Chapter 370: The Shares You Hold, Do You Intend To Sell Them?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“What are you talking about” Qi Chenglin said, looking down at her, his lips stuck to her forehead, so when he spoke, he rubbed his lips against her bright and smooth forehead. The rubbing felt unusually warm for her.
“I’ve never been troubled by your affairs.” Qi Chenglin said softly, his gentle whisper made her feel really safe.
Ruan Danchen sighed, breathing in the unique aroma of his body, she couldn’t get enough of it.
She knew the brand of his cologne, when she brought Qi Youxuan shopping once, she even went to look for it, but the smell on his body was slightly different from it.
She felt that the smell of Qi Chenglin’s body was nicer.
Ruan Danchen stood there quietly in Qi Chenglin’s arms, even though they didn’t speak, she still felt happy and content.
After a while, she heard Qi Chenglin speak, “let’s go and eat.”
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Qi Chenglin brought Ruan Danchen to Dynasty, the takeout in the office had gone cold, if it were reheated it just wouldn’t taste the same as if it were freshly made.
After lunch, Qi Chenglin insisted on sending her home to Prestige Residences, she would not work in the afternoon.
Having been provoked by Liu Ronghua that way in the afternoon, she felt terrible, and her eyes were swollen to the size of walnuts, how could Qi Chenglin feel at ease?
Ruan Danchen intended to continue working in the afternoon, but Qi Chenglin would not allow it, so she could only let him send her home.
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The next day, Ruan Danchen returned to work.
When she arrived at the office, she walked towards her seat. When she passed by Yao Jingfei, Ruan Danchen heard her snort coldly, “you really think you’re a big deal, you’ve just started here for 2 days and then you apply for leave.”
Ruan Danchen didn’t look at her, and just took her seat.
It was unclear if Manager Zou had been keeping an eye out for her, she had just taken her seat and turned on her computer when he shot out, and asked, “Danchen, are you feeling better?”
“Much better, I’m really sorry, I just joined and then had to ask for time off, and troubled everybody,” Ruan Danchen replied very politely.
“No problem, no problem, in any case you haven’t had much on your plate.” Manager Zou waved his hand, beckoning to Yao Jingfei a few tables away, “Xiao Yao, there’s some honey lemon that we just bought in the pantry, go and make some for Danchen.”
“…” Yao Jingfei stood unhappily, and wanted to snap back.
Ruan Danchen was worried Manager Zou was being too obvious, and stood, “it’s fine, I’ll make it myself.”
If she really let Yao Jingfei make it for her, she was also worried that Yao Jingfei would secretly add something in it.
Without waiting for Manager Zou to stop her, she rushed to the pantry, and made the honey lemon for herself before returning.
When she returned to the design department, she saw Mu Huaisheng in the office, standing next to Manager Zou, who was gesturing, inviting Mu Huaisheng into his office.
Mu Huaisheng saw Ruan Danchen out of the corner of his eye, turned and smiled, “Ms Ruan.”
Ruan Danchen was slightly surprised, but steadied herself and nodded, “Mr Mu.”
“Manager Zou, previously Ms Ruan designed for MU. company, and for this branch, I want the style to be uniform, so I’d like Ms Ruan to handle it.” Mu Huaisheng spoke blunty, and didn’t walk into Manager Zou’s office with him.
Manager Zou was a perceptive person, and in the course of doing business he’s met all sorts of clients, ever since Mu Huaisheng could recognize Ruan Danchen from a glance, and his words now, Manager Zou knew Mu Huaisheng was gunning for Ruan Danchen.
From Mu Huasheng and Ruan Danchen’s reactions, it seemed the Managing Director’s love rival had come.
While Mu Huaisheng wasn’t watching, Manager Zou frantically sent a message to Jiang Yuan.
Seconds later, he received a reply from Jiang Yuan, telling him to keep Mu Huaisheng there.
Obviously, the Managing Director did not wish Ruan Danchen to accept the job.
As soon as Manager Zou understood, he chuckled, “Director Mu, Ruan Danchen just joined us, and still isn’t too familiar with the job, if you are able to trust us, why don’t we hand this to someone else in our design department?”
“Ms Ruan isn’t an inexperienced designer, what else does she need to familiarize herself with?” Mu Huaisheng asked back.
At that moment, Jiang Yuan rushed into the office, Ruan Danchen could see his breathing was still unsteady, how did he run all the way here?
“Ms Ruan, there’s still a bit of paperwork to sort out that we didn’t finish yesterday, could you please follow me upstairs.” Jiang Yuan straightened his tie, his face dead serious.
Ruan Danchen gave Mu Huaisheng an apologetic look, “excuse me.”
She then left with Jiang Yuan.
Mu Huaisheng smiled, and didn’t insist, he was just here to test the waters, he knew Ruan Danchen wouldn’t agree, and so he allowed Manager Zou to introduce him to someone else.
Mu Huaisheng simply left the means to contact his assistant Chen Zhengming, so that she could liaise directly with Chen Zhengming, and left.
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Ruan Danchen came up to Qi Chenglin’s office, what documents were there, instead there was freshly brewed tea, Dim Sum and cakes on the coffee table.
Looking at Qi Chenglin, he had his head buried in documents.
Seeing her come in, he lifted his head, his face, which was normally cold at work, warmed slightly.
He smiled at her, “nothing important, just take a seat and have something, take a break, go back down when Mu Huaisheng has left.”
Ruan Danchen was silent.
This man did not cover up his intentions at all.
Ruan Danchen sat there with nothing to do, and she couldn’t keep eating, so she sipped some tea, and took in Qi Chenglin’s office.
There really wasn’t much to look at, after she looked around, she gradually observed Qi Chenglin’s behavior at work. When he was not looking at her, his face was stern and serious.
Ruan Danchen thought of a common saying, that a man was at his most attractive when he was working wholeheartedly.
The saying had been repeated endlessly, but it was true.
His suit was on a hanger, and he only wore a shirt, the sleeves unbuttoned and rolled up to his elbows, and it seemed untidy, it was obvious he had rolled his sleeves impatiently.
His upper arms leaned on the table, his elbows curled, making his biceps seem even firmer, and they looked better than usual.
Ruan Danchen thought, when a man was dressed up like that, it was particularly sexy.
Without realizing it, Ruan Danchen was looking at him directly, in a moment she was staring, forgetting everything, to the point that she didn’t even realize that Qi Chenglin had raised his head to look at her.
Qi Chengling raised his eyebrows, he didn’t realize it while he was focused on his work, but he suddenly felt her prickling gaze that he could not ignore, and so he looked up.
Therefore he saw Ruan Danchen looking at him directly, even her gaze was direct, she didn’t even look away after ten minutes.
Qi Chenglin smiled, he couldn’t work with her looking at him like this, he may as well just look back, and see when she would realize.
Finally, after 5 minutes, Ruan Danchen finally realized that Qi Chenglin had looked up at an unknown time, and was smiling at her. A pair of black irises, slightly curved, warm and welcoming. His hot lips were curved attractively, he was almost too good looking to be real.
Ruan Danchen blinked, and blushed slightly.
“You were bedazzled looking at me?” Qi Chenglin arched his eyebrows slightly, the curve of his mouth looked like they were mocking her.
Ruan Danchen’s face turned crimson as she looked away, without speaking, and took a bite of the handmade biscuit in her plate.
“You’re not biting me, you don’t need to use that much force.” Qi Chenglin said in half jest.
“…” Ruan Danchen nearly dropped her biscuit, “you’ve finished your work?”
“I couldn’t work with you looking at me like that.” Qi Chenglin even pushed away the papers.
Ruan Danchen couldn’t take it, and stood, “then I’m going back down.”
“Mu Huaisheng hasn’t left yet, why the rush?” Qi Chengling said.
Based on his facial expression, he thought that she was eager to see Mu Huaisheng. He was rather petty.
“How would you know?” Ruan Danchen asked.
“I told Manager Zou to inform me when Mu Huaisheng has left.” Qi Chenglin said bluntly.
Ruan Danchen did not reply.
The meaning behind his words were, as long as there was no news from Manager Zou, she could not leave.
She was just about to take a seat, when there were three knocks on the door, and Jiang Yuan walked in, with Manager Wang from the sales department behind him.
As soon as Manager Wang saw Ruan Danchen, he stopped in his tracks, before speaking respectfully, “Ms Ruan.”
Even though she knew that all the middle level executives knew of her status, Ruan Danchen still felt very uncomfortable, and acknowledged with a blush, saying, “I should leave, you have work.”
“It’s fine, you can stay here. No need to hide.” Qi Chenglin said, and took up the laptop that he usually used to work at home, handing it to Ruan Danchen. “If you get bored, play some games or surf the net.”
His office had WiFi access, and was very convenient.
Manager Wang’s heart beat hard as he looked on.
This was the laptop that the Managing Director usually used for work, and contained untold amounts of confidential and important documents. To throw it like a toy to Ruan Danchen to use freely, he treated her better than his own son.
When Qi Youxuan was on his summer break one year, no one could look after him despite the amount of people in the Qi Family.
At the time Grandmother Qi had brought Xia Wenna and Guan Liya on vacation to America, Qi Zhongliang and Qi Zhongxun had work, and Grandfather Qi was spending his days playing chess in the park. Aunt Liu and Aunt Yang were on vacation as well. Aunt Zheng’s father was ill and was admitted to the hospital, and she had to look after him, so she applied for leave as well.
Without any alternatives, Qi Chenglin had to bring Qi Youxuan to work.
Manager Wang at the time had come to deliver a work report, and saw Qi Youxuan bored out of his mind, but Qi Chenglin would not give the child his laptop to play with. Without any choice, he had to ask Jiang Yuan to go and get an Early Education Device to appease Qi Youxuan.
Despite accounting for the fact that a child may not know what he is doing and mess with the files on the computer, the difference between the way Qi Chenglin treated Ruan Danchen and Qi Youxuan was still large. Just on the basis that there are so many critical files on the laptop, and he gave it to Ruan Danchen without a second thought, meant that Manager Wang could not take Ruan Danchen lightly!
Inevitably, Ruan Danchen’s importance in Manager Wang’s mind grew exponentially.
Manager Wang told himself that this incident could not be told to others, to prevent them from currying favor with Ruan Danchen. In the future he would take good care of the Managing Director’s wife, and prevent the Managing Director from suffering any embarrassment, he would climb up no matter the difficulty!
Ruan Danchen took the laptop that Qi Chenglin passed to her with a look of embarrassment, and sat back down, placing the laptop on her lap, surfing the web while she ate and sipped her tea, never looking at the documents.
Manager Wang discussed business with Qi Chenglin, but Ruan Danchen did not make any attempt to listen in, but the discussion wasn’t long, Manager Wang was just here to deliver a report, and left the office after a short while.
Manager Wang had just left, when Jiang Yuan stood at the door, saying, “Managing Director, Director Yao wishes to speak to you.”
Qi Chenglin looked over at him blankly, seeing Yao Qingzhi standing behind Jiang Yuan, looking as though he’d barge even if Qi Chenglin didn’t let him in.
Qi Chenglin nodded, and Jiang Yuan let Yao Qingzhi enter the office.
In truth Yao Qingzhi had arrived a while ago, but Jiang Yuan had used the excuse that the Managing Director was having a meeting with Manager Wang to keep him outside. Yao Qingzhi didn’t insist, and just waited outside.
After a while, when he saw Manager Wang left, Yao Qingzhi wanted to go in, but was held back by Jiang Yuan again, because Ruan Danchen was still inside.
When Qi Chenglin nodded his head, Jiang Yuan intentionally looked at Ruan Danchen, who was still surfing the web.
While Qi Chenglin and Manager Wang were having their discussion, Ruan Danchen had nothing to do, and didn’t dare to watch a drama for fear of disturbing them, and was browsing some entertainment news.
Yao Qingzhi walked in, and furrowed his brows when he saw Ruan Danchen, “why are you here?”
He had asked in a very impolite manner.
Ruan Danchen at that moment did not know what to say in reply, but Qi Chenglin stepped in, “that property in the northern district, with regards to matters of design, I asked her to come and help me arrange the documents, and transcribe my words.”
Ruan Danchen kept quiet.
Regardless of whether Yao Qingzhi could see, she quickly closed the webpage and opened up Word.
Yao Qingzhi looked at the delicacies in front of Ruan Danchen, and wondered when the employees of Qilin were treated that well, that they were not only able to sit in the Managing Director’s office, but also snack while they work?
There was still a half eaten cookie on the plate.
This was because when she heard that Yao Qingzhi wanted to come in, Ruan Danchen had put the biscuit back onto the plate.
Before Yao Qingzhi had time to think about it any more, Qi Chenglin asked bluntly, “why are you looking for me?”
He had to make a request, and so Yao Qingzhi’s face warmed slightly, “it’s like this, that property in the northern district, we’re handing it to our own design department to handle, and I hear we’re choosing three people?”
Qi Chenglin raised his brows, but didn’t reply, making Yao Qingzhi feel awkward.
It felt like if he did not open his mouth, Qi Chenglin had no intention of doing so as well, Yao Qingzhi cleared his throat awkwardly, saying, “what I mean to say is, could we give Jingfei a chance, and pick her as one of the three?”
“Who?” Qi Chenglin asked, looking as though he had never heard of the name.
“…” Yao Qingzhi’s face hardened a little, “Jingfei, Yao Jingfei, my daughter.”
“Oh…” Qi Chenglin looked as though he had just realized, exaggerating his reaction of realization, “if I remember correctly, your daughter is only an assistant designer? What has she got to do with the interior design of our property in the northern district?”
“…” Yao Qingzhi’s face seemed uncomfortable, “even though she’s temporarily an assistant designer, she’s still a graduate from a good school, even if she can’t make designs on her own, it would be good to let her try and gain some experience. So I was thinking, next Friday when we pick the three members of the team, can Jingfei be one of them?”
Qi Chengzhi’s 1 mouth curled in contempt, as though he could not tell what Yao Qingzhi wanted.
Regardless of his engagement with Shen Zhijing that year, or after the engagement was called off, even with him already having Qi Youxuan, he couldn’t stop some people from relentlessly pushing their daughters and granddaughters to him.
This Yao Qingzhi, intended to use this Friday’s site visit as an opportunity for Yao Jingfei to interact with Qi Chenglin up close.
Especially since in the company, Qi Chenglin and Yao Jingfei were oceans apart in rank, regardless of the situation there wouldn’t be much opportunity for them to interact. It was rare that he would show up personally, and Yao Qingzhi thought this was a golden opportunity.
“Director Yao, even though you’re a director of the company, but you always approach me for backdoor opportunities, isn’t it improper for you to interfere with my decisions?” Qi Chenglin said bluntly, just hold on to those measly shares in your hand, sit down and take your dividends, don’t come and meddle, you don’t have that right.
“We agreed on three designers, and to just freely allow an assistant designer to take a spot, isn’t that a waste of a position? It’s unfair to the other designers. Even if she goes, she can’t make any designs, it adds on the workload of the other two for nothing. Again, if she just goes to the site to look around, what can she learn? Why doesn’t she just stay in the office, surrounded by designers, isn’t that enough for her to learn? If she really thinks that it’s humiliating to be a designer’s assistant, it’s fine, she can go to another company and do well, just relying on you, Director Yao, it won’t be a problem.”
Yao Qingzhi pursed his lips and didn’t reply, hearing Qi Chenglin continue, “Director Yao, you know that me and my brother hate those who use back channels, and interfere with our decision making.”
“…” Yao Qingzhi thought unhappily, did your brother rarely use back channels?
For Song Yu, no one knew how many times he used them.
“The shares you hold, do you intend to sell them?” Qi Chenglin asked coldly.
Yao Qingzhi was stunned, and when he looked at the fury on Qi Chenglin’s face, he knew that Qi Chenglin was angered. Truthfully he was aware that these past few days he had been coming here to ask for favors a bit too much.
Under Qi Chenglin’s cold gaze, Yao Qingzhi shivered all over, his mind clearing up slightly as well, understanding his position. He was only a minor shareholder in Qilin, he really didn’t have any standing to talk.
Before Yao Jingfei came, he didn’t concern himself much, so he never felt that he had grown arrogant from the courtesy and respect he had been afforded by others. When Yao Jingfei arrived, to ensure his daughter would do well in the company, he had gone a bit too far in his endeavors.
He knew that if he pushed thing any further, there was no telling what methods Qi Chenglin would use, to force him to remove the shares in Yao Jingfei’s hand.
“I understand. I will not interfere in the future.” Yao Jingfei said sullenly.
Qi Chenglin did not react, his gaze still cold, looking at Yao Qingzhi until he wavered, and without thinking about Ruan Danchen, he left with a simple “I’ll take my leave.”
Qi Chenglin smiled, and it was Ruan Danchen who felt uncomfortable.
Despite Qi Chenglin’s previous talk about integrity, after he finished he still bent the rules for Ruan Danchen.
Yao Qingzhi had just left, when Jiang Yuan knocked and entered, “Managing Director, Ms Ruan, Mu Huaisheng has left.”
Ruan Danchen had also sat around for too long, bored, and her co-workers in the design department downstairs were all busy, and she was here snacking and surfing the web, she couldn’t take it anymore, and hurried downstairs.
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On Sunday, as agreed upon with Song Yu, Qi Chenglin and Ruan Danchen brought Qi Youxuan to Viewpark Residence.
Because Qi Chengyue and Cheng Dongge had bought a new house nearby Viewpark Residence, and so the distance was closer, they arrived first.
When Qi Chenglin and Ruan Danchen arrived, Qi Chengyue was sitting next to Song Yu, holding a thick photo album in his lap.
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“Regarding the Question of Nicknames 05”
Grandmother Qi: “Chengzhi isn’t suitable? If I don’t call it I don’t feel at ease, if we can’t call Chengzhi then call Chenglin.”
“…” Guan Liya smiled, “that’s not good too, Zonggui is Chengzhi’s nickname, what are we to do if we mix it up, why don’t we call Chenglin ‘Linlin’?”
Grandmother Qi: “That’s fine too, Linlin sounds cute, like a girl. If that’s the case, I should buy a few girl’s clothes for Chenglin, suitable for his nickname.”
Guan Liya: “…”
Therefore, before Qi Chenglin was able to understand anything, occasionally Grandmother Qi would make him wear girl’s clothes, and call him “Linlin!”
