CHAPTER 459: CHAPTER 459: BECOMING THE FIRST LADY WAS PART OF MY LIFE PLAN

Tang Li saw Ji Ming and immediately ran over.

From a distance, Han Jifeng couldn’t hear their conversation, but even in the dim light, he couldn’t overlook Tang Li’s somewhat buoyant mood. When Ji Ming took the takeout bag, she immediately followed him inside.

The security staff checked her identity and quickly let her in.

Ji Ming was waiting inside the door for her. Tang Li tucked away her ID card, hugged her shoulders, and jogged over to him, and they went up the stairs side by side.

After a few steps, Tang Li suddenly stopped.

She unzipped her backpack, took something out, and handed it to Ji Ming.

Ji Ming looked at it and smiled faintly.

Then, their figures disappeared behind the main door on the second floor.

With the car window half-down, Han Jifeng leaned back in his seat, reminiscing how Ji Ming once helped him get out of Xia Zhengguo’s bribery case in his dreams, and how not long ago, Song Baiyan suddenly called him to Tan Palace and asked if he had a partner, then set him up with Ji Jianguo’s daughter.

Compared to other matchmakers, it was hard for him to refuse Song Baiyan’s face.

Although Ji Ming shares the same last name as Ji Jianguo, they are not relatives.

With Ji Jianguo being a judge in the Supreme Court, only Song Baiyan had the standing to make this match - Han Jifeng couldn’t think of anyone else besides Ji Ming who could get Song Baiyan to speak up.

At the state banquet, Lai Wenyan intended to promise Tang Li to him, and with what Tang Li said later, Ji Ming must have had some suspicions in his heart.

Perhaps it was also because of Ji Ming that Tang Li dared to brazenly sit on Song Baiyan’s lap in public.

Han Jifeng’s hand rested on the steering wheel, whether in dreams or in reality, there was an intricate relationship between Ji Ming and Tang Li.

Unlike in the dream, Tang Li’s emotional destination in reality was no longer him.

Even, she seemed to harbor a subtle hostility towards him.

Thinking back on those dreamscape experiences, Han Jifeng’s deep gaze turned again toward the main entrance of Tan Palace, or was it not just him who had such lifelike dreams?

Tang Li was unaware that someone had already paired her with Ji Ming; following Ji Ming through the corridors of Tan Palace, passing the main building’s library, map room, and exhibition rooms for gold, silver, and porcelain, she suddenly felt like Lady Liu entering the Grand View Garden, finding everything fascinating.

Passing by a room, there happened to be staff inside tidying up.

Tang Li, seeing the red-themed walls and furniture, involuntarily slowed her step.

Ji Ming specially introduced her, "This is the Red House, a favorite of past First Ladies. They would choose this place for leisure, entertainment, or work."

Tang Li nodded, after walking a bit further, she spoke up, "I like it quite a bit too."

"..." Ji Ming clasped his hand over his mouth.

"Go ahead and laugh," Tang Li said, unmasking her own ambition: "Becoming the First Lady is also part of my life’s plan."

While talking, the two also arrived in front of the office.

Ji Ming gently knocked on the door.

Staying by the side, Tang Li heard a voice from inside saying "Come in." Ji Ming pushed the door open, gave back the takeout bag to her, waited for her to enter, then stepped out himself and closed the door of the office.

Song Baiyan was standing in front of the south-facing triplet windows. Hearing footsteps, he turned around and also placed the teacup he was holding back on the desk. Compared to the Ministry of Finance’s office, this place gave Tang Li a glimpse of what was truly called power and authority.

Stepping on the carpet bearing the emblem of Country S, Tang Li set the takeout bag on the coffee table, then suddenly remembering something, turned her head to look at the master of the office, "I think I forgot to buy you rice."