Chapter 33 Lessons
Jiang Jibai opened the WeChat page and clicked on the column of 'Party A who pays the money'.
No new news.
The sour feeling in her heart surged up, and a heat welled up in her eyes.
She stared at the last conversation, her fingers hesitantly typing a few words and then silently deleting them. After deleting, she typed again, typed again, deleted again, and repeated this several times. Finally, she put the phone down helplessly.
How could he care about his own life or death?
Maybe he was using this project to pressure her on purpose.
But she refused to admit defeat.
It was raining heavily outside the window. Even with the windows closed, I could hear the sound of heavy rain outside.
The raindrops crackled like urgent drumbeats, beating on Jiang Jibai's heart.
According to the agreement, she will go to review the first draft with Guang in three days, but she still has a lot to do.
Jiang Jibai has been working non-stop for this project for a week. In the past week, she has slept less than three hours a day on average.
I rely on coffee and tea to keep myself energetic every day.
She didn't dare look in the mirror every morning. Even foundation could hardly cover up her depressed complexion and the red bloodshot veins in her eyes.
In the afternoon, Lin Shanshan happened to come to meet a client near her company. After the meeting, he asked her to come out for a cup of coffee downstairs of her company.
She hadn't seen Lin Shanshan for a long time and really missed her.
Ever since Jiang Jibai took over the Heguang project, Zheng Qianqian treated her like the Empress Dowager, allowing her to concentrate on the project and even wanting to serve her tea every day.
After going out for a while, Zheng Qianqian didn't dare to say anything to her.
When she arrived, Lin Shanshan was already sitting in a window seat waiting for her.
Seeing her coming, he smiled broadly and waved to her.
Jiang Jibai is now isolated in the company. Not to mention saying hello, everyone avoids her as if she were the plague.
When he saw his familiar friends, Jiang Jibai suddenly felt a surge of grievances and wanted to cry.
Lin Shanshan saw her sullen expression and frowned, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy to see me?"
Jiang Jibai sat down opposite her and shook his head desperately: "No, I'm very happy."
"Why are you so sad when you're so happy?" Lin Shanshan teased her, "Baby, smile."
Jiang Jibai smiled stiffly.
Lin Shanshan: “…”
"Baby, I told you to laugh, not cry or laugh."
Lin Shanshan saw that the light in Jiang Jibai's eyes quickly dimmed, and she couldn't hide the bitterness in her heart.
She really missed the lively and brilliant Jiang Jibai from college. At that time, she warmed all of them.
Now the beautiful part of her seemed to be stripped away, leaving only incompleteness and flaws.
Lin Shanshan knew that she was sick and had not yet fully recovered.
But she believes that time can heal everything, and time will slowly return her to the former Jiang Jibai.
"I ordered your favorite chocolate mousse and a hot American coffee."
Jiang Jibai: "Thank you, Shanshan."
The two chatted for a while. Lin Shanshan spoke casually and humorously, which relieved Jiang Jibai's depressed mood a lot.
Time is running out, Jiang Jibai can't stay here for too long, "Shanshan, I have to go back to work first."
Lin Shanshan: "How long have we been chatting? Can't you sit with me for a while?"
Jiang Jibai smiled helplessly: "Next time, I'll treat you next time."
Seeing her anxious look, Lin Shanshan had no choice but to give up: "Go ahead, busy man."
Seeing Jiang Jibai's slender figure leaving, Lin Shanshan felt vaguely worried. She always felt that Jiang Jibai had something on her mind recently, and she looked even worse. However, she didn't say it out loud for fear of affecting Jiang Jibai's mood.
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Jiang Jibai returned to his workstation and found that his computer was turned off!
Damn! The picture she just drew!
She remembered that she had saved it, but she still had to check it again quickly, otherwise her whole afternoon would be in vain.
Jiang Jibai quickly turned on the computer and opened the PS that had just been running. The last saved time was 2:14, which means that the last draft she drew after 2:14 was not saved.
She just spent two hours drawing that!
Jiang Jibai resisted the urge to smash the mouse and glanced coldly at the three people sitting behind her.
She didn't turn off the computer when she went downstairs just now. One of them must have turned it off on purpose to make trouble for her and prevent her from submitting the drawings on time.
Jiang Jibai felt a surge of anger in her mind. She stared at the three people with their backs to her and asked coldly, "Who turned off my computer?"
Ma Lin turned his chair around, his expression nonchalant and gloating. "Who touched your computer? You must have turned it off yourself. We were both concentrating on drawing."
Zhu Zihan: "That's right, please don't wrongly accuse us."
Zheng Yuan looked up at Jiang Jibai, then quickly lowered his head, his eyes evading: "I don't know."
Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan both acted as if she couldn't do anything to them.
Looking at their expressions, Jiang Jibai was so angry that her hands were shaking. Ugly people are prone to mischief, and she couldn't let them off easily this time.
"Okay, you don't admit it, right? Then check the surveillance." Jiang Jibai walked towards the Security Department with a gloomy face.
Seeing that Jiang Jibai was serious, Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan immediately panicked.
"I just wanted to teach her a lesson, but I didn't expect her to be serious about it."
"It would be terrible if this matter really got out of hand. If the higher-ups found out, we'd be in big trouble."
So the two of them went together to stop her.
Jiang Jibai didn't expect these two people to be so shameless that they directly grabbed her and wouldn't let her leave.
"We're all colleagues, so there's no need to be so harsh, right?"
"You were the ones who stopped doing anything first!"
"I admit that I accidentally turned off your computer. I apologize to you, okay?"
"Accidentally?" Jiang Jibai opened the door for Wu Yu, Wu Yu was really speechless. "Ma Lin, you accidentally walked to my workstation and accidentally pressed the power button? Do you think I'm stupid?"
"Get out of my way!" Jiang Jibai shook off their hands.
Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan went over to pull her again, and the three of them pushed and shoved, and with a "bang" Jiang Jibai bumped into the protruding marble countertop of the bar.
She subconsciously used her hand to block it, but the sharp corner directly pierced into the base of her palm, and a piercing pain spread from her palm.
She screamed in pain, and only then did Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan realize that her hand was injured.
Zheng Qianqian heard the commotion and came over from the office. She said sternly, "Is it because the tasks I assigned to you are too few? You're making a scene during work hours. Do you still want to work?!"
"Sister Qian, I'm sorry, I accidentally turned off Sister Jiang's computer. She was angry and wanted to go find the leader, so we wanted to chase her and apologize to her." Ma Lin lowered his voice, looking pitiful.
Jiang Jibai was so angry that she laughed. She strode to her workstation and pulled out a chair with a swish. "You've said all the nice things, what else can I say?"
Zheng Qianqian probably guessed what was going on, and said to Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan with a stern face: "You two go to my office."
She turned to Jiang Jibai and smiled: "Xiao Jiang, business is more important. Just draw well. I'll talk to them."
She saw a deep red mark on the palm of Jiang Jibai's right hand and asked, "Is your hand okay?"
Jiang Jibai knew that she was afraid that her hands would be broken and she would not be able to continue painting. She met Zheng Qianqian's hypocritical eyes and felt like a madman who had been pushed to the extreme and had no regard for anything.
"I'm busy, so can you help me draw?"
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