The Glamorous Comeback of the Ousted Heiress novel Chapter 396

Chapter 396: 153 Dean Jian, Jian Zhe’s Cheating Friend (Second Update)_3

Tang Ming complained to Jian Zhe, “Why don’t we have one?”

Jian Zhe: “… Maybe it’s because you’re just average-looking.”

Tang Ming: “Then what about Teacher Jiang?”

Jian Zhe: “…”

A death sentence.

Luckily, a phone call saved Jian Zhe. He had never been more grateful for his dad’s call than at this moment.

“Didn’t I tell you there’s a banquet today?” Jian’s father whispered from the other end of the phone, “Where are you?”

Jian Zhe walked to the side and spoke softly, “I’m having dinner at a friend’s house, I won’t be coming.”

Anyway, his presence wouldn’t make a difference—it was likely a banquet that Jian Zhonghai was hosting to promote Jian Rong. Whether he attended or not was inconsequential.

“You…”

On the phone, Jian’s father glanced at Jian Rong talking to Jian Zhonghai on the sofa and then back down at his phone. He couldn’t understand why Jian Zhe lacked ambition.

“Master Jian Zhe doesn’t have time? Where did he go?” Jian’s assistant looked at Jian’s father, surprised.

Jian’s father forced a smile, “He’s having dinner with a few friends.”

Friends?

Those fair-weather friends from Xiangcheng?

Taking another look at Jian’s father, the assistant then realized and went to report back to Jian Zhonghai.

It wasn’t that the assistant looked down on Jian Zhe’s friends; it was mainly because Jian Rong’s friends included well-known figures from the Beicheng circle, and one of them was even the top scholar of Beicheng’s college entrance exams from last year.

The contrast was simply too stark.

Jian’s father felt humiliated by that look. If Jian Zhe were by his side, he would surely have been beaten up again.

“If he’s busy, let it be,” Jian Zhonghai said indifferently. Where Jian Zhe went to eat wasn’t a concern to him, as long as Jian Rong was there. Then he turned amiably to Jian Rong and said, “Are you sure your uncle added you?”

Jian Zhongyou was an odd one.

Jian Zhonghai knew his contact methods, yet Jian Zhongyou didn’t add the older generation to his contacts, only some younger family members and occasional assistants or secretaries went through.