The Shengshi Automobile press conference started at 10 am on the 22nd. Different from the Shengshi Technology press conference, only more than 500 media and guests were invited to attend this time.
There were two minutes left until ten o'clock, and Sheng Jianqi was sitting in the first row chatting with his friends.
A friend came from Manhattan to show his support, but he didn't think he had the charm. Besides, Shengshi Automobile launched new cars every year, and it wasn't a grand launch event that was worth his friends traveling across the ocean to attend.
He looked at his friend and asked, "Are you feeling bored lately?"
“Not idle.”
"Don't tell me you came back to see me."
My friend laughed, "Just think of me as looking at you." He flipped through the new car brochure in his hand and asked, "Will this car be launched overseas at the same time?"
"A few months later. Why, you want to buy it?"
"That's the plan."
"This luxury version is less than $250,000. The doors on any car you own cost more than this."
At this time, the big screen on the stage lit up and all the lights in the venue dimmed.
The host said a few words to warm up the audience and invited Sheng Jianqi to the stage to give a comprehensive introduction to this new energy off-road vehicle.
Lu Zhen also came to the press conference today and sat in the last row of the venue, with Min Xi sitting next to him.
Lu Zhen had learned about this car privately and had also test-driven it in advance through Min Xi's relationship. He came here today purely to support Min Xi.
She leaned closer to Min Xi and asked, "Has classmate Xiao Chang contacted you recently?"
Min Xi: "We talked on the phone."
Xiao Chang went to Jiachen Public Relations specifically to visit her. During his business trip to Shanghai, Xiao Chang contacted her twice. She was busy with the Shengshi Automobile case and had meetings until midnight every day, so she didn't make time to meet.
After the press conference, she had more time. It was her first time dealing with toiletries, and she was unsure about them because she was not as good at them as she was with car solutions.
"Finish up the work at Shengshi and I'm going to the Beiqingyu R&D Center."
Lu Zhen had dinner with Xiao Chang twice. "I heard that their company is interested in launching skin care products, body lotion and shower gel. You will be busy in the future."
“The product span is so huge?”
Lu Zhen shrugged helplessly, "Maybe he wants to eat a fat man in one bite."
She advised Xiao Chang not to spread his business too wide, but to focus on making the shampoo series first and take it step by step. The worst thing to do when starting a business is to try to do everything just because they think everything makes money.
Xiao Chang smiled and said that he knew.
After all, they were not very familiar with each other, so she didn't want to say more, as it would make people dislike her.
Min Xi asked her, after using the shampoo for almost half a year, how effective it was.
There was no light in the venue, so I couldn't see her hair clearly. Lu Zhen said, "You can take a look at my hair outside later. It has improved a lot. His oil-control shampoo is really good."
She also lamented about the skin care products that Xiao Chang is going to launch: "Maybe young people are very motivated and have confidence in the skin care products developed by their team. However, the skin care market is basically saturated, and it is difficult to get a share of the pie."
Min Xi must use moisturizer every day. They are all niche brands that her cousin brought her from abroad. She is somewhat looking forward to Bei Qingyu's moisturizer.
The press conference lasted until 11:50.
Min Xi had a meeting at 1 p.m. and had no time to go out for dinner with Lu Zhen. The two agreed to go to the movies and go shopping together after returning to Beijing.
"Director Min, our President Sheng wants to see you." Sheng saw Secretary Qi coming to her.
Min Xi nodded and followed her.
Sheng Jianqi's car was parked outside the venue. He lowered the window and said to the person approaching, "Take my car back. I'll talk to you about something."
Min Xi opened the back door and got in. This was the first time she had seen Sheng Jianqi since he took over as CEO of Shengshi Automobile. He is now the boss of Party A, so she asked politely, "Boss Sheng, what do you want?"
"Private matter." Sheng Jianqi loosened his tie, but the collar still felt tight, so he took it off directly.
Min Xi was puzzled. She and he had no private contact, so what private matters could there be?
Sheng Jianqi was thinking about how to start the conversation. Before asking Min Xi to come, he had prepared a speech in his mind, but still had no idea where to start.
His mother's series of actions made him speechless. He thought that if he stopped mentioning Min Xi and stopped seeing Min Xi, his mother would calm down and give up the idea of matchmaking them. As a result, his mother found someone to contact Min Xi's mother.
Min Xi waited for half a minute but got no further response, and looked at him blankly.
"During the Shengshi Technology press conference, your photo was trending on the Internet. My mother was very impressed by you when she saw your photo. Some of her friends even thought you were my girlfriend. My mother later found out that you were married and she was very sorry."
As he spoke, Sheng Jianqi glanced at Min Xi.
What else did Min Xi not understand? Sheng Jianqi's mother took a fancy to her as her daughter-in-law.
Sheng Jianqi continued, "After my mother heard about your divorce, she couldn't hold back her thoughts. She used the banner of "I like you" to ask for help everywhere. Coincidentally, the wife of a shareholder of our Shengshi Group is your mother's friend, and they are also childhood friends. Some time ago, they contacted your mother, Aunt Jiang, and planned to set us up on a blind date. You have been busy with the press conference recently, so they didn't tell you because of their concerns."
He apologized, "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble."
"…fine."
It took Min Xi a few seconds to digest so much information.
No wonder her mother came to stay with her for two days. In the morning, her mother called her and said she would arrive in Shanghai this afternoon. It turned out that he was planning to introduce her to a boyfriend.
Sheng Jianqi: "My mother didn't know who you were, but she said you were likable the first time she saw your photo."
“…”
Min Xi smiled, feeling ashamed. It was the first time she heard someone say that she was likable.
"This is also fate. Some relationships don't necessarily develop into a relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. You can try to develop a relationship similar to that between aunt and niece."
Sheng Jianqi looked at Min Xi: "I am serious."
What Min Xi is most concerned about right now is: "My mother is in Shanghai, they should have made an appointment."
Sheng Jianqi nodded: "I know, that's why I was in a hurry to talk to you. Aunt Jiang is worried that you can't get over it, and hopes that you can get along with other people more and change your mood and way of life."
There were three possible paths between him and Min Xi, and he told her one by one.
One is to directly refuse the blind date without considering the feelings of the elders.
Second, since we are destined to meet, we should visit each other more often like relatives.
Third, the two of them went on a blind date according to their family's wishes. They did not talk about feelings and only got along as boyfriend and girlfriend in form. They did not have to deal with each other in private, but they could deal with their elders in public. If neither of them met a suitable marriage partner after two years, they would just get married.
He analyzed himself: "I am not suitable to be a boyfriend, especially someone like you and my ex-girlfriend, who don't care about material things and only want strong feelings. I know what kind of personality I have, and it's hard to change."
He said everything that needed to be said up front, so if you don't have expectations of marriage you won't be disappointed. It's not bad if everyone has someone in their heart and they live their own lives without interfering with each other.
"What do you decide?" He would cooperate with any decision she made.
Min Xi said without hesitation: "Choose the second one. I have never thought about compromising my marriage. For me, I can compromise on everything except marriage."
Sheng Jianqi: "Did the marriage make you think clearly?"
"No. I always knew that."
"Then why are you getting married to Fu Yanzhou..."
When Sheng Jianqi said the last word, she suddenly understood that she liked Fu Yanzhou, so she was not going to settle for it.
Min Ximing asked why she didn't choose the third option. Her parents would not force her to go on a blind date or force her to do anything, and her grandparents would do the same. So she didn't need to pretend to go on a blind date to deal with the elders in her family.
She asked him, "Have you talked to your parents?"
Sheng Jianqi smiled and said, "Do you think a heart-to-heart talk can happen to me?"
Min Xi treated the blind date very rationally: "We should eat together. On that day, we should make things clear in front of my mother, your mother and Aunt Shao, thank them for their concern, and show that we both want to take our marriage and relationship seriously and don't want to settle. This way, Jiachen can continue to cooperate with Shengshi, and their elders will not feel awkward when getting along with each other in the future."
Sheng Jianqi has never communicated with his parents about his relationship matters, and they haven't even had normal communication in the past few years. After a serious talk, his mother should be able to understand him a little.
Min Xi’s choice of two is the most ideal result.
He doesn't want their relationship to be strained because of a blind date, and he also looks forward to continuing to cooperate with the fifth and sixth generation Xiao Xiaoshi on projects.
If she can get along well with his mother and they can visit each other more often in the future, he should be qualified to be a big brother. He has wanted a little sister since he was a child.
During the time in Paris, he initially didn't understand why Min Ting picked up Min Xi from get off work every day. Later, he put himself in Min Ting's shoes and thought that if he had a sister, he would probably do the same as Min Ting.
Sheng Jianqi smiled and said, "If you really become my sister, I can break Min Ting's record of being the most sister-con."
Min Xi smiled: "Min Ting doesn't agree."
The blind date discussion went smoothly, and Sheng Jianqi said, "I have several friends who like you, and one of them came to the press conference today to show his support. They are hoping that I can't have a blind date with you. When you are in a good mood one day, I will introduce you to each other."
He smiled and joked to himself: "I will take you to the blind date personally."
Min Xi also laughed.
Two years ago, he devalued her project proposal and wanted to replace her. She would never have thought that one day in the future they would be able to chat and laugh happily.
--
It was still dark in London.
After a long-distance flight of more than ten hours, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening when they arrived in London. After checking in and packing their luggage, Bai Shan didn't have the energy to work anymore, so she took some melatonin and went straight to bed to sleep.
After flying to two countries in three days, she suffered from jet lag. She woke up at five o'clock and lay in bed for a while, wanting to take a nap. She was not sleepy, so she got up and washed up.
The pile of emails from yesterday had not been dealt with yet. After drinking a glass of warm water, Bai Shan turned on the computer to deal with the emails. Only then did she see an unread email with the title "I am Min Ting's secretary."
Bai Shan had a bad feeling and opened the email. The body of the email only contained a few sentences:
Hello, Secretary Bai, President Min asked me to convey two messages: Sheng Jianqi likes Min Xi. Min Xi has been busy with blind dates recently.
Excuse me.
Bai Shan rubbed her chest and thought to herself that her boss would go crazy after seeing this.
She looked at the time. It was five thirty-five. The boss must not have gotten up yet. This was probably the last time the boss would have a good night's sleep.
She read the email again and took a while to digest it. Without delay, she sent a message to her boss: [Mr. Fu, I have something urgent to report. 】
Give the boss some buffer time and don’t send the email content directly.
Fu Yanzhou just woke up: [I will call you back in ten minutes. 】
He sobered up for a moment and washed his face with cold water.
Before answering the call, he drank half a glass of water to moisten his throat, so that no one could tell that his voice was that of someone who had just woken up.
He took out a suit and shirt from the closet, changed into them, and sat on the sofa outside before he called Bai Shan back.
He thought it was about work: "What's that?"
Bai Shan: "It's related to Min Xi."
When I opened my mouth to say it, I found it was harder than borrowing money from my boss.
Fu Yanzhou had previously instructed Secretary Bai to pay more attention to Min Xi's work schedule. Before Secretary Bai could continue, he asked two questions in a row: "Is the Shengshi Auto press conference over? Is there any negative public opinion?"
Bai Shan didn't know. Before she could pay attention, she received an email from Min Ting's secretary. "I'll get back to you later." She held her breath and said, "Min Ting, President Min, asked me to tell you through his secretary that Sheng Jianqi likes Min Xi. Min Xi is busy with blind dates recently."
Fu Yanzhou thought he had heard wrongly, and frowned and asked, "What is Xixi busy with?"
Bai Shan: "Busy...blind date."
She must be busy with the blind date with Sheng Jianqi, otherwise Min Ting wouldn't have gone to the trouble to say the previous sentence. Sheng Jianqi is not the only one who likes Min Xi.
The phone suddenly fell silent.
Bai Shan didn't dare to hang up and waited quietly for her boss's orders.
This was the first time that Fu Yanzhou lost his composure in front of his subordinates. In the past, he remained calm no matter what happened, but today, the phone was silent for more than thirty seconds.
"Got it. You go ahead and do your work."
He cuts off the call.
It's not like he hadn't thought about the possibility that after the divorce, someone would introduce Min Xi to a blind date, and he was worried that his parents-in-law would have this idea, so he ordered a cake and sent it directly to them on his birthday to let his parents-in-law know his feelings.
But it couldn't be avoided.
Fu Yanzhou arranged for Secretary Bai: [Book a flight back. I'm going to Shanghai to see Min Xi. The contract negotiation will be postponed for three days. 】
Zhou Yu came to the UK with him, and the reason for postponing the contract negotiations made Zhou Yu think.
He took his ID and suit and went downstairs.
On the way to the airport, he called Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu was still awake when he was woken by the ringing of a phone call. He saw that it was a call from Fu Yanzhou and got mad: "It's only half past six and the boss of the breeding base hasn't come to work yet. Why are you in such a hurry?"
Fu Yanzhou looked at the trees and houses that were rapidly retreating outside the car and said, "I'm going back to China. I'll sign the contract when I come back. You can think of a reason for the delay yourself."
Zhou Yu cursed and suddenly he was no longer sleepy. He threw off the quilt and sat up suddenly. "I tell you, no reason will work! Unless your wife is robbed, he will sympathize with you, and maybe the purchase price can be cheaper!"
Fu Yanzhou: "...Min Xi is going on a blind date with someone else, it will be too late if I don't go back."
Zhou Yu was completely silent, and it took him a long time to find his voice: "Go ahead. Everything will go well." He asked again: "Where are you now? The airport?"
"Not yet."
Zhou Yu gave him some advice: "Didn't you say that Min Xi would be done with her work on the 22nd? You can go back and bring her with you for a vacation. I'll ask my wife to come as well. They both love roses, so they will definitely have something to talk about."
He always felt that Min Xi looked familiar, but after almost two years he still couldn't remember where he had seen her. Perhaps it was destined that they would become friends.
"It's not that I don't want to take him. Let's not talk about it for now." Fu Yanzhou hung up the phone.
If Min Xi was willing to go on vacation with him, all the problems between them would have been solved long ago, and the blind date would not have happened. After waiting for four or five months, her project finally ended, but what I got was that she was going on a blind date.
He asked Min Ting: [Xixi, when will you go on a blind date? 】
Min Ting just returned to the company after finishing the industry meeting. [Unclear. 】
Fu Yanzhou: [I will arrive in Shanghai tomorrow morning. 】
He sent another message: [Thanks. 】
Min Ting: [No need to thank me too early. It will be difficult for you to get through this level of mine. 】
He turned off his cell phone and threw it on the table, then opened the safe and took out the ticket collection book. It was not safe to keep it in the study at home, and he was worried that Min Xi would find it again one day, so he had to bring it to the company.
The least valuable item in his safe, but the one he takes out from time to time, is this ticket book filled with plane tickets and boarding passes.
He flipped through several sheets of paper, took out the plane tickets, and ticked the 27th and 28th round-trip tickets with a pencil. After ticking, he turned to the back and wrote another line of words.
After writing, Min Ting stuffed the two tickets back into the ticket collection book and put it in the safe.
There are a total of eighty-two round-trip tickets in the ticket book, and I don’t know when I can tick all of them. My sister's plane tickets all fly from the city where she studies to the city where Fu Yanzhou studies, and back and forth between the two cities.
Fu Yanzhou's flight routes are relatively complicated, and the cities he travels back and forth between are never fixed. During long business trips, he flies back to Beijing or Shanghai from all over the world. Sometimes he stays for a day, sometimes he stays for half a day before flying back in a hurry.
With Chu Yi and Yan Heyu helping wholeheartedly and racking their brains, Fu Yanzhou always had a reasonable reason to see his sister every time he flew back, but the meeting time was very short, sometimes only ten minutes, and sometimes only three or five minutes, and they could hardly say a few words.
However, the younger sister thought that those meetings were just coincidences. She didn't know that Fu Yanzhou was on a business trip abroad and flew back to see her.
--
The next morning, Fu Yanzhou's car was parked downstairs of the apartment where Min Xi stayed when she was on a business trip. After the divorce, she always stayed in Min Ting's apartment when she was on a business trip.
Sheng Jianqi also lives in this apartment building.
He came to see Min Xi in May and met Sheng Jianqi here, but he didn't think much about it at the time.
Fu Yanzhou looked at his watch. It was not yet seven o'clock.
Today is Saturday, and he wanted Min Xi to sleep more, so he didn't rush to call her. This time when he flew to see her, he didn't make any excuses to meet her. He had lunch with her at noon and then rushed back to London in the evening.
It was still early, and Fu Yanzhou rested his chin on his hand, looking out the window with a dull look.
At this time, a familiar figure came out of the apartment building and came into view.
He pushed the door open and went downstairs. He didn't take off his suit in the car, and the autumn morning breeze made him feel a little cold.
Before Sheng Jianqi reached his car, he saw a tall black figure in his peripheral vision. He subconsciously turned his head to take a look and was surprised.
Fu Yanzhou had a cold expression and walked towards him slowly.
Even from a distance of ten meters, he could feel Fu Yanzhou's hostility towards him, and he immediately understood what was going on. He realized that he was planning to confront him head-on.
"Mr. Fu, long time no see."
Fu Yanzhou: "It's been quite a while. Why not wait for a better day? I'll buy you a cup of coffee."
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