Chapter 1267 - We“ll just get rid of i (1/2)

“You’re finally here.” Zhang Yaping shook Jiang Chen’s hand and revealed a relieved smile.“Hopefully I’m not late?” Jiang Chen smiled apologetically.

“No, there are still two minutes before the dinner starts. Please, come this way.” Zhang Yaping gestured toward the venue behind him and then led Jiang Chen inside.

The dinner started on time.

After the main courses, there were desserts, cold drinks, champagne, and red wine. As the rhythm of the symphony gradually became more melodious, it marked the start of the ball. The waiter took away the empty plates and placed bottles of champagne on the long tables.

The guests left their seats one after another and went after their target. Whether it was just for a dance, or for a contract worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, or a chance to reach their dream, or just a one night stand…

All the needs of the upper cla.s.s could be fulfilled here.

At the center of the venue, Jiang Chen looked at Ayesha, who was on his left, with a gentle smile. She was moving the cherry on top of the ice cream with a silver spoon in boredom.

Although the dance had already begun, he did not intend to go mingle. For one, he was not interested in being surrounded by a large group of people, and for two, in his position, it was no longer necessary to deliberately make friends.

He had two purposes for attending today’s event.

One, to agree on the deal with Yerif, and two, to appear here.

Now, he achieved both of these goals.

Just then, a white man in a suit sat down on his right-hand side, took a gla.s.s full of wine, and said.

“Can I sit here?”

“Of course.” Jiang Chen looked at Kerry with some surprise.

He remembered that just a month ago, the secretary of state was someone else. He didn’t expect this guy to renege from Hill’s camp and partic.i.p.ate in the party’s primaries, but now, he once again returned to Hill’s camp.

Although Jiang Chen did not have a lot of goodwill toward the UA government, he felt highly about the ability of the secretary of state.

“You are very surprised?”

“Of course,” Jiang Chen smiled. “I didn’t expect you to return to the position of secretary of state immediately, instead of being sent to somewhere for retirement.”

“That’s because you don’t know the Capitol.” Kerry took a sip of the wine and seemingly hinted at something.

“Is that so?” Jiang Chen shrugged. “Maybe. Just like you have never known us.”

Kerry smiled and placed the gla.s.s on the table.

After a pause, he looked at Jiang Chen and lowered his voice.

“When did you get on the same boat as the B City Consortium?”

“As early as two years ago. We had extensive cooperation in the freshwater business. They also helped Future Bank go public in the UA.” Jiang Chen laughed.

“Don’t pull this on me, you know what I mean.” Kerry’s lowered voice was mixed with a trace of hoa.r.s.eness, and the hoa.r.s.eness revealed a hint of reluctance and unacceptance, but he cleverly hid all of this behind an indifferent expression, “To be honest, if you didn’t help, we wouldn’t have even considered that little guy as a contender…”

“Is it really good to talk about your candidate on this particular occasion? Mr. Secretary of State?” Jiang Chen laughed and said innocently, “And what do you mean, did my hacker hack your voting machine? Or did you outsource the election to my company without me knowing?”