8:30 PM.
The Yuzhou Banquet Restaurant, which had been completely booked, finally welcomed the guests who had been waiting for Shen Jinmo for more than three hours.
This restaurant is a converted large ship, standing on the riverbank in Yunzhou, and is famous locally for its whole fish banquet.
Shen Jinmo sat in the private room, holding a magazine and casually flipping through it. Hearing footsteps, he put down the magazine, slowly looked up, and saw the waiter leading in a short foreign man wearing a silver-gray suit with dark patterns.
Lu Zhiwei wore a pair of metal-rimmed glasses and an exquisitely crafted light blonde men's wig. Her originally delicate and alluring oval face had been deliberately contoured and her face shape altered. To better resemble the facial features of a foreigner, she also had implants in her nose and chin, and drew some realistic sideburns on her chin.
She noticed that Shen Jinmo's burning gaze was scrutinizing her.
She reached out and adjusted the sunglasses perched on her nose.
Her eyes met the man's gaze; she wore deep blue contact lenses, like a clear pool of seawater, deep and long.
She studied voice acting and can effectively change her voice through diaphragmatic vocalization training.
"Hello, Mr. Shen. It's a pleasure to meet you." Lu Zhiwei, who was wearing a bunch of men's decorative rings, extended her hand.
Shen Jinmo frowned slightly, because these rings were sharp and chrome-plated.
"Mr. William, can you speak Chinese?" Shen Jingmo shook her hand briefly and invited her to sit down.
“I have one-quarter Chinese ancestry,” Lu Zhiwei said in a clear, deep male voice.
"I invited Mr. William here today to discuss cooperation with the Shen Group." Shen Jinmo stood up and poured her a glass of wine.
Lu Zhiwei looked at the full glass of baijiu and smiled slightly: "I don't drink, Mr. Shen. I heard Miss Lu mention the cooperation with Shen's Group, and I have no objections."
Shen Jinmo's cold, sinister eyes scrutinized this "Mr. William" repeatedly.
In my mind, most foreigners are quite tall, but this person in front of me is so thin and short, almost like a woman.
"What Miss Lu mentioned to you was the cooperation between the Alliance and the Shen and Lu families, but what I want to discuss with Mr. William today is... the cooperation between the Alliance and the Shen family." Shen Jinmo slowly picked up his wine glass and took a sip.
His cold and stern face revealed the unique majesty of a person in a superior position.
"What does President Shen mean?" Lu Zhiwei deliberately furrowed her thick eyebrows slightly.
"The Design League, jointly organized by the Shen family and the Artists' Alliance, has eliminated the Lu family."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhiwei coughed lightly.
She was lucky she hadn't drunk any alcohol, otherwise that first sip would have been sprayed all over the face of that shameless bastard Shen Jingmo.
He truly exemplified what it means to "cross the river and then destroy the bridge."
They even threatened to kick her out of the game right in front of her, the leader of the artists' alliance and the president of Lu's Clothing.
“I know you met Lu Zhiwei of the Lu Group abroad, and your relationship must be deeper than that of the Shen Group, but I can meet any conditions the Artists Alliance wants.” Shen Jinmo’s eyes were cold and his voice was arrogant.
Lu Zhiwei sneered, feigning greed: "Oh? President Shen, why don't you tell me what kind of cooperation terms Shen's Group can offer?"
Shen Jinmo slowly explained: "The design market is now global. Shen's design department covers jewelry, architecture, games, animation and other fields. The need for talent is even greater. Shen's has been expanding in overseas markets and urgently needs more top artists to join. If the alliance and Shen's reach an exclusive cooperation, I am willing to give 10% of Shen's shares to outstanding artists to share equally."
"It is indeed a very tempting offer. Why does President Shen insist on kicking Lu's Group out? Wouldn't it be better for everyone to work together for development?" Lu Zhiwei held her breath and continued to ask.
"There can only be one king in Yunzhou. Any competitor that hinders the development of the Shen family will be crushed under my feet." Shen Jinmo made no attempt to conceal his ambition.
After hearing his words, Lu Zhiwei's eyes turned completely cold.
At this moment, he could no longer conceal his resentment towards Shen Jinmo.
Therefore, his initial intention in agreeing to the joint collaboration was not out of pity, but rather to join the design league and then instigate the illustrator alliance to kick out Lu's Group, one of the partners, in order to satisfy his ambition and desire for revenge.
If the leader of the Artists' Alliance is not her, but someone else.
After dinner tonight.
She and the Lu Group would be ruthlessly kicked out of the game, with no room for maneuver whatsoever.
The cold-blooded, ruthless, and vicious business tycoon Shen Jinmo, as perceived by outsiders, is not just a figurehead.
"Mr. Shen, do you know how I met Miss Lu?" After calming down, Lu Zhiwei regained her composed and unflappable demeanor.
"I'd like to hear the details." Shen Jinmo picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of fish, and slowly enjoyed it.
Lu Zhiwei glanced coldly at Shen Jingmo: "When I first met her, she was kneeling on the snowy streets of a foreign country, kowtowing to passersby in an effort to save her bedridden mother."
The fish in Shen Jinmo's mouth suddenly lost its flavor. He slowly put down his chopsticks and listened quietly.
He only knew that she had been a wanderer abroad since childhood, but he had never heard any specific details from Lu Zhiwei.
He was interested in hearing about it.
"At the time, I was thinking, how will this little girl, who is just over ten years old, overcome her predicament? Is she going to spend her whole life kneeling on the ground begging for a living?" Lu Zhiwei told her story from a third-person perspective.
Her eyes were filled with a sour light.
Shen Jinmo was unaware that it was her own heartache, not pity for others.
"And then?" Shen Jinmo asked.
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