Chapter 35 Jealousy "Why should I be friendly to that guy?"...

Qiao Ruoying turned her head following the sound and saw a familiar face.

He wears black-framed glasses, a neat 3:7 hairstyle, an executive jacket over a shirt, and a serious smile.

She searched her memory for a few seconds and recognized that this person was Hu Yicheng, a senior from the same department.

When she was a sophomore, Senior Hu participated in the student affairs program to ensure graduate school; when she was a junior, he happened to be the counselor of their class.

Therefore, the two of them had quite a lot of contact.

When Qiao Ruoying saw someone who looked familiar to her from her school days, she called out, "Teacher Hu."

Hu Yicheng waved his hand and smiled, "You're so unfamiliar. Don't call me Teacher Hu. I'm only two years older than you. Just call me Senior."

“…”

Calling him senior is too intimate.

Qiao Ruoying smiled and didn't respond.

Hu Yicheng was very familiar with the situation and naturally started the conversation: "Xiao Qiao, are you free to come back and visit the school today? You want to take a photo, right? Do you want me to take one for you?"

"No, I'm just taking pictures of the scenery."

"I heard you got a job at Taehyung Group. That's impressive. Oh, and you guys have a new car coming out soon? It seems Luo Da has opened up an internal car purchasing channel..."

How is your work? What are you working on lately?

She hardly needed to find topics to talk about; Hu Yicheng was like an open chatterbox, always dominating the conversation.

As she listened, she quickly glanced at Jiang Zongye out of the corner of her eye.

The man stood tall and straight, holding the cell phone to his ear, tilting his head slightly, his gaze far away as if gazing at the rolling clouds in the sky.

He had an outstanding temperament and a relaxed posture. Just standing there, he attracted a lot of people's attention.

She wondered if he had noticed anything on her end and hoped he hadn't.

It’s better to quickly end the topic with Senior Hu——

But the more I want to end it, the more impossible it is.

Senior Hu said that because of his excellent work performance, he has already been hired by the school's personnel department. Once he graduates from graduate school, he will be able to directly obtain a position as a college counselor. He has decided to develop in Luocheng, and his family has already bought a house in Cuiting Garden, a large house of 150 square meters.

"Employment is tough right now, and it's getting harder and harder to get a school counselor position."

Qiao Ruoying responded.

Although I smiled, I felt awkward inside as if I was being forced to socialize.

She didn't know why Senior Hu said all these things to her. After all, she was not interested in his work or buying a house.

She just wanted to end the topic quickly, before Jiang Zongye hung up the phone.

What she didn't know was that when Senior Hu in front of her suddenly saw such a bright and beautiful junior schoolmate like her, his heart of seeking a mate began to stir in his chest.

Hu Yicheng noticed Qiao Ruoying when she was an undergraduate.

She is so beautiful, it is hard not to notice her; and she has such a good personality.

However, Hu Yicheng felt that their identities when they met were not so "correct". At that time, he was a counselor and she was a student; plus he was busy with administrative work at that time, so he did not pursue her openly.

Today, Qiao Ruoying reappeared in front of him like a fairy from heaven. Hu Yicheng felt that this was an opportunity given to him by God.

What's more, Qiao Ruoying also got an offer from Taehyung and was able to work in a big company. Her social status has been invisibly raised. Hu Yicheng thinks it would be nice to bring her home in the future.

Thinking about the long term, since we both work in Luocheng, we will have more hope if we work hard and have children together in the future.

He praised himself in front of Qiao Ruoying like a peacock spreading its feathers, and laid the groundwork for "More and more classmates are leaving Luocheng to return to their hometowns, and even making dinner arrangements is difficult." Hu Yicheng considered carefully and finally said that sentence:

"Xiao Qiao, since we both work in Luocheng, how about we have dinner together on the weekends?"

“…”

?

Qiao Ruoying opened her lychee eyes slightly, her eyes were clear, with a hint of confusion.

How did the topic of conversation turn to "Let's have dinner together this weekend"?

She didn't want to have any further contact with him.

Just as she was pondering how to reject Hu Yicheng, a low and cold male voice sounded from behind her, like a slowly plucked cello string, the string slowly vibrating inside the cello cavity.

"Yingying."

She looked back and saw Jiang Zong with a smile on his face. Under the gaze of passers-by, he walked towards her, his eyes fixed on her.

Immediately, the passersby looked at Qiao Ruoying with envy, jealousy, and scrutiny, but the moment they saw her bright and beautiful face, all their glances disappeared.

Qiao Ruoying stood there in a daze, her brain almost shutting down.

Her mind was full of thoughts: "Oh no, why did the big boss end the call? Why did he come over at this time? How should I explain to the big boss?"

When he was about an arm's length away from Qiao Ruoying, Jiang Zong also stopped, put one hand in his pocket, his brow hidden in the shadow of his hair, looking a little lazy.

He didn't look at anyone directly, but just glanced at Hu Yicheng out of the corner of his eye.

Suddenly, Hu Yicheng felt uncomfortable all over.

He has always been proud of his good family background, good looks, and graceful manners in dealing with people. He is also a good person and is the focus of attention wherever he goes.

But this time, he felt crushed from the man who looked at him sideways, and in all directions.

The other person was only wearing a turtleneck sweater and khaki pants, but his simple attire revealed the dominance of a person in a high position. The sense of power that came with that casual attitude made Hu Yicheng secretly jealous, and besides jealousy, he even felt a bit of flattery.

Hu Yicheng could tell at a glance that this person must be a big shot.

Where did Qiao Ruoying meet such an important person?

Could you help him get acquainted with someone like him?

Thinking of this, Hu Yicheng put on a humble smile and said to Qiao Ruoying, "Xiao Qiao, can you introduce this person to me?"

Qiao Ruoying's brain, which was almost shut down, finally started working again.

And this situation was what she feared most during this trip. How should she introduce her relationship with Jiang Zongye to people she knew?

You definitely can’t say “boyfriend”, Jiang Zong is not her boyfriend.

It can't be said that she is the boss, otherwise Hu Yicheng would be surprised why she would come out to visit the campus with the company's boss.

After much thought, Qiao Ruoying decided to go for it.

"He's my brother, the son of my distant aunt. He came to Luocheng to play and stopped by to visit our campus."

As soon as she said this, she felt Jiang Zongye's burning gaze, like a dart nailed to a board, staring at him tightly, making her scalp tingle and the soles of her feet numb.

However, this tingling sensation was only for a moment and soon disappeared without a trace. The pressure in Jiang Zong's eyes also dissipated, and he returned to his previous nonchalant state.

"It turns out to be my brother," Hu Yicheng smiled awkwardly. He felt that the atmosphere in front of him was very strange, both weird and exclusive.

It was as if there was an invisible magnetic pole separating him and the two men. Qiao Ruoying only had eyes for this big shot, and this big shot only had eyes for Qiao Ruoying. He couldn't get in at all.

Before Hu Yicheng could say "Can you introduce her to me", Jiang Zong raised his chin to Qiao Ruoying and said "left".

Having been able to end this awkward social situation, Qiao Ruoying smiled with relief as if she had been pardoned, and waved to Hu Yicheng.

"Senior Hu, we'll be leaving first. Bye."

Hu Yicheng, along with many passers-by, watched the couple leave.

In her sight, the man casually stretched out his arms, trying to hug Qiao Ruoying's waist, but she dodged to the side.

Hu Yicheng reacted belatedly:

How could that big shot be Qiao Ruoying’s “brother” if they could have this level of physical contact?

It's clear that they are a couple.

So, when the big shot came over just now, was he also demonstrating to him? Even this small gesture of grabbing his waist was a deliberate declaration of sovereignty?

Hu Yicheng suddenly felt that the little thoughts in his heart were seen clearly by this important person.

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After walking a few dozen meters, Qiao Ruoying dodged Jiang Zongye's arm that was wrapped around her waist and reminded him, "Well... this is outside."

Jiang Zong didn't care about her dodging, because he knew that the boy with the flat head must have seen him reaching out to embrace Yingying.

The obvious body movements declared possession, and he didn't believe that the boy with the flat head couldn't understand it.

Now, he was concerned about something else.

"Why did you smile at him just now?"

?

Qiao Ruoying was confused. She didn't smile at Hu Yicheng either.

"I didn't smile at him."

And even if she smiled at Hu Yicheng, it didn't matter. She smiled at many people every day.

"You smiled when you waved goodbye to him just now."

Jiang Zongye's voice was as cold as jade, like placing a beautiful jade in ice marrow, and the frozen sound leaked out from his stretched throat.

"That's just because I'm about to finish the topic, so I'm laughing."

Qiao Ruoying quickly told the real reason.

Only then did Jiang Zongye's expression ease a little.

But he immediately thought, how could she look at that man with those slightly open eyes and such an innocent and confused look?

Those eyes were so pure, so empty, like a little white rabbit's. If they were a little moister, covered with a thin film of tears, they would be the look she gave him at certain moments, when she was so fragile and begging for mercy...

It must be because Qiao Ruoying is too beautiful, too pretty, and too pure.

That's why those men swarmed around her like bees and butterflies.

"Next time you see a man like this, stay as far away from him as possible." Jiang Zong also snorted.

"I know exactly what he's thinking."

Qiao Ruoying suddenly thought of something and turned back quietly, like a kitten that had been hiding on the cat climbing frame and finally poked its head out.

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Zongye asked.

"I was watching...um, to see if he went this way."

Qiao Ruoying looked back and searched for Hu Yicheng's figure in the executive jacket in the alley. Fortunately, she didn't see him and breathed a sigh of relief.

"We'll be heard if we talk about him behind his back," she said awkwardly.

Being caught gossiping behind someone's back is really embarrassing. And it's really novel that the big boss would gossip behind someone's back.

Jiang Zong also snorted.

"I'm not afraid of him hearing me talk about him."

“…”

In the bright sunlight, Qiao Ruoying looked at Jiang Zongye puzzledly.

The light lingered on his clean-cut jaw, highlighting his perfect, smooth bones. Even the leafless old locust tree behind him was given a refreshing touch by his elegant figure.

But why does this handsome man speak so fussy?

It was totally inconsistent with his usual cold and arrogant image.

Now, the labels attached to her as the big boss include being introverted, secretly happy, and picky.

Qiao Ruoying licked the tip of her little canine teeth and thought to herself, humph, when the day comes that she leaves her job, she will definitely expose the "true face" of the big boss to Du Xinrong and make him come down from the altar of "the flower of the high mountain".

Although she and Hu Yicheng were just ordinary classmates, Qiao Ruoying couldn't stand Jiang Zong's "degrading" of him in this way. She felt it necessary to say a few fair words for Hu Yicheng.

"Senior Hu isn't as extreme as you say. He's just a little overly enthusiastic when he sees his classmates."

"Passion?" Jiang Zong also raised his sword-like eyebrows, and the curve at the corner of his lips was extremely sharp, like a sharpened blade.

"He has bad intentions."

"Then what is his intention?" Qiao Ruoying couldn't help but retort.

"Think carefully about what he said after seeing you. First, he asked you to call him senior instead of Teacher Hu, and even took a picture of you. This was clearly a way to get closer to you."

At that moment, the two of them walked in front of a sculpture. The main body of the sculpture is a man with an agile figure and a woman with a soft figure holding a book. Together, they hold up a large ball on their heads. Hence, the sculpture is jokingly called "Reading with a Ball" by Luo University students.

In front of the "Reading with a Ball"* sculpture, Jiang Zong also stopped in time, his AJ shoes nailed to the ground, his face calm, and he showed the momentum of "I must make things clear with Qiao Ruoying".

“…”

Qiao Ruoying rubbed the soles of her Vans shoes against the terrazzo tiles in front of the sculpture as she listened to Jiang Zongye's long speech.

She admitted that Hu Yicheng had the intention of getting closer to her, but so what?

Although she didn't want to get closer to Hu Yicheng, she could understand his actions.

What surprised her even more was that Jiang Zong was clearly answering the phone at the time. How could he have done two things at once, answering the important call and hearing her conversation with Hu Yicheng without missing any key information?

The ability of this brain to function is amazing.

Jiang Zong also glanced at Qiao Ruoying.

The sun was warm at this moment, shining on her face.

Perhaps the sweater vest she was wearing was a little hot, and her delicate face, as delicate as porcelain, was flushed with rosy red. The light reflected the small hairs on the sides of her cheeks, which were soft and transparent, as if the sunlight had automatically cast a soft focus on her.

Just standing in the campus, with green trees and red walls as the backdrop, and the sound of reading aloud, she is the "white moonlight" admired by countless boys, the kind that will always keep a corner for her in their hearts.

Her eyes were as clear as a spring deep in the forest.

Jiang Zong also secretly made up his mind that he must explain it to her clearly today and let her know what men are thinking, so that she, this little white rabbit, will not be caught by someone else one day without knowing it.

She can only be his little white rabbit.

"What did he talk about after getting close to you?"

Jiang Zong also crossed his arms and sneered.

"Your senior said he's excelling at his job and will be offered a university administrative position after completing his two years of study. He also mentioned that he's decided to develop his career in Luocheng and that his family has bought a house in a certain residential complex. Do you know what message this is conveying to you?"

“…”

Qiao Ruoying was actually asked by him.

She really didn't know why Hu Yicheng talked to her about this.

Jiang Zong also tugged at the collar of his sweater, his voice became even colder, and the temperature around him seemed to drop by one degree.

"Almost all of his conversations revolve around himself. His core purpose is to show how outstanding he is, that he has a stable and respectable job, a bright future, a car and a house, and thus tell you that he is a high-quality marriage candidate."

At the end of his speech, Jiang Zong's tone completely changed to disdain.

He just doesn't recognize Hu Yi's honesty and quality.

Is this what you call quality? In his opinion, it's far from it.

As if the clouds and mist were cleared away, the smoke lingering in Qiao Ruoying's mind dissipated a lot in an instant.

She suddenly realized that the core purpose of Hu Yicheng's lengthy speech was to "courage a mate"?

The "partner" he was looking for was her?

However, she was not attracted at all by the conditions Hu Yicheng proposed.

She just felt that he talked too much and too frequently.

Drawing inferences from one instance, she thought of something else: So, when Jiang Zong was talking to people, would he always guess the other person's implied meaning based on his words and expressions?

So as to understand what other people are thinking?

No wonder he can manage his subordinates so well; and he can also unite the people around him with the power of unity.

In an instant, her mind became clear.

I just don't know, Jiang Zong is so good at reading people's minds, so can he understand what she is thinking? Does he know that she has been treating him as her boss?

Did you know that she often complained about him in her heart?

Did you know that she sometimes has subtle thoughts about her children, which are full of twists and turns?

If possible, she hoped that he would not understand all of her.

She hoped that she would still remain a little mysterious in his heart.

"I understand." Qiao Ruoying nodded and added, "But... you can be a little nicer to him."

That's just how she is.

Even though she knew what Hu Yicheng was thinking, she also saw that Hu Yicheng just wanted to attract her with his excellent conditions, and he did not harass her, so she was happy to be friendly to him.

Jiang Zong also kicked a small stone under his feet and kicked it far away.

friendly?

Does not exist.

There was only competition between him and that man.

"Everything between men is a battlefield. Only men know what men are thinking. Why should I be nice to him?"

“…”

Now, Qiao Ruoying was completely speechless.

So, girls can help girls, but boys can’t help boys?

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The author has something to say: Today's Chiang Kai-shek is killing like crazy [lemon][anger].

Xiao Hu, who appeared innocently on camera: (Killed without leaving a single piece of armor) [melted][melted][melted]

Yingying: Why are you so unkind to others? [question mark][question mark]

Lao Jiang: Friendly? They came to steal my wife, and you still expect me to play boys helping boys with them? [Cracked][Cracked]

Yingying: As expected, there is no friendship between men. [Eat melon][Eat melon]

Lao Jiang: I’m glad you know.

I was laughing while writing this chapter, especially when it came to the part where Chiang Kai-shek was teasing people behind their backs. Our Chiang Kai-shek is about to be completely reduced to a tyrant who only cares about entertainment.

*The sculpture of “reading a ball” is just a joke, but in real life, we should still study hard. It will be useful and better than not reading at all.