Chapter 506: Oh, Anne!

Modu.

The train slowly stopped at Hongqiao Railway Station, and the station lights spilled into the business carriage through the windows.

Tang Song put on his backpack, picked up his suitcase, and walked out of the carriage door under the guidance of the train attendant.

Following the station signs, he passed through the bustling exit passage and arrived at the taxi waiting area.

After waiting in line for a while, a taxi stopped steadily in front of him.

After getting in the car and reporting his safe arrival to Xie Shu Yu, Liu Qingning, Wen Ruan, and others.

Tang Song put away his phone, lowered the car window by a crack, and let the evening breeze blow on his face.

At this time of year in Modu, the temperature remains between 20~26°C all day, and the relative humidity is not high, making the physical sensation very comfortable.

As the taxi drove into the city area.

The city outside the window was brightly lit, and the neon lights reflected the prosperity and vitality of this financial center.

Seemingly thinking of something, Tang Song took out his phone and dialed Mo Xiang Wan's number.

"Doo-doo—" After two rings, the call was connected.

Mo Xiang Wan's low and slightly magnetic voice came from the receiver: "Tang Zong, good evening."

"Good evening, Xiang Wan." Tang Song smiled lightly: "Guess where I am?"

Mo Xiang Wan paused, then replied in a certain tone: "Modu! It's already the 2nd, you should have arrived as planned, right?"

"You guessed right, I'll reward you with a kiss." Tang Song said jokingly, deliberately kissing the microphone.

Mo Xiang Wan on the other end of the phone was clearly a bit confused. After a brief silence, she stammered: "This—seems inappropriate."

"Alright, just joking, let's talk business. The day after tomorrow, besides visiting the set, I also want to accompany Su Yu to participate in the crew's filming as a special guest actor and complete a rival scene."

"Really?" Mo Xiang Wan's voice rose suddenly, even carrying some screams.

"Tang Song said seriously: "Of course, don't tell her about this yet, just help me arrange it,

consider it a surprise for her."

"Okay! Leave it to me!" Mo Xiang Wan said excitedly: "I will definitely handle this matter well."

The two chatted briefly on the phone about the details of the itinerary.

Just before hanging up, Mo Xiang Wan suddenly lowered her voice and said solemnly: "Thank you, Tang Zong."

9:50 PM.

The taxi slowly drove into the JW Wan Hao Hotel in Tomorrow Square.

After Tang Song completed the registration procedures in the lobby, he returned to his long-term executive suite on the 59th floor.

In the cloakroom, the familiar safe was still placed there.

Tang Song reached out and grasped the safe's door handle, his thumb lightly touching the fingerprint scanner.

"Click—click—" After a few clean and crisp sounds, the safe opened in response.

Stacks of envelopes were neatly placed inside.

Inside were invitation letters for Su Yu's concerts, movie premieres, birthday parties, and celebration parties over the years.

In the game, what he saw were just inconspicuous notification messages, and he didn't take them to heart.

Only when the system occasionally reminded him that he should maintain favorability and send gifts would he go to appease her.

This 【Female Star】 was also very well-behaved; as long as he said a few "sweet words," her favorability would immediately return to full marks.

But putting it into reality, he realized how cruel this approach was.

Now, a long time had passed, and he could finally truly attend the appointment once.

After carefully looking through it for a while, Tang Song got up and went to the minibar, taking out a bottle of beer.

He sat back in the single sofa by the window, facing the gorgeous night view of the Pudong Three-Piece Set.

While drinking, he fell into deep thought.

The current him had only retrieved the dream memories of 2016, and his encounter with Su Yu was in 2017.

For Su Yu, his memories were still missing, far from being deeply understood.

Until now, he still regarded her more as the perfect 【Female Star】 he had cultivated with his own hands in the game.

He hoped that this contact and interaction with Su Yu would allow him to trigger 【Memory's Light Feather】 and retrieve the shared memories between them.

"Ding-dong—" The WeChat notification sound interrupted his thoughts.

Tang Song took out his phone and looked at it, the corners of his mouth involuntarily raising a smile.

【Anne: "Hey, Song! — (Hey, Song! Hope I didn't disturb your evening plans. It's probably around 10 PM in Huaxia, right? Here in New York, it's only 10 AM. I'm about to board the plane, and I should land at Modu Hongqiao Airport at 1:30 PM tomorrow.)"】

Tang Song replied quickly: "Okay Anne, I know, I'm very much looking forward to meeting you tomorrow."

【Anne: "Wait—you mean you're already in Modu?! You didn't mention this before!"】

Tang Song looked at the series of exclamation marks and couldn't help but reply with a smile: "Just arrived tonight, you said you would arrive in Modu on the 3rd, so I arranged to come over according to this time."

【Anne: "Wow, this is really a super big surprise, Song! Then—you will come to the airport to pick me up, right? Say you will come!"】

Tang Song: "Of course, if you wish."

【Anne: "That's great! See you tomorrow, dear!"】

Below was also an emoji of red lips and a hug.

Tang Song shook his head with a smile, sighing at the enthusiasm and straightforwardness of this American girl.

In his mind, he couldn't help but imagine that blonde-haired, blue-eyed figure.

In fact, besides Su Yu, he was also looking forward to his first positive contact with this 【Consultant】.

This white girl, born in Chicago, grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and graduated from Harvard Law School, was smart, decisive, confident, and carried a bit of American humor, always making people feel good.

Of course, this feeling was different from facing his girlfriend Su Yu.

From the current chat contact, the friendship between him and Anne was very pure, and no little stories had happened.

It was more like meeting a female netizen he could talk to very well, full of both expectation and curiosity.

Anne was also an SSR-level character he had cultivated with his own hands, and he had seen her in his 2016 memories.

In a sense, these game characters represented unfinished stories.

And he was continuing to write them.

Just at this moment, the phone vibrated, and the WeChat notification sounded again.

【Sun Jiayue: "Sorry Tang Song, I've been too busy these days, forgot to ask you, have you arrived in Modu?"】

Tang Song took a photo of the Lujiazui night view outside the window and shared it.

He left a message: "Quite a coincidence, just arrived tonight."

【Sun Jiayue: "Did you just take this?"】

Tang Song: Nod. gif (emoji)

【Sun Jiayue: "However, what's more coincidental is that at this very moment, I am working overtime in one of the buildings in your photo."】

【Sun Jiayue: Photo. jpg】

Tang Song clicked to look; it was a scene of Sun Jiayue standing in the office area, shooting toward the floor-to-ceiling window.

Besides her reflection, there were also the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Bund night view.

Tang Song couldn't help but shake his head with a smile and replied: "Indeed very coincidental, working overtime so late?"

After all, they were high school classmates, and in the 2016 memories he had just retrieved, Sun Jiayue appeared frequently, and Tang Song had a deep impression of this old classmate.

So he simply chatted with her for a few words.

16th floor of the Era Financial Center Building, Hengyue Investment Management Co., Ltd.

Sun Jiayue finished the black coffee in her hand, put down the cup, and typed a reply: "Let's stop chatting for now, it's already very late today, and you just arrived in Modu, get some good rest. I'll get off work early tomorrow, you come to my house to sit for a while in the evening,

let's have a meal together, it can be considered as me, this old classmate, fulfilling the duties of a host."

"Buzz, buzz, buzz—"

【Tang Song: "Okay, then see you tomorrow evening, it just so happens I have things to do during the day."】

After replying with a "Bye-bye" emoji, Sun Jiayue's gaze returned to the PPT.

After carefully checking the content and confirming it was correct, she saved it and sent it to the leader's email.

Closing the computer, tidying up her workstation, and saying goodbye to colleagues who were still working overtime, she carried her computer bag and clocked out.

Taking the elevator downstairs, she called a car on Didi.

In the gap of waiting for the car, she took a deep breath and looked up at the brightly lit high-rise buildings.

This was the financial center of Modu and one of the busiest commercial districts in Huaxia.

And the Hengyue Investment where she worked rented an independent office area of more than 700 square meters here, with a monthly rent of 200,000

yuan, and the decoration was very high-end.

However, in fact, this company was only a small and medium-sized private equity fund company, with a management scale barely exceeding 1.3 billion yuan.

This was the ceiling she could reach at present.

After all, in this industry, if you want to enter a big company, you either have an extremely outstanding academic background or have money and connections at home, bringing your own resources.

It was too difficult for someone from a grassroots background to make it out.

Since her university internship, she had directly entered the fundraising department of Hengyue Investment, starting as an assistant, until she was promoted to a specialist last year.

Although her salary and performance had increased significantly, the pressure that followed also made her breathless.

She had strict fundraising performance requirements, but Hengyue Investment had no brand appeal, and she personally had no resources or connections, making it difficult to enter the core social circle.

She could only contact and visit some corporate executives or individual LPs through industry conferences, alumni associations, clubs, and other scenes.

Over the past year or so, her original high spirits had almost been worn away, and her work had been carried out extremely difficultly.

Not to mention being promoted to a fundraising manager, even ensuring the basic fundraising amount was difficult, and she was worried every day.

This was also one of the reasons why she was so enthusiastic about Liu Qingning.

The investment of more than 4 million yuan was not a small amount for her and could directly help her complete a large part of the fundraising task.

Of course, there must be real feelings.

After all, they were good friends who shared a dormitory for three years in high school.

"Beep-beep—" A somewhat harsh horn sounded suddenly.

Sun Jiayue quickly came back to her senses, checked the license plate number, opened the car door, and got in.

More than ten minutes later.

Sun Jiayue returned home, changed into slippers, and walked into the living room.

"Finally back, you busy person." Hearing the movement, her roommate Zhang Nuo walked out and smiled: "Working overtime until so late on the National Day holiday, your company is really something."

"A bunch of things to deal with after the holiday, no way." Sun Jiayue put down her computer bag and turned to say, "By the way,

a classmate is coming to visit us tomorrow evening, you buy some seafood or something in the afternoon, help me prepare in advance."

"Yo, what classmate is worth you being so attentive?" Zhang Nuo leaned over curiously.

"High school classmate, haven't seen each other for several years, since they came to Modu, I have to entertain them."

Zhang Nuo's eyes widened instantly: "Oh? Boy or girl?"

"Uh—boy."

"Wow, old flame from high school? Secret crush? Yueyue, you're done for, I'm going to tell Xu Pengyuan about this!" Zhang Nuo teased with an exaggerated expression.

Sun Jiayue frowned and kicked her unhappily. "Don't spread rumors, just an ordinary classmate,

not very close, haven't been in touch since high school graduation."

"Then why suddenly invite him to the house as a guest? So important."

Sun Jiayue was silent for a moment and said calmly: "He and Liu Qingning have a very close relationship, can be said to be childhood sweethearts."

"Ah? Is that the high school classmate of yours who graduated from Didu University, cashed out more than 3 million yuan after starting a business for 3 years, and joined Qingning Technology?"

"Mm, that's her."

"Then no wonder." Zhang Nuo sighed: "This boy must be very excellent? To be able to handle such a woman, amazing."

Hearing this, Sun Jiayue "puffed" and said with a smile: "That's where you're wrong, him, in my opinion, he's actually not excellent, at least he's not worthy of Liu Qingning. Family conditions are not very good, graduated from an ordinary undergraduate course, the previous job was quite good, unfortunately, he resigned, and is currently working as a programmer in Yancheng."

"Like that, then is he very handsome?"

"Emm..." Sun Jiayue thought for a while, "If you want to talk about before, he was indeed quite handsome, unfortunately, he got fat later,

and grew ugly."

Tang Song was also a fair-skinned, tall, and thin handsome guy with thin muscles in high school, and he looked very compatible standing with Liu Qingning.

Unfortunately, he later "degenerated."

And he had no ambition in his career, resigning from a big internet factory job and running to Yancheng to enjoy life.

Logically speaking, there was no future for him and Liu Qingning, completely unmatched.

However, from Sun Jiayue's previous contact, Liu Qingning was still "not abandoning" him, and even planned to use the money from the equity cashing out to buy a house in Yancheng.

This made Sun Jiayue feel puzzled and also strengthened her determination to meet Tang Song.

She hoped that through this meeting, she could persuade him to advise Liu Qingning, and also hoped that Tang Song could recognize some things.

"Fine." Zhang Nuo shook her head disappointedly and then asked, "By the way, about the event candidate,

do you have any clues?"

Sun Jiayue said helplessly: "Pengyuan is already helping me contact, but there is nothing suitable, if it really doesn't work, forget it."

This weekend, there was a large-scale investment circle event in Modu, "Investor's Night · Smart Leading the Future."

The direction and field just happened to overlap completely with the fund their company was raising.

Not only were there top institutions like Sequoia Capital, IDG, and Jingwu Capital, but the official also invited many active individual LPs/family office representatives.

And Sun Jiayue's target was these "individual LPs/family office representatives."

In fact, not only her, many fund fundraising managers focusing on the technology track in the Yangtze River Delta region basically had the idea of participating.

At the same time, this also meant that the competition would be unprecedentedly fierce.

It just so happened that Hengyue Investment was not outstanding in any aspect.

Sun Jiayue had to work hard in other directions, planning to find a "tool person" to disguise as an LP attending the meeting.

Helping her open up the topic of fundraising at the event banquet and finally reaching an investment intention with her, as a successful case to demonstrate her professionalism.

Of course, the requirements for this "tool person" were also very high, otherwise she wouldn't be so worried.

First, the image and eloquence quality must be outstanding, preferably a real investor;

Secondly, they need to understand financial investment knowledge and cannot be a familiar face in the Yangtze River Delta investment circle, otherwise it would be easy to be exposed.

This kind of gray means is actually very common in the fundraising industry, essentially leveraging high-net-worth clients (LPs) to make decisions through low-cost leverage.

Sun Jiayue didn't want to use this kind of means before, but now the performance pressure was too great, and failing to complete the goal would not only cut the year-end bonus in half but also face a layoff crisis.

At present, she had entrusted friends and classmates to help look for one, but hadn't found a suitable one.

Actually, she felt there was one person who was very suitable and had repeatedly invited the other party—that was Liu Qingning.

Liu Qingning's resume and achievements perfectly met these requirements, and her image was excellent, absolutely attracting the attention of other LPs in the venue.

Unfortunately, Liu Qingning finally refused her.

However, she did recommend another person.

Tang Song.

God knows how strange her expression was at the time.

But she still promised to contact Tang Song and ask for his opinion.

Perhaps in Liu Qingning's eyes, her childhood sweetheart was really excellent.

However, in fact?

Compared with those who were truly excellent, Tang Song was really too far behind.

Sun Jiayue shook her head with a smile, her gaze looking at herself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror.

Well-tailored professional suit, exquisite makeup, firm eyes.

Today, she was becoming the financial elite she had longed for since childhood—direct, efficient, confident, high cognition, and strong execution.

October 3, 2023, Tuesday, cloudy.

Tomorrow Square JW Wan Hao Hotel.

After lunch, Tang Song returned to the room to tidy himself up, changed into a handsome suit, shaved his beard in front of the mirror, and tidied up his hairstyle.

He took the elevator downstairs.

When he arrived at Hongqiao Airport, there were about 40 minutes left before the scheduled landing time of the plane.

The business jet terminal appeared exceptionally quiet compared to the ordinary terminal, with sparse crowds and tight security.

After showing the reservation information, Tang Song successfully entered the VIP lounge to wait.

The environment here was elegant and private, the sofas were soft and comfortable, and the air was filled with a faint aroma of coffee.

Tang Song ordered a cup of coffee and flipped through an English magazine.

After a long while.

A crisp and pleasant voice sounded: "Hello, sir, are you here to pick up Ms. Anne?"

Tang Song raised his head and saw a staff member in a red uniform walking over.

"Yes, I am her friend."

"The Gulfstream G650 business jet has completed the landing procedure and parked at the designated location." The staff member added with a smile, "You can wait for a moment, Ms. Anne needs to complete the joint inspection, which will take about 8 more minutes."

"Thank you, sorry to trouble you."

"You are too polite." The staff member bowed and turned to leave.

Tang Song closed the magazine, his gaze sweeping over the watch on his wrist from time to time, and the hidden expectation in his heart became more and more intense.

When the time was near, he stood up directly, tidied his collar, and straightened his back, making himself look more upright and elegant.

Soon, a burst of somewhat hurried footsteps came from the entrance of the VIP lounge.

First to come into view were two women dressed as assistants, wearing uniform professional suits, their expressions solemn and focused.

Immediately after, a tall and hot figure walked into the lounge quickly.

She was wearing a beautifully tailored black women's suit, with a tight-fitting beige base shirt inside, the shoulder lines were neat and stiff, setting off her figure to be more slender and straight.

Her golden long hair fluttered, hanging down softly on her shoulders, but her brows carried a trace of imperceptible arrogance and confidence.

178 cm tall, 62 kg in weight, her figure was thick and graceful, carrying faint muscle lines.

The excellent 90/60/90 measurements, paired with beautiful shoulder and neck lines, perfectly interpreted what it meant to be blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and have a devilish figure.

The footsteps got closer and closer.

Anne stood still in front of him, tilted her head slightly, and looked him up and down with those light-colored eyes.

Her gaze was mixed with curiosity, surprise, excitement, and looking at this beautiful and unique face at close range, Tang Song gradually overlapped her completely with the 【Consultant -

Anne Kate】 in the game and in his memories.

A sense of unreal illusion appeared, but finally intersected with reality.

The smile on Tang Song's face gradually became clear, he took a deep breath, and said seriously in English: "Long time no see, Anne."

His voice was low but warm, carrying a long-lost sincerity.

"Yeah, it's been a long time, just about a year." Although Anne's tone was light, it hid a trace of resentment. "In fact, if it wasn't for Jin stopping me, I would have gone to Yancheng to find you on your birthday last year. You don't know what kind of crazy gift I prepared for you. For this, I even offended Jin and my father."

Tang Song was stunned and curious: "What gift?"

Anne leaned forward, her straight nose bridge almost touching him, and the warm fragrance rushed toward him.

The corners of her mouth curved into an arc, and she whispered: "You once told me in an email that you really admired several American adult film stars. Around your birthday last year, I acquired an entertainment agency, and it had the stars you liked."

"This..." Tang Song's eyelids jumped, and his mouth opened slightly.

He had indeed browsed the European and American sections and had several adult stars he admired, but he didn't remember chatting with Anne about this topic in the game.

This was definitely the him in the dream messing around; he was not that kind of person.

Seeing his reaction, Anne suddenly smiled and said: "Song, you really have become different from before, I think I can be a little excessive, you shouldn't be angry, right?"

As she spoke, she directly opened her arms and gave him a big hug, while kissing him heavily on the face.

At 28, she possessed an absolutely mature body, and the exotic atmosphere pressed directly over, making Tang Song's heart beat faster.

Anne's hand boldly pinched his waist, then moved downward.

"Wow, I felt the muscles on your body, really solid, this is much sexier than the you before, too great."

Tang Song whispered in his heart, "Oh, Anne! Don't be like this!"

Then he naturally hugged the big foreign horse, feeling the joy of reuniting with the game character. ===== CHAPTER 507 =====