As night fell, Ruby was watching the boss change clothes when she felt another sharp pain in her stomach.
Ou Yunchen: "Ruby, call Zhou Man and ask if she's ready on her end?"
Ruby clutched her stomach with one hand, leaning against the doorframe from the pain.
Ou Yunchen: "Ruby? What's wrong?"
Ruby: "Boss... I... my stomach hurts..."
Ou Yunchen: "What is it? Sit down and rest for a bit?"
Ruby: "I can't, I need to go to the restroom!!!"
After a long while, Ruby returned, her face pale and her whole body in a state of exhaustion.
Ou Yunchen: "Did you eat something bad? Let's go to the hospital."
Ruby: "It might have been the sushi I ate this afternoon... It's okay, boss, I don't need to rest..."
Ou Yunchen: "You should rest. You're in this condition, how can you attend the meeting?"
Ruby: "Boss, I'm sorry..."
Just then, Ou Yunchen's office door was knocked on, and Crystal entered with a file.
Crystal: "Mr. Ou, Ruby jie, this is a fax from Huaming Capital. It says urgent. I saw you hadn't picked it up, so I brought it for you."
Ruby: "Oh my! I... I forgot..."
Ou Yunchen looked at Ruby, slumped on the sofa. She really needed some rest.
Ou Yunchen took the file from Crystal and studied the new secretary closely. Recently, this secretary had been catching his attention.
Not because her figure was as good as a star's, but because her work ability seemed very strong. Crystal had bailed Ruby out several times when she made mistakes.
Ou Yunchen: "Crystal?"
Crystal: "Yes, Mr. Ou, what can I do for you?"
Ou Yunchen: "Work overtime tonight."
Crystal: "No problem, Mr. Ou. What do you need me to do?"
Ou Yunchen: "Attend a summit with me tonight."
Ruby: "..."
Ou Yunchen: "By the way, Crystal, change your outfit. Your stockings..."
Crystal quickly looked down, only then realizing something sticky on her stockings...
It was wasabi...
She must have accidentally smeared wasabi on herself when she was pouring laxatives into Ruby's sushi this afternoon!!!
Ruby: "Boss..."
Ou Yunchen: "You should leave early today."
Ruby left the office dejectedly with Crystal. It seemed the outfit she had prepared to accompany the boss to the meeting would go to waste...
***
After getting into the car, Crystal realized that she wasn't the only one attending the meeting with Ou Yunchen. She could only sit in the passenger seat, while the famous movie star Zhou Man was seated next to Ou Yunchen!
Zhou Man: "Mr. Ou, thank you for bringing me along."
Ou Yunchen: "Mm, it was Liu Jinhua who strongly recommended you."
Zhou Man glanced at the woman in the passenger seat. Ou Yunchen immediately pressed the partition button, separating them so Crystal couldn't hear their conversation in the back.
Ou Yunchen: "Did Liu Jinhua tell you the theme of tonight's meeting?"
Zhou Man: "Yes. To be honest, Mr. Ou, I've been aware of this meeting and have paid close attention since its first session. Unfortunately, I wasn't invited back then."
Ou Yunchen: "Yan Shizong invited us. Miss Zhou, you know him better than I do. I think today you can..."
Zhou Man: "I have nothing to do with him anymore!"
Zhou Man cut him off. She became nervous whenever she heard that devil's name, and the wound on her wrist would ache.
Ou Yunchen wasn't surprised by Zhou Man's reaction. He had heard rumors about her past relationship with Yan Shizong from the paparazzo Fan Zhijie.
Since he had taken Zhou Man under his wing, he had to investigate her background and experiences as thoroughly as possible!
It was clear that Zhou Man's current fame was inseparable from Yan Shizong's powerful influence. Whether he truly loved her was something outsiders couldn't fathom, but he had undoubtedly supported her career selflessly!
Ou Yunchen: "I mean, you should introduce him to me. I don't know him well."
Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought her new boss didn't know she had been Yan Shizong's woman.
Zhou Man gathered her thoughts and began to recall every detail about Yan Shizong.
Purely in terms of work, this man was a legend. He could always anticipate crises ahead of time, turning the once-struggling film and television industry around under his leadership!
Ou Yunchen also learned a crucial piece of information from Zhou Man: Yan Shizong had long intended to expand into the financial sector, and he was the founder of this idea from the very first summit.
As a leader who had repeatedly invested in hit productions, how could Yan Shizong only focus on immediate gains? This new channel also provided a larger blue ocean market for the development of the film and television industry!
His ambition surpassed Ou Yunchen's imagination. It seemed Ou Yunchen was not yet someone Yan Shizong considered significant.