Chapter 81 Too Deep Into the Play

But Huo Qichen didn't look away.

Jian Mo leaned forward, her breath spraying on his gradually clearing eyes, "There must be a little bit, right? A little bit?"

She pretended even more at this time, deliberately concealing her heartbeat to appear that she was not under his control.

Huo Qichen didn't move. At this moment, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open from the outside, "Achen..."

Liang Qiu's voice stopped abruptly when he saw this scene, and then hurried footsteps were heard, "I didn't see anything."

Jian Mo's mood suddenly calmed down. Facing Huo Qichen's coldness, she felt a little more afraid. She consciously stepped back and lowered her head to put on her shoes.

Huo Qichen walked out the door, "What's the matter?"

Liang Qiu's peach blossom eyes curved up with ill intentions, "I won't bother you anymore at this time. I will take the blame for you no matter how big the problem is."

"Speak." Huo Qi Chen ignored him, took a cigarette out of the cigarette box and held it between his lips.

"A minister from the Zhao family's faction is here tonight. He brought a woman he keeps from outside and also ordered two young ladies."

Huo Qichen narrowed his eyes, "Three, he's in good health."

Liang Qiu was overjoyed. Holding on to the railing, he saw Jian Mo standing not far away with her arms folded waiting.

"As long as the source is found, the Zhao family will be held responsible. I have preserved the evidence and sent it to your email. It will be helpful to you."

Huo Qichen exhaled a puff of smoke, and his rationality and clarity returned to his mind. "Thank you very much. I'll treat you to dinner another day."

"Okay, will you bring your wife along?"

Seeing Liang Qiu staring at him, Jian Mo gave a perfunctory smile and raised his hand to greet him.

Huo Qichen turned around and glanced at her, wanting to say something, but in the end he just warned her, "Now that you know, you know. Don't spread this around. I'm doing this for Grandpa's condition."

"For Grandpa, you've immersed yourself too deeply in the role." Liang Qiu noticed the man's expression and retreated strategically. "Don't worry, no one is more strict than me."

Huo Qichen said nothing, stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette, and walked to Jian Mo, "Go home."

Jian Mo immediately followed closely.

The two of them had no other communication along the way, as if the kiss had never happened.

After returning to Mingyuan, Jian Mo deleted the recording of Mrs. Zhao from her mobile phone. She was impulsive. Huo Qichen dared to ask Zhao Qian questions, which meant he knew the Zhao family very well. She was indeed being too smart tonight.

Two days later, Jian Mo's face was healed and she returned to work at Huo's.

As soon as she entered the design department, many people cast their gazes at her. Jian Mo felt her hair run down her body and asked Xiao Chen, "What's wrong with everyone?"

Xiao Chen looked her up and down and joked, "Ms. Jian, your leave is quite long. No one in the entire department, no, no one in the entire company can take such a long leave. How did you do it?"

Jian Mo felt guilty and touched her nose. "It's just sick leave. The company isn't that strict."

"Will it take half a month to remove the appendix?"

"...You'll know once you have a chance to try it." Jian Mo quickly changed the subject, "You haven't told me yet, why are people looking at me?"

Xiao Chen held the documents in his arms and asked mysteriously, "Does Jinxiu City know?"

Jian Mo thought for a moment and said, "I know. What's wrong with the school district housing planned for the south of the city?"

"The Huo family has won." Xiao Chen excitedly.

Jian Mo was also surprised. "I heard that several groups are bidding for Jinxiu City. Did the Huo Group win the bid?"

"Yeah, we're rich. If we have enough money, we can definitely win it."

He is really rich and powerful, Jian Mo laughed.

"And what, you haven't told me yet, what does this have to do with me."

"Now that Jinxiu City has been taken, it's our design department's turn. Everyone's wondering whether this big project will be given to you or Song Ke," Xiao Chen analyzed. "And since you've returned at this critical juncture, everyone's wondering if you're going to compete with Song Ke for it."

Yes, if she wasn't here, this project would definitely belong to Song Ke.

But Jian Mo wasn't so optimistic. "Song Ke has worked on several major projects, has a lot of experience, and has won many awards. The higher-ups will naturally choose her. Don't hold out hope for me."

"Why do you say that! You didn't win the award because you didn't participate in the competition at all. If you had gone, Song Ke wouldn't have had so many problems. Also, Director Zhang and Wang Juan didn't like you before, so they gave the project to someone else. It's not your fault that you have no experience. In terms of strength, everyone in the department is jealous of you." Xiao Chen was spitting, and he became more and more angry as he spoke.

Jian Mo supported her chin and listened to her praising herself, smiling speechlessly. These were indeed objective factors.

"You know me, but the boss doesn't."

Xiao Chen thought for a moment and said, "That's not necessarily true. I think Mr. Huo cares about you a lot, doesn't he? He has a good eye for talent and will definitely not make a random choice."

Jian Mo's hand trembled slightly. How could Xiao Chen know?

"Mr. Huo?"

"Yes, maybe Wang Juan's incident left a deep impression on you. Last time he passed by the design department, he specifically asked me where you had been."

Jian Mo didn't know about this, "When?"

Xiao Chen thought about it seriously, "Half a month ago? The day before you asked for leave."

Calculating the time, it was the day when Song Ke stole the credit at the regular meeting and she left Huo's company in anger, and it was also the day she went to rescue Jian Zhou.

Jian Mo was silent, and she still felt palpitations as she recalled the wrong kiss that night.

Just as she was lost in thought, Song Ke walked into the department with documents. She glanced at Jian Mo, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, with a very ugly expression.

Jian Mo looked at her fearlessly.

"The designers for the Jinxiu City project have already been decided." Song Ke said coldly.

There was a lot of discussion immediately below, "Who is it?"

"Yes, Director Song, tell me quickly, who could it be?"

“…”

"The higher-ups have decided that Jian Mo and I should form a team to complete this," Song Ke said through gritted teeth, almost breaking them. "Jian Mo will be the lead designer, and I'll assist."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone exclaimed and looked at Jian Mo in disbelief.

Jian Mo was also surprised and thought she had heard it wrong.

Song Ke walked over to her workstation with the document and threw it on her desk. "Read it within a day. I don't have that much time to waste with you."

Her dissatisfaction and anger almost overwhelmed people. Jian Mo came back to her senses and realized that everything was true.

She hurriedly opened the stack of documents, which contained a lot of information about Jinxiu City.

“Which leader made the decision?”

Song Ke sneered, "If you're so capable, go ask it yourself. It's really unlucky. I don't know what shameful means you resorted to. We'll go to Jinxiu City for research this afternoon. Go by yourself."

After saying that, she walked back to the office angrily and slammed the door loudly.

Jian Mo did not refute and put all the discussions behind her. She carefully looked at the information for a while, and couldn't help but take out her mobile phone and paused at the dialog box with Huo Qichen.

Typed a few words and deleted them.

I typed a few more words and deleted them.

After struggling for a long time, I didn't send him a message.