Chapter 52

Xia Zhongqin's words surprised Lian Yijian, who then asked, "Did Liu Qingqing deliberately target you?"

Xia Zhongqin then listed all the outrageous things Liu Qingqing had done to her since she came to Beijing Smart Internet Company, and concluded, "Brother Yi Jian, she deliberately targeted me, and I've already fought back against many of them. I'm a person who doesn't offend others unless they offend me, but if they do, I'll definitely offend them. Don't worry, I haven't suffered any losses. She probably knows I'm not someone to be trifled with, and she's been much more restrained now."

"It seems that our Zhong Qin is not someone who can be easily bullied. This will reassure your Mr. Lian. People should have bottom lines, do things with principles, and be kind but also have a sharp edge." Lian Yijian said with approval, "Okay, I will be careful in public."

While the two were talking, Lian Yijian had already driven the car to the road outside Loumen Xiatang Hutong.

"Thank you, Brother Lian...Yi Jian." After saying that, Xia Zhongqin opened the car door and got out.

Lian Yijian also got out of the car. He opened the back door, took Xia Zhongqin's computer bag in his hand, and then slung it over his left shoulder. "Zhongqin, let's go. I'll take you downstairs."

Xia Zhongqin did not respond, but just led the way silently.

It took less than two minutes to walk from the entrance of the alley to the downstairs of the house where Xia Zhongqin rented, and neither of them spoke along the way.

When they got downstairs, Lian Yijian handed the computer bag to Xia Zhongqin, "Zhongqin, go up quickly and have a good rest tonight."

Xia Zhongqin took the computer bag from Lian Yijian, and when she looked up, she found that Lian Yijian was looking at her with a smile on his face.

In Xia Zhongqin's impression, Lian Yijian had almost never smiled before.

His gaze was too intense, and Xia Zhongqin quickly looked away. She replied, "Goodbye, Brother Yi Jian," and hurried upstairs with her computer bag.

Lian Yijian waited until Xia Zhongqin's back disappeared at the stairs before getting into the car and leaving.

When she returned to the room, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. It was not too early but not too late either. After taking a shower, Xia Zhongqin did not read the books she borrowed from the Sucheng Library as usual. She lay directly on the bed.

The scenes that happened tonight flashed before her eyes like a movie. For the first time in her life, she felt what it felt like to be cared for and protected by the opposite sex. The key point was that this person was a big shot in the delivery industry - Lian Yijian, and she had a very good impression of him.

The more Xia Zhongqin thought about it, the more excited he became. He even suffered from insomnia for the second time in his life, except for the college entrance examination.

When Lian Yijian returned to the rental apartment on the fifth floor of Youlin New Village, it was around 10:10 in the evening. The lights in the living room and bedroom were on, and Xia Kaiqun had already returned from the Banbian Lamb BBQ Restaurant on Shilu.

When Lian Yi Jin pushed open the bedroom door, Xia Kaiqun, who had already taken a shower, was busy typing code at the computer desk, and Lian Yijian's computer bag was placed on his bed by Xia Kaiqun.

Lian Yijian opened the camp bed in his hand and placed it next to his bed.

He had just put the cot away when Xia Kaiqun stopped what he was doing, turned around, looked at him, and said with a sly smile, "Yi Jian, how are you going to thank me? If I hadn't helped you and the girl break this window paper, who knows how long you two would have continued to be ambiguous before you realized your feelings for each other."

This time, Lian Yijian was not too lazy to pay attention to Xia Kaiqun as usual. He took out his mobile phone from his shirt pocket and sat down on the newly placed camp bed.

Lian Yijian directly transferred 500 yuan to Xia Kaiqun via Alipay, noting it as dinner money. He then said, "I'm sleeping on the camp bed tonight. Uncle Xia, before our relationship becomes stable, please keep your big mouth shut and don't gossip about Zhong Qin and me in front of my mom, sister, or my colleagues at work, or we'll end our friendship."

In the past, every time Xia Kaiqun came to Suzhou to support a project, he mentioned to Lian Yijian that he wanted to sleep on the bed before meeting him. Every time, he was met with Lian Yijian's contemptuous look and a simple and rude "get out".

So when Xia Kaiqun heard that Lian Yijian had taken the initiative to sleep on a camp bed tonight, he was startled and jumped up from his chair. He casually joked, "Sure enough, sister Zhong Qin is the best."

"Don't worry, Yi Jian. It's rare that a long-standing iron tree like you is finally about to bloom. As an old friend, I am willing to escort your love with Sister Zhong Qin. Yi Jian, please believe my sharp eyes as a person who has experienced it. Your love with Sister Zhong Qin will definitely take root."

As soon as Xia Kaiqun finished speaking, Lian Yijian got up and left the bedroom to wash up.

Seeing that Lian Yijian ignored him this time and was still as aloof as before, Xia Kaiqun muttered to himself: "Humph, little guy, what's the point of being so aloof? The person who has you under control has finally appeared."

When Lian Yijian finished washing up and entered the bedroom, Xia Kaiqun was already lying on his bed, browsing his phone, and had given him the computer desk.

In the past, Lian Yijian would work overtime as long as it was no later than 1 a.m. after returning from the project team. He mainly dealt with bidding technical solutions, integrated business solutions for regional large projects, project emergencies that could not be handled by the regional implementation supervisors of each project delivery group, difficulties in the deployment of the information and communication technology environment, and risks of regional projects under construction.

Tonight is no exception.

The Guofa project will be notified by Party A's project manager Yan Pingping. Ding Jintao called him on the way from Tongzhou to Liangxi at noon today.

Lian Yijian is already preparing to come up with a rectification plan tonight, and will go to Guofa in person tomorrow morning to communicate with Yan Pingping face to face about the current problems with the Guofa project. After all, this project is a key high-quality state-owned client in southern Jiangsu District.

After the completion of the second phase of the project, there are three more phases. The contract amounts of the first two phases are both 600,000. The functions required by the customer are simple, the project delivery coefficient is low, the project delivery cycle is short, and the customer is very quick to pay. The third phase is currently in the intention communication stage.

It was already twelve o'clock in the morning when Lian Yijian finished writing the rectification plan for the Guofa project. The cry of someone sleeping in the bed filled the whole room.

Lian Yijian turned off the light in the room and lay down on the camp bed.

These days he has been busy with the Zhongtian Interconnection Project in Tongzhou. He has been present throughout the entire process, from the preparation of technical proposals before bidding, to the explanation of proposals during bidding and customer visits after winning the bid. There have also been emergencies on other projects that the project managers and regional implementation supervisors could not resolve. His entire body has been overdrawn to the limit. Normally, as soon as he hits the bed, he would have sex in just a short while.

But after lying on the camp bed for a while, Lian Yijian's brain was surprisingly clear. The word "insomnia" appeared for the first time in his life dictionary. If someone snored loudly while sleeping on the bed, and someone had lived in his room in Su City before, he would fall into a deep sleep as soon as he touched the bed.

If it was because the camp bed was too hard and too narrow, then he didn't know how many times he had slept soundly on the camp bed placed in the Suzhou Metro Project Team while working overtime all night on the Suzhou Rail project, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

A figure suddenly flashed in his mind. Yes, it was her. Even after more than a year, Lian Yijian still remembered the interview scene very clearly.

As the delivery director of Southern Jiangsu District, Lian Yijian has interviewed many people who have applied for different job roles in Southern Jiangsu District (implementation supervisor, customer development supervisor, project manager, implementation consultant, operation and maintenance supervisor, operation and maintenance consultant). Many of them have been in Southern Jiangsu District for three years. Among the interviewees, Xia Zhongqin is one of them who left a deep impression.

It was near the end of the year when Xia Zhongqin came for the interview. At that time, the company had taken on many manufacturing and state-owned projects, and there was an urgent need for project managers. The company posted job recruitment information on both BOSS Direct and 51job.

During that period, the company's human resources manager Liu Qingqing would send him screened resumes every day. After receiving the resumes, he screened them again, and only a few met his requirements. Among those who were qualified by his screening and passed the interview, only a few finally received employment notices and came to work in the company.

Xia Zhongqin was recommended by Guan Huijun, a channel manager in Southern Jiangsu District. The day he received the referral resume was Friday. He was busy with the launch of the Wuxi Rural Commercial Bank project in Liangxi District, and then he took time out on Sunday evening to return to Suzhou.

On the morning of the interview on Monday, he was waiting in the conference room early. The interview was scheduled at 10 a.m., and she arrived ten minutes early. It was Xu Mengran from the sales department who brought her to the conference room.

As a man with a lot of experience in judging people, when he saw her at first sight, he didn't think she was particularly stunning, but just looked very comfortable. She was about 1.65 meters tall, with fair skin, wearing a long bright red down jacket. It was hard to tell whether she was fat or thin, and she had a pair of bright big eyes that loved to smile.

Just like in previous interviews, he took his resume and prepared to start the interview. However, the resume Liu Qingqing printed out for him was incomplete. At this moment, she noticed something was wrong and handed him a complete resume, thus avoiding his embarrassment.

When Guan Huijun passed her resume to the HR department and the HR department forwarded it to him, he read her resume carefully.

She had just graduated from school, had not been working for many years, and did not have much project experience. According to the working years required in the recruitment, the PM needed to be recruited had 3-5 years of working years. Unfortunately, her resume was too beautiful, her interview state was also very good, and the conversation process was also OK.

After the interview, although I didn't tell her the results in person and just asked her to go back and wait for news, I had already made up my mind about her, and the subsequent onboarding process was a smooth process.

When Liu Qingqing asked him about his starting date, he asked for it before the New Year. It was not until a day later that Liu Qingqing came to tell him that she could not come before the New Year and would come to work after the New Year. He agreed without saying anything.

From the first contact with Xia Zhongqin during the interview to every subsequent work contact, these fragments appeared in Lian Yijian's mind one by one. He did not fall asleep until dawn.

After a sleepless night, Xia Zhongqin got out of bed at six in the morning without waiting for the alarm clock to ring. After washing up, she sat in front of the dressing table to apply skin care products. The dark circles under her eyes were very obvious. She applied a thick layer of foundation around her eye circles but it still couldn't completely cover them.