Chapter 172 New Year's Eve Party
The little girl He Xue felt even more distressed when she saw Jiang Wanning's thin appearance.
Since the last meeting with Pei Yufeng, Xie Yanchuan had to go back because of some family matters.
With her elder and second brothers not around, Jiang Wanning lived alone in that huge manor, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, so she simply threw herself into her work.
Unexpectedly, all this busy work happened to coincide with the end of the year, which is an extremely busy time for media companies.
In addition, Xia Shuying's movie was about to start shooting, and all the preparations needed to be reviewed by Jiang Wanning personally. This led to the scene where even He Xue was a little worried that she would not be able to cope with it.
Fortunately, although Jiang Wanning was physically tired, she was mentally very energetic.
So when she met He Xue's obviously worried eyes, she just smiled and shook her head: "I'm fine, my injuries have almost healed."
"Please tell everyone that after today's work, we'll have dinner together tonight."
Jiang Wanning thought that she had been in charge of the company for such a long time, and except for taking leave, she was rarely seen all day. People were probably complaining about her for a long time, and she could take advantage of today's opportunity to restore her image.
"Really? That's great! Long live President Jiang!"
The result was just as Jiang Wanning had expected. As soon as she made this proposal, He Xue was the first to cheer.
After spending some time together, she dared to let herself go more and more in front of Jiang Wanning.
"Then Mr. Jiang, I will go and inform everyone now!"
"Um."
Seeing He Xue happily pushing the door open and leaving after getting her consent, Jiang Wanning shook her head helplessly.
…
It was evening soon.
As I mentioned before, the climate in Singapore is different from that in China. It rarely snows and it is mostly spring all year round.
In fact, except for a few individual Chinese employees, most of the indigenous people in Singapore do not celebrate the Chinese New Year.
But this did not hinder everyone's enthusiasm for participating in this party.
Jiang Wanning asked Qi Huaian to choose the restaurant, which is considered one of the most famous landmark check-in restaurants in City A.
Looking at the nearly one hundred employees in her company, Jiang Wanning simply waved her hand and booked the entire restaurant.
It received cheers and praise from the crowd: "The boss is so generous!"
At the table, people toasted Jiang Wanning one after another: "Honestly, Mr. Jiang, when I first met you, after the incident with Team Leader Xia, I thought you would be difficult to get along with. I didn't expect that after getting to know you, you are actually such a nice person!"
"That's right, I was really scared to death of you at that time. It wasn't until we got to know each other these few days that I really changed my opinion of you. How can a boss be so hands-on with his work? You're the first person I've ever met!"
As soon as the person in front finished speaking, he was immediately echoed by others: "Haha, I'm one of the people who was scared to death at that time. You don't know, when Manager Qi asked someone to be your special assistant, I was really scared. I was afraid that I would be chosen, but in the end, it was He Xue who got the chance."
Amidst the joking, Jiang Wanning smiled and responded to glass after glass of wine.
When she had drunk who knows how many glasses of wine, a hand suddenly reached out from beside her and helped her block the remaining wine.
"Your CEO Jiang is not feeling well, so don't force her to drink any more. I'll drink the rest for her."
Jiang Wanning couldn't help but turn her head and saw Qi Huaian smiling slightly with gentle eyes.
I don’t know if it was Jiang Wanning’s illusion, but Qi Huaian seemed particularly quiet tonight.
She didn't even hear him say a few words during the entire evening of the party. He seemed to be filled with a faint emotion, and she couldn't tell why.
Jiang Wanning guessed that he might be too tired from working overtime recently. Seeing that she had indeed caused him a lot of trouble due to her absence, she couldn't help but turn her head slightly and whispered to others, "Qi Huaian, I saw that you drank quite a lot just now. If they come to toast me later, I can just refuse it directly."
As Jiang Wanning said this, she prepared to take the wine glass.
But she didn't expect that the moment she stretched out her hand, it was stopped by someone. Qi Huaian still interrupted her with a smile: "Boss Jiang, you underestimate my alcohol tolerance."
After saying this, before Jiang Wanning could stop him, he took the wine glass on the table and drank it all in one gulp.
Amidst the cheers and applause of the crowd, it seemed that this was the first time that Jiang Wanning saw this man, who was always humble, polite, gentle and tactful in his dealings with others, show such an expression.
Jiang Wanning opened her lips and was about to say something when the sound of fireworks suddenly rang out outside.
At the same time, Qi Huaian's seemingly lonely blessing rang in her ears: "Boss Jiang, I've been busy recently and forgot to congratulate you."
"Xie Shao and I are finally married. When you have your wedding, don't forget to invite me."
“…”
Qi Huaian got drunk after all.
Jiang Wanning was confused for a moment when she saw him being carried away unconscious by other employees.
Feeling that this person might have been working too much overtime at his job recently, Jiang Wanning secretly decided that he must work diligently from now on and would never be a hands-off boss again.
At the same time, after the party, Jiang Wanning arranged a Spring Festival holiday for all employees in the company except for the stars who were participating in the business performance.
Amidst the cheers, she took a taxi back to the manor, feeling a little tired.
It had indeed been a while since Jiang Wanning had returned to this place. Before that, because Jiang Wenzhou had always been there, and there were other servants, the two siblings did not feel lonely living here.
But now she is the only one left, and in the atmosphere of a foreign country, Jiang Wanning feels an indescribable loneliness in her heart.
Staying on the top of the phone screen were the New Year greetings sent to her by her eldest brother in a hurry during work, as well as the unchanged record of money transferred by her second brother.
There is no parent, and no Xie Yanchuan.
Jiang Wanning lowered her eyes and looked at Xie Yanchuan's landscape avatar on the message board, which had never changed. The latest message on it was the emoticon package she sent to him two days ago to remind him that there was snow in Beijing.
The relationship ended with a simple and somewhat perfunctory "OK" from the other party.
I don’t know what Xie Yanchuan has been busy with in Beijing these days.
Jiang Wanning shook her head slightly, which was a little dazed from drinking, and prepared to take the key to open the door of the villa.
But it seemed that she was a little drunk, and the key could not be inserted into the keyhole no matter how many times she tried to insert it.
Gradually, when Jiang Wanning was feeling a little depressed, suddenly a pair of warm big hands gently wrapped around her from behind.
As he easily helped her unlock the door, Jiang Wanning also smelled the scent of winter snow on the other person, which seemed to have just been brought back from Beijing.
Turning around, Jiang Wanning met Xie Yanchuan's gentle eyes that were smiling.
"I rushed back on New Year's Eve, so it shouldn't be too late, right?"
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