After walking out of the door of LP11, Zhou Sifu asked Zheng Ying beside him: "Should I ask the driver to take you?"
"No, HKUST North Campus is nearby, and it only takes five minutes to walk there." Zheng Ying said, "It's getting late, and Yangyang has piano lessons tomorrow morning, so I'll take him back first."
As she spoke, Zheng Ying took her son's chubby little hand and said, "Yangyang, say goodbye to your uncle."
Yangyang leaned in her mother's arms, her eyelids almost drooping from sleepiness: "Master Zhou...bye."
Zhou Sifu reached out and touched the sheep's fluffy hair and said nothing more.
Before leaving, Zheng Ying took a step forward and asked in a low voice, "See you at the same place next Saturday?"
Zhou Sifu didn't answer, which was considered as his agreement.
He flew back from the United States at short notice and even missed Danofi's listing dinner just for the meeting that Zheng Ying had proposed.
Just two months ago, Zheng Ying went through an amicable divorce and filed a lawsuit against her husband, who is also her eldest brother.
This absurd financial dispute between the couple ended with Zheng Ying losing the case. However, just yesterday, she came to me with an undisclosed patent document.
He and Zheng Ying reached a secret deal during their brief meeting today, and the content of the deal was only known to the two of them.
After seeing the mother and son off, Zhou Sifu returned to the hotel parking lot and walked straight to the black Raffaelina in the VIP parking space.
Raffaella is a high-end commercial vehicle produced by Danofi. Its price is not expensive among cars of this level. The whole car only costs about 1.7 million. Due to its high-cost performance, it was sold out quickly when it was first pre-sold at the beginning of the year, and it is still in the stage of replenishment.
The driver, Lao Zhao, had been waiting here early. When he saw Zhou Sifu appear, he quickly opened the back door and waited for his boss to get in the car.
Back in the driver's seat, Lao Zhao looked through the rearview mirror and saw President Zhou unbuttoning his shirt collar one by one, leaning back in his seat with his eyes closed, a rare hint of fatigue between his brows.
"Mr. Zhou, shall we take you directly to the airport now?"
Zhou Sifu rubbed his temple: "Wait."
About fifteen minutes later, another black car slowly drove into the parking lot. A young man in a suit got out of the car, holding a sealed document bag in his hand.
Knocking on Raffaelina's car door respectfully, the man opened the door after getting his boss's tacit approval, bent down, and got into the car.
Taking out a few sheets of paper from the file bag, the secretary handed them to Zhou Sifu with both hands: "Mr. Zhou, this is what our people sent from Fengyu."
Taking a stack of photos handed over by his secretary, Zhou Sifu leaned back in his chair and began to flip through them one by one.
His five fingers tapped the hard paper surface intentionally or unintentionally. During the whole process, there was no unnecessary expression on his face.
His eyes lingered on one of the pictures for a moment, and Zhou Sifu asked calmly, "Is this the chairman of Fengyu Lighting?"
"Yes, we have already asked someone to do facial recognition, and the similarity with Ji Yuanlin is as high as 99.9%." The secretary said in a businesslike manner, "I heard from our people that the head of Feng Yu's IT department has already tracked the sender, but that person's methods are very clever. He directly stole the email address and IP address of a company employee who just left. They can't find out who sent the email for the time being."
"This is Marriott's internal surveillance," Zhou Sifu said. "Outsiders can't access it."
The secretary immediately understood that the boss wanted them to go to Marriott for investigation.
"What's Feng Yu's reaction?"
"The photos were received this evening. Their top management has unanimously decided to keep this a secret. The two big bosses probably don't know about it yet." The secretary replied, "Feng Yu recently signed a 100 million yuan distribution contract with Powerlong Electric. If negative news about the chairman of the board of directors is revealed at this time, Powerlong Electric will most likely cancel the order. They can't afford such a risk."
As a multinational automobile giant, Danofi's public opinion department has been closely monitoring news about several other competitors in the same industry, with Feng Yu being the only exception.
Fengyu is not a car company, and it can even be said that it has nothing to do with the automotive industry. For some reason, this lighting company was still listed on the key monitoring list by Mr. Zhou.
Because of this, as soon as he received the news from the insider today, he immediately notified Mr. Zhou.
Mr. Zhou was originally scheduled to take a direct flight to Los Angeles tonight, but after receiving his message, he temporarily changed his flight and asked him to come in person.
The secretary paused and continued, "In addition, the identity of the other party has also been found out. She is a well-known advertising model named Cheng Xi."
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He thought Mr. Zhou would ask for more details, but he didn't expect that Mr. Zhou would directly take out his mobile phone from his pocket and type the two words "Cheng Xi" on the web page.
Thousands of pieces of content related to Sung Hee quickly popped up on the mobile phone page. Most of the recent news revolved around two topics. One was that Sung Hee would attend the Filoni autumn ready-to-wear show to be held in Paris in August, and the other was the ancient costume online movie that Sung Hee had just finished filming.
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Seeing the boss clicking on the hot searches about Cheng Xi one by one and looking through the photos and advertisements in the topics, the secretary suddenly had a bold idea.
During the two years he worked as the chief secretary, this big boss beside him never seemed to have any scandals or signs of dating anyone. He was still a bachelor at the age of 30.
He once asked around for a female colleague in the administration department, but Ms. Zhou just said she was busy with work and hadn't met the right person.
Could it be that... Mr. Zhou has always liked this model.
At this moment, he heard CEO Zhou suddenly ask, "Has the launch date for the S260 series been set?"
Not understanding why Mr. Zhou suddenly brought this up, the secretary quickly nodded: "It's settled, Mr. Zhou, on the 6th of next month."
"At 5 pm Los Angeles time, when I get off the plane, arrange a meeting with the domestic marketing team."
The secretary was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Mr. Zhou to change the subject so quickly: "...Meeting?"
"Haven't they been struggling over the endorsement of the S260?" Zhou Sifu raised his eyes and looked at the rearview mirror in front of the car, "I have a suitable candidate."
One week later. Milan, Italy.
When Ji Yuanlin received Cheng Xi's call, he was sitting at the coffee table outside the dressing room, drinking afternoon tea and listening to the design director talk to him about the inspiration for the dress.
"All dresses are designed by our studio's senior designer, Micheal. They can be tailored according to your and Mr. Shi's body shapes. Especially the one you are wearing, the back line is smooth and natural, and the shoulder and neck part-"
"Excuse me," Ji Yuanlin smiled politely at the design director when he saw the contact pop up on his phone, "I'll take a call."
The note he gave Cheng Xi was "R&D Department 2-C". Although Shi Tian was very rigorous and serious at work, he was always a thick-skinned person in life and it was difficult for him to find anything strange.
After hanging up the phone, he walked to the door of the locker room and knocked gently on the solid wooden door in front of him: "Tiantian, I'm going to go out for a while. Call me anytime if you need anything."
Shi Tian's voice soon came from inside the door: "You go ahead, this one is just average, I'll try something else."
After leaving the design studio and standing on the noisy and bustling foreign street, Ji Yuanlin still did not completely relax his vigilance. He turned his head and looked around to confirm that there was no problem, then strode out of the studio door and walked across the street.
Ji Yuanlin called back, and the phone was picked up by the person on the other end as soon as it rang.
"Alin, let me tell you, I——"
Ji Yuanlin interrupted Cheng Xi's words, his tone still gentle, but with a hint of imperceptible reproach: "Didn't I tell you that he and I have been together these few days, don't call me during the day, forgot?"
As their wedding date was approaching, he contacted an Italian dress designer early on and flew Shi Tian over to try on the dresses and take a short vacation at the same time.
After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Cheng Xi's tone suddenly weakened: "Sorry, A-Lin, I, I was too excited."
Ji Yuanlin chuckled: "Little fool, what would you do if it wasn't me who called you?"
Hearing Ji Yuanlin say this, Cheng Xi suddenly felt a little scared.
I have heard that the man in A-Lin's family is smart and hard to fool. If he really called me using A-Lin's phone, I would be exposed.
Cheng Xi grumbled unconvincedly on the phone, and his voice was a little self-willed: "I'm not eager to share with you, I didn't think too much about it..."
After all, he is only in his early twenties. No matter how successful he is in the circle, Chengxi sometimes gives people the feeling that he is a child who has not grown up.
What Ji Yuanlin has always liked most is Cheng Xi's innocence.
Many years ago, Shi Tian seemed to be the same.
"Love at first sight" has never been a false proposition. The first time he saw Shi Tian, he coveted this purity and beauty.
But later, he grew up, and Shi Tian grew up too.
Ji Yuanlin suddenly realized that he always seemed to find the shadow of Shi Tian in Cheng Xi.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Listening to the energetic voice of the boy on the phone, Ji Yuanlin's lips curled up slightly, "Why did you suddenly look for me?"
"Alin, I have great news to tell you!"
Cheng Xi shouted excitedly on the other end of the phone, sounding like he was about to dance: "Did you know? This morning, Danofi contacted my agent and asked if I was interested in being the brand ambassador for their new series of sports cars in the Asia-Pacific region!"
"I'm going to their headquarters next week to audition for the commercial," Cheng Xi said proudly. "My agent told me that it was their big boss who personally asked for me, so I think I'm almost certain to get the endorsement."
After telling the good news, he waited for A-Lin to praise him on the phone as usual, but found that the other party had not responded yet.
"Alin?"
"Alin...can you hear me?"
Chengxi suddenly felt a little guilty.
Oh no, I wonder if Alin will be discovered by that guy at home?
After waiting for a full minute, Cheng Xi finally heard Ji Yuanlin's voice on the phone. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that Ji Yuanlin's voice sounded a little weirder than usual: "...Who are you talking about?"
Without waiting for Cheng Xi to answer, Ji Yuanlin hurriedly left a word "wait" and then hung up the phone.
There was a new incoming call on his phone, it was from Shi Tian.
As soon as Ji Yuanlin picked up the phone, he heard Shi Tian ask doubtfully on the phone: "Where are you?"
Ji Yuanlin suppressed his frown and quickly regained his normal expression: "Tiantian, I'm buying coffee at the Baker Shop across the street. Wait for me, I'll be back soon."
"You're across the street?" Shi Tian paused, then said, "Then wait a minute, stand still."
Across the street, he saw Shi Tian push open the door of the studio and look for himself in the crowd.
After successfully finding himself at the entrance of the coffee shop, Shi Tian pointed at the dress he was wearing and asked him on the phone, "What about this one?"
Ji Yuanlin stared at the tall figure across the street for a long time without saying anything.
Shi Tian was wearing a white suit the same as hers, with a diamond ring that she had carefully prepared for him on his ring finger, and a lavender boutonniere on his chest.
This was a scene he had dreamed of countless times since he was sixteen years old.
Time flies, and more than ten years have passed.
The warm evening breeze blew past, blowing away the scorching summer heat. Across the surging crowd, Shi Tian tilted his head to look at him from across the street, seeming a little confused by his reaction.
Seeing him standing there at a loss, Shi Tian couldn't help but laugh: "Ji Yuanlin, why are you like a fool now?"
"Looks good." After a long while, Ji Yuanlin spoke in a hoarse voice, "You look good in anything you wear."
It was at this moment that he realized clearly for the first time that he was the ultimate winner.
He put in a lot of effort took every step carefully for so many years, and finally got what he wanted.
Shi Tian is getting married, but not to Zhou Sifu.
Yes and him.