043: There is something wrong with Mr. Gu’s heart

Lin Meixian gave Gu Jun a good step.

He immediately had a legitimate excuse to call Xu Yao.

Xu Yao said it would be faster to take the subway, but Gu Jun disagreed: "It's rush hour when you get off work, and it's hard to say whether you can squeeze on the subway. I'd better pick you up."

"oh……"

Xu Yao dragged out the last syllable, and Gu Jun's heart tightened for a moment, until he heard Xu Yao say "Okay", then he felt relieved again.

"Then it's settled!"

Gu Jun hung up the phone without giving Xu Yao a chance to regret.

Xu Yao held the phone and smiled: How childish!

The naive Mr. Gu wanted to make a good impression on his mother-in-law, so he arranged for his secretary to go buy some fruit after hanging up the phone. The secretary asked Gu Jun what kind of gift he wanted, and without thinking, Gu Jun blurted out, "Something like the standard for my most important clients."

That is high-end imported organic fruit.

Gu Jun calculated the time and went downstairs with the fruit gift box half an hour before Xu Yao got off work. It was not yet the rush hour, so half an hour was enough to drive to Xu Yao's company.

Jiang Zhiyan and a few others were talking as they exited the elevator. They ran into Gu Jun head-on. Seeing Gu Jun was in a hurry, Jiang Zhiyan called out to him, "Don't you have a meeting at 7 o'clock this evening?"

Gu Jun pressed the elevator button for the underground parking lot. "You'll host the meeting at 7 o'clock. I'm leaving get off work."

Jiang Zhiyan was in a daze.

——Isn’t this my usual line? Gu Jun has now learned to go his own way, leaving him with no way to go, right?

"Hey, you—"

As soon as the word "you" came out of his throat, the elevator door closed, brushing Jiang Zhiyan's nose.

The people following Jiang Zhiyan looked at each other in bewilderment. Jiang Zhiyan's face was extremely grumpy: "What are you looking at? Mr. Gu can leave work early. We are not Mr. Gu."

Someone echoed Jiang Zhiyan, "Boss Gu has indeed been working less overtime recently. It seems like he leaves early most of the time."

The latest gossip in the company's tearoom is that something might be wrong with Gu Jun's "work machine." He used to drink a few cups of coffee a day, but now he's been drinking healthy scented tea. He once wanted to work 24 hours a day and sleep in the office, but now his working and leaving hours are extremely regular. Other than a health issue, no one can think of a reason for Gu Jun's abnormal behavior.

Jiang Zhiyan had also vaguely heard the gossip in the tea room.

It’s not that Gu Jun has a physical problem, it’s that he has a mental problem… Now that he has a wife, he wants to enjoy life!

…

Not counting the last time he came to help Xu Yao out, today was the first time Gu Jun picked up Xu Yao from get off work.

He waited downstairs for more than ten minutes before Xu Yao came down.

A man in a floral shirt and white suit followed Xu Yao, looked Gu Jun up and down, and then winked at Xu Yao.

"Women should eat well. You have good taste."

The man in the white suit left after saying this.

Xu Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "He's our team leader Hua Bin. He usually speaks in this style. Don't mind it!"

Gu Jun could sense that Hua Bin's teasing was harmless. Thinking that Hua Bin must have met Chen Yan before, Gu Jun couldn't help but feel a little proud. "I can tell whether someone is teasing you in a friendly way or in a malicious way... I heard you mention him before, and he seemed to take good care of you."

Xu Yao nodded. "Hua Bin has been guiding me since I joined the company. He not only takes care of me, but he also protects all the team members. Thanks to Wen Yiyi, we don't have to work overtime on the advertising project for Chen Yan Company these days. Hua Bin is very happy."

Gu Jun really likes listening to Xu Yao talk about people and things in the company. Even though the people in Xu Yao's company have nothing to do with Gu Jun, he doesn't find it boring.

After listening to it so many times, Gu Jun could even imagine the scene of Xu Yao at work in his mind.

Thinking of Xu Yao and Hua Bin working together to fool Wen Yiyi, Gu Jun couldn't help but smile: "It's not easy to meet a good leader in the workplace. You are lucky!"

Xu Yao also felt that she was lucky.

The worst thing about a cold war is silence. Once someone took the initiative to break the ice, the atmosphere between Xu Yao and Gu Jun immediately eased.

On the way to Wen's house, Gu Jun took the initiative to find a topic. He asked Xu Yao what she had been busy with these two days.

Xu Yao said she was busy shooting a promotional video for a cosmetics brand.

Xu Yao has finished filming a promotional video for a makeup brand. Ever since Xu Yao's appearance, every new video has been met with praise for her looks. While her looks have attracted new fans, they've also led to some dissenting voices, who say it's hard to tell if a product works well on her. After all, she's naturally good-looking, and her fair skin can pull off most unpopular shades, so having her try out certain products isn't particularly valuable as a reference.

Most bloggers are too lazy to respond to these discordant comments. No one can please everyone. If you don’t like it, just change the video.

However, Xu Yao feels that these discordant voices represent the real needs of some fans.

Her fans want to see how clothes look on her, and also want to see how the same clothes look on ordinary people. Xu Yao is so thin that she looks good in most clothes, but how about ordinary people who are a little fatter or even much fatter than Xu Yao?

The same goes for makeup.

Not only beautiful women are qualified to wear makeup. On the contrary, people with some blemishes on their facial features or skin would like to improve their image through makeup.

"So this time, Xiaoling and I discussed it and decided to randomly select ordinary people to cooperate with the filming. I chose fans from my city who were willing to appear in the film. I first applied the same eyeshadow and lipstick on my face and then applied it on the fans who were willing to appear in the film. Their facial features and skin are different from mine, so this way I can see the effect most directly. I just tried this series for the first episode, and after uploading the video yesterday, the response was very good!"

Many influencers who specialize in makeup or fashion have a thorough understanding of their own face and body shapes, and can easily guess what makeup and clothing styles suit them. However, when asked to apply the same makeup to others or match clothes for people with different body types, they often struggle.

Xu Yao is different. She can help others put on makeup and match clothes.

When talking about her work ideas, Xu Yao was in high spirits, and even her voice was full of confidence. Gu Jun couldn't help but turn his head to look at her several times while driving.

When Xu Yao got excited, she stopped talking abruptly.

If you continue, you will just be bragging!

Xu Yao fell silent, but Gu Jun naturally took over the conversation: "You might consider continuing this kind of video production for a long time. You have an advantage over other similar bloggers. Some of them are self-taught and have only started their careers halfway through, but you have many years of art training."

In fact, Xu Yao not only has a solid foundation in art, but she also has an aesthetic sense cultivated through years of wealth.

Girls from ordinary families might not be able to buy quality skincare and clothing according to their own preferences until their twenties, and their aesthetic sense will be confused for a while before it slowly solidifies. Xu Yao has been well-fed and well-dressed since childhood. While other girls would shop in underground malls during their teenage years, Xu Yao had already been shopping in Hong Kong with Lin Meixian. Her aesthetic sense has already been systematically cultivated, which is Xu Yao's advantage!

Gu Jun’s praise made Xu Yao feel embarrassed: “I didn’t expect that after studying art for so many years, I could only do these jobs to earn money.”

When Xu Qinghua was alive, he always wanted Xu Yao to be a painter. But Xu Yao ultimately failed to live up to his expectations. However, she felt that her father would not blame her. If she ignored everything else and only wanted to paint, who would take care of her mother, Lin Meixian, and who would help the Xu family pay off its debts?

Xu Yao couldn't help but tell Gu Jun: "I will gather all the creditors together at the end of the year and pay them back according to the proportion of their debts."

Gu Jun parked the car in the villa's parking space and got out carrying two boxes of fruit.

"That's great. If I were your creditor, I would be very happy to receive part of the money owed to me at the end of the year, no matter how much it is."

The two kept chatting on the way, and Xu Yao only then noticed that Gu Jun had also bought some fruit.

Who says straight science and engineering men don’t understand the ways of the world? Isn’t Gu Jun doing a great job?

All of Xu Yao's previous little emotions were smoothed out.

Gu Jun's temper was indeed changeable, but Xu Yao herself was not perfect, so there was no need for her to be so harsh on him. For now, Gu Jun was doing well in the big picture, and that was enough!

Xu Yao was about to invite Gu Jun in when another car stopped at the door of the villa.

It was a car that Xu Yao was very familiar with, and she had ridden in it many times before.

The car door opened, and Wen Yiyi got out of the passenger seat. Seeing Xu Yao and Gu Jun, Wen Yiyi wanted to vent her anger through her nose: "Oh, are you and your wife coming to the Wen family to ask for money again?"

Xu Yao didn't say anything, and Gu Jun ignored Wen Yiyi.

The couple watched as the driver's door opened and Shen Yan got out of the car.

"Yiyi, let's go in first."