At this moment, he realized he was perfectly fine.
It was simply because of that night six years ago, his body had defaulted to only having Jiang Nan Fang as its sole match...
His lips felt a slight burn for a few seconds. Jiang Nan Fang reacted and immediately pushed him, trying to get up, but Zhan Bei Jue's large hand pressed down on her back.
His Adam's apple bobbed a few times as his lips touched his throat, and he let out a low, hoarse voice.
"Still saying you didn't come back to deliberately get close to me? What are you doing now?"
Jiang Nan Fang: "I..."
As soon as she opened her mouth, the meeting room door was knocked on from the outside.
The assistant reminded Zhan Bei Jue that there was something at the group that needed his attention.
Zhan Bei Jue frowned, gripping her hands. Their eyes met, and their warm breaths intertwined in the air.
In an instant, Zhan Bei Jue thought of many things.
From when they met as children, to their engagement, their chance encounter on campus, their marriage, and their divorce...
A certain sealed part of his heart was gradually being unearthed. He realized that he had never truly hated her.
It was just that when facing a woman who didn't love him, he had his pride.
"I don't have time to waste words with you. Sign the merger contract quickly. Because of your product, our company has invested a large amount of manpower and resources, and we cannot give up halfway."
She had never seen someone go back on their word like this. He had just agreed to the termination, and they were supposed to be signing a termination contract.
Jiang Nan Fang wanted to argue with him, but then she thought.
The sooner she finished dealing with things, the sooner she could take the children and leave. As long as she could prevent this devil from taking her children, nothing else mattered.
She had originally come back to discuss the merger.
"How can I sign if you don't let go of me?"
They separated, and Jiang Nan Fang sat down nearby. She stated, neither subservient nor overbearing, "I'll give you the company, and you promise not to fight me for the children anymore. This is a fair trade, isn't it?"
Fair? Trading a few cold, unfeeling products for two living human beings, and those two being innocent children, and she called it fair?!
Indeed, only someone so cold-blooded and ruthless could say such a thing.
Zhan Bei Jue truly felt sorry for the children, to have such a mother!
Without wasting another word, Zhan Bei Jue walked to the head of the conference table and sat down.
He casually added a clause to the contract and pushed it over, "Sign the contract first, then we'll talk about other things."
"...Did you add anything illegal, immoral, or against human ethics?"
"Don't worry, I'm not you. I can't think of the kind of things you're talking about," Zhan Bei Jue said, glancing at her dismissively.
"My conditions are simple. Within three months of signing the contract, you are not allowed to leave Nan City. You must be stationed at the electrical company and help Vice President Gao successfully launch the product in China."
She still had to stay in China for three months to provide technical support? She was really thinking too highly of herself!
Jiang Nan Fang glanced at him sideways, "Then how much salary do you plan to give me?"
"This is added to the merger contract, Representative Jiang, not a separate labor contract for my sole employment of you. Three hundred million is still not enough? You have quite an appetite."
"I don't think I have a big appetite. My technology is very valuable. In three months, I can earn at least thirty million. Why should I do hard labor for you for free?"
"Because you want to take my children away."
Zhan Bei Jue leaned back lazily in his armchair, looking confident.
"If you think it's unreasonable, you can refuse. Consider me to have said nothing, and we'll continue through the legal channels."
Because the children were currently in his hands, she was completely at his mercy.
Damn it!
Three months of technical support in exchange for her children's lifelong freedom.
Jiang Nan Fang made up her mind, gritting her teeth and deciding to endure it!
Once this period passed, she could openly take her children wherever she wanted, without fear of being discovered by him. It was worth it!
Jiang Nan Fang agreed to the merger. Zhan Bei Jue had to attend other meetings. Vice President Gao came in and signed the merger contract with her. Soon, she received three hundred million from Zhan's Real Estate.
Vice President Gao happily shook her hand.
"Knowing you've just returned and don't have property in China, I've arranged the apartment with the best conditions for you. Here are the keys. Welcome to Zhan Group, Engineer Jiang!"
Jiang Nan Fang had a moment of daze: she had suddenly become an employee serving Zhan Bei Jue, all because she had a moment of weakness and slept with him back then.
Indeed, lust is a sharp sword.
Tianfu International was a high-quality residential complex developed by Zhan's three years ago, located in the city center, a very upscale community for the wealthy.
Zhan Bei Jue had kept one unit as a perk for senior executives.
Being able to live there not only represented status and position but also outstanding business capabilities. Therefore, everyone under Zhan's strived with all their might, hoping to live there one day.
Jiang Nan Fang certainly didn't expect that a mere place to sleep would involve so much consideration.
She also didn't expect that the reason there was still an empty apartment of such good quality was because her next-door neighbor was Zhan Bei Jue.
That was a place no one dared to live in.
At five in the afternoon, Jiang Nan Fang packed her luggage, checked out of the hotel, and took a taxi to Tianfu International.
The apartment was on the 23rd floor, with two units per floor and one elevator.
The unit arranged for her had a total area of about 130 square meters. It was more than enough for her alone, let alone if both children came to live with her.
Children?
She hadn't seen the children all day. She wondered how they were doing.
Also, Tang Xueying hadn't called her to say anything about the children secretly running back from abroad. How could she be so calm about such a big event?
Thinking this, she called Tang Xueying.
After she asked her questions, Tang Xueying's laughter came after a delay: "Of course I know they went back. I even bought their plane tickets."
"I raised the children from a young age. How can I not know how smart they are? They just wanted to give you a surprise!"
Jiang Nan Fang pouted, "What surprise? It's more like a scare. Why didn't you accompany them back? What if..."
"Forget it... Have you mentioned Zhan Bei Jue's name to them?"
"No, why? Do they know about Zhan Bei Jue's relationship with you?"
Jiang Nan Fang sighed and recounted what had happened in the past two days.
Tang Xueying, after being shocked, comforted her, "Who told you to have genius children? There's nothing in this world that can be hidden from them. If they know, they know. As long as they were willing to come back with you, that's what matters."
That was indeed true.
The two children were exceptionally talented. From a young age, their performance in all aspects had been beyond ordinary people. They had a head full of mischievous ideas, and it was no wonder their godmother couldn't stop them.
It was strange, but the two of them actually felt an immediate connection with Zhan Bei Jue.
Not only did they call him Daddy upon meeting him, but they also willingly stayed at his house.
Was this blood relation truly so magical?
No matter how magical it was, Jiang Nan Fang couldn't give them up to Zhan Bei Jue.
These were her precious darlings, whom she had painstakingly carried, painstakingly given birth to, and painstakingly raised.
That arrogant and morally questionable fellow didn't deserve to share the fruits of her labor!
With longing for her children, Jiang Nan Fang began to tidy up the house.
By the time she finished, it was already past seven in the evening.
There was no food at home, so she walked out to find something to eat. By the time she returned home, it was nine in the evening.
However, as she carried her things back to the 23rd floor and just stepped out of the elevator, she heard deafening music from the hallway, as if she had walked into a bar.
The screams of men and women mixed together, the rhythm of a dynamic DJ, and the sounds of constant toasting made her eardrums numb.
Could she be this unlucky? Her next-door neighbor had just moved in, and they were having a wild party on the first night?
She wasn't someone who liked to spoil fun. If they wanted to have a party, let them. They were all young people, and it was understandable.
But by midnight, there was no sign of it stopping. Instead, it intensified as they got drunker.
She couldn't stand it any longer and went to knock on the door of the opposite apartment.
Zhan Residence.
Dr. Lu visited the house today and chatted a lot with Rui Rui. He found that Rui Rui was psychologically healthy, but Zhan Bei Jue was not.
He stayed for dinner. At this moment, Zhan Bei Jue and he were chatting in the main hall on the first floor.
Dr. Lu teased him, "So many years have passed, and you're still dwelling on that incident. Are you really not planning to get married in this lifetime?"
Zhan Bei Jue hated it when he teased him about this matter. Upon hearing this, he lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, then asked him to leave, "Alright, it's getting late. I won't delay your private time. Please go slowly, I won't see you out."
However, Dr. Lu had no intention of leaving immediately. Seeing that he had said so, he put away his smile and looked at him with a suddenly serious expression.