"3:45," the employee replied. "That's 45 minutes late."

"Hmph, it doesn't matter. It's not an important event anyway." The girl raised her hand and smoothed the hair at the back of her head.

The Haiya employee remained silent. He had long been accustomed to the girl's willfulness.

The leader in front of me, who behaves like a young lady, is very talented in commanding people. Today, she directed the car to go to four or five places before arriving at the scheduled event venue.

If it weren't for her adventure running around the city, the young lady wouldn't be late for class at all.

He even felt a little sorry for the teacher in charge of the connection at Kyoto University.

"Ka", the door opened, revealing a boy's face, and said softly:

"You can come in now."

After saying that, his eyes kept looking at the girl for a long time.

But the person involved completely ignored this gaze and walked straight past him into the room.

As soon as she entered the room, the lights suddenly became brighter, a wave of heat hit her, and the air was a little humid, causing the girl to frown slightly.

"...because she was stuck in traffic, she arrived a little late. I hope you can understand. Then, let's give a round of applause to Ms. Asai from Haiya Company."

Applause was heard, and Ruriko stood there gracefully, with hundreds of eyes in the audience focused on her.

Soon, some people were breathing in, some were sighing.

Because she is really beautiful.

Moreover, her beauty was completely different from what the students present had imagined.

The students' understanding of what is considered a "beauty" in the business world comes entirely from Qin Yunchu.

That cold, elitist expression, formal attire, and rigorous makeup—this is their impression of beauties in the business world.

But the young lady in front of them was completely different from their impression.

Wearing a black lace long skirt and a chiffon jacket, she looks like a princess from a comic book.

Her long satin-like hair fell to her waist, the skin exposed on her chest was whiter than milk, and her long legs wrapped in black stockings were longer than her life.

Si Chaoliang pushed the impatient Xia Yingji and said excitedly:

"Now I completely understand why Senior Wen likes this girl. She's really good-looking."

The girl in the front seat hummed softly.

A little sour.

But I can't say anything sour.

…

"Ms. Asai, nice to meet you again."

Wen Liming stood up from the seat next to the girl with a smile on his face and stretched out his hand to her from a distance.

The smile on his face was as warm as the atmosphere in the room.

"The last time we met was at the Kalia Restaurant in Shanghai, remember? It was a cocktail party... Come on, please take a seat here."

Ruriko glanced at the man who was walking towards her with his hand extended.

I only had time to take a look.

Because the next second, she stopped breathing and turned her head to look straight ahead, at the lower part of the first row.

“???”

At this moment, she suddenly remembered a line of poetry that this man often recited: Looking back suddenly, that person was at the end of the street where the lights were dimming...

The sparse applause was still ringing behind her. The man was talking, but his voice seemed a little weak in the noisy applause. She couldn't help but take two steps forward to hear more clearly.

"There's a Japanese joke," the man, who was sitting on a small stool with his legs crossed comically, said to her with a smile, "It's about a Japanese man who wants to work in a mine.

"The mine owner, an American, told the Japanese to take care of the supplies. The Japanese agreed. But the next day, when they arrived at work, the boss couldn't find the Japanese anywhere.

"Finally, the boss returned to his office, and the Japanese man jumped out from behind his chair and shouted enthusiastically in Japanese English: 'surprise!'"

Chen Ya stood up with a smile and opened his arms: "Surprise."

Ruriko pounced on him and hung on him.