Chapter 1172: You Have to Be Thick-skinned

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Looking at Jian Ai’s probing and slightly raised face, Ji Haoyu had a smile in his eyes. Hearing this, he said, “Look at what you’re saying. You make it seem like I’m taking advantage of the situation.”

“Tsk.” Jian Ai sneered and raised her eyebrows at Ji Haoyu. “Isn’t that so? Otherwise, why do you come for a meal every few days?”

Jian Ai felt that Ji Haoyu’s action was abnormal. In the past when he had come to the house twice, at least she was present.

Now, when she went abroad, he kept coming to her house. Could it be that he was already so familiar with her mother? She naturally did not believe it.

From the looks of it, he was even helping her mother make dumplings. Her sensitive sense of smell made Jian Ai smell a deep conspiracy.

There was no free lunch in this world!

Ji Haoyu might be up to something.

How could Ji Haoyu admit he was attacking from the back? He couldn’t help but smile casually and say, “You’re too paranoid. Do I have ulterior motives just because I’m here for a couple of meals?”

Jian Ai frowned at him with a look that said, ‘Continue. I’ll admit defeat if I believe a word.’

Ji Haoyu could not help but laugh. In the end, he sighed. “I have no ulterior motives. I just like to eat Auntie’s food, okay? Auntie said that I should treat this as my home. If I want to eat, I can come over anytime. I think Auntie is very sincere and doesn’t seem to stand on ceremony with me, so I won’t stand on ceremony. I came because I wanted to.”

Jian Ai: “…”

How did he make his thick-skinned words sound so fresh and refined?

He blurted out these words so naturally. Didn’t he know that this was someone else’s house? Did he think it was his house?!

Coincidentally, Wang Yunmei heard a few words from Ji Haoyu. Wang Yunmei’s voice floated out of the kitchen. “Haoyu, if you want to eat Auntie’s food, come over anytime. Don’t be embarrassed.”

“Alright, Auntie. I won’t stand on ceremony!” Ji Haoyu quickly answered. Then, he raised his handsome eyebrows at Jian Ai with a smug expression. “Look, Auntie is so good to me.”

Jian Ai: “…”

It was unknown what Ji Haoyu had drugged her mother with, but the two of them were closer to each other than she was to Ji Haoyu.

After a while, Jian Ai pursed her lips and thought to herself, ‘Forget it. After all, I still owe Ji Haoyu a few favors. I need to treat him to a meal to repay these debts.’

“The few meals I owe you are even!” Jian Ai said and walked to the sofa to sit down.

Ji Haoyu was slightly stunned. When he came back to his senses, he was unwilling. He quickly followed and sat beside Jian Ai. “That won’t do. You owe me a date between the two of us. This kind of date doesn’t count with others present.”

“Date?” Jian Ai looked at Ji Haoyu and couldn’t help but smile. “Who agreed to go on a date with you? I’m just saying that I’ll treat you to a meal, okay? Don’t secretly change the concept!”

“I don’t care.” Ji Haoyu’s handsome face revealed an expression that said that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water. “If you think it’s a simple meal, that’s your business. Anyway, it’s a date for me. In short, it only counts if there’s only the two of us.”

Jian Ai: “…”

To think that she still felt that Ji Haoyu had become much more normal after interacting with him recently. Why did he become a scoundrel again after she went abroad?

What Jian Ai did not know was that the first rule of Young Master Ji’s wife-chasing strategy was to be thick-skinned.

Especially against someone like Jian Ai, who was impervious to everything, he had to be thick-skinned!

At this moment, there was a rare seriousness in Ji Haoyu’s eyes, and there was even a little stubbornness. He looked at Jian Ai with his deep eyes without blinking. In his faintly flickering eyes, Jian Ai seemed to have caught a trace of grievance?

Oh my, she said nothing, right? Why was he aggrieved?

“Alright, alright. It doesn’t count!” Jian Ai instantly lost. She didn’t know what she had said wrong, but she subconsciously surrendered.

However, as soon as Jian Ai finished speaking, a smile instantly appeared on Ji Haoyu’s face. “That’s more like it.”

Jian Ai rolled her eyes, but she found it funny in her heart. Sometimes, she really wanted to pry open Ji Haoyu’s skull and see what kind of structure was in his head.

Such a childish person was the CEO of the number one financial group in Asia. Moreover, this corporation could continue to earn money in his hands.

It was simply the eleventh unsolved mystery in the world!

“Why did you go abroad this time?” Ji Haoyu reached out to take an apple from the table and started peeling it. He changed the topic and asked casually.

When Jian Ai heard this, her lips moved. For a moment, she didn’t know what to tell Ji Haoyu.

The truth? It was better not to tell the truth about such things… lest others worry.

However, she did not want to lie to Ji Haoyu.

In the end, Jian Ai sighed softly and said ambiguously, “Because of Bai Zhou’s private matters, I had to handle them.”

Ji Haoyu nodded slightly when he heard this. However, he felt that Jian Ai didn’t seem to want to talk about this, so he didn’t continue to ask. Instead, he asked, “How’s the company recently? The Jian Group didn’t cause trouble for you again, right?”

Jian Ai smiled and shook her head. Jian Changsheng knew she was his daughter. If he still had a little conscience, he wouldn’t cause trouble for East Sea Real Estate in the future.

“All the major real estate companies are busy competing for the South City reconstruction project now. They shouldn’t be able to do anything else,” Jian Ai said.

“South City reconstruction project?” Ji Haoyu blinked in surprise. “East Sea Real Estate is participating in a bid for such a big project?”

Jian Ai nodded. “At that time, the higher-ups sent news that East Sea Real Estate obtained the qualifications to bid. I was shocked, but since I have this opportunity, I still want to try. Whether or not it succeeds is up to fate!”

Jian Ai was very open-minded about this matter. Although M Group had been chosen as one of the top ten celebrity enterprises this year, Jian Ai still knew her company’s capabilities. Compared to the Jian Group, Century Group, and Hongxiang Group, which were established large corporations, East Sea Real Estate’s qualifications were still shallow, and its company scale was relatively small.

Therefore, Jian Ai had little hope of winning this project. She approached this matter with a positive attitude of thanking the higher-ups for their trust.

It would be best if she could get it. She would do her best to complete it beautifully.

However, it was reasonable if they could not take it down. After all, their competitors were too strong, and East Sea Real Estate’s advantage was not obvious.

Seeing Jian Ai’s attitude, Ji Haoyu couldn’t help but sit up straight and smile evilly at Jian Ai. “Do you need help?”