Chapter 75

"I have an answer." Ke Zhongyu hung up the phone, and when he raised his eyes, he happened to see Jiang Lai pushing open the door and walking into the office.

A light linen high-neck long-sleeved top, the neckline naturally drooping to form folds, just revealing the protruding collarbone.

A linen long skirt of the same color, the hem swaying gently with her steps, a dark brown thin belt at the waist, revealing her tall and slender figure.

An olive green coat was draped over one arm, and the other hand was carrying two kraft paper bags.

Her hair was tucked behind her ears, revealing a clean and beautiful face, with rimless glasses on the bridge of her nose, and her whole body exuded a faint oriental charm.

When Jiang Lai bent down slightly to place the two paper bags in her hand on the desks of Secretary Guan and Special Assistant Zhou, her black long hair tilted down like silk.

The sunlight at two-thirty was still gentle, sprinkling a thin layer of golden light on her hair.

Inadvertently, Jiang Lai raised her eyes and looked at him.

Ke Zhongyu heard his own heartbeat.

Like a drum ringing in his ears.

He held his breath slightly.

His gaze toward Jiang Lai gradually became stained with a hint of lust.

Jiang Lai nodded slightly toward him and continued to say to Secretary Guan: "I was afraid you couldn't eat spicy food, so I didn't give much. If you like it, I'll bring you more when I go back this year."

"Thank you, Secretary Jiang!" Secretary Guan smiled sweetly, with two small dimples on her face.

Jiang Lai came to her workstation, draped her coat casually on the chair, and then sat down.

Just as she opened the computer, Ke Zhongyu's message was sent immediately.

【Come to the office.】

Jiang Lai replied "immediately," while taking out the self-reflection she had written, and knocked on the door to enter.

"President Ke, the self-reflection you asked me to write."

Ke Zhongyu looked at the written self-reflection and was stunned for a while himself.

Even the neat handwriting had its own unique brushwork.

Ke Zhongyu looked carefully; it was a serious eight-hundred-word self-reflection. One could tell at a glance that Jiang Lai was a very typical good student when she was in school, doing everything very seriously.

"Mm." Ke Zhongyu put the self-reflection aside, crossed his hands slightly, and looked up at her, "Ke Lin will give you an explanation for what happened last night."

"What happened last night has nothing to do with Ke Lin."

"It happened at Ke Lin." Ke Zhongyu didn't know how to tell her that Ke Lin had let Shen Xi go, and the only thing he could do for now was, "The compensation given by the Shen family, as well as Ke Lin's compensation, will be transferred to your account before get off work."

He put the fountain pen on a blank piece of paper and pushed it to Jiang Lai.

"Account and phone number."

"Many thanks, President Ke." Jiang Lai wasn't coy. Shen Xi should have given compensation, but the Shen family wouldn't give it to her. The Shen family gave it to the Ke Lin Hotel, and President Ke gave this portion to her. She should say thank you.

But the one she should thank most wasn't this.

"President Ke, when are you free? I'd like to treat you to a meal." Jiang Lai felt that the invitation should be said in person.

Ke Zhongyu took the pen and paper and said calmly: "Anytime. Tell me the time and place when you've set it."

"Okay." Jiang Lai nodded and turned to go out.

"Wait." Ke Zhongyu called her.

Jiang Lai looked back.

Ke Zhongyu's expression paused, and he said again: "Go out."

A trace of doubt flashed in Jiang Lai's eyes, and she didn't say anything more.

The office door closed.

Ke Zhongyu picked up the self-reflection and the two pieces of paper where Jiang Lai had written her account and phone number, pulled open the drawer, and put them in.

Before get off work, Jiang Lai received a sum of money, three million.

The phone popped up with Ke Zhongyu's message at the same time.

【Half from the Shen family and half from Ke Lin.】

【Thank you, President Ke.】

The other party was typing all the time.

Jiang Lai didn't know what he was hesitating about, so she put her phone aside first.

A minute later, the message popped out.

【Ke Lin only asked for compensation and did not continue to pursue responsibility.】

So it was about this matter.

Jiang Lai knew it to some extent; after all, it was her private grudge with the Shen family.

She replied with: 【Got it.】

Ke Zhongyu stared at these three words, and no matter how he looked at them, they were wrong, making him irritable all the time.

When it was time to get off work, he watched Jiang Lai put on her coat and leave.

He felt even more uncomfortable in his heart.

In the end, he intercepted this sentence alone and sent it to his sister, Ke Zhongying, asking what this meant? Was it expressing dissatisfaction?

Ke Zhongying felt he was sick. Reading comprehension requires context. Her brother wanted her to say the meaning of these three words based on just one sentence.

The meaning could be many.

Ke Zhongying sent him a rolling-eyes emoji, and he didn't ask any further.

Ke Zhongying sent a voice message: "Dad called you to go home for dinner today."

"No time." Ke Zhongyu refused cleanly.

Ke Zhongying continued: "How come I feel you and Dad are weird today? Did Dad do something to annoy you?"

"I'm busy going back to pack things." The paintings and letters in Jiang Lai's box that had been soaked in water were still drying on the balcony; he didn't know how they were.

Ke Zhongyu got up and went downstairs.

When the car drove out of the underground garage, he happened to see Shen Xun pulling Jiang Lai's hand into the car.

Jiang Lai's wrist was pulled red.

When he rolled down the car window, Jiang Lai had already been forcibly pulled into Shen Xun's car, and the car drove away.

Ke Zhongyu's face was as heavy as water.

The temperature in the car dropped by several degrees.

"Follow."

"Yes." The driver couldn't help but shiver.

At this time, Jiang Lai was questioning Shen Xun in the car: "What exactly do you want to do?"

"What do you want to do?" Shen Xun had a tired face, "The investigation shows that the matter has nothing to do with Xiao Xi, and the Ke Lin Hotel is no longer pursuing it. Why do you still keep chasing Xiao Xi? If you don't withdraw the lawsuit for one day, Xiao Xi will have to bear the name of intentional injury for one day."

"It has nothing to do with Shen Xi, then what about the person who added medicine to the wine?" Jiang Lai asked him back, "Even if you don't find the real culprit to take revenge for me, don't you plan to find the real culprit to prove Xiao Xi's innocence?"

"I don't plan not to find the real culprit for you; the surveillance of the Ke Lin Hotel isn't something I can check just because I want to."

"So if I don't withdraw, you don't check, someone will check." Jiang Lai looked ahead, not wanting to see Shen Xun's face.

Shen Xun knew she had been wronged: "Can you think for me? The wife of the president of Star Universe Technology was drugged at the Ke Lin Hotel and taken to the hospital by the president of the Ke Clan Group. Once the media knows and reports it wildly, how will others look at me? How will Chairman Fu look at me?"

"If I am no longer relied upon by Chairman Fu, where is the future for our family?"

"There is no future." Shen Xun, you and I have no future.

Shen Xun's eyebrows twisted, and he pinched Jiang Lai's wrist hard: "What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing."

"Jiang Lai, don't say such angry words; I don't want to hear them." Shen Xun lowered his eyes slightly and softened his tone, "I know that letting this matter stop here makes you very wronged. I will compensate you, okay?"

"Last time I let you resign and stay at home, you wanted the house we live in now. This time, I will give you a car as compensation, okay?" He raised his hand to touch Jiang Lai's head.

Jiang Lai turned her head away.

Her dodging action made Shen Xun feel a panic in his heart again.