Chapter 90 is just a sample for you.
Seeing a group of people here, and that these people were all important in terms of age and position, Jing Ge's fear of elders was about to kick in, and he stood there awkwardly.
The little boy pleaded in a tearful voice, "Sister, could you ask Uncle to give me a penguin?"
Jing Ge's mouth moved slightly.
"No," Li Mushi said calmly before she could even utter a sound. "She's not as thick-skinned as you. I'll refuse on her behalf."
The entire audience: "......"
The little boy burst into tears.
Jingge was incredibly embarrassed.
The board members, looking bewildered, dragged and pulled the boy away.
“Why are you so direct?” Jing Ge stammered. “I was going to explain that this was a gift from someone else, and it wasn’t appropriate to give it back to him. If I had bought it myself, I would have given it away… Couldn’t you have been a little more tactful?”
As she spoke, her soft voice began to carry a hint of reproach.
Li Mushi took the water from her hand, unscrewed a bottle, and handed it back to her: "If being tactful works, they won't take advantage of you."
"..." Jing Ge muttered softly, "Luckily you refused for me, otherwise I would have felt really embarrassed."
She looked at the two penguin plush toys nestled peacefully in the man's arms, and her eyes couldn't help but crinkle into a smile.
"Li Mushi".
"Um."
"It's so kind of you."
I will protect her unconditionally. I will not force her to be sensible or to stop arguing with children or to give up her things just because she has grown up and is an adult.
In Jing Ge's limited memory, she had never been treated like this by anyone else.
Ignoring everything else, I will only defend her position.
The man glanced at her calmly and said, "I'm just giving you a sample. Next time, refuse it yourself, or I'll confiscate it."
"......"
"Go for it," Li Mushi said as he helped her wash the chopsticks. "I'm not afraid of offending people." He wasn't telling her to fight alone and that she could push all the blame onto him.
Jing Ge suppressed his unshy smile, got up from his seat, and moved from the opposite side to the side of him, sitting side by side.
Are you busy today?
"fine."
"I'm so busy."
"Um."
"You can take me home after dinner; it'll take a long time to hail a taxi."
"There are desserts in the fridge upstairs, would you like to take some with you?"
"..." Jing Ge grinned, "Then I'll eat it before I leave, otherwise it will be past its best-before date."
Li Mushi patted her on the head.
Jing Ge talks a lot, which Li Mushi seems to take for granted. The two are different in temperament, one warm and the other cold, one active and the other quiet, yet the scene is surprisingly harmonious.
Hiding in a corner of the cafeteria, Xiao Ai saw a romantic connection between her boss and her partner for the first time.
Jing Ge and her boss have great chemistry.
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Jing Ge was surprised that Sheng Man would come to the company to find her.
The smile lines on Sheng Man's face gradually darkened with the sudden appearance of Sheng Man.
Sheng Man is always elegant and composed, and she would never come to the company to bother her unless it was something important or urgent.
Jingge asked anxiously, "Aunt Man, has something happened to Li Zhan?"
The night before last, Jing Ge called Sheng Man because of Li Zhan's drunkenness at the bar.
The only possibility she could guess was that it was related to Li Zhan.
“I ignored him,” Sheng Man said, her expression grim. “What could possibly happen to a grown man like him?”
Jing Ge opened his mouth, then squeezed out, "You didn't go?"
Sheng Man: "I asked the driver to check, and he said the person wasn't there, had left, so I didn't bother with it."
She was clearly upset and her attention wasn't on the matter.
Jing Ge: "Then you looked for me..."
“Something’s come up,” Sheng Man said solemnly, “It’s important.”
Jingge sat up straight: "Please speak."
“I started investigating Zhuo Yueyue last year,” Sheng Man said slowly, “and recently I’ve made some progress.”
"......"
Sheng Man looked at her and said, "She and her mother are not from Haishi. They moved here when she was ten years old. Later, her mother married Zhuo Wensen, and that's when they were able to establish themselves in Haishi."
Zhuo Yueyue is the same age as Jing Ge, which means that when Zhuo Yueyue moved to Haishi, the Jing family was going bankrupt.
“Last week, Zhuo Wensen and Zhuo Tai divorced,” Sheng Man said. “It’s one thing for a couple to divorce in middle age, but the Zhuo family kicked Zhuo Yueyue out as well.”
That's the unbelievable part.
Divorce is divorce, but who divorces without wanting their children? The children are already adults, especially in wealthy families like this.
Sheng Man hesitated: "Princess..."
Jing Ge pursed his lower lip.
After a few seconds of pause, Jing Ge took a deep breath: "She and I...have a relationship?"
Sheng Man looked at him with pity: "How could you possibly suspect yourself?"
“Back in junior high, my classmates used to joke that we looked alike,” Jing Ge’s voice was hoarse. “I always thought that was why Zhuo Yueyue didn’t like me.”
Jingge once wore a strawberry hair clip, cherry pink, which was very pretty.
As luck would have it, Zhuo Yueyue was wearing the same style that day, in white.
The classmates joked that the two of them had the same taste, not only wearing the same items, but even their eyebrows and eyes were very similar.
In front of her classmates, Zhuo Yueyue generously asked her where she bought the hair clip, praising her good taste and saying that the cherry blossom pink was prettier than the white one.
Jingge believed she was sincere.
The next day, rumors spread that she liked to imitate others, and later it was even said that she rolled up her school uniform sleeves twice to imitate others.
During those years, Jingge was subjected to the judgment of his entire class from head to toe.
Sheng Man patted her head: "Can you accept this? Do you want Auntie to continue?"
Jing Ge pursed his lips and nodded.
There's nothing she can't accept.
Sheng Man sighed: "Yes, she and you have the same father."
Things seem to be developing in an unbelievable direction.
Jing Ge racked her brains trying to figure out where she had offended Zhuo Yueyue, but after failing to figure it out, she began to accept that some bullying doesn't need a reason.
But there's a reason behind her relationship with Zhuo Yueyue.
“Her mother brought her to Haishi, probably hoping to get her to recognize the Jing family,” Sheng Man said. “But she didn’t expect the Jing family to go bankrupt at that time. You and Beile were almost taken away by creditors. The mother and daughter kept it to themselves. You don’t know Zhuo Yueyue, but she knows you.”
This is probably the reason why Zhuo Yueyue has been targeting her.
Sheng Man said with a hint of sarcasm, "The evil has another source, yet they're blaming it all on you..."
Jingge looked bewildered.
Zhuo Yueyue and she share the same father. Now that Zhuo Yueyue has been kicked out of the Zhuo family and the Jing family's company is doing slightly better, will she go to the Jing family to claim kinship?
Wouldn't that mean she'd be entangled with Zhuo Yueyue for the rest of her life?
Sheng Man also expressed some concern: "I haven't told anyone about this yet, so you should take precautions in advance."
As she spoke, her phone buzzed twice, and Sheng Man opened it to take a look.
Upon seeing something, Sheng Man's expression changed drastically. As she stood up, she knocked over the table and chairs, startling Jing Ge.
"Aunt Man..."
"I have something to do," Sheng Man said hurriedly, "I'm leaving now."
Jingge had never seen her like this before: "Aunt Man..."
Sheng Man didn't even turn her head.
The afternoon sky was overcast with dark clouds.
Jingge felt cold in his hands and feet, and inexplicably, he felt that everything was going in a direction out of control.
Her body desperately needed a familiar and warm embrace.
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