A partner

It was three days later that I saw Bing Jie again.

The night before, Qi Jixin sent him a message, asking him to go back to her house that night so they could meet in the evening. Bing Jie waited until the early morning but she didn't show up, so he went to bed first. Although Qi Jixin came in very quietly, when she pushed open the bedroom door, Bing Jie still turned on the bedside lamp first.

"Why are you back so late?" He stood up and waved to Qi Jixin.

"Before leaving, the secretary insisted on giving us a lesson. After a meal, we were delayed in returning. It was already past ten o'clock. I didn't want to disturb your rest, so I didn't send you a message."

Qi Jixin sat by the bed and leaned in to give him a cold hug. Noticing Bing Jie shivering from the cold, she laughed out loud: "The wind in late autumn is so cold it chills me to the bone."

Bing Jie stroked her back and immediately realized that she had deliberately come back wearing the leather jacket, so he hugged her tightly without complaint. Now it was Qi Jixin who was panicked. She was worried that she would catch a cold, so she struggled out of his arms.

He stared at Qi Jixin tenderly, and Qi Jixin looked back at him, waiting for Bing Jie to say something. After a moment, he lowered his head and smiled faintly, then took the initiative to move to the other side of the bed and patted the bed beside him: "Sleep."

Qi Jixin was indeed sleepy, but she was forcing herself to stay awake. In fact, she was so sleepy that her eyes were wide open, so she fell asleep. As for the excuse for coming back late after worrying all the way, she decided to think about it slowly tomorrow.

She originally thought that Bing Jie would go to work when she woke up the next day, but she didn't expect that even if she slept until noon, she would still see him when she opened her eyes. Bing Jie asked her softly if she wanted to eat, and if so, he would contact her aunt to make it for her.

They still had to eat, and this was a good opportunity to get Bing Jie away. Qi Jixin directly suggested having lunch and ordered several dishes at random. At the end, he did not forget to hint to Bing Jie.

"It's not nice to have Auntie bring you food all day. You can go back and get it yourself. I need to go back to sleep anyway, so I don't need you to accompany me."

Faced with the almost explicit "hint", Bing Jie nodded neatly, then asked with a hint of confusion: "Is it my illusion, or are you really avoiding me?"

Qi Jixin burst out laughing, then gathered herself and tried to defend herself: "No way, I even prayed for us in the Wishing Forest over there, how can you say I'm avoiding you?"

Speaking of this, it really touched Bing Jie's most sensitive heart in recent days. She was praying for her family there, which made him keep wondering whether he was her family.

On the one hand, she was optimistic that she would be there, but on the other hand, she was ruthless in trying to sabotage him, thinking that he was just a boyfriend who had just become her official boyfriend, so how could he be considered a family member?

Bing Jie was a little stunned when he heard her say that. After he came to his senses, he asked seriously, "Are you saying that I am your family member?"

"If you're not my family, who is?" Her mind was still half-restarted. She asked the question as if it was natural, but her mind sensed something was wrong. She quickly pretended to be ashamed and angry, and said, "To tell you the truth, I've never had a boyfriend. Besides, I don't have many relatives and friends, so in my opinion, Sister Zhuo, Yan Jia, and you are all my family."

Bing Jie's expression brightened and dimmed, and finally he just said "hmm" calmly as usual, telling her to continue sleeping, and he got up and left. Qi Jixin's drowsy mind didn't give her much time to think, and she fell asleep again not long after lying in bed.

Xuan Jiazhuo, Yan Jia, and me… Bing Jie snorted coldly in the elevator, mocking himself. After all, his status was still not as high as Yan Jia's. But he didn't know that Qi Jixin put him last, just to cover up her mistake.

Not long after Bing Jie left, Sister Zhuo came out of the guest bedroom and went into the master bedroom, waking Qi Jixin up. She yawned continuously, but with the important task of weaving a lie ahead, she didn't dare to stay in bed.

After washing up, she was completely awake. When she left the living room, she saw Sister Zhuo scratching her head. Seeing her come out, Sister Zhuo sighed and complained, "I told you I shouldn't have come here last night. I'm so worried this early in the morning. Mr. Qi, give me more money!"

As she spoke, she blew on the coffee in her hand. Qi Jixin sat down next to Sister Zhuo with a smile on her face, picked up the small tea tray, handed her the sugar cube on it, and said in a rather servile manner: "Sister Zhuo, now only you can save my life."

"You can't even tell me why you rented the house, and you expect me to make up a lie for you?" Sister Zhuo looked at Qi Jixin with a difficult attitude. She lowered her head and leaned on Sister Zhuo's shoulder, saying in a rather lamenting tone, "At the very least, we two have to coordinate our statements. Just play along with me."

After much discussion, the two finally decided on a story of no evidence. Anyway, as long as the two of them insisted on their crime, Bing Jie probably wouldn't worry about it.

It was really hard to carry seven or eight dishes, so Bing Jie simply asked his aunt to accompany him to Qi Jixin's house today. Before getting in the car, he also reminded his aunt not to say anything she shouldn't say. The aunt knew the rules, otherwise, she wouldn't have worked in his house for nearly ten years, so she naturally kept her mouth shut.

But seeing an old acquaintance after four years still made the aunt feel a little unnatural. She helped to put the food from the lunch box into bowls and plates. After she was done, she nodded to Qi Jixin who was sitting by the sofa and was about to leave.

"Thank you so much for keeping Auntie busy." Qi Jixin came over and said with a smile. Auntie pursed her lips and nodded. Bing Jie was worried that he would reveal any flaws, so he immediately came over and hugged Qi Jixin, winking at Auntie, "Just when you've finished washing up, let's eat while it's hot."

Without Bing Jie's reminder, Sister Zhuo naturally had to smooth things over for him. She went to the dining table first, sighed that the meal looked really good, and went to get the bowls and chopsticks. Qi Jixin watched her aunt leave, and then sighed, "I'm hungry, hungry, come and eat!"

Although it is best not to talk while eating or sleeping, few people can do that nowadays. There is bound to be small talk at the dinner table, and Bing Jie naturally asked her where she had been playing these past two days.

He couldn't mention any of the more famous places. Qi Jixin was worried that Bing Jie would investigate him, so he said something he had already prepared.

"Aren't Sister Zhuo and I driving back along the way? We saw a small courtyard in the mountains on the side of the road, so we stayed there for two days."

Xuan Jiazhuo picked up the dishes and silently thought about the right time to enter the scene. When Bing Jie asked her about it in detail, she would explain it later. This was more natural.

"Oh, it's good."

Unexpectedly, Bing Jie just nodded and said so. Xuan Jiazhuo glanced at Qi Jixin, wondering whether she should say her lines... Qi Jixin closed her eyes and shook her head, which was considered her answer.

"When are you going to work today?" Qi Jixin immediately changed the subject, hoping that Bing Jie would just say a time and then go out to work, giving her and Sister Zhuo a chance to catch their breath.

After all, compared to asking in detail, Qi Jixin still felt that not asking anything was more terrifying. If he didn't ask, did it mean that he knew everything?

Qi Jixin thought, maybe not. In other words, she hoped not.

"Actually, I'm not as busy as you think. Everything at the company is running normally. I just made a comeback and I only have one TV series to shoot right now. I don't have any other collaborations to do."

Not to mention whether he could deceive Qi Jixin, Xuan Jiazhuo on the side was trying his best to sabotage him in his heart. How could he not know that the so-called "no cooperation to be busy" actually meant that all invitations to him were decisively rejected?

She had originally thought Bing Jie was a flawless person. At least before she started working with him, he was quite serious. But now, his approach has become more casual. She had to help him hide many things, such as the fact that he had actually rejected everyone's cooperation invitation...

In other words, she has Qi Jixin's help to cover up, and if she is not careful, Qi Jixin will catch her.

Xuan Jiazhuo actually didn't realize that it was because Bing Jie had joined forces with her that he dared to be so incomplete.

At this moment, Xuan Jiazhuo just wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Bing Jie. If it really didn't work out, he could just give himself an extra salary. He couldn't let himself work in vain, right?

"Ah~, that's good--" Before Qi Jixin could finish his mixed feelings, Bing Jie's phone rang. Qi Jixin only glanced at a message but couldn't see the content clearly.

Bing Jie said calmly, "It seems I really have something to do this afternoon. A partner wants to see me, and I have to go have a meeting with him."

Qi Jixin wouldn't ask any more questions, and Bing Jie naturally wouldn't tell her that the person who sent the message was actually Yan Jia.

Having just returned to China, he naturally didn't know as much as Bing Jie did. It was Bing Jie who chose the place where the two of them would meet and then told Yan Jia about it. It was a Western restaurant. The first floor was open for business, and the second floor was for VIPs. Few people knew that the restaurant actually had a third floor.

That is where the boss usually meets with his friends. The restaurant owner is Meng Jingxuan, and the friend he occasionally meets is Bing Jie.

The third floor is a full three or four hundred square meters, but rather than being a restaurant, the decoration here is more like a combination of the living room and dining room in a mansion. There are three or four rows of wine cabinets with constant temperature and humidity all year round in the hall, which are filled with various wines, and each bottle is Meng Jingxuan's collection.

Bing Jie informed Yan Jia in advance that there was an elevator directly to the third floor at the back door of the western restaurant, and asked him to go in and wait for him. When he drove there, Yan Jia had indeed been waiting for him for a while.

"Why don't you open a bottle of wine and drink it while waiting?" Bing Jie ran to the display cabinet on the left as soon as he entered the door.

Yan Jia turned around and looked at him while sitting on the sofa by the window. He saw him take out two bottles of red wine with ease, put one bottle on the cabinet at the door, and walked towards him with the other bottle.

"It's never nice to touch other people's things. I can't be so rude just as I'm visiting you."

Bing Jie raised an eyebrow, took the round-bellied goblet handed over by the waiter, placed it in front of the two people, opened the red wine with a "pop", and slowly poured a glass for each of them. Then he said: "This is not my place, I'm just a friend."

After realizing that he had hurt Bing Jie, Yan Jia finally had a smile on his face, but it was not because of guilt. He would not feel guilty for seriously injuring Bing Jie.

"Do you have something to discuss with me?" Bing Jie put down the bottle and asked seriously. Yan Jia didn't bother to beat around the bush and simply nodded in agreement. Not only did he acknowledge it, he also asked him, "Don't you have anything you want to ask me?"

Bing Jie picked up the red wine and drank it all in one gulp. His eyes were quite complicated. He pondered for a moment before saying, "Of course."