Chapter 509: Drinking Coffee

“Your couple’s relationship is so good, it’s really enviable.” Mrs. Chiba walked towards Masayoshi Kishimoto and Rie Sakai from a distance at a leisurely pace. On her face was a warm smile, while at her side followed her painter daughter.

Sakai Rie returned the same smile and said, “Your daughter is really talented, quite gifted in art, as expected of an art student who has returned from studying in France.”

“I’m flattered. I have prepared some coffee upstairs, I hope you two will enjoy it.” Mrs. Chiba said with a sense of purpose.

Sakai Rie understood as soon as she heard that, “Just in time, I’d like to have some coffee as well.”

Thus, together, the four of them headed towards the second floor of the gallery and entered a room specially prepared for VIPs. As soon as they entered, they saw pastries and fruit platters laid out. Anyone with a little bit of care would know that it couldn’t be a coincidence, but had been prepared earlier.

Mrs. Chiba gestured with her hand for Rie Sakai and Masayoshi Kishimoto to take their seats while smiling brightly, ”My daughter’s coffee making skills are not bad. Let her make a pot of coffee for us.”

Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Masayoshi looked at the other party’s courtesy and unspokenly knew that in all likelihood, they had something to ask for.

In Rie Sakai’s mind, it was hard to believe that he was right about the need to utilize the media power of TV Tokyo for a promotion.

Masayoshi Kishimoto and Rie Sakai took their seats back and forth. Mrs. Chiba sat next to Rie Sakai, and her daughter really did make coffee for everyone.

“My daughter has become quite westernized after so many years in France. She’s become less knowledgeable about a lot of things in Japan. Especially things within our one circle.

Even though I’m her mother, she doesn’t always listen to me. Rie, you and my daughter are about the same age, so there’s no generation gap.

You can take her for a ride and lift her up.” Mrs. Chiba turned sideways to look at Sakai Rie is a pushy look and said.

“No problem.” Sakai Rie readily agreed saying.

Mrs. Chiba moved her body sideways, her gaze shifting from Rie Sakai to Masayoshi Kishimoto as she said politely and formally, “I heard that you don’t like our kind of socializing. Today, it is so grateful that you were able to come.”

“If I didn’t accompany Rie to come, I was afraid that you would say behind my back that she is only my lover and not my future wife. A lover can have many for a man.

Only a wife can have only one for a man. Even if there is one more, it won’t work. Above the law, this is called bigamy.” Masayoshi Kishimoto half-joked, half-seriously said.

“Chairman Kishimoto, you are really too humorous.” Mrs. Chiba’s right palm in front of her mouth was laughing. She also understood that this could be more than just a joke.

Even a husband and wife might not always be on the same page. Furthermore, if a woman didn’t have a position or say in her husband’s or mother’s family, even if she mixed in their circle, she would be despised and belittled. Making friends? That’s one aspect. However, it was all based on mutual interests.

At this time, Ms. Chiba brought the steaming pot of coffee to them. The first thing she did was to pour a cup for Masayoshi Kishimoto, followed by Rie Sakai, followed by her own mother, and finally herself.

Such an order of pouring the coffee followed the etiquette of hospitality, but also politely expressed that there was something to ask for. If they were unimportant people, Mrs. Chiba would not have called them here for coffee.

Even if she had been called here, she would not have let her daughter personally make the coffee. Seemingly unimportant things, but can reflect a person’s status in this circle, as well as the society above.

Rank is an invisible and intangible thing, no matter where, it exists. The only difference was that it changed to a different posture.

“Daughter, let me give you a formal introduction. This one is your mother’s best friend, Mrs. Kishimoto. Next to her this one is her husband, Mr. Masayoshi Kishimoto, Chairman of the Hard Gold Group.” Mrs. Chiba said seriously.

Lady Chiba had learned from her mother before this that within their little circle, those people mattered and those people didn’t.

She bowed rather formally towards Rie Sakai and Masayoshi Kishimoto is a forty-five degree bow, following which she took her seat at the bottom of Masayoshi Kishimoto’s table.

“Chairman Kishimoto, my daughter doesn’t know many people back in Tokyo, Japan for her exhibition, especially friends in the media.” Mrs. Chiba and could she not know about Tokyo TV under Hard Gold Media, which was a subsidiary of the Hard Gold Group?

“It’s a small matter. I’ll give the director of TV Tokyo a personal greeting. As for the next specific thing, I’ll entrust it all to Rie.

You guys just communicate and liaise with Rie more often.” Masayoshi Kishimoto didn’t have any excuses and agreed with his mouth full, saying.

“Chairman Kishimoto, you are truly a straightforward person. Daughter, why don’t you thank Chairman Kishimoto.” Mrs. Chiba hurriedly asked her daughter to show a gratitude saying.

Ms. Chiba stood up and bowed again towards Justice Kishimoto is forty-five degrees. Of course, she knew very well that appearing on TV news and appearing on newspaper news were two completely different concepts, after all, the audience of TV was much wider than newspapers and magazines.

After all, television has a much wider audience than newspapers and magazines. Television has images and sound, while newspapers and magazines only have pictures and text. The latter gives a person’s intuitive feeling is far from the former so lofty.

Even news reports that were just a few tens of seconds, not even a minute long, were not something that could just go up and be aired casually.

“Why are you only thanking him and not me? I was originally thinking of having the Tokyo TV side do a character interview with you? Since I’m being so neglectful, I won’t do it.” Sakai Rie pretended to be angry.

Chiba’s mother and daughter were overjoyed at such an unexpected joy. Mrs. Chiba, who couldn’t sit still, personally stood up and hurriedly gave Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Masayoshi a forty-five degree bow.

After that, Mrs. Chiba even bowed twice to Sakai Rie. The Chiba family is rich, but among the rich there are even richer families, more resources, more connections ……

The Kishimoto family was such an existence. Otherwise, with Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Masayoshi, a kind of Shikoku Kochi Prefecture countryside origin, just generally rich, no matter what, they would also be ostracized by this and that one above ground circle within the Hong Kong district.

Even if one entered into it, one would easily be marginalized. Those who didn’t fit in whether they were women, or men, tended to dig their heels in and try to join in and be accepted.