Accidentally provoking the spring tide

Chapter 4.004. Apologize to her? (Revised)

The wide, bright French windows reflected the man's tall figure, a black fountain pen between his slender fingers, lost in thought.

Ji Yanci's phone vibrated twice in his pocket. He subconsciously reached for it, but when he touched it, his cold and listless eyes drooped again. He slowly took it out, opened it, and casually scrolled through dozens of message notifications.

People from the Jiang family, his parents, and a group of friends all asked him why he missed the engagement banquet.

Jiang Wang's words were the most vehement.

The condemnation and dissatisfaction towards him were almost overflowing the screen.

Ji Yanci glanced at it casually before turning off his phone.

Just then, someone knocked on the door, and the man lazily said, "Come in."

The assistant pushed open the door, holding a phone in his hand, his heart pounding with anxiety: "Mr. Ji, it's Mrs. Ji on the phone."

The marriage between the Jiang and Ji families was a beautiful story in the industry. The eldest daughter of the Jiang family and their CEO, Mr. Ji, were childhood sweethearts, which was much better than those business marriages without any emotional foundation. Moreover, the two companies already had business dealings, so if the marriage could be successful, it would be more beneficial than harmful to both parties.

Now that President Ji can just say he's not going, no wonder Mrs. Ji has come to him with complaints.

Ji Yanci didn't even lift his eyelids, and simply said, "Bring it here."

The assistant quickly handed over this hot potato.

"Mom." Ji Yanci answered the phone, his tone calm and unhurried.

"Ah Ci, I need an explanation."

The man paused for a moment: "No."

"In no mood?!"

The tone on the other end suddenly rose, making the assistant standing to the side tremble.

Mr. Ji, can you please not be so blunt? Would it kill you to speak more tactfully?!
"If you didn't want to form a marriage alliance with the Jiang family, why didn't you mention it in the first place? Now that the engagement banquet has been held, you're saying you won't come? Isn't this just trampling on the Jiang family's reputation?! You didn't even inform me and your father? What, are you treating us like monkeys?!"

"Luckily, Jiang Jixu didn't come today, otherwise we would have made enemies with the Jiang family!"

Ji Yanci paused in his pen-twirling motion, a flicker of something appearing in his previously nonchalant eyes: "She didn't go either?"

"Yeah, I really don't know what you young people are thinking, you treat marriage like a game!"

Madam Ji suppressed her anger and patiently advised, "Aci, although your grandfather likes you, you know how much of that is because of the Jiang family. You've never disappointed your parents, and I hope you can understand that in this matter as well." "Fortunately, that girl from the Jiang family likes you. You and I can go to the Jiang family together to apologize, and that will be the end of it..."

She rambled on and on, but received no reply, so she called out twice.

"A-Ci? Are you listening?"

Ji Yanci lowered his eyes, stroked the pen in his hand, and responded softly.

“A-Ci,” Madam Ji said earnestly, “I know you don’t like her, but marriage has nothing to do with liking someone. It’s all about being well-matched, especially in a family like ours.”

"Look at your father and me, we've made it through all these years." She paused, "As long as your marriage to the Jiang family goes through, I won't care who you keep on the side or how many people you keep, you..."

"Mom." Ji Yanci rubbed his temples, interrupting Madam Ji's incessant chatter, "I still have things to take care of at the company, I'll hang up now."

After saying that, he hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to speak.

The assistant standing next to him didn't dare to breathe.

The man gazed out the window, his expression inscrutable.

It was almost noon, and apart from the sudden breakup text message from last night, Jiang Jixu hadn't sent him any other messages.

Although she doesn't usually text him much, she would send him an emoji to tease him before mealtimes and then ask if he had eaten yet.

Of course, Ji Yanci usually pretended not to see it, only replying occasionally when he felt like it.

While the man was lost in thought, his assistant timidly spoke up: "Mr. Ji, my phone..."

Ji Yanci returned the phone to him.

The assistant burst into tears of joy and prepared to leave: "Then I'll go back to work now."

The man suddenly spoke up: "Book me two seats at the Riverside Pavilion."

The assistant paused, then agreed, but a question arose in his mind.

Binjiang Pavilion is the restaurant that Miss Jiang loves to eat at. However, President Ji thinks that the food there is too sweet. Why would he suddenly want to go to Binjiang Pavilion?
The assistant's eyes lit up slightly.

Could it be to apologize to Miss Jiang?

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