441: Gentlen’s agreent 441: Gentlen’s agreent “What’s happened?”
The television was on, broadcasting the evening news.
Jiang Chen held his phone, the chat box displaying Pei Yunxi’s avatar.
Given the special relationship between Shi Zhenhua and Pei Yunxi, he wondered what she would think if she knew of this accident.
Would she be pleased?
Or would it stir feelings of empathy?
“There was a little issue with my thesis, my advisor asked to co back and handle it, nothing serious.”
Jiang Chen typed out a ssage and sent it over.
He knew that Pei Yunxi was not soone who gossiped, but he couldn’t broadcast such matters.
On the other end, it showed ‘typing’, then it went back to normal, Jiang Chen didn’t wait for a reply when the doorbell rang.
Jiang Chen turned his head, looking at the door.
“Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong…”
It should be Shi Qianxi.
He pocketed his phone, got up, and walked over to open the door, but the person outside was sowhat unexpected.
“…
Aunt ng.”
“Do you have ti for a chat?”
Jiang Chen glanced around subconsciously; Shi Qianxi was nowhere to be seen.
“Please co in.”
He quickly stepped aside, politely making space.
ng iling stepped into the room.
Jiang Chen closed the door behind her.
Although their first eting wasn’t very friendly, it was undeniable that she was a very strong and rational woman.
Her composure could remain even as Mount Tai crumbled before her.
This was what truly defined a lady of high society.
Not sothing those actors in TV dramas could portray.
ng iling, showing no signs of weakness, sat down on the sofa and glanced at the television.
Jiang Chen walked over and picked up the remote from the coffee table, turning off the TV.
“Although we haven’t t many tis, I think we are not strangers to each other, so I’ll skip the pleasantries,”
ng iling started speaking.
Jiang Chen nodded, “Please speak your mind, Aunt ng.”
ng iling was truly extraordinary, as she crossed one leg elegantly over the other, “I want to discuss Qian Qian with you.”
Jiang Chen didn’t rush to speak.
He looked at the woman who resembled more of a sister than a mother to Shi Qianxi, giving an impression he was all ears.
“You are a smart man, and so things I suppose I do not need to explain.
Qian Qian must have told you everything by now.
We don’t know when her father will wake up, given the current situation, I must prepare for the worst.”
“Does Aunt ng wish for Miss Shi to temporarily take Mr.
Shi’s position?”
Jiang Chen, who could have remained silent, took the initiative to speak up.
A sentence with three different forms of address.
ng iling’s tone beca focused, and her gaze towards the young man carried a mix of uniqueness and undisguised admiration.
“Qian Qian has told everything; you don’t need to call her Miss Shi.”
Jiang Chen was dumbfounded.
Exactly what had that lady told her mother?
“You’re correct, a secret can be hidden for a while, but not forever, before the news breaks out, a new manager must be introduced to stabilize the situation.
There is no better candidate than Qian Qian,”
ng iling was frank.
This was Jin Hai’s highest level of secrecy; logically, the forr matron of Jin Hai shouldn’t be discussing it with an outsider like him.
“Aunt ng, I’m not sure if it’s my place to say this.”
“Jiang, although there might have been so misunderstandings between us before, by now you should understand that I’m telling you all this because I don’t consider you an outsider,”
Jiang Chen nodded, “Then I will speak frankly, Aunt ng.
I personally think that Qian Qian…
might not yet be ready to take on such a heavy responsibility.”
ng iling remained composed, “Do you believe she lacks the ability?”
“She is too young, and I fear she’s not at all ntally prepared to take over Jin Hai.
I’m worried she won’t be able to handle it,”
ng iling watched him in silence for a mont.
Jiang Chen didn’t try to guess what the other was really thinking.
With his experience, he probably didn’t even have the ability to fathom the inner world of soone like ng iling, so he simply stated his own thoughts very candidly.
“Auntie ng, electing a new leader to stabilize the hearts of the people is indeed urgent, but Qian Qian is not the most suitable candidate.
I believe that the most suitable candidate should be Auntie ng yourself.”
“?”
Jiang Chen nodded.
“Regardless of status or prestige, you are undoubtedly deserving and can also give Qian Qian more ti to adapt.”
“You really do care about her.”
ng iling said softly, and it was not until then that her deanor seed to truly soften.
“You’re right, but there’s one thing, at the end of the day, my surna is ng, not Shi.”
Jiang Chen fell silent.
The other party was finally being completely candid.
To think she would say sothing like that.
He did not understand the internal structure of Jin Hai, but one could imagine that in such a large business empire, fierce struggles for power and factional conflicts were inevitable.
With ng iling taking the stage, whether she wanted it or not, the ng-led forces would definitely rise to power, an unavoidable event.
Unless she was willing to break with her own family.
But was that possible?
She wasn’t Shi Zhenhua; to stabilize Jin Hai, she would need to rely on “ng-allied” figures like ng Jiye.
So this was essentially an unsolvable problem.
“Jin Hai belongs to Qian Qian, and that is sothing no one can change, nor should they try to change.
That’s why the position must be filled by Qian Qian, whether she wants it or not.”
Whether it was her father or her mother, the level of indulgence they had for that lady was extraordinary.
Jiang Chen inwardly sighed and at the sa ti couldn’t help feeling sowhat touched.
The woman sitting not far from him was a purely devoted mother.
“Have you and she talked about it?
She doesn’t agree?”
ng iling nodded.
“That’s also the reason I ca to you.
I hope you can help persuade her.”
Jiang Chen was silent, truly taken aback that she had co to him with this request.
“Little Jiang, right now, that girl is likely to listen to you the most.
If you advise her, she will certainly agree.”
Jiang Chen remained silent for a good while, hesitating to speak.
Finally, he let out a bitter smile.
“Auntie ng, this is really difficult for .”
“I understand.”
That position might seem glorious and prestigious, but it was also fraught with deep and dire challenges.
If the lady herself willingly took the position, well and good.
It would have nothing to do with him, and he would carry no burden.
But if he were to push her into it, the situation would be quite different.
“Little Jiang, although her father has fallen, I, as her mother, am still here.
I won’t let anyone bully her.
But there are so responsibilities that she must take on herself.”
“Auntie ng, can’t we choose soone else?”
ng iling shook her head without hesitation.
“Right now, no one’s word is more effective than yours, not even that of a mother like .”
“Auntie ng…”
Jiang Chen seed to have sothing difficult that he couldn’t express.
“I know what you’re worried about.
Rest assured, I won’t interfere in the affairs between you young people anymore, but there’s one thing for which I hope you can make a promise to .”
Jiang Chen, caught off guard, still reflexively replied, “What’s that?”
“You must promise that Jin Hai will always bear the Shi surna.”
Jiang Chen was stunned.
“Just consider it the request of a mother, please.”
This woman of noble origins, filled with a legendary aura, might never have lowered her stance to such a degree before.
Jiang Chen breathed out softly, smiling, “Auntie ng, with re words, do you really dare to trust ?”
“Before I stepped through the door just now, I might not have been able to answer, but now, I trust you.”
ng iling did not show any hesitation, or doubt.
“Auntie ng, don’t you need so sort of written agreent from ?”
To be precise, ng iling, whom he was eting formally only for the second ti, shook her head, her relaxed smile no longer concealing a trace of fatigue.
“Let’s consider it a gentleman’s agreent between us.”
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