As Shen Jiayi was speaking, she noticed that everyone had quieted down. She glanced at Shen Du's expression, hesitated, and then shut her mouth.
Shen Du glanced at Shen Jiayi, then remained silent.
He Jie broke the silence by asking, "That female secretary... is it Xie Yao?"
Even someone as dense as Shen Jiayi could tell the atmosphere was off. Under everyone's gaze, she forced a smile and said, "Maybe I'm mistaken, maybe it's not that name..."
Before he could finish speaking, Shen Du suddenly said, "Yes, it's her."
Shu Yang's eyes suddenly trembled, and she asked almost impatiently, "Didn't she go abroad?"
Xie Ming's gaze fell on her, and he said with a half-smile, "Didn't you just return to the country? Can't others return?"
Shu Yang remained silent, while He Jie and the others wore very subtle expressions.
Wang Shuo suddenly laughed and said, "Then those rumors aren't entirely unfounded. After all, there really is something between Brother Du and Xie Yao..."
Shen Du, He Jie, Wang Shuo, and the others grew up together and attended the same school. They all knew about Shen Du and Xie Yao's past relationship, which is why they were so surprised to hear Xie Yao's name.
Upon hearing this, Shu Yang curled the corner of his mouth and scoffed, "It's been so many years, yet people are still making a fuss about it."
He Jie turned to look at Chen Du and asked, "What's going on, Brother Du? Are you trying to reconcile?"
The group turned to look over. Shu Yang looked at Shen Du's handsome profile and unconsciously tightened his grip on the wine glass in his hand.
Upon hearing this, Shen Du merely frowned: "That happened so many years ago, let's not mention it again. Xie Yao was able to come to the company purely because of her strong work ability, not for any other reason."
Since he had already said that, the others didn't ask any more questions. They just exchanged glances, their eyes burning with even more gossip. Shu Yang, on the other hand, calmly put down his wine glass and lowered his head to hide the emotions in his eyes.
Since we hadn't seen each other for a long time, we put aside this topic and started talking about other things, but some people were already distracted.
Shen Jiayi finally managed to sit down next to Jiang Che, but before she could exchange more than a few words, Jiang Che got up and walked over to Chen Du and Xie Ming.
The Shen family, Xie family, and Jiang family have always had business dealings, and their relationship is also fairly good. Shen Du had heard about Jiang Che's trip abroad for the past few months, so when he saw Jiang Che coming over, he asked, "Why have you been abroad for so long? Are you going to expand into overseas markets?"
Xie Ming laughed upon hearing this, "Our President Jiang probably doesn't have the same ambition as President Shen. He can still think about expanding business even after going abroad."
Jiang Che sat down to the side, just smiled and said, "I'm not going out for work. Jiang Ze is alone abroad, and his family is worried about him, so they sent me over to check on him."
Actually, these were all excuses. Jiang Ze had been abroad for several years, so why would he be worried? But no one called him out on it.
Speaking of this, Xie Ming asked, "Isn't Aze about to graduate? I remember he's been abroad for several years now."
Jiang Che nodded: "Soon."
Xie Ming chuckled again, "This kid's a bit rebellious. Has he matured at all these years?"
Speaking of rebellion, Shen Du also thought of Jiang Ze.
A few years ago, during his rebellious phase, that kid wore all sorts of strange clothes and had a unique style of behavior; his behavior was simply indescribable.
One time, as he was leaving a dinner party, he ran into Jiang Ze and a few young men blocking someone's way. Seeing their menacing appearance, Chen Du was worried that something might happen, so he called Jiang Che.
From then on, Jiang Ze held a grudge against him and began to find fault with him in every way, even intentionally or unintentionally picking fights and creating trouble for him. Shen Du was quite troubled by this for a period of time. Fortunately, Jiang Ze went abroad to study, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He wondered if the boy's rebelliousness had improved over the years.
Jiang Che frowned, looking troubled, and sighed, "His rebelliousness has improved, but his aesthetic sense is... hard to describe."
"Hahahahahahaha..." Seeing Jiang Che's rather troubled look, Xie Ming couldn't help but laugh: "Having a younger brother like this is quite interesting. You should be content."
Jiang Che glanced at him expressionlessly: "You like it so much that you're giving it to me?"
Xie Ming quickly waved his hand: "No need, no need, just keep it for yourself."
It's better to be alone. Seeing Jiang Che and Shen Du's younger brother and sister gives him a headache.
Ye Zhao knew nothing about these matters and had no interest in them whatsoever. After the old master Shen's birthday banquet, she went back and began to take stock of the assets under her name.
With the gifts that Old Master Shen sent a few days ago, plus what Chen Du gave her, Ye Zhao is now considered a small-time rich woman. She owns three houses, has 30 million in investments, 30 million in savings, and shares in several companies under the Shen Group. Old Master Shen has also hired someone to manage these assets for her, so she doesn't have to worry about anything.
In fact, Ye Zhao understood that all this money was for the child in her womb. Thinking that she would have to raise the child in the future, Ye Zhao accepted it without hesitation. She never expected that Old Master Shen had such good intentions.
Two days was enough time for Ye Zhao to clean up all these things. She even took an afternoon to go back to the Ye family.
I left in a hurry earlier and left some documents and personal belongings here, so I came back to get them.
When they arrived, Ye Feng and the others were not there. Just as they were about to leave, someone rushed in. When he saw Ye Zhao, he stopped in his hurry and asked with an extremely disgusted expression and tone, "What are you doing here?"
Ye Zhao roughly knew who the person in front of her was. Hearing his aggressive tone, Ye Zhao was too lazy to pay attention to him and left without looking back, carrying her things.
The man shouted at her from behind, "Don't come back if you leave. This house doesn't welcome you."
Hearing this, Ye Zhao looked at the things in her hands and suddenly felt like she had been kicked out. She thought for a moment, then turned around and said, "It's just a garbage dump. How dare you call it home?"
After saying that, she smiled dismissively, turned around and got into the car without looking back.
Ye Zhao didn't have much to miss in City A. Cheng Yu had already gone abroad, so she had a small get-together with Lin Yu as a farewell, since she didn't know when they would meet again.
Of course, before leaving, she also went to see Grandpa Shen. The old man only wished her a safe journey and didn't mention anything else.
Ye Zhao didn't say goodbye to Shen Du when she left; she felt it was unnecessary.
In early autumn, City A still enjoyed sunny and clear weather. Ye Zhao left the city with Yan Xu, carrying only a small suitcase. Before leaving, she never thought of coming back, nor did she expect that so many stories would happen to her in this city.
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