Chapter 24: Bad Luck
As soon as Zhou Xufu entered China Construction, he felt the air pressure was unusually low.
They have business dealings on a daily basis, so Zhou Xu would occasionally come to Xie Siyan during working hours.
"What happened?" Zhou Xu walked to the assistant's office and pointed at the closed door.
Assistant Xu shook his head.
"Something went wrong with the merger?"
"...It can't be that the IPO was rejected?"
Assistant Xu pushed his rimless glasses up his nose and replied meticulously, "Both the merger and acquisition and the IPO are progressing smoothly, Mr. Zhou."
"That's strange?"
Zhou Xu thought about what had happened in the past few days and called Liu Heng.
The call came in quickly, "I guess it's because Cen Chen and Si Yan had a little conflict..."
Liu Heng always does things in a way that does not concern him.
He wasn't very familiar with Bai Yirou, so he spoke very reservedly.
Zhou Xu understood immediately.
"What happened?"
"Bai Yirou had a threatened miscarriage... Oh, Yirou is fine now. She was discharged from the hospital the day before yesterday. She was with me before."
Zhou Xu felt that this incident was quite strange. It happened silently and no one notified him.
I guess they want to solve it quietly.
"Alright then. Just pretend I never asked."
Zhou Xu hung up the phone and casually checked his Moments.
This is incredible to see.
He found an official announcement.
The important thing is not the official announcement.
In their circle, people break up and get back together every day. There is an official announcement every few days, and people change frequently.
What matters is the heroine.
Mu Jia.
Zhou Xu fell on the note and looked at the photo of the three of them again.
Does this mean that it has progressed to the stage of meeting the parents?
Zhou Xu looked at the closed office door again.
It turned out that his white moonlight and his little lover left him at the same time. He was extremely disappointed in love. No wonder he was so depressed.
However, when he was hinting at Xie Siyan, he managed to maintain his aloof personality.
When talking about Mu Jia, he just spoke casually:
"Just a woman."
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Zhou Xu has no hobbies that bring bad luck.
Knowing that Xie Siyan was in a bad mood, he simply stopped going to his house. He avoided it whenever possible. He simply didn't invite him to their small gatherings these days, and instead made an appointment with Liu Heng to go to the club and call a few girls.
"Come on, open another bottle." Zhou Xu was a little drunk and said to Liu Heng.
Liu Heng still had that good-tempered look.
But because there was a beautiful girl sitting next to him at the moment, and the girl boldly put her hand on his leg, he seemed a little hypocritical, far less noble than the image of a doctor who usually saves lives and heals the wounded.
"Drink less." Liu Heng raised his eyes and held his hand.
"Why are you being so fussy now, you little prince of the nightclub? This is not like you."
Liu Heng took the bottle of wine away and casually asked him, "Little Prince of the Nightclub? Is that the nickname you gave me?"
"You don't even know this nickname," Zhou Xu looked at him, his mouth twisted, "What else should I call you, Friend of Women?"
"I'm in the gynecology department," Liu Heng's voice was light, and upon closer listening, it was a little hoarse. "You call me a friend of women, and I have no objection."
Zhou Xu: “…”
Zhou Xu had no interest in the girl next to him. He had been immersed in the love world for many years and had seen at least eight hundred of these little starlets. But Liu Heng seemed to be particularly tolerant of the girl next to him. Zhou Xu watched her hand almost reaching his crotch, but he didn't push it away.
Zhou Xu couldn't help but look at the girl twice more.
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The next day, Mu Jia went shopping with Lin Nuo on a date.
Mu Jia discovered that although Lin Nuo was two years younger than her, in terms of maturity and stability, she was more like her junior.
"Have you considered the direction of future research?" Mu Jia asked casually.
Lin Nuo thought for a moment and said, "I might major in finance and minor in mathematics, and then get involved in quantitative trading."
Mu Jia felt that he had a clear understanding of the industry.
If finance does not involve quantitative work, the work it does will be very similar to sales, highly dependent on resources and connections.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of what Zhou Xu said to her on the phone that day...
Well, if she relied on resources and connections, how could she get rid of them? Zhou Xu's words were both realistic and cruel, so now, she was cautious and didn't dare to offend Xie Siyan at all.
Thinking of this, Mu Jia became a little distracted.
"Jia Jia, who is this?"
Mu Jia raised his eyes and saw his colleague Xiao Tao.
Xiaotao had always felt guilty about what happened before, so when they met by chance, she insisted on treating her to a meal.
Mu Jia couldn't refuse, so he said to Lin Nuo, "It's almost time for dinner, let's go together."
The three of them found a Japanese restaurant and sat down.
The environment here is good and there is no need to rank. Mu Jia feels it is a good place to chat.
"How have you been lately?" Xiaotao asked her.
"I'm fine," Mu Jia said, coughing lightly. Xiao Tao turned her gaze to Lin Nuo who was beside her.
"I get it, I get it. Let's have a bottle of wine today? I wish everyone success in their careers and love lives, and a double harvest!"
Xiaotao hurriedly waved to the waiter and added a bottle of Japanese sake.
At the dinner table, gossip about their past relationship is inevitable.
Xiao Tao is about the same age as Mu Jia, both graduated one or two years ago. When she learned that Lin Nuo was still a senior in college, she secretly gave Mu Jia a thumbs up under the table.
“That’s amazing.”
Mu Jia blushed.
She felt that she had no particular preference between older and younger men, and it mainly depended on the feeling and...face, hmm.
Although Mu Jia is a beauty, she is not immune to vulgarity. She is an absolute face control, and she also covets men's faces and bodies. Xie Siyan's style is very consistent with her aesthetic preferences——
The snow-capped mountains have a cold aura. Compared to him, Lin Nuo is more mature and fatherly.
Unfortunately, Mu Jia later discovered that this aura was created with money.
Without money, who will allow you to be cold in the workplace?
"Senior, Sister Xiaotao said she had something to do in the afternoon, so she went to pay the bill first..." Mu Jia was stunned and found that Lin Nuo was calling her.
She hurriedly stood up and walked towards Xiaotao, "No, let's split the bill."
After a bit of arguing, Xiao Tao finally settled the bill.
He was lost in thought twice during the meal, and his thoughts were about the same person. Mu Jia felt that he still had some kind of filter in his heart for people like Xie Siyan.
So I always think of him for some unknown reason.
Mu Jia had to go to work in the afternoon, so he separated from Lin Nuo downstairs in the mall. Lin Nuo took a taxi back to school, and Mu Jia walked downstairs to the company alone.
When she was crossing the traffic light, she was a little distracted and was hit by a car from behind.
"Are you blind? You just keep walking forward with your head down, without looking at the road?" the driver of the car behind said in a fierce tone.
Mu Jia's leg hit the ground and bled a little.
She supported herself on the ground with her palms, struggled to stand up, and confronted the middle-aged man who was leaning out of the window of the landing car. "This is a green light."
"The light is red now," the man said arrogantly, "get out of the way, I'm leaving."
Mu Jia was about to say something.
A black car behind slowly stopped.
The car window rolled down, revealing Zhou Xu's dandy face. He said, "No one is allowed to leave. Call the police."
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