novelraw Chapter 730 - 714: I Am Not a Slut 25
Chapter 730 - 714: I Am Not a Slut 25
Gu Kai sat back in the high-backed chair, seemingly relaxed, but his gaze was sharp.
"Our Gu family encourages fair competition, competent employees should be rewarded, not pressured into resigning. If I hear about this again, make sure to report it to me."
Secretary Zhao quickly agreed.
Gu Kai thought for a moment: "Go and find out if there’s any inside story to this."
After Secretary Zhao left, Gu Kai didn’t do any office work.
He stood up and walked out of the office without calling anyone, quietly making his way to the secretary’s office.
At this time, everyone in the secretary’s office was busy, and Gu Kai deliberately restrained his presence, so hardly anyone noticed him.
He found a corner obscured by green plants and sat down, starting to observe the people in the secretary’s office.
Soon, Gu Kai saw something he could not accept.
He discovered that Xiao Tiantian hardly did any work in the secretary’s office; instead, she passed her tasks onto others. Moreover, Xiao Tiantian was quite a bully and skilled at pushing people around.
This woman acted nothing like how she did at home.
At home in the evening, Xiao Tiantian seemed lively, cute, and gentle—good-natured, making her appear to be a naive young girl. But now? Xiao Tiantian’s arrogant demeanor was simply disgusting.
Gu Kai watched quietly for a long time.
He found that other secretaries dared not provoke Xiao Tiantian, and it seemed as if she was acting so recklessly because she relied on his influence. Gu Kai couldn’t help but frown again.
He remembered how Xiao Tiantian had repeatedly told him about being bullied by others. The next day when he came to the company, he would punish those people. He had no other intention but to prevent such bullying of newcomers in his company. However, Xiao Tiantian took the opportunity to create public opinion and insinuate a significant relationship with him, resulting in the current situation.
Having understood all this, Gu Kai started to dislike Xiao Tiantian.
He took out his phone and sent a text to Secretary Zhao, asking him to call everyone in the secretary’s office out for a meeting. While no one was around, Gu Kai left and returned to his office.
That day, Gu Kai was not in the mood to work.
When it was time to get off work, he drove to the neighborhood where Xiao Tiantian lived, intending to observe her every move.
It seemed that a while ago, Xiao Tiantian had told him that she had helped people on her way home, helped a lost child find their mother, and helped an old lady from her neighborhood carry things.
Gu Kai wanted to see if Xiao Tiantian actually helped people.
Sitting in his car, he looked out the window and soon spotted Xiao Tiantian.
Coincidentally, Xiao Tiantian, in a hurry and not looking where she was going, bumped into an elderly man.
Although Gu Kai could not hear Xiao Tiantian’s voice, he saw that she started arguing with the elderly man.
She did not apologize, nor did she ask if the old man was hurt. Instead, she ferociously blamed the elderly man.
The old man, having a good temperament, did not react much, probably trying to advise Xiao Tiantian earnestly. However, Xiao Tiantian did not appreciate his kindness and instead cursed at him several times.
From Xiao Tiantian’s body language alone, Gu Kai could tell her words must have been offensive.
Seeing such a side of Xiao Tiantian made Gu Kai even more suspicious.
He then recalled another matter.
Gu Kai had a good friend named He Jue, who had met Jiang Anning before she resigned. Jiang Anning was attractive and highly capable, which made He Jue take a liking to her.
It was probably He Jue who had asked him about it, but at that time, Gu Kai did not say much, only that he would help check.
But at night, he heard Xiao Tiantian telling him bad things about Jiang Anning, saying she was a gold digger, always wanted to climb the social ladder, and dreamed of marrying into a rich family. She also mentioned that Jiang Anning once had a boyfriend but cheated on him because his family wasn’t wealthy. Then, she found a rich second-generation boyfriend, but that boyfriend dumped her eventually.
He felt that Jiang Anning was not a good woman after hearing such things and later used these words to advise his good friend.
He Jue and Gu Kai grew up together and trusted him a lot, thinking all this information was gathered by him, so they dropped the idea of pursuing Anning.
At that time, Gu Kai didn’t think much; he wasn’t particularly interested in a gold digger and certainly didn’t have a good impression of such a woman. Besides, Jiang Anning’s look, resembling a fox spirit, made him believe even more that her character was as Xiao Tiantian described.
However, he had been closely in contact with the Jiang family these past few days.
He could genuinely feel that the Jiang family members were nice people. Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang were honest and deeply loved their daughter; the eldest sister of the Jiang family was hardworking, not afraid of hardships, and her dumplings were solidly stuffed, showing her diligence.
Jiang Anning herself had exceptional abilities in business, a sharp vision, and a flexible mind. Furthermore, she was highly proficient in computers and fluent in over a dozen languages.
Even so, she never slackened; whenever she had time, she would study and recharge.
Most importantly, Jiang Anning never planned to rely on men. She was very capable of making money herself, and she wasn’t at all materialistic. She dressed glamorously when going out as needed by her lifestyle, but at home, she was as comfortable as could be.
Moreover, Gu Kai also overheard a conversation between Jiang Anning and Jiang Anping, realizing that Jiang Anning never had a boyfriend during her school days. She was entirely focused on her studies. The current man, Xiao Yuan, was Jiang Anning’s first love. Although Xiao Yuan came from a poor family and was still a student with little money, so much that he depended on Anning for support, Anning showed no sign of disdain but deep affection for her boyfriend.
How could such a good girl be depicted so negatively by Xiao Tiantian?
Jiang Anping was also a clever and lively girl, careless yet not very sharp. She didn’t harbor any jealousy towards her talented sister, but rather, she was very protective of her family.
One could say, the Jiang family gave Gu Kai a sense of warmth he hadn’t felt in a long time.
This genuine care and attention towards family members, compared to Xiao Tiantian, made Gu Kai feel much more comfortable.
Before having something to compare, Gu Kai thought Xiao Tiantian was okay, but now, compared to the Jiang family, Xiao Tiantian always seemed somewhat fake and pretentious.
Gu Kai watched for a long time and drove away with a stern face.
Xiao Yuan and Mr. Xiao stayed at the reservoir for a long time; when they finally returned home, it was already past midnight.
Mr. Xiao still felt a bit dizzy, almost as if he was in a dream.
Father and son didn’t wake up Mother Xiao, Xiao Yufeng, and Xiao Yu Mei, who were still deeply asleep.
They carried the things into Xiao Yuan’s room, Xiao Yuan turned on the light and pried open the locked box they had fished up. When the lid was opened, a foul smell emerged first. After the smell dissipated, inside the box, Mr. Xiao was utterly stunned.
There were about a dozen gold bars in the box, each weighing approximately one kilogram, totaling up to a dozen kilograms of gold. Given the current high prices of gold, this quantity could be worth a lot of money.
Mr. Xiao couldn’t calculate the exact amount for a while.
Besides gold, there were also several pieces of jade and a well-packed porcelain jar, as well as two porcelain bowls. Mr. Xiao wasn’t familiar with the other items, but he knew the gold was valuable.
However, Xiao Yuan had different insight. He took out a piece of jade, looked at it under the light, and said, "This is glass species imperial green jadeite, such a large piece could be worth hundreds of millions."
"What did you say?"
Mr. Xiao sat down on the floor with a thump, not feeling any pain, just dumbfoundedly staring at the jade that looked like glass, "How much is this worth?"
Xiao Yuan repeated what he had mentioned before and took out another piece of jade: "This one is Fortune, Rank, Longevity tri-color jade, which is also of high value."
The most valuable items in the box were not the jade or the gold, but the porcelain jar and porcelain bowls.
Xiao Yuan carefully took out the porcelain jar, looked at it for a while and said, "If I’m not mistaken, this is Yuan Blue and White porcelain," pointing at the porcelain bowl, "This one should be Ru porcelain."
"How much, how much are these worth?"
Mr. Xiao, nervously sweating in his palms, asked stutteringly.
Xiao Yuan didn’t hide it from him: "I remember a Yuan Blue and White porcelain appearing at an auction the year before last, it seemed to have been sold for over two hundred million yuan, I can’t remember the exact number, I’ll check the news when I return."