Chapter 78: Postgraduate study ruined (11)
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People like Zhou Ziqian are obviously overly self-conscious.
He needs everyone to make him the center of the world at all times.
His cronies must be by his side, following him closely.
His boyfriend must treat him as his God, and even if he does something wrong, he must immediately give in and make peace with him.
In his world, there is no Xia Shu, nor Zhu Qingchen and Huo Jun. The only thing that exists is——
His boyfriend, his boyfriend's teacher, and his enemies.
So, in his opinion, his enemy suddenly approached his boyfriend and must be targeting him.
The logic is very smooth. After all, he is the protagonist of this world, and everything should revolve around him.
So he had to protect Xia Shu and keep her away from his enemies.
During this period, he didn't care about any losses Xia Shu suffered.
After all, he saved Xia Shu's life!
It’s no big deal if Xia Shu loses an internship position and a little internship salary.
When you date him in the future, if he just lets a little something slip through his fingers to him, won’t he have everything?
Is it necessary to make such a fuss?
This is what Zhou Ziqian thought.
But now, suddenly someone told him——
Don't be silly, you are you and Xia Shu is Xia Shu, you broke up a long time ago, Xia Shu fought for the interview opportunity on his own, and Huo Jun had no intention of making things difficult for him. From the beginning to the end, you have been the one making a fuss.
Zhou Ziqian suddenly felt as if the whole world was collapsing.
At this time, Zhu Qingchen picked up the phone and said to the other end of the phone: "Xia Shu, did you hear that?"
Zhou Ziqian was still a little dazed and stared at Zhu Qingchen blankly.
It turned out that when Zhu Qingchen was talking to him just now, his cell phone was on and he was talking to Xia Shu on the phone. Xia Shu heard everything!
Zhu Qingchen continued, "Your ex-boyfriend asked us to cross your name off the interview list because Mr. Huo might make things difficult for you. Do you agree?"
Until Xia Shu's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Teacher, I don't agree. I will attend the interview on time."
"Okay, I know. The interview list has been submitted to the school and it won't be changed easily. Don't worry."
"Thank you, teacher." Xia Shu paused and whispered, "Teacher, can you give the phone to Zhou Ziqian?"
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen handed the phone to Zhou Ziqian.
Zhou Ziqian gritted his teeth and whispered, "How could you call him?"
Zhu Qingchen looked at him in confusion, "You want to cancel his quota without even asking him what he thinks? You mean you want to cancel his quota without telling him?"
So in Zhou Ziqian's eyes, Xia Shu is his own accessory.
He is the one who has the final say and does whatever he wants. He will let Xia Shu do whatever he wants and Xia Shu just needs to obey his orders.
Even if he made the decision directly, he didn't need Xia Shu's consent.
The system whispered: "This is the style of 'male chauvinism' and 'domineering president'."
Zhou Ziqian didn't answer, but reached out and took the phone from Zhu Qingchen.
"Xia Shu, listen to me, don't..."
Xia Shu interrupted him seriously: "Zhou Ziqian, what Teacher Zhu said is what I want to say. Please understand that we have broken up. Even if we are still in love, you have no right to interfere in my affairs."
"I am a person, an independent person, not your property. Just because I have been in a relationship with you, I am not branded by you."
"Please, leave Teacher Zhu immediately!"
Xia Shu still didn't know how to argue, but at least every word he spoke was clear and logical.
After saying these words, he stopped talking. Zhou Ziqian pursed his lips, but couldn't utter a word.
He was so angry that he raised his hand and was about to smash the phone on the ground.
Zhu Qingchen opened his eyes wide and quickly stretched out his hand: "My phone..."
The next second, Huo Jun grabbed Zhou Ziqian's wrist, took back Zhu Qingchen's phone and returned it to him.
Zhou Ziqian gritted his teeth and wanted to argue: "What do you know? I'm doing this for your own good..."
He raised his head and looked at Huo Jun: "You must know that Xia Shu is my boyfriend, you did it on purpose, right?"
Huo Jun said calmly: "I know, so what?"
"You... so my guess was right, you will definitely make things difficult for Xia Shu." Zhou Ziqian seemed to have caught some great evidence and immediately said to Zhu Qingchen, "Look, you are still blaming me, but he obviously did it on purpose."
Zhou Ziqian shouted into the phone: "Xia Shu, did you hear that? He admitted it himself, so I am right..."
Huo Jun stretched out his hand and interrupted him: "Why would I want to bully an ordinary student? How do you think I would bully him? Order him around? Insult him? Ask him to run errands?"
"A vice president of a group, in order to seize power and bully his nephew, painstakingly promoted cooperation between the group and the school, and brought his nephew's ex-boyfriend into the company as an intern, just to humiliate him."
Huo Jun laughed: "Zhou Ziqian, you have a very rich imagination."
Low EQ: You are mentally ill.
High emotional intelligence: You have a rich imagination.
Huo Jun turned his head to look at the surveillance camera in the office, then looked at Zhu Qingchen.
Zhu Qingchen was talking to Xia Shu on the phone: "The teacher will take care of it, just get ready for the interview."
The camera was recording, but it wasn’t particularly sensitive, and Zhu Qingchen didn’t pay any attention to him.
So Huo Jun cleared his throat, folded his hands, slowly walked to Zhou Ziqian, and whispered: "If I want to punish you, I have ten thousand ways to do it. The decision-making power of the group and the equity of the company are more important than your ex-boyfriend."
Huo Jun made an undisguised mockery of him: "Does all your common sense in life come from your group of mentally retarded friends?"
Zhou Ziqian suddenly raised his head and pointed at his nose, but couldn't utter a complete sentence: "You...you..."
After holding it in for a long time, he could only utter one sentence: "I want to tell grandpa!"
"It's up to you." Huo Jun folded his hands, his face unchanged, and his tone calm, "I hope you grow up soon, graduate from kindergarten soon, enter the company soon, and take over your grandfather's job soon."
Zhou Ziqian lost his composure and yelled: "Huo Jun, you..."
Huo Jun ignored him, turned around, twirled his cufflinks, and shouted outside: "Xiao Liu, please ask Mr. Zhou to leave."
The assistant immediately pushed the door open and gestured to Zhou Ziqian: "Mr. Zhou, please."
Before leaving, Zhou Ziqian wanted to kick the office door, but before he could kick it, he was scared away by Huo Jun's gaze.
He hurried into the elevator, probably going home to complain.
In the office, Zhu Qingchen comforted Xia Shu with a few words and then hung up the phone.
Before hanging up the phone, he heard Xia Chi's voice from the other end: "Wow, Teacher Zhu is so cool!"
The cool teacher Zhu turned around and looked at Huo Jun: "He's gone?"
"Gone." Huo Jun nodded, his expression innocent, "I don't know why, he suddenly went crazy and ran away."
The villain system who watched the whole process: "..."
You say "I don't know why" again? Can you not know why? Isn't this what you are stimulating?
Huo Jun stepped forward, closed the office door, and poured Zhu Qingchen a glass of water.
After talking so much just now, Zhu Qingqing must be thirsty.
"Thank you." Zhu Qingchen took the glass and took a sip.
Huo Jun said: "Teacher Zhu can rest assured now."
Zhu Qingchen held the glass and smiled at him: "I have always believed in Mr. Huo's character. I believe that Mr. Huo will handle this matter impartially."
Huo Jun also smiled and pretended to sigh: "If Teacher Zhu believed in me, he wouldn't have stayed in my office for two days in a row."
Zhu Qingchen hid behind the glass and gave him an embarrassed and shy smile.
He was very worried that things would develop according to the original book, so...
These days, he always finds excuses to come to Zhou Group to meet with Mr. Huo.
Oops, I've been discovered.
Huo Jun raised his wrist and glanced at his watch: "Regarding this cooperation, there is still something to be discussed, but it is too late now. Teacher Zhu, do you mind having dinner while we meet?"
Zhu Qingchen finished the water in the glass, put down the glass, straightened his chest, and stretched out his hand to Huo Jun: "Mr. Huo invited me, I am most happy to do it."
The two walked out of the office side by side and went downstairs.
Because it was a work meeting, Huo Jun did not take Zhu Qingchen out to eat, but took him to the group's employee cafeteria.
The tiles were white, and the warm yellow light shining on them could reveal Zhu Qingchen's appearance.
There are several long rows of tables, with various dishes neatly displayed for people to enjoy.
Zhu Qingchen looked around and exclaimed in his heart: "Wow, system, look at their cafeteria, it's actually a buffet."
Then think about the modern canteens he had eaten in, high school canteens, university canteens, each one was worse than the other.
Just at this moment, an employee wearing a white hat and a mask walked past Zhu Qingchen carrying a large basin of crayfish.
Zhu Qingchen followed him with his gaze: "Why are there crayfish in the cafeteria?"
Not long after, another employee passed by him carrying a large bucket of iced milk tea.
Zhu Qingchen's soul was about to be taken away: "Why is there milk tea in the cafeteria? I want to switch to Zhou Group."
Seeing his appearance, Huo Jun laughed, took out his CEO black card, and said to Zhu Qingchen: "Teacher Zhu, please eat as much as you want. I will swipe the card this time."
This is what Zhu Qingchen said to him last time in the school cafeteria.
Zhu Qingchen pursed his lips tightly, trying not to reveal himself: "Then I won't be polite."
The two of them chose a double seat in a small compartment and sat down. Zhu Qingchen sipped his milk tea while peeling crayfish and skewered them neatly.
He was ready to eat it all in one go.
Huo Jun sat in front of him and helped him peel the shrimps and put them in his bowl.
Zhu Qingchen raised his head and gave him one as well: "Thank you, Mr. Huo."
"You're welcome." Huo Jun said, "Teacher Zhu is here to visit the group, so I should do my best to be a good host."
Finally, Zhu Qingchen saved up a bowl full of lobster meat.
Pour a little sauce on it, then scoop it up with a spoon, Zhu Qingchen opened his mouth wide and ate it in one bite.
He closed his mouth, wiped the sauce on the corner of his lips with a tissue, then closed his mouth and chewed.
While eating, Zhu Qingchen said to the system: "Thinking about it this way, Zhou Ziqian is even more disgusting."
The system sat on the chair he had built with the napkin box: "What do you mean?"
"Because of him, Xia Shu missed out on such delicious food in the staff cafeteria. This is crayfish! This is milk tea!"
"..." The system choked, "Eat yours."
On the other side, the villain system was rolling on the ground.
"Host, I want a napkin chair too, I want one too!"
Huo Jun was helping Zhu Qingchen peel shrimps. He took a second to turn his head and glanced at it: "I advise you to shut up and stay away from me and Zhu Qingqing."
The villain system quickly packed up and prepared to leave: "I should have chosen another host."
At this moment, Huo Jun's cell phone, which was placed upside down, suddenly rang.
Zhu Qingchen turned to look at him, and Huo Jun raised his gloved hands covered in sauce.
Zhu Qingchen pointed at himself uncertainly: "Me?"
"Yes." Huo Jun nodded, "Teacher Zhu, please answer it for me."
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen wiped his hands deliberately and picked up his cell phone.
The note on the phone number was [Mr. Zhou]. Zhu Qingchen thought it should be Zhou Ziqian’s grandfather.
As soon as the phone was connected, a voice that sounded exactly like Zhou Ziqian's, and was domineering, came out.
"Xiao Huo, where are you? Come back to the old house immediately!"
Zhu Qingchen and Huo Jun looked at each other and probably understood.
Zhou Ziqian went home to file a complaint, and now it's Old Man Zhou who's here to hold him accountable.
Huo Jun gave Zhu Qingchen a nonchalant look, but continued peeling shrimps with his hands.
Huo Jun said calmly: "I'm having dinner."
"I don't care where you are, come back right away."
"I see. Please wait a moment. I am eating."
His tone never changed, he remained calm and composed, as if he didn't know what he was doing wrong.
Mr. Zhou originally wanted to give him a warning and scare him, but now he has no place to vent his anger and can only hold it back.
"Okay, come back early."
"Um."
Before hanging up, Zhou Ziqian's voice could be faintly heard from the other end of the phone.
"Grandpa, he said it himself. He wants our family's equity..."
Huo Jun smiled nonchalantly.
This loser actually went back to complain.
But he didn't care.
After peeling another shrimp, Huo Jun put the shrimp meat into Zhu Qingchen's bowl and saw that Zhu Qingchen was looking at him worriedly.
"Boss Huo, are you okay? Do you need my help?"
Huo Jun said calmly: "It doesn't matter, Teacher Zhu can eat slowly. After eating, I will send Teacher Zhu back to school and then go over."
Zhu Qingchen was shocked: "Is this really okay?"
"It's okay." Huo Jun was about to grab another shrimp to peel, but he missed it. He had peeled all the shrimps on both plates.
He had no choice but to take off his gloves, and then pulled out a tissue and wiped his hands briefly: "Times have changed, they should be waiting for me. Besides, Zhou Ziqian should pray that I don't go back so soon, as he will regret it as soon as I go back."
Zhu Qingchen was puzzled: "Why?"
Huo Jun did not answer, but only asked: "Teacher Zhu, do you want to eat more? I'll peel some more."
"No, no." Zhu Qingchen waved his hands repeatedly, "That's enough."
*
After the two of them finished dinner, Huo Jun personally drove Zhu Qingchen back to the teachers' apartment.
Zhu Qingchen got out of the car and waved to him: "Bye, Mr. Huo."
Huo Jun sat in the driver's seat, lowered the window, and waved at him: "Goodbye, teacher."
Zhu Qingchen was still worried and asked, "Do you really not need me to go with Mr. Huo?"
Huo Jun said calmly: "No, I can handle it myself. Teacher Zhu, go back and have a rest."
"Okay then." Zhu Qingchen walked into the apartment building. Huo Jun sat downstairs and didn't drive away until the lights in the windows on the fifth floor came on.
He drove slowly and walked in the school.
Suddenly, the villain system said, "You're exposed."
"What?" Huo Jun didn't look at it, drove out of the school gate and stepped on the accelerator.
"You told him before that you helped him because you wanted to cooperate with him, expose Zhou Ziqian's true face, and drag Zhou Ziqian into the water, but now——"
He has been helping Zhu Qingchen, providing him with information about Zhou Ziqian and helping him to fight Zhou Ziqian off.
And he didn't ask Zhu Qingchen to do anything for him at all.
It's completely different from the cooperation he mentioned before.
The villain system said: "The other side might find out."
Huo Jun said: "It is too difficult to approach Zhu Qingqing with this identity this time. You should reflect on this."
"I will record it truthfully..." The villain system responded, "This is obviously your problem."
"What's my problem?"
"You can't move once you see the host on the other side."
Huo Jun remained calm and did not deny it.
"It was understandable in the previous worlds. At least you had a legitimate reason to approach him. But this time, your reason for approaching him was too far-fetched."
Huo Jun was driving and turned on the car radio.
"Good evening, car owners! This is The Sound of Music, which will meet you at 8 o'clock. The song we'll be bringing you today is "You Love Him So Much"..."
The villain system was shocked: "You're here again! In ancient times, people listened to the piano, and nowadays, they listen to the radio, right? "You Love Him So Much", you really love him so much! You love him so much that you expose yourself!"
Huo Jun pretended not to hear the chatter of the villain system, turned up the music, and concentrated on driving.
Twenty minutes later, Huo Jun drove to the Zhou family's old house.
This is a suburban manor covering over a hundred acres.
When he was young, Mr. Zhou indulged in sensual pleasures and exhausted his body. In his later years, he was plagued by illnesses and pains, so he moved to the suburbs to recuperate.
The wrought iron automatic gate opened, and Huo Jun drove onto the avenue, with neatly trimmed green pine trees on both sides.
After crossing the avenue and arriving at a wide square, a two-and-a-half-story new Chinese-style villa appears before our eyes.
The door of the villa was open and brightly lit, obviously waiting for him.
Huo Jun parked the car in the square, got out, and strode into the villa.
In the living room, Mr. Zhou was sitting on the sofa, leaning on a cane.
He indulged in excessive sexual activity when he was young, and when he got old, all his hair fell out. He looked puffy and fat, with two big dark bags under his eyes.
Zhou Ziqian sat next to him, changed his clothes and let down his hair which had been standing up. He looked like a good grandson.
The tea on the table had been changed several times. They must have been waiting here for a long time.
Quite patient.
As soon as Huo Jun came in, Mr. Zhou grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at him, and the crutch in his hand also slammed heavily to the ground.
"Huo Jun, what good things have you done?!"
Huo Jun dodged the teacup, took out a bunch of photos from his briefcase and threw them on the table: "Why don't you ask what good things Zhou Ziqian has done!"
Mr. Zhou thought that as soon as he smashed the cup, Huo Jun would immediately kneel down and admit his mistake, but he didn't expect Huo Jun to rush directly to him and dare to challenge him.
Old Master Zhou choked and glanced down at the photo. Before he could see it clearly, Zhou Ziqian immediately wanted to take the photo away.
Mr. Zhou held his hand and said, "Put it down."
Under pressure from his grandfather, Zhou Ziqian had to put down the photo.
He put on his reading glasses and looked at the photos carefully.
The protagonist in the photos is of course Zhou Ziqian.
There is a huge difference between the two photos.
In some of the photos, Zhou Ziqian was working part-time in a coffee shop, pretending to be poor and dating Xia Shu.
The other part is about Zhou Ziqian playing cards with his friends in the card room and spending money like water.
Huo Jun sat down next to the tea set and studied the modern high-tech tea set. He found that he couldn't understand the buttons, so he took a cup and poured himself some boiled water.
"What did Zhou Ziqian tell you? Did he say that he had a boyfriend named Xia Shu, who was a Chinese major student at Jinghua University, and that I deliberately arranged for Xia Shu to intern at the group just to torture him?"
Mr. Zhou put down the photo and said confidently, "He is just worried about his boyfriend. Besides, what would it be like for his boyfriend to intern under you?"
"When he inherits the group, if he still likes her, why not just keep her as his boyfriend and make her his secretary?"
"I think his boyfriend is a bit stupid. What's the point of him going for an internship now? He can't earn as much as the little money our family makes. If he serves Ziqian well, Ziqian will give him more than that little salary."
Huo Jun said calmly: "He must have said that I deliberately provoked him and said that I wanted to take away the group, right?"
A look of panic flashed across Zhou Ziqian's face.
He wanted to use this matter to threaten Huo Jun, so why did he just say it out loud?
Huo Jun ignored him and said to Mr. Zhou: "Why don't you ask him how he got his boyfriend."
He took the photos from Mr. Zhou and said, "If he was dating someone normally, I wouldn't have to spend a lot of money to buy these photos from the paparazzi!"
Mr. Zhou and Zhou Ziqian were both stunned: "Dog... paparazzi?"
Huo Jun slammed the teacup heavily on the coffee table and suddenly raised his voice, which scared the grandfather and grandson.
"That Xia Shu, although he is just a child from an ordinary family, he also has a clean background. Zhou Ziqian, you are so good, pretending to be poor and deceiving others' feelings."
"On the one hand, you asked him to treat you to a five-dollar pancake, while on the other hand, you spent your days drinking and partying with your friends, watching other people's jokes and playing with their feelings for a whole year, bringing shame to the Zhou family."
"Do you think your friends are all reliable? Do you think you are doing things secretly? I don't know which of your friends has sold your information to others. The paparazzi have already filmed these things, waiting to see the Zhou family's joke."
Huo Jun paused and said, "As the grandson of the Zhou Group, he did something like this. What will the group do if it is posted online?"
"Let me cross out Xia Shu's name. Do you know how much he cares about this interview? You crossed out his name and he turned around and went to accept the interview."
"Everyone in this world is an ordinary person. Do you think those netizens will directly bring down the group? Will they bring down the stock price? What will happen to the group then? What will happen to all these employees?"
"While I was buying off the photos from the paparazzi, I also had to keep Xia Shu and his difficult teacher steady, eat with his teacher, and help his teacher peel shrimps..."
When Huo Jun was moved, he couldn't help but lower his head, holding his forehead, and his shoulders trembled slightly.
The villain system leaned over to look at him: "You are laughing wildly, I saw it, in fact, you are enjoying peeling shrimp for 'difficult teacher Zhu', right?"
Huo Jun adjusted his expression, raised his head again, and said sternly to Zhou's grandfather and grandson: "Why do you think I came here so late? It's all for the group!"!
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