He didn't give Nie Qingru a chance to continue, and said directly: "Hasn't that Young Master Zhai caused us enough trouble? We are all cleaning up his mess now. Mr. Nie thinks he is a treasure. In our eyes, he is more troublesome than those people in your family."
Nie Qingru's face twitched, his sharp eyebrows pressed down, and his eagle eyes were very stern: "I'm not talking about him."
Steve curled his lips: "So what are you talking about?"
"… "
Nie Qingru looked around at everyone in the conference room. She could clearly see in their eyes their dissatisfaction with her and their ambition to replace her.
She closed her eyes.
"Qiao Nian."
There was an uproar in the conference room.
"Qiao Nian?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Qiao Nian should be the one from Beijing? The girl who has close ties with F Continent and the Illegal District?"
Everyone was whispering and discussing something.
Steve was also stunned, and his eyes followed Lei Kai for confirmation.
What is Nie Qingru trying to do
Who would have known that Lei Kai, with a frosty face, was staring at the woman in the top seat, with expressions of surprise, inquiry, scrutiny, etc. flashing across his stiff face.
So much so that Lei Kai didn't notice Steve's pleading look towards him.
Seeing that the young man did not respond, Steve had to rely on himself and turned his gaze back to Nie Qingru, this time much more seriously.
"What does this mean, Mr. Nie?"
"She is my granddaughter." Nie Qingru leaned back in his seat, relaxed his shoulders, raised the back of his neck slightly, and raised his chin slightly.
—Qiao Nian is Nie Qingru’s granddaughter!
This answer was like a bombshell dropped in the conference room. Most people were shocked and couldn't recover for a long time. "This..."
There have been various discussions about this before.
When she dropped this bombshell secret, no one could even whisper because it was so shocking.
Except for Lei Kai, no one present thought that Nie Qingru and Qiao Nian would have this kind of relationship.
Even his shadow changed from being as silent as a sculpture before and looked towards Nie Qingru's back, as if hesitating to speak something, with a very complicated expression.
Only Nie Qingru herself was full of arrogance. She regained control of the situation and confronted Steve and the shareholders who opposed her: "She is the blood of my daughter. She has been wandering outside for many years and has not been recognized. Because of this, she and I have misunderstandings. But these are just minor problems. I believe that as long as we are given some more time, the gap will be bridged sooner or later..."
"After all, blood ties can never be changed." She narrowed her eyes meaningfully.
*
after an hour.
The round-up meeting in the conference room is over.
Shareholders led by Steve left the scene one by one like defeated roosters, and several senior executives also tactfully said goodbye to Nie Qingru and left.
In a blink of an eye, there were only a few people left in the conference room.
Lei Kai pushed his chair away and stood up, put the folder used for the meeting on the table under his arm, and then put it back before leaving.
He walked up to Nie Qingru, who had not yet left, and said meaningfully, "Boss Nie uses Qiao Nian as her confidence. Does she know that?"
Nie Qingru looked over suddenly: "What do you want to say?"
On the surface, she still maintained the grace and elegance of a noble, but only she herself understood the embarrassment within.
Steve and others in the conference room before didn't understand how ugly the fight between her and Qiao Nian was, so she could barely convince herself to pretend.
But facing Lei Kai who knew the inside story, the words she had just said in the emergency situation were like a slap in the face.
The more painful it is, the more embarrassing it is.
So Nie Qingru would certainly not give Lei Kai a good face.
(End of this chapter)