Mei Ling sat in front of her Boss, The Jet was customized to have a meeting within it so just sat at the opposite of her Boss. On the desk, there was the contract of Kazuko Corps that she prepared yesterday night. Since she was too distracted by what would happen tomorrow, she just made a draft contract for the Kazuko Corps.
Inside Mei Ling head both angel and devil were scolding her, she spaced out at the wrong moment, she can't be careless after all, she had a huge amount of responsibility on her shoulder. If not for Eric's timely help, she surely would have escaped very far away and that is totally unacceptable.
While Mei Ling was wearing her professional unreadable expression. Jack was staring at the contract while thinking of the moment before. He still found it unbelievable that he spaced out like this while staring at Mei Ling's face, he felt that the 'good occasion' that his father told him about was here, but everything was broken by Eric.
Jack was frustrated because his father told him that moment like this are rare, and he should cherish those moments but because of Eric, he let go of that opportunity. Even though Jack thoughts were wandering he still was seriously reviewing the draft that Mei Ling gave him.
He was reviewing quickly and swiping to the next page within a minute. After reviewing he seriously felt that he shouldn't let go of this woman. He was preparing on having an exact amount of 274M for this project, he reviewed the project given by Kazuko earlier and the project needed exactly 274M to be completed with a bit of profit for both parties. And since his Adler Corp was the leading party, 274M is the exact amount he was thinking of investing and in this contract the amount written his 274M.
He is pretty sure that she deduced this amount after this project. He was pretty sure that he couldn't do better than her in this type of project even though in the majority of projects he was capable of giving profiting amount of investment. Mei Ling was almost as much capable as him, but unfortunately, she is still lacking a bit of experience, maybe in less ten years, she will be his equal.
After Mei Ling gave the draft to her Boss, she felt relieved, while she was looking at other projects her staff has given her for reviewing, Lunchtime was approaching, unknowingly they already spent 3 hours in silence.
Eric knocked on the room.
"Enter" the indifferent voice of his Boss reached his ears and he immediately entered.
"Sir, the Lunch is ready to be served" While Eric was talking, he was staring at the Mei Ling, he thought that he would found in a bit disarray, at least a bit in mess but it really was as if they were only reviewing files. 'As expected by the Boss's Head secretary, she really is an expert'
"Serve it" Jack short answer was the only thing that greeted Eric, but weirdly Eric felt as if his Boss was glaring at him.
Jack's thought was really what Eric thought he saw, seeing Eric staring at Mei Ling, strangely Jack felt annoyance at seeing Eric's face, and he was even angrier when he saw Eric staring at Mei Ling as if examining her. 'I should send him to Siberia'
Mei Ling thought were a bit different though, she was starving, who knew that skipping dinner was that bad, even though she just drank a chocolate milk she was still hungry.
Eric entered the room once again with a candle, he shut the windows, the room immediately darkened, a slow music was heard, as Eric brought a lot of food, meat, fish, soup, vegetables, wines, there was everything on the desk.
Both Jack and Mei Ling put away their laptop, Mei Ling felt a bit weird, she already had a habit of having meals with her boss, but it's her first-time seeing something so extravagant. But seeing so much food when she was starved, she was just happy other thoughts simply disappeared from her head.
Contrary to the happy feelings of Mei Ling, Jack simply felt nervous, the first step of his plan A was beginning, so like the book said, he should first ease the tension then start making small talk but he didn't know where to begin.
"ah, there is a lot," Jack said with his always indifferent voice.
Eric was so startled that he began packing things back up, he took out the fish, and the soup back. Mei Ling's was filled with disappointment seeing good food being wasted because of a few words from her boss. She still kept her indifferent expression and waited for Jack to begin eating.
Jack was still expressionless but inside he was cursing Eric to die in Siberia, He just wanted to do a damned small talk why the heck Eric packed the things back up. Jack was just not aware that Jack never ever made a useless comment, each and every single one of his words had meaning and he fired more than one time the person who didn't understand him.
Mei Ling was also chosen as his Head Secretary because she was able to decrypt the few words of his and make a whole sentence with his few words.
Jack's thought was wandering so he didn't touch the food which was served and seeing that Jack didn't eat, Mei Ling didn't dare to eat by herself.
Eric came back soon to open the wine and poured a cup for Jack and Mei Ling. Seeing that the dishes were left untouched Eric having a good conscience asked:
"Sir, is the dishes unsatisfactory?"
Eric's voice brought back Jack from his day-dreaming, seeing that Mei Ling was still waiting for him to begin eating, he answered to Eric without missing a beat.
"No, I was waiting for the wine" as he said those words Jack sipped a bit of wine and began eating. As soon as Mei Ling saw Jack attacking his dishes, she began eating as well.
Mei Ling was thanking Eric mentally while made another mental note to treat Eric to dinner.