late at night
Zhong Yunxi had arranged to play a round of golf with someone on Sunday. During breakfast, he asked Bai Yi if she wanted to come with him.
Bai Yi shook his head: "I'm going to the library to look up some information today."
She doesn't usually like going outdoors, and it's not easy to get her to go out for a stroll in the park inside Boyuntan.
"Then I'll take you to the library, and then I'll go to the sports field."
Seeing that she had eaten two egg whites slowly and carefully, and then stopped eating, Zhong Yunxi put a shumai on her plate and reminded her, "The porridge is getting cold."
She snapped out of her daze and ate a few more bites.
She wasn't very interested in Zhong Yunxi's social circle. She had been dragged into playing cards at a dinner party in his childhood friends' group before, but she stopped going there often. She felt that she wasn't good at social entertainment and it made her very anxious.
Zhong Yunxi, on the other hand, is under a lot of pressure. He is always wearing his engagement ring in social situations, but his girlfriend is rarely seen in public, so he is always asked about it.
He always said that he would definitely send them invitations when he got married.
Over time, everyone in the industry knew that Zhong Yunxi had a fiancée who was practically a kept woman.
He escorted Bai Yi to the library and said, "If you're not finished by noon, let me know and I'll book a restaurant for you nearby."
Bai Yi nodded.
When Zhong Yunxi arrived at the stadium, M&K Capital Greater China President Cymins was already waiting for him in the lounge, along with two directors from Sijian Pharmaceuticals.
Sijian Pharmaceuticals was introduced to Beijing through connections facilitated by state-owned assets from Guangdong and Hong Kong. Dongchen Fund assigned Zhong Yunxi to handle the matter. He has been busy recently, so progress has been slow. He has only managed to streamline the basic framework of the company and ensure that the staffing is in place.
Only now are we starting to discuss the future development path and management direction.
Sijian Pharmaceuticals is a long-established pharmaceutical company in Vietnam and Hong Kong. However, in recent years, its board of directors has lacked strategic vision, and its management team has been disorganized, inevitably putting it at a disadvantage in the competition.
M&K Capital is looking for an opportunity to enter the domestic pharmaceutical industry.
Zhong Yunxi was attracted by M&K Capital's global pharmaceutical investment portfolio. They have extensive experience in managing pharmaceutical companies and can bring new management ideas to Sijian, which can be considered a win-win situation.
Zhong Yunxi doesn't play golf often, but foreign executives are all fond of it.
Even so, Cymins was impressed by his smooth and efficient hitting technique.
Zhong Yunxi rarely finds anything difficult to learn. He excels at quickly grasping the essentials of a sport. Not playing often doesn't mean he's bad at it.
Therefore, he can always handle projects or debts that seem very difficult to others very well, which is why his company can be trusted with confidence in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
Through a tripartite communication, Sijian's board of directors made concessions on equity and management rights, and Leading Innovation and M&K roughly reached an agreement on equity share and management say.
Near the end, I "bumped into" a leader from the state-owned assets of Yuegang. We chatted for a few more minutes. Thus, the integration of Sijian Pharmaceuticals can be considered a satisfactory conclusion.
Lunch was arranged at a hotel next to the stadium.
Cymins said he had arranged to meet a woman, and several people were waiting in the hotel lobby.
Zhong Yunxi called Bai Yi, but no one answered. He guessed that she had probably put her phone on silent in the library.
Bai Yi sent a message: Still in the museum.
Zhong Yunxi: Are you going again this afternoon? What do you want to eat for lunch? I'll book a place for you nearby.
Bai Yi: You don't need to decide, I'll go by myself. I want a Coke burger.
Zhong Yunxi: ...Eat something healthy.
Bai Yi: I didn't stop you from drinking, cola is much healthier than alcohol.
Zhong Yunxi smiled, unable to refute.
Zhong Yunxi: Okay, I'll come over to keep you company after I finish my lunch break.
After waiting for a while without receiving a reply from Bai Yi, he put away his phone.
When Cymins and the others arrived, it was a beautiful girl of mixed Chinese and American heritage. She said she was his girlfriend and worked in investment banking. They had a meal together and chatted, and even exchanged business cards with Zhong Yunxi.
In the afternoon, Zhong Yunxi went to the library to find Bai Yi and sat with her for the whole afternoon. Bai Yi was looking at information about medicine, while he casually picked up a few literary books and flipped through them.
Bai Yi asked him, "Don't you read any professional books?"
Zhong Yunxi said, "Finance? Those who write books are not as good as me."
Bai Yi: ...
What outrageous remarks?
Zhong Yunxi explained to her, "Finance has nothing to do with knowledge, but with power rules, resource operation, logical framework, and ways of doing things. These are not replicable, so reading books is useless."
Bai Yi: "I'm not talking to you anymore."
Zhong Yunxi is usually so serious at work, but he becomes very talkative when reading for leisure, and you always want to discuss things with him.
"Do you think this poem is well-written?"
He was holding a collection of Borges's poems. Bai Yi peeked out and asked, "What?"
He pointed to those lines and showed them to her—
"...
Your beauty
It is always a miracle bestowed by time.
The happiness within you
Like spring on new leaves.
I am nothing.
Just this kind of longing
It fades away in the twilight.
The beauty of your body
Like the cold glint of a sword's edge.
..."
After Bai Yi finished reading silently, he glanced at him, while Zhong Yunxi quietly looked at the pages of the book.
When Bai Yi turned to look at her book, Zhong Yunxi moved closer to her.
The library had long tables with long wooden benches, but he insisted on sitting right next to her, regardless of whether it was appropriate in such a public place.
Bai Yi suddenly felt that this kind of capitalist who loved reading poetry was quite adorable.
“Buy me a copy,” Zhong Yunxi said, pointing to the collection of Borges’ poems in his hand. “Buy Neruda as well.”
Bai Yi: "Buy it yourself, you don't lack the money."
"Write my name a few more times and give it to me." Zhong Yunxi was still bothered by the fact that she had torn out the last page last time.
Bai Yi: ...
“Zhong Yunxi, who asks for gifts on their own?”
He squeezed her hand: "You don't offer to give it to me, and you won't let me accept it? What I want is neither troublesome nor expensive. You have no reason to refuse."
Bai Yi leaned over the table, leaned closer to him, and whispered, "Why do you want these two poetry collections? You must have some weird idea."
Zhong Yunxi looked at her profile and said without any hesitation, "Like a love letter."
Bai Yi: ...
She poked his arm with her Apple Pencil and muttered, "Scheming dog."
Zhong Yunxi laughed and said, "You agreed?"
Bai Yi didn't speak.
Zhong Yunxi knew that her not refusing meant she had agreed.
In the afternoon, when Bai Yi said she wanted to drink coffee, the two went to her favorite Betty coffee shop again.
At the door, the bow tied on Bai Yi's coat sleeve came undone because it got caught on a lady's bag. Before she could even frown, Zhong Yunxi took her hand, straightened it, and tied it back on.
Bai Yi felt a moment of guilt; before she learned how to tie a Windsor knot for Zhong Yunxi, he learned how to tie a bow for her first.
But men's ties are really hard to tie. She didn't want to learn.
Zhong Yunxi used to find it hard to understand the meaning of spending time with someone.
Now he even enjoys it when Bai Yi takes up his time.
On Tuesday, Yu Shiyuan went to Runhe to deliver the calamus that Bai Yi had asked for.
When Bai Yi saw him in the office, she asked in surprise, "How did you manage to find this place?"
Yu Shiyuan reminded her, "Didn't you cooperate with Runhe's publicity department by forwarding my science video? Forgot?"
She remembered and laughed, "Oh, Runhe is the big spender who buys you traffic."
Yu Shiyuan smiled and handed her the calamus: "Remember to give me a sample."
"Not necessarily. If it's not done well, it won't be available. The tea is simple to make, and it'll be ready soon. I can give you some." Perhaps because she received the calamus today, she was in a good mood and even explained a few words to Yu Shiyuan.
Her expression was so natural that it didn't seem like she was deliberately being perfunctory, but Yu Shiyuan still vaguely sensed her nonchalance.
But he had no choice. In front of Bai Yi, he had never been qualified, not even to do things for her.
He could only politely accept: "Okay, tea is fine too. I'll go to the Public Relations Department, shall we have lunch together?"
Bai Yi shook his head: "Zhong Yunxi, come have dinner with me."
He nodded: "Okay."
He often reminded himself that Bai Yi was already married, but when he saw her, he would always forget, so he could only comfort himself that he had known her for so long that he would always care about her out of habit.
Runhe wants to make a short film that is more like a documentary to promote traditional Chinese medicine culture and Runhe's corporate culture.
The PR department mentioned this idea to him and asked him to recommend a director for the documentary, since he was a contributor to National Geographic and his resources in this area were definitely more professional than those of the pharmaceutical company.
He came to discuss this matter with the planning department today.
Provide some directors' styles and works, as well as their own ideas and perspectives, and then let Runhe's planning department make contact.
At noon, the planning department manager warmly invited him to lunch, but he politely declined with a smile: "I have to finish a draft this afternoon, so I can't stay any longer. I'll definitely chat with you more next time I come."
When he arrived at the underground parking lot, a familiar car was right next to his. It was the car that had picked up and dropped off Bai Yi a few nights ago when they had dinner. The Phantom was so eye-catching that it was hard not to remember it.
He sat in the car for more than ten minutes, watching Bai Yi get out of the elevator. The car door next to her opened, and she ran over with a smile, snuggling into Zhong Yunxi's arms. She was carrying the calamus he had delivered that morning.
"Are your hands so cold? Is the office cold?" Zhong Yunxi asked her.
She frowned: "There's no underfloor heating in the office building, and the air conditioning gets so dry when it's on high. It's so annoying."
"Then don't go this afternoon." Zhong Yunxi gave Bai Yi the freedom to say no.
She didn't actually plan to work the full four-hour shift at Runhe that afternoon, but she was going to find Ren Xiao.
"No, I still have to go to work today."
Zhong Yunxi then said, "Then let the driver take you home as soon as possible."
She nodded.
Recently, he has been frequently coming from the East Tower of Hong Kong Island to have lunch with Bai Yi, saying that he is not too busy and has time to come.
Bai Yi was annoyed that he always urged her to eat at the dinner table: "I told you I'm full. It's easy to gain weight in winter, and you still make me eat so much."
So Zhong Yunxi switched to feeding her directly: "With your eating habits, you still want to gain weight? You'd have to eat eight meals a day to have any chance."
Bai Yi: ...
"You should travel more often; it's so annoying to have you following me around all the time."
Zhong Yunxi only really manages her eating habits. She doesn't like exercise, doesn't like going out, has a bit of a temper that's a little unreasonable, and loves sweets and milk tea. Zhong Yunxi indulges her, but he can't ignore her when she doesn't eat properly.
In the afternoon, she went to Sijian's lab to find Ren Xiao, who gossiped with her: "Yesterday was Monday's board meeting. The company changed its management. I heard that in just the last day or two, they've already cleaned up some of the old hands in the marketing department. There's also a woman. She looks particularly elite."
The two processed the calamus, measured the reagents for extraction, and Bai Yi, who had never been interested in company gossip, said: "They really have a lot of energy."
Ren Xiao laughed: "Who says otherwise? Every day when I open my eyes, all I see are job performance evaluation projects. All I want to do when I open my eyes is go back to sleep."
Bai Yi asked her, "When will our new drug go into animal testing?"
Ren Xiao sighed, "Don't even mention it. I was just about to contact Senior Brother He. I came over on Sunday afternoon to work on a few mice, thinking I could observe them on Monday. Guess what? They all died. I repeated the steps on Monday morning, and before I even left work, they were all dead again. I took the slides to the pathology lab, but the results aren't out yet. I suspect it's because we didn't handle the solanine properly."
Bai Yi: …………
This is the last thing she wanted to hear.
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