Shen Qi followed Ye Moxuan into the meeting room, feeling that she was being wronged.
Ye Linhan was also among the crowd. When he saw Shen Qi, he flashed her a gentle and kind smile. Although Shen Qi was in a bad mood, she couldn’t resist his warm smile that was like a spring breeze, making her feel less annoyed as she returned him a smile.
Such interactions naturally didn’t escape Ye Moxuan’s eyes.
At that point, his icy aura had increased tenfold.
Upon arriving, Han Qing and Su Jiu were greeted personally by Ye Linhan, the vice president. When Shen Qi saw Ye Linhan, she could also see Han Qing and Su Jiu sitting beside him.
Just like yesterday, Han Qing sat there coldly as if he didn’t notice anyone.
He was looking at the documents in front of him until he seemed to feel that Shen Qi was looking at him. Then, he raised his head and met her gaze, giving her a light nod as his form of greeting.
Shen Qi nodded back at both Su Jiu and him as well.
At that moment, the cold aura emanating from Ye Moxuan had a hint of hostility.
Pfft, what a popular woman.
She must be so proud that people greet her wherever she goes.
After sitting down, Ye Moxuan’s slender fingertips tapped on the table gently. “Coffee.”
Shen Qi nodded. “I’ll go prepare now.”
With that, she went out of the meeting room to prepare coffee for everyone in the room without anyone to help her. To be honest, everything felt more difficult for her.
By the time she entered the meeting room with a large tray of coffee, the meeting had already begun—someone was giving a speech, so Shen Qi could not make any noise. She gently put a cup of coffee in front of the directors, shareholders, and managers.
Seeing that she was having a hard time, Ye Linhan helped her support the tray when she came over. Shen Qi shot him a grateful look and went over to deliver a cup of coffee to Han Qing.
Han Qing looked at that pair of fair hands with slender fingers, each looking like white jade.
In his memory, when he was very young, his mother also had such hands when she flipped the book in front of him page by page, telling him various stories relentlessly.
Finally, he remembered that her hands caressed his head as she said gently, “Han Qing, if you have a chance to reunite with your sister, you must treat her well.”
After her death, Han Qing lived and worked hard to achieve this life goal.
Two years ago, he had finally found the sister who had been separated since childhood, but he still felt quite empty, thinking that he still had not fulfilled his mother’s expectations.
Shen Qi’s appearance had enlarged the emptiness in his heart even more because she resembled the figure in his memories, be it intentionally or unintentionally, almost giving him an illusion that she was the sister he had been looking for.
After this meeting was over, he made a mental note to ask Su Jiu to look up Shen Qi’s background.
Su Jiu looked at Shen Qi in amazement, surprised to see that she had to do so much work by herself. After looking at Ye Moxuan’s gaze, Su Jiu recalled what happened in the restaurant yesterday.
Then, she thought, Men are ruthless creatures indeed!
Creak!
When Shen Qi came in with another tray full of coffee for the second time, Ye Linhan couldn’t stand it anymore. Just when he was going to get up to help her, Han Qing suddenly shot a look at the person beside him.
Su Jiu had worked for Han Qing for many years, so she soon understood his intentions and got up before Ye Linhan did to help Shen Qi with the coffee tray. She whispered, “Let me help you.”
Shen Qi looked at her blankly. “Th-Thank you.”
After that, Su Jiu and Shen Qi worked together to serve coffee to everyone. When she arrived in front of Ye Moxuan, he suddenly sneered, “President Han’s secretary is really understanding.”
His sudden comment interrupted the ongoing meeting.
A surprise look flitted across everyone’s faces, but no one realized what was going on.
Han Qing looked at him icily and said in a stony voice, “It seems like your company has insufficient manpower? I wonder whether Ye Group can keep up with Han Group if we collaborate.”
Ye Moxuan snorted coldly. “As the top business group in North City, we have always been focused on quality, not quantity.”
When Shen Qi listened to their conversation, she couldn’t help but frown slightly.
There he goes again, she thought. Ye Moxuan was really unforgiving. He obviously wanted to collaborate with Han Group, but he still retaliated. Can’t he keep his comments to himself?
Shen Qi didn’t know what was going on with her either. Even though she had already been humiliated by Ye Moxuan, she was still trying to help Ye Group.
Maybe it’s because I’m working here, she thought.
Even though everyone was slow to catch up, they could also tell what was going on now, and they felt quite strange that such an incident happened in the middle of the meeting.
Is President Han going to fight with Young Master Ye? What for?
“Is that so? Well, your company will have a lot to show me then.”
The meeting had ended early, but what was surprising was that they managed to seal a deal to collaborate with each other. Neither Ye Moxuan nor Han Qing looked awkward because of the exchange just now, and both of them even shook hands when signing the contract.
When the meeting ended, Shen Qi heard several people from the executive level talking. “President Han and President Ye are really terrifying. They were still able to sign the contract indifferently after that heated exchange. I thought the collaboration would not be happening anymore.”
“It’s quite impossible. Although President Ye is disabled, he is very clear-minded. He knows what kind of business opportunities should be seized. And looking at Han Qing, you can tell that he is a young man who knows exactly what he is doing. Fortunately, he is able to make a distinction between business and personal matters.”
When Han Qing and Su Jiu left, she couldn’t help but voice out her concerns. “President Han, you shouldn’t stand up for Miss Shen today.”
Hearing that, Han Qing frowned slightly.
Su Jiu continued, “The two of them probably had some disagreements before. President Han, you used to be very calm, why—”
However, before Su Jiu could finish her sentence, she heard Han Qing command her coldly. “Su Jiu, find out everything about Shen Qi.”
She was stunned to hear that.
“Be quick,” Han Qing said again.
Su Jiu finally came to her senses. “Okay, noted.”
She felt very puzzled. This was the first time Han Qing showed interest in a woman. Could it be that he had fallen in love with Shen Qi? But there was nothing special about her. Well, it was true that she was pretty and slim, and her eyes, especially, had a cool aura that exuded elegance.
But even so, that shouldn’t make President Han make such a faux pas.
What’s the reason then?
Seeing that everyone was gone, Shen Qi was also preparing to leave. However, Xiao Su caught up to her and said, “Assistant Shen, Young Master Ye has asked you to clean up all the coffee mugs here.”
Hearing that, Shen Qi had to go back to the meeting room and quietly collect the mugs on the table.
Meanwhile, Ye Linhan was the last to leave. When he saw that she was busy, he put down his pen and walked over to help her.
“Why didn’t Moxuan ask someone to help you?”
“Uh…” Shen Qi took two steps backward. “Hello, Vice President Ye.”
She remembered Ye Moxuan asking her to keep her distance from Ye Linhan.
