When Lu Wan called Chen Jinli, he was leaning against the saltwater tank taking care of his fish son.

A few days ago, a pregnant white-tip shark gave birth to two malnourished pups, so fragile that they had to be removed from the saltwater tank and raised in isolation.

Looking at the baby sharks dragging nutrition bags and swimming around in the isolation tank like tadpoles, Chen Jinli calmly hung up Lu Wan's phone and told her that he was in a meeting.

The chat record stopped at the last time Lu Wan gave a lively reply after receiving a reply to her internship application, which formed a sharp contrast with Chen Jinli's cold but calm reply today.

Chen Jinli didn't think there was anything wrong.

He is just that kind of person.

The main reason why he chose to study marine life is probably because compared to human social interaction, he feels more comfortable getting along with marine life that does not require emotional feedback and does not have the ability to interact emotionally.

It was probably for this reason that he chose to stay with He Jinxing when he had nothing to do over the past period of time.

When He Jinxing is at his best, he can be calmer and colder-blooded than the white-tip shark in front of him.

The two of them had a tacit understanding on this point, so much so that when he sent a message last night asking Lu Wan what position he had applied for, Chen Jinli didn't even need to ask him what he wanted to do. He directly called his assistant and asked him to transfer Lu Wan to another position.

——Efficient social interaction.

Lu Wan's call was hung up and he never called again.

Chen Jinli felt like laughing as he sat by the seawater tank. Lu Wan was still a little naive. In order to fight for this position, he even persuaded Zhou Chu to come to him.

Poor idiot Zhou Chu, he probably thought he was a piece of cake because he was in middle age and his mind was not clear. He just offended Xu Hui, but he still thought that his brother-in-law who was about to be laid off could still have a say in front of him.

It just so happens that since it's offered to me, I'd rather take advantage of it.

Although Chen Jinli's relationship with the Xu family was not that close, they managed to maintain normal contact.

Xu Hui, the nominal sister, has been unhappy with him recently, mainly because Chen Jinli failed to keep Zhou Yutong that day and let her run away. Facing Xu Hui's questioning, he couldn't tell the real reason why she ran away that day...

Xu Hui was very angry about this matter, and her anger continued. It could be heard from Chen Jinli's phone call with her in the morning that she was full of resentment.

——Zhou Yutong hasn’t returned home yet?

——In the hotel.

——Have you been staying in the hotel for so many days?

--right.

——…With whom?

——Why do you care so much?

Then before he could say anything, the call was hung up.

Chen Jinxiang thought of this and sighed, that is to say, social interaction between humans is tiring. He hoped that the news of his trying to intimidate Zhou Chu would quickly reach Xu Hui's ears, so that next time she would at least wait for him to finish speaking before hanging up the phone.

Reaching his hand into the fish tank and lazily poking the dorsal fin of the white-tip shark, Professor Chen, with a lazy look in his eyes, recalled the scene when the little girl left his house that day for no reason.

The elevator door slowly closed in front of him, and through the increasingly smaller gap in the door he saw her red eyes.

Zhou Yutong has always been a person who easily cries, and she is a delicate person who will cry at the slightest disagreement.

But she didn't cry that day.

But the tears were always piled up in the corners of her red eyes, and her lips seemed to still be soft and moist from the kiss she had with him a second ago. She bit her lips tightly to prevent the tears from falling.

In fact, Chen Jinli felt a little different at that time. He thought he would not have any thoughts and at most would worry about his juniors going out in the middle of the night. But in fact, it was not the case. It seemed that his heart was sinking a little bit with the falling elevator.

A subtle urge to catch up occupied his mind for a moment...

But unfortunately, it was only for a moment.

After coming to his senses, he stared at the elevator that had already reached the first floor for half a minute, then turned around and went back to his home with the door still open. He lowered his head and found that although he had changed into outdoor slippers before running out the door, he was actually wearing his slippers the wrong way around.

The first "ding" sound came from WeChat.

The phone screen lit up, and it was Lu Wan who sent him a WeChat message asking if it was because of Gou An.

Chen Jinli smiled at the phone screen and ignored it, but he noticed the time in the upper left corner of the phone: it was lunch time.

Jiangcheng Ocean Research Institute is not far from Jiangcheng A University and they basically share the same commercial street.

At lunch time, the more affordable restaurants were crowded with students. Chen Jinli had no intention of squeezing with them, so he chose a Western restaurant with relatively high prices and fewer people.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a familiar face sitting in the corner by the window.

The little girl who left his house in the middle of the night a few days ago was sitting there wearing a dark blue sweatshirt jacket. Opposite her was a tall boy. The two sat facing each other. Chen Jinli noticed that the jacket Zhou Yutong was wearing was a men's.

When she moved and changed her angle, he could clearly see the words "Haicheng Normal University Second Affiliated Middle School" on the back of her coat, and below that was the pinyin of the name "LIDU".

Li Du is the only son of Li Rongcheng, the leader of Haicheng's entertainment industry.

Those who are in the entertainment industry, whether black or white, can do anything. If they move to Jiangcheng, they can at least be on an equal footing with the He family.

I haven't seen Zhou Yutong for a few days. She looks pretty good. She has a bright smile on her face and is gesturing while talking.

Chen Jinli's eyes swept across her bright eyes and the short hair of the boy sitting opposite her, who looked like a prisoner in a labor camp. He raised his foot and wanted to walk over -

But at this moment, Zhou Yutong accidentally touched the spoon in the soup bowl, and the spoon flew out, and something like cream of mushroom soup splashed on her clothes.

Zhou Yutong took a breath and picked up the spoon, then looked at the person sitting opposite her with a playful smile. After the latter was stunned for a moment, his long arm, which was ten times stronger than that of an average high school student, stretched across the table and clamped the girl's soft face with two fingers: "Fuck you, consider juvenile Alzheimer's disease?!"

“Ouch,” the person whose face was pinched pouted and laughed, “Let me go, I’ll clean it for you.”

Li Du let Zhou Yutong go. Unfortunately, her dark sweater was stained with thick milky white soup, which was impossible to wipe off. The more she wiped, the bigger the white stain became and the more suspicious she looked. Li Du's scalp was numb: "If I had known not to lend you the clothes, how would I explain it to my teammates during the game tomorrow!!"

"Just say your boyfriend accidentally did it." Zhou Yutong threw the tissue. "You are young and hot-tempered. They will forgive you."

Li Du grabbed the steak knife in his hand: "I really want to give you a knife."

Zhou Yutong laughed so hard that she slapped her thigh.

Chen Jinli couldn't stand it anymore and walked over.

The tall figure of the man and the faint smell of tobacco that always came over him approached. Zhou Yutong's pupils shrank, and when she saw who it was, she immediately put away the smile on her face.

Standing in front of her, Chen Jinli seemed not to notice the instantaneous change in her expression. He lowered his eyes and looked at her with a flat tone: "You haven't been home for a few days? Your mother is very worried about you."

Just like the countless times in the past, when he caught her from the Internet cafe, the disco, and the bar, he asked in the same tone, "When are you going to go home? Your mother is worried about you."

In the past, at this time, she would come close to him, hug his arm and act like a spoiled child to get away with it...

pity.

Not today.

Perhaps because of the angle of looking up, Zhou Yutong's eyebrows were slightly raised at this moment, and she looked cold and unfamiliar. She looked at him as if she was looking at a stranger. Her lips were slightly pursed and the color was very light. She said, "Why do you care so much?"

It's funny that the whole world is telling him this today.

Chen Jinli's heart suddenly became angry. He lowered his eyes and stared at her lips that were opening and closing. Suddenly, he realized more clearly than ever that he had kissed these lips before. Compared with the slightly moist and delicious appearance in front of him, the actual taste was indeed very good.

Her lips were soft, and when they were aroused, she would take the initiative to lick his upper jaw, and she would also be very clingy and kiss the corners of his lips, humming and saying, "Chen Jinli, why are you clenching your teeth so tightly?" He had kissed this lip countless times.

The first time was not in the bar that day, but under the nose of this boy in front of me——

At that time, Chen Jinli was only 24 years old. His family was urging him to get married. One Christmas, he went to the airport to pick up Hou Xiangqin who was returning home for the holiday. When he came back, he was stopped by Zhou Yutong in the empty corridor. Her eyes were swollen from crying. She asked with a sob, "Uncle, are you getting married?" Chen Jinli didn't care whether he liked her or not at that time. For Hou Xiangqin, he probably liked her before, and he doesn't hate her now. When asked this question, he nodded and said, "Probably."

Zhou Yutong rushed over and bit his lower lip, like a collapsed beast. The little girl, who was only just entering high school, probably used up all her strength to push him against the wall of the corridor.

Is that a kiss? Probably.

Although apart from the pain and the taste of blood in the mouth, the rest of the memory seemed to have turned into vague fragments.

Chen Jinli's distraction was interrupted by the sound of cutlery being put back on the plate. He turned his head coldly and looked at Li Du who made the sound.

At the dining table, the 18 or 19-year-old boy who had been relatively silent since the beginning smiled at him and said, "Don't worry, when this person gets crazy enough, she will go back by herself... Then I will return her to you without losing anything, don't worry."

The young man paused, as if he was polishing the words on sharp canine teeth, and slowly added one word at a time -

"Uncle."

The voice was so clear and close, and the hoarseness that was unique to teenage voice change made Chen Jinli recognize that he was the guy who had told him on the phone that day about being a performer.

——Zhou Yutong has been with him these days.

The two stayed in the same hotel, probably in different rooms.

But Zhou Yutong can wear his coat without restraint.

Soiled his coat.

Some useless and messy information flooded into my mind.

That day, when he watched Zhou Yutong enter the elevator and leave, the irritability and annoyance in his heart came up all at once, and Chen Jinli frowned uncontrollably.

He left the restaurant.

During this time, he passed by University Student A who recognized him. The student greeted him enthusiastically, but Professor Chen, who was always polite at least on the surface, showed his indifference in front of everyone for the first time.

He just glanced at the student indifferently, and then hurried away in the other's confused eyes.

Gou An did not have any professional classes this afternoon. After class in the morning, she did not know that she was about to miss a big drama of "the prodigal son returns, but it is all in vain". She declined Zhou Yutong's invitation to have lunch together, packed up, and rushed to the He Building.

Recently, she no longer needs to rely on bodyguards to scan her face to get through to the He Building. It turns out that both the security team and the reception desk have remembered her face very well, successfully realizing the idea that "face is more useful than a pass."

Standing in the elevator, Gou An thought about it and couldn't help but send a message to the person she was about to meet, asking a question that had puzzled her for a long time -

[Don't be afraid, I can win: I got on the elevator smoothly. 】

[Don't be afraid, I can win: Did you arrest the security team and the reception staff and hold a meeting, and show them a PPT of my photos at the meeting? ]

The other party responded to her quickly and sent her a voice message, telling her to go upstairs and play for a while as he had an urgent meeting to attend, and that yes, of course they had seen her photos.

[Don't be afraid, I can win: Where did you get my photo? 】

【HJX: The ID card I took from your wallet. 】

Gou An stared at this sentence and read it five times, then chose a phone number and called it directly.

The phone rang for three seconds and then the person on the other end hung up on her.

【HJX: I lied to you. You got it from your friends circle. 】

【HJX: A real meeting.】

The elevator arrived, and as expected, there was no one in He Jinxing's office. The huge space was cold and deserted, with only an open laptop on the desk.

Gou An rubbed his way to He Jinxing's seat, sat there for a while, and ordered himself some afternoon tea takeaway.

【Don't be afraid that I can win: your computer is not turned off. 】

【HJX: You can use it if you want. 】

Gou An tapped the computer and found that it was locked. He rolled his eyes and thought, if it really works, why can't it tell me the password? He tried He Jinxing's birthday, but it wasn't it.

I tried Mr. He’s birthday, He Jinxing’s phone unlock password, He Jinxing’s mother’s birthday, etc. The computer would not open and would be locked for a few minutes if I tried again.

She became impatient and casually entered her birthday, then the screen flashed and she went in.

Gou An: “…”

So what was going on with that [Friendship: 68]? He clearly seemed to have loved me to the point of abandoning his soul and himself? When Chen Jinli personally sent me the offer, it was almost dusk.

At that time, Gou An had been sitting in the office on the top floor of the He Building, in front of He Jinxing's personal computer, for an hour and a half. He Jinxing's meetings seemed to be endless, and facing her resume, which she could not write well, she frowned and bit her nails.

——There was no way. Before today, she had not realized that her ability to express herself was so poor. It seemed that she had no way of summarizing how outstanding she was in a few words (……).

She didn't even read the email when it came. When she saw that the sender was Chen Jinli, she clicked the cross in the upper right corner in disgust, for fear that it would affect her appetite for dinner.

Before the sun sets, He Jinxing, who had just finished a meeting, pushed the door open and walked in. The executives behind him were still chasing after him to give him the final work report. Suddenly, the person in front of him stopped. He curiously leaned over and looked from the side (mainly because he was not as tall as He Jinxing), and saw the girl who had taken off her shoes and was now sitting cross-legged on the sofa chair that belonged to their boss.

She was listening to music with headphones on, her feet in white socks wiggling along with the music, her big toes looking a bit unbridled.

There was milk tea and a half-eaten cake on the boss's desk. The water that fell from the ice beads on the outside of the milk tea cup left a small puddle on the table. The documents originally placed on the table were pushed aside. Except for the documents that were neatly put away, everything else was in a mess.

The executive thought of his good friend in the secretariat who once complained about his boss's mood swings - he didn't allow anyone to touch the things on his desk, to the extent that if you took away his coffee cup and tea tray, he would get angry randomly depending on his mood...

And the table in front of me, and the person sitting behind it——

If it were someone else, He Jinxing might have drawn his gun.

I don’t know if this is the bloody scene I can see.

The executives were silent until the man standing in front of them suddenly seemed to remember his existence and looked down at him expressionlessly.

——How long are you going to stay here? Capturing this information accurately from those dark eyes, the executive wiped the sweat from his forehead and handed the documents in his hands to his great boss with a bad temper.

As they were retreating, the girl behind the desk just happened to smell some noise and looked up. Her eyes lit up when she saw the man standing at the door. She turned around with her computer and said, "He Jinxing, come here and see if I should fill in this award!"

She called Mr. He by his first name.

Somehow the barrage of comments "Gou Yu's daughter is indeed young and promising" flashed through his mind, but when the executive took the elevator downstairs, his mind was still buzzing and blank.

I took out my phone and sent a message to a small group of executives without a boss: Don’t come to the top floor, listen to advice and have a full meal.

After a while, Secretary Liu sent an emoticon package of "Panda Sigh.JPG".

The office door was closed.

He Jinxing walked around to the back of the office, reached out and patted the knee of the person who was sitting cross-legged in an awkward manner. The latter's legs hung down and shook obediently.

With one hand on the edge of the desk and the other on the chair, the man looked down at the computer screen: Gou An's own resume was a mess. Even if she spent fifty cents to buy a template and change the keywords, it would look more professional than this.

He Jinxing originally wanted to give her a lecture, but then he changed his mind and realized that she was only a sophomore.

I'm really not old enough to bother with a resume yet, he thought, forget it.

So he looked at the time in the lower left corner of the computer. He thought that Chen Jinli should be able to finish it even if he took his time, so he asked Gou An if he had looked at his email carefully.

Gou An thought of the email she received ten minutes ago, glanced at He Jinxing suspiciously, and clicked into her mailbox, only to find the internship invitation for the winter vacation from Chen Jinli. Her eyes slowly widened, wondering if this was a bit unfair.

When she clicked on it, she found that the email forwarded by Chen Jinli was copied to her and another email address. The abbreviation of the other email address should be He Jinxing's private email address, and the original email was sent to this email address.

There is also an attachment, which is just two simple words: resume.

Gou An's resume was still lying in her documents like a piece of poop. Out of curiosity, she clicked on the original attachment named "Resume" and took a look. She thought she was sleepwalking.

“………………How do you know I won this award?” Gou An pointed at the computer.

"I've got Lu Wan's resume. Take a look at it. If you look up all the competitions she's won, you'll find your name nearby. And generally, your ranking will be above hers."

He Jinxing said, "If your name is not on the list, then try to raise the scale of the competition to a higher level and then look for it. You will usually be able to find it."

"...You're very perverted."

"Put down the corners of your lips that are raised first."

"So do you think I'm better than her?"

"Yeah, a little."

He Jinxing lifted her up, sat down, and let her sit on him, letting the pair of feet in white socks curl up and step on his thighs——

"I only decided to help you finish your resume and send it to Chen Jinli after reading it halfway. Otherwise, you might just have to tear your face off and not ask him to make an exception and use the backdoor."

"And now?"

"As a boss, when he has a better option, I can't think of any reason for him to say no."

Gou An was completely pleased——

Don't tell her that it's unfair to rely on He Jinxing's help to make a beautiful resume. It's a bastard who doesn't take advantage of the opportunity. What's more, every line of the beautiful substantive content in the resume is the empire she has won by herself.

She raised her hands to hug the man's neck, and leaned over to kiss the corner of his lips.

Be proactive, not perfunctory.

"I think I'm starting to like you a little."

The afterglow of the setting sun behind me burned the sky red, and the rusty light shone in through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor of He's house. The city entered the busiest and happiest time of the day. The sound of horns in the driveway below and the irregularly lit neon lights suddenly became very atmospheric.

He Jinxing turned his head and stared at her. His gaze moved from her eyes, all the way down to her lips, and then his dark pupils lit up.

Gou An rubbed his face against his and said sweetly, "I don't like you that much."

“…”

He Jinxing didn't know how a human being could say such annoying words in such a sweet tone.

He shook his legs and removed his arms from around the waist of the person in his arms.

"Get out of here."

"Eh? You're so fierce, don't get angry——"

"Go down."

“…”

(End of this chapter)