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Chapter 836: Chapter 0836: Tensions Running High
"Hello... hello!" Mei Hanqing quickly extended her hand and clasped it with Jian Yunong’s.
After shaking hands with Jian Yunong, Mei Hanqing was about to withdraw her hand, but Jian Yunong grabbed it tightly, holding on firmly while gazing affectionately at Mei Hanqing!
A pair of charming eyes greedily scanned every inch of Mei Hanqing’s skin, observing the traces that the years had etched on her face!
For a moment, Jian Yunong’s eyes slowly welled up with a layer of mist, as if a slight blink would cause tears to slide directly from her eyes!
After more than twenty years of hardship, she has grown into a graceful figure!
The thing that pained Jian Yunong the most was that in over twenty years of Mei Hanqing’s life trajectory, there was absolutely no trace of her parents. She endured all by herself through gritted teeth—exhaustion, injury, pain, she bore it all in silence!
As a parent, not being able to be part of your child’s life, how tragic is that?
How did she endure all these years?
As an orphan with an unknown background, how many ridicules and jeers did she face, and how much humiliation and tribulation did she endure for survival?
When she was hurt, did she ever have someone to confide in; when she was bullied, did anyone ever stand up for her...
Over those twenty years, all her struggles were without the slightest shadow or help from her parents.
How ironic is that.
Now, Mei Hanqing has made her way to the position of PR Manager at the Imperial Group. Along the way, how many rivals had she encountered, how had she braved the thorns to get here, had she been hurt?
Furthermore, Jian Yunong knew, the reputation of Mei Hanqing in the Jiangzhong City market was not good.
Of course, this was also related to her profession!
When facing those rumors and slanders, had she ever argued with anyone?
Had she ever wept in silence alone?
Thinking this, Jian Yunong felt as if a sharp dagger was mercilessly stabbing her heart repeatedly, each stab vividly bloody, each one giving her a despairing pain!
Mei Hanqing also sensed Jian Yunong’s unrest, and her heart was suddenly filled with countless confusions!
What... what exactly is going on?
How did Jian Yunong become like this?
"Miss Jian, are you alright?" Mei Hanqing asked gently, looking at Jian Yunong.
As if she hadn’t heard Mei Hanqing’s words, those charismatic eyes of Jian Yunong still greedily swept over Mei Hanqing’s body.
Seeing the somewhat obsessed look Jian Yunong had towards Mei Hanqing, Ye Xunhuan quickly said, "Miss Jian, let’s go inside!"
With that call, Ye Xunhuan used a hint of Inner Strength specially targeted at Jian Yunong; the voice wasn’t loud, but to Jian Yunong it was like a burst of spring thunder, snapping her back to reality.
After coming back to her senses, Jian Yunong realized she had been slightly inappropriate, and she turned to Mei Hanqing with an apologetic smile, "Miss Mei, I apologize, I was thinking about some matters just now and got a bit distracted, I hope you can understand!"
"It’s okay!" said Mei Hanqing softly.
"Miss Jian, let’s go have dinner!"
Upon hearing Ye Xunhuan’s words again, Jian Yunong casted a grateful glance at Ye Xunhuan.
If it hadn’t been for Ye Xunhuan speaking up and waking her from her daze, she might have indeed embraced Mei Hanqing and cried out ’daughter’!
If such a thing really happened, then today’s meal would definitely not be eaten in peace.
This is not what Jian Yunong wanted; she wanted to take it step by step, even if Mei Hanqing did not recognize her, but she still wanted to sit down and have a good meal with Mei Hanqing!
In the restaurant, the pale blue lights gently illuminated every corner of the hall, with the piano performer at the side of the hall playing soothing music!
The melodious piano music poured down like quicksilver, embellished with an air called romantic warmth.
The three of them took their seats, and the server brought up various delicious exotic dishes and desserts!
Jian Yunong was not in the mood to eat, instead she was staring unblinkingly at Mei Hanqing, as if she would vanish into thin air the next second!
Ye Xunhuan was eating unabashedly, and Mei Hanqing, being stared at like this by Jian Yunong, appeared very restrained, or rather, it made her feel as if she was sitting on pins and needles, very uncomfortable.
The atmosphere at this moment seemed somewhat oppressive.
After sensing this, Ye Xunhuan slowly started to speak, "Han Qing, you might not know, but I met Miss Jian at the welfare home!"
"Welfare home?" Mei Hanqing was startled: "Miss Jian has been to a welfare home?"
"Yes!" Jian Yunong nodded: "I saw the first welfare home of Jiangzhong City on the news, so I came to check it out this time!"
"I didn’t know their lives were so difficult before, otherwise, I definitely would have come to see sooner!"
At this point, Jian Yunong felt an extreme pain in her heart.
Her daughter Mei Hanqing also grew up there, so what about those children who endured so much suffering, and her daughter Mei Hanqing in that even more impoverished era?
Were they living a life where they had one meal but not the next, were they often bullied by others!
"Miss Jian also does charity work?"
"Yes!" Jian Yunong took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions, and slowly said: "I’ve been doing it for over twenty years, and have never stopped!"
Upon hearing Jian Yunong’s words, Mei Hanqing showed a relieved smile on her face: "I really did not expect Miss Jian to be so keen on charity..."
"Being a person, one can’t just care about oneself, especially as a merchant like me, one should have three parts responsibility, three parts love, three parts..."
Jian Yunong’s charity work was entirely for Mei Hanqing.
She didn’t know where her daughter was, nor did she know whether her daughter was doing well; all she thought was that whatever she did could be of some use to her daughter.
Yet over so many years, she had never visited Jiangzhong City, and everything she had donated, Mei Hanqing had never seen.
"If all the businessmen in the world could be like Miss Jian, that would be wonderful!"
"Your company’s president, Qiu Ruoxi, isn’t she very good?"
"President Qiu really is great!" Mei Hanqing immediately nodded: "But how many businessmen can be as kind-hearted as you and our president?"
"Do you think I am kind-hearted?" Jian Yunong asked excitedly.
"Yes!" Mei Hanqing nodded again: "Previously, from watching the news, I felt you were loftier, even more unapproachable than President Qiu, but now it seems otherwise..."
After Ye Xunhuan opened the discussion, he no longer said anything, completely burying his head in eating and drinking, and handed the main stage here to Mei Hanqing and Jian Yunong!
Letting this mother and daughter talk to their heart’s content.
While Ye Xunhuan and the others were finishing their meal here, the leader of Yinlong had already found Yuan Ming, and the two of them were completely in a tense atmosphere, as if they were just one disagreement away from starting a fight!
