"How old are you this year? How long have you been with President Zhan?"
She said she was 26 this year and had been with Ge'er for two years.
"So you've been with President Zhan since you graduated?"
"Yes."
"President Zhan has a bad temper. The fact that she kept you on after graduation shows you have good work capabilities."
It's always nice to be praised, but Guan Shuya had to be honest.
"No, President Zhan is actually quite good-tempered usually. Perhaps she's just under a lot of pressure recently."
Lei Dongyi smiled again. "May I ask how much your salary is? Including performance bonuses, year-end bonuses, and so on."
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"Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, you don't have to say."
Before answering, Guan Shuya playfully asked Lei Dongyi a question.
"May I ask what you mean by asking these questions, Lawyer Lei?"
Lei Dongyi said, "You're a smart person, and I won't beat around the bush. I just want to understand your work capabilities from your salary level."
Guan Shuya told him the truth and gave him a number.
Lei Dongyi nodded again.
This indicated that the girl usually performed well at work, Ge'er was very satisfied, and gave her full marks in almost every aspect.
"Not bad. President Zhan has good judgment in people. You are capable, your job is good, and you are beautiful. Do you have a boyfriend?"
When someone with excellent looks, a remarkable figure, and high social status asks if you have a boyfriend, anyone would naturally overthink it.
Little Guan's face immediately turned red.
"What do you mean by asking this, Lawyer Lei?"
Lei Dongyi said, "I think you have a lot of potential and will surely achieve great things in the future. I have many suitable unmarried young men who want to be introduced to you. Are you interested?"
Guan Shuya was extremely interested.
She came from a rural background, and the reason she studied hard and strived to get into Zhan's company was her desire to meet people of higher social standing to change her destiny.
Young talents who could befriend Lei Dongyi must be extraordinary, and then through him, she could meet them...
She said with great excitement and shyness.
"Lawyer Lei might not know, but our assistant team is all female, and I'm usually busy with work, so I have very few opportunities to meet men. I am so honored that you are willing to go to this trouble. But will it cause you trouble?"
Lei Dongyi said gently, "No, it's just a few words."
"Then thank you so much, Lawyer Lei."
After discussing her personal matters, Guan Shuya knew that things were not that simple.
They had just met, and Lei Dongyi was enthusiastically offering to introduce her to a boyfriend, which surely meant he had an agenda.
Thinking about herself, the only thing worth his agenda was her connection to Zhan Jingge.
So she asked directly.
"Lawyer Lei, may I ask you a question?"
Lei Dongyi liked smart and straightforward girls like her. "Yes."
"You and our President Zhan... I know this might be presumptuous, and you don't have to answer. To tell you the truth, I just think you two are a good match. It doesn't seem like you've only just met; your chemistry is quite subtle, and it's quite interesting to watch you two argue."
Since Lei Dongyi had discussed this with her, he had no intention of hiding anything.
"Your feeling is very accurate. We are indeed not just meeting for the first time. We were classmates many years ago, and I like her."
"But there were some misunderstandings in the past few years, which led to her not liking me very much now. I want to win her back."
Win her back? Does that mean they had dated before?
The assistant blinked her eyes.
"So, what do you need me to do, Lawyer Lei?"
Lei Dongyi took out his phone. "How about this, Xiao Guan, let's add each other on WeChat. You don't need to do much, just send me her schedule every day."
"This is a secret between the two of us. I will keep it well. You will too, right?"
Xiao Guan winked playfully and immediately gave him some useful information.
"Zhan is going out at three in the afternoon, but I don't know where. This is a private itinerary."
Lei Dongyi was very satisfied. "Got it. You can go back to the office now. I'll call you when the food is ready."
Lei Dongyi looked at the time, 2:40 PM, and went to the parking lot in advance.
Soon, he received a WeChat message from Xiao Guan saying that Ge'er had come downstairs.
A few minutes later, Ge'er drove out of the parking lot, and he followed at a moderate distance.
Ge'er drove alone to a well-known private hospital in the south of the city, Jiayuan Hospital.
Along the way, Lei Dongyi was thinking of excuses, how to pretend to run into her, and how to get close to her.
As a result, when he reached the hospital parking lot, he hadn't even found a parking space when he saw Jiang Nanfang and a distinguished middle-aged woman already waiting for Ge'er to arrive.
Jiayuan Hospital is famous for its obstetrics and gynecology department. It was likely that she was here for a prenatal check-up, and the person accompanying Jiang Nanfang must be Shang Jincheng's mother.
With the child's grandmother and maternal grandmother escorting her, Lei Dongyi lost the courage to follow.
Looking through the car window as Ge'er was linked arm-in-arm by the two women and walked towards the consultation hall, he felt a mix of emotions.
But now was not the time for regret or idle talk.
He had already wasted enough time in the past few years. The only thing he could do now was to make amends.
He found a parking space, parked his car, and estimated the time. Ge'er should have already entered the consultation room for her examination, so he called Jiang Nanfang.
As Ge'er lay down, Jiang Nanfang and Mama Shang were eagerly looking at the ultrasound machine when the phone rang.
She picked it up and saw it was Lei Dongyi calling.
Jiang Nanfang knew he wouldn't call her for no reason, so she went out to take the call.
A few minutes later, the two of them sat in Lei Dongyi's car.
Jiang Nanfang was surprised to be asked to meet him here, but she had already guessed most of it.
"Just say what you want to say."
Since Jiang Nanfang was being so accommodating and had such a good attitude, Lei Dongyi had nothing to hide.
He looked at her with a very sincere gaze and confessed.
"President Jiang, no, I want to talk to you about personal matters now. May I call you Auntie?"
"You might think it's abrupt for me to say this, but in fact, I've wanted to call you Auntie for many years."
"Ge'er might not be very clear about our family's situation, but I believe you and Uncle Zhan know why I suddenly went abroad back then... Anyway, what I want to tell you is that my feelings for Ge'er have been there for many years and have never changed."
"Although Ge'er and I have had no contact in recent years, I have never stopped paying attention to her."
"It is precisely because of this that I felt I still had a chance. Overconfident, heaven punished me, and that's why her situation with Shang Jincheng happened..."
"It's not that I mean anything else; I don't think it's a bad thing, and I won't dwell on it. To love someone is to love everything about her. I don't think her past with Shang Jincheng is a stain on her life. On the contrary, I believe that Ge'er's current situation is also related to me; everything is caused by my indecisiveness."