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CHAPTER 111

Ring! Ring!

"Hello?" Hao Huizhong picked the call and his voice sounded surprised rather than normal. "Ye Cheng?"

"Hello, Huizhong."

"Hi. You called."

"Yes. There is someone who is in my office right now that you would love to see and I know would love to see you too."

"Really?" He feigned ignorance as though he did not know what Ye Cheng was talking about or who he was talking about as the case may be.

"Yes."

"Who?"

"Bai Qing Mei."

Ye Cheng waited to hear his response and see how he would react upon hearing the news. Since her arrival, he doubted something and wanted to check it out.

"She is around?"

"Hmm?"

"I mean, alive? Don't joke with me, Ye Cheng. You said it yourself. You said she was dead, so how can she now be alive and with you?"

"It is a miracle. She survived the incident and is perfectly fine. If you think I am lying then listen."

He gestured for her to speak and she smiled before leaning forward on the desk to speak.

"Hello, Huizhong. It's been a while."

"Qing Mei! Mei Mei, is that really you?"

"Of course, who else would it be? Hahaha…" she let out a soft chuckle at his stupefied question. " I would come and see you before I leave, is that okay?"

"Sure, sure. I have a lot of questions to ask you. For now, enjoy your time with your boyfriend, let me not disturb."

"That is why I like you. You are so supportive."

"And that is enough you two. You can continue your sweet talk when you meet. Bye," Ye Cheng said before cutting the call and putting his phone down.

Bai Qing Mei pouted her lips at him and folded her arms in front of her chest.

"If you miss him so much, then go to him you can continue from where you left off."

"I would see him later, for now, I want to stay with you."

"Okay. I would have offered you a drink, but I would be having an important meeting in three minutes."

"Oh come on! Just clear up your schedule and stay with me, please."

"Qing Mei, we have so much time now that you are back. We would meet again. Please pardon me. I would make it up to you."

"Okay but you live in five minutes. I still need to enjoy you cradling me in your arms before I go."

"Okay, five minutes."

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When it was time, Li Jing told her assistant to clear her schedule and went to the location Mr Kang sent her.

On getting there, she was simply amazed by how extravagant the restaurant was and without a second thought, she knew this was a restaurant for the rich.

The doors opened and she walked in only to meet a waiter by the door. "Good afternoon, ma'am."

"Good afternoon."

"Are you Miss Li?"

"Yes."

"Mr Kang is waiting for you. This way please."

"Thank you."

Together, Li Jing and the waiter went upstairs to the second floor, another class totally different from the down floor for extremely important individuals.

Soon they were by his table and the waiter bowed lightly to him and left.

"Welcome, Li Jing. It is a pleasure to have officially met you." Mr Kang extended his hand for a shake and she too it.

"Thank you, sir."

"Please, have your seat." He stretched his hands towards the seat opposite him for her to sit down and he did.

"Oh, you came with your laptop. Good. Umm, let us have lunch first. I like to work on a full tummy." He chuckled at his joke, showing his white set of teeth.

For a man his age, having such clean teeth, Li Jing nodded in her mind. He really was one of a kind.

"Do not mind me. I was kidding, still, it helps to have something in your stomach for you to think well."

"It does indeed."

"I am glad you agree. Waiter." He called on a standby waiter and the young man immediately walked over.

"Please, send in my order."

"Table 8, noted sir."

"You would like the meal, their cooking is exceptional here."

"I am sure I would."

It was now that Li Jing took her time in admiring the beauty of the second floor.

Even though she had not had enough time to check out the down floor, but from the interior design, curtains, decorations and portraits which were top-notch, she could tell that it was totally different from the first.

Soon their meal arrived and they ate, after which the table was cleared and Li Jing brought out her laptop to show him the slides.

All through her explanations, Li Jing could see an untold joy register on Mr Kang's face as he watched her pitch her ideas.

He had intended on giving her suggestions on things to add as he noticed they were missing from her scattered slides back then but after seeing the real deal, the main piece, he just could not say anything anymore.

This was so because all these suggestions were present in this Li Jing's slide. She had failed to include them before in the first slide she sent to Li Xiu as she thought it would make it too much and her sister might complain.

Nevertheless, after Li Xiu rejected the slides, she had added the other ideas and made a more comprehensive and better slide than before.

What a loss for Li Xiu who had chosen that time to kick her sister out of her family's house, company and lives.

"This is simply perfect," Mr Kang said after she finished and gave her a round of applause, not caring if he disturbed the other customers who were having their own swell time.

She felt shy when people started looking at them and lowered her gaze to her laptop screen.

"Please do not feel shy, you deserve a standing ovation, Li Jing."

"Thank you. So what are your suggestions?"

"You took me by surprise and inputted all the things I had in mind. There is nothing I would remove or want to add. The slide is just perfect."

"Oh, if that is the case, then I guess we have something to work with. All that remains, is getting it to Ye Cheng."