Dong Ruolin was scheduled to start work at Dihao Group tomorrow, as arranged with Wang Dongxue.
After leaving Heavenly Fragrance House, Ye Chen took her to the hotel where she was staying, then said goodbye and left.
Still reeling from what had happened at dinner, Dong Ruolin considered her future.
On the surface, she had come to Jinling to work for Dihao Group, but in truth, she also carried an important family responsibility.
Her father had told her that top-secret information revealed that the Ye Family, one of Yanjing's foremost great families, had found their young master, who had been missing for years. They had even bought Dihao Group and given it to him to gain experience.
In other words, the Ye Family's young master was in Jinling, and he was the chairman of Dihao Group.
Although the Dong Family was also a very respectable family in Yanjing, the city was a place where dragons hid and tigers lay in wait. The Dong Family could only rank among the second-tier families, a hundred and eight thousand miles behind the Ye Family.
Thus, the Dong Family hoped Dong Ruolin could find an opportunity to approach the Ye Family's young master before his identity was made public. If she could get together with him and bring about a marriage between the two families, that would be better still.
Although Dong Ruolin was somewhat averse to such things, she did not dare neglect her task when she thought of the great responsibility of reviving her family that rested on her shoulders.
She had traveled a thousand miles to Jinling and planned to work at Dihao Group precisely so she could find a chance to approach its mysterious chairman and then find a way to attract his attention.
Even in Yanjing's upper-class circles, Dong Ruolin was unquestionably one of the most stunning beauties.
She believed that her looks, education, abilities, and body as pure as ice and clean as jade should be enough to attract the Ye Family young master's attention.
If she could really marry him, the Dong Family would surely be revitalized! It would leap into the ranks of Yanjing's first-tier families!
At the thought, she was filled with anticipation for her first day at work tomorrow.
At the same time, she also looked forward to meeting the mysterious Ye Family young master.
She could not help wondering, How old is this Ye Family young master? What does he look like? Is he elegant, tall, and handsome?
She could not resist taking out her phone and opening a video app.
She tapped on a video in her favorites that had tens of millions of views.
It was the video of Ye Chen slapping the sales director's face with cash at Jade Pavilion.
She had analyzed the video long ago and knew it had been filmed in Jinling. The timing also coincided with when the Ye Family young master was reported to have been found.
So she surmised that the god-tier tycoon in the video was probably the Ye Family young master, the chairman of Dihao Group.
She stared closely at the god-tier tycoon's back in the footage, watching and studying it carefully.
From the blurry video, she could roughly tell that the internet-famous god-tier tycoon was probably in his twenties, tall and lean, but she could not make out his face.
Still, his figure was excellent, no worse than those long-legged Korean oppas.
With a figure like that, surely his face could not be too unattractive!
But suddenly, a strange feeling welled up in Dong Ruolin. Why did this person seem a little like Ye Chen?
On second thought, though, she felt it was unlikely.
Ye Chen was the Xiao Family's live-in son-in-law. What kind of standing did the Xiao Family have? They could not even compare to a single hair on the Ye Family. If Ye Chen really was the Ye Family's young master, how could he possibly be living in a chicken coop like the Xiao Family?
She must have been overthinking it!
The next morning, Dong Ruolin arrived at Dihao Group bright and early.
Vice chairwoman Wang Dongxue personally handled her onboarding.
Wang Dongxue took her around the administration department and explained her duties. Then she said, "Ruolin, if there's anything you don't understand in the future, you can ask me directly, or come straight to my office."
Dong Ruolin nodded gratefully and asked tentatively, "Vice Chairwoman Wang, might I have a chance to meet the chairman? After all, I'll be responsible for the company's administrative affairs. If I don't know who he is, I'm afraid I might accidentally neglect him."
Wang Dongxue immediately grew wary.
The day before yesterday, Ye Chen had instructed her to keep a close eye on Dong Ruolin, and now Dong Ruolin was asking about the chairman as soon as she arrived. It seemed there really was more to her than met the eye.
She wondered what this beautiful girl's purpose was in traveling so far to come to Dihao Group.
She told Dong Ruolin, "Our chairman rarely comes to the company, but if he does, I'll mention it to him. If he's willing to meet you, I'll let you know."
Dong Ruolin was a little disappointed, but she smiled and nodded anyway. "Thank you, Vice Chairwoman Wang!"
When Wang Dongxue returned to her office, she reported the matter to Ye Chen.
As soon as Ye Chen heard that Dong Ruolin wanted to meet him right after reporting for work, he grew even more wary.
This woman really had come for him.
What exactly was her purpose?
Was she trying to get close to him to harm him, or to seduce him?
Whatever her purpose, Ye Chen found it somewhat off-putting.
So he decided to have as little contact with Dong Ruolin as possible, and under no circumstances could he let her learn his true identity!
On the evening of Dong Ruolin's first day at work, Ye Chen's wife, Xiao Churan, made a reservation at an upscale hotel especially to treat her to dinner.
As Xiao Churan's husband, Ye Chen naturally had to accompany her.
This left Ye Chen a little glum.
He had just resolved to keep his distance from Dong Ruolin, yet now he had to have dinner with her again that evening.
Glum as he was, however, he still got ready and went to the restaurant with Xiao Churan.
But when they arrived, Ye Chen discovered that the place Xiao Churan had booked was none other than the Hanging Garden at the Buckingham Palace Hotel!
The Hanging Garden banquet hall was usually reserved for high-end guests, so it never offered private bookings of any kind. Yet Ye Chen had reserved the entire venue for their wedding anniversary, a first in the history of the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel.
Their wedding anniversary was only three days away.
A huge, eye-catching notice had already been placed at the entrance to the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel: "The Hanging Garden has been reserved for a distinguished guest three days from now. No other guests will be admitted at that time. Please accept our apologies!"
Everyone who saw the notice was stunned!
Someone had booked the entire Hanging Garden at the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel?
It had never offered private bookings!
It was said that the children of several major city leaders had wanted to hold their wedding banquets here, but every single one had been turned down.
Just who had enough clout to book the entire Hanging Garden from the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel?
Xiao Churan also saw the conspicuous notice and said in surprise, "Oh my, someone actually booked the entire Hanging Garden? That's unbelievable!"
Ye Chen smiled beside her. "What's so unbelievable about it? It's a banquet hall. Why wouldn't they let someone book the whole place?"
"You don't understand," Xiao Churan said earnestly. "The Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel isn't a local business. It's a top-tier hotel chain with branches all over the world. The Hanging Garden is one of its signature attractions and serves only high-end guests. If they allowed private bookings, one important person could reserve it today and another tomorrow, and the other high-end guests wouldn't be able to use it normally. So they simply don't offer private bookings at all."
As she spoke, Xiao Churan could not help marveling, "I wonder what kind of background this person has. Being able to reserve the whole place is really impressive!"
Ye Chen deliberately smiled and said, "Maybe it's someone who loves his wife and wants to hold a wedding for her!"
Xiao Churan said in surprise, "A wedding for his wife here? Then he must really love her. His wife is so lucky!"