Chapter 86
Li Ye watched this scene quietly, pursing his lips without saying a word.
When Xu Wanyi reached the railing, she found Li Ye standing there expressionless, looking at her. Her expression tightened, and she quickly walked to Li Ye's side, saying to the man next to her, "My people have arrived. I'll go first."
The man was clearly taken aback. He hadn't expected anyone to come and pick up Xu Wanyi. Aunt Xu's task for him was to come to Haixi with Xu Wanyi and take care of Miss Xu personally. How come he encountered an obstacle before even leaving the airport?
He was overjoyed the whole way. He mainly works in Haixi, and this time when he returned to Beijing, he happened to run into his wealthy uncle hosting a banquet. He met a rich lady who immediately showered him with compliments and chatted with him for a while. In the end, she mentioned that she had a daughter who was currently traveling between Beijing and Haixi, and asked if he could help take care of her if he had time.
Then, the wealthy woman took out a photo of her daughter. He took one look and exclaimed, "Wow, isn't this the beautiful woman I saw at the airport last time?" After a quick thought, he was overjoyed and hurriedly agreed.
"Who is this?" the young man asked, his face full of confusion.
“This is my friend, lawyer Li Ye. Li Ye, this is Zhao Junyi, the son of my mother’s friend.”
Xu Wanyi felt helpless about this cheap friend her mother had somehow found. Before they left, her mother insisted that the son of a family friend was also going to Haixi and wanted the two of them to go together. When they arrived, she found out that it was that self-important little star.
Although everyone knew what her mother was thinking, she didn't say anything, and the person just said it was on the way, so they just happened to be on the way and ended up at the door.
Xu Wanyi had never seen such a cold expression on Li Ye's face before, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous, as if he had really done something to wrong her.
"Zhao Junyi?" Li Ye frowned. The name and face looked so familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
“Yes, Zhao Junyi, hello.” Zhao Junyi extended his hand to shake hands with Li Ye, but Li Ye did not move, staring at him intently with a serious expression.
“My profession is acting. Lawyer Li may have seen me on TV.”
At this moment, Zhao Junyi also felt a little awkward because he found that Li Ye's features were somewhat similar to his, but he couldn't compare to the woman's exquisite appearance, and he couldn't even match her height. He felt a little discouraged.
"Xiao Zhao, I've already had someone book a hotel for you. Just take a taxi to Yunman and give them your name and ID number. I'll be going now."
“Wanyi, Aunt Xu said she was worried about you being alone in Haixi and asked me to take care of you. How can you leave alone like this?” Zhao Junyi really had the spirit of a protagonist.
"She's going to my house? Are you coming too?" Li Ye's words were blunt and impolite, leaving Zhao Junyi speechless for a long time.
"Hmm, okay, let's go to a friend's house for a gathering. Well, that's not really convenient. I'll be going now, I'll contact you again tomorrow, Wanyi."
Li Ye took Xu Wanyi's luggage cart from him, and the two walked side by side to the garage. Li Ye didn't say a word, put all the luggage in the trunk, and then silently got into the driver's seat.
"Don't be angry, I can't just fall out with my mom directly."
Xu Wanyi got into the passenger seat without fastening her seatbelt, then leaned over to Li Ye, hugged her neck, and rubbed her ear.
"You accepted it just because your mother pushed it on you?" Li Ye looked at her with a hint of concern.
“We shook them off before we even left the airport.” Xu Wanyi gently bit Li Ye’s lip again.
"If I hadn't come, were you planning to leave with someone else? Hey, you know what, your mom really knows how to pick people. From a distance, he does look a bit like me." Li Ye was distracted by Xu Wanyi's kiss, but his anger hadn't subsided.
"How could that be? I've already asked Xiao Jiang to wait for me, and I've already had a hotel booked for him in Beijing. It's his freedom to board the plane, and it's my freedom to do what I want. Do you understand, Attorney Li?"
Xu Wanyi raised her head, tapped Li Ye's chest with her finger, then turned around, sat up straight, and fastened her seatbelt.
"I need to call Xiao Jiang and tell him to go back first, so he doesn't just stay here waiting for nothing."
Upon hearing this, a hint of gentleness finally appeared on Li Ye's face, which had been stiff with seriousness.
"Are you still angry, Attorney Li? Don't be angry. Today is your first day of starting your business. We should celebrate properly." Xu Wanyi knew that Li Ye was jealous of her, so she comforted her while secretly being happy.
"Hmm, we definitely need to celebrate properly. But that's a different matter. Chairman Xu made me very unhappy, so he has to make it up to me." With that, Li Ye grinned, slammed on the gas pedal, and sped off towards home.
The rain showed no signs of stopping, pattering against the car. The light was already poor in the evening, and now the world was even darker. The car got stuck in traffic as soon as it left the airport and entered the highway. Li Ye glanced at the endless line of cars ahead and thought that it would be good if he could get home before dark. He had to suppress his excitement and felt a little discouraged.
Seeing her undisguised dejection, Xu Wanyi's eyes gleamed with a smile in the darkness, as bright as a star.
"Chairman Xu, what are you laughing at?" Li Ye keenly noticed Xu Wanyi's sly smile.
"nothing."
Li Ye simply unbuckled her seatbelt, turned to the side and hugged Xu Wanyi. With her long body and arms, she immediately trapped Xu Wanyi. She pressed her forehead against Xu Wanyi's forehead and said, "Hurry up and tell me, or I definitely won't let you off today."
"I laughed at the anxious look of some cats that can't get the fish." Xu Wanyi ran her hand along the contours of Li Ye's face, from his ear to his jaw, and then down to his neck. She couldn't help but swallow.
Li Ye wasn't much better off, but she clearly realized that the two of them were on the highway, not in her own garage, so she quickly changed the subject, "Hey, I say, that tagalong was your mom's first move today, I bet she has a backup plan, do you have any ideas?"
"However, your mother has a good eye; the little followers she found are better than the ones I found."
“Oh, you noticed,” Xu Wanyi said with a smile. She was afraid that Li Ye would be unhappy, so she didn’t want to bring it up. “I ran into this person once by chance at the airport before. Xiao Chenyue was there too.”
"Oh, what a coincidence!" Li Ye said sourly, completely ignoring the fact that Xiao Chenyue was also there.
"Hmm, what a coincidence! Do you know what he said to me back then?"
Li Ye turned his head, his face showing an expression that said, "I'm listening to what you have to say."
He said, "Are you one of my fans? Do you want to take a picture with me?"
“Hahahaha,” Li Ye couldn’t help but laugh when he heard this. “This person is quite… lacking in self-awareness. How could your mother find someone like this to fool you? Does she think you’re just someone who only cares about looks? This kind of low-level celebrity probably doesn’t even know how to write the word logic.”
"I do care a lot about looks, otherwise why would I have been interested in you?"
"Uh...that makes sense." Li Ye felt a little embarrassed by what was said.
"After all, I, Xu Wanyi, don't just keep any gigolo," Chairman Xu added, delivering another blow.
"By the way, how did your talks with Tonghua go this time? Did you find a more suitable target?" Li Ye was easily appeased by Xu Wanyi's few words, and now he remembered that he hadn't asked about the important matter yet.
Upon hearing this, Li Ye could clearly sense that Xu Wanyi's mood had dropped.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
“Tonghua’s demands are unreasonable. I originally intended to refuse, but unfortunately my father somehow got in touch with the leaders of Tonghua’s parent company and is trying to persuade me to agree to their proposal and facilitate the deal.”
Upon hearing this, Li Ye's mind raced.
“Tonghua’s desire for Leguang Group’s shares is not a good thing for the shareholders. The only reason your father is so actively pushing this forward is that he has connections in Tonghua Group. If Tonghua sides with him, it means he has more voting power.”
“Yes, that’s what I think too. But Tonghua Group is a state-owned enterprise, and state-owned enterprises are not so easy to control. Even Su Che can’t make decisions, so how much power must this person have?”
“I can’t understand this, and I think it’s unreasonable,” Xu Wanyi said earnestly to Li Ye.
“Currently, the shares of Leguang Group are 40% each for you and Xu Xuanming, 11% for your mother, and 9% for your father.” Li Ye’s hands unconsciously tapped the steering wheel slowly as he calculated.
She had previously studied Leguang's shareholding structure. The reason why Xu Wanyi dared not go too far against Xu Jing was because Leguang Group was majority-controlled. Without Xu Jing's support, Xu Wanyi could not control Leguang Group. If a portion of it were sold to Tonghua, there would likely be a situation where there was no actual controller.
"How much equity does Tonghua want in its proposal?"
"20%, with each of the four shareholders contributing 5%."
"If your mother doesn't agree, your father and brother won't be able to push this plan forward, right?"
"Well, but... my mom already knows about us..." Xu Wanyi didn't finish her sentence.
“They are on the same page about this matter,” Li Ye continued, also understanding the scene just now. “Hey, you should have told me earlier, then we wouldn’t have interrupted Zhao Junyi so abruptly.”
“Li Ye, listen to me,” Xu Wanyi turned Li Ye’s head around so that their eyes met. “Let’s keep things separate. Now that I’ve chosen my path, I’m not afraid of such a little setback. Do you understand?”
"Yes, I'll do whatever you say." Li Ye's heart softened, and he almost pounced on Xu Wanyi without thinking. In the end, shame won out over impulse. After all, it's a highway!
“Although they are on the same side in this matter, my mother still has to think about the consequences. If she casts this vote, she may hand over control of the group to my father. What would be the point of her years of desperate persistence and struggle? So I don’t think she will agree so easily.”
"Well, that's true, but your mom is very firmly against your homosexuality, so we'll have to think of other ways."
After a moment's thought, Li Ye took out his phone and made a call.
"Hey Su Che, are you free? I need to ask you something. Does your company have any requirements for signing a buyback agreement?"
Su Che had just finished a meeting and hadn't even settled in when she received a call from Li Ye. She said to her in an annoyed tone, "Of course there is. In such a conservative company as ours, we sign buyback agreements for every equity transaction. How would we handle the losses if we didn't sign buyback agreements? How would we balance the books? Let me tell you, don't be surprised, that's what the group required for your partner's transaction." At this point, Su Che's eyes lit up, "Did Xu Wanyi say something to you? Tell me honestly."
"No, I'll ask her later. Ah, Ms. Su sounds very tired. Well, Ms. Su, please rest now. I won't bother you any longer." With that, she hung up the phone with a "click."
Su Che held the phone, looking shocked. She wondered what Li Ye had done to cause such a rush in and out. She put down the phone, leaned back on the sofa to rest for a while, and rubbed her sore eyes.
She's been too busy lately. For some reason, her superiors have suddenly become keen on selling Maohua to Leguang Group, constantly urging her to push it forward. This has been dragging on for almost a year, and they've even added the condition of demanding equity. Now they just want to push it forward? Do they really think the whole world is their territory?
"Miss Xu, I know what to do!" Li Ye happily hugged Xu Wanyi.
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