"yes."

Ye Shanshan quickly agreed.

Despite this minor hiccup, the candlelight dinner was still quite enjoyable, as both parties benefited.

However, after dinner, Xie Qingyan declined Xu Shi's invitation to take her home and stayed alone in the restaurant, playing with the wine glass in her hand with a rather wistful air.

"Chairman Xie, what brings you here?"

Seeing this, Ye Shanshan asked curiously, "Are you worried that Xu Shi will make a bad promise? Then we..."

No, not exactly.

Xie Qingyan waved his hand, slightly drunk, "Shanshan, do you know what I was actually thinking when I asked him for a reason just now?"

"……have no idea."

Little Curly wasn't stupid; he wouldn't dare to presume to know what his superiors meant at this moment.

"I really wanted Xu Shi to say something nice, even just a compliment like 'young, promising, and charming'?"

Xie Qingyan felt a little disappointed. "Although it would be nice if he could offer something more... sometimes I find it quite meaningless to always have such formal exchanges of interests."

What she said was true; in fact, those preconditions were enough for her to agree to Xu Shi's request, and Xu Shi wasn't the only one who wanted to strengthen their relationship.

"oh."

Ye Shanshan was stunned for a moment, thinking to herself, "This is not like you at all... Do you really care whether others say nice things to you or not?"

But then she thought about how the person in question was surnamed Xu, and she seemed to understand. In any case, she could tell that her chairman's attitude towards Xu Shi was increasingly developing in the direction of "not just a simple cooperative relationship".

If this continues, I'm afraid we might actually have to fulfill the marriage agreement, right? And not just any marriage of convenience... ugh.

She already pictured the two of them holding hands, respectful to each other, and then she, the poor, helpless secretary, could only be bullied by Xu Shi, and Xie Qingyan might not even care afterward...

No way, that's too scary!

Unfortunately, she couldn't refuse such a thing unless she ran away with the bucket, so she could only try to get rid of this terrible scene as soon as possible.

Besides, being bullied by Xu Shi doesn't seem like such a big deal? She's already experienced the worst, and her jaw still aches just thinking about it... With Chairman Xie around, Xu Shi will surely restrain himself a bit, right?

"The key point is that I'm a little angry."

Curly-haired boy's rambling thoughts were quickly interrupted by Xie Qingyan's words, "Xu Shi, my nominal fiancé, asked me to go out of my way to save another woman?"

She didn't treat Xia Ke'an like a child at all. What child is over forty?

But then again, if it were just an ordinary woman in her early forties, she wouldn't have thought much of it, but the girl looked like a little girl, which made Xie Qingyan very unhappy.

"This... this should be a normal transaction, right? Don't you and Xu Shi often do this, Chairman Xie...?"

What else could Ye Shanshan say? "Are you already jealous of him?" Her strange, deliberate tone spoke volumes.

My God, this world is not normal...

"Ah, I hope so."

Xie Qingyan sneered, then changed the subject, "By the way, it seems you approved the admission of this Miss Xia to the hospital?"

"ah……"

Ye Shanshan nodded blankly. It was indeed her... Xie Qingyan's policy at the time was that she should handle all matters related to Xu Shi. She certainly had that much authority.

"Okay, I'll deduct a year's salary from your paycheck."

“”

The world where only Curly Hair gets hurt has been achieved.

It must be said that in some ways, Xu Shi and Xie Qingyan always manage to maintain a high degree of consistency.

Of course, a month and a year... it can only be said that the most poisonous thing is a woman's heart.

We're not even officially married yet! And you're already bullying me!

...

The arrangements for Xia Ke'an's treatment should naturally be made known to the person involved.

So after confirming the details, Xu Shi naturally found Xia Wuyou and told her about it.

"Huh? Really..."

Xia Wuyou was somewhat surprised to hear this. In fact, she had been extremely busy lately and rarely had time to go to the hospital. If it was just a phone call, her aunt would always only report good news and not bad news, so she really didn't know about it.

"Of course it's true."

Xu Shi smiled and said, "You've been very busy lately? How about I give you a short break and we go see her together?"

Anyway, he never intended to hide it from Xia Wuyou, and now that he had told her, he figured her mind wouldn't be on work anymore, so not letting her stay with him wouldn't be a good idea.

"...Okay, sure."

Xia Wuyou, of course, would not refuse, and went to District Sixteen with him, feeling both apprehensive and expectant.

But mostly she was happy; to be honest, Xia Ke'an's gradual recovery gave her a lot of motivation.

In particular, Xu Shi never used her aunt to keep her hanging on, but genuinely took great care in treating her, and she witnessed Xia Ke'an's gradual recovery.

What she initially thought was a stroke of luck—that he was "relatively trustworthy"—is now seen as a shining point in her eyes.

"You need to get some rest too. What's wrong with you lately? You've got dark circles under your eyes!"

Noticing that Xia Wuyou was not in good condition, Xu Shi simply drove the car himself, letting her enjoy the treatment of "the chairman as the driver".

"A lot of things from the field operations department have fallen on my shoulders... I'm handling a lot of Supervisor Du's work now."

Xia Wuyou's reply was soft, clearly the kind of tone one would use when speaking to someone close to them.

However, she was not just busy for no reason. Du Wei's retirement was a foregone conclusion, and training a successor was one of her top priorities.

And this basically means that Xia Wuyou was chosen as the new supervisor... To be honest, this was not only Xu Shi's idea, but Du Wei himself also valued this group leader highly and had previously praised him without reservation.

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