no appointment

UBS, London headquarters.

Today is the time for a routine meeting. The VPs (vice presidents) of all departments of UBS Investment Bank will have a meeting in the conference room to report on the work of the previous quarter and the work arrangement for the next stage.

A tall woman with an Asian face is sitting at the conference table, carefully sorting out her documents.

She was wearing a white shirt, a black skirt, and standard investment banking work clothes. From the side, she looked soft and delicate, with soft hair tied behind her head, and her delicate eyebrows were slightly frowned. She occasionally wrote a few words carefully. Pen.

"Okay, now that everyone's here, let's get started," said Ruth, a 35-year-old British woman standing at the conference table.

When Jing Han heard her words, he frowned and scanned the entire conference room, but he didn't see that figure, "..."

Ruth seemed to see her thoughts, looked straight at Jing Han and said, "I'm going to meet a client, I can't attend today's meeting."

Hearing this, Jing Han regained her faint eyes, but she didn't speak, as if she was born with such a temperament.

……

Then, Ruth asked the vp of each department to report one by one.

Jing Han kept listening, but suddenly received a text message. She looked down at the screen, and a message from "Ruan Mu" was displayed, "After I left last night, did you sleep well?"

"..."

Looking at the message, she seemed to be short of breath.

As it had happened every day for a month, she thought again of that night a few weeks ago.At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, the heat of the body finally subsided slowly, and the head gradually recovered.

He raised his hand to caress the center of his frowning brows, and wanted to sit up naked from the soft and uncomfortable bed, but he couldn't. The enchanting woman seemed to see her thoughts, and raised her hand to hold her down. For her, "..."

Then those deep eyes kept looking at him, and the thin red lips moved, "Jing Han, I like you."

……

Those thoughts were gradually pulled back, Jing Han stared at the text message for a while, and slowly, as if her original indifferent expression softened, she replied, "Please pay more attention to the customer."

It is her usual style to never answer questions directly.

After a while, Jing Han's cell phone vibrated, and the woman came back almost quickly, "You know, my heart is on you."

Jing Han took a breath, "..." She bit her lip, not knowing how to reply at all, the unnatural expression fell into Ruth's eyes, she tapped the desktop, "Suet, come to my office after the meeting."

"..."

Jing Han walked through the office area of ​​Nuoda in the Investment Banking Department, his eyes swept across the people around him, and then walked along the corridor on the right. Because he was wondering why Ruth called him, he was distracted and didn't notice the people next to him. Someone is talking about themselves.

A blond girl saw her walking by, slid the chair aside, and asked cautiously, "Hey, I heard that Suet is with Ruan Mu?"

The black-haired European girl next to her was still busy in front of the computer. When she heard this question, she almost cried out after a long time to react, "What did you say?!"

The blond girl hurriedly told her to lower her voice, "I heard...just heard that someone accidentally bumped into Ruan Mucong in the tea room and hugged her from behind, and even kissed the back of her neck without rejecting her. The two of them seemed to be in love."

She paused, then continued with her voice suppressed, "All UBS knows that Ruan Mu has been chasing Suet five years ago, but Suet has never paid attention to her. Who would have thought that when Suet returned to the country in the middle, Ruan Mu would follow Suet in the blink of an eye. Yuan together..."

"So I always thought that even if Suet returned to London this time, the two of them would not make any progress, but..."

The black-haired girl's eyes widened, and she said in disbelief, "You just said that they are really together... My God, are there any women in this world that Ruan Mu can't handle?"

"If Ruan Mu chases you, will you agree?" The blond girl asked suddenly as she watched Jing Han walk away.

"Even though I'm gay, I don't like the kind of flirtatious..."

The black-haired girl looked at her, held back for a long time and finally let out a sigh of relief, "Okay, of course I would agree if it was Ruan Mu, she is really attractive."

"But I still find it hard to believe that they actually..." As he spoke, Jing Han happened to have just walked to the door of Ruth's office, with his profile facing them, and his indifferent eyes almost met the two of them.

At the same time, they were all a little guilty, stopped discussing those gossips, turned around and sat back to their original seats.

Walking along the right side of the corridor is the individual offices of several r's. Jing Han stood in front of one of the office rooms marked Ruth, and knocked lightly on the door.

"Come in," a standard English voice sounded.

Jing Han pushed the door open and came in, only to see a blond British woman sitting at the table, who was on the phone with someone, she gestured to Jing Han to stop talking, "Okay, you take them to the lounge first... ok , thank you." She wrote something on the document as she spoke.

Finally, Ruth put down the phone, and then she looked up at the door, "..."

The moment Jing Han met her eyes, the corners of her lips curved slightly into a polite arc, "Ruth, are you looking for me?" She stood still in front of the desk, and her cold voice sounded.

"Well, sit down."

Ruth gave her a deep look, then motioned for her to sit down across the desk, and handed over a document, "Look, this is your next project."

Jing Han took it with a frown, and flipped through it carefully, while Ruth's gaze was lingering on her serious expression.

After a while, she finally finished reading it.

"I don't understand, are you going to give it to me?"

Sure enough, after Jing Han finished reading, the first sentence was this, "..." She paused, her delicate eyebrows frowned, but she didn't expect Ruth to call her because of this, "I've heard about it a long time ago This project, I just don’t quite understand why you hand over such a big IPO to me.”

"..."

Ruth stared at her for a while, then quickly nodded and admitted, "That's right, such a big IPO shouldn't have been allocated to you. You also know that MD said that you were just promoted and asked you to start from a small project."

She paused, and suddenly changed her tone, "But you did well in the Royal Mail's IPO before. I asked the senior management to give you a chance, and he agreed after thinking about it."

Jing Han frowned when he heard the last few words.

Ruth noticed her expression sensitively, and said, "What's more, this is a Chinese company that is going to be listed in London. Look left and right. It seems that there is no more suitable candidate in UBS than you."

She paused at this point, changed the subject, and a deep meaning flashed in her eyes, "Of course, Ruan Mu was also considered as one of the candidates before, but we have considered it comprehensively, you were transferred back to China, and the branch in Shanghai After doing it for three years, you should be more suitable than her."

"..."

Jing Han's slender eyebrows frowned even deeper, as if the moment Ruan Mu was mentioned in the other party's mouth, her expression was a little unnatural.

Jing Han didn't answer the conversation for a long time, but kept silent all the time. The so-called reason of "I'm especially suitable because I'm Chinese" is not so convincing.

"Ruth, you know I don't..."

She moved her lips, as if she hesitated to speak.

But soon, Ruth interrupted her, "Jing Han," she looked straight at her, and said very straightforwardly, "The IPO procedure is basically the simplest in the investment banking business. I let any project like this They won't refuse a vp to take over, do you understand what I mean?"

Jing Han took a deep breath, and she probably sensed the tough tone of the other party, so she finally didn't open her mouth to refute, but nodded and said softly, "Okay, I get it, I will do it well."

Ruth stared at her for a while, and saw that the frown was slightly relieved, "Very good."

Ruth put on a formulaic tone again, and looked at Jing Han with folded hands, "I think you already know that this time the IPO will be done by Barclays Bank together with us, but it is mainly our side that is in charge, their VP Arrived with a few and analysts and is in the break room now."

Jing Han was startled, Barclays Bank?

Ruth raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and then instructed, "You tell your team to get ready, I'll go and say hello first, and you can have a brief meeting with them in half an hour."

"……it is good."

Since there was no turning point in this matter, Jing Han didn't hesitate any more. She collected her thoughts, stood up and asked, "Any other orders?"

Ruth shook her head, Jing Han hummed softly, and was about to say that she was leaving first, when suddenly, "... bang" a document was knocked on the ground by her.

"Feel sorry."

Jing Han bent over to pick it up, glanced at it inadvertently, "Huh?" Her cold eyes were attracted to it, it was a resume, although there was no photo on it, the name looked very familiar.

"Shenqin," Jing Han stared at it for a while, then murmured, "Shen Qin?"

Ruth took the document in her hand, glanced at it, "Oh," she opened her mouth, and said very naturally, "This is the Chinese girl who graduated from the Cass Business School you interviewed last time, and she will start working in a few days gone."

Jing Han was slightly taken aback, and soon remembered that face, she said softly, "Well, I remember that she performed well, she should be very suitable for this IPO"

"Oh no,"

The next second, Ruth shook her head suddenly, "Honey, this girl has nothing to do with you," she glanced at Jing Han, and said lightly, "She will be assigned to the group."

"..."

Jing Han opened his mouth slightly, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

She almost wanted to ask why the people she interviewed were assigned to Ruan Mu's group, but then she felt that this question was a bit redundant. This is not the first time she has seen this kind of situation. She had heard of bringing her own vp when she was in China I have talked about similar things, probably because of the high-level arrangements.

"..."

She quickly suppressed her emotions and didn't ask anything, "Okay, I see.".

Then Jing Han said that he would go back to prepare, and Ruth nodded in agreement, but before she had walked a few steps, Ruth suddenly stopped her, "I have something to explain,"

Jing Han stopped and looked back at her, only to see Ruth looking at herself and said, "Don't get me wrong that I arranged the project for you because I still think about what I want to do to you."

Jing Han looked at her straightforward eyes, and opened her eyes uncomfortably, "I didn't think so," she said softly.

Ruth took a deep look at her, his eyes lingering on her face, "You just need to behave well."

……