Ye Qingcheng saw the brother and sister whispering to each other and raised his eyebrows, asking, "What's wrong? What are you secretly saying? Why don't you tell me?"
Ji Shuli treated the matter as a joke and was about to tell Ye Qingcheng when Ye Zhiwei immediately stopped her and warned in a low voice, "Don't tell Dad."
If Ye Zhiwei could notice something was wrong, Ye Qingcheng might also notice it. What if Ye Qingcheng still thinks that Xiao Zheng is his classmate and is worried that something might happen to Xiao Zheng here, so he wants to ask someone to keep an eye on this matter?
Even if Jiang Jianian could indeed do everything perfectly, Ye Qingcheng could easily confirm by asking about the previous incident with Curly that Jiang Jianian was deliberately making things difficult for Curly. Even if Curly did something very rude at the time, and even if Ye Qingcheng couldn't stand it and wanted to teach him a lesson, it doesn't mean that Jiang Jianian's slightly violent actions were a good thing in Ye Qingcheng's eyes.
People who reach Ye Qingcheng's position all share a common ailment: paranoia.
If Ye Qingcheng overthinks things and worries that Jiang Jianian will use some unseen methods to deal with her, even if that doesn't happen, Jiang Jianian will still lose some points in Ye Qingcheng's eyes.
In short, regardless of whether Ye Qingcheng would become suspicious or whether he would lose points because of this, Ye Zhiwei didn't want to take any risks. She only hoped that Ye Qingcheng would always have a very good impression of Jiang Jianian. She gave Ji Shuli a stern warning, and then smiled and said to Ye Qingcheng, "Nothing much, I was just thinking about when Dad is going to hold a press conference. It seems that some of the company's shareholders have already sold their shares."
Ye Qingcheng instructed Ji Shuli to arrange for his people to buy these shares.
The Ye Group also seemed to have reached a low point. People from Ye Qingcheng's company called to see that Ye Qingcheng was just dodging the question. They even sent a representative to ask Ye Qingcheng to return to his position, even if it was just a nominal one. Ye Qingcheng rejected them all, saying they were deceiving him.
Ye Qingcheng was indeed drawn to this matter and, without asking any further questions, inquired about the progress of Ji Shuli's acquisition.
“Those old foxes probably also suspected that you had kept something. Although you sold off a large portion of your shares, you also kept some. Moreover, they were very wary when arranging the acquirer, fearing that it might be one of your people. Fortunately, you made arrangements early, and many of the people they thought were on their side are our people.”
Ye Qingcheng smiled and said, "That's good. If they're unwilling to sell the rest, that's fine. They did contribute a lot to the Ye family back then, so there's no need to completely wipe them out. We just need to retain a voice. In that case, the press conference that was postponed can be brought forward a little. Please arrange it as soon as possible."
"Understood, Uncle."
Ye Qingcheng got out of the hospital bed, opened the curtains and went to the balcony. After stretching his muscles, he came back and couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect that I could adapt to this kind of leisurely life so well. Even if I really recover, I should retire. The future belongs to you young people."
Upon hearing this, Ji Shuli couldn't help but say to Ye Zhiwei, "Look at how detached Uncle is from worldly desires, it's all just talk. Grandpa also felt he should retire, but he still held the majority of the company's shares. The board members are foxes, but our Uncle is not so simple. They are all cunning foxes."
Seeing the brother and sister whispering again, Ye Qingcheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Why are you whispering again? Do you have so many little secrets that I don't know about?"
Ye Zhiwei betrayed him exceptionally quickly this time, immediately tattling, "Dad, my cousin is talking badly about you! He says you're a cunning old fox—"
Ji Shuli: ? ? ?
Ji Shuli: That damn brat!
It's unclear whether it was Ji Shuli's bad words that upset Ye Qingcheng. Although Ye Qingcheng didn't show it directly, he kept trying to make things difficult for Ji Shuli today, making her do this or that, which made Ye Zhiwei happy. Before seeing Jiang Jianian, she had already processed her emotions.
Jiang Jianian returned home a little late in the evening.
It was around 11 p.m. when Ye Zhiwei finished showering and washing up when he sent her a message: "I've finished dealing with things. Are you asleep?"
Ye Zhiwei: Not yet.
She was just about to open the door and go out to the lobby to find Jiang Jianian when, unexpectedly, Jiang Jianian had already knocked on the door.
As soon as Ye Zhiwei opened the door, she saw Jiang Jianian, who was wearing a suit and glasses and looked more refined than usual. He squinted at Ye Zhiwei for a long time before saying, "Didn't you say you wanted to talk? Why won't you let me in?"
Ye Zhiwei originally planned to clarify the matter in the lobby, but she didn't expect Jiang Jianian to come directly to her room. She hesitated for a moment, but still let Jiang Jianian in.
Ye Zhiwei had a bad feeling as soon as he came in.
He was wearing a tie today, a silver-gray tie. He was originally dressed very formally, in a suit and leather shoes, with a watch on his wrist, giving off a well-dressed and refined feeling. Now he started to loosen his tie and unbutton his shirt slowly, and his whole style changed, losing the initial sense of asceticism.
Ye Zhiwei took a deep breath and reminded her, "Why did you suddenly..."
"It's too warm in here." He started to take off his coat, and now he was only wearing a loose tie, a black shirt, and several buttons undone.
Ye Zhiwei's throat suddenly felt dry.
She immediately looked away and said, "Yesterday—"
"Yesterday what?"
“Young Mr. Zheng, who came to my place yesterday, was beaten up,” Ye Zhiwei suddenly said.
Jiang Jianan paused slightly as he began unbuttoning his sleeves. He glanced at Ye Zhiwei before slowly saying, "Is that so? Isn't it his own fault?"
Ye Zhiwei took a deep breath. "He brought it on himself, but he didn't gain anything from me yesterday. The point isn't him. The point is that if you go a little too far because of this, what if someone does something even more unsatisfactory... Jiang Jianian, you promised me you would have a bottom line. Do you remember what happened with Tang Ke last time? I'm never worried about what those people did. I'm worried about you. You could always handle things better. Why do you have to test the limits of the law?"
The scene fell silent for a moment.
"I didn't do it myself."
This is tantamount to tacitly admitting to the actions they had planned.
Ye Zhiwei said expressionlessly, "Does not taking action mean there is no crime? You know about instigation, right? It involves using methods such as persuasion, enticement, instruction, encouragement, bribery, or threats to instill one's criminal intent into a person who originally had no criminal intent, causing them to commit a crime according to the instigator's criminal intent. Instigation constitutes instigation of a crime, and in some cases, instigation of a crime may even involve being the principal offender—you should have read about it, right?"
He stood up, walked to Ye Zhiwei, reached out and stroked her hair, then her eyelashes, her nose, and finally his fingertips rested on her lips. "You're right, I admit I was wrong."
Just as Ye Zhiwei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Jiang Jianian had listened, Jiang Jianian, after admitting his mistake, still stared at Ye Zhiwei and moved closer to her. As Ye Zhiwei became nervous, the young man said in a hoarse voice, somewhat unable to control himself, "So, Ms. Ye, the future great lawyer, please tell me, when you stood here and used seduction to imply that I would commit a crime against you, and when I was infatuated with you and wanted to commit a crime against you, were you also the principal offender?"
Ye Zhiwei: What kind of twisted logic is this?!
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