Just as Luo Qi hung up the call with He Wancheng, Jian Hang’s call came in.
Jian Hang’s time at noon was precious, so she usually raced against time to play games. She was too busy with work and only had one hour at noon to relax.
She kept the call short, “Are you free tonight? Come to my house for dinner. My mother has mentioned you several times. If you have a social event, tomorrow night is also okay.”
“I have a lot of free time.”
“Okay, I’ll pick you up later then.”
The call ended.
Jian Hang’s style was quite similar to her last name, very minimalist.1
Luo Qi sent a message to Jiang Shenghe, [“I will go to Teacher Chen’s house for dinner tonight.”]
Unless there was a meeting, he would reply to her message instantly. Sure enough, a message came in: [“I’ll be there too.”]
Jiang Shenghe was not busy at the moment and asked her: [“Do you want to take a nap?”]
Luo Qi: [Not sleepy.]
She was a little sleepy after all that work out so late into the night, but her office was not as big as his, and there was no private lounge. Her office only had a sofa and no cover, so it was easy to catch a cold if she slept.
Jiang Shenghe sent a video call invitation, and she answered.
In the past, she had only video chatted with him during meetings. This was the first time she had video chat with him privately after they got married.
Luo Qi took a few seconds to adapt. Jiang Shenghe was looking down, swiping at a tablet. She picked a cherry to eat.
Jiang Shenghe looked up and saw her eating cherries, “Does your canteen also provide after-dinner fruits?”
“No. My secretary gave it to me.” She held up the crisper box and showed it to him, “Half a box, it’s even washed.” She made coffee for Chi Xin, and Chi Xin gave her half a box of cherries when she got off work at noon. She probably thought Luo Qi was too bored and gave her a way to kill time.
Jiang Shenghe knew that she also liked drinking cherry juice, “You love eating cherries so much.”
“Yeah.” Luo Qi swallowed slowly and hinted tactfully, “I also like to eat strawberries.”
Jiang Shenghe took it to heart and said, “We will always have it at home in the future.”
Luo Qi knew he would not think about planting it.
“Chief Jiang, what have you been busy with this morning?”
Call ‘Chief Jiang’ once and stay in the villa for another day.
“I talked with Uncle Xu about cooperation in the morning, then I had a meeting when I got back.”
“Xu Xiangyi?”
“Yeah.”
Being able to call him ‘Uncle Xu’ meant that the relationship between them was better than she thought. At the financial summit, when Jiang Shenghe took the stage to give a speech, Xu Xiangyi patted him on the shoulder. At that time, she already felt that their relationship was unusual.
Financial tycoon Xu Xiangyi had too many people trying to be close to him.
“You seem to have a good personal relationship.”
“Yeah.”
Not just good, but really good.
He was only waiting for the Spring Festival. He planned to take Luo Qi to Shanghai to visit Uncle Xu then.
Jiang Shenghe was still swiping his finger on his tablet, and Luo Qi asked him what he was looking at.
He showed the tablet to the camera, “Can you see it?”
It turned out to be a wedding dress.
Jiang Shenghe was using his lunch break to help her screen wedding dress options first. The tablet had been sent over by a bridal shop. “I asked, and the third quarter bonus will be paid by the middle of this month.”
He declared preemptively, “I did not rush the finance department.”
“…”
“Wear your own wedding dress for the wedding photos. I will take the tablet home to show you the options later. Choose the style you like. Then I will accompany you to the store to try it on.”
Luo Qi looked at the man on the screen. He was as serious about choosing a wedding dress as he was at a meeting. He would pause on every page, as if imagining whether it would look good on her.
She reminded him so that be could be mentally prepared, “It would be boring for you to watch me try on wedding dresses.”
“Not boring to me.”
Nothing about her was boring to him.
Jiang Shenghe looked at the time. Someone has an appointment at one o’clock, which was about the time now.
“Luo Qi,” he called her.
Every time he called her name, Luo Qi always responded, “What’s the matter?”
“Someone will be here soon. I don’t have time to accompany you anymore.”
It turned out to be such a small thing.
“Go on, you’re busy.” Luo Qi took the initiative to end the video.
Putting down her phone, she thought about how to spend her afternoon.
Shu Rui still had the final say in the company’s affairs, and he would not let her get her hands on the core business easily. The only thing she could do for now was to wait for He Wancheng to come to Beijing and then convince him into cooperating with Ruipu.
Being idle was too boring, so Luo Qi planned to find something to do to benefit the employees. She called Chi Xin.
“Ms. Luo, what are your orders?”
“I saw a suggestion box hanging next to the bulletin board in the cafeteria. Please ask someone from logistics to take down the suggestion box and give it to me. I also have a lot of opinions and suggestions to write down.”
“…Okay, Ms. Luo, please wait a moment.”
… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
Two hours later, Shu Rui received a call from the head of logistics, saying that Luo Qi had given half a page of opinions and half a page of suggestions. But she didn’t just complain—she also put forward effective solutions.
He asked Shu Rui for instructions on what to do. Their logistics department didn’t dare to make the decision without permission. But, to be fair, after reading her submissions, they felt that what Luo Qi said was reasonable.
Shu Rui was at the R&D center. Cui Peng said she wanted to visit the R&D center, so he accompanied her. When he received a call from the logistics manager, he was so angry that he couldn’t speak for a long time.
Cui Peng saw his face darken, “What’s wrong?”
Shu Rui smiled and said, “It’s okay.”
That woman Luo Qi would not give up until she has aggrieved him to death. He said to the person in charge of logistics, “Do it as she said.”
They would start by improving the food tomorrow.
Even Chi Xin began to look forward to seeing how the food in the canteen—that they had complained about for thousands of years now!—would improve.
Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
T/N: Jiang Shenghe calls Xu Xianyi by the title 伯伯 or bobo. It specifically means ‘older brother of my father’ and not the generic title for ‘man around the same age as my father’. It’s also what you would call a male friend of your parents. Qin Moling, for example, calls Jiang Shenghe’s dad ‘Jiang bobo’ as the two families are close.
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A list of all advance chapters is HERE.
Chapter 47.4 — His First Love
Chapter 48.1 — Trying on Wedding Dresses
Chapter 48.2 — Trying on Wedding Dresses
Chapter 48.3 — Trying on Wedding Dresses
Chapter 48.4 — Trying on Wedding Dresses
FOOTNOTE:
- 简 or Jian means simple, uncomplicated. ↩︎
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