Chapter 70 How can your business be considered meddling?
As the year drew to a close, Zhong Yan spent a week at Hujiang.
Working long hours and eating late.
It's common for industry executives to gather for a meal together at this time of year, sharing drinks and toasts.
Some dinner parties you have to attend; after all, you have to do things you don't like to make money so that you can show how hard it is to earn it.
This is how Mr. Zhong comforted himself, and this is how he comforted Ji Tanyuan.
The two left work together today. Ji Tanyuan had just spent a few hours arguing with some of the uncles from the Ji family. She looked unwell and said she had caught their old-fashioned look.
Ji Tanyuan looked in the mirror and lamented her bitter fate.
"Making money can be dangerous if things go too smoothly for you."
Zhong Yan sat on the other side. "Your father wasn't involved?"
Ji Tanyuan shook her head, "After I came back, he has hardly ever come to anything I could be involved in."
Zhong Yan turned to look at her, "What exactly is your father thinking?"
Ji Tanyuan remained silent. "I don't know. He always tolerated his elder brother."
"But the most important shares are still in your and your father's hands. The current situation is that you have 30% and your father has 30%, while your uncle and the others did not have many original shares."
Zhong Yan remembered that on Ji Tanyuan's birthday, the Ji family disclosed an announcement regarding changes in shareholding, stating that Ji Tanyuan now held the same shares as his father.
Ji Tanyuan turned to look at him: "What do you think he's keeping the other 30% for?"
Zhong Yan was speechless: "He's not my biological father, how could I possibly guess?"
"I could never find out that much detail about your family affairs, no matter how much I investigate."
Ji Tanyuan: "So why are you asking about our family matters?"
Zhong Yan: "I'll just watch the show."
Ji Tanyuan: "..."
She turned her head to the window, deciding not to pay him any more attention.
Zhong Yan took her hand. "Don't be angry. Can we go to your family's ancestral rites?"
Ji Tanyuan looked at him in shock, "You're going?"
Zhong Yan hummed in agreement: "I think it will be very lively."
"Then you might be disappointed, I've never been there."
"You don't want to go?"
Ji Tanyuan was even more speechless: "Why would I go to a place that doesn't like me?"
Zhong Yan clicked his tongue, "That's not right of you, you're just trying to annoy them."
Ji Tanyuan pursed her lips, "I'm so annoyed by them, and it won't affect me if I don't go. You said it yourself, the equity..."
Speaking of which, yes, it's very likely that the 30% her father held could be given to other members of his family.
Ji Tanyuan looked up, her eyes filled with wariness: "You're not just watching the show, you're becoming a busybody."
Zhong Yan choked, seemingly hurt by her idea, "How can your matter be considered a trivial matter?"
"That means you're up to no good."
Ji Tanyuan immediately pulled her hand away. Zhong Yan never expected that his image in Ji Tanyuan's mind would be like this.
"You think I have ill intentions?"
Ji Tanyuan's silence was tantamount to acquiescence; was there any need to say more?
Ji Tanyuan reminded her, "We signed a prenuptial agreement, and the division of property and shares is very clear. Others may not know, but how could you not know?"
"Of course I know. I have no interest in the Ji family. I never have. Only my grandfather has."
"Then why did you choose to enter into a marriage alliance?"
Zhong Yan: "Didn't I already say that I want to enter the southern market?"
Zhong Yan had no reason to lie about such a thing. He was only interested in the Zidian project, which was a joint venture between the two companies. As for real estate, freight, and new energy, Zhongheng Group had no need to seize the market through mergers and acquisitions.
Besides, he had other things to do later, and he had already rejected his grandfather's suggestion.
Ji Tanyuan waved her hand, not wanting to deal with it anymore; her main concern right now was the situation at home.
Zhong Yan leaned towards Ji Tanyuan and pinched her cheek: "There's another reason, do you want to hear it?"
Ji Tanyuan opened one eye and looked at him, indicating that she wanted to listen.
Zhong Yan smiled and gently pressed his lips to hers. "You."
Ji Tanyuan closed that eye, not wanting to talk to anyone.
Zhong Yan clicked his tongue. Ji Tanyuan was now in a state where she would only talk to her husband if there was something to do, and ignore him if there was nothing else to do.
Does she think he really likes her?
Thinking of this, Zhong Yan frowned. He didn't even know if he liked her or not.
Actually, he always took it as a joke when people said he had fallen for Ji Tanyuan.
He knew better than anyone that sometimes love in arranged marriages among the wealthy could be deadly, especially since his father was going to settle scores with the Shen family later, which would inevitably affect the Ji family to some extent.
Zhong Yan regained his composure and stopped speaking. He had to do his best to protect Ji Tanyuan in this future storm, partly because she was Mrs. Zhong.
And what was he just doing? He was making Ji Tanyuan fight for the family fortune, even though she clearly didn't like her frequently returning to Shanghai.
For the first time, Zhong Yan experienced negative emotions due to conflicting feelings, and remained silent for the rest of the journey.
Ji Tanyuan was unaware of Zhong Yan's emotions; she was preoccupied with wondering how far Ji Ting and the Shen family had progressed in their cooperation.
Although Ji Ting doesn't hold a large share of the company, he has a lot of influence and can easily make decisions that affect the company's development.
Ji Tanyuan tapped her fingers. Right now, the only thing that gave her a sense of security was the shares her father had transferred to her. Even if things went badly, the shareholding percentage was real. Plus, Lu Ke and Yu Yanna, one the CEO and the other the CFO, were both her people.
However, his father allowed Ji Ting to act arrogantly and domineeringly in the company.
She just couldn't understand it.
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"Do you think it's possible that my father made me fight with my uncle, so that when my brother comes back, he can reap the benefits?"
Three days later, Ji Tanyuan said this to Lu Ke.
Lu Ke adjusted his glasses and coughed twice: "It's a melodramatic story, but it's not impossible."
In wealthy families, there's no shortage of outrageous, bizarre, and outrageous things that happen.
Ji Tanyuan thought about it more and more and it seemed very possible.
"Ji Zhihe is hidden too well, I can't find him."
It can't kill it.
Ji Tanyuan's eyes revealed a hint of dissatisfaction. Miss Ji was not a sharp person to begin with, especially today she was wearing a Chanel-style fitted short dress and her hair was permed into a half-updo, making her look like an idle socialite.
The words he uttered were purely a complaint.
However, Lu Ke understood his boss quite well; what he didn't say was the most truthful.
It can't be controlled or killed.
Ji Tanyuan, the heir, and Ji Qingzhen were the most bizarre parent-child relationship he had ever seen.
There is intimacy and care, it's not fake, but there is also distance.
Chairman Ji didn't understand, but Lu Ke knew that Ji Tanyuan didn't completely trust her father.
They were even very suspicious.
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