Chapter 5 He coveted his body

Jiang Yu was so tired from taking care of Shen Mengqing that she didn't go home and slept at Shen Mengqing's house for the night.

In the morning, the two were woken up by their weekday alarm clock.

Shen Mengqing opened her sleepy eyes, turned around, and was surprised to find someone else on the bed. She breathed a sigh of relief after recognizing Jiang Yu's face, and said with lingering fear, "You scared me to death! It's you! I thought it was..."

She shut her mouth.

"Who did I think it was?" Jiang Yu said, looking at his phone with a hint of sarcasm.

Shen Mengqing shook his head, not answering her question: "Did you bring me back last night?"

“Yeah, a handsome guy used your phone to call me and asked me to come to your apartment complex and take you home,” Jiang Yu explained. “But I can’t carry you on my back, so he carried you back.”

Yu Xin only told her not to reveal her identity, not that she couldn't talk about the details of last night, so that should be fine, right?

"Oh, he's quite handsome, isn't he?" Shen Mengqing leaned closer to Jiang Yu and said mysteriously, "I met him at a bar last night. From what I've observed him from several times, he seems to be a male bar model."

Upon hearing Shen Mengqing's words, Jiang Yu, who had just sat up, couldn't catch her breath and started coughing out of nowhere.

"No, cough cough, Aqing, cough cough, I don't think so. He looks quite... upright. Don't jump to conclusions so easily."

"Moreover, he drives a Rolls-Royce," Jiang Yu testified.

Shen Mengqing scoffed: "Male models in bars make a lot of money these days, you know. He even lives in a big apartment with a monthly rent of 60,000."

Jiang Yu was surprised again: "How do you even know where they live!"

"I saw him by chance, and I don't know him well."

Shen Mengqing ignored Jiang Yu, got out of bed, and prepared to wash up.

She noticed the photo frame on the bedside table had been moved, and suddenly paused, asking, "Did he come into my room last night?"

"He came in, and he put you on the bed. What happened?"

Jiang Yu looked puzzled.

For a moment, the two fell silent, each lost in their own thoughts.

Jiang Yu's heart was in her throat. She wondered if something inappropriate had happened last night. She hoped her sister wouldn't do anything outrageous to Yu Xin, or how she would stay at the company!

Shen Mengqing felt a little awkward.

Yu Xin probably saw the photo of her and Lin Xiangyang. She had just found the photo in the closet yesterday morning and hadn't cleaned it yet. She was in a hurry to leave and forgot about it.

From the moment she first saw Yu Xin, she harbored some ulterior motives towards him, which is why she impulsively chased after him to ask for his contact information.

But now, she's probably seen as a morally corrupt person.

Thinking of this, Shen Mengqing wanted to cry but had no tears.

Of all things to do, he had to see it!

...

Shen Mengqing arrived at the company on time and watched Liang Jun walk into the office. She buried her head in thought, wondering how to report what happened last night to him.

Although she did nothing wrong, she ended up sending her client to the police station. Forget about renewing the contract this time, it's likely that the two companies will never be able to cooperate again.

Liang Jun is not a reasonable person. Compared to being considerate of his subordinates, the company's interests are much more important to him. He only cares about the result than the process.

She must be having a run of bad luck lately, with one bad thing after another hitting her. Shen Mengqing rubbed her temples and scribbled randomly in her notebook, feeling very annoyed.

Unfortunately, Liang Jun called her directly to his office.

Shen Mengqing gritted her teeth and walked over with a stiff upper lip.

She mentally prepared herself before speaking, but to her surprise, Liang Jun spoke first.

"Meng Qing, I just received a call from General Manager Guo's company. They said they'll renew the contract according to the terms you reported last night. You did a good job on that." Liang Jun smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "However, you still went a bit too far."

"ah?"

Shen Mengqing's eyes widened, and she hadn't even reacted to his first words.

"Didn't you know that Mr. Guo was fired from his company? Over the years, we've been dealing with Mr. Guo and finally built up a good relationship with him. Now that the relationship is broken, we have to rebuild it from scratch, otherwise it will be difficult to discuss cooperation next time."

"What exactly happened last night? Why did you complain to their company?" Liang Jun looked sharply at Shen Mengqing.

Shen Mengqing calmed herself down and briefly explained the situation regarding Mr. Guo's attempt to take advantage of her. She explained that a kind passerby had called the police, and she had gone home afterward without any further contact with the company.

"As for Mr. Guo being fired, that has absolutely nothing to do with me," Shen Mengqing said earnestly.

Liang Jun stared at Shen Mengqing for a while, trying to find a trace of pretense in her clear but aggrieved eyes, but to no avail.

He originally wanted to test whether Shen Mengqing had powerful backers, otherwise President Guo could just fire a senior executive of the company like that, but judging from her appearance, it didn't seem like she had done anything wrong.

Moreover, if Shen Mengqing really had connections, he wouldn't have needed to beg him for a job transfer and wait for his approval.

Liang Jun was relieved, but he really didn't expect Shen Mengqing to be able to handle this matter on his own.

He said:

"Okay, I understand. You've been wronged in this matter. Now you can start preparing the contract renewal."

Shen Mengqing agreed and, not wanting to stay a second longer, left immediately.

She returned to her seat, resting her chin on her hand as she recalled Liang Jun's words.

She had no idea things would turn out this way. Could it be that the police had informed their company about Mr. Guo's situation, and the company had laid him off to protect its reputation? The promise to renew his contract was just a way to silence her and prevent her from exposing the matter.

But if that's the case, someone from their company should have contacted her. The fact that she did so so quietly makes it seem like someone secretly took care of everything.

Forget it, this isn't something a lowly employee like her could figure out.

A performance-based contract fell into her lap, and she decided to take advantage of it, focusing intently on drafting the contract.

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In the days that followed, Liang Jun assigned Shen Mengqing more and more tasks, and said that a new colleague would be coming soon, a recent graduate, and asked Shen Mengqing to mentor this new colleague.

Every time Shen Mengqing asked about the job transfer, Liang Jun would say that he would approve it as soon as he finished his current work.

It was as if she was being reminded that she had to do everything she was given properly.

Seeing that further delays were not an option, Shen Mengqing decided to schedule a meeting with the media department manager directly.

During this period, which was neither short nor long, Shen Mengqing did not see Yu Xin again. Her life was packed full, like a balloon that had been inflated to the point of bursting.

Yu Xin also deleted her from WeChat, and during the time they lost contact, it was as if he had vanished into thin air.

Sometimes, Shen Mengqing even doubted whether she had ever really known him.

Occasionally, when she thinks of Yu Xin, she will glance at their few remaining chat records, then exit with a sense of boredom.

After struggling with the decision several times, she still didn't delete the chat history.

Jiang Yu was incredibly curious about their relationship, and whenever they ate together in the cafeteria, she would subtly inquire about it.

However, Shen Mengqing couldn't answer many of the questions she asked, and she realized that she knew almost nothing about Yu Xin.

One day, she told Jiang Yu that the person who deleted her from her WeChat Moments was Yu Xin.

Jiang Yu was taken aback upon hearing this, and her hand holding the chopsticks loosened, causing the small piece of crispy pork she had just picked up to fall back down.

"No way, that person is him?" She swallowed and said, "I thought he was interested in you too, why would he delete you from his contacts?"

Yu Xin is certainly capable of deleting someone's contact information, but he's not the kind of person who would condescend to take a drunk woman home in the middle of the night.

"Who knows?" Shen Mengqing smirked. "Men's minds are truly unfathomable."

Jiang Yu echoed, "Especially the thoughts of such a handsome guy."

Having known each other for so many years, Jiang Yu didn't actually think Yu Xin was a good person to date, even though she had never seen him in a relationship.

She was afraid that Shen Mengqing, who had just emerged from a failed relationship, would be hurt again.

“If you’re really interested in dating, how about I introduce you to a few people?” Jiang Yu said.

Shen Mengqing smiled and said, "Are you trying to introduce me to our chairman's son again?"

"Hehe, no, no." Jiang Yu thought to himself that he had really shot himself in the foot. "Let me find another one while I take a good look at my contacts."

She opened her phone's friend list and went through them one by one. As she looked, her expression gradually became deflated.

None of them seem reliable.

Shen Mengqing pressed her phone and said, "It's okay, I don't want to rush into a relationship."

Jiang Yu: "Then why do you want to get close to Yu Xin?"

Shen Mengqing blinked, grinned mischievously, and said in a low voice, "I'm lusting after his body."

Jiang Yu choked for a moment, then shouted:

"Shen Mengqing! You've changed!"

"Didn't you tell me that if you don't want to get hurt and just want to enjoy the thrill, then go for it and find a handsome guy. It would be so great to wake up to a handsome face every day," Shen Mengqing reminded him. "These are your exact words."

Jiang Yu thought to herself:

Then why don't you go to anyone but the chairman's son?

She silently recited Amitabha Buddha's name a few times.

Shen Mengqing pursed her lips and said, "Sigh, but this seeded player is hopeless, we've lost contact with him."

Jiang Yu was relieved: "That's good... What a pity, what a pity."

...

That day, Shen Mengqing worked overtime until 10 p.m., and there were only a few people left in the office.

After quickly tidying up her things, she put the unfinished documents into a file folder, then put them in her bag, and clocked out.

The office building was empty late at night. The elevator arrived quickly. Shen Mengqing was wearing high heels, which were a bit too high, and she was so sleepy that she could hardly stand. So she simply leaned against the door and took a nap.

Her figure on the door was somewhat blurry, but her porcelain-white skin was still clearly visible. Her eyebrows and eyes were as dark as ink. A fitted shirt and a long pencil skirt outlined her graceful curves. When her eyes were slightly closed, she lost some of her usual cheerfulness and became somewhat serene.

With a ding, the elevator doors slowly opened.

She thought the elevator would be empty at this time, but to her surprise, there was someone standing inside.

Shen Mengqing stared in surprise at the person standing in the corner, frozen in place, forgetting to move.

Just as the elevator doors began to close, someone inside stretched out their arm to block the doors and asked, "Aren't you leaving?"

Shen Mengqing suddenly realized what was happening: "Let's go, let's go."

She never expected to run into Yu Xin again in this office building.

Shen Mengqing turned to look at Yu Xin, who was carrying a file folder again, still wearing a hoodie and jeans, exuding a youthful and flamboyant vibe.

Why does he always bring documents here? Is he here on business, or is he helping someone in the company?

Shen Mengqing wanted to ask him, but seeing his downcast eyes and tightly closed thin lips, she guessed that he wouldn't answer even if she asked.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

She hesitated for a moment, then chose an opening line that wouldn't go wrong.

Yu Xin looked at her and said in a light tone, "Yeah, long time no see."

His gaze remained indifferent, but lingered on her face a little longer than usual, like a gust of wind trying to blow away the fallen leaves on the ground to find something, but just as the leaves were about to be swept up, it quickly returned to calm.

Shen Mengqing wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the way he looked at her was a little different today.

A note from the author:

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Shen Mengqing: How did I unintentionally reveal that I'm single? I need an answer urgently!

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