Chapter 22
There will be a celebration banquet after the launch event.
There's nothing to celebrate, it's just a gathering for everyone to have a meal.
Yu Xuan clearly couldn't sit at the largest round table.
but...
"Xiao Yu," the company leader called out to Yu Xuan, who was about to retreat, and said cheerfully, "Come sit in the front, and call your assistants too, all of you sit at this table."
Um?
Liang Yue glanced at the broad-faced old man, then at Yu Xuan, who was completely overwhelmed by happiness.
Oh no, did she really hit the jackpot?
If you were to ask Liang Yue which type of person he dislikes the most, it would definitely be someone with good luck.
Yu Xuan suppressed her overwhelming joy and covered her mouth with a smile, saying, "How could I dare? I'll just sit in the back."
“Hey,” the leader said, feigning displeasure, “come and sit down with your assistant.”
Yu Xuan no longer declined, and giggled twice, "I shall accept your offer."
Liang Yue rolled her eyes inwardly. She still had a camera hanging around her neck, and the contact lenses she had worn this morning were now uncomfortable because her eyes were being flashed by the spotlight several times, so she took them off and threw them away.
At this moment, it was impossible to tell whether the dark figure five meters away was a person or a dog.
Whatever.
Liang Yue thought, what does it matter if she sits in the back or in the front? Anyway, she's just a lowly working person. She just hopes that she won't have to drink too much for Yu Xuan.
Even though she can drink, she doesn't want to.
The person sitting at the head of the round table was probably a man.
Liang Yue squinted and stared at him for a while, thinking she was being discreet; perhaps he was quite tall.
I couldn't make out their faces clearly.
She knew that her task at this moment was to flatter Yu Xuan when appropriate. There was no need to take pictures of her now, otherwise it would seem beneath her. There was nothing important, as long as she was full and satisfied.
Yu Wei texted her, asking if she had finished work and if she needed to come pick her up, as it was quite late.
A straightforward person doesn't mince words (Liang Yue): 【No need, I'll hitch a ride home from the company later.】
Yei (于微): [Okay, when are you going to change your name?]
A wise person doesn't mince words: [It's time for a change.]
A straightforward person doesn't mince words (emo version): [What about this one?]
Yei: [Get lost.]
After replying to his friend's message, Liang Yue felt like he had been given a second chance at life, and he could go back to being a workhorse.
However, whether it was Liang Yue's imagination or not, she always felt that someone was watching her.
I have a strange, inexplicable itching sensation all over my body, a feeling that makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
But she couldn't see anything clearly; could it be Yu Xuan secretly cursing her?
"Xiao Yu, your assistant seems quite good. She's been following you around. What's her name?"
Yu Xuan glanced at Liang Yue out of the corner of her eye and chuckled dryly, "Yes, her name is Liang Yue, and she graduated from university this year."
"So young," the leader remarked. "College students these days have it tough, and Xiao Liang seems very promising."
When his name was mentioned, Liang Yue chuckled twice. It was like when a leader met an unfamiliar elder during the New Year; he couldn't think of anything to say to praise him, so he offered polite but insincere compliments.
The dishes were the same, and Liang Yue had been eating at dozens of events, big and small, over the past few months with Yu Xuan. He was already tired of them, so as the one invited, he certainly couldn't not touch his chopsticks.
A chopstick is held in the mouth for a while, then left in the bowl for a while.
Fortunately, he has a day off tomorrow. Liang Yue plans to go back and change his bedding first, take a shower, lie comfortably in bed and read a novel for a while, then play some games, and go to sleep around four or five o'clock. He will wake up around one or two in the afternoon, order some takeout and milk tea, and then edit the video for Yu Xuan.
It's perfect...
"Liang Yue, Liang Yue."
"Hmm?" Lost in his pleasant reverie, Liang Yue was nudged by Yu Xuan. "What's wrong, Sister Xuan?"
"President Ji is calling for you."
"President Ji?"
Liang Yue looked up and saw that President Ji, who was diagonally opposite her, was staring at her. She was too far away to see clearly or hear him, so she forced herself to ask, "President Ji, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. I just heard that Miss Liang is very capable at work, and I wanted to get to know you."
"Thank you for your kind words, Mr. Ji," Liang Yue said politely, raising his glass to him. "If you ever need any photos taken or videos edited in the future, feel free to contact me, and I'll do it for you free of charge."
"Yeah?"
Liang Yue paused for a moment, thinking that as a CEO, he shouldn't need her, so she readily agreed, "Of course."
"Well then, there's no time like the present. I happen to have a model here, but I need a photographer. If you're free later, Miss Liang, could you take a few photos of it for me?"
Does this mean they want her to work overtime?
Liang Yue forced a smile, "It might not be convenient today, maybe later, if there's a chance later. Besides, President Ji has many capable people around him, I can't compare to them."
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In the latter half of this insincere and sycophantic gathering, Liang Yue had completed his task and become a dispensable assistant.
Yu Xuan, in a show of 'mercy,' told her to go back and rest early.
Liang Yue couldn't wait to escape the party. After saying goodbye to Yu Xuan, she hailed a ride-hailing car. While waiting for the car, she went through the photos on her camera and deleted those that were obviously of poor quality and couldn't be saved by Photoshop.
She seemed a bit listless.
She didn't notice a black Cayenne following behind her ride-hailing car the entire way.
...
Meeting Liang Yue today was undoubtedly a delightful surprise for Ji Shuyi.
I still remember how suddenly the incident happened. He was quickly taken away by the Ji family, and his mother, Jiang Ying, was taken away with him. Ji Shuyi's father, Ji Mingyu, made a deal with Jiang Ying. He would give her a large sum of money on the condition that she would no longer have any contact with Ji Shuyi from then on.
Jiang Ying had accumulated a lot of debt at the time, and she herself had a deep gambling addiction. This money could not only pay off her debts, but also support her to live a far more extravagant life than before.
Jiang Ying didn't even consider refusing.
In her view, this was a win-win situation for Ji Shuyi. Ji Shuyi would be able to receive a better education, live a more comfortable life, and not have to struggle for a living in the future.
Ji Mingyu had spoken with Ji Shuyi once, asking him if he was willing to accept such an arrangement. If Ji Shuyi had a strong aversion to it, Ji Mingyu would reconsider. He was a businessman and couldn't accept his carefully nurtured son abandoning him without hesitation after he had grown up and become powerful.
He doesn't force anyone.
After two days of deliberation, Ji Shuyi also agreed to Ji Mingyu's arrangement.
The only drawback of this seemingly perfect arrangement was that he and Liang Yue separated.
At that time, Ji Shuyi planned to continue to help Liang Yue get into a better school without charge, and ideally the two of them could get into the same university. At that time, many things he had been looking forward to would come to fruition.
However, despite his meticulous planning, he lost contact with Liang Yue.
Liang Yue stopped replying to his messages, and he realized that there was a problem with her WeChat account. So he called Liang Yue's grandmother instead, and the female voice on the other end mechanically repeated, "The number you dialed is not in service."
After getting through that turbulent period, he contacted Kang Yuyi and some other classmates, and the reply he received was that Liang Yue had also transferred schools.
At that time, Ji Shuyi, in an unfamiliar environment, felt unusually lost.
...
Ji Shuyi watched Liang Yue get out of the ride-hailing car and enter a residential area.
He got out of the car and followed her into the residential area. He watched Liang Yue walk into the stairwell of a certain unit and counted the stairwell lights that turned on in response: the third floor.
The lights in the apartment on the left of the third floor came on immediately after Liang Yue went upstairs.
Having done all this, Ji Shuyi had no intention of leaving.
He had finally seen Liang Yue again, how could he be willing to leave?
So he did the most absurd thing he ever did—sat in front of Liang Yue's house all night.
Fortunately, this community has two apartments per floor, and the two apartments are at completely opposite ends, so the neighbor won't mistake him for a drunk man harassing and send him to the police station.
...
After Liang Yue returned to her parents' home, her insomnia improved. During her first two years of university, except for the final exam week when she was trying to learn a semester's worth of professional knowledge in a week and occasionally experiencing anxiety and insomnia, she almost never suffered from insomnia.
but!
What on earth happened today?!
Logically speaking, after expending so much energy today, I should be sleepy by now and fall asleep the moment my head hits the pillow.
It is now 4 a.m.
Four hours had passed since Liang Yue turned off his phone, lay down on the bed, and started to drift off to sleep.
This is not a good sign, she thought.
In the quiet of the night, some details that were deliberately ignored are especially easy to resurface in her mind. For example, the CEO who kept her there tonight was surnamed Ji; another example is that his voice was particularly familiar, although not exactly the same as her high school classmate, but still hard to ignore; yet another example is that she heard that this CEO Ji was exceptionally young, about the same age as her.
How about... we have some drinks?
Liang Yue was afraid that he would toss and turn at night, still clinging to the unrequited love he had in high school that had been put on hold, and dwelling on the past and present.
She'd seen this quote somewhere on social media: "You shouldn't meet someone too amazing when you're young, otherwise you'll never have a peaceful life."
Yu Wei teased her with that sentence.
Liang Yue wanted to prove that Ji Shuyi was far from amazing to her, and that she would definitely get what she wanted in the rest of her life. That bastard Ji Shuyi was nothing more than a painful memory from her high school days.
That's why she frequently changes boyfriends.
Yu Wei and Shen Zhuo took her to see a psychologist because they were genuinely afraid of leaving some indelible aftereffects on Liang Yue's mind.
The test results were very good; the psychologist said that Liang Yue was mentally healthy.
Yu Wei avoided Liang Yue's questioning, "Then what is she doing now, doctor? Our Liang Yue has always been a very well-behaved child. She would never use any pretext to hurt or damage other people's feelings."
The doctor said she was just stubborn and had some internal struggles.
These are common flaws among young people. As long as she doesn't do anything immoral, we should just let her be. Perhaps she just wants to prove something.
Moreover, the doctor said that when she grows up and looks back on this, she might understand that sometimes intervention is not necessarily a good thing.
...
Liang Yue turned on a hallway light, went into the kitchen, and opened the refrigerator. The white light shone on her somewhat haggard face.
After scanning the room and finding nothing, she remembered that she had drunk the last bottle of wine the day before yesterday.
Fortunately, there is a 24-hour convenience store right at the entrance of the community.
Liang Yue went back to his bedroom, grabbed a knitted cardigan, put it on, and opened the door in a disheveled manner.
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