Hearing Chen Jian's self-introduction and thinking of the frivolous and libertine in the morning, it completely overturned her three views.
She didn't expect that the man in front of her was the head of Zhihua Technology who often appeared on the TV screen.
Of course, she didn't know that the actual head of Zhihua Technology was Li Xiang.
Perhaps because of her bad impression of Chen Jian that morning, she instinctively pulled her hand away with some disgust.
But for the sake of work, I didn't turn around and leave immediately. I forced myself to say to him with a professional smile:
"Hello, I am Zhang Ling, the intelligent manufacturing project manager of X Joint Venture Technology."
In order to cover up his embarrassment and fear, and considering that he was on someone else's territory, Chen Jian must not insult the image of Zhihua Technology, so he forced himself to continue to maintain a gentlemanly demeanor.
"Please sit down, we'd better sit down and talk first."
Zhang Ling walked to the opposite side of Chen Jian and looked around before taking a seat.
Because she clearly felt that all her colleagues in the western restaurant were watching them and whispering.
These eyes are full of jealousy and malice.
"This woman is really resourceful! She was promoted to vice president of the group ahead of schedule, and she just deleted the forum posts remotely. She is openly flirting with men again."
"Have a quick look at the company forum. Someone took a photo of Mr. Chen's car, which is a BMW M2 sapphire blue sports car. He said that yesterday's post about Mr. Zhang being kept was a rumor. After comparative analysis, it was confirmed that the male protagonist is Mr. Chen."
"Oh my god! Looking at them now, they are a talented and beautiful woman. They are a perfect match! The one who framed Mr. Zhang for being kept is obviously jealous."
…
Li Xiang paid someone to post the forum post, and then specially arranged for Chen Jian to appear on such an occasion. The main purpose was to completely help Zhang Ling quell the rumors of being kept.
Li Xiang did not explain this to anyone, and even Chen Jian, who was working for him, did not know his true intentions.
After Li Xiang arranged for the informant in the western restaurant to report the results, his heart that was worried about Zhang Ling finally let go.
Zhang Ling lowered her head and said nothing after sitting down, avoiding those uncomfortable looks.
Chen Jian was chatting away and talked about some common sense about enjoying delicious food, thereby easing the tension of sitting together.
Until she keenly felt that the eyes of the colleagues around her gradually softened, and even showed a bit of envy and blessing.
Only then did she put on a happy smile, looked up at Chen Jian and asked:
"Mr. Chen, can I discuss a few issues with you?"
"Please speak!" Chen Jian politely put down the tableware in his hands and looked at her.
"I guess today's so-called cooperation talks are just an excuse."
She guessed that the first reason was Chen Jian's ill-intentioned invitation early in the morning;
Secondly, in order to speed up the progress of the project in hand, she once approached Zhihua Technology to discuss cooperation, but the result was rejection;
Finally, Chen Jian was Li Xiang's friend, so close that he lived under the same roof, so she suspected that Chen Jian's arrival had something to do with Li Xiang.
"Why do you say that? I came with the sincerity of Zhihua Technology." Chen Jian said and handed a blue folder to her.
Zhang Ling opened the folder and browsed through it briefly, confirming that it was a patent authorization letter for dozens of smart technologies.
These technologies are also urgently needed for the projects Zhang Ling is responsible for.
She closed the folder and placed it beside the dining table, then slowly raised her head seriously and said:
"I already understand your company's sincerity in cooperation. However, I still have a personal question I want to know."
"Please tell me!" Chen Jian smiled and thought that the bait he threw out in the morning worked.
"You deliberately chose to discuss cooperation in the Western restaurant downstairs of our company. Does your friend Li Xiang know about this?"
She vaguely felt that her promotion was inseparable from Zhihua Technology's proactive cooperation.
It is speculated that Li Xiang may have played a certain role in promoting this.
"That's right! Li Xiang begged me to choose this place this morning." Chen Jian looked at the food on the table and continued with a look of disgust, "Otherwise, I would never go to a Western restaurant of this quality.
The food we brought in was really terrible!”
Although Zhang Ling couldn't stand Chen Jian's arrogant and rude tone, she still got information that pleased her from these words.
"Last question, Li wants to know if I'm in trouble at the company?"
She clearly felt the impact of dining with Chen Jian.
So I guess this is also a way for Li to help her solve her trouble.
"That's right!" Chen Jian recalled with some pain the scene after he answered Li Xiang's call last night, "Yesterday he saw that you might be in trouble, so after my overnight investigation, I learned that you
Company forum rumors.”
"He knows it all!" She was a little pleased with Li Xiang's thoughtfulness.
Suddenly, I felt a long-lost feeling of being silently protected by someone!
"Oh, now he has been arrested to prevent disaster for you." Chen Jian looked around reluctantly and then quickly leaned forward and lowered his voice, "I said Dr. Zhang, what will you do to my Li Xiang?"
What kind of ecstasy soup did you drink to make her so obsessed with you?"
Zhang Ling could clearly hear a hint of sour jealousy in these words.
If she abandoned all identity, status, gender, etc. and just listened to what she said, she would definitely be considered as a third party who stole Chen Jian's boyfriend.
She explained with a bit of a wry smile:
"Mr. Chen, I think you may have some misunderstanding about the relationship between us. Let me give a simple explanation. We are just comrades who can play games together online and pass levels."
After hearing Zhang Ling's explanation, Chen Jian looked at her with disdain and cursed her in his heart for being a complete scumbag.
"Really? I remember that Bei Weiwei and Xiao Nai were comrades in the game at first, but in the end they developed into a couple in real life."
"That...that's just a film and television drama interpretation, it can't be taken seriously!"
"Why can't we take it seriously? Haven't you heard that art comes from life and is higher than life? To tell you the truth, I have seen a lot of similar stories in reality. I was just worried that you wouldn't believe me if I told you, so I didn't tell you."
He could tell from Zhang Ling's micro-expression that things were far from as simple as she said.
Therefore, it became more and more certain that Zhang Ling was a fishing expert, so Li Xiang was thrown into her fish pond and raised temporarily.
He secretly vowed to drive away this scumbag for his brother today.
"Uh..." Zhang Ling was speechless for a moment because of this inexplicable malice.
When Chen Jian said this, she suddenly felt that her relationship with Li Xiang was indeed a relationship, which was somewhat like a couple's relationship portrayed in movies and TV dramas.
Subconsciously, she began to slowly fall in love with the feeling of being so silently cared for by someone.
No, she's not ready yet.
Her first love was like Cheng Yaojin who appeared halfway, interrupting all her beautiful fantasies about Li Xiang.
It seems that her heart still hasn't gotten over the relationship of her first love. Even now, she can still see some of the beauty of being with her first love.
All the two beautiful moments in her subconscious were comparing or fighting. The purpose was to finally occupy her.
She was completely panicked at this time. She tried to cover it up with the food on the table in front of her, picked up the tableware and said:
"The steak was cooked quite well today."
Until the food enters her mouth, the feeling of chewing gradually relaxes her tense nerves, and her brain begins to slowly return to a calm state.
Through this conversation with Chen Jian, she had roughly analyzed a fact.
Li Xiang did something that moved her.
First, he sent his injured father to the hospital, and then helped his father repair some old appliances and furniture.
After she clearly rejected his kindness, now he helped her settle the rumors in the company, and also helped her consolidate and improve her status.
Faced with all this, she didn't feel any emotion at all, as if she was deceiving herself.
So after Chen Jian made the relationship clear, she became obviously panicked.
However, she has always been an independent and principled woman.
Since he had already decided not to get married, no matter how good Li wanted to be to her, he could not lose his principles because of his impulse.
The biggest factor in this decision was that Zhang Ling's first love hurt her too deeply!
Deep down in her heart, she was subconsciously afraid of getting hurt again, so she made a kind of stress self-isolation reaction.
Chen Jian had no intention of letting Zhang Ling go easily. The knife in his hand was filled with strong hatred, as if he was not cutting the remaining beef on the plate, but more like he was cutting all the scumbags in the world, cutting all the steaks into minced meat.
But still cutting.
He reminded without looking up:
"Dr. Zhang, have you finished asking your questions?"
"Yeah!" She agreed without raising her head.
"Aren't you interested in knowing what I said about Li Xiang this morning?" He slowly looked up at her and asked.
She had the urge to ask in her heart, but she was still suppressed and forced herself to say:
"In no mood!"
After she finished speaking, there was a sharp pain in her heart, as if she was being stirred by something.
He suddenly sneered, making her look up at him inexplicably, and he said with a cold face:
"Dr. Zhang, I would like to ask what do you think Li Xiang is?"
"I...I have said before that I treat him as a comrade who can play mobile games together."
She bowed her head deeply and finished speaking. The soreness in her throat made her inadvertently shed two tears from the corners of her eyes.
Chen Jian didn't see it clearly, he sneered again and said with an unhappy look on his face:
"When I saw Dr. Zhang learning the reason why I came today, his face was filled with a happy smile of being cared for. I think he has paid so much for you, but you don't even think about getting to know him further. I want to ask you
Isn’t that too selfish?”
"I……"
Zhang Ling wanted to defend herself at this time, but she couldn't say anything.
Chen Jian was right, she did feel happy because she was cared for.
But she did clearly reject Li Xiang's kindness.
So can she really continue to accept being cared for by Li Xiang calmly now?
Her heart seemed to be agitated by what Chen Jian just said, with a heartbreaking feeling.
Chen Jian stood up slowly, leaned over and took away the folder next to Zhang Ling, and continued to say aggressively:
"Mr. Zhang, the cooperation between our Zhihua Technology and your company is based on your future sister-in-law. Since I have confirmed that Mr. Zhang has no intention in this regard, the cooperation can only be put on hold for the time being. Farewell
!”
Chen Jian's words and deeds were noticed by Zhang Ling's colleagues.
Xiao Jin was finally pushed out by the crowd and stepped forward to ask about Zhang Ling's specific situation.
"Mr. Zhang, the cooperation talks have collapsed? I see that Mr. Chen left very unhappy." Xiao Jin stood beside her and asked softly.
Zhang Ling didn't want people to see her crying, so she clenched her hands into fists and still didn't raise her head, trying her best to say a word.
"roll!"
Xiao Jin was so frightened that he quickly bowed and apologized, fled the scene quickly, and quickly spread the facts about what he saw.
Mr. Chen of Zhihua Technology pursued Mr. Zhang with a project. Rumors that Mr. Zhang was angry and refused to sell himself for cooperation in order to keep his roots revived.
After Xiao Jin left, Zhang Ling was in a state of confusion. Because there were constant calls on her mobile phone, she simply turned off the phone, got up and left the restaurant alone.
She may be subconsciously looking for a place or person where she can sort out her inner thoughts.