Chapter 395: Chapter 51 An Qing and the World_2 Chapter 395: Chapter 51 An Qing and the World_2 She looks much younger than Lin Xian, but she is indeed very beautiful and sweet.
Considering the girl’s astonishing actions just now, and how the two of them are currently chatting away happily…
Although the team leader is a middle-aged man in his fifties, who hasn’t been young before?
Male and female affection, isn’t it the same throughout the ages?
He suddenly understood and looked at Lin Xian with a smile:
“Is this your girlfriend, Lin Xian?
What a brave girl, a true heroine, a modern-day Mulan!”
“Captain, you’ve misunderstood,” Lin Xian explained with a smile:
“This lady is the daughter of the president of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, Chu Shanhe.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Chu Shanhe.”
The team leader immediately caught on.
So she’s Chu Shanhe’s daughter.
Though he wasn’t personally acquainted with Chu Shanhe, he often heard the name.
Truth be told, Chu Shanhe indeed has a high status in the scientific community: an outsider to scientific research, yet always involved in its financing, donating to laboratories, helping scientists in trouble, and funding various projects without interfering, leaving the scientists to make their own decisions.
Such a philanthropist naturally enjoys a high reputation in the scientific community and is praised by everyone.
From the team leader’s decades of life experience,
he found it hard to believe that these two attractive young people were not in a relationship.
If they were not a couple, could this girl have gone to such lengths for Lin Xian?
Even a real sister, younger sister, or mother might not have had the courage to stand up alone and cheer in the face of a room full of boos, surrounded by burly men from Mi Country.
To do such a thing for Lin Xian, a deep affection was surely necessary.
Frankly, it was a risky, daring act.
If those enraged Mi Country men had rushed and attacked the girl, they wouldn’t have been able to stop them in time.
Fortunately, someone had intervened.
It must have been someone from the China military, considering the build of those in plain clothes, obviously not ordinary.
Therefore, the team leader speculated.
These two were likely dating secretly because of concerns about Chu Shanhe’s status and the age difference between them, therefore reluctant to make it public.
In their feudal era, such secretive romances without public acknowledgment were even more common.
The team leader patted Lin Xian on the shoulder and smiled meaningfully:
“I see, I see, it’s Chu Shanhe’s daughter, then it’s no wonder.
Indeed, like father, like daughter, she’s truly formidable!
no worries, Lin Xian.
From today onwards, you too will be considered a great hero who has brought glory to China.
There’s no need to worry so much about status issues.”
Lin Xian cocked his head, looking at the team leader perplexedly.
A moment ago, watching his know-it-all expression, it felt like he really understood.
What kind of understanding is this?
Congratulations, Lin Xian!”
The team leader laughed heartily as he shook hands with Lin Xian, and then bent down and shook hands with Chu Anqing as well:
“Congratulations to this brave young lady too!
To ensure your safety, you’ll stay with us, with Lin Xian.
Lin Xian is going to Princeton next, so you’ll stay with him for protection.
After the trip ends, you’ll take our chartered flight back home together.”
In the evening, at the hotel restaurant where the delegation was staying, everyone held a cheerful celebration banquet.
The older brothers and the team leader drank quite a bit, feeling very happy and proud.
As the hero of the hour, Lin Xian naturally drank some as well.
Everyone knew he had personal matters to attend to the next day at Princeton, so they didn’t pressure him to drink too much and let him gauge for himself.
As the celebration banquet progressed into the latter half, it was mainly those drunk older brothers reminiscing about the past, stirring memories of their daunting years.
Lin Xian, being in a different age group, naturally couldn’t join their conversation, so he followed Chu Anqing, who also attended the celebration banquet and seemed to have a lot of fun, to the observation room on the rooftop of the Aman Hotel.
Leaning on the railing of the highest outdoor balcony, they looked down at the night view of the entire New York.
Staring at the lights of the international city, the traffic, and people, and feeling the cool night breeze at such a height, Lin Xian asked.
“Hehe, I think it’s not as good as Donghai~”
Chu Anqing’s fluffy high ponytail danced in the night sky, a few strands tickling Lin Xian’s neck, making it itch unexpectedly.
“I still prefer Donghai a bit more, because it’s our country after all, and it’s my home.”
Chu Anqing leaned back and forth on the white marble railing and continued:
“Even if the skyscrapers in Donghai aren’t as numerous as in New York…
but I don’t live in skyscrapers.
No matter how great the outside world is, it’s not ours and lacks a sense of belonging.
But home is different.
Even if it’s dilapidated and backward, it’s warm.
Donghai is pretty prosperous too.
It’s just that New York got an earlier start than us.”
As she spoke, Chu Anqing stood on her tiptoes and pointed towards a tall, dark tower in the distance:
Do you know what that building is?”
“That’s definitely the Empire State Building…” Lin Xian chuckled:
It’s almost overused in movies.”
“What about that one?”
Chu Anqing pointed to another tall building.
“The Rockefeller Center, another landmark of New York.”