After several rounds of screening, the day of the final design presentation finally arrived a week later.
In addition to the three companies that competed in the cruise ship market, four more companies from the remaining competition received preliminary approval from the AX Group.
Su Yu, dressed in a dark blue business suit, walked into the meeting room where people had been waiting for a long time. When the representatives of various companies saw the newcomer, they all stood up, nodded, and respectfully called out to him.
"Boss Su."
"Hello, Mr. Su"
Facing the crowd, Su Yu just nodded slightly in response, and then took a seat directly.
This time, Chen Xu was once again the main representative of the Dong family, accompanied by a woman he had never met before. The Fu Group only had a project manager, while the other companies also sent their most capable personnel.
On the other side, Jiang Luoning took Fu Linxiao, Han Tianyu and Lu Zifan from the exclusive elevator directly to the president's office of AX Group. Ah Xing had prepared a mobile display screen early in the morning, and the images connected to it were exactly the large conference room where people were taking the stage one after another. Before the meeting started, Su Yu had revealed to everyone in the conference room that the president behind AX would watch the entire process through the real-time monitoring system. After all the groups present had finished explaining their design plans, the results were expected within half an hour.
This was the first time for them to have such a vigorous and decisive policy. In previous large-scale project cooperation, such design project bidding meetings would require repeated polishing back and forth before winning. AX Group's approach gave them enough trust but also made them feel a lot of pressure.
After a few hours, all the design plans were presented and Su Yu stood up and left the meeting room; the secretary followed closely with the computer and the design plans submitted by various companies.
The moment the glass door closed, the room became noisy and people started talking one after another. Some people felt relieved and just regarded this as an experience, while others were like deflated balls. Their shortcomings were clearly exposed in comparison with others. Chen Xu looked straight ahead with a calm expression, looking at the project manager from Fu Group opposite him.
"Mr. Chen, how confident are you?" asked the female secretary following Chen Xu.
Chen Xu frowned upon hearing this, turned his head to look at the woman, and replied with an ambiguous tone, "Does it matter how confident I am?"
"Mr. Chen, please don't ask if there is any misunderstanding. I am worried about you on behalf of my wife as well!" The female secretary felt a little embarrassed when she saw the man's unfriendly eyes, but she still mustered up the courage to explain.
"Oh? Worried about my mother? Then why don't you take over this project? Do it yourself, then this worry won't exist!"
Chen Xu's expression did not improve. The woman wanted to argue, but Chen Xu raised his hand, obviously signaling her to shut up. Seeing this, the female secretary could only lower her head silently and said no more.
When Su Yu came to Jiang Luoning's office, she saw several people discussing something while looking at the images on the monitor.
"What are you talking about?"
When Ah Xing saw the person coming, he hurriedly got up from the sofa, made a seat for Su Yu, and supported her shoulders to let her sit down.
"Sister Su Yu, we are discussing who the woman next to Chen Xu is!" Ah Xing said while signaling with his eyes.
Su Yu shook her head after hearing this. "I'm curious too. I don't know if you noticed just now, but that woman looked at Chen Xu with ulterior motives. I guess she might be a matchmaker arranged by the old woman from the Dong family."
Han Tianyu pondered for a moment, but still felt something was wrong, so he denied it. "That's not right, Zifan! Do you know whose daughter this is?"
When Lu Zifan was mentioned by Han Tianyu, he walked over to the monitor and stared at the young girl sitting next to Chen Xu. After a moment, he straightened up, cleared his throat, and said solemnly, "No one in the imperial capital's aristocratic families has ever seen this girl. Judging from the old woman in the Dong family's appearance of clinging to the powerful, she is definitely not a good marriage partner!"
In the imperial capital, Lu Zifan was a well-known playboy. He knew every wealthy and famous family. Since he was so sure, he couldn't be wrong.
Ah Xing wasn't interested in the woman who suddenly appeared. She just thought everyone was being too sensitive, so she expressed her thoughts and asked tentatively, "Well, maybe you're overthinking it? Maybe she's just a secretary?"
"No, Chen Xu has already shown me the information of all the shareholders and important project personnel of Dong Group. There is no such person." Han Tianyu directly gave a negative answer to Ah Xing's guess.
Before the boy could argue, he heard Fu Linxiao's steady voice.
"Well, Tianyu is right. Given how much Mrs. Dong values this project, if it weren't for what I said on the cruise ship that day, I think she would have personally participated today."
Everyone had a frown on their face, as if a century-old problem was waiting for them to solve.
"No, I have to find out the identity of this woman today. I'm still a little worried."
The more Jiang Luoning thought about it, the more he felt that there must be something unknown hidden in it. Was the sudden appearance of this woman arranged by Mrs. Dong or was it the masterpiece of Helian Rui?
"Guessing all the time is so troublesome! Just call Chen Xu over and ask, and you'll know!" Su Yu has always been decisive and efficient. She felt really bored seeing the people in front of her relying on their own imaginations. She stood up and walked out. When she was almost at the door, she took the initiative to speak before anyone could ask about her inexplicable behavior, but disappeared into the corridor without waiting for anyone to react.
"It's over. Sister Su Yu can't go and question Chen Xu directly!" Ah Xing asked in a trembling voice.
Jiang Luoning rolled his eyes at the young man whose IQ had dropped.
Lu Zifan also had an expression that looked like something was wrong, just like Ah Xing.
"Brother Tianyu, do you think that Ah Xing and Brother Zifan are really equally intelligent?"
Han Tianyu sneered and nodded, then said to the two of them, "If your combined IQs could only reach a quarter of President Su's, I would have to pray for you every day!"
"Me? Him?" Lu Zifan wanted to argue for himself, but found that he was really powerless. The facts were there, and he really couldn't refute them. He even knew that sometimes he could not even compare to his younger brother Axing, such as in medical skills.
There is no way. Since things are like this, I can only endure this disguised humiliation.
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