253: Chapter 253 Has Another Purpose

As soon as these words came out, Gu Mingming was stunned again.

Gu Hui had never criticized him for this matter before.

As long as he handed over the menu, Gu Hui would definitely take it first.

It seemed that Shen Yan's position in Gu Hui's eyes was quite important.

While thinking, Gu Mingming handed the menu in his hand to Shen Yan.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shen, that was my oversight."

Shen Yan naturally didn't care who he handed the menu to first.

He smiled, took the menu, and said to the Waitress, "I haven't tried the dishes here. Could you recommend a few that are particularly good?"

The Waitress nodded with a smile.

"All our dishes are quite good. It depends on your taste. If you like sour flavors, I suggest you order the Sweet and Sour Fish..."

Five minutes later.

Shen Yan finally finished ordering the dishes he wanted.

As soon as he finished ordering, he handed the menu to Gu Hui.

After Gu Hui and Gu Mingming had both finished ordering, the Waitress left the private room. Only then did Shen Yan turn to Gu Mingming and ask, "Why did you ask me out to dinner today? Is there something about the company project you want to discuss?"

Hearing this, Gu Mingming subconsciously glanced at Gu Hui.

Although he had invested in Shen Yan's project, he had no intention of interfering with Shen Yan's project, nor did he have any questions. Thus, Shen Yan's question completely stumped him.

Shen Yan keenly caught the direction of Gu Mingming's gaze.

He thought: It seems this dinner gathering was entirely orchestrated by Gu Hui. But why would Gu Hui specifically arrange a dinner to invite him?

Could it be because of what happened last time?

Just as he was thinking this, Gu Hui spoke.

"To be honest, I'm a bit ashamed. I actually asked Mingming to invite you out for a meal."

"Mingming is still young and sometimes lacks propriety. I was afraid he might not handle things perfectly, so I decided to invite you out to chat together."

As his voice fell, Shen Yan gave a slight smile.

"Chairman Gu is too modest. Although CEO Gu is young, he has good judgment and is very reasonable. I am very happy cooperating with him."

Gu Hui raised an eyebrow and asked in return, "Oh? Really? Don't lie to me."

Shen Yan maintained his smile.

"How could I lie to you? If my cooperation with CEO Gu was unpleasant, I would definitely say so directly."

"After all, cooperation requires mutual willingness. Only when everyone is comfortable can the partnership last. Don't you agree, Chairman Gu?"

Gu Hui nodded in strong agreement.

"Of course. Business is like that. If we are to cooperate, we must fully trust the other party. It seems my grandson has done quite well in this regard."

The two exchanged compliments praising Gu Mingming, completely leaving the main subject of the matter aside.

It wasn't until all the dishes were served that they changed the topic and chatted about various trivial matters.

"I heard Mr. Shen has a daughter?"

Shen Yan paused right as he picked up his chopsticks. His eyes darted, and he asked, "Chairman Gu, where did you hear that I have a daughter?"

Gu Hui replied cheerfully, "My grandson told me, of course. I heard your daughter's name is Youyou?"

Shen Yan let out a light chuckle.

He had never mentioned having a daughter to Gu Mingming, nor had he told him his daughter's name was Youyou.

It was obvious that Gu Hui had thoroughly investigated him and was using this dinner to probe his background.

Thinking this, he replied to Gu Hui with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, "I do indeed have a daughter, and her name is indeed Youyou. What? Is Chairman Gu interested in her?"

Gu Hui sighed slowly.

"Actually, I quite like girls, but unfortunately, my son is not promising; all the children he had were boys."

"I even gave him a strict order to let me hold a granddaughter soon, but things didn't go as planned. Fate is set. My good son unfortunately died in an accident a few years ago."

Shen Yan nodded and replied perfunctorily, "My condolences."

Gu Hui said with a smile, "It's been so many years; why mourn now? Even if there was grief, it passed long ago."

The two chatted intermittently.

It wasn't until the three of them had cleared the dishes on the table that Gu Hui brought up anything truly important with Shen Yan.

Just as Shen Yan was about to stand up to leave, Gu Hui suddenly called out to him and handed him his phone.

"Mr. Shen, shall we exchange contact information?"

Shen Yan wasn't surprised by Gu Hui asking to exchange contact details.

He didn't believe that Gu Hui suddenly arranging for Gu Mingming to join the meal was just to chat about family matters with him.

"Alright, let's exchange contact information then."

After adding each other, Shen Yan said goodbye to them and left.

Watching Shen Yan's receding back, Gu Mingming moved his lips slightly and cautiously asked Gu Hui, "Grandpa, what exactly did you want to talk about with him today?"

Hearing Gu Mingming's question, Gu Hui turned to look at him and asked, "What do I want to do? Don't you know?"

Gu Mingming had caught a hint of something, but he wasn't entirely sure.

"You want to win him over?"

Gu Hui raised an eyebrow and countered Gu Mingming, "Why do you think that?"

Gu Mingming scratched his head and replied, "Because you seemed to appreciate him greatly. But he is currently starting his own business and has an Artificial Intelligence project. If you wanted to win him over..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Hui raised his hand and interrupted him directly.

"You are still too naive and need more tempering. The reason I asked you to bring him out for a meal today was just to get familiar with him first."

Having said that, he suddenly became very curious about Gu Mingming's view of Shen Yan.

"What do you think of Shen Yan?"

Gu Mingming blinked and answered honestly, "An idealist."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Hui couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

He hadn't expected Gu Mingming's assessment of Shen Yan to be 'an idealist'.

He asked Gu Mingming with a smile, "Why do you hold that view?"

Gu Mingming didn't think his assessment was wrong.

He replied to Gu Hui, "Because only an idealist would pursue a project that is wishful thinking and pure fantasy."

Hearing this, Gu Hui was uncharacteristically stunned for a moment.

"You think his project is impossible to complete?"

Gu Mingming nodded.

"Although I visited the lab before and witnessed the capabilities of their core technical staff, I still believe that the kind of Artificial Intelligence they aim to research cannot be developed in a short time."

Gu Hui's curiosity was strongly piqued.

"If that's the case, why did you still invest in their company's project?"

Why invest in an impossible project? Of course, it was because he had no other projects available to invest in!