Chapter 513 Oh, Annie!

"Okay! Don't worry, leave it to me!" Mo Xiangwan said excitedly, "I will definitely get this done."

The two briefly chatted on the phone about the details of the itinerary.

Before hanging up, Mo Xiangwan suddenly lowered his voice and said solemnly: "Thank you, Mr. Tang."

21:50 pm.

The taxi slowly drove into the JW Marriott Hotel in Tomorrow Square.

After completing the registration procedures in the lobby, Tang Song returned to his long-term executive suite on the 59th floor.

In the cloakroom, the familiar safe is still placed there.

Tang Song reached out to hold the door handle of the safe and touched the fingerprint reader lightly with his thumb.

"Click-click-click-" After a few clean and crisp sounds, the safe opened in response.

Stacks of envelopes are neatly placed inside.

Inside are invitations to Su Yu’s concerts, movie premieres, birthday parties, and celebration parties.

In the game, all he saw were inconspicuous notification messages, and he didn’t take them to heart.

Only when the system occasionally reminds him that he should maintain his favorability and give gifts, he will comfort him.

This [female star] is also very well-behaved. As long as he says a few "sweet words", her favorability will be restored to full score immediately.

But in reality, we realize how cruel this approach is.

Now, a long time has passed, and he can finally go to the appointment for real.

After looking through it carefully for a while, Tang Song got up and went to the minibar, and took out a bottle of beer.

Sitting on the single sofa by the window, facing the gorgeous night view of Pudong.

While drinking, I fell into deep thought.

At present, he has only recovered the dream memory of 2016, and the encounter with Su Yu was in 2017.

For Su Yu, his memory is still lacking, and he is far from having an in-depth understanding.

Until now, he still regards her more as the perfect [female star] raised by himself in the game.

I hope that this contact and interaction with Su Yu can trigger the [Light Feather of Memory] and retrieve the shared memories with her.

“Ding Dong Yi Yi” WeChat prompt interrupted his thoughts.

Tang Song took out his mobile phone and looked at it, with a smile involuntarily raised at the corner of his mouth.

[Anne: "Hey, Song! --- (Hey, Song! I hope I didn't disturb your evening schedule. It's about 10 pm in China now, right? Here in New York, it's only 10 am. I'll be boarding the plane soon, and I should land at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon.)"]

Tang Song quickly replied: "Okay Anne, I understand, and I'm looking forward to it very much. I’ll meet you tomorrow.”

[Anne: “Wait a minute—you mean you’re already in Shanghai?! You haven’t mentioned this before!”]

Tang Song looked at the series of exclamation marks and couldn't help but chuckle and reply: "I just arrived tonight. As you said, you will arrive in the Magic City on the 3rd, so I came here according to this time schedule."

【Anne: "Wow Ming, this is really a big surprise, Song! Then - you will come to pick me up at the airport,

Right? Tell me you will come!"]

Tang Song: "Of course, if you wish."

[Anne: "That's great! See you tomorrow, my dear!"]

There is also a red lips and hugging expression below.

Tang Song smiled and shook his head, sighing at the enthusiasm and straightforwardness of this American girl.

What couldn’t help but come to mind was the blond figure.

In fact, besides Su Yu, he was also looking forward to his first positive contact with this [consultant].

This white girl who was born in Chicago, grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and graduated from Harvard Law School is smart, decisive, confident, and has a bit of American humor, which always makes people feel good.

Of course, this relationship is different from facing his girlfriend Su Yu.

Judging from the current chat contacts, he and Anne have a very pure friendship, and there have been no small stories.

It’s more like meeting a female netizen with whom you get along very well, with both expectations and aspirations.

Annie is also an SSR-level character that he personally cultivated, and he also saw her in his memory in 2016.

In a sense, these game characters represent unfinished stories.

And he is continuing them.

At this moment, the phone vibrated, and the WeChat notification sounded again.

[Sun Jiayue: "Sorry Tang Song, I have been so busy these days, I forgot to ask you, have you been to the Magic City?"]

Tang Song took a photo of the night view of Lujiazui outside the window and shared it.

He left a message: "What a coincidence, I just arrived tonight."

[Sun Jiayue: "This was taken just now?"]

Tang and Song: Nod.gif (emoticon package)

[Sun Jiayue: "However, what's more coincidental is that at this moment I am There is overtime work in a certain building in your photo."]

[Sun Jiayue: photo.jpg]

Tang Song clicked on it and took a look. It was a picture of Sun Jiayue standing in the office area, facing the floor-to-ceiling window.

In addition to her reflection, there are also the Oriental Pearl Tower and the night view of the Bund.

Tang Song couldn't help but smile and shake his head, replying: "It's really a coincidence, are you still working overtime so late?"

After all, they were former high school classmates, and in the memory of 2016 that he had just retrieved, Sun Jiayue appeared very frequently. Tang Song was quite impressed by this old classmate.

I simply chatted with her for a few words.

16th floor of Times Financial Center Building, Hengyue Investment Management Co., Ltd.

Sun Jiayue drank the black coffee in her hand, put down the cup, and typed a reply: "Let’s not chat for now. It’s already very late today, and you just arrived in Shanghai, so have a good rest. I’ll get off work early tomorrow, and you can come and sit at my house in the evening. Sit down,

Let’s have a meal together, which can be regarded as letting me, an old classmate, show my friendship as a landlord. ”

[Tang Song: "Okay, see you tomorrow night, I happen to have something to do during the day."]

With a "bye" expression, Sun Jiayue's eyes returned to the PPT.

Check the content carefully, save it and send it to the leader’s mailbox after confirming it is correct.

I closed my computer, tidied up my workstation, said goodbye to my colleagues who were still working overtime, and then took my computer bag and clocked out of get off work.

Take the elevator downstairs and order a ride on Didi.

While waiting for the bus, she took a deep breath and looked up at the brightly lit high-rise buildings.

This is the financial center of the Magic City and one of the busiest business districts in China.

And Hengyue Investment, where she works, rents an independent office area of ​​more than 700 square meters, with a monthly rent of more than 200,000 yuan. The decoration is very high-end.

However, in fact, this company is only a small and medium-sized private equity fund company, with a management scale of barely more than 1.3 billion yuan.

This is the ceiling she can currently reach.

After all, in this industry, if you want to enter a big company, you either have to have an extremely outstanding academic qualification, or you have a family with money, connections, and your own resources.

It’s too difficult to get ahead from a grassroots background.

From the beginning of her university internship, she directly entered the fundraising department of Hengyue Investment, starting as an assistant and was promoted to specialist until last year.

Although her salary and performance have been greatly improved, the pressure that comes with it also makes her breathless.

She has strict fund-raising performance requirements, but Hengyue Investment has neither brand appeal nor personal resources and connections, making it difficult to enter the core social circle.

You can only contact and visit some corporate executives or individual LPs through industry conferences, alumni associations, clubs, etc.

Over the past year or so, her original high spirits have been almost worn away, and her work has been extremely difficult.

Let alone being a fundraising manager, it is difficult to even guarantee the basic fundraising amount, and I worry about it every day.

This is one of the reasons why she is so passionate about Liu Qingning.

The investment of more than 4 million yuan is not a small amount for her, and it can directly help her complete a large part of the fundraising task.

Of course, there must be true feelings.

After all, they have been good friends who have been sleeping together in high school for three years.

“Beep, beep—” A harsh whistle sounded suddenly.

Sun Jiayue quickly came to her senses, checked the license plate number, opened the door and got in the car.

Ten minutes later.

Sun Jiayue returned home, changed into slippers, and walked into the living room.

“I’m back, I’m a busy man.” Zhang Nuo, the roommate who heard the news, came out and said with a smile: “I have to work overtime until so late during the National Day holiday, your company is really good.”

“One day after the holiday I'm busy with things, so I can't help it." Sun Jiayue put down her computer bag and said, "By the way,

A classmate will come to visit us tomorrow night. You can buy some seafood or something in the afternoon and help me prepare it in advance."

"Hey, what classmate deserves your attention?" Zhang Nuo came over curiously.

"My high school classmates, I haven't seen each other for several years. When I come to Shanghai, I have to entertain them."

Zhang Nuo's eyes widened instantly: "Oh? Boys or girls?"

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"Um - a boy."

"Wow, old high school sweetheart? Secret crush? Yueyue, you're done, I'm going to tell Xu Pengyuan about this!" Zhang Nuo teased with an exaggerated expression.

Sun Jiayue raised an eyebrow and kicked her angrily, "Don't spread rumors. I'm just an ordinary classmate.

I don't have a close friendship. I haven't contacted her since I graduated from high school."

"Then why do you suddenly invite him to your home as a guest? You attach so much importance to it."

Sun Jiayue was silent for a moment and said calmly: "He and Liu Qingning have a very close relationship. They can be said to be childhood sweethearts."

"Ah? It's your Imperial University graduate and entrepreneur. A high school classmate who cashed in more than 3 million yuan in three years and joined Lime Technology? "

"Well, that's her."

"That's no wonder." Zhang Nuo sighed: "This boy must be very good? It's amazing that he can handle such a woman."

Hearing this, Sun Jiayue made a "poof" sound and said with a smile: "You are wrong. In my opinion, he is not outstanding, at least not worthy of Liu Qingning. His family conditions are not very good. He graduated from an ordinary undergraduate degree and had a good job before. Unfortunately, he resigned and is currently working as a programmer in Yancheng."

"Is that so, then he looks very good?"

"emm"" Sun Jiayue thought for a while, "You have to say that he was really handsome before, but unfortunately he gained weight later, and became disabled.

When Tang Song was in high school, he was also a tall and thin handsome guy with red lips and white teeth, who matched well with Liu Qingning.

It’s a pity that he later “fallen upon himself”.

And he was not ambitious in his career. He quit his job at a major Internet company and went to Yancheng to enjoy life.

Logically speaking, there is no future for him and Liu Qingning, they are completely mismatched.

However, judging from Sun Jiayue's previous contacts, Liu Qingning still "will never leave" him, and even plans to use the money from the equity to buy a house in Yancheng.

This puzzled Sun Jiayue and strengthened her determination to meet Tang and Song.

She hopes that through this meeting, he can persuade Liu Qingning, and she also hopes that Tang and Song Dynasties can understand something.

"Okay." Zhang Nuo shook his head in disappointment, and then asked, "By the way, about the candidates for the event,

Do you have any idea?"

Sun Jia Yue said helplessly: "Pengyuan is already contacting me, but there is nothing suitable. If it doesn't work, just forget it."

This weekend, there is a large-scale investment circle event in Shanghai, "Investor Night·Inspiring the Future".

The direction and field coincided completely with the funds their company was raising.

Not only are there leading institutions such as Sequoia Capital, IDG, and Jingwu Capital, but the official also invited many active individual LP/family office representatives.

And Sun Jiayue’s self-targeting is these “personal LP/family office representatives”.

In fact, not only her, but also many fund-raising managers in the Yangtze River Delta region who focus on the technology track basically have the idea of ​​participating.

At the same time, this also means that competition will be unprecedentedly fierce.

But Hengyue Investment is not outstanding in all aspects.

Sun Jiayue had no choice but to work in other directions, planning to find a "tool man" to pretend to be an LP attending the meeting.

Helped her open up the topic of fundraising at the event banquet, and finally reached an investment intention with her, which served as a successful case to demonstrate her professionalism.

Of course, the requirements for this "tool man" are also very high, otherwise she wouldn't be so worried.

First of all, the image and speech quality must be excellent, and it is best to be a real investor;

Secondly, you need to understand financial investment knowledge, and you must not be a familiar face in the Yangtze River Delta investment circle, otherwise it will be easy to be exposed.

This kind of gray method is actually very common in the fundraising industry. Its essence is to use low-cost leverage to leverage the decision-making of high-net-worth clients (LP).

Sun Jiayue was not very willing to use this method before, but now the performance pressure is too great. If he fails to achieve the goal, not only will his year-end bonus be cut in half, but he may also face a layoff crisis.

At present, she has asked her friends and classmates to help search, but she has not found the right one.

In fact, she felt that there was one person who was very suitable, and she invited him again and again - Liu Qingning.

Liu Qingning’s resume and achievements perfectly meet these requirements, and her image is excellent, which will definitely attract the attention of other LPs at the venue.

Unfortunately, Liu Qingning rejected her in the end.

However, she recommended another person.

Tang and Song Dynasties.

God knows how weird her expression was at that time.

However, she still agreed to contact Tang Song to ask for his opinion.

Perhaps in Liu Qingning’s eyes, her childhood sweetheart is really outstanding.

But what is the reality?

Compared with those truly outstanding people in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they were really far behind.

Sun Jiayue smiled and shook her head, looking at herself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror.

neatly tailored professional suit, exquisite makeup, and firm eyes.

Today, she is becoming the financial elite she has longed for since she was a child, direct, efficient, confident, high in cognition and strong in action.

October 3, 2023, Tuesday, cloudy.

JW Marriott Hotel Tomorrow Square.

After lunch, Tang Song returned to the room to tidy up briefly, put on a handsome suit, shaved in front of the mirror, and fixed his hair style.

took the elevator downstairs.

When he arrived at Hongqiao Airport, it was about 40 minutes before the plane’s scheduled landing time.

Compared with ordinary terminals, the business jet terminal is particularly quiet, with few people and tight security.

After presenting the reservation information, Tang Song successfully entered the VIP lounge and waited.

The environment here is elegant and private, the sofas are soft and comfortable, and the air is filled with the faint aroma of coffee.

Tang Song ordered a cup of coffee and opened an English magazine.

It took a while.

A clear and sweet voice sounded: "Hello, sir, are you here to pick up Ms. Anne?"

Tang Song raised his head and saw a staff member wearing a red uniform walking over.

“Yes, I am her friend.”

"The Gulfstream G650 business jet has completed the landing procedure and docked at the designated location." The staff member smiled and added, "You can wait a moment. Ms. Anne needs to complete the joint inspection, which will take about 8 minutes."

Tang Song closed the magazine and glanced at the watch on his wrist from time to time. The faint sense of expectation in his heart became stronger.

When the time approached, he stood up directly, straightened his collar, and straightened his back to make himself look more upright and elegant.

Soon, there was a burst of hurried footsteps at the door of the VIP lounge area.

The first thing that caught the eye were two women dressed as assistants, wearing uniform professional suits with solemn and focused expressions.

Immediately afterwards, a tall and hot figure quickly walked into the lounge.

She wore a beautifully tailored black women's suit with a close-fitting beige bottoming shirt. The shoulder lines were sharp and straight, making her figure more slender and straight.

The long golden hair is fluttering, falling smoothly on the shoulders, but there is a trace of imperceptible arrogance and confidence between the eyebrows.

He is 178 centimeters tall, weighs 62 kilograms, and has a slim and graceful figure with light muscle lines.

The perfect body measurements of 90/60/90, coupled with the beautiful shoulder and neck lines, perfectly interpret what it means to be blond and have a devilish figure.

The footsteps are getting closer and closer.

Annie stood in front of him, tilted her head slightly, and looked him up and down with her light eyes.

Her eyes were filled with curiosity, surprise, and excitement. Looking at this beautiful and unique face at a very close distance, Tang and Song gradually completely overlapped her with the [Consultant-Anne Kate] in the game and in her memory.

An unreal illusion is looming, but it eventually merges with reality.

The smile on Tang Song's face gradually brightened, he took a deep breath and said seriously in English: "Long time no see, Annie."

His voice was low but warm, with a long-lost sincerity.

"Yes, it has been a long time, almost exactly a year." Although Annie's tone was brisk, there was a hint of complaint hidden in it, "In fact, if Jin hadn't stopped me, I would have gone to Yancheng to find you on your birthday last year. You don't know what crazy gifts I prepared for you. For this, I even offended Jin and my father."

Tang Song felt comfortable and asked curiously: "What gift?"

Anne leaned forward, her tall nose almost touching him, and the warm fragrance hit her face.

The corners of her mouth curved, and she whispered: "You once told me in an email that you admired several American adult film stars. Last year around your birthday, I acquired an entertainment agency that contained your favorite stars."

"This" Tang Song's eyelids twitched, and his mouth grew slightly.

He has indeed visited the European and American areas, and there are a few adult movie stars that he admires, but he does not remember having such a conversation with Annie in the game.

This is definitely him messing around in the dream, he is not such a person.

Seeing his reaction, Annie suddenly chuckled and said: "Song, you are indeed different from before. I think I can go a little too far, and you won't be angry."

As she spoke, she opened her arms and gave him a big hug, and kissed him hard on the face.

At the age of 28, she has an absolutely mature body, with an exotic aura that directly presses on her, making the hearts of Tang and Song Dynasties quicken.

Anne’s hand boldly squeezed his waist, and then moved downwards.

"Wow, I can feel the muscles on your body. They are so strong. You are much sexier than before. That's great."

Tang Song whispered in his heart, "Oh, Annie! Don't do this!"

Then he naturally hugged Yangma, feeling the joy of reuniting with the game character.