Chapter 64: Blind Date Prospect

"Sigh~"

Jiang Taozhi put down her phone, let out a light sigh, and wore a worried expression.

Ruan Hongzhuang, sitting opposite her, asked with some surprise, "What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Taozhi didn't answer the question, but said pitifully, "Boss, can I take leave this afternoon?"

"No."

Ruan Hongzhuang, sitting opposite her, crossed her legs with a smile, seeming to enjoy seeing Jiang Taozhi in a hurry.

"Boss, you really are a heartless capitalist, trying to squeeze out every bit of my remaining value." Jiang Taozhi couldn't help but complain.

The reason she dared to speak to her boss like that was naturally because their relationship was not ordinary.

Hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang wasn't annoyed, but said, "You haven't told me yet what you have to do this afternoon?"

"Not this afternoon, but tonight. Sister Wenxin introduced me to someone, and asked me to meet them tonight."

"Sister Wenxin?"

Hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang sat up straight and put down her crossed legs; obviously, she also knew Jiang Wenxin, and Jiang Wenxin held considerable weight in her heart.

"Yes, she said last week she'd introduce me to someone, and since yesterday she's been calling me, telling me absolutely not to stand her up; this morning she even called early to remind me again, I'm almost driven crazy by her..." Jiang Taozhi couldn't help but complain.

"If Sister Wenxin is so serious, then the other party must be of very unusual status; better not to stand her up and make things difficult for Sister Wenxin. But aren't you meeting tonight? Why ask for leave this afternoon?"

Ruan Hongzhuang lightly propped her chin with her hand, looking very curious.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Taozhi was slightly stunned, because Ruan Hongzhuang was simply too beautiful.

At this moment, whether she looked like she was about to scold or was happy, her bright eyes shifting, with that curious expression, even though she herself was a woman, she was stunned by her looks.

"I'm asking you a question, why are you zoning out?"

Ruan Hongzhuang poked Jiang Taozhi's forehead with her finger, which finally brought her back to her senses.

"Hongzhuang, how wonderful it would be if I were a man," Jiang Taozhi said with emotion.

"What's so wonderful about that?"

"Then I wouldn't be forced to go on blind dates every day, and I could even marry you and take you home," Jiang Taozhi said with a grin.

Hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang sat up straight again, then glanced sideways with her bright eyes.

"If you were a man, do you think I'd be interested in you? No ambition, careless in your work, lazy and fond of eating... except for this face..."

Ruan Hongzhuang suddenly reached out and pinched Jiang Taozhi's cheek.

Although Jiang Taozhi was already twenty-eight this year, she looked very young, like a college freshman; her fleshy little face still had a bit of baby fat, and when pinched, it was full of collagen, with an excellent texture.

When the two went out together, Jiang Taozhi was often mistaken for Ruan Hongzhuang's younger sister.

"Don't say any more, or I'll get depressed."

Jiang Taozhi reached out to cut off the other person's words, which were about to continue.

Jiang Taozhi and Ruan Hongzhuang were college classmates with an extremely close relationship; after graduation, Ruan Hongzhuang took some money from her family to start a business, and Jiang Taozhi, who had no job at the time, chose to be her assistant, and has been working ever since.

So normally, the two were both boss and subordinate, and also best friends; many things that couldn't be said to a boss could be directly complained about to a best friend.

"Don't change the subject. Why ask for leave this afternoon? Are you preparing to go back and fix yourself up?"

Ruan Hongzhuang sized Jiang Taozhi up and down.

"I think you look fine just like this; no need to dress up specially."

"Fix up what? At five this afternoon we're going to Qingyuan Group for a meeting; we definitely won't be back before six this afternoon..."

"Alright then, you don't have to go this afternoon."

"Thank you, boss, for your great mercy."

Jiang Taozhi pressed her palms together and pretended to express gratitude to the other person.

"This is the first time Sister Wenxin has introduced you to someone, right?" Ruan Hongzhuang asked, rolling her eyes at her.

Jiang Taozhi nodded; her family had arranged several blind dates for her before, but this was the first time Jiang Wenxin had introduced her to someone, and with such seriousness, which made her take it a bit more seriously herself.

"Sister Wenxin is a very reliable person; the person she introduces to you should be quite suitable for you," Ruan Hongzhuang said.

Ruan Hongzhuang and Jiang Wenxin were very close, or rather, she was quite familiar with the entire Jiang family.

Because the Jiang family had considerable influence in Binhai, when Ruan Hongzhuang came to Binhai to start a business, she received a lot of help from the Jiang family, so their relationship was far from ordinary.

Jiang Taozhi nodded, quite agreeing with Ruan Hongzhuang's words, but then changed the subject and asked, "Don't talk about me; when will our Great Boss Ruan find a partner? We're the same age; in fact, I'm a few months older than you, so you should call me older sister."

Hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang instinctively reached out to pinch her cheek again, but her mind was slightly distracted.

"A boyfriend?"

These past few years she had been busy starting a business, and she really hadn't considered this issue.

Time passed quickly, and five o'clock in the afternoon arrived very soon.

Ruan Hongzhuang stood up, preparing to head to Qingyuan Group.

"Where did you arrange to meet the person? Do you want me to give you a ride along the way?" Ruan Hongzhuang said to Ruan Hongzhuang, who was burying her head playing with her phone.

Hearing this, Jiang Taozhi was stunned for a moment, checked the time, and then exclaimed, "It's already five o'clock!"

Hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang sighed and said, "Sometimes I even wonder if you're the assistant, or if I am."

"Hehe~ sorry, I was chatting with Sister Wenxin, asking her what kind of person the one she introduced is." Jiang Taozhi held up her phone.

"Let me see."

Ruan Hongzhuang, full of curiosity, reached out and snatched it away.

Jiang Taozhi didn't mind and said from the side, "Sister Wenxin said that although the other party's background is very ordinary, he's handsome, a good person, and also very capable."

But Ruan Hongzhuang, who was flipping through the phone, frowned, a bit doubting whether the person Jiang Wenxin introduced was reliable.

She wasn't as simple as Jiang Taozhi, believing whatever others said.

Jiang Wenxin said on WeChat that the other party was a good person, but didn't say in what way he was good; she said he was very capable, but didn't say what capabilities he had...

It gave her a feeling of ambiguity and vagueness.

Ruan Hongzhuang saw the date location.

"Sunset Coffee?"

It was an open-air café by the seaside; in the evening, one could drink coffee, feel the sea breeze, and admire the sunset sinking into the ocean, a sky full of orange-red beauty.

That is why it was named Sunset Coffee.

Ruan Hongzhuang had been there several times and was familiar with the area.

So she said, "It happens to be on the way; I'll take you there along the route."

Jiang Taozhi, hearing this, hurriedly packed her things and went downstairs with Ruan Hongzhuang.

The driver, Master Sun, had already been waiting downstairs; seeing the two come down one after the other, he quickly opened the car door.

The car moved slowly along the coastal highway; at this time of evening, the sunset shone on the seaside, making the waves shimmer; several seagulls were soaring in the sky, distant sails dotted the horizon, and occasionally the sound of a ship's whistle drifted over...

Such beautiful scenery, yet Ruan Hongzhuang, looking out the car window, had unfocused eyes.

She was somewhat curious about what kind of person Jiang Taozhi was going to meet tonight.

Just then, her phone rang.

She picked it up and saw it was a call from Jiang Taozhi.

"What is it?"

"President Ruan, Assistant Chen from Qingyuan Group just contacted me, saying their President Wu suddenly had a heart attack and went to the hospital; today's meeting is cancelled."

"Did you ask clearly which hospital?"

"No."

Ruan Hongzhuang:...

"I'll ask right now," Jiang Taozhi hurriedly said.

"Forget it, let it be for now," Ruan Hongzhuang said, hanging up the phone with a headache.

Then she said to the driver who was driving ahead, "Master Sun, let's go back to the café just now."