Chapter 274: News from Beihai Country; The Big Plan

When Li Yan returned to the office, he received a text message from Wen Qianyi. Seeing the sender, he smiled. But after opening the content, he wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry.

Wen Qianyi wasn’t questioning him about anything, nor was she trying to draw a line between them. What she actually sent was related to business.

"From the Beihai Country side at Shinohara Corporation, someone will come to Yun Country for an inspection, among them specifically requested you to be responsible for the entire reception."

The Shinohara Corporation from Beihai Country is actually a partner developed by Zhang Tianyi’s team, but there hasn’t been much progress until Li Yan’s relationship with Shinohara Mirai. Especially since the time Shinohara Mirai asked him to go to Beihai Country to help find his father, which resulted in saving Shiroyama Gou, then things took a qualitative leap.

Li Yan’s promotion to the manager of the new company was also due to his meritorious service at that time. Otherwise, Zhang Yurong really couldn’t find any reason to entrust him with such an important role. Similarly, Wen Qianyi could take over the injured and hospitalized Ye Jiahong due to the groundbreaking overseas work at that time, which demonstrated her ability and talent.

It’s fair to say that although neither he nor Wen Qianyi necessarily cares much about promotions, indeed Mirai’s connections helped them.

Seeing this message, Li Yan could guess, even with his eyes closed, that the so-called inspection from Beihai Country is definitely by Shinohara Mirai. After his first reception, on the second visit, during their trip to Beihai Country for negotiations, Li Yan was directly named by them. This time, if it were a normal business inspection, Wen Qianyi would definitely be responsible, and having Li Yan host it would mess things up. Naming him, insisting on him hosting, only suggests it’s really Shinohara Mirai coming for a private visit, just using the excuse of business. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

When he was hanging out with the two of them, Li Yan’s relationship with Zhang Yurong was far from now, and also with Wen Qianyi. He hadn’t admitted that Yu Xiaodi was his girlfriend yet, nor had he had relations with Li Jie, and he hadn’t reunited with Qiao Huanxuan. His current emotional situation is much more complicated, so it can’t just be simple joy; he also has to worry about whether it will disrupt the existing balance...

Thinking about the two of them, Li Yan felt a bit guilty. Though it was a fleeting international relationship, they were really happy together. But after he returned from Beihai Country, he was busy with various things and hadn’t contacted either of them at all. And those two, while they hadn’t called him, still left MSN messages and emails for him. However, when Li Yan was free, he wouldn’t check MSN or his emails. He used QQ for online chat, so even when he saw their messages or emails, it wasn’t timely, and replying later didn’t seem effective.

Shinohara Mirai and Matsushima Kui left messages for Li Yan, only asking things like "Are you doing well?" and "Miss you".

He pulled out their Beihai Country phone numbers from his mobile and reported them to the company’s switchboard, asking them to make international calls.

At work today, everyone was discussing that Heavenly Film’s first movie was to be released. For Li Yan, the front desk girls were quite curious about him. They were all surprised when he wanted to make international calls.

"An international call! Is Heavenly Film about to enter Anders?"

"No way! Is there a chance to invite Pitt and Leonardo to Yun Country for filming? I’d definitely go see them on set."

"Dream on!"

They were also joking around; a newly established, small company couldn’t really invade Anders. Even if they did, contacting top A-list stars wouldn’t be possible. With Zhang Weiping’s publicity skills and New Picture’s willingness to spend, along with Yimou’s established international reputation and post-Olympics worldwide acclaim, they only managed to invite Christian Bale.

"Wow! It’s from Beihai Country!"

Upon hearing Shinohara Mirai’s voice, Li Yan tried to make a joke with the few lines of Beihai language he remembered. But as soon as he started, he felt it was too inappropriate and couldn’t continue.

"Li Yan?!" Shinohara Mirai was also startled by him. Seeing the foreign number, she already hoped it was Li Yan. Unexpectedly, after answering, it was Beihai language spoken, but she quickly recognized Li Yan’s voice.

"Haha, Mirai, it’s me. Are you okay? Do you guys, um, celebrate New Year?" After getting through, Li Yan felt he didn’t know what to say, and in his impression, Shinohara Mirai was reserved, her Yun Country language skills weren’t great, and communication was difficult, generally it was Matsushima Kui who talked more.

"Really? I, very happy! I know you’re very busy, you’ve now finished New Year over there, and Kui and I want to visit Yun Country to play. Is that okay?" Shinohara Mirai spoke somewhat haltingly, maybe because she was too excited, and also partly due to language skills.

However, since her initial skill level was so low, Li Yan found that each time, there was noticeable improvement. At least now he could understand simple conversations without needing context or translations.

"Sure! Definitely welcome!"

From her last visit to Yun Country and their previous trip to Beihai Country, Li Yan noticed that she knew he wasn’t in the company’s upper management and couldn’t interrupt his work. So she said, "Rest assured, I’ll do it through work, reception, as an excuse, allowing you to accompany us without interrupting your work, just some trouble for you."