From the time Xia Wei has memories, is spent in the wild, and hungry wolves, and fierce tigers and lions, and flowing venomous colorful snakes, and the mountains those year-round miasma.
Then many years after leaving the wilderness, she can hardly remember how she spent those days when she was so small, but occasionally go on a trip to the mysterious rainforest or desert no man’s land, the muscle memory of the tense but quickly recovered.
When she was ten years old, her mother, who had abandoned her for ten years, suddenly took her back and demanded her freedom in front of her grandfather, refusing to let her go through the inhumane training again.
For this reason, Rose killed herself in front of the black wolf.
Ten-year-old Xia Wei held his mother’s hand and refused to let go, little by little, feeling the loss of body heat, and eventually became cold and stiff, but did not drop a tear.
This woman she has seen very few times, but is one of the few warmth in her memory, the vague shadow of ‘mother’, for her is a rare clear spring in no man’s land, is the dry sunshine after a rainy day.
Black Wolf did what he said he would do and sent her to Anya’s side.
Perhaps it was the apology for exchanging the lives of two girls, or perhaps it was the fact that Xavier’s birth was originally an accident that did not cost him much, so letting her go was not a difficult task for him.
“Duk Duk Duk …” knocking on the door interrupted Xia Wei’s memory, Lisa, the assistant pushed in, “Mr. Xia, everyone is waiting for your meeting, are you still going?”
“Well,” Xavier snapped back, putting the ice water back in the fridge, “Well, I’m on my way.”
The projector showed some analytical data from several of Hounslow’s largest real estate investment groups.
“These groups, from the current data, the foundation is very stable, almost can not find any breakthrough point, want to open the market they have occupied, for us wind thunder is a hard battle.”
As soon as Xia Wei’s words fell, there was an uproar at the bottom.
“How can the Chambers family group, which is financially strong to the extent that the entire province’s GDP is almost dependent on its output, consider the Chambers family group as a competitive target?”
“Yeah, and the Austin, that’s the red background behind the Austin.”
“The Strong Group can’t either …”
“…”
A clamor, Xia Wei’s small figure sitting on the side of the projector curtain is motionless, with a face beyond the age of calm.
When everyone had finished, she said unhurriedly, “I’m not asking you to surpass these groups tomorrow, nor am I asking you to make plans to buy them tonight, I’m just telling you that we will one day surpass or even buy these groups, and that Windy Thunder’s future will stand at the pinnacle of Hounslow’s business world.”
Seventeen-year-old girl, face childish, but a pair of eyes like a wolf’s ambition, so that people dare not look straight.
No one believed such a pie-in-the-sky vision would come true, or that it would be realized anytime soon, but Xavier said it would only take ten years.
And ten years later, this pie-in-the-sky dream has really been put into practice, with the 100-storey tower that the Windy Timbers Group has risen from the ground lighting up the night lights in Hounslow’s newly developed second business district, and those who attended the meeting back then, with the exception of Lisa, are no longer there.
Xia Wei stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the whole city, not noticing Lisa, her assistant, enter the room.
Lisa got married last year and is now seven months pregnant, followed by a young assistant intern who has recently been teaching her to handle various matters so that no one can take over the work when she is due to give birth.
“Mr. Xia, the flight for tomorrow morning has been booked, are you sure you still don’t want to attend the group’s annual meeting? You have not attended for five consecutive years.”
Xia Wei said, “No need, the annual meeting you attend on behalf of the line.”
“But …” Lisa wanted to say something.
“What’s wrong?”
Lisa hesitated for a moment, “But IM’s Mr. Gong came every year, for three years in a row, every year in the Windy Thunder Hotel top floor that cabin door until the end of the annual meeting, everyone left, he left.”
“That’s his business.”
“Mr. Xia,” Lisa reminded, “when the typhoon blew in July, that cabin on the top floor was damaged and later demolished, so if Mr. Gong still goes this year, he will have to stand on the terrace.”
Xavier didn’t say anything.
Lisa added, “The weather forecast says it’s going to snow tonight.”
Seeing that Xia Wei is still indifferent, Lisa dares not say more, holding her belly and silently sighing as she pulls her little assistant out of the office.
The young assistant is young and has just come to Windy Timbers for two years, and has heard some things about Xia Wei from the group.
“Sister Lisa, the Mr. Gong you are talking about, is it Mr. Gong, the chief designer of IM?”
“Hmm.”
“Mr. Gong is really Mr. Xia’s ex-boyfriend, right?”
Lisa frowned, “Don’t pry, where did you hear all that?”
The assistant blinked, “male Olson said so, and is not a secret, and last year’s annual meeting, I ran to the top floor of the hotel to blow, also saw that Mr. Gong, he really come every year ah? From the breakup with Mr. Xia, every year perseverance is not?”
Thinking of that lonely, cold figure, Lisa sighed, “It’s not every year.”
At the very least, the initial breakup didn’t occur in those two years.
Five years have passed since the riot in the western suburban manor, and the big storm in the stock market of the wind and thunder group, and Miyagawa and Xia Wei did not meet during the initial two years.
If it weren’t for those two years, Xia Wei wouldn’t be so determined to not see him again.
Lisa has been with Xia Wei for so many years, is the most know her mind, Miyagawa spent two years full of the world to find Danna Keller, can not find, and finally come back to her is a humiliation for her, Xia Wei’s self-esteem so she can not accept her feelings are the other party retreat to the ‘second ‘.
But more than that, she was afraid that Danna Keller would come back one day and everything would be back to square one.
Inside the house, Xia Wei packed her suitcase and checked the battery level of her phone.
The early morning flight left in time for the quietest time of the day in the city.
As he descended the stairs, Big Ben in the center of town struck its twelve o’clock bell, the echo of which could be heard almost throughout the city, and the aftershocks curled up under the firmament, announcing the arrival of the new year.
Xia Wei pulled the suitcase and stood in front of the car, couldn’t help but look up.
Big Ben is still the same as it was back then, but you don’t have the same enthusiasm and urge to run to the square and wait for a man who you don’t know if he will come.
After the car left, Lisa stood alone with her big belly in front of the door for a while, while snowflakes floated in the sky.
In the distance, a black car drove to a stop in front of her, and the person who got off was in a black coat, with a thin and cool figure.
“Mr. Gong?” Lisa looked at him in surprise.
“Where is she?” Miyagawa’s mouth was foggy and hurried as she spoke, “I want to see her.”
“Mr. Xia didn’t come back.”
“Don’t lie to me, Alain told me she was back and I had something to explain to her.”
“Alain?” Lisa’s expression changed, her handpicked little intern assistant was a little traitor?
She immediately said, “Mr. Gong you are a spy in a dish are used, Mr. Xia waiting for you for those two years what did you go? What is there to explain?”
Miyagawa’s eyebrows knitted together, “It’s those two years I have to explain.”