Epiphanies of Rebirth Chapter 59 (Part 2)
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Chapter 59.2 "It's okay, your opinions won’t supersede my decision."
After Xiao Chi dismissed their morning meeting, while making his way to his office, Hu Shaofeng continued to complained——
"Brother Xiao, you should have seen their faces! Their f*cking tails seemed to be raised to the sky! What the hell!"
Xiao Chi’s expression remained passive."Call Dai Gaofeng and tell him that we have something to do to not attend the alliance meeting."
Hu Shaofeng was complaining about this quarterly gathering of Yan City’s Real Estate Alliance. This meeting was considered a warm-up exercise before each regular meeting. Outsiders can be brought to this gathering. This time, Shi Nanxing, who attended the gathering on behalf of Dominion Properties, directly brought Qi Qing and his wife to the party. These two companies were always quarreling, but recently they have suddenly become closer to each other. As if they were suddenly seeing eye to eye, it’s hard to say what they were plotting.
Hu Shaofeng remembered that Xiao Chi didn't like Qi Qing. Although he didn't know why, he had always stood on the same side as his Brother Xiao unconditionally.
Shi Nanxing didn't dare to come and say anything to Xiao Chi, but he talked a bunch of nonsense to Hu Shaofeng in private. Using his status as an elder, Shi Nanxing pretentiously tried to persuade him. Something about ‘harmony is to be prized’ and not to ‘ let emotions affect one's decisions.’ The more Hu Shaofeng listened, the more furious he became.
You’re but just a little uncle in Qi Kai's family. Everyone would call you this in accordance with their seniority, but do you think anyone takes you f*cking seriously?
After his outburst, Hu Shaofeng regained his senses and started to worry, "By the way, Brother Xiao, I heard that Dominion Properties directly transferred the development rights for the plot of land at the foot of Wubao Mountain to Qiqing Real Estate. Qi Qing took this land and took a 90 million yuan collateral, and they have been smug and showing it off recently. I heard he plans to use that land and develop high-end villa communities there. There’s so much hype from Qiqing, I think they will try to compete with our line of work."
Since its first real estate project, Flux Realty has been engaged in high-end residential real estate. There has never been a competitor in Yan City until now. But Xiao Chi didn’t seem to panic at his words. He just snorted meaningfully, "Really?"
Hu Shaofeng had never been able to figure out Xiao Chi’s thoughts, so he only expressed his worries, "Although the land in Wubao Mountain is remote, it is said that its feng shui is pretty good. With mountains on one side and water on the other and the scenery is picturesque. If they really go there and do a sincere job, the completion of the final project may have an impact on our Garden Villa project in the north district of the city."
"Feng shui?" Hu Shaofeng anxiously said so much, but Xiao Chi seemed to only hear these two words. While reiterating his words, the mild smile on Xiao Chi’s face widened by a small margin. "I’ve visited there before. With a body of water in the front, representing a prosperous dragon spirit. The feng shui there is indeed really good."
It's a pity it was flourishing with ‘yin’ feng shui. No matter how good the terrain was, it’s all in vain.
Xiao Chi practiced Buddhism and understood this aspect, but Hu Shaofeng did not. Therefore, he became more and more worried. He just made up his mind to keep an eye on the design project of the Garden Villa in the north district. It must be close to perfect and become another representative project of high-end real estate in Yan City.
While he was still contemplating, the brick phone on his waist rang. When Hu Shaofeng picked it up, he immediately raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Chi.
"Okay, okay, I understand. You must receive them with courtesy." After he finished giving the instructions, Hu Shaofeng hung up the line with a confused expression on his face, "Brother Xiao, the person at the front desk said... Aunt Yu brought Xiao Miao over."
Xiao Chi: "???"
His company was independent from his family. They had never been involved in it since it was founded, let alone a direct visitation. Was it an emergency? Xiao Chi took out his phone to take a look and then confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it. There should be no problem of not being able to just contact him.
Then why the hell did his mother and his younger sister come to the company directly?
How strange…
When Xiao Chi and Hu Shaofeng made their way into the reception room, Mother Xiao, Yu Shuyuan, was making eye contact with her daughter, Xiao Miao.
The receptionists at the front desk were very warm to the relatives of the two bosses. She eagerly brought them tea, and wanted to stay to entertain them, but was politely sent away by Mother Xiao with a smile.
Xiao Miao did not communicate with the others other than a polite greeting. After the door of the reception room closed, she immediately regained her spirits. She sat up straight and moved closer to her mother. "Mom! Do you think it's her?"
The front desk employees of Flux Realty were all very beautiful, especially the one who quietly squeezed away all the colleagues to entertain their mother and daughter. She was tall, with a slender figure, and a very good-looking face. Along the way, she was gentle, charming, and every pore of her body extruded femininity. Xiao Miao felt it was very likely. It has to be her!
Mother Xiao shook her head. Probably not.
According to Xiao Chi's description, the other party should only be a sophomore college student. This indicated a younger age, the one just now looked almost thirty.
Xiao Chi's appointment for their family dinner was next month, which was a few days from now. Mother Xiao inquired many ways, but failed to make any progress. The younger people who were close to Xiao Chi refused to disclose any news, even the elders who had business contacts like Dai Gaofeng kept silent. The more she thought about it, the more Mother Xiao felt that something was wrong. Her heart became more and more anxious, full of fear for the future daughter-in-law who was about to confront her face to face.
At her wit's end, Mother Xiao could only go to Xiao Chi’s company directly. She knew this was not a good idea, but she was also helpless.
The moment the door of the reception room was pushed open, the excited Xiao Miao turned expressionless as she leaned back to an upright sitting position. Mother Xiao turned her gaze to her son and Hu Shaofeng who came in hastily from the door, her calm and reserved eyes scrutinized the crowd following behind them.
There were only two women, but neither of them seemed to fit the bill.
Xiao Chi's stern eyes flicked across the tan-colored coat on his sister and his complexion immediately changed. He frowned slightly and asked his mother, "Mom, why did you come to the company today?"
He turned to Xiao Miao and said, "Take off your coat, aren’t you warm with that one?"
Mother Xiao behaved extremely dignified in front of people. Her loving eyes fell on her son's face, "Nothing important. I just happened to be free today, so I came to see you."
Xiao Chi's head was full of question marks. He just came home for dinner yesterday. At the dinner table, his mother was absent-minded and lost in thought. Why didn't she look at him at that time?
When he turned his eyes to his sister, Xiao Miao's expression remained indifferent, "I'm just accompanying mom."
These two people were really inexplicable but Xiao Chi was too lazy to bother with them. At this moment an assistant came up to him and whispered in his ear, "Mr. Xiao, Mr. Lin is here."
He immediately left his biological mother and sister behind, turned, and left: "Then you both play by yourselves. I still have some business to deal with."
Mother Xiao's expression froze, she didn't expect her son to be so shameless. She hurriedly chased after him, and when she reached the door, she happened to see a young man walking in with a group of followers. Xiao Chi, who refused to talk to them, had already appeared beside the young man very quickly, and was talking to him with a smile.
With a smile...
Mother Xiao was shocked to see her son walking past her without giving her a second look. She was feeling extremely inconceivable.
She turned to Hu Shaofeng who was still standing by the door, unavoidably curious, "This young man is...?"
This should just be a very common inquiry.
But when Hu Shaofeng heard it, his face suddenly changed drastically. He didn't even dare to meet her eyes, and hurriedly chased in the direction where the crowd left.
Mother Xiao was befuddled. Who is that person? How was he able to cause Hu Shaofeng and her over-the-top son to be so cautious and fearful?
After Hu Shaofeng ran away, she asked one of the company receptionists, "Who is that young man who just now?"
The receptionist did not hide anything and replied with a smile, "That is Mr. Lin Jingzhe, head of New Beginnings Real Estate. Our company is cooperating with them now. You should have heard of it, right? It’s the office building that’s currently being built on 2nd Middle Road. This project is a high priority in our company. Mr. Lin has been coming by often recently, it must be something important about their cooperation."
"New Beginnings Real Estate?" Because her son was engaged in real estate, Mother Xiao had really heard the name of this company. She couldn't help but be surprised, "That Mr. Lin the person in charge of that company? He looks very young! He should only be in his twenties?"
"Yeah, I heard that he just turned 20 and is a sophomore at Yan University. He's younger than our boss Mr. Xiao." Lin Jingzhe was good looking, with youth and wealth, and was a company cooperating with theirs. Because he often visited Flux Realty, all the female employees could not remain indifferent. There were a lot of discussions in private, and at this time the receptionist continued to small talk, "Don't be fooled by his gentle demeanor, he is a powerful person. I heard that he started New Beginnings Real Estate completely from scratch, and made his first profit using financial leverage. He made a killing of 100 million yuan! It’s now a big legend in Yan City’s real estate circle."
Mother Xiao was getting old and with children of the right age at home. She loved to listen to stories about young talents, so she couldn't help but nod in admiration. "What a powerful young man."
She turned her head and looked at her daughter who was leaning against the door frame without an expression on her face. After sending the receptionist away, Mother Xiao asked her, "Did you see him?"
Without the presence of outsiders, a smile appeared on Xiao Miao's face. She took off her coat and smiled like a rogue rabbit, "I saw! He’s so handsome!"
Mother Xiao lightly tapped her daughter's forehead. Still a little worried about her son, she persuaded her daughter earnestly, "If you can find such a partner in the future, then I wouldn’t have to worry about anything."
Xiao Miao felt that her mother was overthinking. "Brother is so powerful, what do you have to worry about? I think my brother has such a good eye, so he won't find someone who is too bad. Look at the new clothes his girlfriend bought for me."
Mother Xiao has been disturbed by her wild thoughts. Seeing her daughter fondly touching the fabric of her coat, she immediately became worried— She successfully changed her thoughts with a single piece of clothes! An adept schemer!
Thinking of this, Mother Xiao couldn't sit still anymore. She wandered out of the lounge with her daughter, looking at all the women she could see, hoping to find that suspicious target.
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