But after letting her mind wander, Chen Rou dismissed all of these ideas.
Nie Zhao has a face as delicate as his mother's, yet with very masculine features.
At the same time, he also possessed the same shrewdness and suspiciousness as Nie Rong. Despite being exiled and controlled by his father, he turned the tables and forced his father to abdicate. He was no ordinary person.
If she were to engage in anything superficial with him, or rashly confess her feelings, she might not even know how she died.
She shook her head and said, "I don't know Nan Batian, I don't know Liu Wencai, and I'm not familiar with Huang Shiren."
Nie Zhao nodded, paused for a moment, then picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number that Chen Rou recognized—it was from Nie's Company.
Chen Rou had no idea who he was calling, and he was speaking Khmer, which was a relatively uncommon language for her. She could understand the language, but not the meaning.
However, Chen Rou roughly guessed that the person he was calling was probably one of the company's directors, a director who supported him, and that he was calling to inquire about the current situation of Nie's Company.
While he was on the phone, he naturally pulled her left hand, which wasn't bandaged, over. When she tried to refuse, he forcefully pulled her hand back, then turned it over and placed it in front of his chest, stroking the calluses on her palm with his fingertips.
Although the original owner's hands were delicate, she had a thin layer of calluses on her palms from practicing ballet and piano. Her big toe bones were also turned outward. However, a dancer's hands are obviously not suited for wielding a knife, so her left palm was also worn red.
Even Nie Rong would have to ask Chen Rou who she was.
Nie Zhao was just as shrewd as Nie Rong. He could tell from her worn-out, red palms that she was not the Chen Rou he knew. However, he did not show the slightest doubt or probing on his face.
He didn't deliberately guard against her. When Chen Rou saw that his water cup was empty, she picked up the self-heating kettle and filled it halfway. Then she held the cup to his lips, and he took a sip without hesitation, as if he wasn't afraid that she had drugged him.
Finally, Nie Zhao finished his phone call and hung up. He saw Chen Rou sitting in a chair, looking at him with bright eyes. He lowered his eyebrows and said, "Just ask me whatever you want. There are no secrets between us."
Seeing that Chen Rou didn't speak, he took the initiative to explain, "It's Wade, the CEO of Nie's Group. He's one of our own."
In a listed company, the chairman of the board of directors certainly has the greatest power, possessing veto power over various decisions. However, he cannot make all the decisions on his own; the company will also have vice chairmen, chief executive officers, presidents, and others.
Nie's CEO is an external hire, a Singaporean named Wade.
Nie Zhao communicated with him in the less common Khmer language, which most people couldn't understand.
Since the CEO was his man, he naturally knew everything about the internal situation of Nie's company.
Then he wouldn't be in the situation Nie Rong described, where he was powerless within the company and no one respected him.
Chen Rou, with a military background, didn't understand corporate management or internal structure very well. After a rough guess, she said, "Madam Mei should be arriving soon. Someone is accompanying her, right? Who is it? Yu Zhengrong, Sir?"
Nie Zhao's face was sallow, and he was so thin that his eyes looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets, with his double eyelids folded up exceptionally deep.
He looked exhausted, but he smiled when he heard this.
When he smiles, his eyes become particularly beautiful, and the high fever makes his lips exceptionally dark and the lip line exceptionally clear. He... Chen Rou, who has seen many men, thinks he is good-looking, a kind of gloomy good-looking.
He smiled and said in a gentle tone, "She doesn't need Yu Zhengrong for the time being."
Yu Zhengrong is now the second police chief in Hong Kong. Nie Rong's leniency and support have made him Mei Lu's backer.
However, whether he will explicitly side with Mei Lu and help her make decisions remains to be seen.
Chen Rou came from the mainland, and the original owner was just a girl who was fond of romance and not sensitive to the outside world. Therefore, although she inherited the original owner's memories, she had no understanding of the power structure within the Nie family.
She roughly understood what Nie Zhao meant, and then said, "Madam Mei still has supporters within the Nie family, right? Who are they?"
Nie Zhao bent over, enduring the pain, and pulled the wheelchair over himself. His teeth were clenched as he said, "Accompanying her is Chairman Liang Lisheng, my elder brother and Nie Yao's godfather. They should be upstairs by now."
Liang Lisheng is the vice chairman of the board of directors of the Nie Group. He has been working with Nie Rong since he was twenty years old. They are sworn brothers who have gone through thick and thin together. They are also good brothers who share weal and woe and are willing to live and die together.
Nie Rong's two sons, Nie Zhen and Nie Yao, both became godfathers of Liang Lisheng.
In general, if Nie Rong holds the most power within the Nie family, then Liang Lisheng would be second.
He was also the only member of the Nie family who dared to stand up and challenge Nie Rong.
Chen Rou had said that Mei Lu couldn't possibly come alone; she had to bring a heavyweight with her.
Sure enough, the people she brought were no ordinary individuals.
She helped Nie Zhao up, and he also put in some effort to get into the wheelchair.
He reached out to grab the scarf, but it was too far away for him. Chen Rou picked it up and handed it to him, and he put it over his knees.
“Let’s go take a look.” After he finished speaking, he explained, “I’ll handle the company’s affairs, so you don’t need to worry about it too much.”
He meant it involved a power struggle within the company. Despite his sickly appearance, he could handle it.
Well, Chen Rou didn't understand the power struggles in the business world, but she was still very curious about the power struggle within a listed company. Since Nie Zhao said he had a way, she was going to watch the show closely.
Let's see how he wrests the actual controlling stake in the Nie family from Mei Lu and her son.
That should be a very exciting show.
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