Month after month, the rhythm of time flows smoothly, from autumn to winter, from spring to summer. Watching the small drops of rain falling on the glass window, Dylan suddenly remembered the kiss he had given Nancy in the rain that night.
It wasn't the cold winter and the snow wasn't falling, but why did he feel so numb when he looked at the clouds printed on the sky?
The four seasons passed silently, his footsteps were busy searching for the lingering scent of old love on the old paths. Hundreds of memories, thousands of sorrows he only knows how to send to the wind and clouds without being able to confide in anyone. He filled up endless nights with the bitter wine and the hazy smoke of cigarettes.
Hearing the knock on the door, Dylan stopped looking outside and immediately looked at the computer. The newly edited data sheet was being highlighted in black waiting to be copied when it was deleted when his finger mistakenly pressed the keyboard. Just as he clicked the restore button, Edana walked in front of him.
“Hello, Chairman. Director Diana is here, she is waiting for you in the meeting room.”
“Okay, let's go.”
After finishing speaking, Dylan left the desk. Edana waited for him to step out first then followed. For more than a year now, she had officially taken over the role of assistant president in place of Paul and had done everything he had done, but the good thing was that Dylan didn't ask her to track down Nancy's whereabouts.
However, she knew clearly that the talented president could not erase the image of his old lover, the photo of his fiancée still appearing on his phone screen was proof.
Seeing the golden man enter, Diana happily stood up and held out her hand. Dylan also politely shook the beauty's hand and invited her to sit.
Diana had to admit that this CEO was very attractive. From the day they met each other through her older brother, Harry, she had a very special feeling for Dylan.
On the opening day of the jewelry exhibition, she saw him dragging a girl upstairs, which made her very curious, so she immediately investigated their relationship.
In the end, she did not receive much information, only knowing that the girl used to be an employee of Global Corporation and was his fiancee.
She heard that the two of them had finished preparing for the wedding, but suddenly at the ninetieth minute everything returned to zero, and he continued to be a sad single man.
“Let's go eat together at noon today.” Diana suggested as soon as she sat down.
“Let's get down to business.” Dylan replied as he quickly flipped through the documents on the table.
Diana pouted in frustration and then gestured for the male assistant standing next to her to briefly present the joint venture agreements that her side had proposed.
Dylan listened attentively to Diana's assistant and occasionally nodded in agreement. Nova Group did not add any additional conditions to overwhelm Global Group compared to the agreement sent via email initially, in general, it was still a mutually beneficial cooperation. The only thing is that they suddenly want to be the head of the joint venture of the two corporations.
Previously, both corporations had joint ventures on several projects. However, this international airport project is quite large in scale, including nine runways and the second largest terminal in the world, serving one hundred million passengers per year, requiring huge financial and human resources.
The airport is expected to take ten years to complete. Furthermore, foreign contractors also participated in the competition, so Nova Group and Global Group had to cooperate closely with each other if they wanted to put their company's name on the project information board.
“Let Global Group lead the joint venture as agreed in the original agreement.” Dylan folded the document and looked at the person in front of him.
“What's up? Up until now, you've always let Nova Group lead the joint venture. You're afraid that the money transferred from the treasury will be appropriated by us, right?”
“No. It's just that Global Group will do sixty percent of the work and Nova Group will only do forty percent of the work. Whichever side does the most, the money will go to that side's account. The previous projects were fifty-fifty, so I let Nova Group take the lead in the joint venture.”
“Why do I feel like you don't trust us?” Diana pouted.
“I'm just following the rules.”
“Okay. Then will you have lunch with me?”
“Please take the time to gather all the missing related documents and send them to the deputy general director for checking first. As for lunch, wait until the winning bid results are out and then celebrate together.”
Diana was so angry that her face turned purple. How long will it take to wait for the winning bid results? If they didn't win the bid, wouldn't he agree to eat with her?
There were many rich guys in the city whose fathers were big bosses, waiting all day long and hoping that she would agree to go out to eat with them, but she did not agree, and this skinny man refused her five or seven times, except when they were with a group of friends.
At first, Diana only thought that the relationship between the two sides was that of partners and had no intention of flirting with him, but after a few times attending parties together and being photographed and written about by reporters, she suddenly hoped that the truth would happen as the newspapers wrote, wanting to be the one walking with him on every road.
The reason she suddenly requested that Nova Group be the head of the joint venture was that she did it on purpose to have a reason to request a meeting to meet Dylan in person and invite him to lunch so that he would accept because when she invited him by phone, he kept saying he was busy. She didn't expect that whether she invited him directly or indirectly, he would still ignore her as usual.
After shaking Dylan's hand, Diana stormed out of the room, almost bumping into Daria who was walking towards her.
Seeing the Nova Group's lady's face gloomy, Daria turned her head to look at her in surprise. Just now, Diana was very happy when she entered the company.
As soon as Daria turned around, she encountered Dylan and Edana. She bowed her head and politely said.
“Hello, Chairman.”
“Yes. Are the airport bidding documents ready?”
“Our documents are complete. Some documents from Nova Group are missing and they are supplementing them. Is there any change in the final agreement?”
“Still the same as before.”
After saying that, Dylan walked back to the office. Edana smiled slightly and greeted Daria, then quickly went downstairs to meet Kent.
Lately, both of them have been busy with work, not having time to be together. Today, Kent just finished filming in H province so he took the opportunity to stop by the company to visit his lover.
Pushing open the door and entering the deputy general director's room, Daria placed a glass of orange juice and a portion of rice on the table.
Hearing her say to take a break for lunch, Neil nodded but still tried to sign a few more documents before looking up.
“How's it going? Has anything changed in the agreement?”
“No. The chairman said it's still the same.”
“It must be like that. Oh, Daria, has Stephen called you recently?”
“No.”
“This guy. He knew I had returned to Global Group, but every time he contacted me, he talked nonsense and didn't ask anything about his father's work.”
“He's probably afraid that you'll ask him to come home. Oh, have you signed this document yet?”
Neil nodded sadly. Daria gathered the documents in her arms and quickly left.
When the door closed, Neil went to the sofa and sat down, eating and drinking while thinking about his devilish son.
That day, when his son knew that he had sold his shares, he suddenly jumped around, screaming and crying, making him think that he had been imbued with the blood of business and regretted it.
Then, he listened to his wife, secretly and shamelessly begged Dylan to transfer the shares to him, and happily told everyone to keep it a secret with the intention of surprising Stephen.
In the end, the person who was surprised was him. Stephen packed his luggage and headed abroad, traveling four countries without saying a word.
Sometimes he felt angry because Dylan kept his promise too much, he promised him but didn't tell Stephen, and then he promised Stephen but didn't tell him.
When Dylan couldn't find anyone to replace Stephen, he had to drag him up from the countryside to help. Because Neil's assets are all in the Global group, he had to go back in. It's true that the son makes the father suffer.
After distributing the documents to the departments, Daria went straight to the rooftop. Stephen's father's question just now made her feel sad.
In the first few months after leaving country T, Stephen still called her, although not much. However, for almost a year now, the two of them have not talked to each other at all, and the reason is that she proactively cut off contact after seeing the photos of him posing intimately with a beautiful young foreign girl posted continuously on her Facebook.
If she and Stephen were a couple, she would ask right away when she wondered, but their relationship up to now was just friends, nothing more, nothing less.
Moreover, she was afraid of his confirmation. If she had to hear this painful truth from his mouth, she would rather choose to quietly retreat to keep her last bit of dignity.