107 The Favour 10 (1/2)

Of course Lin Kang could have explained everything to Xiu Ling directly and got everything cleared up but the man wanted to get even. Since Xiu Ling refused to communicate with him, then he was not going to communicate with her either.

Yes, this was an understandably silly thing to do but from certain aspect, the man was not that much more mature than a mere child.

First, Lin Kang understood he needed to deal with the issue at hand. Why did his wife act so coldly towards him all of a sudden? She did not act that way the day before this.

What was unique about that day was he had offered the wildly inappropriate contract to Joann, his wife's close friend that morning. It did not take a genius to put one and one together, and Lin Kang was a veritable genius, at least in terms of business management.

He knew the two had to be related. He assumed Joann had called Xiu Ling on the phone and had told her everything. That perfectly explained why Xiu Ling was acting the way she did that night.

Lin Kang got the assumption about Joann revealing everything to Xiu Ling on the phone part wrong but it did not matter, because he knew he had to solve this problem of Xu Corps to move forward. He got that part right and that was the most important.

Overturning his own words, while it might please Xiu Ling, would not fly over well with the people at his company. They might see this conflicting orders as a sign of weakness and confusion. He might lose confidence and faith from his people. In the world of business, that would be a fatal mistake.

Therefore, Lin Kang needed to find someone whose words carried more weight than his and there was only one such individual at the Lin family. With the cooperation from said person, he could pretend that he was forced to rescind his orders.

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”Come in,” said the strong male voice.

Xiu Ling stepped into the study and the first thing that hit her senses was the fragrance of tea. Xiu Ling's father-in-law, Elder Lin was seated at the sofa in the middle of the room, steeping a pot of tea.

”Xiu Ling, so nice of you to come visit me.” Elder Lin smiled at her. It was not a friendly smile but it was not really a hostile smile either. For Xiu Ling, Elder Lin was the only individual at Lin family that she could not read.

Unlike Mrs. Lin who treated her with open hostility, Elder Lin kept his distance from not only Xiu Ling but practically everyone at the Lin family. The elderly man spent most of his time traveling overseas. According to members of Lin family, the travel was for work but from how Xiu Ling understood it, Elder Lin had given up most of the company duties to Lin Kang so she did not understand the need for Elder Lin to continue travel so extensively for his work. In any case, this was not her concern to worry about.

Xiu Ling moved into the room and she told her father-in-law, ”Father, I came to visit because I have a favour to ask of you.”