Chapter 55.1 Ji Lin, do you have a first love?

Xie Miao was quick to act and didn’t like to procrastinate, so he sent the address and box number of the restaurant where he and Tian Mu were to meet the next day.

After obtaining Ji Lin’s consent, Bai Duanduan estimated the approximate time and found an excuse to ask both Xue Wen and Duan Yun to meet in the lobby of the same restaurant on the same day.

Although she said that if Xie Miao was still single, she would take the initiative and make a bold move, Bai Duanduan understood Xue Wen, who, for family reasons, was always timid when things came to a head, and therefore needed a push from others.

Bai Duanduan told Duan Yun the whole story, and once she and Duan Yun worked it out, they came up with this solution: under the guise of a three-person party, they asked Xue Wen out first, and Duan Yun would hold her in place while Bai DuanDuan will claim to be late because of traffic jam, but in reality she was negotiating with Tian Mu together with Ji Lin and Xie Miao. When Xie Miao would be ready to leave, Bai Duanduan would find an excuse to lure Xue Wen to the box, creating a “chance encounter” for the two. It could not have been more perfect.

After all this planning was done, Bai Duanduan had a good night’s sleep.

The next day, Bai Duanduan hauled a car and followed Ji Lin to the restaurant they had arranged to meet. Xie Miao had arrived earlier than the two of them and was already waiting with a vaguely anxious look on his face, and when he saw Ji Lin, he waved at them.

At that moment, Tian Mu had not yet arrived and there was still a quarter of an hour to go before the appointed time and Bai Duanduan had a client on call so she ran to the entrance of the restaurant to answer it.

When she got halfway through the call, she was disturbed by the frequent and intense barking of a dog, and almost lost track of what the client was saying. Only after she apologised and hung up the phone in a hurry did she realise that the dog was a small brown teddy, wearing a small dress, with a bell tied around its neck, and its fur coat was well groomed.

The teddy, although small, was clearly quite aggressive.

When a child walked past in front of the restaurant, the dog immediately barked at the child like a madman and tried to chase him, scaring him so much that he turned pale.

When Bai Duanduan couldn’t bear to watch, she went over and tried to lure the dog away, but the child was fine, and Bai Duanduan herself got caught up with the vicious dog.

Although the dog didn’t dare to attack Bai Duanduan, it kept barking at her. This commotion caused two staff members from the restaurant to drive the dog away. Only then did the owner of the dog arrived at the spot.

“Hey hey! Don’t! Please be merciful! Don’t hurt our Bebe!”

The man who came was a man in his forties or fifties. He was well-dressed, with his hair combed back and he was panting all the way. He trotted over, and picked up the ferocious teddy. Once the teddy was hugged by the owner, it was strangely docile immediately.

Bai Duanduan couldn’t resist, “What you should be worried about at this point is not that we’ve hurt your dog, but rather the people who are scared by your dog. Can’t you be civilised and hold it on a leash?”

The man was not angry, his face was kind, he was smiling, and he apologized, “Sorry, I’m sorry, yesterday the leash was broken by Bebe, I was going to take him to buy a new leash after dinner today.” He stroked the dog’s head, “Bebe is small and I was going to hold him the whole time, but I didn’t expect him to be scared by a big dog just now and he broke out of my arms and ran away, but he’s not really aggressive and doesn’t bite, he’s just a bit nervous when he meets strangers and has a bit of a stress reaction.”

As soon as the man finished speaking, the dog in his arms stretched out its head and barked viciously at Bai Duanduan. If the man hadn’t spent so much effort to restrain the dog’s movements, Bai Duanduan had no doubt that the teddy would have wanted to jump down and pounce on her in a fight to the death. Well, the two restaurant staff who tried to chase the dog away just now were naturally treated equally viciously and badly by the dog…

And that’s not aggressive! It’s called a stress reaction!

Bai Duanduan couldn’t help but roll her eyes in her mind, but the other man admitted his fault and smiled the whole time, and as a sign of apology, he even took some sweets out of his pocket and gave them to the frightened child, who quickly calmed down.

After a quick look at the other man, who had not caused any serious consequences, Bai Duanduan told him to keep an eye on his dog, and then turned around and went back into the restaurant. As soon as she turned, she saw that the man who was holding the dog also followed her in slowly and deliberately.

Bai Duanduan just feels that next time she must talk to Ji Lin and not book at a restaurant like this where dogs can get in! She doesn’t seem to get along with dog friendly restaurants. Last time she was thwarted by Ji Lin with a dog in Xu Zhixin’s case, and this time she was almost bitten by the dog that could be brought into the restaurant ……

She was really incompatible with this type of restaurant.

It wasn’t long after Bai Duanduan returned to the box that Tian Mu finally arrived.

To Bai Duanduan’s surprise, he was a very technical looking man, a little chubby, quite fair skinned, wearing a pair of heavy black-framed glasses, which had to be pushed up from time to time because the bridge of his nose was a bit collapsed.

If Xie Miao hadn’t told her in advance about his little moves during his time with YuWen Games, Bai Duanduan would have even thought that he was an ordinary and honest person just based on this first impression.

The monthly non-compete compensation was so high that it was enough for Tian Mu to live a very luxurious life, but he was quite plain, wearing a jacket that looked like a hundred dollars, a pair of sweatpants, a pair of sneakers that didn’t look very good in quality, the colour scheme could be described as dark, a bit of a murderous aesthetic, but it was quite casual.

When Tian Mu arrived, his first reaction was to apologize, his attitude was quite sincere and humble, “Mr. Xie, sorry, I was a bit stuck in traffic on the way to the bus and was a few minutes late.”

Xie Miao pursed his lips and said it was fine, then he glanced at Ji Lin and simply decided to catch Tian Mu off guard, directly throwing out to him the Mercury Network’s new game that was super similar to the competition.

“This product, Tian Mu, you explain it to me.”

Xie Miao’s voice went cold as he stared at Tian Mu, “I already have the evidence that this is what you helped Mercury Network make.”

Although he was not good at negotiating, Xie Miao had after all started his own business and had seen all the scenes he should have, and at this moment his face was so calm that if Tian Mu did not understand the situation, he would probably have gone weak in the knees.

The reason is that it is really difficult to find evidence of Tian Mu’s violation of the non-compete agreement, after the final discussion, Xie Miao can only use this method to blow up the other party. After all, as long as the acting is realistic enough, Tian Mu will probably reveal any ghosts in his heart, and Bai Duanduan and Ji Lin have already prepared a recorder, just waiting for the rabbit. There is no way around it.

After Xie Miao’s words, Ji Lin also duly cooperated, he took out a pile of documents and threw them onto the table in a cold manner, “We have completed the forensics.”