Chapter 30: All right
The modern office building had sharply defined angles, broad at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a ship resting on a building block. Its transparent glass exterior made it look avant-garde and stylish. The open-air parking lot around the automatic fountain below was slightly damp and dotted with cars, most of which qualified as luxury vehicles.
Office workers occasionally passed the building with longing in their eyes. Sometimes a cluster of girls who looked like students stood by the road, taking photographs with the building as their backdrop before leaving in giggles, giving free rein to their carefree youth. The sight inexplicably lifted the spirits of some people who had yet to step out of their cars.
The SAIF Investment logo stood atop the building, a conspicuous and proud presence even on this commercial street crowded with star companies.
In the business department on the nineteenth floor, Sun Zhiyi, Yang Qidong, and their companion sat on the sofas in the lounge, looking around the several hundred square meters of office space and the glass offices half-hidden behind partitions. Occasionally, they caught a fleeting glimpse of two or three striking beauties in business suits and black stockings.
Everyone seated there surely dreamed of developing his own company to this level one day and enjoying the pleasure of having everything before him under his control. But right now, the key to their future road to wealth lay in just one man's hands.
"You'll have to wait a little longer. Mr. Liu has another meeting." The reception manager still wore a ceremonial smile, but her expression made her indifference clear. Neither coffee nor tea had appeared on the empty coffee table before the three men. After delivering that message, she hurried off to attend to her own