Chapter 616: Chapter 617: The Financier
Xia Yangyang simply could not unnoticeably whisk Xia Ye away from Gu Qichen’s side.
Xia Yangyang even thought of Gu Zhaohan.
However, Gu Zhaohan was attending a top medical summit in the United States these days.
Besides, even if Gu Zhaohan took action, Gu Qichen might still suspect something.
Xia Yangyang was still monitoring Xia Ye’s location daily.
Yet she found that Xia Ye’s daily routes were between Shengyuan Building and Maple Villa.
Xia Yangyang didn’t expect that Gu Qichen would take Xia Ye to the company every day.
This worried Xia Yangyang even more.
With so many people in the company, it was inevitable that rumors would start to circulate.
When Fang Zhengdong entered with documents, Gu Qichen was sitting in his office chair, staring at the laptop screen in a daze.
The president had been in such a daze often these days.
Fang Zhengdong knocked on the door.
Gu Qichen finally came to his senses: “Come in.”
After Fang Zhengdong went in, he reported on the work schedule of the past few days.
At the end, he said to Gu Qichen: “Sir, the invitation cards for the engagement banquet have been prepared by Miss Xi, she wants you to check the design.”
After saying this, Fang Zhengdong put an invitation card in front of Gu Qichen.
The invitation card had an old-fashioned envelope design, with only two names written simply on it.
It was very concise yet nostalgic in style, and especially the sealing wax on it, which had the initials of the two people, was quite unique.
Gu Qichen glanced at it without even opening it.
He said, “Tell her that everything should be done according to her preferences, and don’t bother bringing these things for me to see in the future.”
Fang Zhengdong nodded in agreement.
Everyone at Shengyuan knew that the president was going to get engaged in a week.
The media had been reporting this news for half a month.
Before, everyone speculated that the president’s fiancée is Xi Zijun.
When it was officially announced, people’s attitude was no more than “I had guessed it long ago”.
The names of Gu Qichen and Xi Zijun when put together made people think of a power couple and dream companionship.
Xi Zijun, the CEO of Jiang Chen, reportedly also runs a winery business abroad.
Such a formidable and successful woman was awe-inspiring to everyone.
Recently, however, there’s a particularly eye-catching piece of gossip.
It’s a video of rising star Zhang Xinyi crying bitterly in a parking lot.
Some say she collapsed crying because she found out about Gu Qichen’s engagement news.
Others said she was purposely hyping up her own fame.
There is an open secret in the entertainment industry that Gu Qichen is Zhang Xinyi’s sugar daddy.
Zhang Xinyi is a celebrity under Time Media.
Media had repeatedly photographed her having private dinners with Shen Shichuan, CEO of Time Media, superstar Shen Manbing, and CEO of Shengyuan Group, Gu Qichen.
This rather obscure young actress was able to dine privately with these big-shots.
It could only be explained by her powerful backing.
In addition, Zhang Xinyi is an orphan, and her previous occupation was a bar waitress.
People couldn’t help but question how she managed to secure such a high position.
There had been rumors that she had many sugar daddies backing her.
That was until the media caught Gu Qichen personally driving her to the hospital, specifically to obstetrics and gynecology.
After her abortion record was later exposed by journalists.
Only then did it confirm the rumor that Gu Qichen was her sugar daddy.
In fact, there have been many actresses rumored to be involved with Gu Qichen over the years.
But most of them did not last long.
Zhang Xinyi, however, was an unexpected outlier.
She had been with Gu Qichen for a full three years.
She had an abortion for him, lived in the river-view mansion worth hundreds of millions that Gu Qichen bought for her.
Gu Qichen even held a personal concert for her at the Water Cube.
He had gradually pushed her to the top of the entertainment industry, step by step.
There had even been rumors that Gu Qichen’s affection for her was no less than for his ex-wife.
However, after the news of Gu Qichen’s engagement broke, the public sentiment turned into another scene.