Chapter 99 Must Go to Bed Before Midnight
As Qiao Xing was talking, she noticed that he was staring at her blankly, so she silently stopped talking.
"What's wrong?" She looked a little nervous. Did he think she was too materialistic?
This reminded her of a time when she accompanied Lin Yu to a gathering with his friends. Because the waiter asked them if they wanted a voucher, she thought that since Lin Yu and she were treating, she accepted a voucher worth two hundred yuan.
Lin Yu felt that she had lost face in front of his friends, and he talked about it for a long time after they came out.
She still remembers what Lin Yu said: "Are you really short of two hundred yuan? It's not like you can't afford to live. Those are my childhood friends. If you ask for two hundred yuan in vouchers, they'll think I'm living a miserable life."
Qiao Xing was speechless at the time. She apologized to him, but after that, he stopped taking her with him when he went out to parties or to meet friends, probably because he thought she was not presentable.
However, Qiao Xing didn't like going to those kinds of events, so he didn't take it to heart.
But Qin Ce's silence now felt like a stab to her heart.
Qiao Xing always felt somewhat inferior in front of him. He was handsome, highly educated, and a returnee from overseas. If it weren't for some unavoidable reasons, he wouldn't have married her.
She... was just a graduate of an ordinary second-tier university, came from a poor family, and had a mediocre job.
Qin Ce snapped out of his daze and shook his head, saying, "It's okay. I think what you said makes a lot of sense. Next time, you can make more, and I'll bring my own lunch to the company."
Qiao Xing was stunned. She looked at Qin Ce in astonishment. "You, what did you say?"
Qin Ce said, "I can't let you save money all by yourself. Make me an extra portion too. The meals the company orders are really not good."
Although he had no expression on his face, he spoke very seriously, and Qiao Xing could feel his sincerity.
For some reason, her eyes suddenly welled up with tears, and she gently hugged Qin Ce.
Qin Ce froze instantly, not daring to move.
Qiao Xing looked at him and forced a smile, "Okay, then I'll make more tomorrow."
"Okay, you should go to sleep first," Qin Ce said, his voice trembling slightly.
Qiao Xing nodded, turned around and went back to the bedroom. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.
It turns out that living with people of good character really does reduce a lot of conflicts.
It's hard to define a person's character because everyone has selfish desires. People with good character are those with deep cultivation and knowledge. They can lower their own needs to accommodate others and think from the other person's perspective.
Qin Ce is truly an outstanding person.
Qin Ce had no idea what she was thinking, because he was busy with meetings. There was a time difference between China and other countries, so he often dealt with matters abroad at night.
He only sleeps four or five hours a day, and he has to go for a morning run and exercise early in the morning. He works at a high intensity every day.
But just now, he had been thinking about the word "life".
That kind of slow-paced life, full of everyday life, made me keep getting distracted during the meeting.
The person in the video called his name several times.
Qin Ce snapped out of his reverie and suddenly asked a question unrelated to work, "What do you usually do after get off work?"
The people in the video paused for a moment, and one of them said, "There are so many things you can do: watch TV, go shopping, walk the dog, hang out with friends..."
"I also love walking dogs. I have three dogs now, and they are really well-behaved and cute."
Qin Ce rested his head on his hand, listening to them share their lives.
After a while, he asked again, "So what do you do with the money you make?"
"Of course it's shopping, buying your favorite figurines, going on dates, going on trips... Boss, why are you suddenly asking these questions?"
"It's nothing, where were we?" Qin Ce took the initiative to end the topic.
"Speaking of functional testing of artificial intelligence in healthcare, we recently tested neural network diagnosis, and the test results were very good. It can now build complex neural network models by analyzing a large amount of case and image data, and it is already able to identify and diagnose some difficult-to-detect symptoms and diseases."
"Compared to chat-learning AI robots, this AI-powered medical treatment is relatively simpler and more practical. Several biotech companies have already approached us seeking cooperation."
"That's right, artificial intelligence is the future trend, and we will definitely be among the people at the forefront of technology..."
Qin Ce had been following up on this project. He originally planned to go abroad to keep an eye on it after the domestic company settled down.
But after he came back, the old man gave him a lot of trouble and even found him a wife. If he wanted to go abroad now, he wouldn't know how to tell Qiao Xing.
He can manage a business trip of ten days or half a month, but if he goes for a year or two, he can't explain it.
Thinking about all this gave Qin Ce a headache.
Suddenly someone knocked on the door, and before he could speak, the study door was pushed open.
The old man was standing at the door, leaning on his cane, staring at him with a stern expression.
"Grandpa, why aren't you asleep yet, it's so late?"
The old man scoffed, "So you know it's this late? What work is more important than sleep?"
"I'm going to sleep right away." Qin Ce rubbed his temples. He realized that living with this old man was like having a surveillance camera installed in the house.
"Go to sleep now, why aren't you turning off the computer?" The old man stood at the door, as if he wouldn't leave until he saw him sleeping.
Qin Ce sighed, turned off the computer, got up and walked out.
The old man's eyes seemed glued to him as he watched him go to another bedroom and come out with his pajamas.
Before he even entered the bathroom, the old man called out to him, "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong now?"
The old man said, "Why are your things in this room?"
Qin Ce paused slightly, then explained, "I was working late and didn't want to disturb Qiao Xing, so I slept in this room."
The old man said sternly, "From now on, you must be in bed by midnight."
"..."
"What are you doing? If I see you working overtime until late at night again, I'm not going to play along anymore!"
Qin Ce twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "I understand."
He was still afraid that the old man would expose him. After all, they had already gone this far, and if he were exposed, things would probably get out of control.
Many things are unknown. He doesn't know what will happen between them after Qiao Xing finds out, and he doesn't want to disrupt their current peaceful relationship.
Qin Ce even had a bold idea: to never tell Qiao Xing, and to live a simple, ordinary life with her as an ordinary person.
The thought of all this made him inexplicably irritable. Why did he even think about something like this for a lifetime?
When exactly did he begin to feel afraid?
He grabbed his clothes, turned around, locked himself in the bathroom, and took several cold showers.
The old man was very stubborn and insisted on waiting outside. He waited for as long as the old man had been washing.
When Qin Ce came out and saw him guarding outside, the veins on his forehead throbbed.
His plan to sleep in another bedroom was also ruined, so he could only silently open the bedroom where Qiao Xing was sleeping.
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