Chapter 76

"Miss Zhong!"

Just as Zhong Chuhong stepped out of the classroom, she heard someone calling her from behind. She turned her head and saw a man with gold-rimmed glasses walking up to her quickly.

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses came up to her, wearing a very gentlemanly smile: "A few classmates and I are having dinner together tonight. We'd like to invite you to join us. Would you be willing to grace us with your presence?"

"I'm very sorry, but I have other plans tonight!" Zhong Chuhong politely declined.

"What about tomorrow? How about going bowling with us? After all, we are classmates, and it's a rare opportunity to gather together!" The man, undeterred, continued to invite her.

Zhong Chuhong had just finished filming "The Gold of the Cold Mountain," and the next movie, "Chasing Girls," had already confirmed her as the lead actress. However, the script was still being meticulously refined by Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Jing according to Li Xuan's requirements, and filming would not start for some time. So, she took advantage of this free period to enroll in a business management course at the University of Hong Kong.

As Li Xuan had mentioned during their meal, he really invested two million and partnered with Zeng Zhiwei to register a new film company. The company's name was grandly called Asia Film. Li Xuan had no intention of personally getting involved in the new company, and even the shares were registered under Zhong Chuhong's name.

Zeng Zhiwei was very smooth in his dealings. Although he was the general manager of Asia Film, he would consult Zhong Chuhong, the major shareholder, on every detail. As a result, Zhong Chuhong was forced to start learning many things, and the management course Li Xuan had enrolled her in gave her a chance to recharge herself.

Just as Zhong Chuhong was thinking of another excuse to reject the so-called "classmate" in front of her, a light and playful voice suddenly came from beside her: "Hey, mister, you're almost a generation older than this beauty. Still trying to hit on her? Your face must be as thick as a wall!"

Zhong Chuhong, hearing this familiar voice, couldn't help but smile.

Li Xuan came up from behind and put his arm around his girlfriend, looking at the other man with a sidelong glance: "Still using the dinner invitation trick to chase girls? That's so outdated. Can't you be a bit more practical?"

As he spoke, Li Xuan took out a delicate ladies' watch from his pocket. He first removed the old watch from Zhong Chuhong's wrist and then gently put the new one on for her.

"See this? It's a Seiko Grand Seiko enamel watch!" Li Xuan lifted Zhong Chuhong's delicate wrist and placed it in front of the man with the gold-rimmed glasses, whose face had turned gray. "The dial is made of pure gold, and the enamel is crafted with platinum wire. This is the sincerity of chasing a girl!"

"Miss, would you do me the honor of strolling around the campus?" Li Xuan smiled and turned his head, looking at Zhong Chuhong with a gentle gaze.

Zhong Chuhong nodded, then apologized to her "classmate" and let Li Xuan put his arm around her waist as they turned and left together.

"You're too harsh!" Zhong Chuhong said with a smile, thinking about Li Xuan's attack on the other man.

"Heh heh, who told him to invade my territory!" Li Xuan leaned in and gave Zhong Chuhong a light peck on the right cheek. "I have to firmly suppress this troublemaker to deter others with ill intentions!"

"What do you mean by 'ill intentions'? That sounds so harsh!" Zhong Chuhong glared at her boyfriend and then lifted her hand to look at the new watch he had just given her. "The pattern inside the watch is so beautiful. Is it cherry blossoms? Is this watch very expensive? Did you get it from that Japanese person again?"

"Do I really have to rely on gifts from others to give to you?" Li Xuan looked at his girlfriend with a helpless expression, and Zhong Chuhong stuck out her tongue at him.

"Grand Seiko is the top brand under Seiko. I had Mr. Hattori Kensei specially customize these two watches! The dial patterns were specially supervised by the Ando Seven Treasures Shop, which has over a hundred years of history and is the most famous metal enamel workshop in Japan. Enamel has always been considered a noble material, derived from the cloisonné enamel technique from the Eastern Roman Empire, which we call 'Jingtai Blue.' Ando Seven Treasures' technique is based on Jingtai Blue, incorporating Japanese art and culture, and has always been the preferred gift for the Japanese royal family and cabinet in international diplomacy.

These two watches ingeniously combine enamel craftsmanship with precision watches. The best craftsmen from Ando were invited to use pure platinum wire to depict 'blossoming cherry blossoms and flowing water' and 'lush bamboo and trickling streams' on the pure gold dials. They can be said to embody Eastern aesthetics in watches."

Li Xuan lifted the watch on his wrist to show his girlfriend. The style was the same as Zhong Chuhong's, but the dial featured a bamboo and stream scene.

He continued, "Although the dials are made of pure gold and platinum, the colorful patterns are dyed using enamel technology. Because Hattori Kensei needed my help, Seiko put a lot of effort into customizing these two watches, making them unique and one-of-a-kind. Although Seiko Grand Seiko only charged me 200,000 for the watches, if they were put on the market, even at a price of one million Hong Kong dollars each, many watch collectors would surely be eager to buy them!"

Oriental Electronics had just signed a large-scale procurement agreement with Seiko Epson. Over the next year, Oriental Electronics would purchase a total of two million processor and memory chips from Epson. At the same time, Oriental Electronics would also purchase a batch of small LCD screens from Epson, as the company was close to completing a new major product.

To secure this order from Oriental Electronics, Epson not only reduced the prices of various chips from its wafer fabs by more than 10%, but also promised to send a top technical management team to assist Oriental Electronics in improving its management and provide technical guidance for the company's new motherboard factory.

Japanese companies' management and production efficiency far surpassed those of Hong Kong companies, and even the highly developed industrial countries of Europe and America could not compete. Since the late 1960s, Japanese products, with their superior cost control, had gradually defeated American products. It started with televisions, then cameras, and now Intel was suffering from the fierce price war in the memory chip market from Japanese wafer fabs. Even thirty years later, a similar scenario was unfolding, with the American automotive industry, once a symbol of American industry, on the brink of collapse due to the onslaught of Japanese cars.

Taking advantage of Oriental Electronics' advantageous position in negotiations, Li Xuan had to seize the opportunity to learn as much as possible from Japanese companies' excellent management practices.

When the two returned to Li Xuan's dorm room at Pali Hang, as soon as they closed the door, Li Xuan immediately cupped Zhong Chuhong's delicate face and kissed her, his tongue quickly finding its way past her teeth to chase her soft and tender tongue.

After a passionate kiss, Zhong Chuhong pushed Li Xuan away and carefully tidied up her clothes, which he had disheveled.

"Haizai won't be back tonight. Will you stay and keep me company?" Li Xuan wrapped his arms around Zhong Chuhong's waist and whispered gently in her ear.

Zhong Chuhong had been attending classes at the University of Hong Kong recently, and she had been pinned down on Li Xuan's bed several times in his dorm room. However, she only allowed him to satisfy his urges and refused to let him take off her clothes, let alone stay overnight.

The thought of someone suddenly barging in while they were intimate made her firmly reject his advances.

"Hey, Wen, what's Lin's schedule today? Is he in Hong Kong?" Li Xuan suddenly dialed a phone number and put it on speaker.

"Mr. Li, hello! Lin is currently on the mainland. He will be hosting a dinner for several leaders from Shenzhen tonight and will return to Hong Kong tomorrow morning!" A clear voice answered from the other end.

Fei Hong Real Estate's first residential project in Shenzhen, Yaohua Community, was scheduled to open for sale in Hong Kong next week. Previously, when Miaoli Group's Donghu Liyuan opened for sale in Hong Kong, it caused a sensation, with over a thousand people vying for more than a hundred units.

Seeing the favorable situation, Fei Hong Real Estate immediately approached the Shenzhen Planning Bureau and Housing Bureau to request additional land for construction, expanding the original residential scale by half. As a result, the opening of Yaohua Community was delayed by over a month.

However, according to the revised construction plans, Yaohua Community would launch over 800 units, ranging from 450 to 850 square feet. Lin Yuhao had been busy and hadn't returned to the dorm for a long time. His studies had also been put on hold, with his father, Lin Guaitai, intervening to coordinate.

Li Xuan hung up the phone and gave Zhong Chuhong a knowing smile. Zhong Chuhong took a small step back, feeling a bit scared but not wanting to show weakness, and glared at him: "Don't even think about it. I have plans tonight. I'm going shopping in Causeway Bay, so I won't be staying!"

"Heh heh, since you don't have time tonight, why not make the most of it now? Ah Hong, I've been holding back for days. Please, just this once?" Li Xuan didn't give Zhong Chuhong a chance to escape and immediately pounced on her.

Other students occasionally walked past the corridor outside the dorm room, and the door to the opposite room was open, with the sounds of play and conversation occasionally seeping through the poorly soundproofed wooden door into Li Xuan's room.

In such a stimulating environment, Zhong Chuhong was more easily aroused than usual. Li Xuan's intense and repeated thrusts made her body tremble, her legs tightly wrapping around his waist, and she felt as if she were floating on a cloud.

She couldn't help but want to moan in pleasure but quickly bit a piece of the pillow to prevent the embarrassing sounds from escaping. In just a few short minutes, she had already been brought to climax twice by Li Xuan.

After the storm, Zhong Chuhong lay on Li Xuan's single bed, her body limp and her face flushed with a fine layer of sweat.

Li Xuan took a tissue and carefully cleaned up. Then he lay down on his side, holding his girlfriend in his arms, gently caressing her smooth back, giving her more tenderness and affection.

"Ding! Ding!" Li Xuan's pager, which was in his pants, suddenly rang.

He had to get up from the bed, pick up his pants, and find the pager. When he opened it, he saw the company's phone number. Pagers had appeared in Hong Kong in the late 1970s, initially used by police and prostitutes, but had become widely popular in recent years.

"Ya, what's up? Why did you page me?" Li Xuan called his assistant, Cao Jingya. "What? How could this happen? Is anyone hurt? Have you called the police? Okay, I'll be right there!"

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