The phone call was again answered by that female secretary, and she used the same excuse. Shu laoye didn’t show any emotion when he hung up, but after hanging up, he was furious, ranting and raving while pointing at the phone.

He cursed Ruan Jianguo as a big-tailed wolf, saying he must have had this intention long ago, which is why he couldn’t wait to find someone a year later. When Shu Jiao came back, he scolded her as well.

In fact, speaking of this, Ruan Jianguo was really wronged.

Ruan Jianguo has an honest and straightforward nature, never playing tricks.

In recent years, because Ruan Hao and Shu Jiao have taken over the Ruan Family’s business, he’s been less active, mostly just helping out. So he’s not really familiar with the current business trends.

Back in the eighties, when he and Lu Zhiwei started the business together, they worked conscientiously on real tasks; no one played these games, they were genuinely honest people.

Unlike now, where you talk business, first drink, then entertain... only after a full service do you get to the main topic.

Originally, he thought that by turning down that female secretary at the dinner table, the matter was settled. Who knew she would try to climb into bed in the middle of the night?

Climbing into bed, in the middle of the night! At that time, he was barely clothed, with just a towel around his waist. If this matter got out, he’d have a hundred mouths and couldn’t explain it. He didn’t have time to get his phone; his first reaction was, of course, to run away quickly, leave that cursed place, and preserve his honor.

Who knew, of all times, that Shu laoye, who hadn’t called him in decades, would call today!

Tell me that’s not infuriating!

After hanging up the phone, Ruan Jiaojiao still felt uneasy. She waited until after ten in the evening when Ruan Hao came back and immediately ran out from her room to ask him.

Ruan Hao is already twenty-six this year. In this era, he should have been married with children long ago, but in these years, except for work, he hasn’t dated anyone. Naturally, the Ruan Family is anxious, but because of some past fortune-telling, they dare not force him.

At twenty-six, Ruan Hao is more composed and elegant. In Beidu, countless socialites have discreetly and openly flirted with him, but he always responds with a polite smile, and his steps have never paused for anyone.

These years, the only ones close to him are family.

Ruan Jiaojiao ran out of her room. At almost seventeen, she had grown a few centimeters in the past two years and was already 166 cm tall, but standing in front of the towering and handsome Ruan Hao, she still seemed tiny.

She looked up at Ruan Hao and asked, "Big brother, what’s the deal with dad’s secretary? I asked him, and he mumbled without a clear answer."

Before finishing work, Ruan Hao had already had someone look into it and knew the general situation. He also didn’t want Ruan Jiaojiao to know about this matter, but his reasons were different from Ruan Jianguo’s; he had his considerations, so he said, "It’s just like dad said, she’s a secretary forced on him by the partner, and dad can’t refuse. He’ll only be able to fire her after the business deal is completed."

"..." Ruan Jiaojiao.

So, Dad just gave the phone to the secretary like that?

That’s several thousand bucks!

Ruan Jiaojiao was dissatisfied and wanted to say more, but Ruan Hao just ruffled her hair, put his arm around her shoulders, and led her back to her room, asking about her recent school life along the way, and whether she had prepared a gift for Grandpa. It was only after she lay down in her bed that she realized she had been distracted and hadn’t asked anything!