Chapter 116 She's not some fence-sitter who'll fall at anyone's slightest provocation.
Ji Tanyuan glanced at Lu Ke, who nodded. Yes, it was a trap.
This time, the Ji family has clearly been dragged into the mess again, and the central investigation team is still in Shanghai, so she hasn't divorced Zhong Yan yet.
In either case, the Ji Group itself has to keep an eye on things, which is quite troublesome, Ji Tanyuan said with some annoyance.
Shen Xichen asked with a smile, "It's chilly outside, would Mr. Ji like something hot?"
Ji Tanyuan frowned: "Okay, a cup of hot tea will do, thank you."
The indoor air conditioning was at a comfortable temperature. Ji Tanyuan draped her coat over the back of the chair and then sat down. A person of refined elegance looks good no matter what she does.
Ji Tanyuan was the youngest among them, but she didn't show any timidity and looked dignified and serious, which was already quite good.
The meeting's content boiled down to nothing more than the idea that large corporations should set a good example.
But Ji Tanyuan was thinking, "Xi Mu is here on Hujiang, why don't they call him?"
This is blatant disregard for the central investigation team.
Ji Tanyuan married into Yanjing, the heart of the officialdom. She could get a feel for their way of speaking by eating with them or participating in charity events with Zhou Yanyu.
1+1=2 requires calculus to solve. The mysteries of language are endless. Ji Tanyuan had encountered this before. Where there are people, there is a world of intrigue. Regardless of whether one is black or white, everyone has their own schemes.
However, she had been studying abroad since she was 11 years old, so she couldn't understand some of what these people were saying.
Lu Ke is better; after interacting with him more, he understands things even when he doesn't.
He used to be the one who acted subservient to the government, but now that Ji Tanyuan is here, how can he pretend?
If they pretend to be inferior, it means the Zhong family is at a disadvantage; if they don't, they'll be getting divorced soon.
Ji Tanyuan ignored Lu Ke's hesitation and spoke first.
Their good attitude was nothing more than empty words they had memorized before coming.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity. We know we were wrong, and we will stay calm and set a good example in the future.
When asked about the specific strategic plans for Tongji High-Tech, Ji Tanyuan did not mention any concrete strategic deployments, but only gave a preliminary plan.
Ji Tanyuan knew that what they really wanted to ask was something they hadn't actually asked yet: the interrogation of the Ji family by the Central Investigation Team last night.
She said she didn't know.
She genuinely didn't know, and she dared not know. She was just a citizen; how could she possibly know so much?
Shen Xichen chuckled: "President Ji is no ordinary citizen, is he?"
Ji Tanyuan smiled and said, "You flatter me. I pay taxes and abide by the law, so how am I not an ordinary citizen? Mr. Shen, aren't you?"
Shen Xichen nodded, thinking to himself that his eloquence had improved.
Ji Tanyuan and Lu Ke didn't leave until 9 p.m. She received a call from Zhong Fangqi as soon as she got into the car.
Looking out from the door, I saw several figures who then quietly hid away.
Ji Tanyuan was a little tired, but she still answered the phone: "Secretary Zhong."
She stopped calling him "Dad".
Zhong Fangqi paused for a moment when he heard this form of address, then asked, "What did the people over there ask you?"
Ji Tanyuan rubbed her temples. "Didn't you install a bugging device?"
"Ji Tanyuan," came the warning from the other end.
"They told me not to leak any more information and asked me about what happened last night, but I didn't say anything."
Zhong Fangqi did not doubt these words. After all that had happened, his only takeaway was that Ji Tanyuan was intelligent.
Then he sighed, "Tan Yuan, are you over it?"
"He doesn't even call me father anymore."
Previously, Ji Tanyuan would sweetly call her father by his two-character name and her mother by her two-character name.
Asking this question at this moment sounds like a patient elder asking a child if they are still angry.
Ji Tanyuan only felt terrified; they were truly terrifying.
“I will divorce Zhong Yan, and I’m not kidding.”
"You can't get a divorce," the other end said directly.
Zhong Fangqi absolutely could not allow any problems to occur at this time.
"I have never seen a marriage that is not impossible to end."
"So you've seen it now," the other person said.
Ji Tanyuan choked.
Ji Tanyuan: "I'm already like this, and you still want me to be Mrs. Zhong? Do you want to use the Ji family until there's nothing left, or do you simply have masochistic tendencies?"
Zhong Fangqi closed his eyes. Ji Tanyuan, like Zhong Yan, spoke without thinking and lacked manners.
He couldn't be bothered to correct me. "You think I'm taking advantage of your family? Which one isn't true? What, you do something but don't want to take responsibility and bear the consequences?"
Ji Tanyuan: "I thought I had already paid the price, wasn't it just a marriage alliance with your Zhong family?"
"Your words make me feel that this marriage alliance is really not very useful, and the Zhong family is useless."
"Tan Yuan, I gave you an identity, who can you blame if you don't know how to use it?"
Ji Tanyuan frowned.
I think your father has been doing one thing:
[By attacking the enemy's strongholds, we can break through their defenses and achieve victory; only then can we witness the flourishing of ten thousand springs.]
That's what your father expected of you.
Zhong Fangqi said.
Everyone and everything is a whetstone for Ji Tanyuan, while Ji Qing always appears weak but is actually in control of the whole situation.
How could someone who started from scratch be a useless person? Even if they have flaws, they couldn't be that weak.
Ji Tanyuan hung up the phone. Everyone has a silver tongue and a lot of reasons.
But she's not the kind of person who'll change her mind at the slightest provocation.
Zhong Fangqi stared at the disconnected phone, his face grim.
He sneered at his wife beside him, "Divorce? I'd like them to divorce too!"
Zhou Yanyu looked up and said, "You're becoming more and more hypocritical."
Zhong Fangqi slammed his hand on the table. "Zhou Yanyu, your son made me angry, and now you're making me angry too?"
"Did I really make a mistake? Who did I do all this for? Without the Zhong family, where would your sons have gotten such a high starting point? Now he's even siding with outsiders!"
Zhou Yanyu slammed her water glass on the table. "Zhong Fangqi, who are you taking your anger out on?"
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