The tycoon's wicked wife from the era of literature has been reborn.

Night falls and the city lights begin to shine.

After the guests had eaten and drunk their fill, they left, and Jiang Baohai saw them off at the door.

Grandma Tian held the child and showed him off to a group of relatives who had come from her hometown.

Gao Qinghe went to the hotel coffee shop alone and successfully found Gu Jingzhou, who had left early.

The hotel's largest group of guests today was Gao Qinghe and his party. After they left, he finished his work.

Seeing Gao Qinghe approaching, he quickly gave the lobby manager a few instructions and stood there smiling, waiting for Gao Qinghe to get closer.

"If you're not in a hurry to go back, how about grabbing a coffee?"

Gao Qinghe scanned the coffee shop. It wasn't very big, with seven or eight small tables, but it was nicely decorated and had a sophisticated, bourgeois feel.

"I'll definitely come and try it another day, but I'll skip it today."

"What about the child?"

Gu Jingzhou asked Gao Qinghe to sit down and asked curiously.

Gao Qinghe said with a laugh, "My grandma took him around to show off to her group of old friends. He's a great-grandson, after all. Four generations under one roof, people must be envious of her."

However, she didn't come to talk about the child.

"When did you arrive? Did you quit your job at Salimon?"

Gu Jingzhou ordered himself a coffee and nodded. "I quit. I always felt something was missing working for someone else, so I agreed to help my friend run the shop. I came two months ago and have been busy training employees. I also heard that you were in postpartum confinement, so I didn't have a chance to tell you."

And it just felt strange that they didn't mention it on the first day, but then specifically brought it up later.

The waiter brought over a cup of instant coffee, but Gu Jingzhou tasted the flavor of hand-ground coffee.

Gao Qinghe asked him, "Are you not planning to leave this time?"

"I don't know, let's try it out first. I don't know what to do now that I'm back."

Gu Jingzhou spoke lightly, but Gao Qinghe, who knew his family background, knew that he was under a lot of pressure.

Given the Gu family's influence in the Southwest, they must have already arranged everything for Gu Jingzhou.

Whether you go into business or politics, you start in the provincial capital.

But Gu Jingzhou went to Qingxian, a small county town, to become a small hotel manager, which is quite rebellious.

"Didn't your family make any arrangements for you?" Gao Qinghe couldn't help but ask.

Gu Jingzhou's relaxed expression as he savored his coffee suddenly froze.

He took a deep breath, put down his coffee cup, and rubbed his forehead, saying, "Work arrangements are alright, it's just the pressure to get married that's really intense."

Gao Qinghe: "How old are you this year?"

"Twenty-six."

"That's no longer a child."

Gao Qinghe is talking about the standards of this era.

Twenty years ago, it was fashionable to dedicate one's youth to the construction of the motherland and to marry and have children later in life.

Or, twenty years from now, twenty-six will still be considered young.

No wonder he ran to Qingxian, a small county town; he was trying to escape pressure to get married.

Jiang Baohai came to find his wife, carrying his child.

Gao Qinghe stood up and said with a smile, "Come visit me when you have time. I know Qing County very well."

Knowing that the devoted second male lead, Gu Jingzhou, would remain single for the rest of his life because of his first love, Gao Qinghe had no intention of persuading him to get married.

She waved and walked towards her husband and children.

Gu Jingzhou watched the family of three leave. Thinking that he still had Gao Qinghe as a friend here, the bitterness in his eyes faded, replaced by a sense of anticipation.

By the time I got home, it was completely dark.

The weather at the end of August wasn't hot, just stuffy. You'd sweat profusely with the slightest movement, and the sticky feeling was very uncomfortable.

After Gao Qinghe and Jiang Baohai took turns bathing, they also gave their daughter a bath and applied prickly heat powder.

The family of three, clean and refreshed, lay peacefully asleep on a bed.

With school about to start, Gao Qingya needs to prepare for the placement test and can no longer stay at her sister's house.

I've spent the whole summer taking care of the kids, and my studies have fallen far behind. If I don't catch up soon, my grades will drop, and I'll disappoint my older sister.

So no matter how reluctant she was to leave Jiang Qiyue, Gao Qingya obediently returned to the county town and began to prepare for her studies.

She's determined to stay number one in her grade this new semester!
Jiang Yu will be a senior in high school this semester. The pressure of taking the college entrance exam is looming over her. This final year of preparation will determine whether her future leads to a bright future or a bleak one.

The school and teachers are also focusing on the senior year of high school. Before the official start of the semester, the senior students have already started their classes.

With two fewer people suddenly in the house, and everything becoming quiet, Gao Qinghe felt a little uneasy.

However, the peace and quiet didn't last long before Huang Yanqiu gave her something to do.

It has been almost two months since Huang Yanqiu last visited.

When the guests arrived, Gao Qinghe and her daughter, who had become quite playful, sat in a row under the blooming osmanthus tree in the courtyard, eating fruit.

It's just that the mother eats fruit while the baby sucks on his hand.

A few golden osmanthus blossoms were blown down by the wind and landed on Jiang Qiyue's raised forehead.

The little guy blinked his eyes, as if frozen in place, instantly motionless and stunned.

Gao Qinghe chuckled as she brushed the petals from her daughter's head, blew on them, and sent a few osmanthus petals flying off the mat.

The little guy has never seen anything like this before.
She looked at her mother in surprise.

Gao Qinghe smiled, and she smiled too.

Two loud bangs, like thunderclaps, startled Jiang Qiyue, who was smiling, causing her to furrow her delicate eyebrows in alarm.

Gao Qinghe quickly picked up the child with one hand and asked her mother-in-law to open the door.

I didn't even need to look; I could tell from the footsteps that it was Huang Yanqiu.

"Knock softly, there are kids in the house," Gao Qinghe scolded.

Huang Yanqiu grinned apologetically at Jiang Qiyue and gently pinched her nose.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We're brave kids, we won't get scared, right?"

The child only felt an itch in his nose, but there was a huge human face in front of him, it was so scary!
She turned her head and hid in her mother's arms, whimpering.

Huang Yanqiu sat down on the mat with a carefree attitude and said enviously, "You two really know how to enjoy yourselves."

There were osmanthus trees and mats, and people were eating fruit and reading magazines and newspapers.

Gao Qinghe could tell from her expression that she was up to no good.

He glanced at the large bag on Huang Yanqiu's back and asked warily, "What are you doing here?"

"Hehe~" Huang Yanqiu grinned, revealing a set of bright white teeth: "I knew I couldn't hide it from your eyes."

So, she stopped pretending.

I took off my backpack and took out thick stacks of printed materials.

Jiang Qiyue found it amusing and reached out her little hand to grab at it, wanting it.

"You can't play with this, it's an important thing for Auntie to earn money."

Huang Yanqiu casually grabbed a piece of fruit and handed it to her, just to brush it off.

He then took out another document and showed it to Gao Qinghe, secretly observing her reaction as he flipped through it.

Seeing her brows furrow and her smile gradually fade, he remained calm.

With an arrogant and domineering attitude, he said, "I don't care, you have to vote whether you want to or not, otherwise all my hard work over the past two months will have been for nothing!"

Gao Qinghe couldn't hold back any longer and grabbed a document, slapping it onto Huang Yanqiu's domineering face.

"You, Huang Yanqiu, I underestimated you!"

Gao Qinghe never expected that Huang Yanqiu would actually bring her the bidding documents for the taxi project.

But what shocked her even more was not this.

Instead, Huang Yanqiu's bidding materials were very complete.

It's worth noting that the official announcement of plans to establish a taxi company was only released last week.

"Tell me honestly, what methods did you use to obtain this information?" Gao Qinghe questioned him menacingly.

She refused to believe it and picked up another document to examine it carefully. The details showed that it was perfectly suitable for bidding.

Huang Yanqiu said, "I didn't use any tricks."

She simply intercepted the director in charge of the project and, with sincerity and courage, inquired about the materials required for the bidding process.

结果
She gave Gao Qinghe a resentful look: "You said there's a lot of shady stuff going on here, but the director said the bidding criteria are all public, and I just need to ask the relevant departments. There's no need to intercept him halfway. He even criticized me for using the wrong back door method." (End of Chapter)