Engagement!
After Wang Mingzhu saw the invitation Li Li had sent, she asked curiously, "Li Li sure is capable. She hasn't been in Shanghai for long, yet she's already investigated every influential person here thoroughly."
Wang Yue wasn't like Wang Mingzhu. He didn't empathize with women who were just as career-driven as he was. He didn't believe an ordinary person could investigate all the connections on Yellow River Road.
If Li Li had managed to find out that much, it proved she had backing—at the very least, she had some connections.
So Wang Yue agreed to go. He wanted to learn more, too.
What if, by some mishap, someone drove his roast duck shop out of business? He didn't know whether that would cost him the mission he'd completed!
But the opening was still two days away, and before going to the event, Wang Yue had more important things to take care of.
Wang Mingzhu's parents had known about Wang Yue for a long time. At first, they hadn't thought much of the two of them. After all, they couldn't believe anyone would give up money for a woman.
But Wang Yue had really done it. He'd given up his thriving Shanghai foreign trade business, moved those operations to Shenzhen, and put his cash into the stock market.
That one move had won the old couple over. Then they began worrying about their future son-in-law instead.
But the stock market was so mysterious. As outsiders, they didn't understand it at all and could only imagine the worst.
Especially after Fagen and many others like him had killed themselves some time earlier, the old couple had truly feared that Wang Yue would lose everything, too.
They prayed that as long as Wang Yue was safe, that was all that mattered. He