The marriage between Song Zhiyi, the chief translator for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Huo Yanli, the heir apparent of the Beijing circle, began with an agreement made by their elders.
<...Chapter 115 Huo's Strategic Adjustment
December in Beijing was bitterly cold. Inside the Huo Group's conference room, however, the atmosphere was even more somber than the weather outside.
On either side of the long, mahogany conference table sat Huo's directors and core executives. Everyone knew that today's extraordinary board meeting was urgently convened by Chairman and President Huo Yanli, who had just returned from abroad. The agenda was unclear, but judging from his calm and composed expression as he sat in the main seat, it was no small matter.
He looked thinner than he had a few months ago, and his eyes had become much more mature, less sharp and flamboyant than before, and more possessing a restrained and profound strength. His face...