Chapter 37.2

After Song Qianjin reported important matters about the company, he suddenly started to falter.

Luo Tianyuan thought that he wanted to ask for help, so he said, “There isn’t anything we can’t say between us. Just tell me directly, don’t beat around the bush, I don’t like that.”

Song Qianjin sighed and said, “There is something I wanted to tell you last time when I went back, and I probably can’t hide it this time. Song Xinhua is the uncle of your girlfriend, Ms. Song. In the past few months that I’ve been in Shenzhen, many people would like to meet you. I know that you don’t want others to know that you are the owner of Smile-yan Fashion, so I rejected them all. I’m worried that if he were to see me in Ning City, he’ll somehow figure out that the owner is you.”

“Your girlfriend, Ms. Song’s family, is very interested in cooperating with us. They gave gifts to the sales manager to establish relationships with the company. They want to be our fabric provider, but you also know that when the company was founded, it was Boss Liu who helped us out a lot. Boss Liu has always been our fabric provider since our founding, and the cooperation in the past few years has also been very pleasant.”

“Tianyuan, I also have selfish intentions about this matter. I was afraid that if I told you, you would help your girlfriend’s family, so I kept it to myself and didn’t tell you.”

Song Qianjin was between a rock and a hard place.

His loyalty to Luo Tianyuan made him unwilling to hide anything from him. If it wasn’t for Luo Tianyuan, he didn’t know where he would be right now. After all, without the help of Boss Liu, Smile-yan Fashion would not have been so successful.

Of course, there was another important point — Song Qianjin always remembered Luo Tianyuan’s original intention, where business and personal feelings were kept apart. What would things look like if there was no distinction between the two?

Luo Tianyuan fell silent.

Song Qianjin didn’t say anything. People weren’t like trees without feelings. If he were Luo Tianyuan, he might have given the business to his girlfriend’s family long ago.

When Song Qianjin was thinking about how to apologize to Boss Liu, he heard Luo Tianyuan’s voice on the other end of the phone saying calmly, “Qianjin, I have told you before that the most taboo thing in business is to act emotionally. Even if Wan Qing were my wife, business must operate as usual. There can’t be any compromises.”

Song Qianjin was stunned. “But Ms Song…”

“I have broken up with her for a long time,” said Luo Tianyuan in a low voice.

“Then how should I respond to the Song family?”

Luo Tianyuan didn’t care about many things. He was a gentle being. As long as others didn’t do things that went past his bottom line, he was an easy-going person. He didn’t care if the Song family extended to himself, but they shouldn’t have touched his daughter.

His daughter was only six years old this year.

If they had even the slightest bit of human decency, they would not do such a thing.

With a cold expression on his face, he said in a low voice, “Smile-yan Fashion will never cooperate with the Song family in this lifetime. The same goes for all the companies under my name.”

Song Qianjin was surprised. “What?”

He knew his best friend well, and he had always conveyed his message in a very delicate manner; he rarely spoke in such absolute terms. Once he spoke in such a manner, Song Qianjin knew that there was no way out for the Song family.

But Luo Tianyuan was someone who was very generous to his ex-girlfriends. No matter when he was in a relationship or after they’ve broken up, he would never treat others badly. Would Song Wanqing be an exception?

One must know that although Luo Tianyuan was a flirt, he and his girlfriends usually parted ways on good terms. So what did Song Wanqing do to offend Luo Tianyuan, who was usully so good-tempered?

“Let’s leave it at that.”

After all, he and Song Wanqing have history together, he wanted them to part ways on good terms. If it were someone else who he’d never been with, it would definitely not just end like this.

That’s it, there will be no more interactions in the future.

If the Song family still decided to bother him or his daughter, he wouldn’t show mercy.

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The New Year’s Day performance was scheduled to be on the last day of 1998.

The school music teacher choreographed a dance for “The Bell Rings”, and Luo Shuyan had done the dance so often that she was sick of it.

The rehearsals lasted for 40 minutes a day, and the dance was not difficult. Other than the first week after the New Years where she got to study, she was stuck rehearsing for the rest of the weeks at least four or five times a day. She and the other girls went from being in high spirits at the beginning to being expressionless.

After discussing with the music teacher, the head teacher finally ordered their dance attire.

They dressed uniformly in white princess dresses, white pantyhose and black leather shoes.

As the lead dancer, Luo Shuyan’s clothes were different from the other backup dancers. Her dress was much more beautiful. Ning City Primary School was willing to spend money this time. The school leaders expressed their satisfaction after watching their dance, and the school financial office didn’t dare to be too stringent with the budget. So, the class teacher purposely took a trip to the provincial capital by bus. They’d bought all the dance costumes in the provincial capital, which were of different quality than usual dresses.

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