Hidden identities of the AI Heiress

Chapter 55: Were You Deceived?

Editor: Inschain

He grabbed his phone from the bedside table and, seeing that it was Lu Jingzhi calling, pressed to answer.

As soon as Lu Jingzhi started talking, his voice was so excited he couldn’t hide it, “Dad, Tenghui has given the project to us.”

Lu Rui was stunned and asked again to confirm, “You’re not joking?”

This must be a joke, right?

Tenghui’s attitude had been ambiguous, so how could they suddenly decide on cooperation?

Lu Rui didn’t believe it and even thought that Lu Jingzhi was dreaming and mistook it for reality.

Lu Jingzhi clearly told him, “No joke, it’s true.”

Lu Rui frowned, “You’ve been deceived? Are you sure it was someone from Tenghui who notified you?”

“We just had dinner together last time, It’s impossible for me to recognize the wrong person.”

Lu Rui felt like he was hearing things, “Wait, didn’t they say they still needed to evaluate and make a decision by next week?”

“I don’t know.” Lu Jingzhi was still dizzy from being hit on the head by a huge project.

“They just suddenly decided on us.”

“They didn’t make any excessive demands?” Lu Rui felt this was the real truth, and his tone suddenly turned serious, “Did you concede any benefits?”

“No, I fought for what we should and they were very straightforward.”

Lu Rui asked out of the blue, “Do you have someone on the inside at Tenghui?”

Lu Jingzhi was speechless and choked up, “Dad, if there were someone, would we have waited till now?”

“True.” Lu Rui was somewhat at a loss; it wasn’t that he was overthinking, but Tenghui’s way of doing things was meticulous, and it’s not possible they would decide suddenly despite having said next week.

Could there be some kind of conspiracy? What might the other party be scheming?

Lu Rui’s expression was grave, “No matter what, be cautious when signing the contract with them, I fear there might be a trap.”

Lu Jingzhi’s smile was helpless, “Dad, you’re overthinking, Tenghui is a subsidiary of Shengqiao, they have more money than we do.”

Lu Rui: “…”

That really hits hard.

However, Lu Jingzhi still knew the stakes; it was indeed abrupt for the other party to say they wanted to cooperate, so he still had to be cautious.

After Lu Rui hung up the phone, Su Mian asked him, “What happened, you look so happy?”

Lu Rui’s eyes showed undisguised excitement as he shared the news with Su Mian.

After hearing the whole story, Su Mian was genuinely happy for Lu Rui, “That’s great, didn’t you say this project was very important.”

Lu Rui nodded and then said, “I just find it strange, the other party’s attitude was clearly to choose another company, I don’t know why they suddenly chose us.”

“What does it matter, the important thing is that they’ve chosen you now.” Su Mian thought he was worrying too much.

Lu Rui pondered.

Suddenly, he remembered that he had just talked to Qiao Yun about this today, and by evening the cooperation had been finalized.

“It’s Qiaoqiao…”

Lu Rui abruptly grabbed his wife’s hand, his serious and handsome face beaming with a smile, “She really is my lucky star.”

“Ah?” Su Mian was puzzled.

Lu Rui told her, “I just spoke to Qiaoqiao about this at lunch, and by the evening, the cooperation came through, if she’s not a lucky star, then what is?”

At this point, he paused, then remembered Lu Ting, slightly furrowing his brows, “However, Tingting was there too, she said she has a classmate whose father is a project manager at Tenghui, and she even offered to ask her classmate for me.”

Upon hearing this, Su Mian quickly connected the dots and analyzed, “I get it, so it was Tingting’s classmate who helped us from behind?”

In these days, having connections and not having them really makes a difference, and it’s no wonder she thought so.

“Difficult to say.” Lu Rui remarked, “I’ll ask about it tomorrow.”

Su Mian nodded as well and instructed, “If it really was Tingting’s classmate who helped, you should properly thank them.”

“Of course.”

It was such a coincidence that he began to suspect, could it really be that Lu Ting’s classmate had made a difference?