At this moment, he realized there was nothing wrong with him.
It was just that on that night six years ago, his body had defaulted to having Jiang Nanfang as its only match...
His lips burned for a few seconds. Jiang Nanfang, recovering her senses, immediately pushed him away and tried to get up, but Zhan Beijue’s large hand pressed down on her back.
His Adam's apple bobbed a few times as their lips touched, and he let out a low, hoarse voice.
“You still say you didn't come back to deliberately get close to me? What are you doing now?”
Jiang Nanfang: “I…”
As soon as she opened her mouth, the meeting room door was knocked on from the outside.
The assistant reminded Zhan Beijue that there was something at the group that required his attention.
Zhan Beijue frowned, gripping her hands. Their eyes met, their warm breaths tangling in the air.
In that instant, Zhan Beijue’s mind raced through many thoughts.
From their childhood acquaintance, to their engagement, to their chance encounter on campus, to their marriage, and then their divorce…
Some part of his heart that had been sealed away was gradually being uncovered. He realized that he had never truly hated her.
It was just that in the face of a woman who didn’t love him, he had his pride.
“I don’t have time to waste on you. Sign the merger contract quickly. Because of your product, our company has invested a significant amount of manpower and resources. We cannot give up halfway.”
She had never seen someone go back on their word like this. He had just agreed to terminate the contract, and now he was supposed to be signing a termination agreement.
Jiang Nanfang wanted to argue with him, but she reconsidered.
If she could resolve things quickly, she could take her children and leave. As long as she didn’t have her children snatched away by this devil, nothing else mattered.
She had come back to discuss the merger in the first place.
“How can I sign if you don’t let me go?”
They separated. Jiang Nanfang sat down nearby, neither humble nor arrogant, and added,
“I’ll give you the company. You promise not to fight me for the children anymore. This deal is fair, isn’t it?”
Fair? To trade a few cold and unfeeling products for two living beings, and those too, two innocent children, and she called that fair?!
Indeed, only someone as cold-blooded and vicious as this could say such a thing.
Zhan Beijue truly felt pity for the children, to have such a mother!
Without wasting another word on her, Zhan Beijue walked over to the head of the conference table and sat down.
He casually added a clause to the contract and pushed it over. “Sign the contract first, then we’ll talk about other things.”
“…Did you add anything illegal, immoral, or against human ethics?”
“Don’t worry, I’m not you. I can’t think of anything like that.” Zhan Beijue glanced at her with disdain.
“My conditions are simple. Within three months of signing the contract, you are not allowed to leave Nancheng. You must be stationed at the Electric Company and help Vice President Gao successfully launch the product in the country.”
She still had to stay in the country for three months to provide technical support? She was really thinking prettily!
Jiang Nanfang glanced at him sideways. “Then how much salary do you plan to give me?”
“This is included in the merger contract, Representative Jiang, not as a labor contract for my sole employment of you. Three hundred million isn’t enough? You have a big appetite.”
“I don’t think my appetite is big. My technology is very valuable. In three months, I can earn at least thirty million. Why should I do hard labor for you for free?”
“Because you want to take my children away.”
Zhan Beijue leaned back lazily in the armchair, looking confident.
“If you think it’s unreasonable, you can disagree. Consider my offer retracted, and we’ll proceed through legal channels.”
Because the children were currently in his possession, she was completely at his mercy.
Damn it!
Three months of technical support in exchange for her children’s lifelong freedom.
Jiang Nanfang made up her mind, gritting her teeth and deciding to endure it!
Once this period passed, she could openly take her children wherever she wanted, without fear of being discovered by him. It was worth it!
Jiang Nanfang agreed to the merger. Zhan Beijue had other meetings to attend. Vice President Gao came in and signed the merger contract with her. Soon after, she received three hundred million from Zhan’s Real Estate.
Vice President Gao shook her hand happily.
“Knowing that you’ve just returned and don’t have property in the country, I’ve arranged an apartment with the best conditions for you. Here are the keys. Welcome to the Zhan Group, Engineer Jiang!”
Jiang Nanfang felt a moment of daze: she had suddenly become an employee serving Zhan Beijue, all because she had impulsively slept with him once back then.
Indeed, lust is a sharp blade.
Tianfu International was a high-quality residential development developed by Zhan’s three years ago, located in the city center, a very upscale community for the wealthy.
Zhan Beijue had kept one unit as a benefit for the company’s senior management.
To be able to live there not only represented status and identity but also outstanding business capabilities. Therefore, everyone under Zhan’s strived with all their might, hoping to live there one day.
Jiang Nanfang certainly didn’t expect that a mere place to sleep would have so many implications.
Even more unexpectedly, the reason this excellent apartment was still vacant was that her next-door neighbor was Zhan Beijue.
That was an apartment that no one dared to live in.
At five in the afternoon, Jiang Nanfang finished packing her luggage, checked out of the hotel, and took a taxi to Tianfu International.
The apartment was on the 23rd floor, with two units per floor and one elevator.
The unit assigned to her had a total area of about 130 square meters. Let alone for herself, even if the two children came to live, it would be more than enough.
Children?
She hadn’t seen her children all day and wondered how they were.
Also, Tang Xueying hadn’t called her to inform her that the children had secretly run back from abroad. With such a major event, why was she so calm?
Thinking thus, she called Tang Xueying.
After she asked the questions, Tang Xueying’s laughter came after a long delay: “Of course I knew they’d gone back. I even bought their tickets for them.”
“I raised the children myself since they were young. How could I not know how smart they are? It was to give you a surprise!”
Jiang Nanfang pouted: “What surprise, it’s more like a scare. And you didn’t even accompany them back. What if…”
“Forget it… Did you mention Zhan Beijue’s name to them?”
“No, why? Do they know about Zhan Beijue’s relationship with you?”
Jiang Nanfang sighed and recounted what had happened in the past two days.
Tang Xueying, after being shocked, comforted her: “Who told you your children are geniuses? There’s nothing in this world that can be hidden from them. If they know, they know. As long as they were willing to come back with you, that’s all that matters.”
That was indeed true.
The two children were exceptionally talented. From a young age, their performance in all aspects had been beyond ordinary people. Their minds were full of clever ideas, and it was no wonder their godmother couldn’t stop them.
It was also strange, the two little ones actually took such a liking to Zhan Beijue at first sight.
Not only did they call him Daddy as soon as they met, but they also settled in his house willingly.
Was blood relation truly that magical?
No matter how magical it was, Jiang Nanfang couldn’t possibly give them up to Zhan Beijue.
These were her precious darlings whom she had painstakingly carried, painstakingly given birth to, and painstakingly raised.
That arrogant, morally questionable guy didn’t deserve to share her labor!
With longing for her children, Jiang Nanfang began to tidy up the house.
By the time she finished everything, it was past seven in the evening.
There was no food at home, so she walked out to find something to eat. By the time she returned home, it was nine in the evening.
As she carried her groceries back to the 23rd floor, she heard deafening music coming from the hallway as soon as she exited the elevator, as if she had walked into a bar.
The screams of men and women mixed together, the rhythmic beats of the DJ, and the sounds of toasts being made one after another, all reverberating so loudly that her eardrums felt numb.
Could she be this unlucky? The neighbor across the hall moved in the very same night she did, and they were having a wild party on the first night?
She wasn’t one to spoil the fun. If they wanted to have a party, let them. They were all young people, it was understandable.
However, it was past midnight, and the opposite side showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it grew more intense as they got drunker.
She couldn’t take it anymore and went to knock on the door opposite.
Zhan Family.
Dr. Lu had visited the house today and talked a lot with Rui Rui. He found that the boy's psychology was very healthy, but Zhan Beijue’s was not.
He stayed for dinner. At this moment, Zhan Beijue was chatting with him in the living room on the first floor.
Dr. Lu teased him, “So many years have passed, and you’re still stuck on that matter. Are you really not planning to get married in this lifetime?”
Zhan Beijue detested him for always mocking him about this. Upon hearing this, he lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, then ushered him out: “Alright, it’s getting late. I won’t delay your private time. Please, take care.”
Dr. Lu, however, had no intention of leaving immediately. Seeing that he had said that, he put away his smile and suddenly looked at him with a serious expression.