Nie Zheng stood up suddenly, leaned against the desk, and looked at the other person with vigilance.

"Come downstairs to eat." Qiao Li smiled, "Xiaoxing and Jianzhi are arranging flowers downstairs, and your servants can't call you, so I..."

"Then you can't just... come into my room casually."

"Sorry, I was presumptuous."

Qiao Li hugged his shoulders, but his apology did not sound like an apology, but rather a teasing tone.

"...You go out first, I'll be down in a bit."

Although he was ordered to leave, Qiao Li remained unmoved.

He looked up and down at Nie Zheng's tender and pretty face, and suddenly smiled.

"What are you doing?"

Qiao Li reached out and, before Nie Zheng could react, gently rubbed her cheek with his fingertips.

"Nie Zheng!"

This shout was from Chong Jianzhi.

She was a little confused. She turned around and saw Chong Jianzhi standing at the door at some point, with a hint of anger in his eyes.

"It's just a hair on her face, don't be nervous."

After Qiao Li finished speaking, he looked at her meaningfully before leaving the room.

The vase on the coffee table was filled with freshly trimmed flowers, the same bouquet that Qiao Xing had just taken. From a distance, the pink roses were dotted with light purple lisianthus flowers, which was very beautiful, yet dangerous.

The meal was full of undercurrents. Qiao Xing was committed to showing her affection for Chong Jianzhi in front of everyone, and Chong Jianzhi actually cooperated obediently. He served soup and dishes to Qiao Xing, and tacitly allowed him to drink the red wine in his glass. Although he remained expressionless, he was very indulgent towards Qiao Xing.

Nie Zheng felt like she was sitting on pins and needles and wanted to escape, but her reason reminded her that she would eventually have to face...

After dinner, Qiao Xing received a call from the company, probably because there were documents waiting for her to sign, but Nie Zheng could see that she wanted to stay at Chong's house tonight.

"Let's go. I'll ask the driver to take you."

Chong Jianzhi spoke softly, and without waiting for Qiao Xing to answer, he took out his cell phone and called the driver.

"I still want to accompany you tonight..."

"I also have work tonight." Chong Jianzhi's tone was a little stiff, and it was obvious that he wanted to send Qiao Xing away quickly.

After Qiao Xing left, Qiao Li had no reason to stay here anymore.

But he seemed to have no intention of leaving. He drank the black tea handed to him by Wang Ma slowly and chatted with Chong Jianzhi. During the chat, he intentionally or unintentionally shifted the topic to Nie Zheng, as if he was very interested in her.

Nie Zheng became even more restless.

Time passed by, and Qiao Li finally raised his wrist to look at his watch and said, "It's getting late, I won't bother you anymore."

Chong Jianzhi stood up and walked Qiao Li to the door. Without saying a word, he just unlocked the door. When Qiao Li left, he slammed the door shut, his movements somewhat roughly.

"What's going on between you and Joe?"

Chong Jianzhi's question confused Nie Zheng.

"This is the first time we've met, what could possibly happen..."

"He looks at you in a wrong way. Stay away from him in the future."

"Besides you taking him home, where else can I meet him?"

She was in a bad mood, and after being yelled at by Chong Jianzhi, she decided to give up and was no longer so obedient.

Chong Jianzhi was speechless after being rebuked. He kicked the shoe cabinet next to him, but forgot that he was wearing slippers. He felt a clear pain in his toes, but he couldn't show it in front of Nie Zheng, so he could only bite his back teeth and endure it.

"Anything else? I'm going back to my room now."

Nie Zheng glanced at the shoe cabinet that was kicked askew by Chong Jianzhi, walked around the coffee table with the vase on it, and went upstairs.

The living room became quiet. Chong Jianzhi was alone, limping to the sofa. His expression suddenly became lonely. His eyes fell on the transparent glass vase. He reached out to take out the gentian flowers in the vase one by one and threw them into the trash can.

There were eleven in total, he counted them in his mind, and when he took the last one, the petals fell into the vase and floated on the shallow water. The mouth of the vase was narrow, and he couldn't take it out, so he simply took out all the roses in the vase. The thorns between the stems and leaves pierced his palm, but he seemed not to feel it and threw all the pink roses into the trash can.

The scene was a mess, but Chong Jianzhi still felt unhappy, so he picked up the vase and threw everything away.

By the way, I wiped the coffee table again.

Finally clean.

He promised Qiao Xing that he would play this drama with her and be her boyfriend in public, so as to escape the forced marriage of his family. In the world of fame and fortune, it was nothing more than a transaction. He became her boyfriend in name only, in exchange for Qiao Xing's determination to cooperate with him.

When Lin's company collapsed, Lixing cooperated with Chong Jianzhi and took the opportunity to dilute the shares. The ultimate goal was not to bankrupt Lin's company, but to swallow up Lin's company.

After the deal was done, he promised to give Qiao Xing another 2% of the shares.

Chong Jianzhi did not lose out in this transaction.

But why did he feel so empty inside?

The next time I saw Qiao Xing was at the Lin Group’s board meeting the next day.

The Lin family changed its owner, and Chong Jiansen, as Lin Meiyan's fiancé, accompanied her to attend the meeting.

When he saw Chong Jianzhi, his shock was beyond words, but Chong Jianzhi acted as if he didn't see him and walked straight to the main seat at the conference table.

"Chong Jianzhi? Why are you here?"

Chong Jiansen slammed the table and stood up from his seat.

"It seems that Lin Meiyan hasn't informed you yet." Qiao Xing stood up at this moment, "Didn't you notice that a few people were missing from the board of directors? When something happened to Lin's, Director Zhao and Director Liu had already made plans, and they are probably on the plane to Hawaii now. The equity structure has changed, and Lin's is no longer the Lin family."

"what do you mean?"

"While you were at the Yamei Club looking for girls and having a good time, Lin's shares had been secretly acquired by a company called Zhengyue, and the legal representative of Zhengyue..."

"Chong Jianzhi... is it you?"

Hearing Chong Jiansen calling out his name tremblingly, Chong Jianzhi finally showed a slight smile on his face. He had been dormant for a long time, and seeing Chong Jiansen's domineering attitude, he thought he had won the battle and began to lose himself.

Chong Jiansen didn't know that he had already made preparations to leave the Chong family over the years. The reason why he stayed in the Chong family was entirely because of Touyun, who was the hard work of his parents and also his obsession.

"That's right. I will serve as the new chairman of Lin's. It is my unshirkable responsibility to lead Lin's out of the predicament."

"Chong Jianzhi, you villain!" Chong Jiansen was so angry that he didn't expect that he would be tricked.

Chong Jianzhi stood in front of the conference table, looking down at his cousin who was like a clown in front of him. The joy of victory did not make him go to his head, and he still remained 100% calm.

After the meeting, he stopped the exasperated Chong Jiansen and said, "You can continue to work on the overseas projects, but I have to remind you that you will receive resignation letters from all management staff before next Monday. Tell Grandpa that restarting Touyun is the only purpose of my doing all this."

"Chong Jianzhi, don't be complacent, we are not done yet!"

Watching Chong Jiansen leave in disgrace, Qiao Xing was even more proud than Chong Jianzhi. She put her arm around Chong Jianzhi's shoulders and said, "Jianzhi, you were so handsome just now. I did what I promised you. What about what you promised me?"

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