Chapter 28
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Xia Ning clenches her fists and tries to control herself . It is no use to argue with Xiao Tingting at the moment . Xiao Tingting is her boss . She will lose any arguments .
“OK . I will give you the report for the exclusive interview . I get to go to work . ” Xia Ning says and prepares for her work .
“One minute . ” Xiao Tingting looks at her long fingers, “I don’t have any snacks here . Go to buy some . Here is the list; get all of them . ”
Dropping a piece of paper on Xia Ning’s desk, Xiao Tingting turns back and walks away .
Dozens of snacks are listed on the paper . Xia Ning reads and takes several deep breaths to keep her emotion stable . It seems that in the following five days, except for the exclusive interview with President Li, she still needs to take all the tortures from Xiao Tingting .
Taking the paper, Xia Ning estimates the time it will take to buy the snacks and has a quick look at Li Dezheng’s information . She plans to make the appointment for the interview with Li Dezheng while buying snacks .
She walks in the supermarket for about an hour and buys all the snacks . She calls a taxi and goes back to the office, when Xiao Tingting has left for somewhere . She gets relaxed . In half an hour, Xia Ning puts the snacks in place one by one .
She glances at the clock . It is half past three in the afternoon . Xia Ning sets off for the Li’s Group .
The headquarters of Li’s Multinational Group Co . , Ltd . is located in the busiest commercial street in the downtown . The office building of more than 50 floors looks magnificent and glorious .
Xia Ning reports her identity and is led to the gate of the General Manager office . She tells her visiting purpose again when meeting President Li’s secretary, whose face freezes once hearing that she is a reporter . She says, “I will go to check with President Li . Please wait for a moment . ”
The secretary leaves and Xia Ning waits . She waits for more than one hour .
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The secretary does not show up until it is almost time getting off work and asks her to go into the office .
Xia Ning is surprised . She was thinking she might be waiting till tomorrow .
The office is really large, with a glass wall at the back . A man in a dark grey suit stands in front of the glass . He is slightly fat, of middle height, with a big cigar in his mouth . He stands straight . It looks that he is contented with the sense of success, standing by the glass wall and looking at the busy people below .
“Hi, President Li, I am Xia Ning, a reporter from TIME ERA TV station . ” Xia Ning smiles and introduces herself .
Li Dezheng opens his mouth and blows out a big cloud of smoke, but he does not respond .
The atmosphere is somewhat awkward . But Xia Ning is calm, “President Li is the leader of the economy in B city, a model of success and guidance of the upper-class society . Our TIME ERA TV station would like to have an exclusive interview with you . I don’t know if it is convenient for you . If not, we can arrange another time…”
“Is your Chief Editor Xiao Tingting?”
Without waiting for Xia Ning to finish, Li Dezheng interrupts . He raises his voice a bit at the end of his speech, arrogant and snooty .
“Yes, President Li . Is she an acquaintance of you?”
Li Dezheng turns back . When he sees Xia Ning, his triangle eyes flashes slightly and his dark red lips make a gloomy smile, “No, but I want to make friends with her . ”
Hearing this, Xia Ning feels her heart tightened .
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What Li Dezheng said is with bad intentions .
“I will tell Chief Editor Xiao what you said . If it is possible, maybe we can arrange a meeting . However, Chief Editor Xiao is quite busy these days . Maybe…”
“Little girl, don’t play with me like that . ” Li Dezheng squints at her, “Let me make it clear . It is OK to have an exclusive interview with me, under two conditions . I am generous . Accepting either of them is OK . Or, no way . ”
“Please advise, President Li . ”
“One, tell Xiao Tingting to have dinner with me . I will choose the place . Two”, Li Dezheng pauses and walks to Xia Ning . He looks over her with his triangle eyes with a creepy smile, “Two is that you spend a night with me . ”
Unexpecting Li Dezheng would say out directly, Xia Ning feels disgusted and steps back, “President Li, please show some respect!”
It seems that the rumors outside are true . Li Dezheng is a complete hooligan, a ruffian .
Li Dezheng raises his eyebrows, also his voice, “How can you say I don’t respect you! Let me tell you . Lots of women want to climb up to my bed . I am flattering you . I give you the chance . Don’t you appreciate it?”
Xia Ning bites her teeth to control herself from giving him a punch on the face . She keeps her patience, “President Li . The interview with you is only a work arrangement and the relation between you and me is just about work . About the two conditions you mentioned, I reject the second one, and I will check with Chief Editor Xiao about the first one . We will reply to you . ”
“Hum!” Li Dezheng sneers, “Woman, you want to play the trick on me for a better price? Xiao Tingting might have the chance . But you, I might be interested in when in the bed . I give you two hours to let me know Xiao Tingting’s decision . Get out!”
Xia Ning feels her heart stuck and her eyes are blurred by tears . She perversely turns back and leaves the office in a hurry .
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She holds the tears and walks out of the building with her head down . She hails a taxi . Tears at last pour out of her eyes when she gets on the taxi .
The driver sees her crying so bitterly and waits for quite a while before asking, “Miss, where are you going?”
Xia Ning takes a deep breath and bites her lips, “Wherever, please drive around for now . ”
“OK . ”
She cannot go back to the office now . If people in the company see how she looks, they will be contented because of her misfortune . And the Xiao Tingting people will definitely make it worse .
“I am looking up, on the moon…”
Her phone rings . It is Yi Yunrui .
Xia Ning feels kind of calm in the heart with a strange feeling inside . At this moment, she really hopes that Yi Yunrui is by her side .
She wipes her tears and takes a breath before getting the phone through, “Aren’t you busy? Why call me at this time?”
No response from the other side, but several minutes of silence .
“Rui . ” Xia Ning frowns . Is it just a wrong dialing?
“You are crying?”
The deep and thick voice lights up Xia Ning, “No . I am not crying . I just drank some water and got choked . I am not at home, but in a taxi outside . ”
“Why still outside?”
“I have an exclusive interview . That is why…”
“An exclusive interview with whom?”
Yi Yunrui’s voice gets even deeper, as if he is keeping control of something . Not knowing why, Xia Ning signs, “An exclusive interview with Li Dezheng . ”
“The president of Li’s Multinational Group?”
“Yes . ” Xia Ning nods, “I have to finish the report these days . May we hang up for now?”
“Are you busy all the time? The phone in the villa never gets through . ”
“Huh…yes, quite busy . ” When she gets back to the villa, it is often past 11:00 p . m . , and she cannot go to bed until almost 1:00 a . m . after washing .
“Ning, if you feel wronged, just tell me at once . OK?”