Fang Yuan, the heroine in "The Second Embrace".

In the play, she is strong and brave. She looks gentle on the outside, but is firm and decisive on the inside. All her behavior and development are driven by events. After her husband Li Cheng is in trouble, she chooses to return to the workplace to ease the family's financial crisis. But

After being out of society for many years, Fang Yuan was challenged by interviewers who disliked her status as a stay-at-home mother, and repeatedly hit the wall. Although she struggled to get a job opportunity, she was suppressed and bullied by young people, and her carefully designed plans were misappropriated by colleagues, making Fang Yuan's career difficult.

"Fang Yuan, I didn't expect to meet him today."

"By the way, when the plot begins, Fang Yuan has been married for eight years."

"It's still five years before the plot begins. In other words, Fang Yuan has only been married for three years."

"Well, Fang Yuan was forty years old when the plot started."

"So, now I'm thirty-five."

"About the same age as Susan in "A Brief Summer and Winter"."

Jiang Chen remembered that in "The Second Embrace", Fang Yuan was an excellent reporter at the newspaper before and won awards. After getting married, he gave birth to twins. Since her husband was also very busy starting a business, if both of them were working, they would often

There would be situations where he could not take care of his children at the same time. For the sake of his young children, Fang Yuan chose to return to his family.

Eight years later, Fang Yuan's family encountered changes. Her husband had problems with his business and owed a large sum of money. In order to help her husband pay off the debt, Fang Yuan sold both the house and the company's equity. Fang Yuan's originally prosperous family life,

Suddenly he hit rock bottom. In order to maintain the living standards and interest education of his children as much as possible, Fang Yuan decided to return to the workplace and share the financial burden of the family with her husband.

After Fang Yuan submitted some resumes, he received interview notices from some companies one after another. However, Fang Yuan's job search always stopped at the interview site because HR always asked a lot of questions questioning Fang Yuan during the interviews.

"Jin Lu, who is this?" Fang Yuan walked over and his eyes fell on Jiang Chen.

"This is my high school classmate Jiang Chen."

Jin Lu introduced: "Jiang Chen, this is my friend Fang Yuan."

"Hello, Fang Yuan." Jiang Chen looked at Fang Yuan.

Thirty-five-year-old Fang Yuan, like Chen Shan (the heroine in "The Perfect Companion"), can be included in the list of attracting Cao thieves.

Seeing Fang Yuan, Jiang Chen thought of Xu Yang in the play.

Back then, Xu Yang had liked Fang Yuan, and even at the wedding of Fang Yuan and Li Cheng, Xu Yang might have been in trouble because of it. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, but Xu Yang's feelings for Fang Yuan have never been the same.

It has never changed. As an adult, although Xu Yang has never made his words clear, his deep affection for Fang Yuan can be seen in his eyes.

It takes more than ten years to love someone, and he still persists even if he can't see the future. Such Xu Yang is really long-lasting.

In addition, Xu Yang is a noble person in Fang Yuan.

After re-entering the workplace, Fang Yuan has been discriminated against because of her years of experience as a stay-at-home mother. The reason why she was able to successfully join the job is entirely due to Xu Yang. After joining the job, Fang Yuan suffered a series of blows. The reason why she was able to gain a foothold in the company was

Although it was inseparable from Fang Yuan's own efforts, every time Fang Yuan was in trouble, Xu Yang was the one fighting for her.

If it weren't for Xu Yang, no matter how good Fang Yuan was, he might have been kicked out long ago.

At the same time, Xu Yang respects Fang Yuan very much. Although Li Cheng has never said that he looks down on Fang Yuan, he has always been very unsupportive of Fang Yuan's return to the workplace, not only because of jealousy, but also because of his inner feelings.

Look down on Fang Yuan.

But Xu Yang was not like this. Even though Fang Yuan had just joined the job, he was very optimistic about Fang Yuan. Every time Fang Yuan encountered a problem, he always encouraged Fang Yuan, regardless of subjective or objective reasons.

In other words, to Xu Yang, Fang Yuan has always been an equal individual to him.

This is similar to Tang Xiaogang in "The Best Taste of the World" and Zhao Ling in "My! Physical Education Teacher".

It's a pity that in the play, Tang Xiaogang got Lin Yue, Zhao Ling got Ye Ye, but Xu Yang never got Fang Yuan.

"Hello." Fang Yuan greeted Jiang Chen, and then looked at Chaoran: "Charan, come and give me a hug."

"No." Xie Chaoran turned his head and ignored Fang Yuan.

"..." Fang Yuan was depressed.

Previously, Xie Chaoran really wanted her to hold him.

"Chao Ran, come to mom, uncle has to leave because of something." Jin Lu said.

"I don't want it, I want Uncle Jiang to hug me." Xie Chaoran buried his head in Jiang Chen's arms.

"It seems that I am destined to transcend." Jiang Chen understood the reason.

His senior nanny didn't get it for free.

What's more, because of his cultivation of innate Qi, he has an aura of being close to nature.

At the same time, because of his cultivation, his whole body was kept cool. In this hot summer, it's no wonder that Xie Chaoran didn't like it.

"Xie Chaoran..." Jin Lu's face darkened. She raised him like shit, but now he actually dislikes her?

"Jin Lu, wait until he falls asleep." Jiang Chen said to Jin Lu.

"Then let's go to the cafe over there." Jin Lu felt that it was not a problem under the sun.

"Okay." Jiang Chen nodded.

"Fang Yuan, you go with me." Jin Lu said.

Fang Yuan nodded.

Not long after arriving at the coffee shop, Xie Chaoran fell asleep.

"Jiang Chen, give me Transcendence," Jin Lu said.

"Okay." Jiang Chen nodded and handed Xie Chaoran to Jin Lu.

"Jiang Chen, I'm sorry to trouble you this time." Jin Lu said.

"fine."

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Jin Lu, Fang Yuan, I'll leave first."

"Walk slowly." Jin Lu and Fang Yuan said.

Jiang Chen nodded and left the coffee shop.

"Your high school classmate? I don't think I've heard of him?" Fang Yuan said.

"They were my classmates when I was studying in Jingkou." Jin Lu replied.

"This high school classmate of yours is not an ordinary person." Fang Yuan used to be a reporter and has a very good eye for people. Therefore, when he saw Jiang Chen just now, he felt that Jiang Chen had an aura that only successful people have.

"Jiang Chen is a driver." Jin Lu replied.

"Driver? Impossible." Fang Yuan shook his head.

"Impossible?" Jin Lu looked at Fang Yuan in confusion.

"There is absolutely no way Jiang Chen is a driver." Fang Yuan said with certainty.

…

On the other side, after Jiang Chen left the coffee shop, he went to inspect several branches in Hangzhou.

In a blink of an eye, it was four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Is this a shopping mall owned by Sun Art Retail?"

After finishing the inspection, Jiang Chen drove away and his eyes fell on a nearby shopping mall, and he began to think deeply.

Sun Art Retail Co., Ltd. is a retail company, a leading mainland retailer with hypermarkets and multi-channel e-commerce businesses. The company operates hypermarkets, medium-sized supermarkets, small supermarkets and membership stores under brands such as RT-Mart.

It is also the largest integrated hypermarket operator in mainland China.

Jiang Chen remembers Sun Art Retail in his previous life. As of March 31, 2023, Sun Art Retail has a total of 486 hypermarkets, 12 medium-sized supermarkets, and 84 small supermarkets in 212 cities in 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, with a total construction area of

Approximately 13.81 million square meters.

“Sun Art Retail seems to be related to Alibaba’s new retail.”

Jiang Chen still remembers that before the listing of Sun Art Retail in the previous life, Jixin, a joint venture jointly established by Runtai Group and Auchan, held 59.16% of the shares of Sun Art Retail, of which Auchan held 51% of the shares of Jixin, while Runtai held the remaining

Auchan and Runtai Group hold 11.26% and 18.91% of the shares of Sun Art Retail respectively. Runtai Group can sell its 49% stake in Jixin to Auchan after 2014.

In 2011, Sun Art Retail conducted a public offering in Hong Kong, with the offer price ranging from HK$5.65 to HK$7.2, selling approximately 1.144 billion shares, and raising a maximum of approximately 8.237 billion yuan. Sun Art Retail introduced 9 cornerstone investors, including the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation

and Tiger Fund, etc. Sun Art Retail finally set the IPO price at 7.2 yuan. It was originally scheduled to be listed on July 15, but due to errors in the past earnings per share in the prospectus, the listing was postponed to July 27.

In November 2017, Alibaba invested HKD 22.4 billion in Sun Art Retail Co., Ltd., the listed entity of RT-Mart, a Taiwan-funded supermarket chain brand, and acquired 36% of Sun Art Retail, the parent company of RT-Mart Auchan.

"In the previous life, Alibaba took a stake in Sun Art Retail just to better lay out the strategic layout of the new retail ecosystem."

"It seems that by 2021, Alibaba will directly or indirectly hold 78.70% of the issued share capital of Sun Art Retail and become the ultimate controlling shareholder of Sun Art Retail."

"So, there is still one year left before Alibaba takes a stake in Sun Art Retail. Can I be the first to get in?"

"Well, now Morning Star Fresh is new retail. If we acquire Sun Art Retail, Morning Star Fresh and Sun Art Retail will be able to integrate online and offline professional capabilities to jointly explore new retail development opportunities in the retail industry."

"It seems that I can do some investigation when I return to the Magic City this time."

Jiang Chen thought for a moment, turned around and left.

Just then, a voice sounded.

"Mr. Jiang?"

"Mr. Hao?"
To be continued...