"For what you did before, I should hold you accountable. But for the sake of the two children..."
"Letting you stay the night yesterday was already the limit of my patience. Now that I've lost my patience, take your things and your agenda, and disappear immediately."
Jiang Nanfang was also furious: "Do you think I want to show my face to you? You're being self-indulgent!"
"You can let me go, but give me back the children! If I say another word to you again, I'll be a son of a bitch!"
Still not giving up? After saying all this, she still wants to ask for the children?
"It seems talking to you nicely is useless."
Zhan Beijue's eyes sharpened, and he took out his phone to dial a number: "Come in, drag someone out."
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Jiang Nanfang sat in the taxi she had called, quickly calculating how to take the children and escape the Zhan family, while cursing Zhan Beijue in her heart.
What did he mean by saying he wouldn't be polite if she appeared around the Zhan family again?
If it weren't for the children, she wouldn't even want to come to this godforsaken place if they paid her!
He was so insidious and despicable, would he transfer the children while she was gone...
As she was filled with worry, a black commercial vehicle sped up from behind and overtook the taxi.
Jiang Nanfang's dim eyes suddenly lit up.
"Driver, follow the car in front."
Half an hour later, the car stopped at the entrance of a large kindergarten, where two bodyguards escorted a small child inside.
Jiang Nanfang watched silently from the car, thinking this was a good opportunity to take the child after they left.
One minute, two minutes... The bodyguards finally came out. Watching them drive away, Jiang Nanfang rushed into the campus.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered, she saw a noisy scene.
Ruirui was arguing with a boy of similar size, their collars clutched in their hands. The surrounding noise was chaotic, and the teacher's attempts to intervene were futile.
"You don't have a mommy!"
"My mommy is the most beautiful and gentle person in the world, you're just not worthy of seeing her! If you talk nonsense again, I'll beat you until you can't find your teeth!"
The other boy laughed contemptuously.
"You just don't have a mommy! You're a wildling who popped out of a rock! Otherwise, let your mommy come and show everyone!"
"If you can't call her, you're lying! Na na na~ You're just a little wildling who lies all the time!"
Ruirui's weak spot had been hit, and his big eyes were so angry they seemed about to spew fire.
Seeing him raise his fist to fight the other boy, Jiang Nanfang squeezed into the crowd with a swift step.
"I'm sorry, my darling, I'm late."
In an unfamiliar place, being sent to school by Zhan Beijue right after returning, without parents to accompany him for the transfer, children would also discriminate.
Hearing the child being spoken to like this by his peers, Jiang Nanfang's heart ached as if it were being strangled.
She crouched down with a gentle expression, took Ruirui's small wrist, and quietly pulled him into her arms.
"What's wrong? Mommy promised to bring you to school today and was late, are you angry?"
"I'm sorry, Mommy apologizes to you. It won't happen again. Can you forgive me?"
She lowered her head and gently kissed Ruirui's forehead. "Where's sister? I owe her a kiss too, I came specifically to give it to you."
Ge'er didn't expect to see Mommy here, and was overjoyed, quickly running over from the side and throwing herself into her arms, "Mommy~"
The surrounding children opened their mouths in surprise.
So Zhan Jingrui and Zhan Jingge weren't lying, they really had a mommy, and she was so beautiful, looking exactly like them...
Outside the crowd, the assistant, who had received a call from the teacher, rushed to Zhan Beijue's side and happened to see this scene.
No wonder the children had been subtly asking Zhan Beijue for their mommy recently. It turned out it was at school...
No matter how tough he was in business, his heart softened completely when it came to his children.
Looking at the mother and children being watched by the crowd, he concealed the anger on his face, and walked into the crowd as gently as possible, slowly squatting beside them.
"Babies, Daddy is here too."
After dealing with the school matters, Zhan Beijue's mood was greatly affected. He sat in the back seat of the commercial vehicle, closing his eyes to rest, while his assistant A Zhong reported to him.
"Vice President Gao just called saying there's a problem with the merger."
"The person in charge over there suddenly went back on their word, refusing to sign no matter how much money we offer, even willing to pay the breach of contract fee..."
A large amount of capital was invested when acquiring this electrical company, and now they were playing this trick?
Zhan Beijue wanted to see for himself what they were up to.
Jiang Nanfang sat in the reception room, almost being treated like a revered ancestor by Vice President Gao with incense.
It made her feel quite embarrassed.
"I know that our side was not being considerate, so let's not waste time. We'll pay whatever compensation is due.
Take out the breach of contract agreement, I'll sign it, and this matter will be over soon."
Jiang Nanfang was eager to leave, but Vice President Gao was trying to keep her there with soft persuasion.
"...Why don't you give us an explanation? Are you dissatisfied with our company, or do you think the price is unreasonable?"
Because of personal matters, I don't want to invest in Nancheng right now!
"Ms. Jiang, what a bold statement." Before Jiang Nanfang could finish speaking, Zhan Beijue pushed open the conference room door and said coldly.
The next second, Zhan Beijue, who had just disrupted her plan to take the children from school, reappeared in her sight.
President Zhan, could it be that your real estate company has gone bankrupt? And you're planning to enter the electrical industry as well?
Jiang Nanfang's heart sank with a bad premonition as she saw Zhan Beijue appear. Could it be that Grey Electric was related to him?
And Zhan Beijue's heart also stirred: she was the representative of the company being acquired?
No wonder she suddenly refused to cooperate. She probably found out that he was the boss of the electrical company and intended to raise the price.
Hmph, this woman who never forgot to scheme, no matter where she went!
"Representative of Nanfang Electric? Has her identity been verified? Is she sure she can represent that company?"
Vice President Gao was stunned by his words, "No need to verify, right? I met Ms. Jiang at an electrical exchange conference in Germany. I contacted her back then because I was interested in her products."
Is that so? She even went to a technical exchange conference to catch a rich man?
Her methods are getting more and more sophisticated.
Zhan Beijue sneered and asked Vice President Gao to leave first.
After all, she was his ex-wife, and exposing her in front of outsiders would not be good for him.
Only the two of them were left in the conference room. Jiang Nanfang knew what he was going to say, so she calmly picked up her bag and threw a stack of documents at him.
"I am the company's legal representative, the CEO, and the chief technical engineer. I have 100% control over Nanfang Electric. Feel free to check if you don't believe me."
She is the chief technical engineer of Nanfang Electric?
So, the new circuit breaker that Vice President Gao had been so eager to get was actually designed by her?
Although Jiang Nanfang majored in mechatronics in college and had good academic performance, Zhan Beijue absolutely did not believe that she could design a world-class product in just a few years.
Because she didn't deserve it.
Zhan Beijue absolutely did not believe that a woman as malicious and cunning as her could settle down and delve into technology.
"Documents can be faked. I don't believe anything but my own eyes. You don't need to show me these."
"Get to the point, what is your real intention?"
He suspects I'm a fraud?
Jiang Nanfang was too lazy to waste time with such a paranoid person, and stood up.
"Give me back the children, and let me go."
She wanted to go out and talk to Vice President Gao, but as she passed by Zhan Beijue, he grabbed her by the collar.
"Breaching the contract requires compensation. You want to leave before we've finished talking?"
Caught off guard, both of them exerted force.
The T-shirt the nanny had lent her that morning was pulled up by Zhan Beijue, revealing a section of her skin.
A striking white appeared at her waist. Both of them looked down and saw her smooth, flat abdomen, and the faint abdominal muscles on either side...
It was as if her body had been instantly electrified, and a surge of heat uncontrollably rushed to Zhan Beijue's head.
Six years ago... on the sofa... everything this waist had given him... the memories rushed back in an instant...
The terrible thing was that, unlike before, his memories were not filled with anger.
Looking at that section of snow-white skin, he felt hot all over and actually had the urge to touch it...
To his right was the conference table, on which sat the tea Vice President Gao had just poured for Jiang Nanfang.
Seeing him still holding onto her clothes and staring intently at her waist, and thinking of the well-prepared nursery in his house.
Jiang Nanfang thought: As expected, a dog can't change its ways. He's already married with a wife, and he still casually stares at women? Trash!
"Splash!"
She grabbed the teacup and threw it at Zhan Beijue.
"Let go of me!"
Feeling something hot flying towards him, Zhan Beijue instinctively turned his head to dodge.
However, it was still too late. He dodged his face, but his chin and chest were thoroughly drenched.
Zhan Beijue turned his head back, clear water droplets rolling down his chin to his sharp Adam's apple, and into his neatly fitting shirt...
The soft fabric of the shirt clung tightly to his skin. Jiang Nanfang could see the firm muscle mass underneath.
Zhan Beijue hadn't intended to pull her clothes.
He just wanted to clarify things before she left without understanding.
Jiang Nanfang didn't think so.
"If I'm not mistaken, you're already remarried. As a married person, please mind your words and actions!"
"I'm not some delicate little sister. If you try to flirt with me, throwing hot water at you is the least of it!"
"Move aside!"
Zhan Beijue looked at her with her eyebrows raised in anger and thought that her personality hadn't changed at all. After so many years, she still liked to turn the tables.
He must have been hallucinating just now to have felt that way about her.
He looked down at his shirt with disdain, "Flirt with you? You're really putting yourself on a pedestal."
"I don't want this outfit anymore. Add it to the compensation in your breach of contract. You like to pay money, don't you? I'll grant your wish."
"..."
This calculating, back-stabbing, petty man!
Jiang Nanfang really wanted to pour another cup of water on him!
But considering that she didn't have to sell her company to him and wouldn't have to interact with him anymore, Jiang Nanfang decided to endure it.
"If you want compensation, then compensate. Bring the contract, I'll sign it now."
After saying that, she turned to go back to her seat, but the floor was wet, and her feet slipped.
"Ah—"
She fell directly into Zhan Beijue's arms, her hands pressing against his wet chest, and her lips colliding with his Adam's apple.
She hadn't even touched his skin with her lips on the night they divorced, and today...
Jiang Nanfang felt like her mouth and palms were burning.
Similarly, Zhan Beijue got goosebumps all over.
Her hands, her lips, her entire being were so fragrant and soft. The strange feeling that had been suppressed in his body instantly surged again, and a certain place even involuntarily...