NOVEL NEXT Chapter 389 The Fool's Dream
Xia Mu held Fang Feifei's gaze as he spoke, as if showing her the determination in his heart.
"Xia Mu, you!"
The words of Xia Mu made even the secretaries beside Fang Feifei struggle to hold back.
Xia Mu was using this jewelry competition to directly threaten Fang Feifei— if she did not give him a raise, he would no longer continue to participate in the competition.
Xia Mu had chosen the perfect time to come.
At any other time, as long as Xia Mu dared to speak those words, Fang Feifei would have immediately fired him, but now, she had to carefully consider her response.
Fang Feifei's beautiful eyebrows furrowed even more.
She had already felt embarrassed just moments before, but what she did not expect was that Xia Mu would put on such a performance for her at this time.
But she still had to give Xia Mu a raise.
Fang Feifei rubbed her temples, Xia Mu's words made the fatigue from the past few days of work surge uncontrollably in her, and just as she was about to compromise, a voice rang out.
"If you want to resign, then just go ahead and resign!"
This familiar voice instantly swept away the exhaustion that had just emerged in Fang Feifei, her eyes gleaming with surprise as she looked towards the door of the private room.
"Who do you think you..."
Seeing his imminent pay raise plan being disrupted, Xia Mu looked outside extremely dissatisfied, about to counter with some words, but then he saw that the person standing at the door was Wang Ye.
The sunlight from outside cast upon Wang Ye's face, who was staring at Xia Mu with an unfriendly expression.
Xia Mu could even sense that there was a hint of murderous intent in Wang Ye's eyes as he looked at him.
That feeling made Xia Mu's whole being shudder.
The words that he had not yet spoken could no longer be said.
His courage in the face of Fang Feifei had completely vanished in front of Wang Ye, to the point that he couldn't even say hello to Wang Ye, nor could he say that his previous words had been a joke.
"You can leave now."
Wang Ye's hand gently rested on Xia Mu's shoulder, and Xia Mu, seeing Wang Ye's hand coming towards him, instinctively tried to dodge, but he found that no matter how he tried to evade, it was futile.
That hand landed firmly on his shoulder.
And when Wang Ye's hand landed on Xia Mu's shoulder, it made Xia Mu's entire body shudder even more.
Wang Ye's voice was heard beside his ear:
"You don't need to participate in this competition. After it's over, a lawyer's letter will find you, and then we'll have a good time in court."
Wang Ye's words.
Made Xia Mu's face turn deathly pale.
He knew that if it came to a lawsuit, he would definitely lose.
And at that time, it would not just affect his current achievements but also represented something else.
In the future, he feared that no one in the industry would dare to employ him.
Because it was his own error, the result of his own decision to raise the price at the last minute.
Xia Mu wanted to speak up, wanted to apologize, but the hand that Wang Ye rested on his shoulder seemed to have a kind of magic power that directly led him out of the private room.
And shut the door behind them.
"It's over."
Standing outside the private room, Xia Mu looked at the door to the room, the very door that he had rudely pushed open without warning just now seemed to have shut on his future.
Making it impossible for his forthcoming future to unfold smoothly.
...
Inside the private room.
Wang Ye looked at Fang Feifei, his eyes full of adoration, but his tone was reproachful, "When you encounter a problem, why don't you talk to me about it?"
Fang Feifei pursed her lips, remaining silent.
Wang Ye gave Fang Feifei's personal secretary a look, and upon seeing Wang Ye, the secretary's eyes instantly brightened with joy.
She knew that Wang Ye's arrival meant one thing — the problem could be solved.
Immediately, Fang Feifei's personal secretary tactfully left the room.
After Fang Feifei's personal secretary had gone, only Fang Feifei and Wang Ye were left in the room.
Wang Ye sat down next to Fang Feifei, gently pulled her into his arms, extended a finger to lift her chin, bringing Fang Feifei's face in front of his, and spoke softly to her:
"Next time you're in trouble, just come straight to me. Don't worry about whether I have time or not. Even if I'm busy, we can think of solutions together. That's always better than you trying to figure it out on your own here."
There was a deep fondness in Wang Ye's eyes. Fang Feifei had been under a lot of pressure these past few days, bearing it all by herself. Although she was a strong woman, she too felt the weight in her heart at times.
Now, as Wang Ye spoke to her with such tenderness, his soft voice made Fang Feifei's heart quiver. She nodded, nestled closer in his embrace, and softly "mm-hmed" in agreement.
At this moment, all the pressure in Fang Feifei's heart had vanished.
The moment Wang Ye arrived, as the direct sunlight that had been falling on her got blocked by his shadow, Fang Feifei knew that she no longer had to shoulder those difficult problems by herself — there would be someone to willingly take them on for her.
"Let's go."
Hearing Fang Feifei's soft affirmation, Wang Ye stood up, facing her puzzled look, and said, "Let's go. You really think you can compete with these stones you've prepared? You're bound to lose."
"Next, we'll go find some good quality stones to use as materials for tomorrow's competition."
"Or should we just use these?"
When Fang Feifei heard Wang Ye's words, she turned her gaze back to the stones she had prepared.
She knew that there were fewer than twenty-four hours left until the next round of the competition, and for Wang Ye to find the needed stones for the next round in such a short period was practically impossible.
After all, it had taken her half a month to finally select these stones she had prepared.
Moreover, some of the stones were from previous stock.
Even so, these stones only contained a mere fifty-two percent chance of yielding jade.
And yet Wang Ye, hoping to gather suitable stones for the competition within just twenty-four hours...