Chapter 11: Baby Asks President, He Made Zero Yuan Inside and Out
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Ning Ye had no idea that her casually sending twenty yuan to her future ex-boyfriend would cause such a huge uproar, and might even bring about a technological revolution for the Wujiang Group in the future.
But she vaguely felt that Bian Xun’s gaze had become dark and deep, as if he was… observing and judging something.
What's wrong? It's just that I didn't give him the crystal grape pendant.
Whether the grapes are hanging or real, he can forget about it.
Before knowing the plot, she could have considered introducing Ning Zhitao to her father at the right time, as if it were a case of her winning custody after the divorce, allowing him occasional visitation. But now, she didn't want to become collateral damage in someone else's life with her daughter.
Ning Ye hid and searched for him. Given the difference in their job ranks, it should have been very difficult for them to run into each other at the company.
Their closest relationship was that she would secretly add items to his shopping cart with his card, but never actually buy them.
We're all set to celebrate Singles' Day with them, mother and daughter.
Beside the railing of the atrium corridor in the building, Bian Xun looked down as Ning Ye hurriedly walked past carrying documents.
After twenty dollars were deposited into his black card, the technical department, with the cooperation of the bank, immediately tracked it down. His transaction history clearly showed the deposit time and transaction amount, but the other party's account, account name, and bank were still unclear, as if they were isolated behind an invisible wall.
The research institute even used Bian Xun's personal resources to contact a space magnetic network communication base station. After various simulation algorithms, they came to an unbelievable conclusion that night—it seemed to be the behavior of another dimension.
Of course, they all knew it was impossible, so no one dared to look up at the boss's expression during the report. But at the same time, even quantum algorithms couldn't find the transfer account information; it was as if it were folded into the dark side of a sea of data they couldn't see.
Bian Xun, however, had an increasingly clear intuition.
Beneath her brow, her dark eyes remained calm as she watched the slender figure run out of the company gate and head towards the subway entrance, seemingly to visit another client. The crystal grape-shaped handbag hanging beside her still swayed and bounced, like a musical note she carried with her.
Last time I saw Ning Ye take a taxi past the building, five minutes later his card was charged thirty-six yuan.
They met in the break room this time, and a few minutes later his card had another twenty dollars deposited and withdrawn.
It's hard not to have doubts.
My subordinates have checked the order numbers of all the distributors of Little Genius watches on the market and confirmed that there has been no sale of a total order of 10,000 watches, which means that the watch that appeared by chance was purchased separately.
Then why would he spend ten thousand times the price?
A dark current surged in Bian Xun's eyes. Could it be that when the other party was stealing his money, it would automatically multiply by ten thousand?
No. He instinctively denied the possibility.
Otherwise, why not transfer 200,000 to him?
…
Ning Ye felt a chill run down her spine, as if she had been cursed by a heartless capitalist.
She went to Qiongxin Company to deliver the data report for Wujiang's new product launch this season. When Ma Ge, who was in charge, learned that she had taken the subway to such a far place, he was a little embarrassed. He pulled her to put on headphones and tried out the game they were developing.
During the conversation, Brother Ma asked her how the audio-visual effects were, and whether her current headphones could hear the Easter eggs hidden in the left and right channels. Ning Ye gave a serious and objective analysis from her own perspective. When she left, Brother Ma patted her on the shoulder.
At this time, Ning Ye didn't need to go back to the company. Taking a taxi during rush hour would only lead to traffic jams, so she took the subway back to the city. Surprisingly, she got a seat despite going against the flow of people leaving work. She was in a good mood, and when she arrived at Xia Lu Kindergarten, the children had just finished dinner and were getting ready to leave.
But Ning Zhitao seemed to be in a bad mood today; her round eyes under her curly eyelashes drooped, like a wilted grape.
Ning Ye took her little friend and squeezed her chubby palm. The little friend started telling her mother about the day's events, just like a talking pen.
“Gu Zixun said his father is incredibly capable. After graduating from university, he went to the United States for further studies and came back to become the boss of a large company,” Ning Zhitao said unhappily. “It’s so strange, how come his father is just like mine?”
Ning Ye initially thought the children were comparing themselves to each other, but she suddenly became alert when she heard the end of the story.
She asked Ning Zhitao, "Is Gu Zixun your good friend?"
“Not really,” Ning Zhitao pointed to her lotus root-like wrist, on which she wore a small flower hair tie that belonged to another girl. “Zhang Sijie and I are good friends, but Gu Zixun always wants to show us his gold and insists on being my brother.”
“It’s okay, you can refuse him. If he doesn’t agree, you can call Teacher Youzi and ask her to bring the parents.” Ning Ye stroked the child’s fluffy head, but she had a vague premonition in her heart.
Another "same dad," another older brother, and then there's the nanny van she saw after school started...
Gu Zixun, this surname is very misleading. Could it be the father's surname? But that's impossible. In the original novel, Xu Lanyi never told her ex-husband about the child, so the biological father of her son doesn't even know he has a child with the current movie star. And Xu Lanyi has kept the child a secret for years, so it's even less likely she would risk letting the child take her surname.
Since it concerned Tao Tao, Ning Ye started searching for information after returning home. She could find a lot of news about Xu's father as an entrepreneur online, but there was no information about Xu's mother in the related information.
She spent some time looking through the few family interviews the female protagonist had, and finally found the names of Xu's father and wife, Ms. Gu, in an old transcript of the Xu family's company annual meeting.
That's right, she gave the child the maternal grandmother's surname.
This Gu Zixun is the female lead's son.
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Inside a luxury mansion in Beijing, children's toy cars were scattered all over the floor. After the nanny cleaned up, picture books and socks were scattered all over the floor again in just five minutes.
"I don't want to go to kindergarten! They don't like playing with me!" A four-year-old boy lay on the ground, rolling around and wailing. "You never let me go out before, so why should I go to school now!"
The actress, with her impeccable makeup, now appeared relaxed and at home. She pulled her son up from the floor and patiently spoke to him again, "Zixun, don't you want friends and a sister?"
The little boy was at his most resilient age. He had stayed at home most of the time since birth and rarely went out to play, so his mother always gave him whatever he wanted. He was spoiled and pampered as he grew up.
At that moment, he threw himself into Xu Lanyi's arms and screamed, "No, I won't! You said I could see Dad, that's why I went! I'm not going!"
The boy's shrill scream pierced Xu Lanyi's ears, shattering years of pent-up emotions. She suddenly grabbed the boy's shoulders: "Do you know how much I've sacrificed for you! Look at the scars on my stomach! Do you know I can never wear those dresses again? Can't you be a little more sensible?!"
Gu Zixun finally calmed down and looked at his mother with some fear.
Xu Lanyi suddenly came to her senses, hugged her son apologetically, and slowly stroked the small gold pendant hanging around his neck. The pure gold pendant was engraved with the character "Bian," which was given to her by Old Master Bian, signifying that she had completely gained the Bian family's approval for her marriage.
Gold is a symbol of the Bian family's wealth. I wonder how Ning Ye will react when she finds out? Actually, given her status, she doesn't need to care about this woman at all.
This woman went to great lengths, moving from a small branch office to Bian Xun's group headquarters, and then from a remote location to a place near the group building. She even had her daughter enrolled in a nearby kindergarten. Wasn't she just waiting for Bian Xun to discover her by chance? That way, she could avoid the embarrassment of having her child come to her door demanding money.
Now, news of her marriage to Bian Xun has spread throughout the Wujiang Group, and she will soon be able to help Bian Xun's business. But what does Ning Ye have?
Looking at Bian Xun up close, the man was indeed as cold and aloof as ice. But the thought that such a person could melt, could experience intense emotions, and could dote on children stirred a long-lost feeling of excitement in her heart.
Xu Lanyi hugged her son and said, "We will have a wonderful family."
…
That night, Ning Ye took Ning Zhitao to eat junk food that her father never allowed her to eat. All the little girl needed to recover was a fried chicken leg, and she was still savoring it while she was sleeping.
Then Ning Ye leaned against her daughter's bedside, went through the plot in her mind, and realized that the character she had chosen was the control group for the villainous female supporting character.
The female lead never explicitly expressed her attitude towards Bian Xun's daughter's biological mother; her attitude was hidden in her actions.
She knew that there was a priority issue between them; once she and Bian Xun got married, Ning Ye's child would be an illegitimate child.
She also knew that in a traditional family like the Bian family, what threat could there be from a girl born outside the family with no family background or connections?
This is the deepest, unspoken sense of superiority that Xu Lanyi harbors.
Transferring her son to a different school and letting her know about the Bian family's wealth were all attempts to provoke her, urging her to bring her child to the scene. Once the "illegitimate daughter" came knocking, she would finally have a reason to confess her son to Bian Xun.
This seemingly unimportant order actually reveals a deep understanding of the other party's psychology. Having a greedy and power-hungry female supporting character as a contrasting element highlights the hardship and greatness of her years of silently bearing and raising her child.
Seemingly to add fuel to the fire, before the Double Eleven event across the entire network, Xu Lanyi officially brought a large team to Wujiang to launch a promotional live stream focusing on the audio-visual product Yunyin Pro.
Last time she came to familiarize herself with the environment, this time she came to work. This time, the hourly wage of the female celebrity and the hourly wage of the laborers were starkly contrasted.
Sister Zhou whispered to Ning Ye, "I heard the endorsement fee is in the tens of millions."
Ning Ye also raised her eyebrows.
No wonder Xu Lanyi thought the female supporting character had a twisted mentality.
She thought about it seriously for a moment, and then considered using Bianxun's card to buy a house for her child, or buy a car first, so that it would be convenient to go anywhere.
She'll have to study this carefully after the Double Eleven shopping spree is over.
After all, it would be difficult for her to spend his ten million.
After the live broadcast ended on time in the evening, the marketing department cooperated with the film queen, and even Sister Zhou couldn't resist working overtime this time, wanting to go to the scene to join in the fun.
"I wonder how many headphones we need to sell tonight to recoup our endorsement fee?"
Ning Ye wasn't particularly curious. She received another message from Brother Ma of Qiongxin, asking her to come again if she had time. Actually, Ning Ye didn't know the reason, but she always remembered the cooperation Brother Ma and his team had when she was still at the branch office. After thinking for a moment, she still respectfully went.
That evening, Xu Lanyi's live-stream promotion was in full swing.
Xu Lanyi sat in the center of the camera, and a smile appeared on her lips as she saw Bian Xun standing indifferently outside the crowd. Soon, her fans flooded into the platform like a tidal wave.
As expected of the actress with the most fans who are dedicated to her career, her fans, despite not paying much attention to technology products and knowing that Wujiang's R&D costs and leading technology mean that a single pair of headphones costs thousands of yuan, have spontaneously supported their idol's career and started placing orders for Yunyin Pro after Xu Lanyi introduced it to them.
In her peripheral vision, Xu Lanyi couldn't see Ning Ye anywhere.
Bathed in dazzling lights, she wondered when she would find out about his illegitimate daughter.
This is almost an unbeatable situation.
After an unknown amount of time had passed during the live stream, Xu Lanyi indeed caught a glimpse of Ning Ye walking in with her head down.
Ning Ye returned to the business unit first, intending to find her team leader, only to discover that her team leader had also gone to watch the live stream. So she followed the trail and found her team leader standing next to the director, while not far from the director was the aloof boss with his arms crossed and eyes half-closed.
During the break, Xu Lanyi indeed saw Ning Ye walking towards Bian Xun's direction.
She wasn't surprised at all; a sense of exhilarating anticipation welled up inside her.
Was that woman finally driven to desperation by her desire for money?
Is it time to confess about the daughter to Bian Xun?
Ning Ye walked over, and Bian Xun's deep, dark gaze fell on her. Ning Ye handed the contract in her hand to the team leader, not intending to report to a higher level.
But to everyone's surprise, when the team leader opened the letter of intent, he exclaimed in shock, "Ten thousand units?!"
"You said Qiongxin wants to order 10,000 Yunyin Pro devices?!"
All eyes turned to them instantly.
Chang Qi, who was watching the live stream, blurted out, "How many units has the Best Actress sold so far?"
“More than eight hundred units…” someone whispered.
The business cooperation negotiated by Ning Ye can directly generate tens of millions of yuan in revenue!
Assistant Zhang was taken aback for a moment, then stood behind Bian Xun, smiled, and clapped, "President Bian, a great start!"
The recent economic pressures have eased somewhat.
Everyone congratulated Ning Ye and President Bian.
Bian Xun withdrew his gaze from the smiling girl's face in the crowd, a surge of emotion rising in his chest that was no different from many years ago. He lowered his head to hide his feelings and glanced at the screen that had lit up on his phone.
Ten million was just withdrawn from his card.
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Surrounded by everyone, Ning Ye shyly scratched her head. On the way back, in a moment of joy, she bought herself a new pair of headphones too. ^^
I swiped the boss's card.
"..." Bian Xun silently put away his phone.
That night, Wujiang's sales exploded.
The president made a net profit of 0 yuan.
Full cost recovery.
A note from the author:
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The countdown to the president's moment of ultimate vulnerability is on!
Here it comes~ Drawing 50 red envelopes
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