"I won't ask anyway, don't expect to bring it up."
"I'm only waiting for the day when he confesses on his own, if it weren't for the fact that I like him, I wouldn't even cook for him," Xue Yuantong declared righteously.
Xue Chuchu automatically ignored most of the firmness in her words and quickly identified the key point:
"Jiang Ning is usually very busy."
Xue Chuchu had been at Xue Yuantong's house for a few days and noticed that Jiang Ning often disappeared without a trace, his whereabouts mysterious.
"Does he have relatives in the city?"
"Perhaps. When he moved into my place, soone even helped him tidy up his room." Xue Yuantong reminisced about the past with a hint of lancholy. At that ti, she saw Jiang Ning simply as an ordinary tenant who could help lighten the load for her family.
After listening, Xue Chuchu said, "He must have gone to his relative's place in the city."
The two of them started chatting back and forth.
...
Jiang Ning sat in the Spirit Wood Boat, ascending two thousand ters into the sky.
He swallowed an Elixir Pill to replenish his Spiritual Power. At this mont, the Spirit Boat was invisible, shielding him from the high-altitude cold and fierce winds, leaving not a hair out of place.
An City was about one hundred and fifty kiloters away; Jiang Ning spurred the Spirit Wood Boat forward, a journey of approximately seventeen or eighteen minutes.
As the Spirit Boat flew past Yuzhou High-speed Railway Station, Jiang Ning's vision was trendously sharp. He could clearly make out the faces of people two thousand ters below. At that mont, the station was bustling with crowds converging.
Middle-aged businessn in suits, elderly people, young couples, and parents with their children ford a human landscape.
Jiang Ning stepped on the Spirit Boat, and as Spiritual Power surged, the boat's speed increased further, tearing through the air and instantly passing over the railway station.
...
Outside the high-speed railway station, on Yuzhou's longest city road, Xihai Avenue, a sleek black luxury sedan glided smoothly along.
Ding Shuyan, sitting in the passenger seat, had her seatbelt fastened perfectly.
Behind the wheel was her aunt Lin Han, while Lin Zida was in the back seat playing on a ga console.
Lin Zida was repeatedly trying to beat his ga achievents. His console had gone missing after his last exam, and in an effort to recover it, he had the school's surveillance checked and even paid to collect fingerprints from his desk. Still, he failed to find the culprit.
With no other choice, Lin Zida had to buy a new console.
Ding Shuyan suddenly said, "Aunt, I heard that the eldest aunt and uncle are coming to Yuzhou?"
In their Lin Family, the grandfather had three sons and two daughters. Her father, Lin Hongtu, was the fourth child, and Lin Han, her younger aunt, was the youngest, while the eldest aunt, Lin Zhe, was third.
"Yes, they should have set off from An City by now," Lin Han responded cheerily.
With a large family business and many children, it was difficult to avoid various underhanded dealings.
"They're coming to Yuzhou for what?" Ding Shuyan asked, a guess already forming in her mind.
"It's all about the Changqing Liquid Group," Lin Han replied, aware of the deals made recently by the Lin Zhongsheng Group. How could she not understand her elder sister's intentions?
But she had her doubts.
An City had developed rapidly in recent years, and their family's group had grown quickly. So people inevitably got lost in this speed, thinking they could truly drive the group's growth to this point with their own strength.
Lin Han, stationed in Yuzhou, was more aware than most of the terror that Changqing Liquid represented. In just a few years, its scale would surpass Lin Zhongsheng Group.
Ding Shuyan's expression remained unchanged as she silently watched the traffic ahead.
"The eldest sister wants to buy shares in Changqing Liquid," Lin Han said with a smile, seeing no need to hide this from Shuyan.
She and her eldest sister never got along. Lin Zhe disdained her as a re Fox Spirit, while she thought her sister was old-fashioned and ugly. The two often fought.
"Isn't she brainless? It's one thing to use those disgusting tactics, but now she actually thinks she's got the upper hand on the other party and dares to bring a team to Yuzhou to discuss buying shares?"
Lin Zhongsheng Group had a professional team for external investnts and a market analysis departnt, which often invested in potential companies.
When Changqing Liquid first erged, Lin Zhongsheng Group attempted to negotiate a buyout, but was unsurprisingly rejected.
Later, as Changqing Liquid Group grew stronger, Lin Zhe sent people to Yuzhou to apply for jobs in the Green Liquid Company, to develop a network of relationships and get closer to the original formula.
Once they supposedly had the formula, An City's research team imdiately got to work but couldn't replicate it—it was a fake!
Not willing to give up, Lin Zhe hired away Changqing Liquid's R&D talent at a high salary, yet still couldn't access the true formula.
Lin Zhe had resorted to every possible thod to obtain the formula, to no avail.
Recently, Lin Zhe even targeted the raw materials purchased by Changqing Liquid, spending money to intercept them, costing over three hundred million so far.
Her trip to Yuzhou was to leverage this as a threat to buy into Changqing Liquid.
There were no intricate sches or doubts about the other party's psychology, no high-end tactics; it was to achieve her goal with the simplest, most brutal, low-down thods.
Ding Shuyan didn't respond to her aunt's remark. Whether it was the eldest aunt or the youngest aunt, they were all her elders, and she shouldn't discuss them.
Lin Han understood Shuyan's thoughts and didn't linger on the topic, instead, she asked:
"When do you plan to return to An City after the holidays?"
"Probably before the Lantern Festival," Ding Shuyan replied. After returning to An City, surely many old friends would invite her out to parties and gatherings as she had always been popular.
"Okay, let know before you co back, and I'll pick you up at the station." Lin Han's trip was to drop off Shuyan and Lin Xiaopang at the high-speed railway station. She would still be in Yuzhou over the holidays to monitor the projects.
From the back seat, Lin Zida called out, "Aunt, don't you want my opinion?"
Lin Han sneered, "Soone who can't even keep hold of their ga console, that's all the ambition you have."
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