Pregnant After Healing the Alpha

Chapter 105: Chapter 99: On the Influence of Qiao Jing

Gan Lanlan suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes wide open as she looked at Gan Changfeng.

“I, I didn’t say anything, I didn’t… didn’t say anything!”

Once Gan Lanlan started lying, she would stutter, a fact well known to her father, Gan Changfeng.

“This, this, she, she—” Gan Changfeng also started to stutter as soon as he began speaking.

You couldn’t blame him for losing his composure—it was just that the information Gan Lanlan had inadvertently revealed was too shocking!

In the capital, everyone knew that Zhan Qipei had married a country girl, but who would have guessed, that this country girl he married was none other than the newly awarded national agriculture magnate, Professor Qiao!

“Hah—” Gan Changfeng gasped sharply, still in a state of shock.

Gan Lanlan lowered her hand from her mouth and then turned around dejectedly with her head hanging down.

“Where are you going?” Gan Changfeng quickly called out to Gan Lanlan.

“To tell her, I didn’t help her.” Gan Lanlan’s voice grew quieter as she spoke, her head drooping even lower, looking as though she was too ashamed to see Qiao Jing.

“Who said you didn’t help her? Go tell her, the Gan family agrees to collaborate with the Zhan family.”

Upon hearing Gan Changfeng’s words, Gan Lanlan suddenly looked up, her eyes wide with surprise and disbelief as she stared at Gan Changfeng.

“No, no, Dad, didn’t you disagree earlier?”

“Earlier was earlier, now is now.”

Earlier he didn’t know Qiao Jing’s identity, but now that he did, how could he not give Professor Qiao this face?

“But, about the Qian family—didn’t you say it was difficult?” Gan Lanlan tilted her head as she looked at her father.

“Go, go, go! Hurry and tell her, don’t keep her waiting. I’ll handle the Qian family by refusing them.” Gan Changfeng said, pushing Gan Lanlan along, and finally giving her a smiling farewell as she went to meet Qiao Jing.

Scratching the back of her head, Gan Lanlan looked at Qiao Jing, “My dad, he agreed.”

“Thank you.” Qiao Jing smiled at Gan Lanlan, expressing gratitude.

“No, I—” Gan Lanlan hesitated, looking utterly troubled.

“What’s wrong?” Qiao Jing asked, puzzled.

Gan Lanlan clutched her hair, her head bowed, like a child who had done something wrong.

“I, I just, I accidentally said, said too much.”

After saying this, Gan Lanlan dared not look up at Qiao Jing, fearful of seeing disappointment on her idol’s face.

If she were to see such a thing, she feared her fragile young heart couldn’t take it.

Qiao Jing frowned slightly, “You mean, about my identity?”

Gan Lanlan nodded, her head still low, “Professor Qiao, I didn’t mean to, I—I just blurted it out in a rush, I—”

“So, did your dad agree because of this?” Qiao Jing interrupted Gan Lanlan.

“Probably.”

“It doesn’t matter now, as long as your dad doesn’t talk about it anymore.” In fact, Qiao Jing had intended to use her connections if Gan Lanlan couldn’t reach an agreement.

She didn’t like owing favors, and Zhan Qipei wasn’t an ordinary person; under normal circumstances, he didn’t need anyone’s help, so paying back favors was difficult for her.

Such an opportunity was rare, so she would do her best to secure this project for him.

“Professor Qiao, aren’t you mad at me?” Gan Lanlan looked up at Qiao Jing.

“If you didn’t say it, your dad wouldn’t have agreed, right?” Qiao Jing responded with a question instead of an answer.

Gan Lanlan opened her mouth, essentially acknowledging Qiao Jing’s point with her reaction.

“So, even if you hadn’t spoken out of turn, I would have spoken to your dad personally.”

Hearing this, Gan Lanlan was moved beyond words.

In Gan Lanlan’s view, Qiao Jing said this primarily to spare him from self-reproach.

Professor Qiao, truly a good person! The kindest and most considerate person in the world!

He had decided, he would be her fan for life!

“She’s back,” Lu Zijiao said, nodding toward Zhan Qipei.

Zhan Qipei had seen her too, to be exact, his gaze had never moved away from Qiao Jing.

“How did it go? Successful?” Lu Zijiao asked, a hint of teasing in his voice, but clearly without any malice.

“Yes,” Qiao Jing nodded.

“What?!” Lu Zijiao exclaimed, his mouth agape as if his jaw was about to drop, “Are you, are you kidding?”

Right! She must be joking, Zhan Qipei, an old hand at business warfare, hadn’t succeeded, and it seemed like Qiao Jing hadn’t really talked to Gan Changfeng, just exchanged a few words with Gan Lanlan, and that was it?

“Did you really succeed?” Zhan Qipei asked, scrutinizing Qiao Jing with his deep, dark eyes.

He had been living alone with Qiao Jing for a while now and somewhat understood her, knowing she was not someone to joke about such matters.

“It worked,” Qiao Jing replied.

“No, no, did it really work? How did you manage it?” Lu Zijiao could tell now that Qiao Jing was not joking.

Qiao Jing explained calmly, “A while ago, Gan Qiqi, the Gan family’s daughter, was nearly kidnapped, and I saved her.”

“That happened? That’s quite a coincidence,” Lu Zijiao realized why Gan Changfeng had agreed to cooperate with Zhan Corporation.

Zhan Qipei continued to squint his wise eyes at Qiao Jing, assessing her closely. Despite her flawless explanation, he felt that things were not that simple.

He and Gan Changfeng, both serving as Executive Directors, if it were him, he would repay Qiao Jing’s favor in a different way, rather than refusing to cooperate with a business partner he had worked with for many years.

Yet Gan Changfeng had done so… There might be unknown secrets involved.

“This time you’ve helped me out. What do you want? I’ll try to satisfy your request.”

“No need, I was just repaying a favor,” she said.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Zhan Qipei was somewhat unspeakably disappointed, “Are you talking about the favor I returned last time?”

Without waiting for Qiao Jing to answer, Zhan Qipei continued, “You’ve already repaid that favor.”

Back then, Zhan Qipei’s request had merely been for Qiao Jing to prepare a big table of food.

“Not just that. I’ve also heard about the Jhiang family’s issue,” Qiao Jing openly brought up the topic, making it impossible for Zhan Qipei to deny any involvement with the Jhiang family without making Qiao Jing look foolish.

Qiao Jing was not foolish; on the contrary, her intelligence sometimes overwhelmed him, so there was even less need for denial.

Qian Haisheng approached Qian Yuang and scolded him, “I warned you yesterday to watch your behavior and not to overdo it. Now look what you’ve done! You’ve directly offended the Zhan family!”

Qian Yuang, frustrated with nowhere to vent, complained, “I didn’t know Zhan Qipei would suddenly show up, and that Gan Lanlan, to hit me in front of so many people, grabbing my collar and embarrassing me!”

“Enough, Gan Changfeng is here,” Qian Haisheng stopped Qian Yuang from speaking further and walked over to the approaching Gan Changfeng.

“President Gan, congratulations. Your son is more promising than my son, fortunate enough to enter Professor Qiao’s research institute.”

Upon hearing “Professor Qiao,” Gan Changfeng subconsciously glanced in Qiao Jing’s direction, frowning at Qian Yuang as he shifted his gaze.

Qian Haisheng noticed Gan Changfeng’s expression and thinking it was about the incident between Qian Yuang and Gan Lanlan, hypocritically smiled and said, “My son is a bit thoughtless and speaks without restraint, but fortunately, the matter didn’t escalate.”

The matter didn’t escalate?

Gan Changfeng’s mustache twitched. Your son harassed Professor Qiao, and you’re saying it didn’t escalate?

Gan Changfeng’s expression darkened, “President Qian, not to be rude, but your son is no longer young. You should control him a bit; if one day he offends someone he shouldn’t, regret may come too late.”

Though Professor Qiao was not involved in business, her influence was significant!

If the Qian Family really went against Professor Qiao, most of the powerful families would side with Qiao Jing, isolating the Qian Family, leading only to their decline.

“Yes, you are right, President Gan,” Qian Haisheng smiled in agreement, his squinted eyes gleaming coldly.

“Actually, I came to you to discuss a business cooperation,” Gan Changfeng cut to the chase.

“For this project, let’s stick to the usual terms as in previous years, a fifty-fifty split,” Qian Haisheng suggested.

After a brief silence, Gan Changfeng responded, “Sorry, this time, our Gan family plans to collaborate with the Zhan family.”