Chapter 572 - Chapter 572: 226 He Wen is back, Lan Jie invited the great god_2

Chapter 572: 226 He Wen is back, Lan Jie invited the great god_2

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Xu Nanjing tried again but couldn’t unfold the fan.

Great, he’d learned nothing.

“Forget it,” Xu Nanjing gave up, returning the folding fan to Bai Lian as he began to discuss important matters with her.

It was about the birthday celebration of the old Mr. Xu, for which invitations were already being sent out.

Gao Yan and Xu Jueling both asked Xu Nanjing to extend an invitation to Bai Lian.

The invitation Bai Lian had purchased at the auction had won the old man’s favor. The old man had always been particularly pleased with Xu Nanjing, and even more so at present.

“The end of the month?” Bai Lian only knew Xu Nanjing and Gao Yan and wasn’t familiar with the rest of the Xu family. Considering Xu Nanjing’s background, which was anything but ordinary, she said, “No, I won’t be going.”

Xu Nanjing took out a gilt invitation and placed it on her desk, thought for a moment, and said, “Here’s the invitation. Come if you have time.”

If Bai Lian didn’t attend, Gao Yan would be upset.

**

The Mu Family, the old residence.

Baohe Pavilion.

It wasn’t Shen Qing and Ji Shaojun’s first visit, but Shen Qing still appeared very constrained. Compared to the grand five-section compound, the Xu family’s villa was nothing remarkable.

Ren Wanxuan, standing beside her, had also never seen such a grand scene.

Behind the mahogany octagonal table stood two servants.

Anxious and uneasy.

There were only three of them at the dining table. The butler, standing behind Ji Shaojun, saw Xiaojie enter from the door and looked up, “Where’s the young miss?”

“She’s still dealing with official business and will come later,” Xiaojie whispered.

“Is young master Mu Zhao not here either?” the butler inquired.

Xiaojie nodded, “He’s on a call with a professor from Jiangjing University.”

Following the unexpected passing of Mu Qiong from the younger generation of the Mu family, only Mu Mingyi and her son Mu Zhao were left.

Mu Zhao wasn’t as talented as Mu Qiong but was more intelligent than most people.

The butler nodded slightly in acknowledgement, understanding the situation, then lowered his voice to speak with Ji Shaojun, “Please start eating; there’s no need to wait for them.”

Baohe Pavilion’s adjacent east wing room.

The woman sat in the study with a pile of documents at hand. Her assistant handed her a new file, “Miss, here’s the information on that Ren Wanxuan.”

Mu Mingyi reached out to take it, looking down with curiosity.

She had seen Ji Shaojun at the company; although she didn’t have a good impression of his wife, she had a favorable opinion of this cousin.

The Mu family had always been short on offspring, and when she heard that Ji Shaojun had two nieces, it was she who proposed to take them in.

She had no doubt about the Mu family’s genes…

The old Mr. Mu looked down on Ji Shaojun, which was because he had known the exceptionally talented Mu Qiong. After Mu Qiong’s death, the old man was deeply affected and became disillusioned.

But Mu Mingyi knew that Ji Shaojun’s rapid proficiency in the company had already proven his strength; he was considered above average in Jiangjing.

Originally, she had thought his nieces wouldn’t be far behind, but having seen Ren Wanxuan’s information, she was somewhat disappointed.

“She grew up in Xiangcheng,” her assistant observed Mu Mingyi and gently advised in a low voice, “In Xiangcheng, she’s considered excellent. You shouldn’t, like the old master, compare everyone to the young master Mu Qiong. That’s too harsh on the second young master Ji.”

The old master had never met Ji Shaojun to this day.

“I know,” Mu Mingyi pressed her forehead, closed the file, and sighed.

In a large family like the Mus, with few children and no internal strife, Mu Mingyi harbored no hostility towards Ji Shaojun, and even hoped he could help raise the Mu family banner.

She had expectations for Ren Wanxuan, especially since Ji Shaojun had not let her down.

However, upon reviewing the information, her disappointment was inevitable.

“Isn’t there another niece?” Mu Mingyi tossed the file aside.

“She didn’t come,” the assistant explained.

The assistant found it odd discussing this; the butler had mentioned that the young lady had arrived early, so why hadn’t she come to the Mu residence for the meal today? When he checked the data, he found no information about this young lady either.

Just like in Ji Heng’s case, only a few sentences were available.

There was also scant information on Ji Shaojun, while there was a pile of data on Shen Qing and Ren Wanxuan.

“All right,” with Ren Wanxuan as a precedent, Mu Mingyi was not that curious about the other niece she hadn’t met.

**

The next morning, early on.

Bai Lian didn’t go to the library but joined Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong in the computer room.

Jiang University had several computer rooms, and because of the Boyuan Summer Camp competition, the rooms would be open all summer long.

There were thirty teams from the university participating, and the rest were from other domestic and international universities.

Due to the high stakes of the competition, all the participants were skilled contenders, most of whom were attending for the second time.

“This is the model we built before,” the computer room was not crowded, and Chen Hong and his group were in the last row. He plugged a USB drive into the main computer, opened a file, and introduced it to Bai Lian, “Do you have any thoughts on the advisor?”

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