There's no way the liquidated damages should be this high.
Shen Xi said, "Mr. Qin, haven't you set the liquidated damages a bit too high?"
"If it's not high enough, how can it keep you in check? You're not short of money, and you tend to be willful. What if one day you just throw in the towel and quit? What will happen to my grandmother's illness?" Qin Si Ye chuckled lightly, picked up his chopsticks, and began to eat his food at a leisurely pace.
This was clearly a remark with a double meaning, alluding to the angry words she had spoken at the Qin family's doorstep yesterday morning.
However, she knew she wouldn't go that far. Once she agreed to something, she would see it through to the end.
Suddenly, Shen Xi realized something. She seemed to have been led by the nose by this man the entire time.
From adding him as a WeChat friend at the beginning, to apologizing without greeting him, and now signing this agreement, every step had logically progressed towards the outcome he desired.
And he had no objections to her proposed plan for the reform of Ankang Hospital.
She even suspected that his move to leave Ankang Hospital was precisely to force her to bow down to him and sign this agreement.
But what use was it to think about these things? She still had to follow his lead.
If he were to truly get angry and make some subtle moves behind the scenes, pushing Ankang Hospital into the spotlight and forcing President Bai to sell the hospital to him, it wouldn't be impossible.
She knew that in K City, it was easy for Qin Si Ye to bring anyone down.
Shen Xi stopped talking and picked up her pen, signing her name on both agreements.
After receiving them, Qin Si Ye also affixed his signature and handed one of them to her.
"Here, Dr. Shen, let's toast to the agreement we've reached." Putting away the agreement, Qin Si Ye was in high spirits and raised his glass first.
Shen Xi forced a smile to her face, "Alright. Mr. Qin, I'll toast you!"
"What's wrong, Dr. Shen? Your complexion doesn't look too good," Qin Si Ye asked deliberately after taking a sip of red wine.
Did she? How could he tell?
Shen Xi's heart skipped a beat. Had he seen something from her face?
"Is it?" She reached up and touched her cheek. "Perhaps it's the lighting. Why would my complexion be bad? I'm very happy tonight to have reached such an agreement and understanding with Mr. Qin."
After that, the two chatted a few more times.
Qin Si Ye occasionally glanced at her, his expression much more relaxed, no longer as tense as it was at the beginning.
Twenty minutes later, they walked out of the private room.
Shen Xi went to the front desk to settle the bill, took the receipt, glanced at it, and then put it into her bag.
Upon reaching the entrance, she saw Qin Si Ye smoking. She slowly walked over, about to bid him farewell.
Qin Si Ye, however, threw the cigarette in his hand into a nearby trash can and said in a low voice, "Let's go, I'll give you a ride home."
"No need. I can ask Jian Fan to pick me up." Shen Xi smiled. "Besides, you've been drinking, you can't drive."
"The designated driver has already arrived. And it's on my way, so why bother making Assistant Jian make a trip? Let's go." Qin Si Ye looked at her with gentle eyes.
A designated driver? When did he call one? She hadn't seen anything.
Earlier, in the private room, after chatting with Song Kai Cheng for a bit, she hadn't taken out her phone again, fearing it might provoke his displeasure.
She had intended to contact Jian Fan after they left, but it seemed that wasn't necessary now.
"Alright." Shen Xi felt that if she refused again, it might displease this man.
They sat in the back seat, but with a considerable distance between them. There wasn't much conversation along the way.
They only spoke a few words about the children.
Upon arriving in front of the villa at Hua Ban Li Building 3, Shen Xi politely bid him farewell. As soon as she got out of the car, she saw Song Kai Cheng walking out from inside.
"Brother Kai Cheng, why are you here?" Shen Xi asked, surprised, as she walked towards him.
Song Kai Cheng glanced at the slowly departing black Rolls-Royce. "Qin Si Ye drove you back?"
"Yes." Shen Xi's expression was calm.
"How did your meeting go? Did he give you a hard time?" Song Kai Cheng looked down at her and asked with concern.
Shen Xi smiled. "No. After all, I am his grandmother's doctor now. Why would he make things difficult for me? If he doesn't give me face, I won't treat his grandmother."