Chapter 42 Hook (Xiao Xiu) The kitten buried its face in its owner's clothes...
"Okay," he promised her softly. "I'll drink less if I can, okay?"
Qiao Ruoying raised her eyes from his embrace, her translucent lychee-shaped eyes exceptionally bright. With a serious expression, she confirmed with him, "You said to drink less, so drink less. Don't break your promise."
"It was the puppy who made the gaffe."
As she spoke, she stretched out her slender hand, like a spring onion, clasped her three middle fingers, and stretched out her thumb and little finger, indicating that he should "pink promise" with her.
“…”
Jiang Zong was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
This is what she's using to "restrain" him? It's really... childish stuff.
He made the same gesture, hooking his slender and strong little finger around hers, and then pressed the pads of their thumbs together as if kissing. He pressed hard until a layer of white appeared on the edges of the fingertips.
Qiao Ruoying was now satisfied. She tilted her head slightly towards him and said softly, "It's a deal. The one who made the wrong move is... a dog."
Jiang Zong also laughed softly, the laughter rolling out from his throat, with a low and hoarse sound that sounded pleasant.
He had obviously thought this "hook" was childish just now, but after actually making the hook, he had a vague idea in his heart that this hook was effective and had the "effect" of a contract.
This is the "contract" signed between Yingying and him.
Seeing Qiao Ruoying speak so seriously, Jiang Zong also curled the corners of his lips, took her hand, and pressed her soft palm against his handsome face, their skin touching.
"Okay, if I say something wrong, I am Yingying's dog. Yingying's big male dog."
After he finished speaking, he pulled a nonchalant smile at the corner of his lips and went downstairs. His footsteps echoed in the stairwell, his steps were steady yet brisk.
Qiao Ruoying stood there in a daze for a while, and suddenly realized what Jiang Zongye meant by "big dog".
At that time, his thin and narrow body pressed against her again and again, and his strong male waist made her stick to the cold mirror.
Seeing that a little movie was about to play in her mind, Qiao Ruoying quickly covered her face, and a blush appeared on her pretty cheeks.
She was being "teased" by this guy again, no wonder he ran so fast!
The girl was so angry that she quickly grabbed her phone and said in the chat box:
Cat Bite: "You are so shameless! Why do you describe yourself as a dog?"
He even called himself a "big dog". As the president of a prestigious group, would he ever describe himself like that?
Two minutes later, Jiang Zong, who had also boarded the bus, replied, "I'm telling the truth."
“…”
She really was, once again, succumbing to the old man's shamelessness.
This is not over yet, Jiang Zong also continued to send messages.
The old man said, "That fluorescent green tool is quite useful and smooth. I'm going to use it at the rental house this week."
Qiao Ruoying held her forehead weakly.
Use it, use it, damn it, she doesn’t want to use it, she wants to end this “green disaster”.
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Monday, Taehyung Group Administration Department.
"Yingying, why did you put your calla lilies and your little green vines on the windowsill? Look at your calla lilies, they are so beautiful and green."
Early in the morning, Du Xinrong saw her hydroponic potted plants on the windowsill of her office, and came over to chirp like a little sparrow.
“…”
Speaking of green, Qiao Ruoying's mind still flashes through the darkness, the cloakroom, and the diamond mirror. The expanding fluorescent green is almost leaving an afterimage. Again and again, the extremely strong piling, each time squeezing out more fresh and sweet juice.
Not only did she not want to see the color green, she also didn't want to hear anyone mention it.
Rongrong would bring up whatever she didn't want to hear.
Fortunately, Zeng Fan came over and interrupted at this time.
"Hey, did you guys see what's being discussed on Little Red Potato? There were VIC customers at the Cartier counter in Henggu Wanxiang on Saturday. Cartier closed the store to receive them, and even had a dedicated VIC channel. What a grand spectacle."
Her tone was filled with envy. "I heard that guy is super rich and bought a ring worth over two million yuan, just for the girl."
Huh?
Qiao Ruoying tilted her head slightly. Eternal Vientiane, Cartier counter, closing reception, a ring worth over two million...
Doesn’t this describe her and Jiang Zongye?
In an instant, Qiao Ruoying's back stiffened, fearing that Zeng Fan had known some inside information.
Du Xinrong's gossipy and excited voice rang out beside me: "Ahhh, two million! These rich people buy jewelry as easily and casually as I drink water. Are there any photos of the male and female protagonists in the post?"
"No." Zeng Fan shook his head regretfully. "I searched all over Xiaohongshu and couldn't find any photos of them, not even from behind. They say they have a very strict security team."
“…”
Hearing this, Qiao Ruoying breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that appearing in public with Jiang Zongye is too risky.
Zeng Fan was extremely interested when talking about the rich and powerful, and he gushed on, "We can't take photos of such wealthy people just because we want to. We hardly even come across them in our daily lives. The man is so generous to the woman, I envy him so much. I also want a ring worth over two million, but unfortunately no one is willing to pay for it for me."
“…”
Qiao Ruoying didn't say anything, but she was thinking in her heart that it wasn't that difficult to meet him.
She, the heroine in the story, just happened to appear in front of Zeng Fan, didn't she?
It has to be said that when Zeng Fan talked about her in an envious tone, and Zeng Fan didn't know that she was the heroine of the story, Qiao Ruoying was still a little vain in her heart and secretly happy.
It was hard to imagine that one day she would become someone Zeng Fan envied.
In the next few days, the administrative work at the Taiheng Group headquarters was relatively idle. However, the Chengnan factory was short of staff because it was moving to a new building. Lily sent Qiao Ruoying and Du Xinrong there to follow the leader's instructions and help with some statistics and moving work.
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These past few nights, Jiang Zong also had some social events.
With Sirius 5 about to be delivered, the senior management team held a celebration banquet at the Yihe Private Residence. In the quaint Chinese-style box, Jiang Zong also sat in the main seat, and Ren Song and Li Shengjie sat beside him, one on his left and one on his right, as if they were his protectors.
The impending victory made all the executives excited.
During this time, Ren Song asked the waiter to bring the menu, circled a few bottles of Moutai 30, and said generously:
"Everyone has worked hard these past few days. Eat your fill and work hard for another two months to double the group's market value."
"Come on, do it!"
For a moment, the atmosphere in the game was unusually lively. But when Ren Song raised the bottle of Moutai and was about to fill Jiang Zongye's glass, Jiang Zongye covered the rim of the glass with his palm and said with a smile, "I won't drink this round."
"Of course you can't not drink, Jason. You won't be able to enjoy it if you don't drink. Come on, I'll fill it up for you."
Li Shengjie and Jiang Zong were not used to playing around with each other, so they immediately took the bottle of wine from Ren Song.
In the bright light, Jiang Zongye placed one hand on the back of the chair and covered the wine glass with the other hand, saying slowly:
"I promised my girlfriend that I would drink less, and not drink if I can avoid it."
Ren Song: “?”
Li Shengjie: “?”
Other executives: “?”
Ren Song was the first to react: "Jason, you have a girlfriend. When did it happen?"
The executives looked at each other, and thought tacitly: It's really rare that Jiang Zongye, the thousand-year-old iron tree of the group and the workaholic, finally has the good news that he is about to bloom.
I really hope that the girlfriend of this "iron tree" can stick well to this "iron tree" and this "workaholic", so that the big boss won't ask them to redo work and work overtime from time to time.
Jiang Zongye raised the corners of his lips, the arc was charming, and when he mentioned "girlfriend", it was difficult for him to suppress the corners of his lips, but his tone was still nonchalant.
"It happened last week. Last weekend, she just agreed to be my girlfriend and asked me to drink less."
Li Shengjie understood immediately.
Jason's girlfriend is the kitten that bites people, right?
Wow, look, Jason has been caught with a black carp!
What's more, Jason is showing off in a very casual way. What's so great about having a girlfriend?
Li Shengjie is committed to "comparing" himself with Jiang Zongye. If he can't compare their careers, then it's okay to compare their personal lives, right?
Jiang Zongye is four years younger than him and now even has a girlfriend, while Li Shengjie is still single. It’s all Jason’s fault. He makes him work so much overtime that he doesn’t even have time for a relationship. This must be Jiang Zongye’s “trick”.
Li Shengjie suddenly felt a sense of urgency.
He also has to hurry up and find a good girlfriend, get married, have a baby, and let his baby call Jason "uncle".
After a group of people had a good chat and had a good meal, they left the box one after another. Li Zheng went backstage to settle the bill.
In the open-air garage downstairs, luxury cars such as Bentley Continental, Porsche 911, Aston Martin DB11, Audi A8, etc. are lined up in a row, as if they were at a car show;
The car body is shiny and smooth, like a mirror, and under the illumination of the carved street lamps, it seems to be coated with a layer of gold film.
The executives got into their cars. Only Li Shengjie's driver was crouching awkwardly beside the rear wheel, seemingly inspecting something.
"Xiao Lin, why are you squatting here instead of sitting in the driver's seat?" Li Shengjie asked with a thick tongue after drinking two glasses of wine.
"Deputy Li, your car seems to have a flat tire. I'm asking a colleague to drive another car to pick you up." Driver Lin reported.
Car tire blowout
How come Li Shengjie encountered this once-in-a-century event again?
The same thing happened last time at the Chengnan factory. Whenever he worked the night shift, there would always be problems. Either the assembly line was stuck or a component was defective.
Jiang Zongye's Bentley was next to his. He chuckled and said, "gloating over someone else's misfortune."
"Levi, you've been having a lot of bad luck lately. Do you want me, a Taoist priest, to help you get rid of the bad luck?"
“…”
Li Shengjie was speechless and defended himself, "It's just a probability event. I'm not that unlucky."
Jiang Zongye: "That's fine. If you get unlucky a few more times, I'll have someone hang a peach wood sword on your door."
“…”
Jiang Zong also got in. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when the Bentley's headlights broke through the foggy darkness and merged into the traffic.
Jiang Zongye wanted to go back to Tianxi Huanyu, but then he remembered that he hadn't drunk alcohol at the social event today. He also remembered that last weekend, she was at the door of her small rental apartment, buried her head in his arms, and gently urged him, "Don't drink too much."
As he thought about it, his heart seemed to leave the small world of the carriage and fly towards Qiao Ruoying.
He was moved, picked up his phone, and sent a message to Qiao Ruoying:
"Yingying, I had a social event today, but I didn't drink. Shouldn't you reward me?"
In Golden Home, Qiao Ruoying was nestling comfortably in the pumpkin sofa, watching Ge Yunfei's variety show on her phone.
After receiving the message from Jiang Zongye, she smiled with her lips curved.
This guy really wants "benefits" and "rewards" for everything he does. Look how capable he is.
But what could she reward him with? She had nothing to reward him with.
Cat Biter: "What reward do you want?"
Old man: "Three times as a reward tonight?"
Cat Biter: "No."
Of course Qiao Ruoying refused sternly. Please, she had to go to work tomorrow. If she kept going through this every day, she was afraid she would fall apart.
The old man said, "That's fine. Let's pick one. How about using up the remaining condoms from those two boxes this weekend?"
He was referring to the two remaining boxes of "fluorescent green" condoms.
It’s another game of choosing between two options. This time, no matter what Qiao Ruoying says, she won’t choose either one.
She pouted her petal-like red lips slightly, and her tone contained grievance:
"Bad guy, you're asking me to choose between the two again. I won't choose."
"I can't even look at the color green lately. It's such a lovely, refreshing color, and you've ruined it like this."
Now, she can easily get Jiang Zongye by acting coquettishly to him.
As soon as she spoke in a venomous tone, Jiang Zong immediately "called back his troops" and raised his hands in surrender:
Old man: "Okay, then we won't choose. Let's sleep well tonight."
Hearing him mention "that night," Qiao Ruoying hesitated. "Are you coming over tonight?"
Old man: "Yes, open the door in twenty minutes, I have something to bring you."
Cat Biter: "I think you have other intentions."
On the surface, he said he brought some things to see her, but what he was thinking in his heart was... he wanted to sleep with her, right?
The old man: "Don't worry, I won't bother you tonight and let you sleep well."
After finishing the chat with Jiang Zongye, Qiao Ruoying was about to quit WeChat when suddenly, a message from her sister Qiao Ruoqi popped up.
Little Pig Ruoqi: "Sister, sister, sister, please save me, please save me."
It was followed by a GIF of a screaming figure from Munch's painting.
Sakura staggered, "Sister, what's going on?"
Xiaozhu Ruoqi: "Isn't Link planning to study abroad for a master's degree? He doesn't want to be separated from me, and I don't want to be separated from him, so Link plans to take me with him. He said he will cover my expenses, but my mother strongly disagrees. She thinks that since I'm not married to Link, I shouldn't use his money. QAQ"
So that's what it was.
From Ms. Qiao Li's perspective, Qiao Ruoying actually fully understood her mother's idea. Qiao Ruoying was just in a relationship with a man and had not officially confirmed the relationship. How could she use the man's money to go abroad to study?
What if the man broke up with her midway and abandoned her? She was alone in a foreign country, her financial aid cut off, unfamiliar with the place, and forced to drop out of school midway. Not only would her youth be wasted, but her personal safety would also be in jeopardy.
Even if the man did not break up with her halfway, the cost of studying abroad is not cheap. As the saying goes, "A man who eats someone's food will be soft-hearted and a man who takes someone's money will be obliged to give." If Qiao Ruoqi used the man's money, wouldn't she be inferior to him in this relationship and put herself in an unequal position?
But from Qiao Ruoqi's perspective, Qiao Ruoying can understand her sister a little bit.
Because, from a certain perspective, her current relationship with Jiang Zongye is actually even more excessive than her sister using the man's money to study abroad.
Qiao Ruoying directly called her sister and comforted her softly for a long time.
She gave Ruoqi some advice and asked Link to solve the problem. Since Link wanted to take her out, he had to be able to convince their mother; she also took the opportunity to observe Link's character.
After receiving comfort from her sister, Qiao Ruoqi felt much more at ease.
But after hanging up the phone, it was Qiao Ruoying who became uneasy.
She is now spending Jiang Zongye's money, and the sense of inequality caused by him being the boss and her being the subordinate is gradually disappearing as Jiang Zongye proves time and again with his actions that "he cares about her".
But, what happens next?
She also wanted to continue dating Jiang Zongye without telling her mother.
Maybe in the future when Jiang Zong gets tired of it, or when she gets tired of it, they will break up.
If they don't get tired of talking, will Jiang Zong marry her?
He is willing to marry her, but can they convince both sets of parents?
Qiao Ruoying didn't know.
At the moment, it’s like crossing a river by feeling the stones, and we can only take one step at a time.
Forty minutes later.
The Bentley drove into the garage downstairs of the residential building. The winter plane trees had lost their leaves, and the bare branches cast shadows under the street lights on the car body, like an ink painting rendered with a brush.
Jiang Zong also took out a gift box from the back of the car, and went upstairs in two steps. Qiao Ruoying opened the door for him.
It was freezing cold outside, with the biting wind howling and scraping across people's cheeks like a scraper, but her little house was warm, quiet and cozy. A row of radiators were arranged like a fence under the window, emitting warm air.
Jiang Zong also took off his Chester coat. Qiao Ruoying stood behind him, reached out and took his coat, and hung it on the hanger at the entrance.
She deliberately buried her face in the soft fibers of the cashmere and sniffed hard.
Well, apart from the cold winter weather, there is also the unique scent of black pine and fir on him, which is pure and bright, making people feel as if they are in the forest of Siberia in the cold winter.
Unlike before, the smell of alcohol and cigarettes permeated the fibers of the clothes.
Jiang Zong also turned around and caught her sneaky sniffing movements, like a little kitten burying its face in its owner's clothes, sniffing lingeringly.
Qiao Ruoying must also miss him very much, right?
Thinking of this, the corners of his lips unconsciously curled up again.
After she hung her clothes on the hanger, Jiang Zong approached her, put his hands on her slender waist, and pushed her against the wall. He leaned forward slightly, his peach blossom eyes smiling as he looked at her: "Yingying, did you miss me?"
Suddenly, Qiao Ruoying's eyelashes trembled when she met his dark, half-smiling eyes, like two butterflies landing on a crabapple flower.
She didn't want to answer such a "explicit" question right away.
She thought about it and simply asked, "What about you? Why don't you ask yourself if you miss me?"
Jiang Zong also chuckled and reached out to gently scratch her delicate cheek, as if he was happy that this little kitten had finally become "smart-tongued" and didn't fall into his trap from the beginning.
"Of course I did. I didn't think about you and why I ended up here."
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The author has something to say: Yingying hopes that Boss Jiang will work more to share his inhuman energy, and not waste it on her.
The executives hope that Boss Jiang will have more romance and spend less energy on work so that he doesn't have to work overtime every day.
Then Yingying and the executives discovered that neither side could really count on them. Boss Jiang was a master of time management, having time for both romance and work. [Breaking down][Breaking down]
Lao Jiang: My wife actually gets tired of dating me and wants to break up with me when we're tired of each other. What should I do? [Breaking down][Breaking down]
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