Both of them thought Jiang He would come downstairs.
They knew about Jiang He’s existence, as Jiang Fuli always had him around.
Until a hem of a gradient light blue dress appeared at the turn of the wooden staircase.
The dress was embroidered with plum blossom branches.
It unfolded layer by layer with each step.
The two instinctively looked up to see a girl. Her long, ink-like hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin. Her face was lazy yet stunning. Chen Jingyu recognized her as the girl from last time.
Why was it her?
And she was coming down from upstairs?
Chen Jingyu was shocked.
Jiang Fuli then looked at Bai Lian and, noticing her little shadow wasn’t there, said, “I thought you forgot to come down because you were teaching him how to paint.”
Bai Lian slowly raised her head, “…?”
Ming Dongheng was also a bit dazed.
Bai Lian walked faster. Since Jiang Fuli and Ming Dongheng didn’t introduce the other two, she didn’t say anything either.
She just walked to his side and whispered, “I didn’t.”
Jiang Fuli lazily looked down at her.
He didn’t believe her.
The two walked outside.
After a while, he asked again, “Is his painting really better than mine?”
Bai Lian kept a straight face, “Not as good as yours. You’re a realist. Do you want to admire your cat again?”
She reached back to take out her phone.
Young Master Jiang had nothing to say and expressionlessly stopped her from flipping through the photos.
For the first time, he felt that being called a realist carried a mocking tone.
“…”
The sound of a car starting came from outside.
There were still three people standing still in the hall.
By now, they had probably realized that…
Just now, Young Master Jiang was waiting for someone????
The world started to become fantastical.
Ming Dongheng had seen many ups and downs, so he quickly came to his senses.
The other two were quite confused, especially Chen Jingyu who had seen Bai Lian before. Even Chen family’s old master wouldn’t dare to make him wait.
Ming Dongheng didn’t bother with Chen Jingyu, only calling out twice, “Yu Shen, Yu Shen?”
Yu Hongyi snapped back to reality and looked back at Ming Dongheng, “Mr. Ming, that person just now…”
“That was Miss Bai,” Ming Dongheng coldly gave only a name.
As for anything else, he didn’t say much.
Bai? Yu Hongyi was searching for this surname in her mind, but couldn’t find anything.
“Do you have any other business?” Ming Dongheng asked.
“No,” Yu Hongyi looked outside and shook her head.
With Jiang Fuli gone, the two didn’t stay much longer.
After going out, Yu Hongyi asked Chen Jingyu, “Do you know who that Miss Bai is?”
“Mm,” Chen Jingyu’s expression was complex. Chen Ju had told him before, “A student from Xiangcheng No. 1 High School, reportedly very difficult to get into Jiangjing University.”
Yu Hongyi nodded, “I see…”
Meanwhile.
Jiang Fuli took Bai Lian to find Xu En.
By the way, they would go to Ji Shaojun’s house for dinner in the evening. Chen Ju still had to spend the night at Ji Shaojun’s house to gain popularity.
Xu En had finished the press conference and was now holding an evening banquet in the banquet hall of Wanhe Building.
The banquet hadn’t started yet.
A lot of people had already arrived at the banquet hall.
Almost all the bigwigs from various industries were surrounding Xu En, greeting him.
Ren Qian and Chen Gang couldn’t even get a word in.
Of course, they couldn’t lower themselves to squeeze in with the crowd either.
They finally managed to wait until the people in front left, and then stood in front of Xu En, smiling and saying some pleasantries, “Congratulations, Mr. Xu.”
Their attitude towards Xu En was more humble than before.
“Mr. Ren, Mr. Chen.” Xu En nodded to the two, polite but also very formal.
Then he went to welcome the next person, “Director Liu, I knew you would come as soon as I saw…”
The administrators of Xiangcheng, it seemed now, might not be worth mentioning to Xu En.
Ren Wanxuan looked at that Director Liu and recognized him as someone from Beicheng, as she often saw him on the news. He was also the direct superior of Xiangcheng.
She opened her mouth, very shocked.
She knew Xiangcheng was to be developed, but she didn’t expect it to attract so much attention.
Even Director Liu from Beicheng came?
“This Mr. Xu is not easy to approach now.” Chen Gang narrowed his eyes, his gaze on Xu En and Director Liu. Just from that brief contact, he knew Xu En was an old fox.
He had no intention of introducing Ren Qian and Chen Gang to others at all.
On this point, Ren Qian wasn’t surprised. He withdrew his gaze, “He got the demolition notice directly from the people of Heishui Street, without even going through us. We really underestimated him.”
Previously, when Xu En wanted to meet Mr. Lu, Ren Qian and the others didn’t intervene. Now that Xu En had obtained the demolition notice himself, everyone in Xiangcheng was shocked by his methods.
The policies seemed particularly lenient towards Xu En.
“Many high-level officials from Jiangjing and Beicheng have come here today,” Ren Qian instructed the two younger ones, “Both of you should be careful. Don’t be willful at all today from start to finish.”
Ren Wanxuan and Chen Zhu looked at each other.
They both saw the shock in each other’s eyes.
They were used to seeing others bow and scrape to Ren Qian and Chen Gang, but now it seemed almost reversed.
The two were very uncomfortable with this.
Across from Wanhe Building, Bai Lian sat in the passenger seat.
She was pondering over a melody while calling Xu En.
The assistant didn’t care that Xu En was talking with Director Liu and directly handed him the phone.
Seeing it was Bai Lian, Xu En quickly answered, “Ah Lian.”
Opposite him, Director Liu was very surprised.
He looked at Xu En, wondering who was talking to Xu En.
Xu En walked to the side and said a few words to Bai Lian, still inviting her to attend the banquet. She didn’t plan to stay long, as Bai Lian would rather solve a few more problems.
“Alright,” Xu En said helplessly, “I’ll come down to find you and have someone prepare some snacks for you.”
On the phone, Bai Lian thought for a moment, “Don’t come down. I’ll send it to the elevator entrance. Just have someone wait for me by the elevator.”
After hanging up the phone.
Bai Lian told Jiang Fuli that she was going up to deliver a painting to Xu En.
Wanhe Building was a private restaurant with not many floors. The top floor was a large banquet hall.
Bai Lian walked into the elevator and pressed the top floor.
As soon as the elevator door opened, she saw two hostesses standing at the entrance of the huge banquet hall. Behind them, people went in and handed their invitations to the hostesses.
Bai Lian stood in the corner by the elevator door, not blocking the way and not going in.
She lowered her head to text Xu En.
Inside the banquet hall.
Glasses clinked.
Ren Wanxuan and Chen Zhu held glasses, unable to join the conversations. They were just here to see the world and were now chatting with someone from Class 8.
“Young Master Chen, who are all these people?” The person from Class 8 lowered his voice, eyeing the strangers coming and going around them, “It’s the first time I’ve seen my dad smile like that, and that person was even indifferent to him.”
Chen Zhu looked at the people in the hall, “Most of them are from Beicheng and Jiangjing, all here for Mr. Xu.”
The Class 8 person marveled. In the entire Class 8, only he, Ren Wanxuan, and Chen Zhu were here, showing the level of today’s banquet.
He held his wine glass, his gaze turning, seeming to see a figure outside, “Isn’t… isn’t that Bai Lian?”
He was shocked.
Hearing a name they shouldn’t hear here.
Ren Wanxuan and Chen Zhu were both very surprised.
“Where?” Ren Wanxuan looked up.
The three of them here didn’t know anyone except their elders. The pressure and social circles excluded the three, so they had been talking in the corner. The elevator was actually a bit of a blind spot.
But this person from Class 8, out of place at the banquet and standing in an odd spot, could see Bai Lian standing by the elevator outside through the corner glass window.
Half of Bai Lian’s face was hidden by the huge potted plant by the elevator, but her face was exceptionally outstanding.
He could recognize her at a glance, “There.”
He pointed.
“Wasn’t she not coming?” Ren Wanxuan tilted her head, finally seeing the person, and sneered.
Chen Zhu thought more, he frowned and stood up, “Let’s go see first, there are many people here.”
Even Ren Qian was afraid that Ren Wanxuan and Chen Zhu, with their good manners, might accidentally offend someone, let alone Bai Lian with her temper…
Ren Wanxuan also felt annoyed, “I’ll go tell grandfather.”
She stood up and went to tell Ren Qian.
Ren Qian smiled and apologized to the person he was talking to, then followed Ren Wanxuan outside, “Didn’t you say she wasn’t coming?”
“Who knows.” Ren Wanxuan sneered.
She didn’t want to mention the Ji family.
Beside her, Chen Zhu didn’t say anything either. To be honest, he also didn’t know why Bai Lian was here.
Ren Wanxuan stood at the exit of the banquet hall, afraid of being seen by others. She pointed at Bai Lian, who was wearing clothes made by Ji Heng, with small movements, “There, you go talk to her. I don’t want to go.”
The hostesses at the door kept looking at Bai Lian.
Ren Wanxuan didn’t want to go find Bai Lian under such gazes.
Chen Zhu looked at Ren Qian, then at Bai Lian’s direction, then raised his foot, “How about…”
Before he could finish speaking.
A figure beside him seemed to hurry past him, looking around at the banquet hall door. After seeing the figure by the elevator, he walked straight in that direction.
“Ah Lian, have you been waiting long?” Xu En, carrying an exquisite wooden box, spoke to Bai Lian from afar, smiling, his voice noticeably gentle, “I’m late. Your mom said your grandfather likes to eat pine nut cakes, so I waited for a freshly baked batch.”
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