Ji… Xia Wenxi remembered!
Isn't this the same family that Assistant Feng told her about before? They even wrote posts to put down her and Xia Wensheng. No wonder Xia Wensheng's face was so sour; who wants to eat with someone who puts them down?
"Xia Wensheng, don't worry, I will definitely study hard!"
Xia Wensheng glanced at her, then understood. "Feng Yue told you?"
"Yes, Assistant Feng even showed me the post. That's really too much!"
In fact, Bosch's marketing isn't just targeting the Xia family; there are few companies in the industry that haven't been targeted by them, including the Lin family. They say that the Lin family is letting their youngest son inherit the family business because of internal discord. Whether the Lin family is actually harmonious or not is hard to say, but the Ji family definitely has problems.
Bosch is currently divided into two factions. One faction supports Bosch's current general manager, Ji Jun, who is also the company's public face. The other faction supports Ji Jun's uncle, Ji Zhengde, the younger brother of the current chairman of Bosch.
Over the years, the uncle and nephew have been constantly vying for power, and now the time is almost up to see who prevails.
“Ji Jun is far more capable than her uncle. Any board member who isn’t stupid will know who to choose.”
Lin Shen laughed and said, "But we'd better be careful once Ji Xun has a chance to make a move."
Not to be self-deprecating, but compared to Bosch, Hengyuan Group lacks sufficient foundation. Lin's Group, on the other hand, has a strong foundation, but it has been on a downward trend since Lin Shen's father took over. It only gradually improved after Lin Shen took over, but it has not yet returned to its peak.
"So, isn't this why we're looking to collaborate with President Lin?"
The two exchanged a glance, their gestures reminiscent of raising a soda can as if it were a wine glass. Xia Wenxi silently covered her mouth and let out a burp, thinking to herself, "The business world really is like a battlefield!"
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Xia Wenxi felt that she was being a bit redundant sitting there, so she got up and said that she was going to go boating so as not to disturb the two of them.
Xia nodded and told her to be careful.
Lin Shen said to Xia Wenxi, "Miss Xia, please make yourself at home. However, tonight I'll treat you both to some of the local specialties. I've heard they're quite delicious."
"We already had meat grilled by President Lin himself at noon today, so how can we let President Lin treat us to dinner again? It should be me who treats us."
Xia Wenxi listened to the two's polite exchanges with a bored expression. She didn't care who was hosting, as long as it wasn't her.
In a place like this, even if it's called boating, guests aren't allowed to do it themselves. Xia Wenxi initially sat at the bow of the boat with great enthusiasm, and even took the oars and rowed a few times, but she got tired after a few strokes and went back to the cabin to lie down.
She lay on the gently swaying wooden boat, looking out the porthole at the clear sky. The boat rocked slightly, and the clouds swayed gently as well.
This feeling made Xia Wenxi feel as if she had returned to her childhood, lying in a cradle, her mother singing and gently rocking the cradle to lull her to sleep, her mother singing softly... and she saw Ke Shurong's face.
After that, Xia Wenxi's consciousness completely sank, and she was awakened by the ringing of the phone. As soon as Xia Wensheng heard her lazy voice, he mocked her, "Did you die of exhaustion in your past life? You can fall asleep anywhere. Aren't you afraid someone will sell you off?"
Xia Wenxi thought to herself, "How do you know I died of exhaustion in my past life? Getting up early every morning to go to work and earn a pittance, how could I not die of exhaustion?"
Xia Wenxi didn't want to hear Xia Wensheng insult her, so she interrupted him and said, "Why did you call me?"
"Dinner's ready. I asked Feng Yue to wait for you by the lake; he'll bring you here."
Xia Wenxi sat up and looked out the porthole. She saw Assistant Feng waiting on the shore. She answered and hung up the phone. Then she knocked on the hull to signal that the boat was coming to dock.
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Xia Wenxi had no idea what had happened. When she left that afternoon, the two of them were calling her President Xia and President Lin respectively. But in the past few hours, they had started calling each other by their full names.
Xia Wenxi sat in the chair, looking at the menu and secretly clicking her tongue. A simple stir-fried bok choy cost 388... Is there inflation in Fan City? But since she wasn't paying tonight, Xia Wenxi wouldn't be polite!
She tasted the 388-yuan bok choy to see what it was like.
As it turns out, there's a reason why it's expensive; Xia Wenxi loves every single dish here!
However, since there were other people at the table, Xia Wenxi felt embarrassed to overeat and make herself seem like a naive young lady from the Xia family.
Little did Xia Wenxi know that Lin Shen had already noticed that when the little girl was eating the food in her bowl, her eyes would subconsciously look at a dish she wanted to eat. So Xia Wenxi always thought it was a coincidence that the dish she wanted to eat would be turned to face her the next moment.
She looked up at Xia Wensheng and Lin Shen, who were both talking and seemed to be ignoring her, so she attributed it all to her good fortune.
So, Xia Wenxi ate the most during the meal. After eating and drinking her fill, on the way back, Xia Wenxi lazily half-reclined on the seat listening to music, while Xia Wensheng worked on the computer next to her. She couldn't help but sigh that people who get carsick probably can't be domineering CEOs.
"What kind of rubbish is this?!"
Xia Wenxi heard the sound even while wearing headphones. She sat up straight and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's alright."
Xia Wensheng didn't tell her, but instead took a screenshot and sent it to her assistant, asking them to handle it and immediately remove all the related posts.
However, Xia Wensheng didn't say anything, but Xia Wenxi quickly found out the gist of the matter. She opened her phone and saw that her roommate had tagged her in the group chat. When she opened it, she saw the screenshot.
Hengyuan Group and Lin's Group may be forming a merger.
"What the hell?" Xia Wenxi handed her phone to Xia Wensheng to see. "Is this what you just saw?"
"Yeah, don't worry, the company will have someone take the post down. What era are we living in? Still talking about arranged marriages? Don't these media outlets have anything new to say?"
Xia Wenxi replied in the group chat with her head down: "[Fake news, my brother and I just came to freeload, that's not true.]"
"Why don't they talk about arranged marriages anymore?" Xia Wenxi thought of the novels she used to read, where the male protagonist would be forced to break up with the female protagonist because of an arranged marriage.
"We live in a modern society now. People can get divorced even after marriage. Marriage is not a stable thing. Self-interest is the eternal driving force."
Often, marriages between two people from similar family backgrounds aren't necessarily arranged by families, but rather because they are well-matched and come from similar social circles, making it easier for them to be together.
"Oh, I understand."
Xia Wensheng saw the news, and Lin Shen naturally did too. Lin Shen immediately had someone remove the news and then called Xia Wensheng.
After finishing the call, Lin Shen swiped the screen left and right until he reached the third image. His finger paused slightly before he pressed the "Save Image" button...
Five minutes later, Hengyuan Group's official Weibo account posted a clarification, which was then reposted by Lin's Group's official Weibo account, thus bringing the matter to a close.
Both sides acted quickly. When Xia Wenxi went back to Weibo to check the post, she found it had been deleted. In the end, all Xia Wenxi saw was a screenshot sent to her by her roommate.
"I wonder if the photo makes me look good..."
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