Return to the Day When My Pregnant Wife Jumped Off the Building-Chapter 228 We All Believe _1

"Sir, I... can I have a way to contact you?"

Not far from where Candy stood on the deck, the helicopter was roaring. She mustered her courage and asked this question as they were saying goodbye.

"No, you can’t."

Xiao Ming’s answer was not at all diplomatic, which irritated the bunny girl. She asked again, "Why? Have you grown to dislike Candy so quickly?"

"That’s not it," Xiao Ming smiled. "I mainly have a wife, and I’m worried that spending too much time with a beautiful girl like you might lead to mistakes."

Candy immediately beamed with joy: "I won’t disturb your life."

"Be careful, that phrase is often the beginning of many tragedies! I sincerely hope I’m the only man you’ve ever said that to.

Let’s leave it at that, goodbye, dear Ms. Bunny Girl."

After pinching the girl’s cheek, Xiao Ming glanced at Fujiwara Rika and turned to walk towards the helicopter.

Watching his retreating figure, Candy suddenly felt her eyes well up with tears. She took a few steps forward and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Sir, my name is Natalia, Natalia Jones."

Perhaps the roaring of the helicopter’s rotors was too loud, Xiao Ming didn’t turn back.

The cabin door closed, and the helicopter slowly ascended, disappearing into the distance.

The bunny girl suddenly remembered the toy she had lost as a child and couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed with sorrow; she crouched on the ground and burst into tears.

From behind the cabin window, Xiao Ming saw this, shook his head, and sighed.

That’s how reality is: many people and many things are merely a part of your life experience, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. If you invest your emotions too easily, you’ll taste the pain of loss.

"Brother, do you dislike Candy?" Xiao Bing lay on his lap, looking down at the cruise ship that was getting farther away.

"Of course not. Natalia is a very nice girl, and I like her a lot."

"Then why didn’t you take her with you? She’s all alone on the ship, how lonely that must be!"

Xiao Ming smiled: "Aside from the rules of the gambling ship, I have neither the standing nor the reason to take her away.

She has her own family and home, and she should live in an environment she’s familiar with. We’re strangers; why would she leave with me?"

"But she likes you, she would definitely want to go with you."

"That makes it even less appropriate. I have a wife, and all my affection belongs to her.

It’s better for Natalia to forget about me than to follow."

"What?"

Xiao Bing sat up suddenly, asking anxiously and with a sense of loss, "Does that mean you won’t like Bing either?"

"Silly girl, you know all this, don’t play dumb."

After flicking the girl’s nose, Xiao Ming again held her in his arms and said, "Your last name is Xiao, just like your sister, you’re both my little sisters. I will care for and love you as a brother would.

And I hope that one day, you will truly treat me as a brother, not as some master or a man with ulterior motives."

"What’s ’ulterior motives’?"

Xiao Ming rubbed the top of the girl’s head but didn’t answer.

In the afternoon, the three of them returned to the hotel. Xiao Ming then called Jiang Xue, asking her to gather Yun Shi Yu, Zhou Qingyuan, Yang Hanqing, and Shen Siyi in the conference room.

"The situation is this: I had some disagreements with Duan Zhengwei, and I’m afraid our cooperation will fall through, so I’m planning for us to go it alone."

From the phone’s speaker, Yun Shi Yu frowned and said, "Everything was going well, how did you end up at odds? What did Sir Duan say?"

"Duan Hongqing won’t arrive until tomorrow, and I haven’t spoken with the old man yet. However, since Duan Zhengwei is his son, if he still insists that Duan Zhengwei manage the controlling company, then we might as well do it on our own," said Xiao Ming.

"Easy for you to say, but where are we going to get the money to invest?"

Zhou Qingyuan pursed her lips, then added, "However, my dad has always been very interested in anything you’re eager to spend money on.

If you’re willing, Canghai Group can foot the bill for this transaction. You’ll be in charge of negotiating and managing, and you’ll get ten percent of the shares. How about that, pretty generous, right?"

"Yu, help me smack her on the butt," Xiao Ming’s reply was crisp.

Having experienced the incident in the provincial city, the relationship between Yun Shi Yu and Zhou Qingyuan seemed to have worsened, but it also became clearer and more straightforward. Neither was pretending to be polite anymore, so Yun Shi Yu didn’t hesitate to slap her when she heard the command, showing no courtesy.

Zhou Qingyuan, caught off guard, yelped in surprise, then gritted her teeth in anger, "Yun, you wait, I’ll deal with you later."

Then she yelled at the phone on the table, "Damn Xiao Ming, you better clarify right now. I’m kindly helping you out, why the heck did you hit me?"

"Kindly?" Xiao Ming snorted coldly, "Zhou Qingyuan, don’t forget, you’re first and foremost the professional manager I hired. You’re Sir Zhou’s daughter second, with no relation to Canghai Group whatsoever.

In other words, you’re on my side. Canghai Group’s giving me only ten percent, and you’re boasting about generosity? Your elbow’s bent the wrong way, who else am I supposed to smack if not you?"

When it came to talking nonsense, Zhou Qingyuan was no match for Xiao Ming. She stammered, "Te-Ten percent is already quite a lot, okay? After all, you... We’re not taking a dime, and you still get to run the company.

Plus, that’s still my dad over there. Isn’t it only fair if I don’t take sides? I can’t just help you cheat him."

Jiang Xue quietly listened at the side, her eyebrows slightly raised, but she kept silent.

"That’s not necessary," Xiao Ming chuckled.

"I’ve just met a generous big boss who’s willing to invest in all my ventures. He said he’d entrust me with all shareholder rights, including the rights to buy and sell shares as well as dividends,"

Everyone, including Jiang Xue, was shocked.

For an investor to want no rights at all, what kind of generous investor would that be? It’s like a philanthropist giving away wealth willy-nilly.

"He really didn’t have any other conditions?" Yang Hanqing asked.

"Just one," Xiao Ming said. "Any company he invests in directly must never go public."

Each person had the same thought, all of them realizing one possibility.

That this person shunned the public eye.

For companies that go public must disclose all their information, including shareholder identities.

"Xiao," Jiang Xue couldn’t help but ask, "what does this person do?"

"Don’t worry," Xiao Ming’s tone softened significantly. "Although his identity is somewhat illegitimate, he’s definitely not some villain of great evil.

And I can guarantee, he’d never trick me a thousand percent."

"Why not?"

"Because his name is Jiang Mokong."

Jiang Xue gasped, then let out a sigh, her expression turning into one of speechlessness and resignation, like a mother exasperated with her mischievous child.

"Xue, who is this Jiang Mokong? Do you know him?" Yang Hanqing asked.

Yun Shi Yu, Zhou Qingyuan, and Shen Siyi all looked over, too.

"Who else could it be?" Jiang Xue replied irritably. "Surname Jiang, with a disdain for everything, who do you think could it be in your hearts?"

Yang Hanqing blinked, then soon glanced towards the phone. Yun Shi Yu and Zhou Qingyuan weren’t much slower, only Shen Siyi was still looking puzzled.

"You bastard!" Zhou Qingyuan burst into cursing, "Sitting around with nothing to do, so you decided to call just to fool around with us?"

Xiao Ming laughed heartily, "Where in the world do you find a businessman who invests money yet forsakes all benefits? That’s straight-up charity! Fooling you all into believing it, while you pride yourselves as top-notch geniuses. If I were a con artist, I would have already swindled your underwear away."

It dawned on Shen Siyi that Jiang Mokong was actually Xiao Ming, and he complained, "Bro, that’s because no matter what you say, we’d believe you anyway!"

Xiao Ming was suddenly choking on his own saliva, coughing vigorously.