Chapter 26: Too Stupid to Know He Was Sold, Even Helping Count the Money

Old Qiao looked at him coldly: “Haven’t you always wanted Qiao Lan to leave Qiao Corporation, to leave this family?”

From beginning to end, Qiao Zhenyuan had never liked Qiao Lan.

After Qiao Lan joined the company, his dislike for her reached its peak. He tried every means to drive her out of the company.

Qiao Zhenyuan’s eagerness was unlike him.

Qiao Zhenyuan chuckled nervously, not hiding his intentions from Old Qiao: “I wanted to see what kind of man could marry our excellent and demanding Lanlan, and I wanted to ask her how things were going with Lan.”

Of course, there was a more important reason.

Only Qiao Lan could suppress Qiao Yue’s scandal.

Although he couldn’t find the person behind the hype, he was certain that Qiao Lan could handle it.

He didn’t want to admit that Qiao Lan was more capable and resourceful than him, but he had to.

Old Qiao sneered, exposing his true intentions: “You should be more concerned about the latter.”

The news of Old Qiao marrying a taxi driver had already spread throughout the circle. Qiao Zhenyuan was just using this opportunity to mock Qiao Lan.

Qiao Zhenyuan didn’t try to hide his thoughts when his father exposed them: “Doesn’t Dad care?”

How could he not care?

But he was more concerned about whether Qiao Lan had any intention of leaving the company.

Qiao Zhenyuan pressed: “Dad, what did Qiao Lan say?”

“She agreed to meet me.”

Qiao Zhenyuan was overjoyed, but the next second he heard Old Qiao say: “But she won’t bring you.”

Qiao Zhenyuan: “…”

…

Qiao Lan ended the call and asked the man’s opinion: “Grandpa wants to meet you. Do you want to go? It’s okay if you don’t.”

She and the man were in an arranged marriage, and the marriage agreement clearly stated that they wouldn’t force each other to meet family members.

She respected Mo Qian’s thoughts.

Mo Qian smiled: “My wife wants to introduce me to her family. How could I not go?”

Qiao Lan blushed at the man’s ambiguous address: “Don’t call me that.”

Mo Qian asked back: “Aren’t you my wife?”

“Yes, but we’re just married in name only.”

“We’re legally recognized as husband and wife.”

Qiao Lan couldn’t argue with that.

Her phone vibrated. Old Qiao had sent the meeting location and time.

Tomorrow at noon, 12 pm, at the Chinese restaurant next to the company.

She glanced at it and went back to the hotel to pack.

She only packed some essential items, leaving her clothes and skincare behind. This room was hers, and it would be reserved for her even if she didn’t stay.

She placed her packed luggage in the living room and looked up to see Mo Qian playing with her phone.

Qiao Lan asked curiously: “What are you doing with my phone?”

Mo Qian put it down calmly: “I took the wrong one.”

He didn’t mention that he had deleted Chu Zhiheng’s information and blocked his secondary number.

Qiao Lan took her phone, looking at the fingerprint on the screen, she felt something was strange, but when she opened her phone, there seemed to be nothing unusual.

Qiao Lan shook her head and went back to her room to rest.

Her jet lag hadn’t adjusted yet, and she had to go to work tomorrow. The thought of dealing with Qiao Corporation’s mess gave her a headache.

…

The next day, nine o’clock

While everyone in the company was discussing how Qiao Lan wouldn’t come to work, she arrived late, wearing high heels.

Everyone looked at Qiao Lan with surprise, as if they had seen a monster.

In the four years that Qiao Lan had been at Qiao Corporation, she had arrived at the company before eight every day, rain or shine. Even if she had just returned from a business trip abroad the day before, she wouldn’t take a breath at home, she would arrive at her post on time.

This was the first time she had arrived at the company at nine o’clock.

Qiao Lan walked past the many surprised looks without changing her expression, and even reminded them: “Work hard.”

Everyone returned to their workstations in unison, immersing themselves in their work.

Qiao Lan met Qiao Zhenyuan when she entered her office.

Qiao Zhenyuan greeted her warmly: “Lanlan, you’re back from France.”

Qiao Lan hummed in response.

Qiao Zhenyuan coughed: “I have something to do today. Can you handle a few files for me?”

Qiao Lan snorted: “A few? Or a few dozen?”

Old Qiao was getting old, and while he wanted to handle company matters, he couldn’t do much. He only came to the company to handle important files.

Other unimportant files would definitely be left to Qiao Zhenyuan, and Qiao Zhenyuan, the incompetent fool, couldn’t understand the contents of the files, so he would definitely leave them until she came back to handle them.

Qiao Zhenyuan was exposed, his face flushed red: “Not as many as you said.”

Qiao Lan sneered: “I’m being conservative.”

After all, ninety-nine files were also a few dozen.

She was used to Qiao Zhenyuan’s behavior, so she wasn’t angry. The only difference was that he used to throw the files to her without a second thought, but this time he was being careful and flattering.

Qiao Lan asked: “Do you have something to ask?”

Qiao Zhenyuan was stubborn: “How could I?”

“Oh.”

Qiao Lan turned to leave, Qiao Zhenyuan panicked: “Lanlan, that, can you handle Yue Yue’s news hype? It’s affecting the company’s stock too much.”

He asked Qiao Lan to handle Qiao Yue’s scandal, and she definitely wouldn’t listen.

But when it came to the company, Qiao Lan wouldn’t ignore it.

Qiao Lan’s clear eyes stared at Qiao Zhenyuan, her expression of ‘I knew it’ made Qiao Zhenyuan feel even more guilty. He finally fled in defeat, forgetting to even ask about Lan.

Qiao Lan returned to her office and called her assistant: “Handle Qiao Yue’s news hype.”

Qiao Yue’s scandal had already reached its peak. Any further hype would be pointless, like rehashing old news. It was better to do Qiao Zhenyuan a favor.

Although he was heartless and wouldn’t care.

She ended the call, and the door to her office knocked. Qiao Zhenyuan’s assistant pushed in a cart of files.

Qiao Lan’s lips twitched: “Did Qiao Zhenyuan not look at a single file while I was away?”

The assistant chuckled nervously.

He didn’t say that Qiao Zhenyuan had looked at all the files, but he couldn’t understand a single one.

Qiao Lan laughed angrily. She called him by his name: “Where did Qiao Zhenyuan go?”

The assistant answered honestly: “Chairman Qiao said he was going to play golf with business partners.”

As for whether it was true, he didn’t know.

“He’s quite the lucky one.”

He left all these files for her and went out to have fun, not even bothering to close the door!

Qiao Lan called Old Qiao.

“Grandpa, Chairman Qiao can’t even understand the simplest files. He’s going to play golf with business partners. What if he doesn’t even recognize when they’re setting a trap and foolishly reveals Qiao Corporation’s secrets?”

Qiao Zhenyuan was too stupid, he might actually be sold and help count the money.

Old Qiao had poured his life’s work into Qiao Corporation. He valued it more than his own eyes. How could he let Qiao Zhenyuan ruin it?

Old Qiao immediately ordered someone to bring Qiao Zhenyuan back and hired a business management teacher to give him one-on-one lessons on how to read, analyze, and handle files.

Qiao Lan was afraid that they didn’t have any examples, so she thoughtfully sent them a large portion of the files to handle together.