"Anyway, I'm really grateful to you. If you ever need my help in the future, just reach out."
As Zhang Zhu spoke, she sighed inwardly.
But honestly, if soone really ran into trouble, they probably wouldn't co looking for her anyway.
"Auntie, there's sothing else I'd like to ask. If I hadn't bought the shares, how were you planning to handle the company's funding gap?"
Jiang Linyuan asked.
In the book, Haile Biotech hadn't had him step in at this point.
"Well, I do know a friend who isn't afraid of the Xu Corporation causing trouble. But her identity is a bit sensitive—she's connected to the governnt, you know?"
Zhang Zhu slowly exhaled.
"I'm not too keen on bothering her."
"Surnad Shen?"
Zhang Zhu lifted her eyes, shooting him a surprised glance:
"Surnad Zhao, but her daughter is surnad Shen. Do you know her?"
Future Mother-in-Law, so you were the hidden hand all along.
"I know her, she's a friend. But from what you're saying, Auntie, by investing, am I going to have the Xu Corporation coming after ?"
Jiang Linyuan raised an eyebrow slightly.
This Auntie isn't being straightforward. You telling the risks yourself and figuring them out on my own are two completely different things.
"Xueyun's background is complicated. The Xu Corporation doesn't dare to pull any stunts, but you can't stop others from using it as leverage."
"As for you, at worst, people will see you as so rich second-generation. If they dig a little and know about your connection to the Su family, they won't bother looking for trouble."
Zhang Zhu said with a slight smile.
What connection to the Su family? Auntie, why do you keep sticking labels on ?
Xiao Su can be my umbrella now, shielding from the wind and rain.
But in the future, I'll beco Xiao Su's umbrella, so she can hold onto .
The two of us will beco each other's umbrellas on rainy days, clinging tightly together.
Even if the rain turns the city upside down, we'll still hold each other. How wholeso.
"I guess I'm riding on your coattails too. No matter how you look at it, I owe you a lot."
Zhang Zhu added.
Since you know you owe a lot, then work hard for in the future! Don't slack off!
Show that strong, career-woman spirit!
"No worries, Auntie Zhang. If you run into any more trouble, just contact ."
Jiang Linyuan said nonchalantly.
This ti, Zhang Zhu's expression turned rather strange. She felt like this wasn't just polite talk.
Because she'd been divorced for so long, she always had a tendency to interpret others' kindness with suspicion, especially from n.
"Shareholder Jiang, I'll call you that for now. You've been all attentive this whole ti, from start to finish. What are you really after? Give a straight answer."
Oh, co on, Auntie Zhang, asking this and that, what are you so worried about!
Do you think I'd harm you or sothing!
"Auntie, all I can tell you is that I'm doing this for the future."
Jiang Linyuan said.
Zhang Zhu let out a sigh:
"Once the contract is signed, you'll be a major shareholder in the company. People are only betrayed by friends, but enemies never get the chance to sell you out or betray you. Shareholder Jiang, Haile Biotech is one of the few things I've poured my heart into. I don't want to be betrayed."
If she hadn't known back in high school that Jiang Linyuan had helped her daughter, and if she hadn't seen him with the Su family kid at the banquet, Zhang Zhu would have found it hard to agree to sell him the shares.
She could handle the Xu Corporation's tricks, but you never knew when an arrow might strike from the shadows.
"Auntie, you're overthinking it. I can guarantee that I won't do anything to harm Haile Biotech."
This was Xiao Su's dicine, and it was also his own future backbone. What good would destroying it do?
Divorced won really do overthink everything. Since you're Crazy Little's mom, I'll call you Auntie Paranoid!
Jiang Linyuan thought to himself.
"Can't help it. I was deceived for too long when I was young."
A trace of sorrow flickered across Zhang Zhu's brow.
"I'm not as carefree as I used to be back then. Juntang hasn't started working yet. As a mother, I have to think about more things."
True enough. Auntie Paranoid has had a rough life too.
That CEO of the Xu Corporation was a real womanizer, with affairs left and right. If you counted the ti, he hadn't even divorced her yet.
"Forget it. With you saying that, I feel relieved. You kids have fun."
Zhang Zhu quickly pulled herself together, smiled, and glanced toward the room:
"Hurry back inside, or that Su family kid will get mad again."
Oh, you Auntie Paranoid! Still daring to tease !
"Hehe, doesn't that just an Auntie is very charming?"
Jiang Linyuan, thick-skinned as ever, said with a grin.
"You're so disrespectful."
Zhang Zhu shook her head with a wry smile.
After watching Auntie Paranoid leave, Jiang Linyuan turned back to enter the house. But the mont he stepped through the door, he ran straight into Zhang Juntang, who was walking out.
What's this crazy little girl doing?
"What are you doing out here?"
Jiang Linyuan asked.
"Su... Senior Su asked to call you back."
Zhang Juntang muttered softly.
Man, she looks like a maid being bossed around by a young miss. Crazy Little, you're a little heiress yourself.
"Shareholder Jiang, I'll call you that for now. You've been all eager this whole ti, from start to finish. What are you really after? Give a straight answer."
Crazy Little was basically left to fend for herself. Her childhood probably wasn't great either. It's no wonder she developed such a timid personality.
"Alright, I just finished talking with your mom anyway."
Jiang Linyuan didn't bring up the school bullying directly.
No need for that. It's in the past, why talk about it? Just rubbing salt in the wound?
"Oh..."
Zhang Juntang nodded, pursed her lips, and moved them a few tis, but couldn't get a word out for a long ti.
"Say what you want to say."
Jiang Linyuan glanced at her and asked.
Zhang Juntang's face flushed red as she asked nervously:
"Senior... Senior Jiang, what did you an just now when you said my mom is very charming?"
She had co out just in ti to see Jiang Linyuan and her mom chatting and laughing together. At first, she didn't think much of it.
But then she heard that line: "Doesn't that just an Auntie is very charming?"
Suddenly, her vision went dark. Could it be that soone as outstanding as Senior Jiang is still single because he has so weird fetish...
Jiang Linyuan looked at Zhang Juntang, utterly speechless.
Crazy Little is Crazy Little, always going crazy!
Can't even give a complint now? Are you that starved for fatherly love? Do you want to be your stepdad that badly!
"Your mom is pretty. I'm just stating a fact."
Jiang Linyuan said.
"Oh..."
Zhang Juntang nodded silently.
She and her mom looked very similar. Did that an Senior Jiang thought she was pretty too?
The thought made her heart flutter a little.
The two entered the house and went up to the second floor. They found Lin Yilin and Sister Bamboo chatting, while Su Muzhi was drilling Lin Lan like a soldier.
"Relax your shoulders. Chest out, chin up."
Su Muzhi sat lazily on the sofa, casually instructing Lin Lan in front of her.
Lin Lan struck a pose like Tom the Cat sticking out his butt.
"Tuck your butt in. What kind of posture is that? Are you trying out for child soldier?"
"Grr..."
If I beca a child soldier, the first thing I'd do is blow you to bits! I'd blast you, Smiling Tiger, into smithereens!!
Lin Family Seven-Kill Technique!
"What's with that look? Too aggressive. Soften it up a bit."
"...Can't do it."
"Hehe, worthless. Eat a piece of chocolate, taste the sweetness, and rember that feeling."
Su Muzhi said airily, pulling a piece of chocolate from her pocket and tossing it over.
Lin Lan's eyes lit up, and she grabbed it happily like an excited puppy.
"What's going on here?"
Jiang Linyuan walked over to Lin Yilin, sat down, and asked.
"Senior Su said they're playing house."
Lin Yilin replied, then turned to look at Jiang Linyuan beside her, her cheeks flushing slightly.
Playing house? More like Auntie Shaqima's second coming.
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