18: Chapter 18 I Want Her to Serve Me (18)
18: Chapter 18 I Want Her to Serve Me (18)
“Thank you.” The little guy stood up, stepped forward to approach him, and extended his right hand, “Mr.
Chairman, it’s a pleasure doing business with you.”
Glancing at the tiny hand stretched out in mid-air, Huangfu Jue couldn’t help but smile.
He rose to his feet and extended his large hand to grasp the little one.
“It’s a pleasure doing business with you!”
The hands of the tall and the short clasped in mid-air.
As they let go of their hands, a staff member immediately came over to take Gan Tang away.
Watching the little one’s retreating figure, Huangfu Jue suddenly spoke up.
Gan Tang turned his face towards him, “Uncle, is there anything else?”
“Gan Tang, the ‘Gan’ from ‘sweet’ and the ‘Tang’ from ‘crabapple’.”
“‘Let the sweet crabapple grow, do not prune or chop’…” Huangfu Jue gently nodded, “That’s a good name.”
“My mommy picked it for me.” Gan Tang looked up at him, “What about you, what’s your name?”
The staff member by their side was about to speak up, “This is our…”
Huangfu Jue raised his hand to signal for silence, then introduced himself.
He was still contemplating how to explain the ‘Jue’ character in his name to a child, when the little one already asked him about it.
“‘Jue’ as in ‘an evening’s promises are like rings, night after night they form a bangle’?”
Huangfu Jue was taken aback.
Such a young child knew this line of poetry?
Gan Tang nodded as if he were a little adult, “Nice name.”
The pose was a perfect echo of Huangfu Jue just moments before.
Xu Anran laughed, “The two of you really do resemble each other.
If I didn’t know better, I might have mistaken you two for father and son!”
The two men looked at each other, their gazes falling upon each other’s faces that bore some resemblance, and surprise flickered in their eyes simultaneously.
The wristwatch phone on Gan Tang’s wrist suddenly rang.
Seeing the words “Mommy” on the screen, the little guy lifted his hand to press the answer button, and Gan Yuan’s voice came through the watch’s speaker, “My dear son, how is it going…
Did mommy’s house situation get resolved?”
Huangfu Jue immediately recognized that it was Gan Yuan’s voice, so the child was her son; no wonder he had appeared at the hotel yesterday.
“The other party has agreed to sign a contract with me.
Do you have time to come over to sign the contract?” Gan Tang replied with a smile.
“You little thing, not bad!” Gan Yuan chuckled softly, “I just managed to send away a pest, and I still have work to do, so you come directly to the hotel.”
Huangfu Jue raised an eyebrow, was she referring to him?
Gan Tang hung up the phone and politely nodded at Huangfu Jue.
“Then we shall go to the hotel where my mom works to sign the contract.
Xu Anran waved her hand, and a staff member immediately jogged over to escort Gan Tang away.
Huangfu Jue walked out of the audition room, his gaze lingering on the little figure growing distant, his blue eyes narrowing once again.
That woman just called him a pest; did she find him so repulsive?!
Gan Yuan looked over the contract brought by the staff member with a serious expression and didn’t immediately sign her name.
Instead, she turned to look at Gan Tang sitting on the sofa.
“Xiaotang, are you really sure you want to take this job?”
From the beginning to the end, she hadn’t glanced at the check on the table once; money wasn’t much of a desire for her.
For Gan Yuan, her son’s happiness was what mattered most.
The little guy kept his gaze on the book in his hands, not even raising his head.
Gan Yuan opened the pen on the table, “If you’ve changed your mind, it’s not too late.”