"Ning Yunshi, what are you doing here?" Su Xuan exclaimed in surprise. The woman who had arrived was none other than TQ’s CEO, Ning Yunshi! Su Xuan was in an awkward position and had no idea why she had shown up, especially since she had sat down right next to the girl. "I... I’m here for a blind date..." Ning Yunshi said timidly, then asked, "What about you?" Su Xuan’s lip twitched. "Me too." He immediately turned his gaze to the girl he couldn’t seem to win over. "With her." Ning Yunshi and the girl both burst out laughing. "This is my younger sister," Ning Yunshi explained. "I was working overtime on your asset management plan and was afraid of keeping my date waiting, so I had my sister come first." Su Xuan suddenly understood. The younger sister was waiting on behalf of the older sister, and she’d even taken the liberty of going on the blind date for her! But one thing still puzzled Su Xuan. Why did her sister seem so pleased with him? Why wasn’t she the least bit critical? "Boss, I’m a TQ employee too!" The younger sister must have sensed Su Xuan’s confusion, as she said with a giggle, "I recognized you the moment you walked into the coffee shop. I’d already seen your photo in the shareholder files on my sister’s desk. Since you had the wrong person, I just decided to play along and chat with you on her behalf. As an employee, how could I dare be picky with my own boss? Right?" Then, the younger sister playfully clapped her hands. "I declare today’s blind date a resounding success! Brother-in-law is such an interesting person! I really like him!" "Get out of here!" Ning Yunshi nudged her younger sister, Ning Yunge. "There’s nothing for you to do here now. Go play somewhere else!" "Hmph! Casting me aside now that you’re done with me!" The younger sister pouted and left her seat. But she didn’t leave the coffee shop. Instead, she sat down at a table across from them, cupping her face in her hands as she watched Su Xuan and her sister. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝕟𝕖𝕥 "My younger sister, Yunge, just graduated from college," Ning Yunshi said, gesturing toward her sister who refused to leave. "She majored in Economics and Management here in China and always had excellent grades. After she graduated, I pulled her into TQ to be my assistant. Boss, please don’t hold it against me!" "Nepotism!" Su Xuan quipped. Ning Yunshi smiled sweetly. "In this kind of company, family is more reliable." Su Xuan shrugged. "That’s also true." Ning Yunshi suddenly blushed. "You know Auntie Zhang too?" "I was just about to ask you the same thing!" Su Xuan replied. "Auntie Zhang is one of my mother’s friends. They’re both in the square dancing association." "She’s my old neighbor. She lived right across the hall from my old apartment." "Auntie Zhang didn’t tell me you were a delivery man. She was covering for you." "She didn’t tell me you were a CEO either, just that you were a white-collar worker." "Perhaps she was afraid a rich and powerful old woman like me would scare people off." They both fell silent. After a long moment, Ning Yunshi broke the silence with a sip of her coffee. "How about we just call this blind date off? I already know your net worth, and I’m not young anymore. I’m not good enough for you." "Uh..." Su Xuan also took a sip of his coffee, about to say something. Ning Yunshi suddenly lowered her voice. "Why don’t you continue the blind date with my sister? She’s only in her early twenties. She’d be perfect." Su Xuan nearly spat out the coffee in his mouth. Why is Ning Yunshi just like that pregnant woman, Du Yuchen, always trying to pawn off her sister? But Ning Yunshi was being completely serious. "Look, she’s been sitting over there sneaking glances at you this whole time!" Su Xuan turned his head and, sure enough, saw the younger sister still cupping her little face, beaming at him with a sweet smile. He quickly turned back and said to Ning Yunshi, "How about we talk about something else?" Ning Yunshi nodded. "Alright." Fortunately, no other men were present, otherwise they would have died of envy! What a golden opportunity! He could win over the older sister and the younger one too! Then it would be... husband, wife, and sister-in-law, living happily ever after! Take the owner of that infamous leather factory, for instance. Why did his story get so much attention? Because of one line: ’The boss squandered everything, racked up 350 million in debt, and ran off with his wife and sister-in-law...’ But Su Xuan didn’t know what to talk about next. Both Ning sisters were his employees, and it was after work hours. Ning Yunshi, however, had plenty of questions for him. "Where did you move after leaving your old place?" she asked. "A residence at 88 Houhai Street," Su Xuan replied. Since the house was a fixed asset and he really enjoyed living there, he hadn’t planned on using it to make money. That’s why he hadn’t mentioned it to Ning Yunshi before, nor had he told her about his two luxury cars. "The Scholar Champion’s Estate?" Ning Yunshi’s eyes widened again. "You know of it?" Su Xuan asked. "An ancestor of my Ning family was the principal wife of that Scholar Champion," Ning Yunshi said softly. "I’ve always felt a connection to that place, and I hoped I could save up enough in my lifetime to buy it back..." "What a coincidence!" Su Xuan said. "Indeed!" she replied. Ning Yunge leaned in. "Why don’t we go over to the boss’s house for a tour right now? It’s not like you two have much to talk about here anyway!" Ning Yunshi swatted her sister back to her seat. "She’s always this mischievous. Even my mom can’t handle her," she explained to Su Xuan. "It’s fine, she’s just a kid," Su Xuan said. The younger sister secretly stuck her tongue out at Su Xuan. You’re only a few years older than me! If I’m a kid, then so are you! Ning Yunshi suggested, "How about we go somewhere else? We could go sing some karaoke. My sister has a lovely voice, and it would be a good way for her to burn off some energy." The three of them just standing there was indeed a bit awkward. Su Xuan nodded, and just as he was about to stand up and leave, three men suddenly burst into the café. "Ning Yunshi, I’ve got you this time!" The three men made a beeline for their table and surrounded Ning Yunshi. Seeing this, Ning Yunge immediately rushed forward to stand in front of her sister, scolding the middle-aged man in the lead, "Zhong Zhiping, don’t you take things too far! You’re just being unreasonable. Don’t you dare harass my sister!" Su Xuan narrowed his eyes but didn’t make a rash move, deciding to observe the situation first. "Me, unreasonable?" The man named Zhong Zhiping sneered, gesturing to the two men beside him. "I even brought my lawyers today to set things straight with you, and you’re telling me I’m being unreasonable?" "You *are* being unreasonable!" the younger sister insisted. "Your TQ investment project had a one-year term. We signed a contract, and it doesn’t expire for another three months! Pulling your investment now is completely unreasonable!" "It’s my money!" Zhong Zhiping retorted aggressively. "I’m free to take it back whenever I want! Besides, you failed to make the project profitable; in fact, it lost quite a bit of money. According to the valuation adjustment mechanism we signed, not only do you have to return my principal, but you also owe me compensation of 10% of the principal!" "Oh," Su Xuan mouthed. He finally understood. This man, Zhong Zhiping, was trying to extort money from TQ! Extorting money from TQ was the same as extorting money from him, the largest shareholder! He couldn’t just stand by and let this happen.