Chapter 212: Attending the Banquet Again
"You mean, you want me to accompany you to these banquets in the future?"
Since she was already there, Lin Yilan didn't refuse and followed Huo Juncheng into the depths of the banquet. Although she didn't know where Huo Juncheng was going, following Huo Juncheng meant she wouldn't be at a loss when meeting someone she didn't know.
"Yeah, what's the problem?"
"Ah? Huo Juncheng, you can't do this. You said you wouldn't force me to do anything I don't like. Besides, I don't understand these things about your work and I can't help you at all. It's useless even if you take me with you. To you, I'm just a burden. I think you really need to think about this carefully."
Huo Juncheng couldn't help but chuckle as he listened to what Lin Yilan said. "I didn't force you to do anything you didn't like. I saw you having a lot of fun at the party the other day."
"That's because I'm with Siran, of course I'm happy." Lin Yilan said without thinking.
After he finished speaking, Lin Yilan felt that the air pressure around Huo Juncheng had cooled by three points. She raised her head and glanced at Huo Juncheng's face. As expected, Huo Juncheng had a dark face at the moment.
"You mean you're not happy being with me, right?"
"I just feel uncomfortable..."
Lin Yilan now regretted what she had just said without thinking. Knowing that Huo Juncheng was still angry, why did she say such ambiguous words to Huo Juncheng?
Just thinking about having to attend these inexplicable banquets with Huo Juncheng frequently in the future, Lin Yilan refused from the bottom of her heart. Even though she was slowly getting used to these things, she still didn't like them...
"I didn't expect Mr. Huo to come today. He really wanted to do me, Zhang, a favor."
Lin Yilan was staring at the cake in the corner of the banquet hall in a daze when a middle-aged man with a big belly and a greasy face came towards her. He nodded and bowed to Huo Juncheng with a charming smile on his face.
Looking at the man, Lin Yilan couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, thinking to herself that this man is so fat, why doesn't he consider losing weight? Isn't he afraid of getting some disease due to obesity?
Huo Juncheng looked at the man in front of him and frowned in dissatisfaction. "Mr. Zhang, you're joking. We didn't quite reach a conclusion on our cooperation yesterday. We can discuss it again when we have the chance."
"Okay, okay, it's my honor to work with the Huo family. Thank you, Mr. Huo, for coming here today. I really feel so honored. I hope you have fun."
The man didn't seem to expect Huo Juncheng to talk to him about cooperation. When he heard Huo Juncheng mention the matter to him, he began to smile happily.
Then he turned his gaze to Lin Yilan and began to look her up and down. That look made Lin Yilan feel very uncomfortable. However, Lin Yilan didn't know what the relationship between this man and the Huo family was, so facing this man's scrutiny, she didn't know what to say.
"I didn't expect that Mr. Huo would not only come to attend my Zhang's banquet today, but also bring a female companion. Ever since that Chu Xi... no, should I say the eldest daughter of the Chu family, after the last incident with the eldest daughter of the Chu family, it seems that Mr. Huo has never brought another woman to a banquet."
Huo Juncheng didn't want to pay any attention to this man at all, but this man had to bring up Chu Xi. Huo Juncheng rubbed his eyebrows in annoyance.
The man could see the irritability in Huo Juncheng's expression and thought that Huo Juncheng was embarrassed, so he wisely changed the subject and turned the conversation back to Lin Yilan.
"I wonder who this young lady Mr. Huo brought with him today is. Could you please introduce her to me? The women around Mr. Huo are all so beautiful. I didn't expect that this young lady is even prettier than the eldest daughter of the Chu family."
Lin Yilan laughed dryly at the man's flattering expression. She thought about how she had made a lot of headlines in the past because of that woman, Chu Xi. And even though she rarely came to these banquets, she had attended some of them.
How come no one knows her? I don’t understand. I don’t know.
The man wanted to say something, but Huo Juncheng didn't want to argue with him anymore. As the waiter was about to pass by, Huo Juncheng took a glass of wine, gestured to the man, and took a sip.
"Mr. Zhang, you're joking. This is my fiancée, Lin Yilan."
After Huo Juncheng finished speaking, he left with Lin Yilan without waiting for the man to react.
The man called Mr. Zhang was left standing there in a daze. He really didn't expect that the woman next to Huo Juncheng was actually Huo Juncheng's fiancée, Lin Yilan.
Wasn't it rumored that Huo Juncheng's fiancée was a country girl, extremely ugly, a girl from the mountains without any temperament? But just now, Lin Yilan had such a temperament, her delicate skin, her bright eyes and white teeth...
It turns out that rumors are not credible!
The man looked at the two people's backs as they walked away, and suddenly thought of how tactless he had been in mentioning Chu Xi in front of Lin Yilan. What if Lin Yilan got angry? Wouldn't the cooperation he had just discussed with Huo Juncheng be ruined?
The man thought so, stamped his feet angrily, and regretted his behavior. At this time, the man's female companion came back from the bathroom, walked up to the man, and tried to climb onto his arm.
The man had no time to appreciate the beauty. He shook off the woman's arm and wanted to rush up to apologize to Lin Yilan, but at this moment, his phone rang.
"Hello, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Huo just called..."
Before the assistant could finish her sentence, the man anxiously interrupted her, "Huo's cooperation? Yes, yes, tell me quickly when Huo plans to sign the contract. Do they agree to cooperate with us?"
The assistant heard the excited voice of his boss and continued a little embarrassedly, "The Huo family... said that they will not cooperate with us this time. Not only will they not cooperate with us this time, but they will not cooperate with us in the future..."
"What? What's the reason? Why can they refuse to cooperate?"
"The reason... they didn't tell me."
The man was in no mood to listen to the assistant's words and hung up the phone. If he hadn't wanted to maintain an elegant and noble image in public, he would have thrown his phone to the ground.
His female companion was so scared when she saw him like this that she stood aside, not knowing whether to leave or not. She didn't know what to do.
After a while, the man took a deep breath and looked at his female companion. "Come with me to find Huo Juncheng and ask him about this."
The man's voice was filled with deliberately suppressed anger. Although what he had just said about Chu Xi was indeed a bit inappropriate, he did not believe that Huo Juncheng would change his mind just because of this small episode.
It is true that Lin Yilan is Huo Juncheng’s fiancée, but which man doesn’t have a few wild flowers around him?
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