After Pei Wu could no longer see Jin Wei, she stood at the door for a while before preparing to leave.
After finding Shen Yu Nan, she finally felt a little more at ease, and all the fatigue that had accumulated over the past two days finally erupted. Pei Wu, the workaholic who practically lived in the research lab, surprisingly went home.
Her house in the real world is near her company, about a ten-minute walk away.
Although to outsiders it seemed like she had only spent a few tens of minutes in the game, after spending a considerable amount of time in the game, she felt somewhat disoriented upon returning to her real-world home. The interior design of her house, like her uninteresting personality, consisted mostly of black, white, and gray decorations and furniture.
Unlike the bustling 'home' in the game world, her house was very quiet. Pei Wu, having found a change of clothes and preparing to take a shower, sent Jin Wei her first WeChat message.
'I'm home now. '
After sending the WeChat message, Pei Wu waited a while, then casually opened Jin Wei's Moments. She scrolled through Jin Wei's posts from the past six months. Although the access was limited to six months, Jin Wei didn't seem to be one to post frequently; there were only a few posts.
Thinking about the meeting the other person had mentioned, I put down my phone and went into the bathroom.
Jin Wei wasn't actually in a meeting; he had been staying in his office since returning from outside.
He didn't say "Come in" until his secretary knocked on the office door.
He had just turned off his phone before his secretary came in, but before she even entered... his phone screen was still showing his chat with Pei Wu. All she had sent was a message, "I'm home." His heart was pounding wildly.
He saw Pei Wu's WeChat message immediately, but didn't reply right away. He didn't even know what to say to keep the conversation going, since his dating experience was zero...
He had to admit that he felt like he was dreaming.
"What's up?"
"..." The secretary hesitated for a moment before saying, "Mr. Jin has ordered takeout."
"What's so special about takeout? Is it worth you coming all this way to tell me?"
"Yes," the secretary replied, then continued, "but... the delivery person said it was ordered by Pei Wu, the CEO of 'Bei Shang'."
Food delivery is nothing unusual, but it's quite strange that it's delivered by the CEO of a rival company with whom they have a long-standing feud.
"...What...was delivered?"
"It's just coffee and some snacks and pastries, quite a lot of them, do you want to buy them?"
"Okay, take it. Distribute it to your colleagues who are working overtime." Jin Wei paused for a moment, then pretended to look up from the documents and said casually, "Later... send a copy to me too."
"yes."
It turned out that Pei Wu had heard from Jin Wei that there would be a meeting later, so she arranged for some snacks and coffee.
After the secretary left, Jin Wei picked up his phone again. The first thing he saw when he unlocked it was his chat with Pei Wu. After a moment's thought, he tapped the keyboard and replied with "Mm." Then he added, "Thank you for the coffee."
After replying to the message, Jin Wei put his phone aside and continued to look at the document in his hand. However, after reading only a few lines, Jin Wei's scattered thoughts came back to what Pei Wu had said to him in the restaurant.
Unable to concentrate on his work, Jin Wei's gaze fell once again on his phone, which he had placed aside.
He reached for his phone but received no reply from Pei Wu.
"He said he wanted to pursue me, but he can't even reply to my messages promptly."
Despite saying that, he still clicked on Pei Wu's Moments. Pei Wu's Moments didn't have any settings for how many days it could be visible, and even when it was fully open, there were only some research-related forwarded links.
Actually, Jin Wei had previously chatted with Pei Wu using his alternate account. Pei Wu was always slow to reply to messages, with long intervals between each reply. However, she would apologize, saying that she had been busy, and their communication was limited to superficial academic discussions.
Only once, Jin Wei, using a fake WeChat account, mustered up the courage to ask Pei Wu what kind of man she liked. Pei Wu took a long time to reply that time, but she did answer Jin Wei's question.
Her answer was, "I haven't considered it, but I'll probably find someone suitable to live with and settle down with."
"Suitable for daily life" is, in other words, "virtuous and capable," which is a completely unrelated image to Jin Wei.
During that period, Pei Wu was indeed going on blind dates under pressure from her family. She didn't have any specific requirements, as long as the person caught her eye, had a gentle personality, was suitable for marriage... and could get her family to leave her alone.
Pei Wu replied to Jin Wei's message after she had finished showering.
'I was just taking a shower. Is your meeting over?'
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