City A, Province X.
Ouyang Ting returned from outside, but her car was forced to stop at the company entrance.
Someone had arranged a sea of flowers at the company gate. The security guards tried to drive those people away, but they stood their ground. The guards seemed hesitant and didn’t forcibly remove them.
Several vehicles were parked nearby, including a small truck still loaded with fresh flowers.
Ouyang Ting didn’t honk her horn.
With so many people there and flowers spread everywhere, honking would be pointless unless she recklessly drove over them.
Ouyang Ting got out of the car and walked forward to see.
“Tingting.”
An unfamiliar voice called out.
Ouyang Ting looked at the person shouting her name, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.
She recognised him, Long Tuo, the eldest son of Mr. Long, the acting head of the Long family from City H.
Mr. Long had visited a few times, claiming it was for business, but his appointments weren’t due. Even as the acting head of the Long family, he received no special treatment, and Ouyang Ya refused to meet him.
He brought his eldest son along, yet they were still turned away at the company door.
Later, Mr. Long left, but Long Tuo stayed in City A, calling and texting Ouyang Ting daily, saying he fell in love with her at first sight and wanted to pursue her.
Besides calls and texts, Long Tuo showed up at the Ouyang family’s company every day, waiting for Ouyang Ting to finish work, sending her flowers, inviting her to dinner or movies, and giving her expensive gifts that any girl would like.
He truly launched a fervent pursuit of Ouyang Ting.
Apart from chasing her, Long Tuo was active in City A, negotiating business and seeking investment opportunities. To his credit, he had some business acumen, the projects he was willing to invest in showed good prospects.
Some of the projects he was discussing were also being negotiated by Qianxun Group, which Ouyang Ting happened to be in charge of.
The two had met a few times. Each time, Ouyang Ting limited herself to a polite greeting, with no further interaction, but Long Tuo remained passionately persistent, pursuing her with unrelenting enthusiasm.
Now, the upper circles of City A all knew that the eldest son of the richest man from the neighbouring city had fallen for the second young miss of the Ouyang family and was ardently pursuing her.
People said they were a perfect match, well-suited in status and appearance.
Gossipy meddlers even asked the second Mrs. Ouyang, wanting to know if the Ouyang family elders approved of the match.
The second Mrs. Ouyang gave no response.
Privately, though, she asked her daughter and learned that her daughter had no feelings for Long Tuo.
A marriage between the two families was impossible.
The ambitions of Mr. Long and his son were too great.
Although the Ouyang family had two young masters, they were only a few years old, unable to support their sisters or take over the family business.
Those powerful families seeking to marry into the Ouyang family, who could tell if their intentions were genuine or if they were after the Ouyang family’s vast wealth?
“Mr. Long, what are you doing?”
Ouyang Ting couldn’t correct Long Tuo’s way of addressing her. It was his mouth, he could call her whatever he wanted.
She had corrected him several times, but Long Tuo ignored it, still calling her Tingting affectionately. She couldn’t exactly seal his mouth shut, could she?
Ouyang Ting’s pretty face was taut, clearly displeased, but Long Tuo, thick-skinned as he was, ignored her displeasure. Pointing to the sea of flowers, he said to her, “Tingting, you wouldn’t accept the flowers I sent, so I had them arranged into a floral sea of love at your company entrance.”
