Refresh man

Chapter 9

      Head Secretary Zhang makes an alcoholic concoction for Jane to drink. Austin saves Jane from drinking it when he drinks the alcoholic concoction, instead.

Head Secretary Zhang expects Jane to drink three drinks if she wants him to give his time to her to discuss about a possible collaboration between Yours project and Venus. She drinks one. The other two she is saved from drinking when a wait staff informs Jane she has a person at the door asking to see her. Jane goes to see this person at the door—but not before she assures Head Secretary Zhang she will return and won't use this opportunity to escape when Head Secretary Zhang asks if this is what she will do.

Austin  was standing a distance away looking onto the scene of Head Secretary Zhang's group chanting for Jane to drink and Jane drinking. It seems it was he who requested to see Jane at the door—a method he seems to have thought to use to get Jane out of the situation she was in with Head Secretary Zhang.

At the point where Head Secretary Zhang finishes preparing an alcoholic concoction for Jane for when she returns—a drink that consists of Around the World, Bloody Mary, Long Island and Martini—Austin appears before Head Secretary Zhang. He calls Head Secretary Zhang a good-for-nothing. Head Secretary Zhang asks Austin who he was in response to—what Head Secretary Zhang saw Austin's words to be—the nonsense he spouted at him. "Who am I?" Austin asks rhetorically. He makes a comment on Head Secretary Zhang's handling of  Jane's request for his time. "So this is the capability of the head secretary of Yours. The issue just now can have the boss fire you a thousand times."

Head Secretary Zhang appears to want to challenge Austin with further rudeness and disrespect, but is stopped when a person in his party whispers in his ear with something that seem to give him knowledge of Austin's important identity and status. "Tianxi Group?" Head Secretary Zhang says. He turns to Austin  and apologises for his terrible manners: "CEO, I'm very sorry. I've neglected my duty with not recognising you.

 I will drink three drinks to express my apology." Head Secretary Zhang's words are heard as nonsense and full of games to Austin's ears. When Head Secretary Zhang asks if Austin's presence is due to the collaboration between their two companies and he goes to give a rather polite but arrogant suggestion to follow process, Austin goes to comment again on Head Secretary Zhang's unprofessional and sour attitude towards his salespeople, his lack of integrity with not following through with what he promises to do and deliberately making things difficult.

 Picking up on  Austin's words as referring to his treatment of Jane, Head Secretary Zhang explains its that Jane and he are good friends who are simply reminiscing about the past. True friendship is drinking such a drink as the one he made for her.

Austin finds it a joke—one that goes overboard. He tells Head Secretary Zhang he will drink the drink he made for Jane. One gulp then another, Austin empties the large glass of the alcoholic concoction. The action first makes Head Secretary Zhang laugh in amusement before he appears awed by Austin's ability to finish the drink.

After the drink, Austin makes sure Head Secretary Zhang is aware there is a consequence if he continues to not honour his word and continue to make it difficult for his salespeople: he tells Head Secretary Zhang that with Tianxi Group leading the plan for Yours to enter into the European market, he always can put a stop to it. And when his company's chairman asks for an explanation, he will simply reveal the reason for his actions at that time.

Jane makes her way back to the table. She is confused and mutters to herself why the person who had requested to see her wasn't there. When she turns into her table and doesn't see Head Secretary Zhang and his party, she is surprised.