Bo Jingyu had never had any business dealings with this Manager He.
But it was obvious to anyone with a discerning eye that this was just a polite remark.
Firstly, it could ease the embarrassment of his being ignored. Secondly, it allowed Manager He to avoid offending anyone, which was a rather shrewd way of handling the situation.
With things having reached this point, Shen Ximan couldn't very well refuse in public.
She could only nod in agreement.
The three of them clinked their glasses together. After exchanging a few polite remarks, Manager He sensibly withdrew.
It was better for him to stay out of the fight between these two powerful people.
He didn't want to stand there like a fool and end up being an innocent victim without even knowing it.
"Does Young Master Bo have anything to say to me?"
Shen Ximan looked over with a fake smile, "If it's not something extremely urgent, don't waste my time. I still have to greet other guests. I'm very busy."
These words sounded extremely unpleasant to Bo Jingyu's ears.
It was as if she was saying, "I don't have time to deal with you. Go play by yourself."
Whenever he wasn't being taken seriously like this, he would miss the gentle and sensible her from the past. Although she had a stubborn temper and didn't like to be controlled, and would occasionally be naughty and mischievous, she would never directly ignore him.
"Didn't you go a bit too far with the matter of Tian Danni?"
Bo Jingyu frowned and picked a fight for no reason. As he said this, he actually smelled the faint scent of alcohol on her.
"Wasn't her speech just now quite good?" Shen Ximan didn't care about his suppressed anger at all. In fact, she even wanted to pour fuel on the fire.
"You know very well that her injury hasn't healed yet, and you still did this on purpose?"
"Come to blame me?" Her eyes were cold. "First there was Su Minghan, and now there's you. It seems that this Tian Danni is really popular."
"I'll send someone to arrange an advertisement for her tomorrow."
"Shen!" Bo Jingyu gritted his teeth and spat out a single word. After realizing the seriousness of the situation, he quickly changed his tone. "President Wen, if you have any grievances, please direct them at me. Don't involve the people around me."
"Can I take this as a warning from you?"
There seemed to be poisoned needles hidden in Shen Ximan's smile, waiting for the right moment to strike the approaching enemy dead.
"Don't be unreasonable."
Although he was worried about her next move, the most important thing at the moment was to get the people around him out of her control.
He had heard the news of Shen Shiyu being intimate with her in front of the media just now. Even Bo Siming had gotten involved.
After all, he was the eldest young master of the Bo family and a member of the Bo clan.
By putting them all together like this, was Shen Ximan planning to deal with them all at once? Or was she planning to win them over one by one and then get rid of them one by one?
Just thinking about it made Bo Jingyu shudder.
A woman's hatred should never be underestimated.
The current her was completely different from the her in the past.
He was starting to have trouble distinguishing what her true nature was.
Shen Ximan slowly placed the wine glass in her hand on the table and walked closer, sizing him up playfully with her charming eyes.
Suddenly, she reached out and gently pinched Bo Jingyu's chin.
Everyone stared in surprise with their eyes wide open. Even the reporters who hadn't gone far ran back quickly, taking pictures frantically for fear of missing the opportunity.
"Is this enough to be unreasonable? Or should I create some scandal with you, Young Master Bo, so that your fiancée will grit her teeth with jealousy on the screen? Only then would it be considered unreasonable?"
Bo Jingyu looked into the emotionless eyes in hers and felt a bit of a cold sense of loss in his heart. "Xiaoru is a very considerate woman. She won't lose her temper in front of me just because of the malicious provocation of other women."
He pretended to be calm on the surface. "She is very sensible."
After hearing his words, the calm lake in Shen Ximan's heart rippled. "It seems that she really picked a good time to enjoy the shade under the tree planted by others."
Xue Xiaoqi, who was standing next to the stage controller, couldn't stand it anymore.
Qian Li quickly grabbed her arm and shook his head. "Don't go over there."
"Let go of me!"
"This is a matter between the two of them. We shouldn't interfere."
Xue Xiaoqi was furious. "That's exactly why I have to intervene! Are you going to let go or not? If not, I'll call someone."
"Do you want to embarrass the two of them in public?"
Qian Li was a bit helpless. "Don't cause any more trouble."
"Just because you helped me a little bit just now, don't think that I'll side with you. I won't turn my back on my own people." Her eyes were slightly red. "The suffering that President Wen has endured, you people will never understand! Stop torturing her."
"Hasn't Second Master suffered as much as she has?"
Qian Li said in a cold voice, "He hasn't slept well for a very long time. No one knows how many bottles of medicine in the cabinet he has finished. Who knows about this kind of torture?
Stop dwelling on whose suffering is greater. Only they can solve this kind of thing. Think about it carefully."
Xue Xiaoqi looked into his determined eyes, and a feeling of grievance welled up in her heart.
She didn't want Shen Ximan and Bo Jingyu to have too much contact at all.
Not even a single look or a single gesture.
Maybe she was just being too selfish. She just wanted this high - ranking female president to stay on top and not be bothered by anything.
But it seemed that the Matchmaker had tied an extraordinary red thread between them.
The more they tried to escape, the tighter the knot became. The more they hurt each other, the closer their feelings became.
Seeing that she stopped struggling, Qian Li finally let go of her hand.
Being a careful person, he noticed that Xue Xiaoqi's arm was a bit red from being grabbed, and he felt a bit apologetic. His eyebrows immediately frowned.
"Wait for me a moment."
Before she could recover from her emotions, she heard this light - hearted sentence. When she looked up, all she could see was Qian Li's back as he walked away in a hurry.
"President Xue, President Xue!"
A Kun ran over quickly. It was not hard to see the anxiety on his face.
"An Ruo got into a fight with another child in the kindergarten. The teacher just called and asked the parents to go and pick her up! You... Have you been crying?" He keenly noticed the redness in her eyes.
Xue Xiaoqi blinked her eyes and shook her head with a smile.
"Something got into my eye just now. I'm better now. Have you told President Wen about this?"
A Kun shook his head. "Not yet."
She looked back at the hall. By now, Shen Ximan and Bo Jingyu had already parted on bad terms. She was chatting cheerfully with other guests.
"You did the right thing. President Wen is still busy. We can't let her be distracted because of Third Miss' matter." Xue Xiaoqi glanced at the corridor on the left, which was filled with staff. After a few seconds of silence, she said, "I'll go to the kindergarten now. You take over the stage control."
A Kun nodded obediently and then walked away quickly.
When Qian Li rushed back with an ice pack in a hurry, the woman who had been standing there before was already gone.
He looked around at the crowded people in the hall, but he never saw the person he was looking for. There was actually a bit of regret in his heart.
"I'll apologize to her next time."
Qian Li looked at the ice pack in his hand and said to himself with a bitter smile.