Chapter 49 (1/2)

Haughty Female Boss

The woman finished changing and closed her wardrobe, then twisted the handle.

This was a strange thing to do. The wardrobe was already closed so why did she twist it again?

As Xia Lei wondered curiously about it, the wardrobe suddenly moved sideways and revealed the alloy doors of a safe.

Xia Lei was surprised, ‘So there’s a safe behind the wardrobe. It must be where she keeps her valuable items and cash.’

Xia Lei did not use his ability on the safe. Judging from the safe’s materials and thickness, it would be very difficult to see through it and it would drain a huge amount of his energy. It was obviously not worth the effort to look at a pile of cash or gold bars or something.

The woman took two steps back, grabbed a briefcase that was on a chair, then went back to the safe.

Xia Lei willed it and his left eye looked at the briefcase in the woman’s hands. The briefcase was made of leather and it was no different from a sheet of paper based on Xia Lei’s current ability. His eye saw through it in an instant and the contents of the briefcase entered his field of vision.

There were several things in the briefcase; a copy of some information, a passport, a Parker gold pen and a patent application.

The first thing Xia Lei looked at was the patent application since the front of it was coincidentally facing him. It was a patent application for an automatic surfboard. The name on the patent application was ‘Liu Ying’, legal representative of Nice Moves Sports Equipment Company.

Behind the patent application was a passport and it also had Liu Ying’s name on it, and her picture, which matched the person he was looking at. She was unquestionably the ‘Big Sister Liu’ whom Chi Jing-Qiu had spoken with.

Behind the passport was the thick stack of information on the automatic surfboard’s design plans, parameters of various components and so on. There was a lot of information but the amount of did not deter Xia Lei’s eye. His gaze was like a hungry snake, eating one page, then the next till he had ‘eaten’ all the pages of the stack of information in under 15 seconds.

The door of the safe opened and Liu Ying put the briefcase in, closed the door of the safe, then made the wardrobe go back to its original place. She then left the room and headed towards the stairs.

Xia Lei stopped using his eye and thought, ‘So the parts Liu Ying ordered from Chi Jing-Qiu are to be used in automatic surfboards. This sort of surfboard would need to be powered by electricity and would have to be able to move by itself without waves. The market prospect for this will surely be very good. She’s still applying for the patent for it and this new, novel product is not on shelves yet. It’s still in the process of trial production and preparation. If I can get orders from her and build a partnership, any parts needed for this sort of automatic surfboard would be mine to process.’

After he knew of the client’s business secret, he felt much more confident about the negotiations which would come later.

He reached out and pressed the doorbell, then waited quietly.

The nanny opened the door and she looked at Xia Lei in surprise, “May I ask who you’re looking for?”

Xia Lei put a smile on his face and spoke politely, “I’m looking for CEO Liu.”

The nanny did not let him in, “May I ask who you are? Do you have an appointment?”

“I spoke on the phone with CEO Liu and she told me to come here to look for her. Please inform her that I’m here,” said Xia Lei.

At that moment, Liu Ying’s voice came from the living room, “Let him in.”

The nanny then took out plastic shoe covers from the shoe cabinet and handed them to Xia Lei.

Xia Lei put them on over his shoes, lifted his bag and walked in.

Liu Ying looked Xia Lei over and said, “Please have a seat.”

“CEO Liu, I do apologise for the intrusion.” Xia Lei held out his hands, intending to shake with her.

Liu Ying, however, did not extend her hand for a shake. She just spoke indifferently, “Let’s dispense with that. I’d just applied some hand cream so it isn’t convenient. Please take a seat.”

Xia Lei retracted his hand somewhat awkwardly and sat opposite Liu Ying.

From Liu Ying’s perspective, Xia Lei was just an underling of Chi JIng-Qiu’s and there was no need for her to lower herself to talk to him. There was no shaking of hands nor asking the nanny to fetch a glass of water for Xia Lei.

Xia Lei had expected as much. He opened the canvas bag he had brought and took out the processed part, then placed the part on the bag to make it more convenient for Liu Ying to inspect.

After seeing the processed part on the coffee table, a small smile appeared on Liu Ying’s face, “Chi Jing-Qiu is quite efficient in her work. The sample was delivered so quickly. That’s right, why didn’t Chi Jing-Qiu come?”

“I don’t know,” said Xia Lei.

“You don’t know?” Liu Ying looked askance at Xia Lei.

Xia Lei smiled, “Take a look at the processed part first, CEO Liu.”

Liu Ying’s gaze returned to the processed part. She reached out, picked it up and held it before her eyes for inspection.

Xia Lei then took out a piece of A4 paper and a micrometer out of the canvas bag and placed them in front of Liu Ying, saying, “CEO Liu, this was processed according to your specifications. The materials and precision accuracy all meet your requirements. You can do some simple measurements now and if you feel the micrometer is not accurate enough, you can ask your own company’s experts to do the inspection. I can guarantee that there will be no problems at all with quality.”

“I know a little about processing. This part is not bad; there shouldn’t be any problems. Right, who processed this?” said Liu Ying.

“I did,” said Xia Lei.