The back of the chair was high, completely blocking the top of the man's head.

After Lu Huaishen's voice on the phone stopped, the office was so quiet that only the sound of pages turning.

He stared at the back of the chair for a long time, and the man was also patient, listening to the speed at which she turned the book, he knew that he was just looking at it randomly, and he was not focused.

After a long time, Lu Huaishen walked over, leaning on the back of the chair and armrests, and turned the chair to face him, "The books in my office are better than those at home?"

Most of Jiang Ruo's vision and light were blocked, and the figure in front of her was pressed down towards her, her hands were still supporting the chair, the space was compressed, and she looked particularly cramped, and the corners of her open suit were attached to the side of her legs.

Jiang Ruo raised his eyes from the book and said slowly: "I don't know if the book is good or not, the office is much larger than the study at home." ”

A smile crossed Lu Huaishen's eyes, and he returned to normal in an instant.

He leaned on the edge of the table, took out the book in Jiang Ruo's hand and looked at it, occupying a large two-page page is an introduction to a tourist country in the South Pacific, with the blue sea and blue sky in the background and dark-skinned locals with bright smiles.

Jiang Ruo sat still and did not move.

Yesterday's dispute, neither of them has forgotten, and the atmosphere is still a little delicate.

Lu Huaishen closed the magazine and put it aside, and asked her why she suddenly came.

Jiang Ruo thought for a while, didn't answer, and asked him with a smile: "You didn't go home last night, and you went directly to the apartment?"

Jiang Ruo suddenly remembered this stubble this morning and called Aunt Wu, who said that Lu Huaishen didn't go home at all last night, but Lu Huaishen didn't call her yesterday, so she shouldn't know that she went to live in the apartment.

It's funny, they don't want to see each other, but they meet in the same place.

Lu Huaishen was stunned by her question, did not deny it, and said calmly: "Yes." ”

His answer confirmed her thoughts, Jiang Ruo suddenly didn't know what to say, the two of them were silent, and the atmosphere became more and more strange.

Jiang Ruo felt that letting the other party have no steps down in marriage was an extremely emotionally consuming thing. In the past, she saw other couples, including parents, put embarrassing questions on the table, and she couldn't understand why she couldn't change the way and why she used a questioning tone?

At this moment, Jiang Ruo was shocked to realize that she had become the kind of person she once couldn't understand, and there was a blank space in her mind for a moment.

And she and Lu Huaishen didn't even have a love period, and they didn't even understand each other thoroughly, so the triviality of marriage overwhelmed her.

In the past, when they were hostile to each other, she could say things that hurt others and hurt their self-esteem without any burden, and the other party would fight back anyway, and they would not suffer from each other. But now, once some words are spoken, she will feel a sense of burden, and she will be tormented to the point that she is quite entangled and uncomfortable.

She already knew the answer, she could make a concession to each other, and in that situation yesterday, both sides needed to calm down, but she asked for words with a hot brain, and the answer she got put her in the situation where she was now in a difficult situation.

Obviously, she had already decided to compromise first today, she didn't want Lu Huaishen to be angry with him when he solved the problem for her, and put herself in his shoes, which would inevitably make him feel cold.

But Jiang Ruo's reason seemed to be uncontrollable at this time, and he broke the jar and asked, "Why?

"Then why are you there?" he said in a calm voice, and although he did not answer directly, he admitted from the side.

She saw Lu Huai move her Adam's apple deeply, and frowned again, was she impatient?

Jiang Ruo turned his head and said in a stiff tone: "Because I don't want to see you." ”

The chair was pulled a little closer, Lu Huaishen leaned down, clasped her chin with his long fingers to turn her face, and whispered, "I saw your car downstairs last night." ”

Jiang Ruo interpreted his words into two meanings: one is that he knows that you are here, and he has to come up when he arrives, otherwise he will not be able to get over it on his conscience, and the other is that he knows that you are here, but I did not choose to leave.

What it means depends on how she understands it.

Everyone handed the steps in front of them, and Jiang Ruo naturally went down.

Reluctantly, she brought her face closer, pecked him awkwardly on the lips, and stopped looking at him after kissing.

Lu Huaishen looked at her angry and embarrassed side face, reached out to palm the back of her neck, pressed it up, and pried her lips and teeth.

Jiang Ruo's hand was on his strong forearm, and the male power came from the palm of her hand through the fabric, and her breathing became chaotic.

Lu Huai's deep kiss eased down, and then let go of her, panting slightly.

Jiang Ruo touched the tip of his nose with him, and he suddenly said, "My neck hurts." ”

Jiang Ruo said in a low voice: "You deserve it." ”

Having said that, he still reached out and rubbed him with the wrong mouth.

Jiang Ruo rubbed his hands and said, "This morning, I received a notice from the secretary of the Jiang family that a temporary high-level meeting will be held tomorrow. ”

Shortly after she spoke to Gao Sui.

Lu Huaishen straightened up, "That monster suddenly came out like this yesterday." First amplify public opinion, cause public anger, and make you unable to gain a foothold in the board, so that they have a good excuse to fire you. ”

"I'm afraid it's not just about dismissing me. ”

Lu Huaishen pulled her up from the chair, sat down by herself, and pressed the person on her lap, "Don't show your cowardice, Jiang Ji has a handle in my hand." ”

Jiang Ruo paused: "What handle?"

Lu Huaishen: "Evidence that can prove that he has illegal transactions with water and fire." ”

Jiang Ruo was surprised.

"So you don't have to go to Du Shengyi, she won't help you, you don't need to beg her. ”

Jiang Ruo glanced at him: "I didn't ask her, fair exchange, she didn't want to forget it." ”

Lu Huai squinted at her slightly: "What do you want to exchange with her?"

Jiang Ruo shrugged: "Before I talked about it, the conversation collapsed." ”

Lu Huaishen smiled, and his heart collapsed well.

Someone knocked on the door outside the office, and Jiang Ruo immediately bounced up from Lu Huaishen's body like a spring, like a thief.

Lu Huaishen asked her to sit on the guest sofa for a while, the secretary came in and sent a document to be signed, Lu Huaishen took a while to read the revised document content, signed under the tail tribe, and the secretary went out with the document.

Jiang Ruo said: "If you are busy, I will not delay you." ”

"Don't worry," Lu Huaishen said, "What did you eat at noon?"

"I ate late for breakfast. ”

Lu Huai frowned: "Didn't eat at noon?"

Jiang Ruo said: "I'm not very hungry. ”

Lu Huaishen said, "Accompany you to eat something?"

After saying that, he already picked up the car keys and got up.

Jiang Ruo wanted to say, wasn't he asking for his own opinion just now? Obviously, he had already made a decision for her.

"Aren't you busy?"

Lu Huaishen said: "There was a conference call in the afternoon, and I just came back from dinner. ”

Jiang Ruo thought for a while and said: "I'm not too hungry now, I'll eat when I'm hungry, so don't take the time to go with me, and make good money for milk powder." ”

Jiang Ruo sat in his company for a while, and the secretary brought fruit tea and desserts for her to fill her stomach first, and she left shortly before Lu Huaishen's meeting.

When waiting for the elevator, the high-rise special elevator arrived, and Chang Wan came out with a leader-level man.

When he saw Jiang Ruo, Chang Wan was slightly surprised.

Jiang Ruo has never heard Lu Huaishen call Chang Wan as a family member, Jiang Ruo and her are not on the same plate, now in the company, there are many eyes and ears, and there are several employees next to them are also waiting for the elevator, she is not good not to say hello, so she symbolically called her: "Mr. Chang." ”

Chang Wan smiled: "Come to see Huaishen?"

Jiang Ruo smiled and nodded.

I don't know if it's because of being in front of outsiders, Chang Wan behaved very kindly to her, "Yes, when you have energy, you can go out for a walk appropriately, and it will also help the development of the fetus." I still have something to do, so I'll go first. By the way, use the high-rise elevator, it is not so congested. ”

Jiang Ruo gave it away with a smile: "Okay, go slowly." ”

As soon as Jiang Ruo got on the elevator, the onlookers just now began to coax, "Xiao Liu also said that people have no name before, and Mr. Chang knows her, so the Lu family must have admitted it!"

"But don't you think it's really a little strange that neither of them is wearing a wedding ring?"

"Didn't you have a wedding? What's so strange, people may want to keep a low profile and hide their marriage, can't they have other plans?"

As soon as the words fell, Pei Shao's warning came from behind him: "Who let you talk about your boss's private life during working hours?"

A few people were taken aback, these people were more familiar with Pei Shao, and joked: "Pei Shao, you tell us, when did they get married?"

Pei Shao looked at a few people with a deliberate attitude, and made the action of sealing and wiping his neck.

The next day, Lu Huaishen personally sent Jiang Ruo to the Jiang clan to attend a high-level meeting, and after a few words of advice, Jiang Ruo got out of the car.

met Jiang Zhouman and Jiang Jin, who had just arrived, and the brother and sister happened to meet a director at the door, and exchanged a few words by the way.

The moment she got out of the car, the wind blew, she wore high heels on her bare legs, and the coolness spread from her calves, and the sense of grandeur was particularly strong.

Jiang Ruo got out of the car, Jiang Zhouman noticed her, and his eyes pointed to the car that slowly drove out behind her.

Jiang Ruo's dress today is more formal, the suit is a shirt and a high-waisted knee-length straight skirt, the front can't see the belly, and the side is covered by a suit, but this has the effect of wanting to cover up, others can easily perceive what she is hiding, after all, the slightly rounded belly under the straight skirt appears on the slender figure, and the sense of abruptness will be stronger.

Jiang Zhouman glanced at her stomach, her gaze glued to it for a few seconds, and then she opened her eyes.

The meeting had already been fully prepared, and the high-level officials entered one after another, Jiang Ruo looked around, she was indeed the youngest.

When Lin Dong arrived at the end, Jiang Ruo sat at the back, and there were a few empty seats next to her, but Lin Dong didn't look at her, but sat on the only vacant seat opposite.

Jiang Ruo was puzzled.

Lin Dong used to be a close confidant of his grandfather, and now he also relies on him to convey many things in the company, and he also strongly recommended her as a director last time, but now it seems that he deliberately dissociates himself.

The door of the conference room was closed, and the secretary of the board of directors presided over the meeting and read out the theme of the meeting.

It's exactly what Jiang Ruo thought, this meeting was aimed at her, and it came straight to her.

After the secretary of the board of directors, Jiang Jin frowned and looked embarrassed but had to kill his relatives in righteousness, "In case there are people who don't know the situation, I will first state the problem to you." ”

He said and pointed his gaze at Jiang Ruo in the back row.

Jiang Ruo was spinning his chair boredly, and when he noticed his pause, he raised his eyes and glanced at the past.

Jiang Jin continued: "As we all know, some time ago, the company was just ordered to investigate by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the main reason is that the company had project dealings with Huaan Fund before, and Huaan Fund was later found to have account problems. Later, in the course of the police investigation, the former senior management of Huaan Fund confessed that he had offered bribes to Jiang Ruo, a shareholder and director of our company, which brought irreparable losses to the company, evaporated hundreds of millions of dollars in market value, and faced termination of multi-party cooperation, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury in terms of the company's current shortage of funds. ”

He paused and was silent at the right time, and the conference room was like a hot water oil pot, which suddenly boiled, and his eyes and words and accusations all flocked to Jiang Ruo.

Someone was furious: "Jiang Ruo, what else do you have to say?"

"Absolutely. Jiang Ruo was neither humble nor arrogant, and calmly responded, "First of all, I don't admit the bribery case, and the police have not yet closed the coffin in the investigation stage of the case, so why do you want to convict me of accepting bribes?"

She looked at Jiang Ji and hooked the corners of her lips and smiled: "I haven't even said that you and your lover framed me together, you took the lead in saying it so badly." Second, the cooperation with Huaan was not the main reason for Jiang's investigation by the CSRC, but because since Jiang Weiming became chairman of the board of directors for more than half a year, the company has engaged in many acts of unfair competition, disrupting the market economy, and the high-level management has undertaken too many projects that cannot be followed up in disregard of the company's financial problems. ”

Jiang Zhouman retorted with a sneer: "Jiang Ruo, you are still hard-mouthed. The company's stock price has plummeted for two consecutive days, and the losses are all caused by you, do you still quibble about this?"

At this time, if Jiang Ruo bluntly said that the bad public opinion on the Jiang family was led by Jiang Ji or Jiang Zhouman, others would definitely not believe it, and who else cared about the interests of the company the most, except for the family of three surnamed Jiang?

Jiang Ruo crossed his fingers on the table, and pretended to be puzzled: "I'm also very curious, the only people present at the police station at that time were your brother and your brother's lover, and this is the lawyer of both parties. However, in just one day, the matter spread all over the industry, causing such a big loss. ”

Jiang Zhouman wanted to say something, but Jiang Ruo didn't give her a chance, and said quickly: "When your father was the chairman, there were such and such problems, why did your brother become the chairman of the board of directors and not even know how to do public relations......?" Or did she look at Jiang Ji with a smile, "More will she use public relations to advance and achieve his own interests?"

Jiang Jin was as steady as Mount Tai, and he was not in a hurry to refute when he heard this, he said slowly: "What if you don't have authority? But Lin Dong has." ”

Jiang Ruo's heart was suffocated, and a bad premonition arose, she glanced at Lin Dong and then at Jiang Ji.

Jiang Jin said: "The previous cooperation between Hua'an and Jiang was signed by Lin Dong, isn't it?" He looked at everyone and emphasized in a deep voice: "It was also Lin Dong who strongly promoted Jiang Ruo as a director at the beginning." ”

Jiang Ruo panicked for a moment, and scolded him loudly: "Jiang Ji, you are messing around." ”

Jiang Jin ignored it and continued: "Gao Xiang of Huaan Fund said that at that time, Lin Dong and Jiang Ruo had assured him that as long as Jiang Ruo became a director of the Jiang family, they would definitely promote in-depth cooperation between the two sides in the future. ”

Jiang Ruo looked at Lin Dong deadly, but the other party lowered his eyes and did not look at her, unprecedentedly silent.

Jiang Zhouman smiled triumphantly: "This is before he took the position of director, he began to advance the power of abuse of power in advance, and some people are quite ambitious." ”

Jiang Ruo was thinking about whether Lin Dong was temporarily bribed, or whether he pretended to support his grandfather for today's day in the morning, and didn't have time to take care of Jiang Zhouman.

Jiang Jin asked Lin Dong: "Lin Dong, do you have anything to explain?"

Lin Dong pushed his glasses, looked at Jiang Ji, blinked, slowed down, and said with difficulty: "I don't have anything to say." ”

This was unexpected by Jiang Ruo, and Lin Dong's current defection made Jiang Ruo unable to say anything convincing at this high-level meeting.

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Jin solemnly announced: "Although the police have not yet concluded the case, the losses caused to the company by this incident are an established fact, so I have decided to dismiss Jiang Ruo from the board of directors and make up for the economic losses brought to the company, and the finance department will audit the accumulated loss amount." ”

This decision was finally adopted by almost unanimous vote.

Jiang Jin finally looked at Jiang Ruo: "If you don't enforce it, then the company will apply for judicial intervention and go through legal procedures to enforce it." ”

After the meeting ended, Jiang Ruo blocked Lin Dong's way, and the other party dodged her gaze.

"Uncle Lin, don't you have to talk about it?"

Lin Dong turned his head to the side, "Jiang Ruo, I'm sorry, don't force me." ”

Jiang Ruo laughed: "It turns out that you gave false testimony to slander me, but I embarrassed you? Do you have any troubles to tell me, if you are suppressed by Jiang Ji now, will you still look forward to the day when you will turn over in the future?"

Lin Dong smiled and whispered: "I am a director at most, at this age, how can I turn over and still be the chairman?"

Jiang Ruo stared at his flickering gaze tightly, and tried to be friendly in his cold solemnity: "I listen to what you mean, anyway, they are all subservient to others, it doesn't matter if it is Jiang Ji or Jiang Qiying, right? Uncle Lin, you have thought about it, you used to be a fan of my grandfather, during this time, we can know that any wind and grass in the company depends on you, do you think Jiang Ji will really keep you? Now it is me, maybe the next one will be you." ”

"Then what do you want me to do!" Lin Dong was so angry that he was about to be broken by her, gritted his teeth and whispered: "Is it okay for me to die......?

Seeing that he couldn't breathe, Jiang Ruo was startled.

She relieved: "I won't embarrass you." ”

Lin Dong took a deep look at her and left immediately.

Jiang Ruo stood in the corridor outside the conference room in a daze, the lights in the building were too bright, and her eyes hurt, she opened her lips and forced herself to calm down.

Turning around, I saw Jiang Jin standing a few steps away with his hands in his hands, looking at her, with a smile in his eyes that was completely different from the meeting, and his eyes were full of arrogance that he had succeeded in his treacherous scheme.

Jiang Ruo glanced at him silently, and was about to leave.

Jiang Ji grabbed her, "Go slower, wear such high heels, and don't pay attention." ”

This kind of caring words, to Jiang Ruo's ears, are simply perverted, and she withdrew: "Don't be pretty." ”

Jiang Jin's smile cooled, "I'm just asking you to go back and tell Lu Huaishen a word." He said close to Jiang Ruo's ear, "Whether it is for you to be sued or for you to lose money, he can only choose one." Don't think that holding on to my handle can replace me with a complete compromise, everyone is a big deal. ”

After he finished speaking, he resumed to smile or not, "Remember to think clearly, if you are also entangled in a lawsuit, Jiang Qiying's lawsuit will be affected, and the crisis of public opinion that Bo Lu and Lu Huaishen will face, can you bear it." ”

Jiang Ruo looked at him deadly, "One day, one day......" She nodded and smiled: "You wait." ”

"Don't talk about me yet, you have no choice anyway," Jiang Ji approached her and said word by word: "After all, Lu Huaishen is also waiting for this day." ”