"Nuan Nuan, your uncle has to leave now. Remember to miss me!" Ye Jingzhi squatted in front of Nuan Nuan, saying goodbye reluctantly.
"Uncle, Nuan Nuan will miss you!" Nuan Nuan reached out and hugged his neck, nuzzling him.
Ye Jingzhi's eyes narrowed contentedly.
"Qiu Qiu, you still need to train after I leave."
"Ao ao~" (Got it, you nag.)
After Ye Jingzhi left, Nuan Nuan still took Qiu Qiu to the park. This time, her companions were Wu Ma and Li Shu. Sometimes, Ye Jinghuai and a few other brothers would also accompany them.
"Qiu Qiu, run faster!"
Qiu Qiu could now catch the frisbee with great accuracy.
"Woof!"
Er Mao had transformed from a supervisor into a competitor, dedicating himself to snatching the frisbee from Qiu Qiu every day.
Qiu Qiu was no longer afraid of Er Mao, and the two dogs had developed a bond. Now, Qiu Qiu would even use its size to pin Er Mao to the ground and bully it.
Er Mao was helpless against the weight advantage.
On the day of the government bidding conference, An Cheng openly brought people to attend, no longer hiding in the shadows.
"You're finally willing to show yourself. If you keep hiding, I'll turn the company into mine," Liu Mingxuan said jokingly as he sat beside her.
"If you want it, I'll give it to you! I really didn't exert much effort," An Cheng said indifferently.
"What I want is not this," Liu Mingxuan said with a hint of implication.
"Then what do you want?" An Cheng looked at him curiously.
"Never mind, you don't understand yet." Liu Mingxuan stopped talking. He could wait.
"Then, tell me when you want to say it!"
As they were talking, Ye Jinghuai arrived with Han Rui.
Normally, he wouldn't need to attend such a bidding. However, due to this bidding, the Ye Corporation had inexplicably come under attack, and he was here today to look for clues.
"Mr. Ye, we meet again." An Cheng proactively stepped forward to greet him.
Today, An Cheng was not dressed casually like before. Instead, she wore a custom-made professional suit, making her look refined and capable.
Ye Jinghuai nodded at her, with no intention of small talk.
"Mr. Ye is truly a man of few words. Are you unwilling to even greet us?" Liu Mingxuan, for some reason, felt a sense of impending doom whenever he saw Ye Jinghuai.
"Apologies to both of you, may I ask who you are?" As the boss's confidant, Han Rui had to come to his boss's aid immediately.
"Mr. Ye is truly too busy for us. Haven't we just met a few days ago? Why don't you recognize us?" Liu Mingxuan's uncharacteristic gentleness today made An Cheng raise an eyebrow.
"My apologies, we were presumptuous." An Cheng quickly pulled Liu Mingxuan to sit down.
"What are you doing? Didn't you say before that you didn't want to be enemies with the Ye Corporation?" An Cheng was somewhat baffled.
"I just can't stand his arrogant demeanor. You greeted him, and he didn't even say a word."
"Alright, he doesn't know me anyway. Everyone knows the CEO of Ye Corporation is indifferent." An Cheng did not mind Ye Jinghuai's coldness much.
"I'd like to see if he'll still be as calm as he is now if he doesn't win the bid later," Liu Mingxuan revealed a smile.
"Alright, it's starting."
"Next, I announce the winning bidder is..." The host took the stage to announce the results.
"Ye Corporation!"
Thunderous applause erupted from the audience.
"What?" An Cheng was incredulous. She had clearly seen the Ye Corporation's reserve price.
"My apologies, may I know Ye Corporation's bid?" An Cheng interrupted the host, her heart extremely unsettled at this moment.
"Of course, the bids of all participating companies are to be publicized," the host replied with a smile.
Next, the host announced the bidding prices of each company one by one. Miraculously, Ye Corporation's bid was only one million higher than Chengguang.
"How could this be?" An Cheng looked at Liu Mingxuan.
"I bid five million higher than the reserve price you told me," Liu Mingxuan was also confused.
"I couldn't have made a mistake. Why were they exactly one million higher than us?" An Cheng's gaze towards Liu Mingxuan was filled with suspicion.
"Chengzi, you suspect me?" Liu Mingxuan felt a pang of hurt.
"My apologies, Ming, I didn't mean it like that." An Cheng closed her eyes to calm herself.
"Was the reserve price leaked by someone else?"
"I made the bid documents myself. No one else was involved. Moreover, our company's defense system was personally set up by you. Perhaps Ye Corporation changed the reserve price temporarily? Could it be a coincidence?"
Liu Mingxuan also couldn't figure it out. How could something he was so confident about turn out like this?
"Let's go back first!" An Cheng, who had come with full confidence, left with a dark expression.
"Investigate that An Cheng," Ye Jinghuai instructed Han Rui.
"Understood."
Ye Jinghuai had not paid attention to the speeches on stage earlier. He had been observing the people participating in the bidding.
He noticed that after hearing that Ye Corporation had won the bid, some people merely expressed regret and disappointment. Only the two people from Chengguang looked surprised and incredulous.
An Cheng sat angrily in her office, becoming more and more furious the more she thought about it. Losing that piece of land meant she couldn't fulfill her mother's wish, and she couldn't accept being outmaneuvered.
After thinking for a long time, she took out a black laptop from her drawer. It had no logo on it.
Qiu Qiu, who was sunbathing on the grass, suddenly seemed to sense something and perked up its ears excitedly.
An Cheng discovered that this time, she couldn't even penetrate Ye Corporation's first layer of firewall. Disbelieving, she tried again, only to find that the other party had initiated a counter-trace.
Her fingers flew across the keyboard at a rapid pace, creating a blur.
"Shit!" An Cheng quickly unplugged the network cable and closed the laptop.
This was the first time she had encountered an opponent like this, one that left her so helpless that she had to unplug the network cable. For a moment, a cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
"Chengzi, what's wrong?" Liu Mingxuan had never seen her so flustered before.
"I've been discovered." An Cheng's expression was unreadable.
"What?" Liu Mingxuan also became nervous.
Meanwhile, Qiu Qiu, as soon as An Cheng unplugged the network cable, had already hacked into An Cheng's computer camera, saw her, and found her current location.
Soon, Qiu Qiu conducted a thorough search, and An Cheng's identity was revealed one by one. Subsequently, Qiu Qiu packaged the information it had found and sent it out in two separate emails.
After completing everything, Qiu Qiu leisurely wagged its tail and continued to sunbathe.
"Ao~" (Little brat! Trying to mess with me.)
"Qiu Qiu." Nuan Nuan called out to it from inside the house.
"Ao ao~" (Coming! Kiddo!) Qiu Qiu immediately got up and ran inside.