When he received a call from Hua Guo, Xiao Yuanmu was in a meeting, discussing with shareholders and high-level executives the direction of future acquisition cooperation, as well as a letter of intent for cooperation from the U.S. government.
This meeting was very important. Before the secretary knocked on the door of the meeting room with his mobile phone, the meeting had lasted for nearly five hours. It was mainly about the plan for the next acquisition. Everyone insisted on their opinions and debated endlessly.
When someone knocked and opened the door of the meeting room, the people who were still arguing stood upright, turned their heads and looked at the blond secretary who walked in with his hands in his hands, and the previous leader who hadn't posted anything since the beginning of this topic. man.
They thought at the same time: What a pity, the sexy and hot secretary in front of them will become the fifth secretary Mu dismissed.
The graceful female secretary walked to Xiao Yuanmu's side step by step, she leaned slightly, revealing her proud career line that definitely attracted attention, she whispered something in Xiao Yuanmu's ear, and then they saw The eyes of their "Supreme Commander", who had never been expressionless, lit up.
This kind of subtle expression change is really difficult for people to notice at ordinary times, but on Xiao Yuanmu, who has always been indifferent to emotions, even such a small change, people who have been observing here early can notice and Shocked—after all, before this, the man in front of him was calm and calm, as if he was in control of everything even if they were so noisy.
Everyone at the round table really wanted to know what the secretary said in the ear of the Supreme Commander—"Supreme Commander" was a joking name for Xiao Yuanmu by the RE executives.
In fact, RE was co-founded by Xiao Yuanmu and Louis. The two founders are of equal status. However, Xiao Yuanmu holds the most shares in RE, and he is dictatorial and decisive, often using one-vote veto power. Negating the plan jointly launched by several of them, and Louis also obeyed him without complaint, so at first, everyone nicknamed him "The Dictator" in private.
The nickname "dictator" is gradually no longer being mentioned, because Xiao Yuanmu's dictatorship has shown them the correctness of every decision he made time and time again. He has developed in either negative or positive directions, without exception.
Miraculously accurate judgments time after time have led RE to reach heights that countless companies have been unable to reach for decades in less than a year. Not only that, the most expensive new energy R&D team under RE is also trained by Xiao Yuanmu. Even in the research process, many ideas were proposed that surprised and convinced the people in the research institute, so that the process of creating and extracting new energy was successfully completed.
Those who strongly opposed the research and development of new energy at that time and believed that the research team spent too much money shut up after the release of new energy and the market value of RE increased by tens of billions.
Since then, Xiao Yuanmu's nickname has changed from "dictator" to "supreme commander" unknowingly.
No one knew who the nickname "Supreme Commander" came from first, but after thinking about it, everyone felt that this nickname could not be more appropriate for Xiao Yuanmu, so the nickname spread like this.
Compared with Xiao Yuanmu's astonishingly accurate judgment and his dictatorship that occasionally makes people complain a few words, the most gossip about his pair is his pair, which seems to have no troubles anyway, as calm as if it can be solved in an instant. Seeing eyes.
Sixty percent of RE's executives and shareholders are white men, in addition to black and yellow people. From the perspective of white and black people, it is difficult for Asian men to feel threatening to them in terms of body size, and they are more Compared with Europe and America, which promote individuality, Asia tends to be moderate and humble. Most of the modest and gentle temperaments are not aggressive, so it is even more difficult to say that they are too strong.
What's more, those who can sit here are all the best in the same industry. The aura brought by the self-confidence of successful people will not be too bad. Coupled with the natural tall frame, even if the Asians they meet in the mall Strong aura, in their view, is just equal. Of course, what they compare is only shopping malls, soldiers and people with special status cannot compare.
This kind of thinking has nothing to do with racial discrimination, it is just a general idea brought about by visual reality, just like when people see a tall and strong man fighting with a thin and slender man at the same time, they immediately think that the tall and strong man will win, It's all subjective judgments before getting to know those two people.
However, in Xiao Yuanmu's body, they felt the real strength, not because Xiao Yuanmu was not inferior to their height and figure, but because he exuded a strong, calm and convincing feeling from the inside out.
This feeling is hard to describe in words, but it made them unite as one. No matter how fierce the arguments are, they insisted on their own judgment. At critical moments, they would acquiesce that Xiao Yuanmu's decision was the best solution—they trusted his judgment from the bottom of their hearts. .
Therefore, even when the U.S. government proposed cooperation, none of the RE executives made rash suggestions, but calmly continued the topic that was supposed to be discussed at today's meeting—the direction of future acquisitions.
It has to be said that Xiao Yuanmu's face did not change at all when he received the news, which calmed down their excitement, nervousness or vigilance, because he was calm and calm.
However!
Xiao Yuanmu, who always looked calm when he received the cooperation news from the US government, unexpectedly changed his expression under the secretary's whisper!
How could they not be curious!
What's more, the moment the secretary finished speaking, Xiao Yuanmu stood up and said to them: "Rest for half an hour first, eat something before continuing." After speaking, he took the phone in the secretary's hand and left in a hurry , this is an unprecedented situation!
When the sound of Xiao Yuanmu's footsteps disappeared, everyone's eyes became hot, and they looked at the only two people in front who might know about it—Louis and Yang Jie.
"I have to call my baby." Louis lazily got up, stretched his phone, and walked out slowly: "See you after dinner."
Yang Jie also stood up, of course he knew who would interrupt Xiao Yuanmu's meeting, but he didn't want to share with these people, and left the meeting room quickly without saying a word.
Leaving behind a group of people who knew that there was a big gossip but could not know the specific content of the gossip was very sad.
After leaving the conference room, Xiao Yuanmu entered his office with his mobile phone, but the secretary had hung up the phone because of the delay, and he was about to call back.
There are only two people who know this mobile phone number, one is the dean and the other is Song Xuanhe.
The dean has always been frugal and never takes the initiative to make overseas calls. Even if he calls, he will hang up in time, so the possibility of being the dean is very low, and he only contacted the dean two days ago. This possibility It dropped even lower. So Xiao Yuanmu almost didn't need to think to know who would be calling him at this time.
Listening to the mechanical sounds on the other side of the phone, the corners of Xiao Yuanmu's mouth slowly curled up, his calm eyes were clear and bright, with a trace of expectation and joy.
Xiao Yuanmu walked towards the floor-to-ceiling windows. After walking a few steps, he suddenly felt that the slight and negligible sound of leather shoes stepping on the carpet might affect his immediate hearing of the sound from the receiver, so he stopped again. Standing on the same spot, his clear eyes were covered by lowered eyelids, but the light projected from the tall building outside the window illuminated his facial features softly.
The phone rang several times but was still not connected, Xiao Yuanmu didn't move and waited quietly.
At the place where "Fortune" was released, Xiao Yuanmu was waiting for a call from Song Xuanhe. Song Xuanhe did call him that day, but he didn't seem to know about these things. He just had a hasty chat with him and then hung up Yes, he knew that Song Xuanhe was busy at that time, in fact, that time was also his busiest time, so he didn't call back to tell him the news.
After the "Global Ranking" was released, Xiao Yuanmu knew that Song Xuanhe might have heard about him, so he began to wait for his call again. However, he waited and waited until the online version of the magazine was released, but he did not wait for Song Xuanhe. phone.
Xiao Yuanmu was a little angry, and even more inexplicably disappointed, but he didn't call Song Xuanhe first. He knew very well that this was a naive contest, and he could know that it would not be beneficial to use rational judgment. In the end, however, he did it anyway.
Before leaving Huaguo and leaving Song Xuanhe, he thought that maybe he was too much affected by the previous memory, which made his feelings for Song Xuanhe a little uncontrollable. This uncontrollable feeling might disappear after they separated, and even once The pre-rebirth self and the post-rebirth self are separated, and I feel that although the pre-rebirth self likes Song Xuanhe, the post-rebirth self only has a bad impression of Song Xuanhe under the influence of memory.
However, Miguo's increasingly intensive work cannot stop his longing for Song Xuanhe from day to day, and those longings sometimes even affect his thinking, making his brain, which was originally thinking about work and running at a high speed, suddenly lose consciousness. Consistent memories of their getting along bit by bit.
Those pictures were both before and after rebirth, they drilled into his mind all the time, interrupting his work every now and then, making him always think about it, no matter how hard he tried to turn his thoughts back to work rationally, They will all appear in front of him at the moment when he occasionally slacks off.
Xiao Yuanmu knew that Song Xuanhe would not bring any benefits to his future plans, even because his appearance might disrupt his plans, so his rationality has been forcing himself to cut off his feelings for Song Xuanhe.
However, all this broke on the tenth day of the first lunar month.
On the tenth day of the lunar new year, Xiao Yuanmu had stomach cramps for the second time after his rebirth.
At that time, his new energy had attracted the attention of many parties, and he had contacted several offshoots of the eight major chaebols, and the Xiao family also came without accident.
The people from the Xiao family had some impressions in Xiao Yuanmu's memory, so they dealt with them with ease. They didn't make any promises, or even showed the slightest intention. It was probably because he was too calm, which made the people of the Xiao family show some urgency. , he described the blueprint of the benefits that the Xiao family can bring to him very movingly.
Seeing that Xiao Yuanmu was unmoved, he probably wanted to use the Xiao family's majestic financial resources to shock him, so the person who came from the Xiao family talked about the coming-of-age ceremony that Xiao Bocong, the heir of the Xiao family, was about to start that day and Xiao Bocong's ingenuity that he had shown since he was a child. In the future, he will lead the Xiao family to a higher position, and said that in the future it will be dominated by young people. If Xiao Yuanmu cooperates with the Xiao family, he will have the opportunity to work with the heir of the proud son of heaven in the future.
Xiao Yuanmu still didn't express any attitude, and sent off the people from the Xiao family calmly and politely. There was no mistake in the next work, as usual, he worked overtime until late at night before leaving the company, and then had a brief meeting with Louis after washing up. I went to bed after a meeting.
However, when he arrived at the company the next day and received another call from the Xiao family and heard him mention Xiao Bocong's coming-of-age ceremony that day, Xiao Yuanmu's stomach cramps broke out.
At first it was only a slight pain, which may be considered severe to ordinary people, but in Xiao Yuanmu's opinion, it was considered mild if it did not affect any of his activities, so he worked as usual, even presided over a two-hour continuous meeting, returned to the After the large and empty office, the image of him getting along with Song Xuanhe in that same empty and large apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows suddenly appeared in his mind again.
Song Xuanhe looked up at him, and his ignorant expression changed a moment ago. He looked harmless while sitting on the sofa, but he showed a careless expression in the world, and asked him: "Don't you know your identity? ?"
In his memory, his voice suppressed coldness and disgust, and replied: "What do I need to do with my identity?"
Song Xuanhe stood up bracingly, and raised his chin pretending to be ambiguous: "What do you think? Wait for me in the room after washing up."
Standing on the sofa is full of momentum, but the back view of running away after speaking has a hint of running away.
At that time, he was thinking that this Second Young Master Song might not be as hardworking as the rumors said, after all, no prodigal son would say such things with clear eyes, without a trace of desire.
But he also thought, what does that have to do with him? One day he will return Song Xuan and the humiliation he gave him.
Xiao Yuanmu pursed his lips slightly, turned his feet towards the desk, and walked towards the sofa.
When he sat down, the picture of Song Xuanhe swimming towards him with splashing water clearly appeared in his mind, he obviously didn't know how to swim well, even Xiao Yuanmu could see that he had some fear, but Song Xuanhe But he swam towards him unswervingly, and then stretched out his hand...
The picture in the memory is as clear as yesterday, Xiao Yuanmu's stomach pain suddenly became severe, his straight back couldn't help but bend a little, his eyes fixed on the mobile phone on the coffee table without blinking.
Xiao Yuanmu knew that he should be patient or could be patient, but he couldn't hold back and called Song Xuanhe.
Probably because he could divert his attention when talking. When he heard Song Xuanhe's voice chatting with him, Xiao Yuanmu felt that the pain in his stomach was relieved a lot. This kind of relief was faster and more effective than analgesics, so he didn't want to hang up On the phone, he talked about what happened during these days.
At the end, he asked Song Xuanhe: "Are you in a better mood?"
Song Xuanhe asked him back, "What about you?"
Across the distant Pacific Ocean, in the mechanically filtered voice, they immediately noticed each other's unusual mood, which was an experience he had never experienced before.
At that moment, Xiao Yuanmu couldn't tell what kind of feeling he was feeling, only the fast beating heart and the tumbling out of love made him sure that he really fell in love with Song Xuanhe.
It was also at that moment that he suddenly found that his stomach no longer hurt at some point.
During the whole noon after that, Xiao Yuanmu for the first time forgot about Xiao Bocong and his work, and thought about everything between him and Song Xuanhe. After carefully recalling the memory before rebirth again, he realized that How stupid I am to suppress the memories and emotions before the rebirth.
At that time, he forgot that regardless of whether the trajectory before rebirth was the same in memory, they were the same person from beginning to end.
Therefore, the person he would fall in love with before rebirth, he will definitely fall in love with after rebirth.
Lewis said that liking is the most greedy and unbridled emotion. If you get a little, you will want more. Rational restraint will be defeated by many inexplicable little things.
Xiao Yuanmu originally only thought the first half of the sentence was barely audible, but hearing the sound of no one answering the phone until he hung up, he agreed with the second half of the sentence that he had originally sneered at.
Reason told him that Song Xuanhe might be busy at this time. After all, he just called him. Although it was not the number he had been using, at least it proved that he still cared about him and contacted him after hearing his news.
But besides rationality, there will be many other things that disturb Xiao Yuanmu's absolute rationality. He will think that if Song Xuanhe really cares about him, then he should give him a second call, even if not, at least He will also keep his mobile phone by his side, because he will call back as soon as he sees an incoming call.
Xiao Yuanmu dialed the phone again, and heard the mechanical sound waiting to be connected gradually extended, the corners of his raised mouth slowly pursed, and when no one connected and automatically hung up, his eyes were already dark .
He pursed his lips tightly, and dialed the phone again, the other end still beeped mechanically, and repeated it like this several times, until more than ten minutes passed, the other end was picked up.
"Hello? Is it Mr. Xiao?"
Xiao Yuanmu's face, which was better because the phone was connected, sank again because of the strange voice on the phone, and his voice seemed to be filled with icicles under the sullen voice: "Who are you?"
"You are President Xiao? Xiao Yuanmu from RE?" Song Jiabao's father asked in surprise.
At that time, Song Xuanhe gave him a random number, but no one answered after he dialed it. When the other party hung up automatically, he suddenly thought of Song Xuanhe's meaningful smile when he reported the number. Song Jiabao Father felt that this number must be fake, Song Xuan and that little bastard must be fooling him, after all, everyone knows how popular RE President is now, why would he give Xiao Yuanmu's phone number to him and just give it to him.
Moreover, since Song Xuanhe said that they both broke up, maybe they don't have Xiao Yuanmu's number in the United States.
The more Song Jiabao's father thought about it, the more angry he was, he threw the phone on the chair next to him and went to find Song Xuanhe. He didn't expect that he overheard the conversation between Song Xuan and the two brothers.
Seeing that Song Xuanlin was sure that Song Xuanhe and Xiao Yuanmu still liked each other, Song Jiabao's father hesitated. He didn't believe Song Xuanhe, but Song Xuanlin was calm since he was a child, and he never said things that he was not sure about. Nine times out of ten what is said is true.
If it is true, then he must not offend Song Xuanhe at this time.
Song Jiabao's father thought so, but he didn't leave. After all, he was also very interested in the questions Song Xuanlin asked. Song Xuanhe had Xiao Yuanmu as his help, and the old man's preference. If he wanted to inherit the Song family, he could say no. Fee blowing effort.
But in this family, except for the old man, no one wants Song Xuanhe to inherit the family business, and Song Xuanhe and Song Jiabao do not have a good relationship. Song Xuanhe inheriting the Song family will not benefit their family at all.
So he eavesdropped behind a tree with his ears pricked up, and then he heard Song Xuanhe firmly expressing his unwillingness to inherit the Song family, and asked Song Xuanlin what he thought of the Song family.
Originally, Song Jiabao's father wanted to listen again, but Li Nian'an walked over to this side, so he could only leave from the other side. As soon as he returned to the pool, he wanted to take back the phone on the chair, when he saw the lighted up screen It shows that there are more than a dozen missed calls, and the caller ID is exactly the number Song Xuanhe gave him just now, and the most recent one just hung up.
Song Jiabao's father hesitated for a moment, and before he had time to wonder if the number Song Xuanhe had given him was the real number, the caller ID of that phone occupied the screen again.
He quickly picked up the phone and carefully asked if it was Xiao Yuanmu. When he heard the young and cold voice over there, he realized that the number Song Xuanhe gave him might be real.
"Don't make me ask a second time, who the hell are you and where did this number come from?"
"I'm Song Guohua, Song Xuanhe's uncle." Song Jiabao's father said flatteringly, "Mr. Xiao is young and promising, so I just want to make a phone call. This number was given to me by Xuanhe. After all, we are also a family. He When you knew that my company wanted to cooperate with you, you gave me the number, and wanted me to talk to you about your new energy cooperation."
Thinking of Song Xuanhe not contacting him and giving his number to others, Xiao Yuanmu's eyes were cold, but his voice was extremely calm: "Are you Song Jiabao's father?"
Song Guohua's expression changed slightly, and he hesitated for a long time before saying: "Yes, it's all because the dog is ignorant. I offended Mr. Xiao before, and now I am here to apologize for him. I can agree to any compensation you want."
"Accept any conditions?" Xiao Yuanmu's eyes were even colder. He walked to the French window and looked at the ants-like vehicles on the street more than 300 meters away. His voice was calm and emotionless.
However, after hearing Xiao Yuanmu's words, Song Guohua shuddered for some reason in Mayday. He swallowed, and said: "If you can cooperate with me regardless of past suspicions, I will definitely agree to all your conditions as much as possible." .”
I don't know what came to mind, the corners of Xiao Yuanmu's mouth twitched slightly, and said: "In this case, you can do one thing for me first."