Chapter 203: A covert struggle
Seeing Tao Qing, Song Zhen, and their family over there, Tang's father instinctively glanced at the group managers beside him. Some immediately swept their eyes casually across the room as though nothing had happened; others treated it as a momentary wandering of their gaze, quickly reined themselves in, and turned back to their previous conversation. Li Lan, who handled affairs in Shanghai, let her gaze brush Tang Wu only briefly before turning to the vice president beside her. "After Morikawa completed its property asset restructuring last year, the Morikawa Green Space Investment Holding Company divided its property operations into residential and commercial property segments, further refined its Songjiang operations, and plans to launch another listed subsidiary next year..."
The managers at Tang's father's Shanghai branch had all heard a few rumors, and they knew how to read people's expressions. Mu Xuan had been speaking to Tang Zongyuan earlier. She and Tang Wu had been the first to notice Su Can's arrival; her voice had first dropped as she turned her head that way, and then she had stopped speaking altogether.
It was only natural that the managers now entertained all sorts of conjectures about the young man who had come in.
Yet he seemed to be an honored guest of the leading figures of the Senchuan Group, today's hosts. From the look of things, he was even an honored guest of Song Zhen, the Senchuan heiress. Even when Song Xiancheng and Tao Qing, who knew Mu Xuan, met them, they had only been courteous. There had inevitably been some warmth intended to bring them closer, but nothing so effusive.
As hosts representing the Senchuan Group, people like them tended to mind their public image. They were unlikely to be overly intimate with one guest or