Secretary Dong snuck a glance at Shen Liao, just as he was about to leave, he heard the usually stern CEO suddenly speak.
"What car have you been driving lately?"
"Huh?"
After a moment of surprise, Secretary Dong quickly responded.
"To the CEO, I’ve been driving a Cadillac."
"Hmm, today when you leave, drive my car and leave yours behind."
Secretary Dong froze in place, looking at the CEO with astonishment and confusion, momentarily not understanding his boss’s intent.
But having been by his boss’s side for so long, he was certainly no stranger to surprises, so he quickly calmed down, stepped forward, and gently placed his car keys on the desk.
"Feel free to use it."
"Mm, thank you."
"No, no, there’s no need to thank me."
Without his car, Secretary Dong dared not use his boss’s car, so he called his driver, reminding him that he could leave work early today, and then caught a taxi home.
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The day before Mr. Jiang’s birthday, Jiang Lai went to a cake shop to order a large cake. When leaving her contact information, the shop owner stared at Jiang Lai’s face for a long time, drawing her attention before greeting her with a smile.
"Jiang Lai, long time no see."
The clean, handsome guy in front of her was clearly not someone from the original owner’s memory, so Jiang Lai flashed her signature smile and calmly replied.
"Long time no see, what a coincidence."
"Yes, since graduation from high school, I’ve never seen you again, didn’t expect to run into you here today."
"I work out of town, so I rarely come back."
The man obviously wanted to chat more.
"It’s been so long, you’ve become even prettier. A while back, we were chatting about you in the group, wondering if the class beauty would join the reunion."
"Haha, the class reunion..."
Can’t chat anymore, any further would be impolite.
"Tell you what, I’ll add you to the group, there’s a class reunion in a couple of days, you can come if you have time, quite a few people from our class say they want to return and catch up."
Went out to buy a cake and inadvertently recognized a high school classmate and joined a group.
After entering the group, Jiang Lai saw the man’s name was Han Jing.
Oh, remembered now, he was the class president back in high school, good grades, good looks, good family situation, and it seems the original owner had a crush on him.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, fateful entanglement.
As soon as Jiang Lai joined the group, Han Jing introduced her, and the group immediately exploded with messages.
[Hello, Miss Jiang!]
[Jiang Lai, Jiang Lai joined!]
[@Yang Yiyu, your goddess is here]
Jiang Lai glanced over it and turned on the do-not-disturb for messages. After chatting casually with Han Jing for a couple more sentences, she was planning to leave.
Before leaving, Han Jing asked her again.
"You must come to the class reunion the day after tomorrow."
"Mm, okay."
Alright, might as well go since I’m free.
Back home, Mrs. Jiang was already bustling with preparations.
Mr. Jiang was especially excited today, he had invited some of his fishing buddies to play cards early in the morning, and the conversation at the card table had shifted from fish to boasting about his daughter.
"My daughter, not to brag, but you’d never find someone prettier than her in all of Hong County!"
"My daughter is an artist! You people know nothing, she can earn twenty to thirty thousand a month just from her paintings!"
"Two bottles of Maotai, 1997 vintage, she bought them for me! Each bottle costs over ten thousand!"
In the midst of a group of elderly men, Mr. Jiang spoke eloquently, basking in the compliments coming from all directions.
But there are always those who won’t give face during such times.
"No matter what, the little girl needs a good marriage, like ours, though she isn’t as pretty as your daughter, but now she’s running a big supermarket in the city, I’ve already grown tired of Maotai and Wuliangye!"