng usually visits this place; it's said to be an investment of his. If Jiang Qingyue and Ji Yuning meet here, Lu Zheng will find out within half a day.
Jiang Qingyue probably wanted to see if Ji Yuning would come, in order to gauge Ji Yuning's relationship with the Lu family.
But she didn't expect that Fang Bai only told Ji Yuning that he was going to see someone, without specifying who it was.
Ji Yuning had no choice at this moment, but seeing that Ji Yuning's expression was unchanged, Fang Bai knew that it would be the same whether she spoke or not.
Not to mention, you can also see Ji Yuning's cute side.
Thinking about what happened in the car, Fang Bai's lips curled up again.
Meeting Ji Yuning's gaze, Fang Bai took her arm again and whispered in her ear, "Have you ever thought about cooperating with the Jiang family?"
The voice was soft and gentle, a soft whisper, like a feather brushing against the heart.
Ji Yuning smiled and lowered her head slightly, whispering in Fang Bai's ear, "We've met a few times before, but we didn't make it clear."
Unable to bear the tickling sensation near his ear, Fang Bai flinched and asked, "So what do you think?"
FJ is currently facing a dilemma of survival and development; it needs to establish a foothold in Beijing but cannot completely rely on the other party.
The latter has gradually taken shape after several monopolies by the Lu family, so the main problem now is whether it can withstand the Lu family's counterattack after the cooperation ends.
Fang Bai is right, the Jiang family is indeed the most suitable choice.
But if the Jiang family makes demands as domineering as the Lu family…
Ji Yuning pinched the soft flesh at Fang Bai's tiger's mouth, looked at the waiter who had stopped in front of a door, and said, "Let's see what she thinks first."
The door opened, and Fang Bai looked up to see someone sitting in the tea room, drinking tea.
She wore a light green cheongsam, and her hair was pinned up at the back of her head with a hairpin.
The person is as their name suggests.
Like the moon reflected on the surface of a clear lake after nightfall, lonely, illusory, elusive, and intangible.
Hearing the door open, Jiang Qingyue put down her teacup and turned to the two of them: "Miss Fang, President Ji, please come in."
"President Jiang, you've been waiting for a long time."
Jiang Qingyue slightly lifted her eyelids: "Just call me Qingyue."
Ji Yuning pulled out a seat for Fang Bai, and only sat down herself after Fang Bai sat down.
Jiang Qingyue observed the interaction between the two, and after Ji Yuning sat down, she said, "President Ji, it's been a long time."
Ji Yuning nodded: "Long time no see."
Jiang Qingyue smiled slightly and poured tea for the two of them, saying, "I didn't expect that I would have to go through Miss Fang to arrange a meeting with President Ji."
Fang Bai looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression.
So they've not only met a few times, but they've never actually managed to arrange a date before?
No wonder Jiang Qingyue looked surprised when she approached her.
Jiang Qingyue explained to Fang Bai: "I sent an invitation to President Ji before, but he refused."
Ji Yuning recalled what Jiang Qingyue had said, then said calmly, "I'm sorry, I was in Nancheng at the time and couldn't come back in time."
Jiang Qingyue glanced at Fang Bai: "I heard that Miss Fang came from Nancheng?"
Fang Bai nodded: "Yes, Xiao Ning should have been with me at the time."
"Then Miss Fang and President Ji?" Jiang Qingyue's voice was filled with curiosity, but her question did not offend Fang Bai.
“I am FJ’s employee, and also hers…”
Fang Bai wanted to say that she was her aunt.
However, she paused for a second, just a second, before Ji Yuning continued, "Girlfriend."
Jiang Qingyue was taken aback, her gaze towards the two men filled with ambiguity.
No wonder she couldn't meet Ji Yuning, while when she met Fang Bai, he easily said he could bring Ji Yuning to meet with her to discuss cooperation.
Jiang Qingyue quickly recovered, put on a polite smile, and sighed, "I didn't expect that discussing cooperation would involve witnessing such a display of affection."
Author's Note:
Xiao Ji's Diary:
Aunt Fang is a bad person! She's going to sell me! Waaaaah~
(Haha, when I was typing Xiao Ji's Diary, I typed it as Little Chicken's Diary. Hahahaha, luckily I noticed!)
Chapter 120
Fang Bai smiled gently.
Just as I was about to speak, the ringing of a cell phone from inside my bag interrupted the atmosphere in the room.
The call was from Fang Maozhou. Fang Bai didn't want to hang up, so she looked up at Jiang Qingyue and said, "Excuse me, I need to take this call."
Jiang Qingyue nodded: "Okay."
Fang Bai then looked at Ji Yuning, "You and Miss Jiang can talk slowly."
When facing Fang Bai, Ji Yuning's distance from him lessened considerably, and she responded with a gentle "hmm".
Fang Maozhou's call wasn't about anything important; he just wanted to know when Fang Bai would return to Hushi.
Fang Bai gave him a rough time, and after a brief chat, the call ended.
However, Fang Bai did not return to the tea room, but instead went back to the car to wait for Ji Yuning.
She felt it would be better to let Ji Yuning talk to Jiang Qingyue alone.
What she did was stand behind Ji Yuning and offer her silent support.
About half an hour later, Ji Yuning came out of the teahouse alone.
Just as Ji Yuning was about to reach the car, Fang Bai opened the back door and asked, "How did the talk go?"
Ji Yuning stood by the car door, looking down at the person in the seat, "It's alright."
Fang Bai stared at Ji Yuning for a while, then said bluntly, "But your expression doesn't look good."
Ji Yuning's hands hung down at her sides, half-clenched into fists.
Seeing the child's increasingly somber expression, Fang Bai lowered his voice: "Xiao Ning?"
Jiang Qingyue said that when Fang Bai first contacted her, he sent her an email with very detailed information about FJ.
Jiang Qingyue also said that before that email, she might have hesitated to cooperate with Ji Yuning, but after reading that email, her mind became more determined.
Ji Yuning asked Jiang Qingyue to forward the email to her, and Jiang Qingyue agreed.
At first, she didn't have the "particularly detailed" definition that Jiang Qingyue mentioned, but after she finished discussing the cooperation and left the tea room, and opened the email, Ji Yuning realized that she had been too simplistic.
That's far too detailed.
Fang Bai didn't need to go to the company, but he insisted on accompanying her for the first few days of her new job. When she asked him why, he said it was just to familiarize her with the environment. And indeed, every day after arriving at the company, Fang Bai would ask Yuan Yizhen to go with him to various departments.
In the following days, Fang Bai stopped going to the company.
Ji Yuning then realized that every time she came home or went out, she would see Fang Bai sitting in front of the computer, typing away.
She overlooked Fang Bai's efforts.
Ji Yuning slowly raised her hand, which trembled slightly in mid-air. She touched Fang Bai's cheek, her fingertips stroking his face. "Thank you."
The unexpected thanks startled Fang Bai. Looking at the moved person in front of him, Fang Bai grasped the wrist beside his cheek and whispered, "What are you thanking me for?"
Ji Yuning, holding onto the car side with one hand, leaned down, cupped Fang Bai's face, and kissed him, her voice low and husky: "Thank you for being so good to me."
Although Fang Bai was sitting in the car, he could still see people coming and going around him out of the corner of his eye. When Ji Yuning bent down to kiss him, Fang Bai clearly saw several people looking over.
For a moment, Fang Bai couldn't hear what Ji Yuning was saying, and he nudged Ji Yuning somewhat awkwardly, saying, "Someone's watching."
Ji Yuning shifted her feet and said in a hoarse voice, "It's blocking the way."
Fang Bai: "..."
Ji Yuning blocked her view, but outsiders could still see that there was someone sitting in the car, and naturally they could also tell what they were doing.
In public...
However, once Fang Bai could no longer see the scenery outside the car, the sense of shame did fade a bit, but he was still a little embarrassed.
Fang Bai removed his hand from his face, handed him the car keys, and said, "You should go to work now."
Seeing the woman's reddened earlobes, Ji Yuning's eyes flashed. "Give me a kiss."
Under the blazing sun, on a busy roadside, with a half-open car door, a person who was destined to spend the rest of her life alone in darkness bends down to ask for a kiss from the angel who saved her.
Fang Bai felt a little constrained by Ji Yuning's request.