Gu Nuan might not have heard him, but Sister Yao certainly did.

Sister Yao got up, walked over to him, and gently reminded him, "Chairman Chen, if you don’t eat soon, it will get cold."

Chen Jiaming turned around and saw that everyone else had almost finished eating, leaving only his plate untouched.

Some people glanced at him, while others didn’t even look his way. It seemed like everyone knew what was going on.

Chen Jiaming had no choice but to put down the phone and start his lunch.

Tang Shaohong had already prepared tea for Gu Nuan and brought it over, asking him, "Chairman Chen, would you like coffee or tea?"

"Coffee," Chen Jiaming replied.

Sister Yao added, "Chairman Chen doesn’t like sweets."

Suddenly, Chen Jiaming felt that there were quite a few people who cared about him. Previously, he thought these people were just flattering him, but now clearly Sister Yao had no need to flatter him and still cared.

"I’ve seen Mrs. Chen before," Sister Yao said.

Chen Jiaming turned his head and looked at her, "You said you know my mother?"

"Yes, didn’t madam used to love flower arranging? Her skills were excellent and she was quite well-known in the city’s flower arranging circles. When I first started learning, I studied under madam."

This was something Chen Jiaming wasn’t aware of. It turns out his mother wasn’t as reclusive as he thought and did have friends.

Sister Yao said, "Madam doesn’t like to talk much, but she puts her heart into teaching students. Because I’ve heard madam was originally a teacher, and teachers have the heart of a loving mother."

The words ’heart of a loving mother’ made Chen Jiaming lower his eyes slightly.

Li Changzhi finished crying and saw that the other side had hung up, so she waited for a long time, continuously sending messages.

Chen Jiaming never responded. Meanwhile Bauer came over, looked at her swollen eyes from crying, and smirked, "Looks like your tricks didn’t work at all."

Li Changzhi held back, shot him a glance, "Aren’t you helpless too?"

"I only believed your nonsense! You claimed you were their former colleague and they listened to you. Well, did they listen to you?" Bauer angrily stood up, shouting at her, brandishing his fist.

Li Changzhi slapped the table, stood up, and started cursing back, "You don’t say you’re useless, being tricked around by her!"

Bang!

Bauer’s fist knocked Li Changzhi straight to the ground.

Li Changzhi collapsed on the ground and couldn’t get up.

In the negotiation room, Tang Shaohong served tea to Chen Jiaming. He received a text message, claiming to be from someone around Li Changzhi, saying Li Changzhi had been sent to the hospital.

Chen Jiaming thought for a moment and deleted the message.

Gu Nuan still seemed to not notice anything he was doing.

Meanwhile, since Li Changzhi was Bauer’s wife and Bauer was considered a fairly prominent businessman in the United States, when Li Changzhi was sent to the hospital, the media swarmed the hospital. In less than a couple of hours, the news began to spread wildly across the internet.

Li Changzhi was confirmed by the hospital to have suffered a brain hemorrhage from Bauer’s punch. The Li Family heard the news and rushed to seek a team of lawyers.

Bauer received a notification from the police to attend a hearing. Sitting at home at this moment, he suddenly began to murmur.

The people around him only heard him say: I finally understand why that Chinese woman didn’t accept my compromise immediately. She’s a very wicked woman.

When Bauer initially issued the compromise terms, Gu Nuan didn’t accept them immediately. For those in Gu Nuan’s own team, it seemed puzzling. It was as if Gu Nuan was intentionally delaying Bauer, or retaliating against Bauer using the same tactics.