After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!-Chapter 169 - 112: He Was Suffocated by Her Overly Radiant Smile
United States, Boston, afternoon.
In the semi-transparent conference room of the MM Fund Partners LLC, the atmosphere was tense and anxious at this moment.
"Every institution, every department, every position has its own rules of the game. Whether they’re in the open or hidden, the first step is to learn them. However, many don’t make it to this step and are already out. Do you know why? Arrogance..."
A tall young man sat in the center of the conference table speaking.
All the other participants sat upright, listening intently to his words.
The expressions on their faces were serious and earnest, as if they were being interrogated by detectives.
Yet, the meeting before them was merely a routine review meeting at MM Company.
The young man speaking wasn’t intimidating at all; on the contrary, he had an aristocratic, handsome appearance, a pleasant voice, and finely carved features. His eyes were especially striking, with their downward-curving corners like fresh ink on fine rice paper.
He wore a well-fitted black custom suit, paired with a meticulously buttoned white shirt. Just sitting quietly in the conference room, he resembled a dashing young gentleman attending a banquet.
But no one present dared to truly regard him as an unworldly noble.
The participants in the meeting were all core members of the MM team.
They had been working with the young man for a long time.
They were well aware that the more calmly this young and attractive boss conducted meetings, the more they needed to be on high alert.
This particular review meeting was convened because the team had recently made an error on an important company project.
Under such circumstances, despite the calm expression of the boss before them, his eyes were like deep, unyielding pits of cold indifference.
A black hole capable of devouring lives at any moment.
Not to mention the trembling folks inside the conference room, even those passing by outside would slow down, hold their breath, hoping to reduce their presence before the boss, upon witnessing the scene inside.
The surrounding tension was something the boss didn’t need to concern himself with.
The young man continued speaking unhurriedly:
"The second step is to find the threads in this game, learn how not to break the rules, understand how to play within the boundary line, only then can one barely maintain..."
Just then, a phone ringtone abruptly cut through his speech in the conference room.
Everyone instinctively froze, straining every nerve to identify which colleague, so foolish as to leave their phone on during the meeting, had put them all in this position of fear, having to face an impending storm.
Contrary to their assumptions, it was the young man who stopped talking, reaching into his suit’s inner pocket to retrieve an old model smartphone, and answered the call.
"Youyou."
If his voice just now was calm, it now turned into a gentle breeze and light rain.
"Where are you?"
"Okay, I’m coming to find you now."
Though few understood what the boss was saying, they could comprehend the rapid softening of his expression.
Sigh...
Everyone internally breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Yet, the next second, they were all dumbfounded.
They saw the boss, who had just hung up the phone, dash out of the conference room.
Many MM employees outside witnessed for the first time their typically unsmiling boss, now with a face filled with joy and panic.
Shi Wangyue, sprinting out of the conference room, hurried back to his own office, grabbed his car keys from the desk drawer, and left the company.
Next, he headed straight to the elevator, went downstairs, all in one go.
He disappeared like a whirlwind from everyone’s view.
...
Ze Wu, sitting in his own office, suddenly heard the commotion outside. Coming out upon hearing the commotion, he gathered the gist of the situation from the employees’ many explanations.
"Are you saying your boss was halfway through the meeting, then ran off right after taking a call?"
"Yes, indeed." Shi Wangyue’s assistant, Xiao Jin, rarely showed a puzzled expression. "He didn’t even have time to pack up his laptop."
Ze Wu was extremely shocked: "Did you hear what he said? Is there an emergency?"
Many in the conference room were just coming back to their senses, most of them being foreigners, and they all expressed that they couldn’t understand.
Eventually, Assistant Jin, the most reliable, recalled some snippets he overheard when the boss answered the phone, replying: "If nothing unexpected happened, he should be going to see a friend."
Ze Wu remained in shock: "What kind of friend could make your boss so eager to abandon the meeting and his laptop just to rush out and see them?"
Assistant Jin shook his head, thoroughly confused.
Ze Wu thought for half a minute before turning and heading out of the company.
"Xiao Jin, let’s follow him and see. Hopefully, nothing serious is happening."
He had never seen his friend act so irrationally before and was a bit worried he was encountering something urgent.
"Okay."
Based on experience, Assistant Jin felt that the boss wouldn’t be in any trouble.
But he couldn’t guarantee that his assumption was correct.
After all, the boss’s behavior today was truly incomprehensible.
When Ze Wu and Assistant Jin followed Shi Wangyue out of the company to the underground parking lot, they discovered that, in the dimly lit underground parking area, not a single person was around except the absence of a car.
...
Meanwhile.
In a standard room at the famous Hanke Hotel in Boston.
Professor Yu sat on a stool with her hair down, allowing her beloved student to blow dry her hair.
She still held a small mirror, carefully checking her reflection.
"I had white hair when I was very young, it’s hereditary, I had white hair early on."
While drying her hair, the two of them chatted intermittently.
The atmosphere between them was warm and joyful.
"Why don’t you dye your hair, teacher?"
"I don’t know why, but I’ve never liked dyeing my hair all my life. Since I was young, I’ve let my white hair grow wildly. In the past, my family often said, ’You should dye your hair, you’re so young,’ but I shook my head and said I’ll let it grow. And now, no one talks about it anymore."
"As long as you like it, that’s the best. Even with white hair, you look good, teacher."
Hearing her student’s compliment, Professor Yu’s smile grew even brighter.
"Yes, with gray hair and a joyful smile on my face, I don’t think there’s anything unattractive about it. Beauty isn’t a choice for children; however I am, I look beautiful."
Ning Youguang smiled slightly, surprised at her teacher’s moment of narcissism.
After finishing talking about her hair, Professor Yu remembered the phone call her student made in front of her and curiously asked:
"Was that call for a friend here?"
"Yes."
"A boy or a girl?"
"A boy."
"Oh?" Professor Yu became interested. "I heard you mention the hotel’s name to him, is he coming to see you?"
"Yes." Ning Youguang gently touched her teacher’s gray hair, found it completely dry, and put away the hairdryer.
Professor Yu turned around and smiled, saying:
"It’s an old friend, right? It’s not easy to see someone from far away. Don’t worry about the materials, I’ll have Xiao Chen handle it, and in the afternoon, during the free time, you can go out with your friend."
"Thank you, teacher."
"Since you’re not here this afternoon, let’s try on the dress now to save time in case you come back late tonight and are busy."
"Sure."
...
Shi Wangyue stood at the hotel entrance.
He looked at the building before him, watching as the sunlight refracted and reflected on the building’s light blue glass facade, transforming the view moment by moment into a wondrous spectacle.
Everything looked just as he remembered.
But at this moment, he couldn’t suppress the surge of different emotions within him, unlike any previous visits to this hotel.
He stood silently for a long time, finally calming his heart and walking inside.
The lobby manager had already heard and came out to greet him.
As he entered, the manager stood by the door, waiting courteously to serve him.
The hotel manager had just warmly greeted him, but noticed that the usually easygoing man before him had not the patience to exchange even a few polite words today. He asked directly, "Is the International Psychology Conference being held here?"
"Yes, Mr. Shi."
"Have the guests from China arrived at the hotel?"
"May I ask if they are your..." As hotel staff, no matter the status of the person before them, they couldn’t forget professional integrity, so they bowed cautiously and asked.
"One of the guests inside is my friend, I’m here to see her."
Hearing his unusually low tone, the manager was filled with apprehension. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Although deeply worried about displeasing this important guest, he patiently suggested, "Mr. Shi, since they are your friends, please personally call them to come down to see you. Otherwise, we cannot disclose any internal guest information."
Shi Wangyue pressed his lips, exuding a chill.
He understood the manager was simply doing his job and didn’t make things difficult for him.
After signaling for him to step away, he stood silently for several more minutes, then took out his phone and dialed the number he had just saved.
...
A few minutes later.
Shi Wangyue watched from a few steps away as a girl, wearing high heels and a red strap dress, her hair slightly messy but bright as the scorching sun, navigated through the bustling hotel lobby crowd and jogged towards him, lifting her skirt slightly.
At that moment, he felt as if time stood still, and his surroundings plunged into silence.
He could only hear the pounding of his heart like a relentless drum in his ears, and his eyes saw only her picturesque features.
Amid countless emotions, the girl had already spotted him.
She eagerly called his name:
"Little Wangyue."
The name and her gentle voice remained the same.
Yet he found himself breathless in her overwhelming smile.
