Chapter 18Ā
**She Had Even Given Up on Feng Tingshen**
It was nearly 1 AM by the time Feng Tingshen and the others returned home after celebrating with Lin Wu.
The butler saw Feng Tingshen carrying Feng Jingxin home so late and asked with concern, “Why so late?”
Feng Tingshen grunted in acknowledgment and didn’t say much.
After carrying Feng Jingxin to her room, Feng Tingshen returned to the master bedroom, turned on the light, and didn’t see Rong Ci. He asked the butler, “Did she not come home tonight?”
“Madam? No.”
Feng Tingshen was somewhat surprised.
Rong Ci seemed to have been home very little these past few days.
She rarely stayed out this frequently.
Could something truly serious have happened at the Rong household?
The next day.
Feng Jingxin had been having a wonderful time with Lin Wu recently.
When she woke up in the morning, her face was full of smiles. Feeling very satisfied and in an excellent mood, she thought of Rong Ci. She happily hugged her plush doll and ran to the master bedroom: “Mommy! Mommy!”
The door to the master bedroom was open, but there was no one inside.
Feng Jingxin’s little face fell. Just then, Feng Tingshen came out of the walk-in closet, already changed.
She quickly asked, “Daddy, where’s Mommy?”
Feng Tingshen was slowly tying his tie. He said coolly, “She’s not home.”
“Not home? Why?”
“If you want to know, ask her yourself.”
“Okay.”
Feng Jingxin picked up her phone and called Rong Ci.
Rong Ci had just finished her morning run and saw the incoming call. She answered casually. Before she could speak, Feng Jingxin jumped in first: “Mommy! Where are you?”
Rong Ci didn’t answer. She asked, “What’s wrong, Xinxin? Do you need something from Mommy?”
No one except Chu Zilan knew where she was living now.
She was very much enjoying living alone and didn’t want to be disturbed.
So she currently had no intention of telling Feng Jingxin where she was staying.
Feng Jingxin had the call on speakerphone. She lay on Rong Ci and Feng Tingshen’s bed and whined to Rong Ci: “I miss you, Mommy. I want you to take me to school.”
Rong Ci said, “Mommy is too far from you right now. I can’t make it back in time to take you to school. How about another time?”
“Okay.” Feng Jingxin was a little disappointed, then demanded as a matter of course: “Then you have to take me to school tomorrow morning, Mommy.”
Rong Ci hesitated and didn’t answer right away.
She didn’t really want to go back there.
Rong Ci didn’t speak. Feng Jingxin found it strange: “Mommy?”
Feng Jingxin had the call on speakerphone, so Feng Tingshen could naturally hear their conversation as well.
He also noticed Rong Ci’s hesitation.
He was somewhat surprised.
After all, no matter how many things were going on at the Rong household, given how much Rong Ci valued her daughter in the past, he would have thought she’d agree without hesitation to such a small wish from her daughter.
Rong Ci said, “Wellā¦ how about Daddy takes you?”
Feng Jingxin really missed Rong Ci.
Her request wasn’t being granted, and she felt wronged. Her eyes reddened: “No, I want you to take me. Except for yesterday, Mommy, you haven’t taken me to school in a very long timeā”
Since she insisted, Rong Ci said, “Okay, Mommy understands. Mommy promises.”
She agreed not because her heart ached for Feng Jingxin.
But because since she had given birth to Feng Jingxin, she had to take responsibility for her.
Only then did Feng Jingxin’s smile return.
Feng Tingshen put on his watch. Seeing that his daughter wanted to keep chatting, he reminded her, “If you don’t go downstairs for breakfast soon, you’ll be late.”
Feng Jingxin squealed: “Ahhh, I haven’t brushed my teeth or washed my face yet! Mommy, I’m going to brush my teeth and wash my face now. Talk to you later!”
Before Rong Ci could respond, she hung up in a hurry.
Rong Ci put down her phone, ate breakfast, and then left for work at the Feng Group.
There was a big meeting in the morning.
Feng Tingshen would also attend.
In the conference room, after Rong Ci and the others had been seated for over ten minutes, Feng Tingshen finally appeared.
As soon as he appeared, Xu Xuena gasped. Her eyes lit up as she stared at Feng Tingshen, unable to look away.
A moment later, when the meeting officially began, she finally snapped out of it and tugged at Rong Ci’s sleeve: “President Feng is really handsome!”
Rong Ci had only looked up once when Feng Tingshen entered.
Hearing this, she didn’t even raise her head and gave a perfunctory “Yes.”
Seeing that Rong Ci seemed completely uninterested in Feng Tingshen, Xu Xuena was a bit surprised. But remembering that Rong Ci was married and had a child, she thought it was normal.
During the meeting, Xu Xuena’s heart kept racing. She couldn’t control herself from staring at Feng Tingshen. She didn’t pay any attention to what was being said in the meeting.
Rong Ci, on the other hand, focused on typing notes on her computer.
After the meeting, Feng Tingshen left first, and the others filed out.
Xu Xuena’s heart continued to race for a while longer. It wasn’t until Jiang Zhe came to pick up the meeting notes Rong Ci had taken that she finally pulled herself together.
Jiang Zhe flipped through Rong Ci’s notes and couldn’t help saying, “Nice work. Thanks for your effort.”
Rong Ci: “It’s my job.”
After Jiang Zhe left, Xu Xuena suddenly realized she hadn’t heard a word of what was said in the meeting. She quickly asked Rong Ci to send her a copy of the notes. But after just a moment, her head started to hurt: “Sister Rong, did you study architecture before?”
Rong Ci: “No.”
“Then how do you know so many industry-specific termsā¦”
“I taught myself from books, but I only know the basics.”
The Feng Group invested in a wide variety of projects. To do her job well, she had spent a considerable amount of time over the years learning relevant knowledge from different industries.
“Really? So you’ve read books on the medical industry too?”
“Yes.”
Xu Xuena: “ā¦”
After two days of working with Rong Ci, Xu Xuena realized that there was indeed a reason Rong Ci had become the head of their secretarial team at such a young age.
“What books did you read before? Can you send me the list? I’ll find time to look at them too.”
“Okay. I’ll send it to you later.”
At noon, Rong Ci filtered through her list and sent Xu Xuena a selection of books that would be useful for her upcoming work and relatively easy for a beginner.
Xu Xuena looked at the long list of forty or fifty books and felt a bit overwhelmed.
At 3 PM, Feng Tingshen had guests. Jiang Zhe instructed Rong Ci to brew several cups of coffee, saying he would come to pick them up shortly.
Only then did Xu Xuena learn that the coffee Feng Tingshen drank was brewed by Rong Ci.
Howeverā¦ after Rong Ci brewed the coffee, Jiang Zhe didn’t let her deliver it personally but went himself instead. Xu Xuena assumed this was Feng Tingshen’s way of preventing subordinates from using that as an excuse to get close to him.
She asked tentatively, “Sister Rong, have you never once delivered coffee to President Feng yourself?”
“Not exactly. Occasionally, when Jiang Zhe and the others are busy, they have me deliver it personally.”
Xu Xuena liked drinking coffee but had never planned to learn how to make it.
Now, hearing Rong Ci’s answer, her eyes lit up: “Sister Rong, can you teach me how to brew coffee to the President’s taste?”
Even if there weren’t many opportunities, she wanted to seize them.
Rong Ci could see what Xu Xuena was thinking.
She said, “Sure.”
She had even given up on Feng Tingshen himself. Why would she hold back the skill of brewing coffee to his taste?
