Beloved Old Lover

When Emily arrived, the guests had already arrived. She bowed and went to the empty chair next to Kevin and sat down.

He proactively introduced her to everyone and tore off a cold towel and gave it to her. This action acts as a way to protect her from the lustful eyes of indecent men.

He is now the general director of the Unicons group, and the scope of choosing relationships cannot be limited to only decent people. If they don’t do anything excessive, he will still consider meeting and collaborating.

If it weren’t for Emma texting him, informing him that Daniel told her to book a table for two at the restaurant opposite the company, he wouldn’t have brought Emily with him. He won’t let the two of them have a chance to get close to each other.

“Oh, sorry guys, I overslept so I’m late.”

As soon as the man entered the room, he quickly apologized and then approached and shook hands with each person.

He is a reporter for a famous newspaper in the North. This time he went to the South on business and, following his boss’s orders, invited the director of the television station out for a meal.

However, the director of the television station had a prior appointment with Kevin, so he told him to come here, by the way, to meet and make friends with the famous businessman.

Of course, the reporter immediately agreed because he also wanted to meet the heir of the Unicons group in real life.

Last night, he worked until dawn before taking a nap. When he opened his eyes, it was almost eleven thirty, so he quickly ran here.

“Well, let me introduce to Mr. Kevin, this is Tom, a reporter for Life and Law newspaper.” The director of the television station stood up and happily spoke up.

“Hello, I’m Kevin, and this is my assistant and secretary, Miss Emily.”

“Yes, hello, I’m very pleased to meet you.”

Tom warmly shook hands with Kevin and when he looked at the girl standing next to him, he was so surprised that he opened his mouth and rolled his eyes.

Just now, the two of them almost collided with each other. Tom didn’t expect her to run so quickly because she had to come here.

“Oh, hello Miss Emily, do you recognize me? We almost bumped into each other at the Empire Hotel earlier.”

“Oh yes. Coincidentally.”

Seeing that everyone had finished getting acquainted with each other, the director of the television station immediately invited everyone to sit down and begin to eat.

At this table, besides Kevin and Emily, Tom is familiar with all the journalists because they work in the same industry and meet often.

Kevin took the empty bowl in front of Emily, ladled the soup in, and put it down, not forgetting to glance at her.

He didn’t think she would run into the Empire Hotel to change clothes. A feeling of insecurity gradually invaded his body when he remembered that it was Daniel’s second home. Not a coincidence, right?

At the same time, in the restaurant opposite Unicons Group, Daniel and Emma were also having a meal.

He initially wanted to go out to eat with Emily, but when he texted her, she said she had to go with his brother to meet his partner. Therefore, Emma was the replacement.

Seeing Daniel sad, Emma was also sad but she didn’t know what else to do. She accepted Kevin’s help so she had to work for him. Furthermore, she also did not want the man she loved to walk towards another girl.

Initially, Kevin only asked her to play the role of his girlfriend and now she has turned into a spy alongside Daniel.

She didn’t dare to ask but only vaguely guessed that her half-hearted boyfriend didn’t want his younger brother to be near his ex-girlfriend.

“Emma, although that day, Kevin introduced you as, well… although he introduced you as his girlfriend, but now…”

“Just address me as usual.” She spoke up, interrupting him.

“Oh, okay. You surprised me, I didn’t realize you and my brother were dating.”

The man’s forced smile made Emma’s heart ache. She had feelings for him for a long time and always expressed care and concern through every word and action, but he didn’t know.

She and his brother had only made an agreement a few days ago, so how could he notice?

“Kevin doesn’t want anyone to know, so…”

“Yes, okay, let’s eat.”

Daniel and Emma’s lunch lasted half an hour, while Kevin and Emily didn’t leave the restaurant until 1:30 p. m.

Because he had a meeting at two o’clock in the afternoon, he refused to drink alcohol, but even so, he was still exhausted from having to sit and talk to journalists for two hours.

As soon as he returned to the office, he fell onto the sofa and took a nap.

Looking at his appearance, Emily couldn’t hate him even though he only hurt her not long ago.

After all, what’s wrong with him? Could it be that his worried eyes when he saw her being splashed with hot soup and his actions of delicately and tactfully preventing other men from touching her only came from the promise he made to his younger brother?

“Emily, lie down and rest a bit, don’t let yourself fall asleep during the meeting.”

She was startled when she heard a deep voice. She didn’t expect that when he closed his eyes, he could still see.

Thinking that perhaps the sound of papers rustling was keeping him from sleeping, she stopped arranging and obediently followed his instructions, lying down on the remaining sofa and closing her eyes.

She wondered if after he let her experience the feeling of being abandoned when they were passionately in love, the relationship between him and her had returned to being two strangers, without hatred.

That’s easy to breathe, right? Not too bad, just too sad.

Both of them quickly fell asleep, not knowing someone was knocking on the door.

Last night, Kevin stayed up all night because he missed his ex-lover, and Emily didn’t dare to sleep because Daniel was in the room, so they were both equally exhausted. While eating, they kept yawning as if they were about to go into a trance.

Outside, Daniel raised his hand and knocked twice more before pushing the door open and entering. And the scene that met his eyes made him pause because he was too surprised and didn’t understand.

Why are the two of them sleeping so soundly? Did they take sleeping pills?

Seeing that they were sleeping soundly, he didn’t want to wake them up, so he hugged the documents and returned to the office. Perhaps his brother kept his promise and did not try to torment Emily.

It wasn’t until nearly two o’clock in the afternoon that Emily suddenly woke up. She didn’t even hear the alarm from her phone.

“Kevin, wake up, wake up quickly, it’s time.” She put her hand on his shoulder, shaking and calling.

“That fast?”

The man lazily sat up, shook his head a few times, then went to the bathroom, washed his face, quickly adjusted his clothes, and went down to the conference room on the third floor with his assistant.

Near the end of the year, settlement of ongoing and completed projects takes place continuously. He is responsible for managing the bidding center and finance and accounting center, so even if he is tired, he cannot be absent.

Unicons Group’s investment funds have not yet been returned and are scattered everywhere, leading to delays in payments to subcontractors.

The dossiers that subcontractors submit to Unicons Group will be reviewed and approved quickly, but the dossiers that the group sends to state agencies will be approved slowly because there are changes in the personnel of central leaders.

Kevin also cannot use the money used to spend on projects that Unicons Group itself invests in to pay in advance for key national projects for which the group is the main contractor.

“Does anyone have any comments on capital mobilization?” He lightly tapped the tip of the pen on the page, raised his eyes, looked around, and asked.

The space in the meeting room sagged, and the sound of the pen touching the paper rang out clearly.

Emily also glanced at the project directors and the leaders of the finance and accounting department.

Financial problems always cause headaches for companies and corporations, including Unicons Group, where she used to think that money was piled up and never lacking.

Yes, Unicons Group does not lack money, but every source of money has a business purpose for that source of money, it cannot be put in a safe.

“Ah, general manager, I… I have an idea.” A young director spoke up.

“Just say it.” Kevin nodded and raised his hand to signal because he saw him a bit hesitant.

“We will establish some companies and issue bonds to raise capital.”

“You mean disguising business activities and running fake cash flows to create virtual value for those bond packages, right? No way, it’s a scam.” Kevin put down the pen, leaned back slightly in his chair, and spoke.

“No, it’s a temporary solution and we will handle it well when our large sources of money arrive.”

“No, nothing goes as planned. If we can’t handle it in time, we’ll all die.”

Kevin’s rare smile made the atmosphere in the room less tense. Emily secretly admires him. The money is stuck and he can still joke and laugh. Maybe he woke up from a good night’s sleep and became easygoing.

Finally, the meeting ended with an opinion given by Kevin. He told his subordinates to tell the subcontractors to spend money to continue constructing unfinished items and when the treasury paid, he would pay interest based on bank loan interest on the capital they spent to carry out the project.

Simply put, instead of mortgaging Unicons Group’s real estate and assets to the bank to get money to pay them, he told them to mortgage their assets, but he paid the interest.

“Will subcontractors agree to that?” Emily walked next to Kevin and asked softly.

“They will accept it, they won’t lose anything. Moreover, they are already involved with the Unicons group, this is the best way, they have to coordinate so that next year they can get the money.”

“But what if they borrow one and say two?”

“You idiot, you think I approved the estimate without knowing how much profit they made?”

After scolding her, Kevin strode faster. She smiled slightly and quickly ran after him. They look like a couple, the man is smart, and the woman is stupid.

It’s been a long time since she heard him scold her for being stupid. Before, every time he helped her study for exams, he constantly scolded her because, at that time, she was slow to understand.