Chapter 97 Husband and Wife Relationship
Noticing his gaze, Ye Lingzhi asked, "What do you mean?"
Assistant Chen coughed. He couldn't very well tell her that he was secretly thinking she was being clueless, could he?
Not wanting to be looked down upon, he said, "You seem to know quite a lot."
Ye Lingzhi said, "What's there to understand? As long as President Zhou likes Sister Yi'an, he will find ways to please her. If he needs help to express his feelings to Sister Yi'an, then his affection for her is probably limited."
Assistant Chen now looked at Ye Lingzhi with a different eye. He said, "I didn't expect that you, who are usually so quiet, are actually quite shrewd."
Of course, he meant it in a positive way, as a compliment.
Ye Lingzhi: "I didn't think that much about it. I'll apply what I've learned to others. If I want something, I'll try my best to get it. The effort I put in depends on how much I like that thing. Although I've never been in a relationship, I think it should be the same."
“You’re right. Mr. Zhou doesn’t need our help at all; he’s very proactive.”
Assistant Chen laughed and said that when President Zhou and his wife first got engaged, they were both very composed. They didn't contact each other.
Now, even though President Zhou is only away on a business trip for a few days, and the two of them talk on the phone every night, he still can't help but come back early. As soon as he arrives in the capital, he doesn't even go home, but rushes to the TCM clinic to pick up his wife. It's not like he doesn't need their help.
President Zhou said that we should not underestimate anyone, and indeed we should not underestimate anyone. Assistant Ye also has things we can learn from him.
The fact that Assistant Ye was recognized by the Lin family shows that she is very capable. If she were just treated as an ordinary assistant, the eldest son of the Lin family would not have helped her buy a house from his friend and even asked his friend to give her a discount.
Thinking of this, he asked, "Has your house been renovated?"
Ye Lingzhi nodded and said, "The renovation is complete. The young lady found the renovation team for me."
Assistant Chen asked enviously, "That's great! Have you moved in yet?"
Ye Lingzhi: "When Sister Yi'an gives me time off, I'll stay there for a day or two. Have you bought your house yet?"
Assistant Chen: "I bought it, but I'm still short a little money. Mr. Zhou lent it to me."
Ye Lingzhi asked curiously, "Your salary must be quite high, so why are you short of money to buy a house? And your house is very big?"
Assistant Chen said, "It's over 300 square meters, not as big as your house. I like buying luxury goods. Last year I bought my parents a car and even built them a villa in our hometown..."
He earns a good salary, but he spends a lot, so he hasn't saved much money.
Ye Lingzhi said enviously, "That's great! My parents divorced, and I grew up with my grandparents. After they passed away, their house was divided between my uncle and my father. If I hadn't been Yi'an's assistant, I wouldn't have anywhere to go."
She rarely spends money, and lives and eats at the Lin family's house. The Lin family also provides her with clothes for all four seasons. Sister Yi'an doesn't care about brands and prioritizes comfort in her clothing. Most of her clothes are custom-made. Being by her side, I have lost my fascination with luxury goods. Compared to those luxury goods, I prefer to collect gold.
Assistant Chen: "You've become quite successful now. Have your parents contacted you yet?"
Ye Lingzhi said in a calm tone: "They somehow found out that I bought a house in the capital and came to me, but I ignored them."
Assistant Chen didn't ask any more questions.
The two chatted as they packed their things, and time passed slowly. The clock on the wall pointed to seven o'clock, but there was still no sound from upstairs.
Aunt Liu had already prepared dinner and came over to ask her two assistants, "Should we call them?"
Assistant Chen glanced at his watch: "No need."
It means they're not hungry yet; they'll definitely come down to eat when they're hungry.
Aunt Liu nodded.
Upstairs, Zhou Mingshi stood by the bed, putting on his clothes, buttoning his pajamas one button at a time, and leaned down to touch her sweaty long hair: "What do you want to eat? I'll bring it up to you?"
Lin Yi'an: "I'm going downstairs."
He only realized his voice was a little hoarse when he opened his mouth, and then said, "Bring me my clothes."
Zhou Mingshi went to the dressing room and quickly came out with her clothes. He sat on the edge of the bed, holding the clothes and eagerly asking, "Shall I put these on you?"
"I should be able to put them on myself faster." Lin Yi'an took the clothes from his hands.
Zhou Mingshi: "I'll help you..."
Before he could finish speaking, his phone rang.
He could only pick up his phone, and when he saw the caller ID, he frowned but didn't answer the call immediately.
Lin Yi'an: "Who is it?"
Zhou Mingshi: "Belair".
Lin Yi'an: Why didn't you answer the phone?
“He said he was busy with business when he came to China last time and didn’t get enough time to play, so he came again this time.” Zhou Mingshi said casually, “I arranged for him to stay at a hotel, with Secretary Shen accompanying him.”
Lin Yi'an smiled and said, "Does he want to come to our house as a guest?"
Zhou Mingshi nodded and said, "I'll invite him over for dinner before he leaves. I'm going to the study to take this call."
Lin Yi'an got dressed and, without waiting for him, was starving after a busy afternoon and needed to go find something to eat.
When Aunt Liu saw her come downstairs, she asked, "Shall we bring the food up now?"
Lin Yi'an: "Bring it up."
When Zhou Mingshi came downstairs, she had already finished a bowl of soup. Seeing him, she said, "I'll eat first."
Zhou Mingshi sat down next to her: "Don't wait for me, eat first if you're hungry."
Lin Yi'an: "You should eat too."
Zhou Mingshi: "Hmm."
The two had just put down their chopsticks when Quan Zisong called.
Zhou Mingshi leaned back in his sofa chair and answered the phone: "What is it?"
"I heard you're back in China. Want to go out for drinks?" Quan Zisong's voice came through the phone.
"I'm not going," Zhou Mingshi said listlessly.
Quan Zisong: "Knowing you're at home with your wife, you can bring Lin Yi'an along. Tao Tao and the others are all here too."
Zhou Mingshi looked at Lin Yi'an, who was sitting on the carpet watching a video: "Quan Zisong called, inviting us out. Do you want to go?"
"I don't want to go." Lin Yi'an said lazily, "Go if you want to."
Zhou Mingshi pinched her cheek. If she wouldn't go, what would he do?
He said "You guys have fun" into the phone and then hung up.
Zhou Mingshi also sat on the carpet, looking at her tablet: "What are you looking at?"
Lin Yi-an: "Variety shows."
Zhou Mingshi's gaze fell on the tablet, where a group of young men and women were hiking. He asked, "Do you like watching this kind of thing?"
Lin Yi-an: "I saw someone I know."
Zhou Mingshi: "Who?"
He remembered her saying she didn't follow celebrities.
Lin Yi-an: "Cai Zi-xin".
Zhou Mingshi: "Who is it?"
Lin Yi'an looked at him: "She's the girl who came to Changping for a checkup last time, an artist from Quan Zisong's company."
Zhou Mingshi nodded, not asking any further questions, but he wasn't particularly interested in watching this kind of variety show.
Fortunately, Lin Yi-an had already watched most of the program and finished watching it quickly. She asked, "Is there anything you want to watch? I'll show it to you."
Zhou Mingshi: "Watch some TV dramas."
Lin Yi'an asked in surprise, "You want to watch TV dramas?"
TV dramas are very long, and she usually doesn't have the patience to watch them all, mainly because she doesn't have the time.
Lin Yi'an clicked on the TV series section and pointed to one of them: "This one."
Lin Yi'an hesitated: "This is a teen idol drama, you want to watch this?"
Zhou Mingshi pulled her into his arms: "Let's watch it together."
The video had already been played, and the two of them calmed down to watch it. It was a melodramatic urban web series.
Lin Yi'an didn't expect Zhou Mingshi to like watching this kind of drama. She actually didn't like it much. She hadn't watched TV dramas for a long time. When she had nothing to do, she would watch variety shows to pass the time.
Having expended a lot of energy in the afternoon, watching shows she didn't like was very effective at putting her to sleep, and within minutes Lin Yi'an fell asleep in Zhou Mingshi's arms.
Zhou Mingshi looked at the person in his arms and couldn't help but chuckle. He carefully picked her up and carried her upstairs.
He turned to his two busy assistants and said, "Turn off the video."
Assistant Chen walked over, picked up the tablet, and saw a melodramatic love triangle involving three men vying for one woman on the screen. He couldn't help but ask, "Does Madam like watching this kind of show?"
Ye Lingzhi said, "Sister Yi'an likes to watch suspense dramas."
Assistant Chen: "Mr. Zhou rarely watches TV dramas, but when he was at the old house, if they were showing war movies or historical dramas, he would watch them for a while."
So why would a couple sit together watching this kind of show? And they even fell asleep watching it?
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