Chapter 274 Lonely Boat
Hengyi Group.
Duan Jingyao sat at his desk, listening to his special assistant's report, rubbing his brows tiredly.
"Young Master Lu donated all of his 21.6% shares to Meng Anran. After the equity change, Meng Anran will become the largest shareholder of Hengyi Group."
Special Assistant Du Lifeng carefully assessed his boss's expression and said, "Boss Duan, if Boss Meng becomes the largest shareholder of our group, then we will have no bargaining power in our cooperation project with Ruiming."
How could Duan Jingyao not understand these principles? But what made him feel most complicated at the moment was that he thought he had the ability to become a valuable person to Meng Anran, but after Lu Heng's actions, Meng Anran became the person who was superior to him.
He waved his hand wearily, no longer wanting to think about the company's so-called interests. He hoped to have a quiet and solitary space to sort out his thoughts. "Got it, you go down first."
Du Lifeng wanted to say something else, but seeing his boss's sad face, he had no choice but to leave.
The office door was gently closed. Duan Jingyao leaned back in his office chair, pinching his brows and sighing.
Irritable, inexplicably irritable.
Neon lights gradually lit up, and the glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings reflected the flowing car lights. The whole city seemed to be immersed in colorful alcohol, feeling slightly dizzy.
The street lights came on one after another, the orange halo flowed on the asphalt road, the shadows of the pedestrians were stretched and shortened, and finally melted into the depths of the night.
The silver supercar was driving very slowly, and the heater in the car was on at 26 degrees, blocking out the cold outside.
Meng Anran stroked the joints of her index finger, which had become rough and flaky from polishing the sculpture, and looked at the neon lights outside the window, her thoughts drifting away.
"Are you really not planning to send your sister off tomorrow?" Qin Mu glanced at her and quickly looked away.
"No need." Meng Anran withdrew her gaze from the window, "It's not like I won't be coming back."
Hearing this, Qin Mu did not mention the matter again.
He knew that An Xiaoran was best at disguising herself. Although she appeared calm and composed as usual today, she was actually very confused.
Because of Lu Heng.
The person she had hated for more than ten years not only took the blame for her, but also transferred all his assets in the country to her.
She must be conflicted. Perhaps she no longer hates Lu Heng, but she is still wandering in a helpless situation, not knowing how to repay Lu Heng's efforts, nor how to say "I'm sorry".
Qin Mu gave her time to think alone and stopped talking.
The carriage returned to silence, and the air was filled with the smell of cedar after the rain, which was refreshing.
Meng Anran's nerves relaxed, her mind was full of random thoughts, and she gradually became sleepy.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, the ringing of her cell phone tore through the silent air.
It was Duan Jingyao calling. She glanced at the time displayed at the top of the screen - 8:30, which was long past the Hengyi Group's working hours.
So this call was not about work.
"It's a call from Duan Jingyao." Meng Anran turned his head to look at Qin Mu, reported briefly, and asked with his eyes whether he should answer it.
"Answer it." Qin Mu's thin lips curled up into a faint smile. He was very pleased with Meng Anran's small gesture of asking for his opinion.
He felt her respect, so naturally he should give her the right to decide.
With her boyfriend's permission, Meng Anran answered the phone: "It's so late, what's going on?"
"Did my elder brother give you all the shares of Hengyi Group?" Duan Jingyao rarely made small talk and went straight to the point.
"Yes, the letter of gift has been delivered to me, but I haven't signed it yet." Meng Anran was also concise and to the point, with a somewhat cold tone.
She had no intention of accepting this "gift".
"Can I see you?"
It took him a long time to utter these words.
Meng Anran thought for a moment: "When?"
"Now."
Meng Anran glanced at Qin Mu beside her. Qin Mu seemed to notice something and turned to look at her. She said to the other end of the phone, "Where are we meeting?"
"Hengyi Group, my office."
"good."
"I want to see you alone."
"Okay, I'll be there in twenty minutes."
After hanging up the phone, facing Qin Mu's puzzled expression, she said calmly: "Send me to Hengyi. Duan Jingyao wants to talk to me alone."
Qin Mu thought for a few seconds, and from what Meng Anran had just said to the other end, he could analyze that it was about the issue of Luheng shares.
He didn't raise any objections: "Okay, I'll take you there and wait for you downstairs."
Duan Jingyao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of Hengyi Group, overlooking the lights of the entire city.
His tense profile was reflected on the glass. The cigarette between his fingers had burned out, but he was completely unaware.
Meng Anran became the largest shareholder of Hengyi Group.
This realization was like a blunt knife, slowly cutting through his sanity.
He recalled the scene when he first met Meng Anran - she was wearing a white lab coat, standing under the light of the laboratory, with cold eyebrows and eyes, like a sculpture that could not be desecrated.
She is always surrounded by a few friends, a group of people talking and laughing, and she is always the brightest center of attention.
She excelled academically and was a favorite of all her teachers. Socially, she was incredibly versatile, even those who disliked her had to admit that her character and personality were impeccable.
After graduating from high school, he hadn't seen her for a long time, but he always learned about her career achievements in the news.
Duan Jingyao has worked hard for a long time just to become a person of value to her. She has already stood at the top of the food chain, but he is still like a young boy who has just fallen in love.
Finally, he thought he was qualified to approach her openly and be closer to her.
With just a flick of a piece of paper, Lu Heng pushed her to a height he could never reach.
The phone vibrated and the screen lit up: [Mr. Duan, Miss Meng is here.]
Duan Jingyao took a deep breath, put out his cigarette, turned and walked towards the reception room.
The moment he opened the door, Meng Anran was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with her back to him.
Neon lights flickered outside the window, and her outline was coated with a layer of soft light, which seemed unreal.
"Mr. Duan." She turned around and said calmly, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Duan Jingyao stared into her eyes and suddenly smiled: "With your observation skills, you should be able to guess why I'm looking for you."
She raised her eyebrows slightly: "Because of Lu Heng?"
"Because of you."
The air suddenly froze.
Meng Anran's expression was blank for a moment.
Duan Jingyao took a step forward and said in a low voice, "I can't tell whether my feelings for you are admiration or envy."
He disguised himself in high school, with only hatred in his heart, and his attention to her may not just be because she is a target.
What's more, she is always so dazzling and always becomes the shining focus.
But I didn't dare to be sincere to anyone and didn't dare to have too much contact with anyone, so after all these years, looking back at myself, I didn't even have a friend I could trust.
After graduating from high school, her career, studies and love life progressed steadily, but he was tripped up by various things.
Now that he thinks about it, he probably envied her more than he loved her.
"Before, I was controlled by Duan Xi and never dared to hope for love. Until Lu Heng and Lu Yi asked me to meet, until they treated me with a friendly attitude, I thought I had found my family and could feel the love.
"But in the end, they cared more about you than me, their blood brother. So that you could go to the party despite your injuries, and so that you could sacrifice decades of reputation to take the blame for you, Lu Heng even gave you all his shares in Hengyi Group before leaving.
"It seems like everyone in the world loves you, but I am still a lonely boat drifting on the sea."
I can’t find my home, I can’t find my direction, I can’t find a safe haven.
His fingertips lightly brushed her cuffs, then quickly retracted: "But now, I don't even have the qualifications to look at you from afar."
Meng Anran stood there in a daze. She had never looked at the things she had experienced from Duan Jingyao's perspective.
It seems that he is indeed lonely.
He was so lonely that it seemed as if there were thousands of people in the world, but his world was silent.
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