Chapter 580 - Reason for Being Late (1/2)

Time slowly ticked away. The long wait was a test of their patience.

Li Zimeng and Luo Qi had gone out of the room to contact Xiao Luo, while Zhang Dashan stayed back to hold the fort. He appeared to be calm and collected at his seat. But as he looked into the faces of Su Li, Shen Qingyan, Cai Renhe, and Chai Zhiying, he was starting to feel sick, and his back was almost drenched in sweat.

“Uhm, it seems like it’s already 3:40 pm.”

Zhang Dashan looked at the time with an awkward smile on his face. He waved his hand to signal the staff to pour tea for Su Li and the other guests. He did his best to maintain his calm. “Please, let’s drink our tea. This tea is of very good quality. It is healthy and can help you slim down, and it might even kill some time as well,” he said, waffling away, “Right CEO Shen, what kind of tea do you like? Personally, I feel that this West Lake Longjing is pretty good. It has a long-lasting fragrance that’s as sweet as the orchid. It’s refreshing, leaves a good taste in your mouth, and makes you want more.”

Shen Qingyan responded to him with a cold smile. They were already forty minutes behind schedule. She did not have to wait this long when she went overseas to meet their President, making her extremely angry.

Chai Zhiying wasn’t so kind and did not hold back. “I’ll sit here and see how long you can keep this up!” she said.

Cai Renhe responded with a stern and gloomy looking face. “CEO Zhang, our time is precious, as you know. You’ve wasted so much of it, and you have to give us a reasonable explanation.”

Explanation?

What explanation do you want me to give? How can you blame me for this?

Zhang Dashan thought quietly to himself and cursed Xiao Luo. He had told Xiao Luo that the meeting was 3 pm, but it was now already 3:40 pm, and he was nowhere in sight. He was clearly messing around. The people sitting here were not ordinary people but famous figures in Xiahai. No matter how thick his skin was, he could not continue to hold them off much longer by himself.

He forced himself to remain calm and said, “Hmm, an explanation… Yes, I think there could be one possible reason why. Our boss could have arrived before 3 pm. But on his way here, he encountered a group of robbers trying to rob a bank. He couldn’t just stand aside and not do anything about it, so that is why he’s delayed.”

When he said that, Su Li and the rest stared at him as if they were looking at an alien.

Cai Renhe laughed mockingly, and he was not pleased. “I’ve listened to all sorts of excuses for being late, but this one takes the cake. Do you take all of us here for fools?” he said.

Shen Qingyan couldn’t take anymore. She stood up after slamming her hands on the table and stared at Zhang furiously. “Zhang Dashan, what the hell are you up to? You better believe that I might just tear your Luo Workshop down right now!” she screamed.

What the hell, why is she so hot-tempered?

Zhang Dashan was visibly shocked. Shen Qingyan’s temper had shaken him.

Chai Zhiying bolted straight up and said, “You, with the surname of Zhang, I’ll give you five more minutes. If the boss of Luo Workshop doesn’t show up by then, you can forget about working together with us!” she said.

Zhang Dashan lifted his hands, trying to calm everyone down. “Calm down, calm down, look at Goddess Su. She hasn’t said a single thing since she entered. This is self-restraint, this is charisma,” he said.

Right at that moment, Su Li stood up, and with a cold looking expression and said, “Let’s go!”

After saying that, she turned around and headed toward the exit of the meeting room.

What? Did he get an egg thrown on his face that quickly?

Zhang Dashan was humiliated, and he did not know what to say to make her stay.

He was as nervous as an ant on a hot pot. Suddenly, the door of the meeting room opened. Li Zimeng, looking sharp in her formal suit, walked in and said, “CEO Xiao is here!”

CEO Xiao?

Who was CEO Xiao? The boss of Luo Workshop?

Su Li and the others were shocked.

In the next second, a man who was in a somewhat casual suit walked in. He had sharp facial features as if his face had been sculpted, with hair that was dark and glossy, knife-shaped eyebrows, and a pair of piercing eyes.

“I’m sorry, something happened on my way here. Sorry to have kept all of you waiting,” the man said.

While explaining why he was late, the man walked confidently into the meeting room towards the main seat at the end of the conference table, then turned around to face everyone. His entire body was radiating an air of superiority. Every single action he took made him look charismatic.

Xiao Luo?