Christine White blinked blankly, not listening to the rest of his words, but catching a few words quite clearly.
That is …
“First Lady?” She stared blankly at Baird Lane.
Baird Lane hmmm’d, “Good, listen carefully, you are the First Lady of the League Meeting tonight, the person standing behind you is me, the entire The Lane Family, and that’s the bottom line and pride that you don’t need to be nervous or afraid of.”
“Baird…” Christine White looked into his deep, radiant eyes, and for a moment, she suddenly felt a surge of power all over her body.
The power dispelled the tension within her, leaving only a strong surge of confidence throughout her body.
She took a deep breath and clenched her fists and smiled, “I know, Baird, let’s go inside.”
With those words, she took the initiative and stepped into the venue one step ahead of Baird Lane.
He was right, behind her stood the entire The Lane Family, and in terms of status, the vast majority of the venue couldn’t compare to her, so what did she have to be nervous about?
What’s more, the title of First Lady is one she loves.
In that case, she couldn’t discredit the name.
Baird Lane stood still, his dark eyes fixed on Christine White’s back, his eyebrows raised in disbelief when he saw that the downtrodden aura on her suddenly became powerful.
She’s not bad, she woke up right away, she’s really improved.
At that thought, the corners of Baird Lane’s lips curled in an inaccessible manner, and he too lifted his feet and walked into the venue.
Christine White stood at the heel of the venue’s wine tower and stepped forward when she saw him coming, “What took you so long?”
“What’s wrong?” Baird Lane picked up a glass of red wine.
Christine White nudged her mouth in one direction, “Just now, Elder Chen and Mrs. Chen came over to greet me and asked me about you, but it turned out that you weren’t there.”
“Uh-huh.” Baird Lane answered, shaking his red wine.
The corners of Christine White’s mouth twitched, “Well what does that mean, huh?”
“It doesn’t mean much, just say hello on Chen’s side in a minute, now I’ll take you to meet the others.” Baird Lane said, putting the red wine down and gesturing for her to take his arm.
Christine White didn’t hesitate, and obediently took him on her arm and joined him as she made her way through the crowd at the venue.
After one round, Christine White was holding a thick stack of business cards in her hand and felt her head spinning.
She remembered the names of the few bigwigs she knew at first, but as she got to know more and more of them, she didn’t even know who any of them were anymore, and got completely mixed up.
“Baird, I really admire you.” Christine White gasped slightly and smiled bitterly.
Baird Lane took a sip of his drink, “Admire what?”
“Of course it’s these people, it’s remarkable that you remember them all by heart.” Christine White exclaimed.
Baird Lane chuckled softly, “All these people I’m bringing you to meet, all of them have business with The Lane Family, of course I remember, alright, take you to the last one, and when you’re done with that you can go to the lounge and rest for a while.”
“What about you?” Christine White’s eyes couldn’t help but light up when she heard she could rest.
Baird Lane looked at his watch, “It’s a business league meeting, I need to talk to them about something.”
“So, I see.” Christine White nodded.
Baird Lane replaced the glass of red wine with a fresh one and led her in another direction.
In that direction was the rest area, with several people seated.
The men almost all stood up and greeted Baird Lane as he led her there.
Baird Lane responded somewhat coldly before stopping at the heels of the man in the very center of them, “Mr. Wang.”
The middle-aged man known as Mr. Wang stood up and smiled back, “So it’s President Lane, hello hello.”
The man held out his hand toward Baird Lane.
Baird Lane swept in and extended his own hand to shake his as well, “Hello Mr. Wang.”
“Why is President Lane suddenly free to see me?” President Lane picked up two glasses of wine and handed one of them to Baird Lane.
Baird Lane took it and held it in his hand with no intention of drinking it, “Came over to discuss a matter with Mr. Wang.”
“Oh?” Mr. Wang raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, “Discussing a matter?”
“Good, I heard that the land on the north shore belongs to Mr. Wang right?” Baird Lane led Christine White to sit down, and while sitting down, he also carefully gathered the shawl around her shoulders to prevent it from falling off.
This gentle action of his fell in the eyes of Mr. Wang, causing Mr. Wang to open his eyes wide in great surprise, “President Lane, this is …”
“It’s my wife.” Baird Lane returned blandly.
Christine White held down her overly fast heartbeat and gave Mr. Wang a rusty but polite smile, “Hello Mr. Wang, I’m Baird’s wife, my last name is White.”
Even though she had already heard him introduce her as such to many people tonight, she still couldn’t help but get a little excited inside every time she heard him say the five words ‘she’s my wife’.
“Wife?” Mr. Wang surveyed Christine White in amazement, finding it hard to believe that this woman, whose appearance wasn’t very impressive in her circle, was the granddaughter-in-law of The Lane Family.
He thought it was Baird Lane’s little love child at first.
I didn’t expect it to be the wife, luckily he hadn’t said anything wrong just now or he would have offended someone.
Thinking of this, Mr. Wang’s heart was in a pang of fear, and the expression on his face was a bit embarrassed, he hurriedly got up and poured a glass of wine for Christine White, “So Ms. White is President Lane’s wife, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“Mr. Wang is polite.” Christine White made a polite remark and extended her hand to take the wine.
However, the wine hadn’t been in her hand for more than a few seconds before Baird Lane snatched it away and said in a cold voice, “I’m sorry Mr. Wang, she doesn’t drink.”
“Is that so?” Mr. Wang froze, then smiled carelessly, “It’s fine, it’s fine, I won’t drink it, so I’ll have some juice.”
Saying that, he did ask his assistant to go and get Christine White’s juice for her.
Baird Lane set down the glass he’d taken from Christine White, “Then I’ll thank Mr. Wang on her behalf.”
“No thank you, no thank you, this is what I should do, but President Lane and Mrs. Lane are very much in love.” Mr. Wang sized up the two, but more of his gaze fell on Christine White.
He wondered how in the world such a seemingly ordinary looking woman had managed to capture the affection of the man Baird Lane.
And I hadn’t heard Baird Lane was married before.
“What are you looking at? ” Baird Lane’s icy voice suddenly came to mind, coldly interrupting Mr. Wang’s thoughts.
Mr. Wang quickly returned to his senses and compensated for the smile, “Oh President Lane is overly concerned, I didn’t look at anything, just now President Lane asked me about that piece of land on the North Shore, right?”
Baird Lane hmmm’d, “Nice, is Mr. Wang interested in selling?”
Hearing this, Christine White blinked in slight surprise.
So that land actually belongs to this guy.
“Sell ah.” Mr. Wang seemed to be in a difficult situation, fumbling with his wine glass one by one, and instead of answering, he asked, “President Lane, how did you know about that piece of land?”
“I found it when I had someone gather information on the plot.” Baird Lane explained casually.
Mr. Wang gave a dawning oh, “So that’s how it is, I didn’t even know that my piece had become a tight fit.”
“What do you mean by that?” Baird Lane narrowed his eyes.
Mr. Wang smiled, “It’s like this, President Lane I won’t hide it from you, that piece of land has recently been asked by other people besides you if I’m selling it or not.”
“The others?” Baird Lane’s thin lips pursed, “Who?
Christine White also looked at this Mr. Wang with curiosity.
Mr. Wang took a sip of wine and returned, “That person President Lane you should recognize, is the Dong Group’s Dong General Manager.”
“Hugh Dong?” said Baird Lane, slightly surprised.
Mr. Wang nodded his head, “Yes, yes, yes, that’s him, he asked me to come here two days ago, saying that he wanted to buy that land to build a private manor, asking me if I’m selling it, honestly, that piece of land I’ve also left it empty for so many years, and I’ve been unsure of what to do with it, and now that he’s asking about it, I’m thinking about it as well.”
“I can’t believe it’s such a coincidence, huh?” Christine White couldn’t help but voice out.