Fortunately, the elevator reached the twentieth floor at this time elevator doors slowly opened, Skyler straightened his hair, lightly dropped a sentence: “Nothing, I’m leaving.”
Watching her back being slowly covered up by the elevator door, Stephen felt that the feeling of loss in his heart, became even stronger.
He pinched the corner of his forehead, adjusting his mind, he had to face a tough character next, ah, with the elevator ‘ding’ opened, Stephen steadily out of the elevator room.
“Knock, knock, knock–”
“Come in.”
Mr. Mitchell’s voice carries the huskiness and vicissitudes of his age. From a person’s voice, you can actually feel what he has gone through and experience a glimpse of someone else’s life.
“Mr. Mitchell,” Stephen called out to him.
Leo Mitchell saw someone come in, looked up at him, and for a long time did not recognize who was in front of him. no one in the Mitchell Group would call him by his last name, so who was this man with a young face in front of him?
“Are you …?”
Stephen inclined his head: “You don’t remember me?” Seeing that Leo Mitchell still looked like he didn’t understand, Stephen had to make a slight hint: “… Gale Technologies.”
Leo seemed to finally pick him up as a person from the depths of his memory as he stretched his fingers and got up from his chair, “Stephen? You’re here at City M?”
“Just got back not too long ago.” Stephen answered with a smile.
Leo poured him a cup of tea, looked at Stephen, who was still standing, and invited him to sit on the sofa: “Why are you still standing, come and sit here. How is your father doing these years?”
A standard green leaf floating on the steaming tea water, Leo used an antique style tea tray full of Chinese culture, the grid-like weaving method makes this simple tea drinking all seem to have some heritage.
The wall also has “Lanting Preface” written by Wang Xizhi, so you can see that Leo is really a person who likes Chinese culture very much.
Stephen’s eyes were captivated by the ancient Chinese style surrounding him, and it took him half a day to reply, “He’s fine, and the Mitchell Group’s business has been booming all these years, right?!”
Leo laughed and waved his hand: “No, no, naturally it’s not as good as Gale Technologies’ rapid development over the years.”
“Mr. Mitchell, since I’m here this time, I won’t sell anything to you, there are some things I’ll just say.” Stephen quickly cut to the chase: “As you can see, the development of Gale Technologies is also gradually stabilizing, however, this development process, what is most lacking, is cooperation, the strongest team, is the unchanging law of survival within this industry … so …”
Before Stephen could finish his words, Leo awkwardly cut him off: “Stephen, you came to us for cooperation, our Mitchell Group can get the favor of Gale Technologies, I, as the chairman of Mitchell Group, of course, feel very happy, but Stephen, since you came to us for cooperation, then I think you must be clear about our group’s development over the years, our partners are invariably domestic companies, we at Mitchell Group have never cooperated with multinational companies, and of course, we will not make an attempt now.”
Stephen’s mouth loosened and he smiled helplessly: “Mr. Mitchell you don’t want to put that incident of a few years ago on your mind, I have already faded away, you don’t need to dwell on it anymore. The victim of that incident is only me in the end.”
Leo looked apologetic: “Stephen, I’m really sorry about that incident at that time, it’s the Mitchell Family’s fault to you, and I’m certainly very happy that you said you have forgotten. But this is not a reason for the Mitchell Group to cooperate with multinational companies, if Stephen you still want to talk about this matter next, it will be a waste of words.”
This old thing is clearly still for the year’s things gnawing, never cooperate with multinational companies, this is clearly just an excuse to put him off, this old thing just do not want to be involved in things about him, live so many years, still quite afraid of being gossip.
But since he said so clearly that he does not want to cooperate with him, Stephen naturally will not force him, and will not pester him to change his mind, after all, Stephen knows in his heart that Gale Technologies’ strength has long exceeded the previous, and he still has the ace that Leyla installed in Dolly’s phone.
He came to him this time, the first is to talk about cooperation, and can cooperate with such a class of companies for Gale Technologies is naturally a hundred harm but no benefit, this is beneficial to Gale Technologies, Stephen has no reason not to do things.
The second is to take a chance, to see if he can meet the woman who rejected him at that time, but also want to show that woman that he is now absolutely not a person who has achieved nothing in her mouth, but a capable and excellent man who will make her regret her intestines in a minute!
He came here for two purposes in fact the second is the most important, as for the first … cooperation to talk about the success, talk about the failure, he does not care, talk about the success of the natural for the development of Gale Technologies is beneficial, talk about the failure will not cause any substantial damage to Gale Technologies The failure to do so will not cause any substantial damage to Gale Technologies.
Since the two people have spoken to this point, then Stephen only feel that they do not have to continue to stay, just a pity that Leo gave him a good cup of tea, he just ate a mouthful of lazy to drink again, of course, there is no opportunity to drink again.
Seeing that Stephen was not pestering him about it, Leo’s mood obviously seemed very good, and when Stephen explained that he was leaving, he also warmly invited Stephen to come and sit down often.
Stephen also only do superficial work, and he smiled after resignation, his hand on the doorknob, Stephen found some strange, he obviously did not twist the doorknob but felt the doorknob twitching, less than half a second, the office door was pulled open from the outside. The doorknob he was on also came off his hand.
The person who walked in was dressed in professional female formal wear, a white-collar beauty, but her face actually made Stephen stare for a long, long time, just half an hour ago in the stairwell, a few days ago in the lane, he met up with her without exception.
A little different from the morning when I saw her, she had an extra document in her hand, and outside the door she opened it and found him standing inside, the expressions on both their faces froze, staring at each other, and in their four-eyed gaze, they both seemed to be asking each other a question: “How come it’s you again!”
Leo thought this was the first time the two of them met, although after the withdrawal, he thought the two would never see each other again in this life, but did not expect to run into each other here today.