"It is true that we've lost many opportunities on the African market. I hope that you can recover our losses at the minimum."
"I understand."
"Oh, and one more thing…"
The older man suddenly swung around to look at his son. He sized up the chap with narrowed eyes and commented leisurely, "I heard that you went to the Maldives for a holiday and then to Country Z."
Gong Jie was completely caught off guard. His eyelids jumped for a second as he looked at his father with a feigned composure. "That's right."
"You seem… to have been frequenting that place recently." His father paused suddenly, held his chin up, and gazed at the young man obliquely before curling his lips into a half-jest. "Why? Are you keeping a woman over there?"
The off-handed question sounded like a harmless probe.
"Woman?"
"Other than this possibility, I can't think of any reason that will make you go there regularly."
