Because she was addicted

Zhou Jin excitedly stood up from his chair, holding his wine glass, as if he could already see countless banknotes beckoning to him.

He bowed and scraped, trying his best to toast Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming blocked his way with his hand, "Don't be too happy yet. Whether Tianyu uses your goods or not is not up to me, but up to your goods."

"Yes, yes, Uncle is right."

Zhou Jin sat down excitedly, exchanging glances with Liu Cuie and her son next to him.

Zhou Ming chatted with Wen Jia for a few more minutes and they added each other on WeChat.

……

That evening, Wen Jia lay in bed scrolling through Zhou Ming's WeChat Moments, which were filled with news about the architecture field and some official news from Peking University.

Ocean University of China and Peking University have always been industry leaders in architecture, and they are neck and neck.

Professor Zhou Ming is very famous at Peking University. I never expected that he would be Zhou Jin's third uncle.

Wenjia flipped through the pages one by one.

Suddenly I saw a photo.

The background of the photo is a large office, which, judging from the walls and decor, appears to be inside a teaching building at Kyoto University. Several huge tables are pushed together in the center of the room, and people are crowded around, some sitting and some standing. Many architectural drawings are piled on the tables, but they have been blurred out.

Professor Zhou Ming captioned the post: "Winning this key project is all thanks to my students. Another day of passionate hard work!"

The photo itself is nothing special.

Strangely, Wen Jia saw a familiar figure in the photo.

Shen Li.

At first, Wen Jia thought she had misread it.

The woman was turned to the side, discussing something with the person next to her. Her short, neat hair was tidy and she looked very confident. She wore a light blue denim shirt and a cream-colored sweater draped over her shoulders.

Wen Jia downloaded the photo and clicked to enlarge it.

I watched it several times in a row.

Although she wasn't very familiar with Shen Li, she had a deep impression of the resemblance between Shen Li and Tang Ning in their eyes and eyebrows.

Although the person in front of me has cut his hair short, he is definitely Shen Li.

Shen Li actually appeared in Professor Zhou Ming's photo?

She edited the photo and sent it to Professor Zhou.

"Uncle Zhou, who is this?"

Zhou Ming replied quickly and cautiously, with a question mark.

Wen Jia thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Zhou, this looks a lot like a friend of mine, but we've lost contact for a long time, and I've been looking for her. Could you tell me where she is?"

Zhou Ming hasn't replied yet.

Shen Li waited for a long time, and even paced back and forth in the room with some impatience.

More than ten minutes later, Zhou Ming replied, "No."

Shen Li was somewhat surprised.

When she clicked on Zhou Ming's Moments again to look at it, the message had already been deleted.

Clearly, Zhou Ming didn't want Shen Li to continue asking questions.

……

In the bar.

Lu Chenyan sat on the sofa, one hand resting on his arm, swirling the wine in his glass.

"So, how's it going in Haicheng?"

As Meng Tao drank, his eyes darted around, scrutinizing everyone who came in and out of the bar several times. He clicked his tongue in amazement.

"The port city is so much better! Look at the quality and the level of people here, it's a real blue ocean. Unlike Haicheng, where it's always the same old people, I'm already tired of it."

As he spoke, he gestured with his chin toward a man in the other corner.

"Second Young Master, what do you think of that one? Is it my type?"

Lu Chenyan rolled his eyes.

"This is a proper bar."

"Who says we don't go to proper bars? There are plenty of fish in proper bars."

The man noticed someone watching him and turned around. Meng Tao quickly raised his wine glass to him. The man hesitated for a moment, then politely returned the gesture. However, his eyes immediately fell on Lu Chenyan.

Meng Tao nudged Lu Chenyan, "See? He replied to me. I'm going to ask him for his WeChat."

Lu Chenyan took a sip of wine and said impatiently:

"Are you ever going to stop?! Are you here to fish or to talk to me about something?"

"Right away, right away!"

Meng Tao put down his wine glass and walked over there. He returned a while later, beaming, and waved his phone.

"Done."

After sitting down, Meng Tao busied himself with his phone for a while before finally settling down and saying to Lu Chenyan:

"Brother, didn't you tell me to keep an eye on things in Haicheng? That Lin guy lost his charm and ran away abroad for a few days. Guess who my men saw at the airport the day he left the country?"

"Who?" Lu Chenyan asked casually.

"You'd never guess," Meng Tao said, trying to keep everyone in suspense.

"Then I'll beat you to death." Lu Chenyan gave him a cold sidelong glance.

Meng Tao shuddered, recalling the punch he received at the boxing gym earlier that day. His nose went numb, and he quickly said:

"No, no, no, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. It was Miss Tang Ning. My people saw Miss Tang personally see someone off at the airport."

Lu Chenyan's hand tightened suddenly around the wine glass, the veins on the back of his hand standing out, and his aura suddenly turned cold.

"continue."

Meng Tao, ever the tactful one, continued, "Seeing Sister Tang, I was quite taken aback. How did she get involved with that Lin guy? And she even personally saw him off at the airport? Second Young Master, what do you think their relationship is?"

Lu Chenyan's eyes darkened. "What's their relationship? Isn't it just an uncle and sister-in-law?"

"Sister-in-law went to see her brother-in-law off? Tsk tsk tsk, when did their family relationship become so good?" Meng Tao clicked his tongue repeatedly.

Lu Chenyan: "Besides this, what else?"

"Oh, a few days ago, the younger sister surnamed Lin took Scarface to Beijing."

"Lin Wanting?"

"Yes."

"What is she going to Beijing for?"

"Wasn't she always chasing after Mayor Fei's son? I heard that not long ago, Young Master Fei suddenly resigned from his newly acquired public office and went to Beijing. As soon as she heard that, she eagerly followed him there."

"She is indeed loyal in love."

"Heh heh, speaking of this Young Master Fei, he's quite interesting. Second Young Master, do you know who he used to hang out with?"

"Who?"

Meng Tao poured wine for both Lu Chenyan and himself, and continued:

"Speaking of which, you know this person too. It's Shen Li."

"Shen Li?" Lu Chenyan was genuinely surprised.

"Yes. You didn't know that back then, Second Young Master, you hadn't returned to China. Shen Li opened a coffee shop downstairs in the M Group building, and Young Master Fei worked there, minding the shop and delivering food. He worked for Shen Li for over a year."

"And then?"

"And then? Didn't Shen Li and our Brother Shen have that epic romance? Young Master Fei even got into a fight with Brother Shen. Then, I don't know what happened, Young Master Fei just disappeared. I heard he went home to take the civil service exam."

Lu Chenyan thought for a moment, "He's Mayor Fei's son. He finally passed the civil service exam, so why did he suddenly quit? What's he going to do in Beijing?"

"Young Master Fei has another identity: he is the grandson of the Fei family in Beijing. In his generation, the Fei family has only had girls, and he is the only boy. He has three older cousins: one went to work in a state secret unit, one went to the Middle East as a war correspondent, and one went to an aerospace research institute. Old Master Fei designated him as the successor of this generation. His going to Beijing is probably to take over the family business."

Meng Tao's speculation made sense, but Lu Chenyan felt it was entirely true.

He put his wine glass on the table, took out his phone, and called Fu Huaishen:

"Brother Shen, tell Xiao Wu to go to Beijing. Shen Li might be there."