Jiang Jinyue finally waited for Su Jing's investment.
However, the person who came was his secretary, and what she brought was not an investment contract, but a bank card.
"Miss Jiang, there are thirty million here for you to use for now. At the latest by the day after tomorrow, President Lu will transfer another thirty million to this card for you."
Jiang Jinyue glanced at the card and asked with a smile, "What has my brother been busy with lately?"
Jiang Jinyue was pretty. When she smiled, her eyelashes cast delicate light and shadows beneath her eyes, just like midsummer sunlight shining into a room that had long been deprived of daylight, bringing joy to anyone who saw it.
The secretary also smiled: "With matters of work and matters of family, he is needed to hold down the fort everywhere, or else he wouldn't have sent me over. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first."
"Alright."
Stepping out of Qingci Technology's doors, Secretary Xu glanced at the logo full of design sense, got into her car, and left.
To be able to found her own company at such a young age, she must be a clever girl!
Jiang Jinyue had lived under the same roof with Su Jing for ten years, and she understood Su Jing better than anyone else.
If something hadn't happened, he wouldn't have sent his secretary to deliver money to her.
Besides, the act of directly sending money wasn't something Su Jing would normally do.
She understood Su Jing, and Su Jing likewise understood her personality.
When it came to official business, she was always strictly business-first.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Jiang Jinyue called Su Jing: "Brother, are you off work yet?"
Su Jing handed a document he had just finished reading to his secretary and signaled with his eyes for her to step outside first.
"Not yet. Have you gone back?"
The secretary pulled the door shut gently as she went out.
It had been a long time since she had seen her boss speak in such a genial and pleasant manner.
"I haven't either. I wanted to ask you to come and pick me up after you get off work. Meng Zanchen had to leave early for something, so I don't have a ride to hitch today."
Meng Zanchen, who had just walked to the door: "..."
Should I just disappear right now?
"Then wait for me for half an hour."
"Alright."
After hanging up, Su Jing dialed the internal extension to call his secretary back in and told her to reschedule the offline meeting set for half an hour later to an online one at ten o'clock.
Seeing Su Jing packing his things to leave work, the secretary asked, "Is President Lu going to pick up Miss Jiang?"
"Mmm."
"I can see that Miss Jiang cares for you very much. She even specifically asked me what you've been busy with lately."
Su Jing paused and smiled, "I shouldn't have sent you over there."
Qingci Technology was located in the Longcheng Science and Technology Innovation Park.
The location was not the best, but the logo and interior design, which blended traditional Chinese elements with a modern technological feel, made people notice it at a glance.
When Su Jing arrived, Jiang Jinyue was already waiting at the entrance.
"Why did you come down without waiting for my call?"
"I didn't have anything to do in the office anyway, so I just came down for some fresh air."
Su Jing's car was parked in the innovation park's parking lot, some distance away from Qingci Technology.
The two of them walked side by side toward it.
They didn't notice a group of people walking out from a doorway on the other side of the park.
Surrounded in the center like the moon among stars was precisely Lu Chenhuai.
After exchanging polite farewells with the others, Lu Chenhuai got into the commercial vehicle parked at the entrance.
"President Lu, where are we heading now?"
For a meeting of this caliber today, Lu Chenhuai didn't need to come in person; he had only come upon hearing that the location was the innovation park.
What his intentions were, others might not know, but Fang Zhi was well aware.
As a result, he had witnessed with his own eyes Su Jing coming to pick up Miss Jiang after work.
Why did it have to be such an unfortunate coincidence!
"Home."
Jiang Jinyue had recently been staying at the Su family residence.
With Su Yan away, her stay there was, all things considered, quite comfortable.
"A-Jing, you're back..."
Su Pei'an was in the living room and, seeing Su Jing walk in, immediately hurried over to greet him.
Seeing that Jiang Jinyue was there too, the rest of his words came to an abrupt halt.
"Yueyue came back pretty early today."
Although Jiang Jinyue lived at the Su family home, she left early and returned late every day, and had not run into him since the very first day.
"Mmm."
Jiang Jinyue responded indifferently.
"A-Jing, come with me to the study for a moment."
There was anxiety on Su Pei'an's face.
"I had the housekeeper make you a midnight snack. Eat a little before going up."
Having settled Jiang Jinyue, Su Jing and Su Pei'an went upstairs.
Jiang Jinyue sat in the dining room eating her midnight snack.
Madam Su came down from upstairs to get some water, and seeing Jiang Jinyue instantly stirred an inexplicable wave of anger in her heart.
She couldn't suppress it no matter how hard she tried.
"You still have the nerve to come back? Did our Su family owe you in our past life? The moment you return, you either disrupt my daughter's wedding or cause my son to disregard his own family's difficulties and sell off his personal assets to invest in you."
"Yueyue, Madam hasn't been feeling well lately, don't take it to heart."
The domestic helper comforted her in a low voice.
Jiang Jinyue put down the spoon in her hand.
"Your daughter's wedding was the result of her reaping what she sowed. As for my brother investing in me... that is his compensation to me on behalf of you and your daughter."
"Compensation? We raised you for ten years, who on earth owes compensation to whom?"
Jiang Jinyue felt a sharp ache in her heart.
Her heart felt as though it had been pierced through, leaking drafts of cold wind from every direction.
In the past, Madam Su had been very good to her, and it was no exaggeration to say she treated her like her own daughter.
Perhaps the premise for that kindness all along was that she had traded her own constant forbearance for Su Yan's sake.
The moment she refused to endure any longer, Madam Su stood in direct opposition to her.
"When Yueyue came to our family, she brought a huge sum for her upbringing. With that money, she could have lived well anywhere she went."
Su Jing came down from upstairs. "It's getting late, you should go rest early."
Madam Su cast a cold glance at Jiang Jinyue and went upstairs.
"My mother's headaches have been frequent lately, and her temper has changed a lot too, she's like this with everyone, don't take it to heart."
Su Jing sat down at the dining table and had the housekeeper dish him a bowl of small wontons as well.
Jiang Jinyue placed the card Su Jing had given her onto the dining table.
Su Jing looked at her.
"The allowance you gave this time is too much." Jiang Jinyue said with a smile.
Su Jing put down his spoon and stood up: "It's not an allowance, it's the money invested in your company. Within three days, I will give you the remaining seventy million."
For a small company like theirs, one hundred million was no small sum.
"If it's an investment from your company, I will accept it. But I won't accept your personal actions." Jiang Jinyue said with a serious expression, "You know me, public and private are never mixed."
"Just consider it borrowed from your brother, with interest at bank rates."
Jiang Jinyue shook her head with a smile: "Then I might as well just go take out a bank loan. At least using that would give me peace of mind with no pressure."
"If you don't take this money, how will your second round of financing go? Without money, your company will die."
"Isn't there still Meng Zanchen? With him around, the company won't die because of money."
Su Jing still wanted to persuade her when Jiang Jinyue's phone happened to ring.
He told Su Jing, picked up his phone, and walked out of the dining room.
"A-Jing, are you still eating your wontons?"
"I'm not eating anymore."
Su Jing pinched the bridge of his nose and also walked out of the dining room.
The trouble the Su family had encountered this time was suspicious; it wasn't aimed at driving the Su family business into bankruptcy, but rather aimed directly at him.
Just right so that it could hold him in check, leaving him unable to attend to both the Su family and Yueyue at the same time.
Aside from Lu Chenhuai, he couldn't think of a second person.
Yet he still couldn't figure out what Lu Chenhuai's purpose was in doing this.