"You're here?" Xie Wenyuan walked over with a wineglass in hand and smiled. "You know Ms. Mi too?"
Mi Xiaolin forced a faint smile. "We met once when I went to Nanjiang on an inspection trip."
Xie Wenyuan nodded thoughtfully. "I'd like a word with Chu Ge."
He was openly sending her away. Nothing showed on Mi Xiaolin's face, and she kept smiling. "Then I won't interrupt your conversation with the young people, Mr. Xie."
With that, she gracefully departed.
Xie Wenyuan watched her leave, a trace of disdain in his eyes, and said quietly, "They wanted to get involved in this project, but I turned them down. Don't tell me they're friends of yours?"
Chu Ge smiled. "No. But why did you turn them down, Mr. Xie? Doesn't the project need investment from various parties?"
"We do need investment, and we need to spread the risk, but that doesn't mean we'll take just any investment... We're not that desperate." Xie Wenyuan said leisurely, "Even when hiring celebrities, we consider whether their image is suitable. All the more so with business partners."
"So what sort of image do they have?"
"Their venture capital firm is aggressive and has its fingers in all sorts of pies, like wolves that can never get their fill. Interestingly, the companies they invest in all end up belonging to them..." Xie Wenyuan smiled. "But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that we think there's overseas capital involved, and we don't want to get too mixed up in it."
Qiu Wuji asked curiously, "Didn't you say our project also involved Japanese and Korean capital, Mr. Xie?"
"That's quite different. We're a proper joint venture with cross-shareholdings and legitimate business dealings, and neither side interferes in the other's operations. Theirs..." Xie Wenyuan stopped there