Chapter 3 Chapter 3 There is no reason to give up

When he saw the two boxes of expiring yogurt with buy-one-get-one-free labels on the stone table, and the fact that Guan Mi had been changing into the same few sets of work clothes all summer and only had the same two bags, Shen Yanfeng suddenly realized that her life might be more difficult than he had imagined.

That's why he asked that question just now.

But no matter how I think about it, it doesn't seem right.

As the highest-paid secretary in the president's office, with the several salary increases he had specifically approved for her, and the overtime allowances she received for situations like this, her income should be enough for her to live a decent life.

Besides, her parents are both working, so even if they want to save money for their sister to go to college, they wouldn't do this.

When Guan Mi heard this, his breathing paused slightly, but his hands remained steady.

She tilted her head slightly and said in a calm voice, "Thank you, Mr. Shen."

Who would refuse an inexplicable salary increase, especially for her.

My family is always in need of money. Although my parents are working, they can't make ends meet and there are too many places to spend money.

She didn't know why Shen Yanfeng's car stopped and asked her to work at Fengbo.

He happened to be there the day I left the internship company in disgrace.

Maybe because he felt sorry for her?

She majored in English and worked as a translator during her internship. She originally planned to do a job related to her major, but later became his secretary.

At that time, Shen Yanfeng had only one request, which was to obey him unconditionally.

For three years, Guan Mi did it. If he told her to go east, she would never go west.

Lu Kaixin’s venue is very large, with three floors. The first floor is an electronic dance floor, the second floor is a VIP booth area, and the third floor has a private billiard room and private rooms.

On this neon-lit street, his place attracted a lot of people as soon as it opened.

After nine o'clock in the evening, the street gradually became lively, with luxury cars coming one after another, and the people sitting in the cars were all well-dressed men and women.

The charm of Beijing's nightlife always attracts beautiful women from all walks of life to linger here.

Guan Mi suddenly remembered that when he was in junior high school, he and his friends read borrowed magazine novels together.

The bar described in the novel was very mysterious, which made them yearn for it at the time. They also promised to go to a bar when they grew up.

Now that she has graduated from college and is working, she is busy with her work every day and has neither the time nor the money to go to places with minimum consumption.

After Shen Yanfeng got out of the car, someone immediately came forward to take him inside.

Guan Mi found a place to park, and Shen Yanfeng asked her to wait for him in the car. It seemed that he would not stay for long.

In the billiard room on the third floor, Lu Kai was already a little drunk.

He leaned back on the sofa, squinting his eyes as he watched his partner teaching a hot girl how to play billiards in a proper manner, while the other two young girls cast envious glances at him.

Just as I was about to call the innocent-looking girl over, the door of the box was pushed open.

Shen Yanfeng walked in, and Lu Kai stood up shakily: “Mr. Shen, it’s been so long since the opening, it’s better not to come.”

"Something happened at home." Chen Yanfeng avoided his hand, which had touched something unknown before, and took the whiskey handed to him by the bartender.

Lu Kai sat back down, "I heard that the one from the Gao family has been chosen by Aunt Shao to be your fiancée?"

"Um."

"Why, are you dissatisfied?" Lu Kai grinned. "Gao Qi is a real lady from a wealthy family, and she has a good relationship with Shen Xiayu. In our circle, there are not many people with gentle temperaments who are not noisy. After you get married and live your own lives, she will definitely not interfere with you."

Shen Yanfeng said nothing with a cold look on his face, and drank several glasses of wine.

Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Lu Kai looked at the girls playing billiards. They were new, and different from the others, they were good-looking, well-behaved and cute, and students from serious colleges. They were here only to play billiards or drink with guests, not to do anything else.

"Su Yan, come here."

The one with pure appearance is Su Yan. She is wearing a white dress, has fair skin and watery eyes.

He just came yesterday and is still shy when speaking.

Su Yan put down her golf club and hurried over, her face flushed: "Brother Kai."

Lu Kai raised his chin slightly and said, "Go sit over there and talk to Master Shen."

"OK."

As soon as Su Yan sat down, she met Shen Yanfeng's slightly cold gaze.

"How old are you?" His voice was gentle, with a hint of lazy hoarseness.

Her heart was pounding as she replied softly, "I just turned eighteen this year."

"Lu Kai forced you to come?"

Lu Kai laughed and scolded, "How about hiring through the formal process? I don't tolerate those crooked ways here."

Shen Yanfeng leaned back on the sofa, his collar slightly open, and a hint of drunkenness appeared in his eyes.

Seeing this, Su Yan poured him a glass of warm water and said, "Mr. Chen, drink some water."

He didn't pick it up and let her leave it alone.

Guan Mi was awakened by the vibration of his cell phone, and he squinted his eyes and clicked on the screen.

Mr. Shen: [He went back.]

Exactly half an hour.

She rubbed her sore neck. She had just taken a nap with the window open.

As the car started, a very tired face appeared in the rearview mirror.

When the weekend comes, she must sleep for two full days.

Shen Yanfeng walked out of the door with one hand in his pocket, and casually glanced at the dark corner where a drunk man was pulling a girl's arm.

He looked away indifferently.

There are so many worries today, I have to go back and have a good sleep.

"Let me go!"

At this moment, the girl's crying scream and the sound of cloth tearing made him stop in his tracks.

He frowned and looked over again.

The neckline of the girl's dress had been torn open, exposing a large area of ​​skin.

There were people watching the show around, but no one stepped forward to stop it.

Guan Mi parked the car on the side of the road, opened the door and got out. When he looked up, he saw Shen Yanfeng turning around and walking towards a place.

Looking in his direction, I saw a burly man pulling a young girl.

She subconsciously clenched her fists and hurried to catch up.

But after taking a few steps, Shen Yanfeng suddenly raised his leg and kicked the drunk man to the ground.

"Fuck, who the hell dares to kick me!" The man cursed and struggled to get up.

Chen Yanfeng stared at him coldly for a moment, then looked at the girl who was huddled beside him with her arms around her chest, "Don't cry yet, call the police."

The girl's eyes were blurred with tears, and she sobbed, "Okay... Thank you, thank you..."

At this time, Shen Yanfeng noticed that Guan Mi had arrived, and turned around and said, "Bring the coat from the car."

Guan Mi nodded and was about to turn around when he suddenly heard a muffled sound and a sharp shout at the same time.

She subconsciously turned around and saw blood oozing from Shen Yanfeng's forehead, with broken glass scattered all over the ground at his feet.

Shen Yanfeng was actually shot in the head with a wine bottle by that man.

When something happens to his good friend near his place, of course Lu Kai has to take care of it.

After settling the girl down, he knocked on the window before Guan Mi started the car.

"Then I'll deal with that drunk first?"

Shen Yanfeng leaned back in his chair, a faint trace of blood seeping from the bandage on his forehead.

He had a look of "I'm so fucking fed up," but his voice was calm: "Just don't get carried away."

The implication is that people have to live, don't touch the bottom line, and the rest is up to you.

It would be too easy for this beast to be locked up directly.

Guan Mi's grip on the steering wheel tightened slightly.

These few casual words meant that the dead man would face a situation that she could hardly imagine.

Chen Yanfeng usually had the image of a gentle and elegant young man from aristocratic family, but she knew better than anyone that this man's methods were far more ruthless than others, even his family, imagined.

Therefore, outside of work, she must not have any contact with people with such family background and such means.

"Call Lao Ge." Shen Yanfeng suddenly spoke before the car stopped at the red light.

There is a shooting club in the suburbs that is Shen Yanfeng's favorite place to hang out. The owner, Lao Ge, is very familiar to him.

“Mr. Shen, you have to go to the hospital to clean the wound first.” Guan Mi said.

Shen Yanfeng raised his head and relaxed his neck, then smiled helplessly: "I didn't say I wouldn't go."

It was already past eleven when they arrived at the hospital, and the doctor on duty cleaned and bandaged Shen Yanfeng in the clinic.

Guan Mi stood aside and watched his boss, who had always been so noble, in such a mess for the first time, and sighed unconsciously.

Shen Yanfeng raised his eyes to look at her, "?"

She was silent for a moment and shook her head quickly.

Lao Ge's club is in Changping, Guan Mi also lives there, and Chen Yanfeng also has a house there.

As she drove, she prayed silently that he would stay in the house in Changping tonight.

Apart from Chen Yanfeng, there are not many people who can be woken up by a person like Lao Ge and greet him with a smile.

A few minutes later, Guan Mi looked at Shen Yanfeng standing with a gun, his profile stern, and he pulled the trigger, hitting the bull's eye accurately.

She had been here several times, so she was used to the sound, but she still felt uneasy after listening to it for a long time.

While he was changing the box, she stepped forward and gestured to go out to make a phone call.

Shen Yanfeng nodded slightly, turned around and fired another neat shot.

Wen Li quickly answered the phone. Guan Mi sat on the stairs, leaning against the railing, his body and mind relaxed.

In order not to worry him, she could only say that she had returned to the rented house.

"Are the roommates still having conflicts?"

She hummed, "It's nothing serious, I just can't let go of my pride."

Wen Li asked: "Will it affect your rest?"

"No. Actually, it's quite noisy downstairs." She smiled. "Luckily, I still have the earplugs you gave me."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

"Mimi, I'm going to Beijing this weekend. Let's find a house with a better environment." Wen Li's voice was gentle. "I'll pay for the rent. I don't want you to go home after a day of work and not be able to rest well."

The smile on Guan Mi's lips faded a little, and she sighed softly: "Really, there's no need. I'm used to living here. Besides... you've been good enough to me, I don't want you to pay too much for me."

She remembered that when she had a fever last month, Wen Li took a special leave of absence to come and take care of her.

Wen Li took a deep breath, "I just don't want you to suffer too much. If I had insisted on staying in Beijing with you..."

"It's fine now," she interrupted him. "If we really lived together, we might have been arguing all the time, and we might have broken up by now."

He chuckled softly, "I don't think so... By the way, can you come back next month? Mom and Dad asked you to come over for dinner."

Wen Li's tone was full of anticipation.

Guan Mi fell silent.

Wen Li's family are all quite respectable public servants. His father is the director of the Municipal Bureau, his mother works in the Education Bureau, and he himself also works within the system.

At the beginning of the year, Wen's mother came to Beijing on a business trip and asked her to meet her, but Wen Li didn't know about this.

She and Wen Li had been dating since college, and his family knew about it. So Wen's mother knew everything about her family situation. She hadn't said anything very directly that day, but when she mentioned Guan Tang's illness, she sighed meaningfully.

"Mimi?"

She came back to her senses and said calmly, "Okay, I'll go back when my uncle and aunt are free."

Wen Li seemed relieved. "Okay, then go take a shower and rest. We'll see you this weekend."

"Are you really coming?" She narrowed her eyes, "You don't feel tired."

"I'm not tired. I really want to see you."

After hanging up the phone, Guan Mi walked back to the shooting hall and saw Shen Yanfeng still concentrating on shooting with his gun outside the door, with Lao Ge accompanying him.

She sat down on the single chair outside the door, her eyes unconsciously falling on the floor-to-ceiling window opposite.

Fatigue gradually set in, and the more she read, the sleepier she became. Her head unconsciously tilted to one side, and she actually fell asleep amid the sound of gunfire.

At around one in the morning, Shen Yanfeng finally put down his gun and rubbed his sore wrist. He walked into the lounge, where Lao Ge was smoking a cigar, the air thick with smoke.

"Is the wound okay?" Lao Ge handed him a cigarette.

"It's nothing." He leaned against the table and took a few puffs in silence. "My brother came to check on you last time. Did he give you any trouble?"

"Your elder brother always pays attention to evidence when doing things." Old Ge smiled and said, "Besides, we have a close relationship, so your brother should give you face."

Shen Yanfeng pulled the corner of his mouth and crushed the cigar into the ashtray. "I'm not that big of a figure. I have the lowest status in the entire Shen family." After saying that, he patted Lao Ge's shoulder and said, "Rest. I'm going back."

After pushing the door open and going out, his slightly surprised gaze fell on Guan Mi's face, who was sleeping soundly with his head tilted.

He said he was going out to make a phone call and then he disappeared. I thought he had gone back first.

Don't you live in this area?

He walked to the window and made a phone call to ask someone to come and drive the car.

While waiting for people to arrive, he did not wake up Guan Mi, but just looked out the window quietly.

Old Ge pushed the door open and was about to speak when he saw Shen Yanfeng raise his index finger and lightly touch his lower lip.

Old Ge glanced at Guan Mi, who was sleeping soundly, knowingly, and lowered his voice: "It's unreasonable not to double the year-end bonus after tiring him so much."

Shen Yanfeng leaned against the window and just shrugged and smiled casually when he heard the words.

After Lao Ge left, he still maintained this posture, his slender fingers playing with the car keys that fell out of Guan Mi's trouser pocket, his eyes vaguely sweeping across her sleeping face.

In just a few years, the childishness between her eyebrows had long since faded away, replaced by calmness.

To him, Guan Mi is now a fairly reliable person.

I remember when she first became his secretary, apart from her good English, she knew almost nothing about business operations.

At that time, the company was in a critical period of listing. She and the people in the president's office accompanied him to work overtime and stay up late every day. He was very strict with Guan Mi, and she could often be seen walking out of his office with red eyes.

In the next two years, she grew at an astonishing rate. He learned French casually, and she also mastered German.

Shen Xiayu asked him why he kept Guan Mi around.

There is no reason for him to give up the person he cultivated personally to others.

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