Chapter 228 Try to Like Me (2/2)
Right now, Wangwang was the only child at home. Xunxun was already fourteen and had chosen to attend boarding school. It remained a mystery how Xunxun had managed to pull it off, but he had convinced Ah Sha - who had always wanted to stay home with Xin Qing - to attend boarding school as well. Naturally, this meant that Xiao Rui would not be coming home as well. All three kids were now staying in Caesar Academy, coming home only on weekends.
Wangwang was the one happiest person of all with regards to how things had turned out. He would spend the day in kindergarten only to be brought home by Ah Che in the evening. Then, he could finally have mommy all to himself. Not to mention that at night, he could even share a bath with mommy and sleep in the same bed as mommy!
Xin Qing had brought a cake home for Wangwang today. ”I heard that man came to see you again,” Monica whispered while Wangwang was busying himself with the cake. Then, Monica raised her palm in a salute.
”We had dinner,” Xin Qing said as she changed out of her work clothes.
Monica stared up at the ceiling wistfully. ”That man is actually very distinguished!”
”Why don't I set you up with him, then!” Xin Qing said. Then, in a more serious tone, she said, ”But what about Ah Nan?”
Over the past two years, everyone in Xin Enterprises had found out that Monica was head over heels for Ah Nan. However, Ah Nan barely gave any reaction at all. He was, for all intents and purposes, just like a block of wood.
Monica snorted and shot Xin Qing a look of disapproval. ”What I mean is that he's the kind of man meant only to be admired from afar, not played around with.” Then, Monica suddenly had a thought. ”Hey, Xin Qing. Let me ask you a question, okay? If you don't have Ah Cang, will you choose Jiang Qianren?”
”There are no ifs. I do have Ah Cang.”
”But...what if... what if...” Monica could not even bring herself to say it.
Xin Qing gave Monica a sharp look. ”Ah Cang will return.”
Monica rubbed her nose sheepishly and shut up instantly. ”Good lord! Xin Qing's eyes look so terrifying right now. Just like Ah Cang's...”
Not a few days later, Xin Qing received word that there had been new developments on the Rong Siman front.
”She snatched away a company that we've been looking to acquire,” Ah Nan said, showing Xin Qing his report. Beside them, Zhang Mi knocked on the table a few times with her notebook. ”The company we've been trying to acquire is a small business that specializes in the deep-sea extraction of natural pearls,” Zhang Mi said. ”We wouldn't have had our eyes set on a business of this small scale if it weren't for the fact that we now need a supply for pearls due to your partnership with CK.”
Xin Qing rapped her knuckles on her desk a few times while she processed Zhang Mi's words. ”So, in other words, she did it on purpose.”
Zhang Mi went on, ”Your design concept for the next season revolves around pearls. This is what CK and we have agreed on last month. And now she just so happened to have acquired the company that we've set our eyes on? Oh, yeah, it's obvious that she did it on purpose.”
”The problem most likely didn't come from our end. Looks like there's a leak from inside CK.” Xin Qing paused in thought. ”Are there any other similar companies we can acquire?”
Zhang Mi shook her head. ”There are, but none of them are comparable to this one in terms of the technical skills offered. You know the largest black pearl extracted last year? That was their work. They were the ones responsible for the extraction.”
”Haha!” Xin Qing laughed. ”Well, I guess we should stop looking for now. Let's just sit back and wait!”
Ah Nan frowned. ”Young miss, so what you're saying is...”
”Mmhm, we've been unable to figure out the person backing Rong Siman all this while, right? But now she's made the first move, so we should wait and see what she'll do next.” Xin Qing's eyes were sparklingly bright. ”If I'm not mistaken, she will soon get in touch with CK. When that happens, we might just be able to find out who's supporting her without even trying.”
A request for a video call on Xin Qing's computer interrupted the conversation. Xin Qing glanced at the screen briefly and accepted the call.
”Hi, aunties! Good job aunties, thank you for all your hard work!”
The face of a beautiful baby appeared on the screen. Two huge, black eyes were staring back at them. The eyes blinked, their long and thick lashes fluttering like a pair of wings.
”Wow! Liuliu!” Zhang Mi said, bringing her face closer to the screen. Suddenly, the image on the screen changed. Chen Huan, who was now sporting dark circles around her eyes, appeared on the screen. Xin Qing jumped a little at the sight her.
”You... What happened to you?”
Chen Huan brought her face closer to the webcam and shook her arms wildly in the air. ”I swear, I don't want to spend a second longer with Boss Wan! I'm going over to see you guys!”
”Why?” Xin Qing and Zhang Mi asked at the same time.
A look of resignation formed on Chen Huan's face and she pulled her shirt collar aside to reveal a bunch of reddish, purplish kiss marks.
”Hiss!” That seemed rather intense...
”That savage thought it was a good idea to torture me every single day,” Chen Huan said accusatorily. All of a sudden, both Xin Qing and Zhang Mi's face changed. Zhang Mi swallowed and said, ”Oh, come on. It only proves just how much Boss Wan loves you. It's a good thing for a couple to, you know, get along.”
”Pooh!” Chen Huan said viciously. ”He can go screw whomever he wants. I'm not going to satisfy his needs anymore!”
A deep and dark voice sounded behind Chen Huan. ”Is that so? Do you care about me so little?”