CHAPTER XXXI

"Going to the Soup and Fire" / Call me Meow

In my life, the most feared thing is not being able to meet someone who makes you have the urge to go to the soup.

Mawson and Marriott teamed up to create the city's only leisure tourism eco-hotel in City A, a project that was difficult from the start because of a long history of discord between the two leaders.

One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, Gu Jinchen and Chen Ziang, two rising business stars, have been testing and competing with each other since Gu Jinchen resolutely left Marriott to stand on his own.

Originally, such a contest would not have much negative impact, but on the contrary, it invisibly promoted the continuous self-optimization of both sides. This point can be understood just by looking at the current development momentum of the two sides in full swing.

It's just that in the past few days, the situation seems to have changed. Halfway through the successful progress of the cooperation project, Marriott suddenly offered to terminate the cooperation, unilaterally terminate the contract and was willing to bear the losses caused.

In order to win this project, Gu Jinchen sent people to City A more than once to seek opportunities to cooperate with Marriott. Later, he even came forward to negotiate with Chen Ziang. Since the start of the project, from the beginning of the preparation to the present, Mosen has made sufficient preparations and placed high expectations.

Now, Marriott has suddenly withdrawn its hand, and no amount of compensation for Mawson will be of no avail.

When he received the news, Gu Jinchen was also caught off guard. He squeezed his hand on the phone, trembling slightly because of his complicated feelings. After thinking about it for a while, I asked my assistant to book a plane ticket to City A. When I came out of the study, I hurried back to the bedroom to pack my luggage, and my movements were very quick and did not drag at all.

Xia Ran, who was sitting at the head of the bed reading a book, was attracted by Gu Jinchen's movements, put down his hand, and asked him worriedly, "Where are you going?" ”

They haven't lived together for long, but Gu Jinchen, who is the general manager of Mosen, can pick her up and commute with her on time every day. After returning home for dinner, most of the time, he would be busy working alone in the study, and she would not bother him, but quietly find something to do in the bedroom. As Gu Jinchen's translator and girlfriend, Xia Ran had never seen him so flustered.

In the closet, Gu Jinchen hurriedly withdrew his home clothes. Xia Ran's gaze raised, and then quickly moved down, the man's tight upper body made her panic but couldn't help but want to take a few more looks.

Gu Jinchen put a shirt on his body casually, buttoned it unhurriedly, and then raised his hand to touch the top of her hair, and patiently explained: "On a business trip, go to City A." ”

After speaking, his affectionate eyes turned dark, this time, he really needed to talk to Chen Ziang. Even if it's not an official matter, it's time to settle personal grievances. With a flick of his eyes, he already had a mind full of incomprehensible doubts. Raising his eyes to look at Xia Ran on the bed again, his eyes instantly softened.

She put her hands on either side of the bed, and looked at him with two big eyes, and his heart was warm for a while, and before he could fasten the last button, he kissed her eyes like that, "Wait for me to come back, huh?" ”

Gu Jinchen and Xia Ran have known each other since childhood, and at that time they were children who grew up in a yard. He is ten years older than her, and Xia Ran has been afraid of this big brother who is excellent in everything since he was a child. When he was a child, Xia Ran always liked to mess around with other children in the yard, sometimes climbing trees and digging birds' eggs together, sometimes skipping class and sleeping lazy together. Xia Ran was inevitably beaten, but while beating, she turned her jealousy of Gu Jinchen into boredom.

The most serious one, which made Xia Ran not want to see Gu Jinchen again, happened when Xia Ran was sixteen years old. She fell in love, an inadmissible early love in the eyes of parents and teachers, and the object was a good-looking boy in her class. The youthful love was unexpectedly witnessed by Gu Jinchen once, and then Gu Jinchen quietly united with the Xia family to send Xia Ran to London to study. In this way, Xia Ran's first love affair was strangled in the cradle.

Since Gu Jinchen was fifteen years old, he began to interfere with Xia Ran's growth as a big brother. Later, when he found out that he was in love with Xia Ran, Xia Ran was already abroad. He waited for her to grow up, for her to graduate. tried all kinds of means to keep her by his side and let her bear his deep love, and now Xia Ran began to respond to him, which made Gu Jinchen more and more unwilling to let her leave him.

One day or two, the kind of days when she can't see her, will she miss each other like herself.

Xia Ran pursed his lips, looked at him, shook his head and helped him tie the last button, and didn't forget to pay attention to his collar after tying it, "Okay." ”

When Gu Jinchen left, he didn't forget to kiss her on the mouth fiercely, and it was really under Xia Ran's urging that he carried his luggage and Ning Yuan to the airport.

Gu Jinchen took the assistant to check in and walked straight to the security check. The airport was crowded with people and in a hurry. What Gu Jinchen didn't expect was a casual glance at himself, and he actually saw the person he was looking for in the crowd.

After the security check, he didn't immediately go to the boarding gate, but stood to the side. His assistant glanced at him with some curiosity, and then looked at the security checkpoint, where a man with a similar figure to Gu Jinchen but a little more gentle walked in. The same is a straight suit, and the same is calm.

Chen Ziang held the document in one hand and the suit in the other, frowning slightly. He walked past Gu Jinchen, as if he didn't see him or didn't know him, and his face was expressionless.

Just didn't take a few steps, and then Gu Jinchen stopped him, "I thought I would have to fly to City A to meet Mr. Chen, but I didn't expect to be here." ”

Chen Ziang was stunned and looked at Gu Jinchen directly. The dark dark eyes shone sharply, and it was a complicated look. called the assistant who had been standing behind Gu Jinchen, and he couldn't figure it out.

Gu Jinchen raised his eyebrows, seemingly unimpressed by Chen Ziang's attitude. When Chen Zi walked forward, he followed unhurriedly. The two sat down in the VIP lounge, and after Gu Jinchen signaled the assistant to avoid, he said lightly: "Why do you want to terminate the cooperation?" ”

He frowned and pondered, Chen Ziang glanced at it lightly, took a sip of the coffee in front of him, and asked him half-jokingly: "If you spend your whole life on one thing, and one day, someone suddenly stands up to stop you from continuing, will you hate him?" ”

When the words fell, his bright eyes swept over Gu Jinchen's face, and Chen Ziang suddenly changed his words: "No, if Xia Ran had fallen in love with someone else before returning to China, and let your years of waiting be in vain, would you hate the man she fell in love with?" ”

Chen Ziang said so much, just to tell Gu Jinchen that Gu Jinchen had hidden so many things from him for Yao Qian for so many years, and it was time to take some revenge.

Chen Ziang had asked Gu Jinchen more than once about Yao Qian in those years. Gu Jinchen was tight-lipped, Chen Ziang didn't blame him once even if he was angry, but he kept relying on his own ability to look for the woman who had left him for many years in the vast sea of people.

Chen Ziang really didn't blame Gu Jinchen, at this time, all that appeared in front of his eyes was the woman curled up in the rain, and her face full of pain. Wen Nan called him a lot, but Chen Ziang never replied. If it weren't for Rong Ma's begging Chen Ziang to take a look at the sick Wen Nan through Wen Xin, maybe he wouldn't have appeared in City C now.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziang's brows furrowed even deeper, if he didn't come, he wouldn't have heard a conversation between Yao Qian and Wen Nan, and he wouldn't have suddenly decided to terminate the cooperation.

He once said that he wished he knew the truth slowly, but at that moment he suddenly wanted to know everything immediately, and the feeling of being hidden was really bad.

If he hadn't been forced by this relationship to have no way out, he wouldn't have used such means. He needed to get what he wanted from Gu Jinchen, and these things could be exchanged for everything he had, including the entire Marriott.

He was really insane, his madness almost engulfed him.

Gu Jinchen was stunned for a moment, his eyes touched Chen Ziang's slightly open neckline, and a touch of red inadvertently crashed into his field of vision. He thought of Xia Ran, who was still at home, and Chen Ziang's meaningful words echoed in his ears. If Xia Ran fell in love with someone else and his waiting was fruitless, would he hate that man?

No, he will only do whatever it takes to drive that person out of Xia Ran's world. Whether it's said that he is domineering, or that he is unreasonable, if he waits for her, he must wait for her.

However, Chen Ziang is not the same. Gu Jinchen turned his gaze back to Chen Ziang's body, he looked so lonely, although the clothes on his body were noble and decent.

There was silence for a long time before he spoke, "Why should personal grievances be involved in work. ”

Chen Ziang smiled slightly, and the clouds were light, "I am willing." ”

When the cooperation ended, Marriott paid no less, if not more, than Mawson's. Looking at the bottomless coffee in the cup, the smile on the corner of his mouth slowly became a little more mocking than he could hide. Gu Jinchen is right, personal grievances should not have too much to do with work. He's been doing it for years.

In the eyes of everyone, Chen Ziang has always been a person who distinguishes between public and private, and he is resolute in business, and he has never made any mistakes. And this time, the cooperation project with Mawson only claimed to the outside world that a certain person in charge of Marriott suddenly resigned and quit, and he was temporarily unable to spare the manpower to take charge and had to be forced to terminate. Only Chen Ziang knew that all this was just his own decision.

Gu Jinchen asked him, "Why?" ”

"Don't you know?" Chen Ziang half-hung his face, and his fingertips unconsciously tapped the armrests of the sofa chair, and he was very focused.

Both of them are smart people, so they always talk in a roundabout way, making it difficult for others to understand. Gu Jinchen pulled the bow tie that Xia Ran had tied for him before going out of the door, and asked in a deep voice, "You open the conditions." 166 Reading Network