Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Hope You Are Well

Liu Yifeng let Qian Fei start with the simpler parts of the prospectus first, placing her in charge of writing the issuer's profile, history, and institutional evolution. Qian Fei's writing style was excellent, her phrasing concise and precise, and because she kept every single detail of the working papers in mind, she correspondingly possessed a thorough understanding of the enterprise. Very quickly, she completed her task excellently. After Liu Yifeng reviewed the materials she wrote, he expressed supreme satisfaction and then asked another question as if intentionally or otherwise, "How are you on the financial side?"

Qian Fei said very modestly, "I studied it when I was in school, but I haven't passed the Certified Public Accountant exams. However, analyzing financial statements and things like that is not a problem!"

Liu Yifeng nodded toward her. "When the meeting starts in a moment, follow along and discuss the details of the financial side together!"

Qian Fei's heart grew hot, and she felt as if she had won the lottery.

She could finally step into the core of the project step-by-step!

She thought silently to herself that she was able to have today largely thanks to Li Yifei's guidance. Thinking like this, she couldn't help but feel that perhaps she should just let Li Yifei freeload on her meals for another period of time.

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Because Hu Zining had gone out on business trips again since a while ago, Qian Fei basically had nothing to do during the weekends. As for this weekend, she originally wanted to stay at home during the day to read books, and make a few substantial meat dishes in the evening to properly thank Li Yifei for finally giving her the opportunity to step into the core of the project. Yet at noon, she unexpectedly received a phone call from Little Yuan.

Little Yuan told her a piece of news: "Feifei, Director Kong took a fall yesterday while going downstairs and fractured his leg. Sister Jin got the news, and our back-office service department already went to see him this morning. No one over on your project department side should know about it yet! Sister Jin went down to the countryside, and she asked me to give you a word, saying that perhaps you should buy a flower basket to go see Director Kong!"

Qian Fei thanked Little Yuan and hung up the phone.

She understood Sister Jin's meaning in letting her go see Director Kong—that she was able to enter the project team was entirely thanks to a single sentence from Director Kong.

At the same time, she also felt particularly grateful to Sister Jin for keeping her in mind whenever anything came up.

She felt that fortune had truly turned in her favor over this past half year, and everything was developing in a good direction. Not only was her work gradually getting onto the right track, but there was also always someone around who could offer plans and devise strategies for her, such as Sister Jin, such as...

Thinking of that proud and pampered young master, the second "such as" came to a screeching halt in Qian Fei's heart.

She put on her clothes and prepared to head out. When passing through the living room, she saw Li Yifei rolling on the sofa like a worm while watching television.

Seeing her come out, he greeted her casually, "Oh, you're heading out?"

Qian Fei gave a sound of assent in response.

Li Yifei sat up. "Then when are you coming back? Didn't you say you were going to make a few substantial meat dishes today to thank me! This young master pushed away several gatherings entirely for the sake of this substantial meal of yours!"

Qian Fei walked to the doorway, and while putting on her shoes, she said, "Our leader broke his leg, so I'm going to pay a visit. I'll definitely be back before dinner, so set your heart at ease, ha!"

Li Yifei looked at her and asked, "You're just going empty-handed like this?"

Qian Fei said, "I'm heading out to a flower shop to buy a flower basket."

Li Yifei said, "Wait a moment!" He stood up and shuffled his slippers shuff-shuff-shuff into the bedroom, then shuffled back out shuff-shuff-shuff, handing Qian Fei a bottle of mineral water.

The mineral water bottle was covered in foreign words. Qian Fei didn't recognize a single letter, but she could make out that this pile of words should belong to France.

"Take this with you, it'll be useful on the road," Li Yifei said.

Qian Fei looked at the mineral water bottle with a face full of doubt. "Are you flaunting your wealth to me right now? Trying every way and method to tell me what kind of water you usually drink?"

Li Yifei slanted his mouth and smiled with displeasure. "Don't tell me you think I prepared it for you? The one this young master cherishes is the delicate flower!" He looked at the completely baffled Qian Fei, shaking his head and sighing. "Tell me, how did my heart become this good now? I can even endure someone as ignorant as you! You, just take this bottle of water along. I guarantee you'll definitely find it useful on the road!"

Having finished speaking, he nestled back onto the sofa like a large caterpillar that desperately owed being stepped to death, and continued to watch television.

Qian Fei thought that a bottle of water wasn't heavy anyway, so she put it into her bag to carry along.

After she finished buying the flower basket at the flower shop, she hailed a taxi and headed straight for the hospital.

Catching a Sunday, there were many people traveling. From the moment Qian Fei sat in the car, traffic began to congest, and it remained congested for nearly an hour without arriving at the destination. She lowered her head to look at the flowers cradled in her arms; those water droplets on the petals that manifested freshness had long since dried up. Furthermore, after being blown by the air conditioning in the car, the delicate flowers had now walked onto the path of becoming withered.

She couldn't help but grow a bit anxious. Taking them to visit a patient in such a withered and droopy state would be way too unsightly.

Suddenly her phone made a sound. She picked it up to look; it was a WeChat message sent to her by Li Yifei: Stood in traffic, right? Flowers withered, right? Anxious, right?

Qian Fei felt that Li Yifei's "deserves-a-kick" index at this moment was truly rising in a straight line.

She replied: Want to die, right?

The phone followed with a ding sound, Li Yifei: What are you anxious about? Can you listen to this master finish speaking? Aren't you carrying a bottle of water? Take it out and use it!

With a start, Qian Fei suddenly remembered that bottle of water in her bag.

She immediately dug into her bag to get the water, twisted off the bottle cap, poured the water onto the palm of her hand, and then sprinkled it onto the flowers bit by bit.

After the driver saw this scene from the front row, he expressed heartfelt admiration: "Hey! Don't say, you've got quite a few tricks!"

Qian Fei broke out into a smile toward him.

Coming out from the hospital after visiting Director Kong, Qian Fei was in a good mood, so she bought two more dishes than originally planned.

While she was washing and chopping vegetables, Li Yifei leaned to the side and asked her, "How was it? Was seeing your leader successful today?"

Qian Fei nodded. "Not bad!"

Li Yifei raked his hair from the side with a shameless face. "Aren't you planning to praise this young master for my brilliant foresight or something?"

Qian Fei shot him a white eye, but she couldn't help but ask with full curiosity, "How did you know there would be a traffic jam? Also, how did you think of letting me bring a bottle of water? Look at you, you don't even wash a bowl normally, how could you understand these things?"

Li Yifei let out two ha-ha laughs, saying in a cocky manner, "These are necessary common sense for me as a capital city second-generation rich kid! Tell me, I've been mixing around in Beijing since I was small—could I not even know where and when loves to congest the most? As for letting you bring a bottle of water, this is something I learned from the secretary of a smelly old man."

Qian Fei stopped her kitchen knife and straightened her body to look at Li Yifei. "Tsk-tsk! If you don't pretend to be a second-generation rich kid for one day, your heart gets agitated, right!" While she spoke, she threw the bag containing carrots next to her over to Li Yifei. "Stop the empty bragging, go wash this. I'll need to use it when I stew fish in a moment!"

Li Yifei caught the carrots in a flurry, gathering his brows with great displeasure. "Qian Fei, you've had enough, ah! Forcing me to buy groceries and scrub bowls is already very excessive, do not blindly fantasize about oppressing me to wash vegetables for you anymore!"

Qian Fei brandished the bright kitchen knife toward him. "Are you going to wash it or not?"

Li Yifei let out a "crap" and walked to the edge of the sink. "Let me tell you, just this once! Do not ever think I will wash vegetables for you a second time! In the future if you dare to order me around to do work again, don't say I'm impolite!"

Qian Fei chopped the kitchen knife entirely through the vegetables and knocked it against the chopping board, vibrating out a string of clang-clang-clang sounds. "Li Yifei, you say I chop vegetables this fast—could this kitchen knife in my hand, through some carelessness or unstable grip, just fly out toward you?"

There was no more sound of waste words on Li Yifei's side; there was only the rushing sound of flowing water merrily rinsing the carrots.

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After being busy for a period of time, the hotel project entered the guidance period. Through the relationship of a classmate, Liu Yifeng seemed to have taken on another project.

Liu Yifeng expressed extreme satisfaction regarding Qian Fei's subsequent work in the hotel project, praising her as a person who could get work done clearly. Even after receiving the new project, he specifically asked Qian Fei whether she wanted to follow along and do it with him.

How could Qian Fei say she didn't want to? She was simply overwhelmed by the unexpected favor.

Just like this, she followed Liu Yifeng and entered yet another project team to conduct an initial public offering for an enterprise in the Central Business District.

By great coincidence, for this project they were still joint underwriters with Li Yifei's company.

When Liu Yifeng handed the enterprise materials to Qian Fei, he said to her, "We will start entering the site to do due diligence the day after tomorrow. You know the people from the partner company; aren't you quite familiar with Li Yifei and Zhao De? I feel that for this project, our two sides already possess a lot of tacit understanding. Cooperate and break in well, and we should be able to complete the on-site work very quickly!"

Qian Fei took the materials and looked them over.

After finishing looking, her heart gave a sudden thump.

This time it truly was coincidence's maternal grandmother opening the door for coincidence—coincident to the absolute extreme! This company actually happened to be the place where Gui Lili worked.

Qian Fei suddenly felt that future days would be very shifting like winds and clouds, colorful and diverse.

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Arriving home in the evening, Qian Fei asked Li Yifei whether he knew about the matter of them having to do a project together again.

Li Yifei indicated that he knew. "The moment I think of having to face each other with you from morning to night again, I feel that life is merely thus!"

Qian Fei asked, "What do you mean?"

Li Yifei said, "It means it is very meaningless, stupid!"

Qian Fei said, "Move out, alright? Go look for a smart landlord!"

Li Yifei said, "What are we eating tonight? Can we not eat fish? I want to eat something light and clear tonight, how about stir-fried pork with green peppers?"

Qian Fei was smoothly led away from the topic by him without even realizing it herself. "I spit! With the two words 'stir-fried pork' carried inside the name of the dish, you actually dare to say it's light and clear!"

Amid the clamor and shouting, Qian Fei went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. While scrubbing the pot, she grumbled, "Let me tell you, Li Yifei, you hurry up and look for an apartment to move out for me!" Then she used a bowl to scoop rice from the rice bag. After scooping once, she felt that Li Yifei's appetite had opened up massively recently, and this probably wouldn't be enough for him to eat, so she scooped once more. While scooping, her mouth was still saying, "This maternal aunt has served you enough and then some!"

Over there, Li Yifei was washing green peppers with great reluctance, while washing and whining at the same time: "Let me tell you, Qian Fei, this is the last time I do work!" While he spoke, he finished washing the green peppers, and then smoothly picked up the cucumbers packed in another bag to wash them as well. "If you dare to let me wash vegetables or scrub bowls again in the future, watch how I sort you out!"

The two people busied themselves while gnashing their teeth at each other like this. Busying until the very end, Qian Fei completely forgot to ask Li Yifei that slightly idiotic question she had continuously wanted to ask very much: Do you know, youth? The company we are going to happens to be opened by your ex-girlfriend's new flame...

Of course, this question was actually not the point; what she actually wanted to ask was: Li Yifei, are you doing well?