Chapter 22: Money Down the Drain

Xie Yueru was embarrassed. The staff member was puzzled, “Madam, didn’t you say there was a collaboration?”

“Women don’t meddle in politics, don’t you know the rules?” She was stubborn and quick-witted, “It’s normal for Mr. Zhan to not recognize me. Keep the house for me, I’ll come buy it in a couple of days!”

After saying that, she dragged her best friend away.

Lin Banxia and An Yu were greeted. They mentioned their housing needs, and the staff member introduced suitable floor plans, chatting happily.

Half an hour later.

On the second floor, by the glass railing, Zhan Jingting held a glass of warm water. He had just finished listening to the report in the conference room and was leaning against the railing, looking at the woman downstairs.

Was Su Lin Mansion not enough to live in?

Or, was she going to snatch the child away and prepare a bigger house first?

“President.” Mu Bo, who had been with him for many years and knew him like the back of his hand, walked over and said in a low voice, “It’s been confirmed. The person who bought the house is called An Yu, she’s Miss Lin’s good friend, not her.”

Hearing this news, Zhan Jingting’s expression softened slightly. He took a sip of water from his glass and said calmly, “I don’t care.”

Oh, oh, oh, you’re just saying that!

“Should we arrange a discount?” Mu Bo asked.

“Whatever.” He pretended not to care. After all, he was still a little wary of this woman.

Mu Bo knew that “whatever” meant not rejecting, it was tacit approval.

Lin Group.

The assistant rushed into the president’s office with a file, “Bad news, Mr. Yang, something happened…”

Yang Yiming took the document and looked at it, his face turned pale!

A project that had always been progressing smoothly had directly lost 10 million and was stopped!

For a big company, this was a small number.

But for Lin Group, this was a huge sum of money, and Lin Group didn’t have any money in the account right now!

“Call an emergency meeting!” Yang Yiming’s voice trembled, he was anxious like an ant on a hot pan. “Find out the reason! Why did this happen?”

In the evening.

Xie Yueru, who had lost her necklace, even though she had found a house, but when she returned to her old, dilapidated, 70-80 square meter apartment, she was still furious.

“Lin Banxia! You bastard!” She smashed two cups as soon as she entered the door!

The crisp sound attracted Lin Yiyao from the bedroom, she rushed out, “Mom, what’s wrong?”

“I’m so angry! I went to look at houses today and I actually saw Lin Banxia. What bad luck!” The mother recounted the details of her encounter with Lin Banxia at the real estate office.

Lin Yiyao was also furious and rushed forward to check her mother’s injured neck. “How could she do that? You’re her stepmother, you at least took care of her food and lodging, you lived together for a few years!”

She quickly took out the medicine box. “This girl is too much! A discarded daughter dares to be so arrogant!”

At this moment, the sound of the door opening was heard.

Yang Yiming, with a grim face, came home early from work.

He hung his coat on the rack with a gloomy expression, and asked as he changed his clothes, “What’s wrong? Who’s hurt?”

“I went to look at houses today and I ran into Lin Banxia!” The woman said through gritted teeth. “She hurt my neck.”

Yang Yiming frowned. “You went to look at houses?”

Xie Yueru sat on the sofa, her neck just medicated, it felt a little stinging. Her husband’s question made her look up. “…” Before she could answer, she sensed her husband’s displeasure.

“Yeah.” But she still told him this important good news. “I saw you were busy with work, so I didn’t bring you along…”

“Where did you get the money?”

“I liked a house, I put down a 300,000 yuan reservation fee. I’m just waiting for your cooperation with Junsheng Group to go through, then I can use this money as a down payment.”

Yang Yiming shouted, “You put down 300,000 yuan for a reservation fee?? How expensive is the house?”

“It’s a 500 square meter villa, the total price is only about 20 million yuan…”

The wife’s light and breezy tone made Yang Yiming’s face turn pale with anger.

“500 square meters is still a villa? 20 million yuan is just a small amount? I think you’ve gone crazy!”

Xie Yueru was dumbfounded. “What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong with buying a house?! Are you really going to live here for the rest of your life?”

“Do you know what’s going on now?! The company has lost money on several projects inexplicably! The cooperation with Junsheng Group has also fallen through! We’ll be hard pressed to even pay next month’s salaries!”

The woman, being a housewife, was completely unaware of the company’s situation.

But Xie Yueru was frightened by his words. Lin Yiyao was also scared pale. Was the company really in such a state?

“Inexplicably lost money? Could it be related to Lin Banxia?” This was the first thing Xie Yueru thought of, directly pointing the finger at the girl.

But Yang Yiming frowned and looked at her. “This 300,000 yuan reservation fee, if you don’t buy the house, can you get it back?”

“…” The woman defaulted.

It’s all gone down the drain! Yang Yiming was furious.

In the late afternoon, it was time to get off work.

At Junsheng Group, Zhan Jingting, who never worked overtime, was surprisingly still in the office. He had finished his work, but was now holding a tablet and searching something.

Mu Bo brought him a cup of coffee and glanced at the screen. It wasn’t work-related?

“President, what are you…” Mu Bo was puzzled, “Why are you looking for the most popular children’s stories online? Are you launching a new maternal and infant project? Or… are you going to read them to the young masters?”

Zhan Jingting, to avoid messing things up, since Mu Bo had already seen, there was no need to hide it anymore.

So, he directly asked, “What kind of stories do you think six-year-old children would like to hear?”

The president is going to tell the young masters bedtime stories?

“If the young masters have this habit, then these online stories… they probably have already heard them, right?” Mu Bo said reasonably, “With your talent, why not write one yourself.”

Zhan Jingting met his gaze and only thought for three seconds, “I think that’s a good idea.” He immediately started writing the story.

Mu Bo had just said it casually, but he didn’t expect him to take action right away.

His overflowing fatherly love was also very charming.

Mu Bo thought, with the children as a bridge, he and Miss Lin Banxia would one day come together.

Halfway through writing the story, his phone rang.

It was his grandfather calling. Zhan Jingting instinctively guessed what his grandfather would say next, it wouldn’t be anything other than urging him to get married.

The ringtone continued, he came back to his senses, feeling good, and slid the answer button, “Hello, Grandpa.”

“Qianxue recently injured her leg, do you know?” The old man asked directly.

“Yeah, I heard about it.” He put the phone on speaker on the desk, his hands continued to tap the keyboard, continuing to write a fairy tale for the children.

“Since you heard about it, have you called to check on her?”

“No.” Zhan Jingting was honest, “I’m not a doctor, she must have plenty of people taking care of her.”

“You child!” Grandpa Zhan sighed, “Why are you so inflexible? Your birthday is in a few days, Qianxue is still clamoring to come back in a wheelchair to celebrate with you! Look at how sincere she is!”