I thought it would become clear once I saw you.

Bai Tiqiu heard his voice, slowly turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes that had always been deep and attentive looked a little dull, and he hesitated for a moment before he couldn’t say a word: “You …… last night What are you dreaming about?” 

Ren Xingliu slept quite well that night.

Although the weather had turned colder, the temperature under the blanket was actually warm and cozy due to the addition of another person. 

Because the window wasn’t closed tightly, cold air poured in from the crack. In his daze, he even arched towards the heat source.

He was in good spirits, however, the same couldn’t be said for Bai Juanqiu.

Next morning, Ren Xingliu woke up early and was startled by Bai Juanqiu’s complexion. “Xiao Bai, did you not sleep well last night?”

He looked haggard, with two large black bags under his eyes.

Looking even more dog-tired than the students studying for their postgraduate entrance exams.

Could it be that Comrade Xiao Bai persisted in finishing the movie after he passed out?

That was too stubborn of him, that movie wasn’t even that great of a watch.

Bai Tiqiu heard his voice, slowly turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes that had always been deep and attentive looked a little dull, and he hesitated for a moment before he couldn’t say a word: “You …… last night What are you dreaming about?” 

Hearing the question, Bai Juanqiu slowly turned his head and glanced at Ren Xingliu. There was a hint of sluggishness in those profound eyes. After a moment of hesitation, this nudging question was very hard to phrase, “What did you dream of…last night?”

Ren Xingliu was very puzzled. “I didn’t dream last night.”

Bai Juanqiu: “…”

Oh well. Dreams were something to be forgotten once one woke up. 

Young Master Ren certainly didn’t do it on purpose.

But he got to say, the youth could pack a punch, and even when sleeping, he could land his hit accurately, straight to the center of the chest.

At once, Bai Juanqiu wondered if he might be suffering from an internal injury.

Plus, this person snuggled into his arms in the middle of the night. He was already restless, so to sleep under such circumstances would be the end of the world. 

Ren Xingliu was completely oblivious to this and even asked in a baffle, “Did I sleep talk?”

Bai Juanqiu took a deep breath and shook his head. “It’s nothing.”

He didn’t want to go into details, so Ren Xingliu didn’t dwell on it and changed the topic, “Why did you come just at the right time last night, so coincidence?”

Bai Juanqiu didn’t evade this question and replied, “It’s not a coincidence. I came specifically to look for you.” 

Ren Xingliu was on his way to wash up, but he stopped from that. “Look for me? Something you need?”

Last night, from the library to the dormitory, to falling asleep, Bai Juanqiu mentioned nothing. It didn’t seem like he needed anything.

Bai Juanqiu looked at him straightly, his eyes a little dark: “It’s nothing important. I just have some thoughts that I haven’t figured out clearly. I think maybe I can figure it out after meeting you.”

Bai Juanqiu looked straight at him with his somewhat darkened eyes. “It isn’t anything urgent. It’s because I didn’t have a clear understanding of a notion, and I thought it would become clear to me once I see you.” 

Ren Xingliu felt that there was deeper meaning in those words and pondered for a moment. “And it has something to do with me?”

Bai Juanqiu nodded.

Ren Xingliu asked, “Is it clear to you now?”

The lights in Bai Juanqiu’s eyes flickered slightly. After a while, he showed a small smile and said, “Yes.” 

He didn’t elaborate, and Ren Xingliu had a division of length. He smiled and said, “Is it something you can tell me?”

There was a hint of teasing in his tone, and he didn’t have the intention to press the issue.

“Of course.” Bai Juanqiu raised his hand and lightly flickered the youth’s forehead. “In a few days.”

Ren Xingliu reflexively grabbed the finger that gave his forehead an itch and said, “That’s a deal.” 

Bai Juanqiu allowed his finger to be grabbed and said with a solemn expression, “Yes, it’s a deal.”

Since they came to an agreement, Ren Xingliu stopped there.

Then came a phone ringtone. Looking at the scene, it was from Ren Zhu. Ren Xingliu released his hold and went to the sun platform to answer the call.

Bai Juanqiu witnessed this and asked with concern, “What’s wrong?” 

Ren Xingliu gave him a puppy look, flattened his lips and lamented, “I’m going to start working.”

Bai Juanqiu: “…”

This had to be bad news for someone like Young Master Ren.

Ren Xingliu was naturally very reluctant to do this. After all, he had been struggling for more than ten years. If possible, he wished he could continue to be a salted fish. 

Ren Xingliu was naturally very reluctant about this, after all, he had been struggling for more than a decade. If possible, he would love to continue his life as a salted fish.

But he knew that would be impossible.

Another insight he gained from his decade-long transmigration was that there was no such thing as being a rich salted fish for nothing.

He was able to stay salty up to this point mostly thanks to Mr. Ren and Ren Zhu’s indulgence of him. 

But now that Mr. Ren had retired, and Ren Zhu wasn’t getting any younger, he couldn’t expect to live under their protection forever.

Besides, the two elders have already done enough for him.

He was supposed to help out with the company a while ago, but the car accident pushed the date back.

Afterwards, shareholders also used the car accident as an excuse to be a constant hindrance. 

The Ren Empire was huge, with twisted roots and intertwined joint hierarchy, not to mention each shareholder was carnivorous.

Ren Zhu took over the company as a weaker sex long ago and finally secured her position, but there were still many tigers glaring at her like prey.

They dare not pick on Ren Zhu’s fault but have a field day with Ren Xingliu.

It was Ren Xingliu’s own fault for being useless, as well as causing many troubles over the years. 

The commotion from the car accident a while ago was well-known to everyone, resulting in burning mountain ridges between the Pei Family and Song Family in one go.

The shareholders have a death grip on this piece of information and had a long deadlocked with Ren Zhu.

Of course, Ren Zhu can ignore the opinions of shareholders and force Ren Xingliu to enter, but there is no guarantee that no one will deliberately stumble in the future.

Of course, Ren Zhu could go against the shareholders’ opinions and arrange Ren Xingliu into the company with force, but it was difficult to guarantee that no one would intentionally trip him up afterwards.

With Ren Xingliu’s temper and impulsiveness, he may not be able to cope with the situation.

This was also another reason why Ren Zhu forced him to go on a blind date. Appeasing the Pei Family was only one of the reasons, but more importantly, it was to increase the bargaining chips in his hand.

Marriage was undoubtedly the quickest and most effective method.

But he didn’t expect that Ren Xingliu would eventually fall in love with Bai Juanqiu, who had no background. After Ren Zhu’s initial doubts, he chose to respect his son’s decision and continued to deal with shareholders silently. 

Except Ren Xingliu picked the most unexpected candidate, Bai Juanqiu, who was without a background. After the initial suspicion, Ren Zhu ultimately chose to respect her son’s decision, while silently continuing to deal with the shareholders.

Then, to her surprise, Ren Xingliu’s temperament had actually grown tremendously since then.

Especially the other day when he went to see the old man with Bai Juanqiu. She had a whole new level of respect for her son with the way he behaved at the resort.

It was only after that did Mr. Ren personally showed his face and fought verbally with those shareholders, before the matter was finally finalized. 

Thinking of this, Ren Xingliu had a realization and finally found the culprit to this disaster!

He narrowed his eyes at Bai Juanqiu. “Xiao Bai, this is all your fault.”

Bai Juanqiu was baffled. “What does it have to do with me?”

Ren Xingliu said plausibly: “You must have performed so well that day, which made my grandfather think that I am a mature man who can start a family and start a business, so he rushed me to work.” 

Ren Xingliu spoke plausibly and at length, “It must be because you had performed too well that my grandfather felt that I’m mature enough to get married and start a career, that’s why he was in a hurry to get me to start working.”

Bai Juanqiu cleared his throat, “…Ahem.”

It was not an exaggeration to call that pot toss a trick shot.

However, Bai Juanqiu didn’t refute. Instead, he smiled and nodded with a serious face, “Yes, it’s all my fault.” 

After a pause, he added at his leisure, “Then you better not disappoint your grandfather.”

Ren Xingliu: “…”

Chrysanthemum Garden.

He suspected that there were words within Xiao Bai’s words, but he has no proof.

– Bmja9J

Ren Zhu was a swift and decisive person who quickly arranged everything for Ren Xingliu.

So, within two days, Ren Xingliu styled his hair back like an adult, put on a suit and appeared at the Ren Luo Corporation’s building that was smack dab in the middle of central business district.

When he arrived, he didn’t forget to take a photo to send to the culprit, followed by a row of crying emoji.

Ren Xingliu: [Xiao Bai, I’m going to start acting like a mature man TOT] 

He put away his phone and beamed at the front desk. “Hello, I’m on my first day of work.”

What he didn’t expect was just after completing the onboarding procedures, a senior management abused his status.

The conference room. 

Ren Zhu sat in the main seat. With an unfriendly expression, she looked at the honest looking middle-aged man on the right and said coldly, “Chen Zhi, isn’t it too sudden for you to make this request?”

The man named Chen Zhi sighed when he heard this, and said with a sad face: “I don’t want to do this, but I have also analyzed the reasons, and there is really no way, and…”

The man named Chen Zhi sighed and said with a knitted brows and doleful face, “It’s not that I wanted to, but I have already analyzed the cause, and I was left with no other choice. Moreover…”

He turned to the young man sitting in the corner, who still carried a hint of youthfulness in his appearance. “I’m doing this also for Xingliu’s sake.”

Ren Xingliu: “…” 

Those who could achieve this high of position indeed possessed some acting skills.

If he didn’t mingle within an imperial court, he might have bought it.

This Chen Zhi was the employee Ren Zhu had initially arranged to mentor Ren Xingliu.

Ren Xingliu had a special status. He must have entered the company for the core business, but after all, he was just a freshly graduated student, and it was impossible for him to be parachuted into a management position as soon as he entered.

Ren Xingliu had a special status, who was certainly expected to manage the core of business, but he was just a recent graduate and couldn’t be parachuted into a senior management position as soon as he started working.

Therefore, Ren Zhu’s plan was to have Ren Xingliu follow a lower division to gain experience and learn first.

The problem lay in the fact that the senior management of several core business divisions weren’t keen on mentoring Ren Xingliu.

The reasons were mostly the same. They viewed Ren Xingliu as a bag made of woven straw, fearing the trouble he would cause or worried that their authority would be taken away. cehRgk

These people were all making money for the company, so they have some say in the matter. It was also hard for Ren Zhu to force them.

Originally, she expected the stalemate to last for a while, but then Chen Zhi suddenly changed his mind and offered to take Ren Xingliu under his wings.

Of course, it wasn’t without conditions. This year, the company would increase Chen Zhi’s division budget by ten percent.

Since the request was within a reasonable scope, Ren Zhu agreed to it. 

Then on the day when Ren Xingliu officially started and during the morning meeting, Chen Zhi changed his symbol without notice, requesting that the company allocate some other projects to him.

Chen Zhi said it very sincerely, meaning that he also wanted to lead Ren Xingliu. But he went back and took a look and found that there were already people in charge of the department’s existing business. Those people were all veteran employees who had made great contributions, and it was impossible for them to give up what they had in hand.

Chen Zhi spoke very sincerely, trying to express that he truly had the thoughts of mentoring Ren Xingliu. However, when he returned to his division to sort things out, he found that there was ownership in all the existing projects. Every one of them were veteran employees, working like a sweaty horse to earn those merits, so it was impossible to take projects away from them.

So, to show Ren Xingliu working in this company, they must give him a new project.

And the new project he was eyeing was none other than the future city project that He Lang was currently responsible for.

As a government-led mega project, the future city had the eyes of the entire industrial chain. Everyone knew just how juicy this piece of meat the project was.

The Ren Empire also got a piece of the business. Since it was under He Lang’s responsibility from the beginning, it was naturally given to He Lang.

Of course there were also red-eyed people, but the most they did was contacted privately to see if there was a chance to get a share of the soup. 

No one expected Chen Zhi to come up with this curve in order to save the country by taking advantage of Ren Xingliu’s entry into the company.

He had planned this for a long time, and had secretly joined forces with several other senior executives to sing along in the morning meeting, thinking about Ren Xingliu every time, firmly occupying the moral high ground.

He had long planned this plot and secretly teamed up with several other senior management. In this morning meeting, one song and another provided vocal harmony, each sentence emphasizing their consideration of Ren Xingliu, and firmly camped on the moral high ground.

Chen Zhi also picked this time to initial his plan after careful consideration. In addition to catching Ren Zhu off guard, he also intended to make use of Ren Xingliu’s temperament. hsIrgd

It was common knowledge how much Ren Xingliu disliked Ren Zhu’s boyfriend.

Not to mention the huge commotion in the company back then, one could say Ren Xingliu had a fire-water relationship with He Lang.

Over the years, He Lang had been avoiding Ren Xingliu, and it was said that he hadn’t walked through Ren Family home’s main gate yet.

So, Chen Zhi was very confident that Ren Xingliu would definitely stand on his request. 

Based on Ren Xingliu’s fearless nature, it was even possible for him to argue with He Lang on the spot.

As far as Chen Zhi knows, He Lang has always wanted to ease the relationship with this young master. At this time, insisting on not letting go of the project will definitely intensify their conflicts.

As far as Chen Zhi’s knowledge, He Lang had always wanted to appease his relationship with this young master. So, to insist on holding onto this project would definitely intensify their conflict.

Under such circumstances, he believed that He Lang would have no other choice but to yield. 

Since Ren Zhu had managed to get her son into the company after great effort, she would reconsider if she didn’t want a branch to grow out of scope.

Moreover, Chen Zhi found nothing wrong with his request.

If Ren Zhu wanted to cultivate Ren Xingliu, shouldn’t he be given the best project?

Chen Zhi’s plan was meticulous down to the tiniest details. What he had in mind was indeed what Ren Zhu had worried about. 

If it were in the past, even if Ren Zhu would disagree, she would have to yield one-two.

Not to compromise with Chen Zhi, but to compromise with his son.

However, this time…

Ren Zhu looked at her son in the corner and asked, “Xingliu, what do you think?” 

Ren Xingliu did not answer her directly, but turned to look at Chen Zhi and asked curiously: “Uncle Chen, is your department’s business volume really so small? Don’t you have any to share with me?”

Ren Xingliu didn’t directly answer her, instead, he turned to meet Chen Zhi’s eyes and asked curiously, “Chen-shu, does your division really have this small volume of projects? There is really nothing that can be shared with me?”

Chen Zhi found this question strange, but since this was a bag of woven straw, of course he would ask a dumb question.

Moreover, he was not very pleased with Ren Xingliu’s reaction. The young master was acting a bit too calm today. It was a surprise that he hadn’t caused any trouble yet. 

As Chen Zhi quickly plotted against the new turn of events, he maintained his kind and distressed expression and lamented, “There is indeed none. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have the audacity to ask for He Lang’s project.”

Having said this, he turned his attention to He Lang opposite, and continued with a smile, “I mainly think that the Future City project can train people, and it is best for you to participate. Otherwise, you can go to He Lang’s department and follow He can do things well.”

Speaking of this, he turned his gaze to He Lang across from him and continued with a smile, “My thought was that the future city project can be used to train you, since isn’t it the most appropriate project for you to be involved in? If not, how about you work under He Lang’s division and shadow him? That will work as well.”

As soon as he suggested this, everyone’s eyes twitched. 

Chen Zhi was really aiming for the target with this attack.

I suggested that Ren Xingliu go to He Lang’s department. Isn’t this a deliberate attempt to cause trouble? Everyone still remembers how much trouble Ren Xingliu made in the company in the past few years.

To suggest that Ren Xingliu should work in He Lang’s division, if this wasn’t to add fuel to the flame, then what else? The way Ren Xingliu caused trouble on the company grounds was still vivid in everyone’s mind despite being a few years ago.

Oh no, the young master was probably going to flip the table again. 

Several older employees were even prepared to step out and advise against this suggestion.

He Lang also showed some degree of nervousness on his face.

But before anyone could speak, Ren Xingliu nodded and agreed, “That does look to be the only solution.”

He turned towards He Lang and said with a smile, “He-shu, then I’ll work in your division.” 

Everyone: “?”

Chen Zhi: “???”