Chapter 84 Chapter 84 What would happen if you liked me for a moment?

Qin Mian clenched his hands upon hearing this.

Yes.

She had a moment of falling in love with him, and it wasn't just a second.

But if she admitted it, would Si Tu let her go?

Since the two have come to this point, it would be better for both of them to separate cleanly.

"Is this question difficult to answer?" Si Tu stared at her during her silence and continued to ask, "Why don't you answer me?"

He desperately wanted to know an answer.

Qin Mian's clenched hands turned pale and bloodless. Finally, she loosened her hands, and her whitened fingers gradually returned to normal.

"I... haven't." She clearly heard herself say this.

Then, he heard a sneer from behind him.

It was the kind of self-deprecating sneer that made one feel that one was being too sentimental and having given one's sincerity to the wrong person.

For a moment, Qin Mian really wanted to change her words. Her heart ached, but she walked forward resolutely, gritted her teeth, opened the closed door, and walked out.

She was worried that if she stayed in his office for even a second longer, he would change his mind.

**

And it was basically a done deal that she was going to resign.

The Human Resources Department screened some resumes one after another, and then selected three candidates after preliminary interviews.

Qin Mian asked Liu Si how he planned to arrange the re-examination.

Through recent observations, Liu Si roughly guessed that the relationship between the two had changed. Now that there was even a candidate for secretary, he was basically certain.

He was reluctant to make a decision directly and said he would ask the president for his opinion.

Qin Mian agreed and waited for his news.

Alas, Liu Si sighed secretly, took the resume she handed over, turned around and walked inside.

He didn't know what exactly happened between the two of them, but looking at the current situation, he knew that something extremely unpleasant must have happened.

Qin Mian now doesn't even communicate directly with Si Tu about such matters, but goes through him as a middleman.

However, due to his job status, he couldn't ask too much.

When I entered the office, Si Tu was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with his back to the door, holding a cup of coffee and drinking it absent-mindedly.

Liu Si greeted him and told him about recruiting a new secretary.

"It's up to you to decide." Si Tu didn't care. He put one hand in his pocket and drank his coffee without interest.

Anyway, it won’t be Qin Mian, so it doesn’t matter which one it is.

As long as you have decent abilities, that's fine.

Liu Si would not pick someone with incompetence for him, so it was enough to leave it to him.

Seeing that he was not in a good mood, Liu Si didn't want to disturb him too much, so he replied "OK" and left.

He didn't dare to tell Si Tu too much.

**

As for Qin Mian, after some comparison, he has basically decided on the location to open the Artificial Intelligence Museum.

She had previously looked for several shopping malls and professional exhibition halls such as convention centers.

The mall has a large flow of people, but there are already some artificial intelligence products scattered here and there. Many of them are just for parents to experience while taking their children to the mall. They are too childish and do not meet the specifications required by the business she wants to open and Shen Muzhou's company.

Professional exhibition halls such as convention and exhibition centers are usually located in relatively remote places, where the flow of people cannot be guaranteed. They are usually provided to public welfare organizations or large enterprises for exhibitions, and rarely leased for several years unless some connections are used and backdoors are used.

After comprehensive consideration, Qin Mian finally chose a large store with exhibition facilities in a high-end shopping district that had opened two years earlier in the city's sub-center. Located close to the bustling city center, it guaranteed good foot traffic while offering affordable rent. Furthermore, the high-end shopping district's high style suited the location perfectly.

However, in order to maintain its high-end positioning, this business district has extremely high requirements for the companies that move in. Basically, they must be brands with a certain market influence and then go through layers of review.

The influence of Chen Muzhou's company's products is of course unquestionable, but Qin Mian's experience center is, after all, only based on their company and is completely independent. Therefore, when the mall reviews it, it will be treated as a start-up company.

While waiting for the review, Qin Mian was somewhat worried.

One day, she, Jiang Xin and Qi Xin talked about this in the group. Jiang Xin didn't care because Si Tu was there to support her and knew that he would be able to handle it for her in the end.

When Si Tu asked her to cooperate with Qin Mian on his behalf, he promised to provide her with all the necessary resources and funds.

So she comforted Qin Mian in the group chat, "It's okay, don't worry, you'll definitely make it. If all else fails, just go somewhere else. Nanzhou is so big."

Qi Xin was interested. [Where is this place you are talking about?]

Qin Mian sent her the specific location.

Qi Xin: [I know someone! He works at the Merchants Bank here, and he's in management.]

Qin Mian replied with an exclamation mark!

【Can you walk around? 】

[Yes!] Qi Xin readily agreed, [I'll tell him right now! He's the biggest brother in our village!]

The village Qi Xin was talking about was an urban village in Nanzhou.

Although her family lives in the village, they own two buildings for rent. Although they are both under her grandmother's name, she grew up with her grandmother.

So the village that Qi Xin mentioned is not an ordinary rural area, it is a rich village.

[Ah! Please!] Qin Mian's eyes lit up when he saw hope.

Thanks to Qin Mian's foresight, Qi Xin later contacted that big brother and was told that another car company and mobile phone company had also taken a fancy to this venue. If they had contacted him a step later and the contract was signed, it would have been too late.

When Qin Mian heard this, he really felt like God was helping him.

She was almost going to miss out on her favorite venue.

Later, we made an appointment to meet with that big brother, and a few of us talked at the investment promotion center, and the matter was basically settled.

"Thanks so much to you this time." Qin Mian thanked Qi Xin when he came out of the investment promotion center.

"Hey~" Qi Xin took her hand, "I'm also a small shareholder, right?"

The two met in this business district that day. Qin Mian had dinner here after looking at the venue and ran into Qi Xin by chance. When Qi Xin heard that she was here to look at the venue to open an experience center and was preparing to start her own business, she immediately asked her actively if she could also invest in it.

She was thinking that she could be given about 10%, so she agreed.

Qin Mian now feels that this decision couldn't be more correct.

The venue was finalized on her side, and Liu Si also helped Si Tu select a new secretary to replace her.

Qin Mian began to hand over his work to the new secretary, and hurried to get the relevant documents, signed with the business district, and finally settled the matter.

She, Qi Xin, and Jiang Xin pooled together about one million yuan as start-up capital for their business.

By early November, Qin Mian had basically handed over her secretarial work to a new secretary, and she had also begun preparing for the opening of her new company.

During this time, she also took the time to find a new place to live for herself.

It’s not far from this business district, in a single apartment just outside the district.

She originally wanted to live in the business district, close to the venue, but this business district is positioned as high-end, so the apartment is also a high-end apartment. Although she is single, the price is not cheap, costing more than 7,000, nearly 8,000 per month.

She has just started her business and needs money to do everything. Her funds are very limited, so she still needs to control costs in all aspects.

So after considering all factors, I finally rented an apartment a little further away, which costs more than 5,000 or almost 6,000 yuan a month.

After finishing one thing after another, Qin Mian looked through the bills and realized what it meant to spend money like water.

The money she spent on renting the house was considered small.

She suddenly remembered that Si Tu gave her the house and yacht.

She raised her head and looked around the house, and she was a little hesitant.

For example, at this moment, she would also think that if she accepted it, perhaps she would not have to bear so much pressure like now.

But on second thought, if she completely relied on him and their relationship was at a stalemate like it was now, she would feel so insecure.

It seems that people are most confident when they rely on themselves.

In comparison, she really could not accept the kind of life where her fate depended on others.

So when she thought about it this way, she felt relieved.

She smiled and returned her gaze to the bill.

After completing the handover of the secretarial work, she asked her aunt to clean the newly rented house, and then made an appointment with a moving company to prepare to move in.

That day, when she was packing clothes and sorting out jewelry in the cloakroom, she saw Si Tu's broken watch on the center island.

She actually wanted to help him fix it, as if she had never appeared in his life.

She didn't know why, but when she learned that repairing the watch might cost 600,000 or 700,000 yuan, she felt that even if she had the money, she would not be willing to pay him to repair it.

But now that we are going to separate, I am willing to let it go.

only……

She really doesn't have that much money.

When she later pooled money with two friends to start a company, she sorted out all her savings, which totaled only about 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, and now she has invested all of it in the new company.

So even if she is willing to give up now, she really can't do anything about it.

Oh, forget it.

She picked it up and put it down again.

Let this rift remain there, just like the relationship between her and Si Tu, it will probably never be repaired.

She doesn't plan to repair it either.

Not all relationships have to have a harmonious and perfect ending.

Si Tu was not at home on the day she moved.

He went out to socialize.

She had chosen this day on purpose, not wanting anything awkward between them.

Or after she moved out, that night, she was lying in bed when she suddenly received a call from Si Tu.

It was already late at night, around eleven o'clock.

He called in the middle of the night. Qin Mian was worried that something might have happened to him. After hesitating for a while, he finally answered the call.

Si Tu returned home in the middle of the night and found the house empty. Especially when he walked into the cloakroom and planned to take pajamas to take a shower, he saw that half of the clothes hanging were gone. He was completely devastated.

Over the past few days, he has been struggling and hesitating, feeling very uncomfortable.

He hated Qin Mian for lying to him about giving birth to his child, but he also felt that it was her right. The two voices kept fighting in his mind. What if Qin Mian just coaxed him?

But she didn't.

She just left and didn't want him anymore.

He made the call, leaned against the wall, his face flushed with drunkenness, and loosened his tie decadently.

The moment he heard Qin Mian's voice, he felt aggrieved and angry, as if he was losing his temper, and as if he was complaining to her.

"Have you never thought about being with me from the very beginning?!"

Otherwise, when they were together, Qin Mian would not have emphasized not to let other colleagues know. Perhaps from that time on, she had made up her mind to leave Zhu Yinglong after the verdict came out.

So after Zhu Yinglong's verdict came out, she really submitted her resignation application to him immediately.

He had wanted to ask her this question for a long time.

But he knew it at the time, but he didn't want to hear her say it in person, so he held back the words when they came to his lips.

But now that it has come to this, it makes no difference whether I ask or not.

He was just venting his emotions.

After all, he had been suppressed for long enough.

Qin Mian actually knew that he knew what her answer was, so he listened to his accusation calmly.

"We've been together for a while, Qin Mian, don't you like me at all?" He asked this question again, as if it was a knot in his heart.

Qin Mian held the phone tightly in his hand and remained silent, but his heart was beating non-stop.

It seemed that she was unable to remain calm and not stir up any waves in his heart.

"Is it not okay to like me a little?!" Si Tu asked loudly, becoming increasingly excited. He pulled off his tie and threw it fiercely on the transparent glass island. "What will happen if you like me a little?!"

Suddenly seeing the broken watch in the cabinet, Si Tu remembered that Qin Mian had pushed him to the eldest daughter of the Zhao family. He was so angry and sad that tears came out of his eyes.

"Qin Mian, can't you like me a little more?" He lay on the center island, tears dripping down, dripping onto the glass surface of the center island, and the water ripples exploded, as if they happened to overlap with the cracks on the dial, "Even a little bit!"

He was out of control tonight. It was the first time Qin Mian heard him chattering and asking her almost the same questions over and over again, and he could hear the difference in his voice.

"You've drunk too much." Qin Mian frowned, a little worried about his condition.

Her reaction would only make Si Tu feel that she was avoiding his topic again.

If the answer behind her is not what he wants, she will avoid it.

This time, Si Tu's heart was completely chilled.

"Qin Mian." He knocked his head against the glass countertop, and another tear fell. "You make me feel like a failure."

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The author has something to say: Secretary Qin is still heartbroken.

In reality, if Mr. Si no longer takes the initiative, the two of them will really become strangers to each other.