Chapter 194 Piety
"well enough……"
Su Xia was so embarrassed that she was speechless for a long time. Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz. "The jewelry you are looking at are all high-quality imitations. They are fine for taking pictures, but they can't withstand close scrutiny."
Su Xiaojuan replied simply, "Really?"
Su Xia pinched her hair with her fingers and said coquettishly, "Of course not."
That seems...
This was a post she made on WeChat Moments some time ago.
I was so immersed in my love life recently that the precision grouping worked successfully for two years, but it has failed repeatedly recently and I forgot to block Su Xiaojuan.
She tried to cheer herself up and offered sweetly, "Good mother, shall we have dinner together tonight?"
"I've recently discovered a few delicious Sichuan restaurants with great ambiance. They definitely won't make you squat on a stool in your expensive, beautiful dress like last time."
"Okay," Su Xiaojuan said.
She was silent for several seconds, then added without context, "Anything is fine. Let the person next to you pay."
Power and money are the best ways to nourish people.
In recent years, Su Xiaojuan's company has developed rapidly, and Ms. Su herself has also become more powerful and intimidating.
He was so scared when he was discovered as a child, and he still hasn't made any progress now. Su Xia was so shocked that she sat up straight, her heart almost jumping out of her throat.
"Turn on speakerphone."
Su Xia did as she was told and spoke carefully, "Okay."
Su Xiaojuan called out the name, "The one next to you, if you hear it, squeak."
"Aunt."
Xu Jiqing responded seriously.
"I reserve my opinion on what you discussed with your lawyer earlier. Let's discuss the details in person."
Su Xiaojuan said, "I'll wait for you at the school gate closest to Xia Xia's dormitory for an hour. I'll leave after this time."
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Compared to meeting my mother, everything else had to be put aside, and the originally ambiguous atmosphere in the car was broken.
Dinner was arranged at a reservation-only Sichuan fusion restaurant. The private room was quaint and quiet. Paper lampshades, rosewood tables and chairs, and the menu, crafted from exquisite Shu brocade and written in small calligraphy, conveyed a sense of richness and texture.
At the round table, Su Xia sat between the two of them, with their chairs a little far apart.
Su Xiaojuan looked at Xu Jiqing, who was sitting diagonally opposite her, with the attitude of an examiner, her eyes sharp.
She wasn't in the mood for small talk today, so every question she asked was very direct.
"I've only heard that you're working in artificial intelligence. What field specifically?"
“Large Language Models.”
Xu Jiqing replied, "Right now, it's mainly about early-stage technology accumulation. When there are more application scenarios in the future, the returns will be considerable."
Su Xiaojuan snorted and laughed, "Is this how you paint a rosy picture for your investors?"
“Investment judgment is still up to the individual.”
He said, "But we were the first to start Chinese language training, and since the timing is right, we won't lose too badly."
Xu Jiqing responded humbly, revealing an ambition that was not annoying.
Su Xiaojuan looked at him for a while longer. "You've reached this stage of your business, so you should be very busy. How can you have time for a relationship?"
Su Xiaojuan glanced to the side, deliberately concealing the name of her love interest. "You're dating a little girl now. The money belongs to the company. You can't cash it out to make her happy. I can't spare time to accompany her if anything happens. You have to bear the risks together with you, and you have to worry all day long."
Su Xia was holding the teacup nervously, wondering whether to drink it or not. Just as she was about to rush over to defend Xu Jiqing, he had already spoken.
"My mother is currently studying in Jiangcheng with my younger sister and doesn't need my care. Apart from the money for my younger sister's future schooling, all the savings I've accumulated over the years, both the ones I've saved and the ones I'll save in the future, no matter how much, can be given to Xia Xia."
His tone was calm, yet extremely serious.
Su Xia was stunned by what she heard, because he looked so good that she had never seen him before, and because of the nickname she heard from him for the first time in her life.
"I tried to transfer all my company options to her, but I couldn't get past the investors."
"I won't move forward with the legal relationship until I'm sure the benefits she'll receive from me far outweigh the risks, but I can sign a will and gift agreement first."
He sat there, his pale eyes very still, with a piety that made him kneel down.
"I can't guarantee what will happen in the future, but if you are willing to trust me, and Xia Xia is willing to choose me, I will do my best to ensure that you don't regret it."
Su Xiaojuan's original idea was that young people should fall in love, and as long as her daughter didn't suffer any loss or injustice, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to have some fun for a few years. Her daughter had the capital to do so.
But the young man in front of her had asked a lawyer a few weeks ago to let her join the board of directors of a company composed of domestic and foreign first-line investment institutions as a special consultant, and forced her to buy original shares. Now he said such a shocking word as "will".
Xu Jiqing was much more realistic than she thought.
Can someone who is so thoughtful really do whatever her daughter says?
Su Xiaojuan was stunned. "How old are you..."
"You will graduate next year, and Xia Xia still has a year left. She is still a child who goes to class in the morning and evening for internship."
Xu Jiqing looked back and spoke slowly, "Whatever her quality of life is at home, starting tomorrow, it won't be much different."
Meeting his gaze, Su Xia licked her lips, and her chest tightened due to some indescribable premonition.
"I bought a house near the Summer Palace," he said.
"It's not particularly big, but the location is okay. It's a seven or eight minute walk from the law firm where Xia Xia is interning. I can drive her wherever she wants to go. Within three years at most, I'll buy her a car she likes and hire her a dedicated driver."
Su Xia was completely dumbfounded.
Xu Jiqing's gaze fell lightly on her face, then moved away, and a flash of awkwardness passed through his lowered eyes.
He answered before the question was asked, adding solemnly, "The house was exchanged with equity and several partners. It followed legal procedures, so it's not a loan. Any risk is my own."
"I can sign the donation and transfer it to Xia Xia's name at any time."
He is the older brother, the one who shoulders everything.
Xu Jiqing is actually very traditional in nature.
When she was seventeen, he rode his bike and took her across the magnolia streets, giving her wontons with a family photo, math and physics papers written stroke by stroke, all the time he could squeeze out, and his only future.
When she was twenty-two, he gave her a diamond bracelet, savings and a house.
He wasn't even giving her the best.
Xu Jiqing didn't seem to know what she thought was best, so she simply smashed her past, present and future, put them on the scale, and asked her if it was enough.
It seemed that if what she said was not enough, he could still cut out his heart and the invisible and intangible soul in his body without mercy, as long as it could make the scale heavier.
As long as she can't refuse, or is afraid to refuse because his love is too heavy.
The courtyard is very quiet, with gurgling water among the rockery and the faint sound of the guqin.
Before Su Xia could react, Su Xiaojuan had already picked up the teacup, leaned back, and took a sip.
She is really interested now.
"I don't mean anything else." Su Xiaojuan squinted her eyes behind the mist of hot tea and looked at him with curiosity. "Can you tell me about it?"
"How did you squeeze those young masters out of both their money and their lives?"
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