Chapter 18: She even gave up on Feng Tingshen

When Feng Tingshen and the others returned home after celebrating for Lin Wu, it was already nearly one o'clock in the morning.

Seeing Feng Tingshen return so late while carrying Feng Jingxin, the butler asked with concern: "Why so late?"

Feng Tingshen gave an "mm" and didn't say much more.

After sending Feng Jingxin back to her room, Feng Tingshen returned to his room and turned on the light. Not seeing Rong Ci, he asked the butler: "She didn't come back tonight?"

"The Lady? No."

Feng Tingshen was a bit surprised.

Rong Ci seemed to have rarely come home these past few days.

Such frequent overnight stays were indeed rare.

Could something major have really happened to the Rong family?

The next day.

Feng Jingxin had been having a great time playing with Lin Wu recently.

Waking up in the morning, her face full of smiles, feeling very satisfied and in a great mood, she thought of Rong Ci. Happily hugging her doll, she ran toward the master bedroom: "Mom! Mom!"

The master bedroom door was open, but no one was to be seen.

Feng Jingxin's little face fell. At this moment, Feng Tingshen came out of the walk-in closet inside after changing his clothes.

She hurriedly asked: "Dad, where's Mom?"

Feng Tingshen was tying his tie in a leisurely manner and said indifferently: "She's not home."

"Not home? Why?"

"If you want to know, go ask her yourself."

"Okay."

Feng Jingxin picked up her phone and called Rong Ci.

Rong Ci had just returned from a run. Seeing her call, she answered it casually. Before she could speak, Feng Jingxin spoke first: "Mom! Where are you?"

Rong Ci didn't answer; she asked: "What's wrong, Xin Xin? Is something the matter, looking for Mom?"

Except for Chu Zilan, no one knew her current residence.

Now she was enjoying a solitary life and didn't want to be disturbed.

Therefore, she didn't intend to tell Feng Jingxin her current address for the time being.

Feng Jingxin had it on speakerphone, lying on Rong Ci and Feng Tingshen's bed, acting spoiled toward Rong Ci: "I miss you, Mom. I want you to take me to school in a little while."

Rong Ci said: "Mom is quite far from your side, so I won't be able to make it back to take you to school. Let's do it next time."

"Okay." Feng Jingxin was a little disappointed, then demanded as a matter of course: "Then Mom, you must take me to school tomorrow morning, okay?"

Rong Ci hesitated and didn't answer immediately.

She didn't really want to go back there.

Rong Ci didn't speak, and Feng Jingxin felt it was strange: "Mom?"

Feng Jingxin had it on speakerphone, so Feng Tingshen could naturally hear their conversation.

He also noticed Rong Ci's hesitation.

He was a bit surprised.

After all, no matter how many things were going on with the Rong family, given Rong Ci's past emphasis on her daughter, he thought that with her temperament, she would definitely have agreed without hesitation to such a small wish from her daughter.

Rong Ci said: "This... how about letting Dad take you?"

Feng Jingxin really missed Rong Ci.

Her request wasn't satisfied, and she felt aggrieved, her eyes reddening: "No, I want you to take me. Except for yesterday, you haven't taken me to school for a long time—"

Since she insisted, Rong Ci said: "Alright, Mom knows. Mom promises you."

She agreed, not because she felt sorry for Feng Jingxin.

But because since she had given birth to Feng Jingxin, she had to be responsible for her.

Only then did a smile return to Feng Jingxin's face.

Feng Tingshen put on his watch, and seeing his daughter still wanted to keep chatting, he reminded her: "If you don't go downstairs for breakfast soon, it'll be too late."

Feng Jingxin screamed: "Ah ah ah, I haven't brushed my teeth or washed my face yet. Mom, I'm going to brush my teeth and wash my face now, let's not talk for now, okay."

After saying that, without waiting for Rong Ci to speak, she hung up the phone in a hurry.

Rong Ci put down her phone, and after eating breakfast, she went out to head to the Feng Group for work.

There was a major meeting in the morning.

Feng Tingshen would also be in attendance.

When she arrived at the meeting room, Rong Ci and the others had been sitting for more than ten minutes before Feng Tingshen appeared.

As soon as he appeared, Xu Xuena gasped, looking at Feng Tingshen with glowing eyes, her gaze unable to move away from him at all.

A while later, when the meeting officially started, she finally came back to her senses and tugged on Rong Ci's sleeve: "President Feng is really so handsome!"

Rong Ci only looked up once when Feng Tingshen walked in.

Hearing this, she didn't even raise her head and gave a perfunctory "mm."

Seeing that Rong Ci seemed to have no interest in Feng Tingshen at all, Xu Xuena was a bit surprised, but thinking that Rong Ci was already married and her child was already not small, she felt it was normal again.

During the meeting, Xu Xuena's heart kept racing, and she couldn't control herself from staring at Feng Tingshen; she wasn't listening at all to what was being said in the meeting.

Rong Ci, on the other hand, was focused on typing on her computer to take notes.

After the meeting ended, Feng Tingshen left first, and the others left one after another.

Xu Xuena's heart raced for a while longer, and it wasn't until Jiang Zhe came over to take the materials Rong Ci had just recorded that Xu Xuena finally withdrew her thoughts.

Jiang Zhe flipped through the content Rong Ci had recorded and couldn't help but say: "Not bad, thank you for your hard work."

Rong Ci: "It's my duty."

Jiang Zhe left, and only then did Xu Xuena remember that she hadn't listened to what was said in the meeting at all. She hurriedly asked Rong Ci to send her a copy of the materials, but after only a while, her head started to ache: "Sister Rong, did you study architecture before?"

Rong Ci: "No."

"Then why do you know so many industry-related professional terms..."

"I found books and studied them myself, but I only learned the basics."

The projects invested in by the Feng Group were varied, and in order to do this job well, she had spent a lot of time over the years learning knowledge related to various industries.

"Ah? Then have you also read books related to this medical industry?"

"Mm."

Xu Xuena: "..."

After interacting with Rong Ci for two days, Xu Xuena discovered that Rong Ci could become the leader of their secretarial team at such a young age because she indeed had real ability.

"What books did you read before? Send me the book list in a while? I'll also find time to take a look."

"Alright, I'll send it to you later."

At noon, Rong Ci screened them and sent a list of books that Xu Xuena would find useful and easy to get started with.

Xu Xuena looked at the long list of forty or fifty books and was a bit dazed.

At three in the afternoon, Feng Tingshen had guests, and Jiang Zhe instructed Rong Ci to brew a few cups of coffee, saying he would come over to take them in a while.

Only then did Xu Xuena know that Feng Tingshen's coffee was actually brewed by Rong Ci.

It's just...

Seeing that after Rong Ci brewed the coffee, Jiang Zhe didn't let Rong Ci deliver it herself, but ran the errand himself, she thought this was Feng Tingshen preventing people below from using this as an excuse to get close to him.

She tentatively asked: "Sister Rong, have you never personally delivered coffee to President Feng even once?"

"Not exactly, occasionally when Jiang Zhe and the others are busy, they will have me deliver it personally."

Xu Xuena liked drinking coffee, but she never intended to learn how to make it.

Now hearing Rong Ci say this, her eyes lit up: "Sister Rong, how should this coffee be brewed to suit the President's taste? Can you teach me?"

Even if the opportunities weren't many, she wanted to seize them.

Rong Ci saw through Xu Xuena's intentions.

She said: "Sure."

She had even given up on Feng Tingshen; what was there to keep about this coffee-brewing skill that Feng Tingshen liked?