Chapter 26
Jiang Lin stood there, feeling a chill running from the soles of her feet to her back.
Wen Zhenni in front of her had a sweet smile, but it made her feel cold in her heart.
And... unprecedented frustration.
This seemingly good-natured assistant is much smarter than he imagined.
Her proud past and self-righteous understanding seemed so pale and ridiculous in the face of the opponent's powerful counterattack.
"Mr. Jiang, are you going to the reception room?" Wen Zhenni didn't want to embarrass herself, so she gave him a way out at the right time.
Jiang Lin clenched her palms. She wanted to back down, but she felt a pang of resignation. "Assistant Qiao, please refrigerate the cake. It'll be past dinner time by the time he finishes the meeting, so we can use this to fill our stomach. When he was overseas, he was always so busy that he lost track of time, which was bad for his stomach."
It's not bad to be strong-willed, but being so strong-willed is really frustrating.
Wen Zhenni admired herself for being able to endure it. "Okay."
She picked up the cake box and looked at the label: Apple Pie, Reduced Sugar Series.
It really took a lot of effort.
Wen Zhenni brought the cake back to the tea room and gave it to colleagues from other departments who came to deliver documents.
It was just time for lunch. Lin Nuo didn't deliver the meal today, so she went to the cafeteria to eat with her colleagues.
When I returned to the office, Ciheng was still in a meeting, so I ordered takeout for him and sent him a WeChat reminder:
【I ordered takeout for you, remember to eat it.】
Ciheng replied: [I have a social event tonight. Ask the driver to take you home after work. Don’t work overtime.]
When it comes to overtime, Wen Zhenni is at a loss when looking at the charts in the PPT.
She didn't want to work overtime, but her brain was empty and she didn't have the energy.
"What's wrong?" Lucy asked with concern, seeing her gloomy face.
Wen Zhenni made a bitter face and said, "I'm making a PPT."
If you can't do something, you can only make up for it with hard work.
With the belief that she would eventually finish it, she persevered with the PPT. She took the unfinished parts home and continued working on them.
In the evening, I hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food, then immersed myself in the computer and entered a state of ecstasy.
When Ci Yu walked in humming a song, he saw his sister-in-law sitting on a chair, frowning slightly at the computer screen.
He leaned over to glance at the screen and was surprised to find that she was making a PPT. "Sister-in-law is really good. This PPT is much more beautiful than mine."
Wen Zhenni was inserting images into a PowerPoint presentation when she heard her brother-in-law's praise. The corners of her mouth curled up, but she complained, "It's your brother who's the new boss. He's so hot-headed that he's got the whole group working nonstop. Now every department is racing against time every day, and the overtime is endless."
Hearing this, Ci Yu felt like he had found a revolutionary comrade. He was so excited that he almost burst into tears. "So, sister-in-law, you can understand my dire situation, right?"
"Yeah." Thinking of his pitiful perfect attendance, Wen Zhenni wanted to laugh, "Thank you for your hard work."
"By the way, why did you come back at this time?" she asked.
"I went to a social event with my brother." Ci Yu explained, "He was outside answering the phone."
Drinking is inevitable at social gatherings, so the family has the habit of preparing honey water. Wen Zhenni asked the servants to pour two glasses.
Ci Yu comfortably sipped the honey water and whispered to her, "Sister-in-law, listen to me, go ask my brother to help you. He can figure it out in minutes."
Wen Zhenni's mind instantly flashed with the image of Ciheng raising his eyebrows, chin up, and scolding her in a sarcastic tone in the calmest tone.
She shook her head repeatedly: "Let the big devil help, then I'll stay up late and do it myself."
"What's the point of staying up all night?"
I had just complained about the big devil behind everyone's back when Ciheng's slightly cold voice came from the entrance.
Well, I was caught red-handed.
Wen Zhenni quickly lowered her head and concentrated on typing on the keyboard.
Ciheng loosened his tie and came over with a wave of heat wrapped around him.
Noticing the unusual silence in the living room, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why aren't you talking? Did the mouse see the cat?"
Who is the rat? Wen Zhenni silently retorted in her heart, and the keyboard tapped even louder.
"Ahem, nothing!" Ci Yu reacted quickly, drank the remaining honey water in one gulp, and put the cup on the coffee table. "Sister-in-law, take your time. I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep first."
He picked up the star that was spinning around his legs, quickly stuffed it back into the charging compartment, then greased his feet and slid away faster than a rabbit.
In the huge high-ceilinged living room, only Wen Zhenni and the man exuding a powerful aura were left.
Wen Zhenni smiled, picked up a glass of honey water, and handed it to Ciheng like offering a treasure, "Hubby, you have worked hard. Hubby, have some honey water."
She blinked her eyes and spoke in a tone like a kitten asking its owner for cat food.
Ci Heng took the cup and saw that her eyes were as determined as if she was going to the battlefield. Alarm bells rang in her heart, "What do you want to do?"
"My husband..." Wen Zhenni hugged his arm, and softened her tone deliberately. "Do you have time to help me with a little favor?"
Ci Heng looked down at the computer screen, "Board of Directors' Report?"
"Yeah." Wen Zhenni nodded vigorously, her eyes filled with bright stars that no one could refuse. "Can you help me do it?"
This scene is so familiar.
She was like this when she was in school. When she encountered a math problem that she couldn't solve, she would hold her book and follow him closely, looking at him with her soft eyes until her heart softened.
She has a great personality and is very patient.
Even if he deliberately put on a cold face, frowned to show impatience, and used his aura of keeping her away, she could always magically block out those bad expressions and continue to persuade him until his persistence completely collapsed and he accepted the homework from her hand with resigned attitude.
Every time this happened, he had no choice but to surrender.
But after getting married, her patience seemed to have weakened.
Ciheng calmly drank the honey water and didn't intend to intervene. "It's the most basic thing. It's not to the extent that you can't solve it. I believe you can do it."
If she can do it, why is there any need to pull her hair here?
What on earth is this bastard's heart made of? When things get tough, he's really tough.
Wen Zhenni shook his hand vigorously. "My brain is broken. Husband, can you really bear to watch someone die without helping?"
“Do your own thing. There is no free lunch in the world.”
Ci Heng was unmoved and even pulled her arm down, "Take a shower and go to bed."
"ruthless!"
Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Wen Zhenni didn't want to bother with him anymore and ran upstairs muttering to herself.
The living room returned to silence. Ciheng put down the water cup, his eyes fell on the content on the screen which had only five pages written on it. He sighed silently, and finally accepted his fate, pulled out the dining chair and sat down in front of the computer.
In the dressing room.
When Xi Miao called via video, Wen Zhenni had just finished taking a shower and was applying a layer of cool and moisturizing silk mask on her face.
"Sisters, are you free tomorrow night? Let's get together."
The woman on the other side of the screen was soaking in a luxurious bathtub covered with rose petals, shaking a glass of red wine in her hand.
The background looks like the presidential suite of a hotel. I wonder where he went again.
Wen Zhenni expressed her envy, "I can't go. I'm so busy that I'm running around."
"Working overtime again, poor thing."
Xi Miao sipped the red wine happily, completely unable to understand her unwillingness to suffer. "You have a gold mine but you don't want to dig it! You have a husband but you don't want to use him. Why did you get married? Just to make a double bed for yourself."
Wen Zhenni's voice was muffled. "He only cares about his body, not his heart. It's pointless to ask."
Xi Miao glanced at her with a look of disapproval, swirling his wine glass gracefully. "Men are animals with lower bodies. If he hints at you to give him some benefits, you just go along with it and give him some sweet things. What can't be solved by whispering in his ear? This is no better than wasting your time working on nothing."
Wen Zhenni's lips twitched beneath her mask. The only thing a capitalist like him could consider was sex.
"Let's just forget it."
She even thought that she would be relieved once the project started and she could get through it in a blink of an eye.
After peeling off the dry mask paper, she waved to Xi Miao, who was still passionately offering advice on the other side of the screen, and said, "Miao Miao, I'm going to hang up first. We'll talk again when we're free."
After exiting the video, she returned to the master bedroom in her slippers, feeling a bit exhausted and self-destructive.
Glancing across the room, he suddenly noticed her laptop lying on the sofa.
She walked over and sat down, then opened the computer screen again. When the PPT, which had only five pages completed, was presented in its entirety before her, she was completely stunned.
Although the layout is simple, the charts are professional and the logic is clear, it is simply perfect.
After being stunned for a long while, Wen Zhenni came back to her senses, and a mixture of surprise and emotion instantly filled her heart.
She screamed and jumped up from the sofa, and pounced into the arms of the man who had just come out of the bathroom, hanging on him like a koala, "Thank you, my dear husband."
Ciheng was knocked back by the sudden attack, and the towel she used to wipe her hair fell to the ground, but he subconsciously protected her waist first.
"Wen Zhenni, what does it mean to be a loving husband? Do you have a husband you don't love?"
He tried to maintain his usual cold and hard voice as he tried to pull her off him.
Wen Zhenni didn't let go, but hugged him tighter and kissed him on the face several times. "Anyway, thank you, husband."
He unconsciously tightened his arm around her and said with disdain, "Your slow pace is delaying important matters and disturbing my sleep."
"Yeah, I get it." A man with a hard mouth but a soft heart.
Wen Zhenni rubbed his neck, "My husband is the best."
Ciheng was coaxed so much that she couldn't suppress the smile.
He sighed softly, gave up trying to pull her off, and walked towards the bed with his arms around her.
"I've hugged you, and I've thanked you." He walked to the bed, tilted his head slightly, and said softly, "It's time to go down to bed."
Wen Zhenni let go of her hands contentedly, slid off him, got into the bed, and pulled him down to lie down.
Taking advantage of his good mood, I struck while the iron was hot and said, "Honey, I want to apply for a reassessment of the department's workload."
Ciheng closed his eyes, his arms loosely wrapped around her, and hummed a single note through his nose: "Hmm?"
"Negotiate terms with me." He tilted his head, pinching her earlobe with his fingertips. "Finally, you can't stand the hardship anymore and want to take a shortcut. Are you begging me to let you go?"
Wen Zhenni hugged his arm and said righteously, "The workload distribution is unreasonable. I am making this reasonable request based on facts on behalf of the employees of the President's Office."
She tried to make her eyes look extremely upright, "Boss Ci, believe me, everything I said is true."
Ciheng chuckled softly, his hand sliding down to wrap around the curve of her waist.
The warmth of his palms ironed her skin through her nightgown. He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "It depends on how you perform."
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