"Let's see each other."
On the other end of the phone, there was no sound at all. When Yan Liang almost thought that he was about to be rejected, he finally spoke ╠╠
But it's just four hard words: "time, place."
"Half an hour later..." Yanliang thought for a while, then changed her words, "You decide."
What a humble gesture she made, this man accepted it calmly: "Half an hour later, the No. 1 store of Mingting Hotel..."
Yan Liang's heart trembled suddenly, before she could react, Jiang Nan continued: "Room 1619."
Hearing this, Yanliang finally reacted, and frowned suddenly, but he hung up the phone lightly, and let Yanliang listen to the monotonous busy tone, with waves of bad feelings in his heart.
In less than 20 minutes by car, Yanliang arrived at the No. 1 shop, room 1619, the copper handle of the door gleamed dimly, and the dew on the flower arrangements in the corridor... These are not unfamiliar to Yanliang.
She took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. A moment later, the door opened from inside, and the man's face and his expression appeared in front of him, but it was extremely strange to Yan Liang.
He made a slight "please" gesture, and Yanliang followed him into the door vigilantly but silently. On the coffee table was a half bottle of whiskey, an ice bucket, and half-filled wine glasses.
Jiang Nan poured a glass of water for Yanliang, he must have drank a lot, when Yanliang approached with the glass, he could clearly smell his body full of alcohol.
The polite behavior, but with a cold face, very peaceful.
He didn't say anything, didn't ask anything, didn't ridicule, and didn't express the joy of the winner, he just sat on the single sofa seat next to her and poured himself a drink.
Yanliang picked up the water glass, but couldn't drink it down. In this silent psychological contest, she had suffered a crushing defeat. Finally, she put the water glass down, "I promised to let you join the board of directors, I will let you go at the shareholder meeting the day after tomorrow. But the chairman seat cannot be moved, it still has to belong to our Xu family."
Jiang Nan, who was holding the wine glass and was about to pour his head up, paused, Yan Liang seemed to see him slightly pulling one corner of his mouth through the edge of the wine glass, and smiled.
After raising his glass and drinking it in one gulp, Jiang Nan finally raised his eyes to look at her: "Why do you come to negotiate terms with me?"
"Because I am still Xu's largest shareholder."
"But as soon as the market opens tomorrow, Xu's stock price continues to fall, and those shares you own will become pieces of blank paper, worthless."
The phrase hits the nail on the head. Yan Liang's pale lips could no longer justify himself. There were only two paths in front of her: she continued to persevere until she was overwhelmed and filed for bankruptcy. The Xu family was dragged down and faced liquidation and reorganization, and was finally taken over by Libo.
Or she just gave up and sold the stocks at a low price to repay part of her debts, Libo bought back these stocks at a super low price, squeezed out the Xu family with the least amount of money, and became the largest shareholder of the Xu family. The Xu family will be ruthlessly kicked out of the board of directors because of a series of decision-making failures and appalling debt ratios.
Both are dead ends, and there is only one thing she can do now: pray for this man to be merciful and give the Xu family a way out.
"Why don't you listen to my proposal?" He asked with a smile.
There are ten million reluctances in Yanliang's heart, but so what? They all knew it well: she had no choice but to agree.
"The Xu family gave up the chairman's seat. I will continue to let you stay on the board of directors, and guarantee the integrity of all Xu's brands. They will not be merged into Libo's brand, nor will they be dismantled and sold to other companies."
"..."
Jiang Nan shook the wine glass slowly, the ice cubes in the glass collided with each other and made a crisp and pleasant sound, which coated his voice with a pleasant illusion: "How about my proposal?"
Yanliang quickly organized the thoughts in his mind, thinking of the past, and felt that it was unreasonable irony, thinking that at that time she was still full of confidence to repel him, after Xu's limit fell in the afternoon, she had almost found all the people who could ask for help: and Xu's familiar bank executives, venture capital industry, and even Ming Ting...
Even Zhou Cheng and his mother used all kinds of connections to try to get capital injection, but at the cusp of this kind of turmoil, they were doomed to lose face and fail.
In exchange for this, she can only sit here, thinking about such a proposal that humiliates the country.
"I need time to think about it." Yan Liang gritted her teeth and said.
Yanliang suspected that he had expected that he would say that, so he agreed so resolutely: "Yes."
Time means opportunity, if this man is willing to give her an extra hour, she will have an extra hour to find other breakthrough possibilities. But just as Yan Liang's tense nerves were about to relax a little, he heard his follow-up addition: "But..."
"..."
"You don't have much time," Jiang Nan looked at his watch, "After all, there are less than 5 hours left to leave the disk."
What a shrewd person, just whispered like this and severely killed her idea of delaying time.
"When the time comes and I haven't received your reply, I'll take it as your rejection. Do you understand?" The slightly raised ending sound was like a gentleman who is persuasive. Yan Liang wished that she had a knife in hand now, so she simply Just like this, he rushed over and ended up with the man's life.
Reason is the scariest thing, but also the best thing. It helped Yanliang abandon such unrealistic thoughts. She rushed here before and forgot to wear her watch. Now she can only take out her mobile phone to check the time.
It was only at this time that she realized that the mobile phone that had been turned to silent had made six calls in about a quarter of an hour.
It was Zhou Cheng who called, but she didn't answer. Zhou Cheng could only send a text message to inform: Johnny Well, who had worked with Xu before, helped them lead a consortium in North America, and he was already on his way to the airport.
Isn't this the opportunity that she had been begging for all afternoon but now it suddenly came to her
Yanliang's eyes brightened with a "huh", she bit her lower lip tightly so as not to reveal any emotions, she stood up and was about to leave, not daring to meet the eyes of the man opposite for a moment: "In five hours I will let you The person draws up the contract, and we sign it in Xu's."
But when she just walked past the single sofa seat where he was sitting, Jiang Nan stopped her: "Wait."
She stopped abruptly.
She still had the phone in her hand.
Jiang Nan put down his wine glass and stood up slowly.
He must have discovered something... Yanliang heard his own rapid heartbeat, and the fingers holding the phone tightened and trembled more and more. The moment Jiang Nan's hand was placed on her shoulder, Yanliang froze instinctively.
The smell of alcohol was approaching.
"You seem to have forgotten something." He approached and whispered behind Yanliang's ear.
The melodious voice was like a slender but sharp needle, piercing Yanliang's already numb nerves, she hurriedly responded: "What?"
Her sudden tense reaction can also be interpreted as "asking the question knowingly", but Jiang Nan didn't say anything, just playing a hunting game, leading her into the trap bit by bit: "Don't remember? You just When I came here, I asked why you came to negotiate terms with me."
"..."
"Based on the Xu family's current position, I offered such a benevolent condition, what do you want to exchange with me?"
When the voice fell, Jiang Nan slowly straightened her shoulders, looking at each other, Yanliang could see the clarity in his eyes wrapped in alcohol: "You should be familiar with this suite, right?"
Such an obvious hint, accompanied by the man's alcohol smell, lingered into her body from the tip of his cold nose, arousing instinctive resistance. But even though half of her mind is thinking about calling Zhou Cheng, and the other half of her mind is screaming to stop him from approaching, her reason is so cruel that she is forced to stand there motionless, only secretly hiding her phone in the pocket.
Repulsion to face, so I closed my eyes hard.
His breath seemed to be on Yanliang's lips, as if a kiss would fall in the next moment, but the familiar breath slowly reached her ears just before it fell.
The first thing Yanliang heard was his domineering chuckle.
She opened her eyes suddenly, and the man was so close to her that he was almost rubbing her ears, and his voice was gentle, warm, but more cruel: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not your young master Lu, I don't need your sex` bribe."
Yan Liang felt that she could read his silent humiliation towards her in his gaze, she angrily stripped off the submissive disguise, she took a step back suddenly, and raised her hand to slap her.
Jiang Nan held her wrist precisely, and smiled slightly: "Why, dare to do it or not?"
Yanliang shook him off fiercely, his chest was still rising and falling rapidly due to anger, but Jiang Nan didn't seem to think so, nor was he obsessed with it, he just took out something from his pocket and put it in front of Yanliang's eyes.
It is a suede box, the color of the suede is as charming as the deep night sky, and the curvature of the box is so soft and lovely, but what kind of ulterior motives are hidden inside
Yan Liang's eyes went straight on the box until Jiang Nan snapped it open with two fingers╠╠
The wedding ring in the box is very familiar to Yanliang, it was when he took her to the jewelry store early in the morning to pick it out.
The brilliance of the diamond fell in Yan Liang's eyes, leaving only dazzling. Her fingers were so stiff that she could barely feel the chill of the diamond ring as she put it on.
"We'll have a wedding after the shareholders' meeting."
"..."
"You should know that you don't have the power to say 'no'."
"..."
Jiang Nan held up the woman's stiff face, leaned over slightly, and briefly gave a warm kiss to end this specious romance.
The Yanliang ghost left the hotel with heavy legs.
It was early morning at this time, but the sky covered with dark clouds was stingy and did not give any sunlight, the street lamps were still on, and the exterior lights of the Mingting Hotel behind her dimly lit up behind Yan Liang, but it changed her path ahead. It was dark.
Yanliang didn't go further into the darkness, she stopped, she touched the edges and corners of the diamond ring, she just felt cold and hard, leaving no room for her to maneuver...
Finally, at this moment, Yanliang remembered what else she could do to save herself.
She hurriedly took out her mobile phone and dialed Zhou Cheng.
The other party has shut down.
Could it be that you have already boarded the plane? Yan Liang glanced at the time, estimated the distance from the city to the airport, shook his head, and quickly transferred to Zhou Cheng's other mobile phone.
But just as she clicked the last number, someone suddenly called.
The caller ID is Uncle Zhou's cell phone number. Yanliang answered immediately without even thinking about it╠╠
"Cool!"
Such a short cry that contained all the worry and panic in the world.
Yanliang's breath was instantly strangled by the already tense nerves: "What's the matter, Uncle Zhou?"
"..."
"..."
"Zhou Cheng, he said it was... I drove him to the airport. Originally... Originally, someone reported that... he was involved in a commercial crime, and he was detained by the police not long after entering the airport... What, what Out of the country!!!”
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Who, at the moment when the last little hope was about to revive, gave her such a final blow
Yan Liang's ears were filled with the fragmented voice of the poor elder, and she looked back at Mingting Hotel behind her like a ghost.
On a certain floor, by a certain floor-to-ceiling window, who is admiring the lingering life of the ants below? —