The phone rang again, and it was still Zhong Yanfei’s call. Qin Moling directly rejected the call.

… …

Qin Moling didn’t go to the appointment with her yesterday. This morning, he missed the first call and hung up on the second one. Zhong Yanfei couldn’t understand him.

She was still at home and has just had breakfast.

Zhong Dong hurriedly came down from upstairs, did not stop at the dining room and instead headed straight to the yard.

“Dad, won’t you have breakfast?” Zhong Yanfei shouted from behind.

“There’s not enough time.”

“What’s wrong?”

Zhong Yanfei grabbed her bag and hurried after her dad.

The driver had already opened the car door for him, and Zhong Dong stopped briefly answer his daughter, “I don’t know what the situation is. But several of our major clients have suddenly suspended their purchases.”

“What is the reason?”

“I’m not sure yet. Jiang Shenghe’s side didn’t say anything clearly, they just said they needed to go through the process.” Going through the process was just an excuse, and as for which link went wrong, he has yet to start looking.

Zhong Dong got into the car and said, “I’ll go first and take a look.”

Qin Moling stood up the appointment he had with her and did not answer the phone. Jiang Shenghe suddenly suspended cooperation. Zhong Yanfei suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem. She didn’t know if it was a coincidence or their concerted effort.

She had to go to Lemeng Building in person.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Without an appointment, she couldn’t possibly see Qin Moling, so she went to her sister’s office first.

When Zhong Yanyue saw her sister, she was surprised and joked, “What a rare guest.” Since she started working in Lemeng, her sister has only been to her office once.

Zhong Yanfei often passed by Lemeng Building but never came up.

“Meeting with Qin Moling?” Zhong Yanyue could only think of this possibility.

“I didn’t make an appointment,” Zhong Yanfei said.

Zhong Yanyue was making coffee for her sister and this answer made her hands pause, “What do you mean?”

“He stood me up for an appointment and deliberately didn’t answer the phone when I called.”

Zhong Yanyue and Qin Moling have worked together for two years. With her understanding of Qin Moling, he would not make jokes at work, let alone be emotional. The only thing she can think of was—“Is it possible that he is venting his anger on behalf of Jian Hang?”

Zhong Yanfei stared at her sister. It wasn’t that she didn’t think about this reason, but she thought it was impossible.

Everyone knew that Qin Moling had no affection for Jian Hang. If it hadn’t been for Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin’s pressure, the marriage would not have happened at all.

This was just one of the reasons.

The second was that she only showed that she did not want to cooperate with Yinlin Capital and already had an intermediary agency she wanted to cooperate with. She did not embarrass Jian Hang in public. She only left Jian Hang alone when she wanted to talk to her about the project.

Qin Moling would not fight for the sake of Yinlin Capital and even go to the extent of inciting his childhood friends just to find fault with her.

Yesterday, Zhong Yanfei also attended the birthday banquet of Ye family’s elder. “Qin Moling did not sit at the same table with Jian Hang. Do you know how many people talked about Jian Hang in private yesterday? How could he not know?”

Knowing about that people were talking, he still didn’t sit with Jian Hang, regardless of Jian Hang’s face and feelings about the matter—clearly he had no good impression of Jian Hang.

“Maybe Qin Moling didn’t know that Jian Hang would attend the birthday banquet at the beginning,” Zhong Yanyue forgot to tell her sister about this. “After the birthday banquet, Qin Moling and I took the elevator together. When the door was about to close, Jian Hang happened to pass in front. The elevator was full of people, and we couldn’t squeeze Jian Hang in. Guess what?”

Zhong Yanfei was not in the mood to guess and motioned her sister to say it directly.

Zhong Yanyue still felt incredible about the whole thing. “Qin Moling was in such a hurry to press the door button open that he accidentally pushed me and some other people aside. He squeezed out and accompanied Jian Hang to wait for the next elevator.”

Zhong Yanfei couldn’t believe it.

Zhong Yanyue was also very shocked at that time. That Qin Moling would take the initiative to show his goodwill in public… Jian Hang really had some ability!

“That night in the clubhouse, you made Jian Hang wait. This past week, Jian Hang never took the initiative to contact you, did she? She wants that project so much, but she’s not looking for you. She’s not impatient. Doesn’t that itself explain the problem? She must have the confidence that you will go to her.”

She pushed the coffee cup to her sister. “It doesn’t taste good when it’s cold.”

After pondering for a few seconds, Zhong Yanyue said gloomily, “Older sister, forget it, don’t bear grudges against Jian Hang anymore.”

Zhong Yanfei was so angry, “Was it not her who intervened?! Have you forgotten all about it now? Of course, that Tan Feng is also not a good thing. Now that we’re like this, how can I get along with Jian Hang? If she takes other people’s projects, I don’t care about that. But if she wants to take the project from my hands and make money from our family, then there’s no way I would let that happen!”

Zhong Yanyue didn’t want to talk about Tan Feng anymore. She broke up with Tan Feng so long ago, but she still hasn’t moved on.

She had always believed that she was not a nostalgic person, but her emotions seemed perpetually tangled with Tan Feng. At the point when her feelings for him had been the strongest, he proposed to break up with no warning at all. She didn’t want to believe that it was Jian Hang who interfered in their feelings, and she didn’t want to believe that he was cheating on her.

But the truth was that when she broke up with Tan Feng, he and Jian Hang were cooperating on a project.

Even after the cooperation ended, Tan Feng also helped Jian Hang a lot.

Tan Feng took good care of Jian Hang and did not hesitate to owe favors to others in order to help Jian Hang. She has never seen him treat anyone else with such care.

Including her. She has never enjoyed that kind of heartfelt treatment.

Once, she lowered her self-esteem and went back to reconcile with Tan Feng. But he was resolute and said it was impossible between them.

During that time, she both envied and hated Jian Hang.

She asked him directly when he met Jian Hang.

He told her: the second month after the breakup, that they met at the project coordination meeting.

She wanted to laugh, but she really couldn’t laugh at that time.

Obviously, he hated other people’s lies the most. But in order to defend Jian Hang, he did not hesitate to lie.

She had checked around and asked his colleagues whether they knew each other before the cooperation. They told her he was the one who proposed the cooperation with Yinlin, and specifically nominated that Jian Hang be the person in charge of this cooperation.

He proposed to let Jian Hang be in charge of the project, but he actually told her that he didn’t know Jian Hang. Before the cooperation began, she hadn’t broken up with him yet. He was already cheating on her.

Marriage First, Love Later translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 26.3 — Intention