304: Chapter 34 Are you teaching me how to do things?

Chen Guangke clicked his tongue and said, "Does something like this require you to remind me?"

A smile appeared in Shen Yan's eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes, you care about her more than I do."

Chen Guangke's face flushed, and he exclaimed guiltily, "That's not what I meant!"

Shen Yan burst out laughing.

...

Joking aside, we don't joke about serious business.

After teasing Chen Guangke, Shen Yan focused on handling company affairs.

It wasn't until six-thirty in the evening that he walked out of the company.

This was the first time in a while that he had stayed in the office the entire day without anyone disturbing him or calling him out.

Just as Shen Yan was seriously appreciating the sunset, his phone rang at an inopportune moment.

"Jingle, jingle."

Because his phone ringing recently always meant he had to go out, he instinctively didn't want to answer the call.

Fearing he would delay important matters, he finally picked up the phone to check who it was.

"Gu Hui"

Shen Yan hadn't expected him to call at this time. After hesitating for a moment, he answered the phone.

"Chairman Gu?"

The other person's voice came through the phone.

"It's me. Are you free now? Let's go out for a meal?"

Dinner again...

He had eaten out for every meal these past few days and hadn't been home for dinner with Youyou in a long time.

He had originally planned to go home early tonight to eat with Youyou...

Because he remained silent for a few seconds, Gu Hui immediately noticed that Shen Yan didn't want to have dinner with him.

"Inconvenient?"

Shen Yan pursed his lips and replied, "No, where is the place? I'll head over now."

Hearing this, Gu Hui immediately sent the restaurant address to Shen Yan.

After receiving the address, Shen Yan hung up the phone.

Although he wanted to go home to have dinner with his child, business came first.

The child was at home anyway; he could spend time eating with her whenever he wanted.

Thinking this, he tapped the ride-hailing app and booked a car to the restaurant.

Half an hour later, he walked into the restaurant.

He originally thought Gu Hui would already be waiting for him in the restaurant, but unexpectedly, Gu Hui hadn't arrived yet when he got there.

He was the only one in the private room.

The Waitress stood to the side and asked him, "Sir, would you like to order first?"

Shen Yan hesitated for a few seconds before replying, "Please wait until the other person arrives before bringing the menu up."

The Waitress nodded and then asked, "Then, would you like a few cold appetizers to start?"

Shen Yan nodded.

"That's fine."

Not long after, the cold appetizers were served.

At the same time the cold appetizers arrived, Gu Hui also entered the private room.

"Have you been waiting long?"

Hearing Gu Hui's question, Shen Yan shook his head and replied, "No, I just got here myself."

Gu Hui pulled out a chair and sat down, beckoning to the Waitress standing nearby, "Give me the menu."

The Waitress promptly handed over the menu.

Soon, Gu Hui finished ordering the dishes.

"I eat here often, so I know which dishes are particularly delicious."

Shen Yan nodded without saying much.

Seeing that he wasn't speaking, Gu Hui picked up his chopsticks, took a cucumber from one of the cold appetizers on the table, and put it into his own mouth.

"You went out with Mei Jinning yesterday?"

Shen Yan's fingers paused.

He hadn't expected Gu Hui to even know about that.

"Yes, she was waiting for me outside the bar. I couldn't refuse her invitation, so I went to have a meal with her."

Gu Hui hooked the corner of his mouth and asked, "She definitely didn't just ask you out for a meal. What else did she say to you?"

Shen Yan hesitated slightly.

He didn't know whether he should tell Gu Hui about Mei Jinning wanting to cooperate with him.

Although Gu Hui already knew he had gone out to eat with Mei Jinning, that didn't mean Gu Hui knew Mei Jinning had proposed cooperation to him.

What if he told him, and Gu Hui directly told him not to cooperate with Mei Jinning?

After thinking for a while, he replied to Gu Hui, "Actually, we didn't talk about much, just some things about the gambling match."

Gu Hui neither said he believed nor disbelieved; he just looked meaningfully at Shen Yan and said, "Do you know who told me that you went out to dinner with Mei Jinning?"

Shen Yan narrowed his eyes, and a guess surfaced in his mind.

"You're not going to say that the matter of me going out to dinner with my girlfriend was told to you personally by Mei Jinning, are you?"

Gu Hui chuckled softly a few times.

"You really are as smart as I thought. This matter was indeed told to me personally by Mei Jinning. To be honest, I don't know why she would tell me this."

Saying this, he tapped the table with his fingertip, "Maybe she wants to take the opportunity to divide the two of us..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Yan smiled and said to Gu Hui, "But I don't think there's anything about the two of us that's worth her going to such great lengths to specifically come over and divide us."

Gu Hui picked up another cucumber and put it into his mouth, chewing it crunchily.

"We are in a cooperative relationship now. If she wants to split our relationship and destroy our cooperation, isn't that worth her going to great lengths to go over and have a meal with you?"

Shen Yan shook his head.

"It's just asking me to help make some software. Anyone can make this software. Losing you would be a greater loss for me than me losing you. There's no need for her to specifically come up to me and say these things, right?"

As his words fell.

Gu Hui fell silent.

His original intention was to warn Shen Yan not to act rashly, but unexpectedly, Shen Yan turned the tables on him.

He knew that with Shen Yan's intelligence, he could guess that Gu Hui must have ulterior motives for wanting to cooperate with him, but he didn't care.

After all, no one knew better than him that Shen Yan currently needed cooperation and money.

He believed that regardless of his motives, as long as he didn't cross Shen Yan's bottom line, he and Shen Yan could continue to cooperate.

"Fine. Let's not beat around the bush. I know Mei Jinning definitely proposed a cooperation invitation to you. I asked you out today precisely to tell you not to cooperate with her."

Shen Yan shook his head again.

"Chairman Gu, I am a businessman. No businessman would refuse a profitable business deal."

"If you don't want me to cooperate with you on this, you need to give me a reason convincing enough for me to believe it."

Hearing this, Gu Hui laughed.

"Aren't you afraid that Mei Jinning will trick you?"

Shen Yan also laughed.

"I'm not afraid of you tricking me when I cooperate with you, so why should I be afraid of Mei Jinning tricking me when I cooperate with her?"

As his words fell.

Gu Hui was momentarily speechless.

What Shen Yan said was indeed reasonable.

He clearly had ulterior motives toward Shen Yan.

Under such circumstances, Shen Yan was still willing to cooperate with him.

Then what reason did Shen Yan have not to cooperate with Mei Jinning?

Seeing that Gu Hui couldn't come up with a reason, Shen Yan smiled and said to Gu Hui, "What Mei Jinning wants me to do doesn't conflict with what the two of us are doing."