Chapter 396: Pleased to Meet You

Li Zhao and Gu Zhen were both surprised to hear Xu Ming say this.

However, they were focused on different things.

"She’s married?" Gu Zhen thought the girl looked so young.

She seemed very young—she didn’t even look twenty.

"That’s right! She’s married. Her husband is a soldier, and his unit is stationed here, too. That makes her a military dependent."

The thought of Fu Mingxue getting married so young still left Xu Ming feeling a little wistful.

’Why are all the good girls taken?’

Just then, Li Zhao spoke up. "She’s your group leader? What group are you in?"

"Group Six." Xu Ming said only those two words. He didn’t say a single thing more about the nature of their work.

Not even to people he was on good terms with.

Meeting Li Zhao’s gaze, he immediately changed the subject. "By the way, what are you two doing at this factory? Weren’t you at the automobile plant?"

Xu Ming, Li Zhao, and Gu Zhen had all grown up in the same residential compound.

He was well aware of Li Zhao’s capabilities.

"We’ve been temporarily transferred," Li Zhao said, not elaborating further.

Xu Ming tactfully didn’t ask any more questions about their work.

"So, where are you guys staying? We can get together again when we have time."

This time, Gu Zhen answered. "We’re in the dorms, in that long building. We’re on the fourth floor, in room 405."

Xu Ming’s expression immediately became complicated. "Looks like our fates are truly intertwined. I live in 404."

Gu Zhen’s eyes lit up. "That’s great! We can drop by each other’s places on our days off, then."

Xu Ming: ...?

He wasn’t exactly thrilled about living so close to them.

Just then, Li Zhao stood up. "Let’s go."

Gu Zhen immediately said to Xu Ming, "Talk to you tonight."

With that, he left with Li Zhao.

It wasn’t until they were halfway back that he finally realized something.

"Brother Li, that guy Xu Ming said the girl was the leader of their Group Six. What does that mean?"

Li Zhao shot him a look as if he were an idiot.

He didn’t answer, just kept walking straight ahead.

Still, his heart was in turmoil—or rather, he felt a faint sense of wistfulness himself.

But the feeling was so fleeting that he didn’t quite grasp it.

Gu Zhen was stunned for a couple of seconds before it clicked—his Brother Li was a group leader, and that girl was a group leader, too.

’Does that mean... that girl is at the same level as his Brother Li?’

’If that’s true, isn’t she a little too amazing?’

Fu Mingxue didn’t give the little episode in the cafeteria a second thought.

After returning to her office, she took out the blueprints from her space to organize them—she had a meeting to attend soon.

Today marked the official launch of Group Six’s new project.

When the meeting started at one o’clock, Director Geng also came over.

He had brought someone with him for Fu Mingxue.

When Fu Mingxue saw the person Director Geng had brought, she couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

She had a feeling earlier that this man was no ordinary person.

’Now Director Geng has brought him here, but I still don’t know what he does.’

"Group Leader Fu, let me introduce you. This is Li Zhao, the leader of the newly established Group Ten."

Then Director Geng turned to Li Zhao and said, "This is the chief engineer of Group Six’s engine research and development team, and also the leader of Group Six, Fu Mingxue."

Li Zhao gazed at Fu Mingxue with a profound look in his eyes.

He extended his hand. "Group Leader Fu! A pleasure to meet you!"

Fu Mingxue: ...?

"A pleasure!"

She reached out, gave his hand a brief shake, and then immediately pulled back.

Then she shifted her gaze to Director Geng.

"Director Geng, what’s this about?"