When the two came out of the suit store, Cao Yunbo's face looked terrible.
"Yunbo, are you angry with me?"
Gan Tang didn't know how to explain that she couldn't pay.
"No, don't overthink it. Let's go eat." Cao Yunbo tried his best to suppress his emotions.
Gan Tang wanted to eat hot pot, but Cao Yunbo thought it was too noisy, so he took her to a quiet Western restaurant on the fifth floor. He remembered that she usually paid for the meals.
Halfway through her meal, her phone rang. Gan Tang panicked immediately. She left her seat and hid in a corner to answer, "Hello, what's wrong?"
Ali's ever-serious voice rang out, "Miss, where are you? The chairman is at the villa, waiting for you to come home for dinner."
"I'm shopping, I'll be right back." Gan Tang didn't dare to talk to him any longer, afraid of revealing something, and hurriedly hung up the phone.
"Yunbo, I'm leaving now, you can eat slowly!" Gantang hurriedly picked up her handbag and left.
Seeing Gan Tang leave and the man who came with him packing up his things, the waiter took the bill and went to Cao Yunbo to settle the bill. "Sir, your total bill is 6800 yuan."
"What?" Cao Yunbo was dumbfounded.
...
There was a pharmacy on the first floor of the mall right next to the exit. Gan Tang bought some medicine to nourish her body and left in a hurry.
Standing on the second floor, Cao Yunbo watched Gan Tang leave carrying large bags of things, his teeth itching with resentment: "She's so willing to spend money on herself, but she won't spend a single penny on me. It really proves the old saying: the richer you are, the stingier you become."
When Gan Tang entered Yuanhuai Villa, Lu Zhengqian was sitting on the sofa, reading a manual.
"Where did you go?"
"I went to the mall and bought some tonics." Gan Tang walked over and sat down next to him.
"Where's the medicine?" Lu Zhengqian asked, noticing her empty hands.
Gan Tang chuckled and said apologetically, "I put it in the car. I'll have Yuan Biao take it to him."
Lu Zhengqian joked, "Who is it for? Mo Huaixing? I thought it was for me."
"Dad!" Gan Tang glared at him, pouting.
After looking at the medicine for several hours, Gan Tang was afraid that he would suspect something, so she simply asked Yuan Biao to take it back to Mo Huaixing. Fortunately, Lu Zhengqian did not ask any more questions.
“In a few days, I’ll take you to a company’s annual meeting.” Lu Zhengqian handed the handbook to Gan Tang and reminded her, “Don’t go out to play these few days. I’ll ask someone to come and teach you etiquette.”
"Oh!" Gan Tang opened the manual, looking at it as she asked, "Is it a very important annual meeting?"
At a company's annual meeting, the head of a Fortune 500 company actually attended in person.
Lu Zhengqian hummed in agreement, pointed to a young man in the manual, and wanted to introduce him, but held back.
For several days in a row, Gan Tang stayed at Huaiyuan Villa, listening to the teacher lecture on business etiquette. Lu Zhengqian even specially commissioned a world-renowned designer to design a dress for her that was both elegant and youthful.
During her months at the Lu Group, Gan Tang had attended several meetings, but Lu Zhengqian had never paid any attention to these trivial matters. Filled with doubt, Gan Tang followed Lu Zhengqian into the luxury car heading to the Pearl Tower.
It's just that it's no longer that Maybach.
Gan Tang found it strange: "Dad, why aren't you riding in your usual car?"
Lu Zhengqian explained softly, "The Chu Group mainly deals in energy, and the chairman came from a poor background and doesn't like extravagance. I'm just doing as the locals do."
What kind of large company could make Lu Zhengqian attach so much importance to it?
Gan Tang was genuinely curious.
The Pearl Tower is a landmark building in Jinhai City, brightly lit 24 hours a day. The Chu Group's annual meeting was held on the most eye-catching eighteenth floor.
Gan Tang sat in the fourth row. Looking around, she saw that in the first row, besides Lu Zhengqian, there was a whole host of internet moguls, each of whom was a legendary figure and was frequently seen in the media.
The man sitting in the very center must be the chairman of the Chu Group. He had his back to Gan Tang, so she couldn't see his face, but every internet tycoon greeted him with a smile, while he just sat quietly, some not even replying.
This made Gan Tang even more curious.
While the annual meeting was being held on stage, she checked her phone downstairs. Unlike other well-known large companies, the introduction of the Chu Group was pitifully short. And the chairman didn't even have a single photo.
The last speaker to step forward was none other than Chu Jiahe, the youngest man featured in the brochure. Chu Jiahe was the youngest director of research at the Chu Group, and his latest research on tidal power generation had won a prestigious international science and technology award.
If tidal power could be used on a deserted island, it could truly become a paradise. Lu Zhengqian's task for Gan Tang during this visit was to discuss investment in and testing of tidal power on the deserted island with Chu Jiahe.
When Gan Tang saw him speak, she was about to take out her notebook to take notes when she heard the excited voice of a girl in the back row.
"Oh my god, that's so cool!"
As if in disbelief, she asked the older woman beside her again, "Mom, is he Chairman Chu's only son, the sole heir to the Chu Group?"
The middle-aged woman cautioned, "Don't be delusional and try to make a move on him."
The girl retorted, "My dad is among the top 1000 richest people in the world. He's not even on the rich list, so how can I be delusional?"
The middle-aged socialite explained, "Others consider it an honor to be on the world's richest list, but the world's richest list is all about begging the Chu family to get on it."
Thunderous applause erupted, signaling the official end of the annual report season and the imminent start of the ball.
Most of the men and women who come here are there for the dance. They're either looking to network with more powerful and wealthy people, or to find a richer partner.
Gan Tang put away her notebook and got up to go to the dance hall. Ali came over and stopped her. "Miss, the chairman wants to see you."
At this moment, Lu Zhengqian was talking with Chairman Chu, and standing next to him was Chu Jiahe, the heir of the Chu Group, who made all unmarried girls scream.
Gan Tang walked over and softly called out, "Dad."
Lu Zhengqian smiled and said, "This is my daughter, Xintang. She just returned from studying abroad and started working at the company. She can help me a little, but of course she can't compare to a young talent like Young Master Chu."
"Uncle Lu, you flatter me!" Chu Jiahe was dressed in a low-key black suit, looking clean and neat. He nodded slightly and extended his hand to Gan Tang, "Miss Lu, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Nice to meet you!" Gan Tang extended her hand. Chu Jiahe merely touched Gan Tang's fingertips lightly, maintaining a polite distance.
Lu Zhengqian tried to create an opportunity for the two of them to be alone, and asked Chu Mingxuan with a smile, "Chairman Chu, are you aware that I have developed a deserted island project on the high seas?"
This project is unprecedented, and major media outlets are vying to report on it. Chu Mingxuan is also very interested and jokingly said, "Chairman Lu has great vision. The newspapers are all praising you. Your achievements are beneficial in the present and in the future. They even say that if there were more entrepreneurs like you, our country could have millions more acres of blue land."
"Chairman Chu is joking." Lu Zhengqian waved his hand: "I acted on impulse back then, and only now do I realize how difficult it was."
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