Chapter 96

In the afternoon, the sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows into a spacious office on the top floor of the Sunlight Building. As the chairman of Green Lake Group, Su Hongyuan sat behind his grand desk, attentively listening to Su Yuxin's report on the investment promotion conference in Jiangnan for the second half of the year.

"Yuxin, did Ye Wenhao meet with Ye Fan alone?" Halfway through the report, Su Hongyuan lost his patience, interrupting Su Yuxin and getting straight to the point.

Just as Su Yuxin had predicted, Su Hongyuan had sent her and Ye Fan to the investment promotion conference solely to test Ye Fan's relationship with Ye Wenhao and the Ye family.

He hoped that Ye Fan was a member of the Ye family and longed for a connection between Ye Fan and the Ye family.

Upon hearing this, Su Yuxin couldn't help but sigh inwardly before shaking her head and saying, "No."

"Did he show any special behavior towards Ye Fan, like eye contact or anything?" Despite being mentally prepared, Su Hongyuan felt somewhat disappointed after hearing Su Yuxin's response. Disappointed, yet unwilling to give up.

Su Yuxin shook her head again.

"Ah..."

With Su Yuxin's shake of the head, the last shred of hope in Su Hongyuan's heart was crushed. He couldn't help but sigh, then lit a cigarette and silently smoked, not uttering a word.

"Grandpa, Doctor Ye has already given our Su family so much help. Even if he has no connection with the Ye family, it doesn't matter," Su Yuxin couldn't help but say, seeing his reaction.

Clearly... she didn't care whether Ye Fan had any connection with the Ye family!

"I know."

Su Hongyuan nodded with a bitter smile and sighed, "Everyone always hopes for the best. I'm no exception. I can see that you have a good impression of Ye Fan, and he feels the same way about you..."

"Grandpa..."

Hearing Su Hongyuan's words, Su Yuxin was taken aback, as if her secret had been exposed. She blushed and interrupted him.

"Ha ha..."

Seeing her reaction, Su Hongyuan couldn't help but laugh, "If Ye Fan is a member of the Ye family, or has a connection with them, it would be a great blessing for both you and our Su family."

This time, Su Yuxin didn't respond but lowered her head, blushed, and explained guiltily, "Grandpa, Doctor Ye and I are not what you think."

"Really not?" Su Hongyuan probed, "Then I'll introduce you to someone later."

"No!" Hearing this, Su Yuxin reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, becoming flustered.

"You see, such a strong reaction, and you still say there's nothing," Su Hongyuan teased with a complex smile.

Su Yuxin, in a hurry, explained, "Grandpa, I mean, I'm still young, and all my energy is focused on company affairs. I haven't thought about those things and don't want to be distracted by them."

"Ring ring..."

After Su Yuxin finished speaking, Su Hongyuan was about to say something when the office phone rang.

"Grandpa, I have some things to handle, so I won't disturb you."

Su Yuxin seemed very afraid of discussing marriage with Su Hongyuan. Hearing the phone ring, she grabbed it like a lifeline, quickly said a few words, and left the office without waiting for Su Hongyuan's response.

Su Hongyuan didn't stop her but picked up the phone. The receptionist's voice came through the receiver, "Chairman, a Mr. Wang, who claims to be the director of the provincial office, wants to speak with you. Should I connect the call?"

Mr. Wang, the director of the provincial office?

Su Hongyuan was initially stunned, then immediately remembered that the secretary Ye Wenhao had brought to Jiangnan was the new director of the provincial office, and his surname was Wang.

Could it be that Ye Wenhao deliberately didn't show any signs to Ye Fan to avoid any influence?

Thinking of this, Su Hongyuan's heart began to race, and he quickly said, "Quick, connect the call!"

"Yes, Chairman!" The receptionist said and transferred the call.

"Hello, is this Director Wang?" As soon as the call was connected, Su Hongyuan didn't wait for the other party to speak but greeted him with great respect.

"Mr. Su, you are a busy man. It's really hard to meet you," the voice on the other end, belonging to Wang Zheng, who was both Ye Wenhao's secretary and the director of the provincial office, said sarcastically.

Whoosh!

Wang Zheng's sarcastic words were like a slap in the face, instantly extinguishing Su Hongyuan's excitement and hope, leaving him tense and his face slightly pale.

As the head of the Su family, Su Hongyuan had experienced many storms and met many people. He was very experienced in dealing with officials and immediately sensed the hostility in Wang Zheng's tone.

"Director Wang, you flatter me. Compared to your busy schedule, I am like a leisurely cloud," Su Hongyuan said cautiously. Given his status, if the other party was just the director of the provincial office, he wouldn't have been so humble, but the other party was not only the director of the provincial office but also Ye Wenhao's secretary!

In such a situation, if he offended Wang Zheng, and Wang Zheng whispered in Ye Wenhao's ear, the Su family would be in serious trouble!

After all, with Ye Wenhao's status, it would be as easy as swatting a fly to bring down the Su family.

"Su Hongyuan, do you think our provincial committee and government are too small to invite a great deity like you?"

As if to confirm Su Hongyuan's suspicions, Wang Zheng was clearly not there to be friendly and quickly revealed his anger, "Or do you think Governor Ye's face isn't big enough?"

"Thump!"

For Su Hongyuan, who had spent his life in the business world, reading between the lines was a basic skill. Hearing Wang Zheng's words, he immediately understood the reason and quickly explained, "I'm sorry, Director Wang, it was my mistake. I only focused on letting my granddaughter experience a grand occasion and didn't think it through."

"Ha! Can you just brush it off with a 'didn't think it through'?" Wang Zheng said coldly, "I'll tell you, Governor Ye is very unhappy about this. You figure it out!"

"Click—"

Without waiting for Su Hongyuan's response, Wang Zheng hung up the phone.

Understanding the leader's intentions is a skill every secretary must have.

Although Ye Wenhao had only asked Wang Zheng to deliver the files of Su Yuxin and Ye Fan that morning, Wang Zheng subconsciously believed that Ye Wenhao was very dissatisfied with Green Lake Group sending two young people to the meeting.

Because of this subjective judgment, he made the call, partly to vent his frustration through the 'kicking the cat effect' and partly to warn Su Hongyuan that the Su family, though deeply rooted in Jiangnan, could not afford to offend Ye Wenhao!

"Beep beep..."

The beeping sound from the phone made cold sweat break out on Su Hongyuan's forehead, and even his hand holding the phone trembled slightly.

He never imagined that his cleverness would backfire, and he would inadvertently offend Ye Wenhao!

While Su Hongyuan was uneasy, Wang Zheng calmed himself, took the files of Ye Fan and Su Yuxin, and headed to Ye Wenhao's office.

"Governor Ye, these are the files of the two people from Green Lake Group who attended the meeting this morning," Wang Zheng said cautiously as he entered the office, as if afraid of being implicated, and handed the files to Ye Wenhao.

Ye Wenhao, holding the files, said calmly, "Put them down."

"Okay." Wang Zheng quickly placed the files of Ye Fan and Su Yuxin on the desk, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "You..."

"Nothing else, you can go," Ye Wenhao interrupted before Wang Zheng could finish, his tone gentle but leaving no room for argument.

Wang Zheng, not daring to say more, quietly left the office and closed the door behind him.

Seeing Wang Zheng leave, Ye Wenhao quickly put down the red-headed document he was holding and picked up the files of Ye Fan and Su Yuxin.

At this moment, as the most likely successor of the third generation of the Ye family, he was unusually excited, and his eye muscles twitched violently when he picked up the files.

Since Su Yuxin was Su Hongyuan's granddaughter and the general manager of Green Lake Group's Jiangnan branch, Wang Zheng had placed her file on top.

However—

Ye Wenhao had no interest in Su Yuxin's file and flipped through it without even looking. After flipping through several pages and still not finding Ye Fan's file, he decided to flip to the last page and read backward.

Hmm?

When he reached the last page, Ye Wenhao's pupils dilated, and his usually expressionless face showed a rare look of surprise!

He was surprised because Ye Fan's file was less than a page long, and it only contained a brief record of Ye Fan's activities since he arrived in Hanghu, with only a few words about his life before that.

After the initial surprise, Ye Wenhao read the less than a thousand-word file word by word, then thought for a moment and took out his phone to make a call.

"Lei, help me check someone's file. His name is Ye Fan, and he is currently the vice president of Green Lake Group's Jiangnan branch," Ye Wenhao said straightforwardly after the call was connected, "I'm waiting for your news, as soon as possible!"

"Okay."

The person on the other end, a senior in a certain intelligence department of China, didn't ask any more questions but hung up after giving a direct response.

An hour later, the intelligence department's senior sent Ye Wenhao a more detailed file on Ye Fan, but it only contained information about Ye Fan's activities since he arrived in Hanghu, with no mention of his achievements like killing Wu He, Qu Feng, and Qiao Bazhi.

This result made Ye Wenhao even more certain of a certain possibility. He immediately picked up the phone and called Chu Ji.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable."

When the call was connected, the pleasant voice of the automated operator came through the receiver, but it made Ye Wenhao, who was usually calm, want to throw the phone.

At the same time, in a quadrangle courtyard in Yanjing, Chu Ji looked at the phone screen showing a rejected call, hesitating to speak.

"Only the one who tied the bell can untie it."

Beside her, Chu Xuanji suddenly opened his eyes, his expression complex.

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