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Chapter 0122 She Can't Go Anywhere
Monday morning.
Limitless Senior Management Meeting.
The meeting room was filled with smoke, and the atmosphere was serious.
The projector displayed the company's next overseas expansion plan, with the establishment of a European branch being of paramount importance.
Wen Ning sat on the extra seat behind Jiang Ci.
She was wearing a beige turtleneck sweater, holding a shorthand notebook, and looking down.
She felt out of place in the room filled with elites.
Like a little white rabbit that has strayed into a pack of wolves, or... a beautifully crafted ornament that has been forcibly brought to this occasion.
Su Qing stood on the stage.
She pointed to Paris on the map.
"The location and initial public relations for the Paris branch are crucial, and we need to send a capable person there to pave the way."
Her gaze swept across the entire room.
Finally, it fell on Wen Ning.
There was no appreciation in his eyes, only a calm and calculating desire to "clean house".
"General Manager Jiang."
Su Qing spoke, her tone businesslike.
"I suggest we send Assistant Wen."
The entire room fell silent for a moment.
The executives exchanged glances, their faces showing understanding.
It's obvious to everyone that President Jiang has been quite preoccupied with this "little assistant" lately, and President Su is trying to get rid of this "troublemaker."
"reason?"
Jiang Ci twirled the pen in his hand without even lifting his eyelids.
"First, Assistant Wen has lived in Paris for three years and is very familiar with the local language, environment, and culture. We need a guide and a translator."
Su Qing's reason sounded very plausible.
But then, her tone shifted sharply:
"Secondly, and most importantly."
"Assistant Wen's position at headquarters is 'personal assistant.' To be frank, in this core technology department, her presence is... somewhat superfluous."
"Instead of having her serve tea and water here, affecting your work efficiency, why not send her to Paris and let her make some use of her remaining abilities?"
That's a very unpleasant thing to say.
It bluntly points out Wen Ning's current predicament—useless and an eyesore.
Wen Ning's fingers curled slightly, her nails digging into her palms.
Su Qing is right.
In other people's eyes, she is now just a useless person who only holds others back.
But... Paris.
That place where she hid for three years.
Although life there was hardship, it was a place of freedom.
If I could go there... wouldn't I be able to escape this suffocating "cage" for a while? Even if it's just to work as a translator?
She subconsciously looked up.
He looked at Jiang Ci in front of him.
A barely perceptible longing for "escape" flashed in his eyes.
Jiang Ci leaned back in his chair.
She was not angry because of Su Qing's belittling.
But when they caught a glimmer of "wanting to leave" in Wen Ning's eyes.
His face instantly darkened.
"Smack."
The pen was slammed heavily onto the table.
Jiang Ci sat up straight.
That invisible sense of oppression instantly froze the air in the conference room.
"Redundant?"
He repeated the two words and gave a cold laugh.
"Su Qing".
He looked at Su Qing with a cold gaze, as if he were looking at an ignorant subordinate.
"Are you unhappy with my arrangements?"
"I'm only doing this for the company's sake..."
"For the company?"
Jiang Ci interrupted her.
He stretched out his hand.
In front of all the senior executives.
He grabbed Wen Ning's hand, which was resting on her knee, and pulled her, chair and all, to his side.
Hold on tight.
"Since he is my personal life assistant."
"Then I have the right to interpret her job responsibilities."
He surveyed the room, his voice low and deep, yet it exuded a despairing desire for control.
"Her work."
"Just stay within my sight."
"24 hours."
"Ready to respond at any time."
"Whether you're serving tea and water or just sitting and daydreaming, it doesn't matter."
"As long as I can see her, she has value."
Jiang Ci turned his head and looked at Wen Ning's pale face.
His eyes were sinister.
"Want to go to Paris?"
"Want to become a translator?"
"Wen Ning, do you think that as long as we're far enough away, I won't be able to catch you?"
Wen Ning gave a wry smile and shook his head frantically.
Jiang Ci snorted coldly.
Looking at Su Qing again, he issued his final ultimatum:
"Don't even mention going to Paris."
Even after leaving this building.
"She can't move an inch without my permission."
"She's not going anywhere."
"I'll stay here. Even if I rot, I'll rot right next to you."
"This topic ends here. Anyone who brings it up again, get out."
The meeting room was completely silent.
Su Qing's face turned ashen, and she gritted her teeth as she sat back down in her seat.
She lost.
Faced with this man's obsessive possessiveness, any rational advice is worthless.
……
After the meeting.
The executives fled this chaotic scene as if they were escaping.
Su Qing walked at the very back.
She stopped in her tracks as she passed Jiang Ci.
"Jiang Ci."
She lowered her voice, her tone filled with exasperated anger.
"Leaving her here will only make her a laughing stock in the whole company."
"Look at her now, so timid and submissive, like a useless piece of trash. Is this what you wanted?"
"Let her leave; at least she can retain some dignity."
Jiang Ci was adjusting Wen Ning's cuffs.
Upon hearing this, he didn't stop what he was doing.
"dignity?"
He gave a cold laugh.
She raised her head and looked at Su Qing.
"Su Qing, you've got one thing wrong."
"I kept her around not to make her a superwoman, nor to have her contribute to the company."
"I'm going to raise her into a useless piece of trash."
"To raise a... useless person who can't live without me."
"That's the only way."
"She won't run away."
Su Qing stared at him in shock.
crazy.
That's insane.
"You're simply... incomprehensible."
Su Qing said those words and turned to leave.
The office door closed.
It isolated it from everything outside.
Jiang Ci turned around.
Looking at Wen Ning, who kept her head down and whose body was still trembling slightly.
He reached out, pinched her chin, and forced her to look up.
"Just now, were you going to say yes?"
He squinted, his tone dangerous.
"You want to go to Paris?"
Wen Ning looked at the storm churning in his eyes.
she knows.
If she nods, an even more terrible "punishment" awaits her.
"No...no."
She lied in a trembling voice.
"I don't want to go... I don't want to go anywhere..."
"I just want to stay by your side."
Jiang Ci stared into her eyes.
for a long time.
The storm in his eyes slowly subsided, turning into a morbid satisfaction.
"good."
He lowered his head and kissed the corner of her lips.
"I've got it."
"In your world, there can only be me."
"Don't even think about going anywhere else."