To ease the atmosphere, Xia Zhichu quickly spoke up, "By the way, Mr. Lei helped me a lot during the days you were away on business. Let's find a chance to treat him to a meal."

Si Mochen nodded, "Okay, you arrange the time, I'll book the restaurant."

Xia Zhichu said okay, and then there was another long silence.

This feeling really challenges a person's endurance.

Xia Zhichu didn't understand. She used to play and fight with Si Mochen without any fear, but now that they got married and lived together, why did he become so restrained?

Sure enough, it is easier to maintain a friendship than to be treated as a lover.

"that……"

Xia Zhichu was feeling very uncomfortable and wanted to say something to break the atmosphere, but Si Mochen spoke first, "I heard that you ran into Shen Liang in the hospital during those few days you were in the hospital?"

This was what Lei Yanchao told him.

Although Si Mochen didn't take Shen Liang seriously, he still didn't like Xia Zhichu to have anything to do with this person anymore.

When talking about Shen Liang, Xia Zhichu gritted his teeth in hatred, and his tone became several degrees colder. "Didn't he get beaten up and be hospitalized? I don't know which hospital he is in. If I knew, I would have asked Mr. Lei to take me to another hospital."

Even without Si Mochen telling her, Xia Zhichu didn't want to have anything to do with Shen Liang anymore.

"Oh, by the way, your father was also in the hospital."

I had originally planned to tell Si Mochen about this when he came back, but I had been busy with Liu Jiajia's affairs recently and had forgotten about it.

If Si Mochen hadn't mentioned Shen Liang, Xia Zhichu didn't know when he would remember her.

"My father? What does he want from you?"

Hearing this, Si Mochen's face changed slightly. He acted cautiously and had been deliberately avoiding Xia Zhichu recently. How did his father know about Xia Zhichu's existence?

Then Xia Zhichu said, "He said he happened to be passing by here, so he came in to take a look, then sat for a while and left."

Si Mochen's face became more and more tense. It seemed that he had inadvertently exposed Xia Zhichu.

However, the old man did not send anyone to cause trouble for Xia Zhichu. It seems that his father has not yet told this matter.

Si Mochen suddenly remembered that his father had called him two days ago.

I'm afraid it's because of Xia Zhichu.

"But your father looks quite like you, dressed in a suit and tie, and speaks little, but his conversation is very elegant. You can tell at first glance that he is a very cultured man!" Unlike her father, who only knew how to eat, drink, gamble and have sex every day, and had squandered all the family savings. She took the betrothal gift from her ex-husband, saying it was for her brother's tuition, but Xia Zhichu knew that she was probably using it all to pay off gambling debts.

But it doesn't matter. The 200,000 yuan betrothal gift can be regarded as selling her daughter. It has nothing to do with her what the family will be like in the future.

Talking about Si Guangxu, Si Mochen's face turned a little ugly, and even his voice became a little colder. "If he comes to see you in the future, tell me the first time."

This time it might just be a test, but next time, maybe we won’t be so lucky.

Si Guangxu is indeed different from his family, but he has been working in the business world for many years and has developed the cunning and shrewdness that is unique to businessmen. In addition, he obeys everything arranged by his grandfather, and with Chen Qin suppressing him, he cannot guarantee that he will not reveal Xia Zhichu's existence.

Therefore, he must meet Si Guangxu before his grandfather knows.

Seeing the man so serious, Xia Zhichu asked in confusion, "Why? Isn't that your father? An ugly daughter-in-law will have to meet her parents-in-law sooner or later. Besides, your father is not a jackal, tiger or leopard, he is not that scary."

Seeing that she didn't agree, Si Mochen turned serious, "People's hearts are unpredictable. Even if it's me, you shouldn't trust me 100%!"

Since they met, Xia Zhichu had never seen Si Mochen like this.

This made her feel very strange. Why was Si Mochen so nervous when talking about his father?

Could it be that Si Mochen doesn't get along with his family?

Or, is there some unspeakable secret?

Xia Zhichu was about to ask when she heard the man say, "It's just like in the workplace. Be careful about everything. Not all colleagues can become friends."

After this frame-up, Si Mochen could more or less see the shortcomings of Xia Zhichu as a rookie in the workplace.

Trusting others too easily.

To put it nicely, she is kind; to put it bluntly, she is stupid.

Xia Zhichu pursed his lips and said, "I know!"

The two chatted about the design draft again. In the end, Xia Zhichu felt sleepy and fell asleep on the sofa with his head tilted.

Si Mochen sighed helplessly, carried her to the bed, covered her with the quilt, and went to the study with his phone in hand.

The next day.

The consequence of staying up late was that Xia Zhichu got up late again.

The key point is that this time she slept until 8:20 in the morning. Even if she packed up quickly, she would not be able to make it to work in time.

Xia Zhichu sat on the bed with a messy head of hair and said to Si Mochen, "Didn't my alarm clock ring?"

"I turned it off."

Si Mochen had already packed up and said lightly after coming out of the bathroom.

It was not until this moment that Xia Zhichu realized a problem.

She...actually slept in Si Mochen's bed.

No wonder the bed smells different!

But wasn't she sitting on the sofa chatting with Si Mochen last night? How did she climb onto the bed for no reason?

Realizing something, she subconsciously pulled back the quilt to check her clothes.

Fortunately, my clothes were intact.

Si Mochen took in her series of movements and expressions and said helplessly, "You fell asleep last night, and I carried you to bed."

When Xia Zhichu heard this, his head started buzzing, and then his cheeks flushed and his ears turned red.

"So we...slept in the same bed last night?"

"I sleep in the study." Si Mochen said.

Xia Zhichu said "Oh", it turned out that she was overthinking it.

After spending some time together, she discovered that Si Mochen was a gentleman. If they had shared a bed with him last night, the chances of her taking the initiative to get in would have been greater.

"Then I'll go take a shower first. Otherwise, I don't know what my colleagues will think if I'm too late." After saying that, Xia Zhichu jumped off the bed and ran into his room.

Because of the plagiarism incident yesterday, she was late today. Who knows what her colleagues are saying about her behind her back.

After quickly packing up, Xia Zhichu came out with her bag, and Si Mochen handed her a document.

"What's this?"

"The appraisal report is evidence that proves your innocence. Go to the company later and find Manager Lan and confront her directly."

The report came out at daybreak.

It turned out that what Manager Lan called the old manuscript was actually a newly written work.

In other words, it was Manager Lan who deliberately framed Xia Zhichu and wanted to kick Xia Zhichu out of the design department on the charge of plagiarism.

Through Yan Sen's investigation, it was found that Manager Lan had often made things difficult for Xia Zhichu in the company.

After get off work yesterday, Manager Lan knew that Xia Zhichu would stay to look for evidence, so he bribed the security guards to cut off the power to the design department on the sixth floor and blocked the communication signals.

The purpose was to lock Xia Zhichu up in the design department, preparing to catch him in the act and prove his guilt of plagiarism.