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Before Meng Fankun's resignation procedures were completed, I received an invitation from someone I didn't expect. Guo Mingming, the daughter of the chairman of the Aka company, had a birthday party.

I've never met her, and even the name was the first time I've seen it from an invitation. But when I received it, I couldn't pretend I didn't know, so I thought about it for a while and called Sun Bolian.

He listened to me on the phone and said with a smile: "Manager Lin, the people who can attend Miss Guo's birthday banquet are all close business contacts or have personal relationships, and they may be able to find cooperation opportunities on that occasion." Since I have sent you a note, our side attaches great importance to you, and there is no harm to the future cooperation. ”

Although I know in my heart that Sun Bolian is right, Guo Mingming, a small company like me, should not be able to see it at all, and he has never even heard of the other party's name like me, and this invitation is a bit strange.

I learned from Sun Bolian's words about who were the people invited in previous years, and I couldn't decide whether to go or not to go. What kind of gifts do you want to prepare when you go? I don't know her, I don't have any personal relationship at all, how could she send me an invitation?

I hung up the phone and couldn't figure out the key to it, so I texted He Liancheng to ask him, and he replied: Let's talk in the evening.

I knew that he must be busy, and stayed up until the evening to tell him about the matter, he thought for a moment and said: "This kind of invitation may not be the guest list drawn up by herself, just send the gifts, and shake it off at the scene, and you can come back at the beginning of the banquet." I'll go with you. ”

"No need, you're going to Shanghai on the weekend, and I'm afraid you won't be able to come back in time." I say.

"I want to think about whether I can push it to Shanghai." There was a little tangle on his face.

I don't want to be a woman who has to be protected by a man everywhere, and I don't want a man to give up anything because of me. So he said resolutely: "You don't have to go, I'll just go through the motions myself, and you can help me think about the gift." I spoke firmly, and he thought for a moment before agreeing.

In fact, I know his worries, afraid that I will be deliberately bullied on such an occasion. This kind of thing will often happen in the future, how can it be possible to let him accompany him every time. More importantly, I know that now he has a reputation for being engaged in the business circle, and what kind of status is it to accompany me to such an occasion?

Even if others don't say it, I'm afraid that I will be included in the list of juniors. I want him to come to accompany me every day, it's my own business, it's not quite right to take him around with me.

Before the birthday party, I found out through various channels that Guo Mingming likes calligraphy and painting, and I didn't buy anything in the market for a long time. In the end, He Liancheng accompanied me to several galleries and picked out a landscape drawing of a young emerging painter.

Guo Mingming's birthday banquet was held at his home on the bank of the Chaobai River. This area is the villa area of the new upstart of the imperial capital, each villa has a large front and rear garden, a wide lawn, and you can see the sparkling Chaobai River at the door of your home.

This section of the river is groomed, the river is wide and the water is extremely clear. Some quaint artificial landscaping has been made on both sides of the river, and flat cycling roads have been paved along the river, and motor vehicles are not allowed. A two-meter-wide brick road is paved near the riverbank for morning joggers.

There are many people who know about the villas in this area, and very few people come in.

The security guard at the door looked at the dishes from the car, saw that I was coming by taxi, and deliberately ran over to the window to ask me to show my ID, I handed him the invitation, and he read it several times before letting the car in with a look of disbelief.

The driver said a little impatiently, and the dog looked down on people.

I didn't get angry, this is not the first time I have been treated like this, and I have long been surprised.

When I arrived, I realized what a high-profile person the chairman of Acre was. This is probably the largest building in the whole villa area, as soon as you enter the door, a smell of Renaissance will come to your face, all imitation European luxury decoration, mahogany carved solid wood sofas, all kinds of furniture with arabesque pattern decoration...... Nothing is beautiful.

I was welcomed in, and I saw it as soon as I entered the hall. In the center, a girl in her twenties stood like the stars holding the moon. She wore a champagne-colored gown, her hair was pulled up in a bun, and she wore a huge sapphire necklace around her neck. Her facial features are generous and dignified, her skin is fair, she is tall, and her temperament is a little different.

I stood on the periphery and watched everyone give gifts, and suddenly I felt a little shabby in the gifts I had prepared for a week.

The man who received me walked over and whispered a few words beside her, and she walked over with a smile from the crowd and said, "Are you Miss Lin Leyi?" ”

I can guess when I hear her ask, this is today's protagonist, Guo Mingming, the host of the birthday banquet, hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Miss Guo, I'm Lin Leyi." ”

She shook my hand without a hitch and said, "Oh, I've heard of you, thank you for coming." ”

I had long been prepared for her to be rude, and I was taken aback by her mildness and politeness. However, I quickly came back to my senses, handed over the painting tube in my hand and said, "I prepared it in a hurry, I don't know if you like it or not." ”

She opened the painttube and unfolded it, the expression on her face remained unchanged, and she nodded and said to me, "You have a heart, and you will know that I like this." ”

Guo Mingming said and handed it to the people around him and asked him to put it away, and after a few more greetings, he went to entertain other guests.

I breathed a sigh of relief, it didn't look like there was going to be anything big today, and I was ready to go as soon as the table opened. So I was bored and found a small sofa hidden by the window and sat down, looking through the glass at the Chaobai River at the end of the lawn.

"Obviously, I'm late." A bold and familiar voice sounded suddenly, making people look over.

I just glanced at it, and I felt that I had come to the wrong place today, and I should have pushed down Guo Mingming's invitation.

This woman wearing a red knee-length short dress, who heard the voice before anyone arrived, turned out to be Jia Yuhan. When I saw her, the first thing that came to my mind was that this circle was so small; The second thing that comes to mind is her fiery and flamboyant personality.

She and I have a narrow path, and if we meet here today, it will definitely not be good.

She messed up with Liu Tian's engagement banquet because of me. Not long after, it was revealed that there were scandals such as raising young models to take drugs and illegally flying cars, which can be said to be hilarious.

Maybe this account, with her character, will be counted on my head without missing a penny.

I don't want to clash with her head-on now, firstly, because I am pregnant with a child in my belly, and I am afraid of a mistake; The second is that after all, they started to do business officially, and they were embarrassed by the two of them when they got into trouble with her, which was not interesting.

I saw that she didn't look this way, and I was relieved to find a chance to leave.

Who knows if it will be good to die or not, when I walked to the door of the hall, Sun Bolian walked over, he was carrying a woman on his arm, the one who ran to our company last time to make trouble.

"Oops, what a coincidence!" Sun Bolian also happened to have a loud voice, and he attracted the attention of the hall with one sound.

He first smiled and greeted me: "Manager Lin, you came really early, didn't catch up with the traffic jam." ”

I can't leave, I really can't wait to use something to plug Sun Bolian's mouth. His wife was even more enthusiastic, stepped forward to hold my hand and said, "Manager Lin, I'm really sorry, the last time was a misunderstanding." Our grandson said that I had come to the door to apologize to you several times. I don't think I have the face to go, since I met it today, I must make amends to you. ”

I listened to the couple sing and sing, and for the first time I found polite people to be annoying.

"It's okay, since it's a misunderstanding, there's nothing worth saying." I said I wanted to bypass them and get out of here.

At this time, three more people walked in from outside the door, led by He Liancheng's first love Xue Ming, followed by her closest is her fiancé Qiao Wei, and a little farther away is Xue Xiangming, who is wearing a white suit and putting his hands in his pockets, with a graceful temperament.

This time, I definitely can't get out! I groaned inwardly.

"Le Yi, are you here?!" Xue Xiangming took a few steps over and stretched out his hand.

I shook his hand lightly with a smile and said, "Mr. Xue, hello." ”

After such a delay, there was a sound of footsteps behind me, and I knew who had come without looking back.

"Lin Leyi?" Jia Yuhan touched his chin, smiled all over his face, and asked word by word.

I didn't know how to say hello, and I made a half-smiling expression and looked at her.

Everyone present could see that the atmosphere was not right, and the cancellation of her engagement was in an uproar, although some people didn't know what was going on in between, but there was always rumor of it.

"I heard you're in business now?" Jia Yuhan was still smiling, but his eyes were scraping around me like a knife.

"Miss Jia is really well-informed." I laughed, and my tone was sarcastic. For such a woman, I don't even want to be false and wrong. Maybe it's really like He Liancheng said, I don't practice enough, so I can't hold my breath.

"Come in, everybody, it's tiring to stand here." Guo Mingming, the owner who has not made a sound, played a round.

At this time, the guests had already arrived one after another, and it was really not nice for us to stand in the way at the door.

Xue Xiangming walked past a few people and walked to me, looking at me with the afterglow of his eyes as he walked, and said, "I haven't seen you for a few months, why do you have a big belly?" ”

The two of us really haven't seen each other since I played him at the bar that day. I thought he would deliberately provoke as soon as we met, but I didn't expect to be able to say a few words to me normally, which surprised me.

"Are you really willing to be raised by He Liancheng as a second wife?" He asked in a low voice.

I feel that the noise in my ears is very loud, and I usually don't think that Xue Xiangming's words are so much. I ignored him and continued to walk inside, but I didn't dare to go too far from him.

Although Xue Xiangming is lustful and unreliable, every time he meets me, he is to get me into bed, but he is much stronger than Jia Yuhan, who is about to hurt people as soon as he makes a move. All he wants is sex, but what Jia Yuhan wants is life.

Across the crowd, I saw Jia Yuhan hand over an unexplained smile, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. If I had known in advance that she would be coming, I wouldn't have come here with 10 million in cash.

Xue Xiangming still asked in my ear: "Who is this in the stomach?" Liu Tian, or He Liancheng? He paused and said, "Oh, it's not mine anyway...... If I did get a woman pregnant, what would my father's reaction be? Happy, or crying......"

I listened to him turn into Tang Seng in an instant, and my eyes lit up. Scanning around, except for Xue Xiangming, who was familiar with me, only Sun Bolian remained. But Sun Bolian is only a senior manager of Acre, and he has no capital to compete with Jia Yuhan. Maybe I've been with Xue Xiangming all the time today, so I can walk out of this hall unscathed.

When I thought about it, I made up my mind. Completely ignoring what he had just said to me so a**, he showed him a light smile