Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Jealousy
The project meeting took place in the building's most upscale conference room, where a streamlined ebony conference table stretched across the entire space. The tabletop, inlaid with matte metal trim, reflected the circular shadowless lighting system suspended overhead.
The Lihe Group and Huashan Hospital teams sat on either side. Although Yu Sixie was present, he didn't sit at the conference table, but instead sat on the side, observing from the side. Xi Tong sat beside him, while the main seat at Lihe was occupied by the fat team leader.
The situation of the Huashan Hospital team was somewhat similar to that of Li He. Wen Yanming, who was walking in front of the staff, did not sit at the conference table.
The projector in the conference room was turned on and both parties prepared their proposals.
Before the meeting officially started, Xi Tong lowered her head and chatted with Wen Yanming, whom she had just bumped into.
【Xitong: Why are you here? ? ? I almost thought I was hallucinating just now.】
[Wen Yanming: Proud.jpg Huashan Hospital is considered our family's property. Before my father moved to France, he also had many businesses in Beijing and would occasionally come back to take care of them.]
【Xitong: Why didn’t you tell me? 】
[Wen Yanming: I thought you weren't interested, sorry!!!]
Wen Yanming: Xiaoxi, I'm really sorry about what happened at the bar that day. I might have gotten jealous of your handsome boyfriend. If I made you unhappy, I won't say anything like that again. We'll just be like we were in the past.
Xitong: It's okay, it's okay. I understand.jpg
[Wen Yanming: How about having lunch together? I'll treat you as an apology.]
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Xitong held the phone in both hands, her slender fingers dancing under the table. Her fair cheeks looked like a soft pearl under the bright light in the conference room. The cotton and linen long dress she wore made her look like an ordinary girl. The dimples at the corners of her mouth were round and cute.
When Xi Tong lets go of the competence and authority that one must project as a CEO, she becomes even more attractive.
The Huashan Hospital team members sitting opposite Xitong all looked at her unconsciously and sized her up secretly.
The new girl in the group in front of Xitong would secretly turn her head to look at her from time to time.
This was also how Wen Yanming looked when he saw Xi Tong in France. He wanted to compete with Yu Sixie for her because he saw her unhappy in China. She should be sunny and bright.
"Who are you chatting with? You look so happy."
Yu Sixie, who was sitting next to Xitong, turned slightly to look at her mobile phone screen.
Xi Tong, who was happily chatting with Wen Yanming, was startled by Yu Sixie's sudden action and quickly turned off the phone, as if he had really done something bad.
Xi Tong frowned and looked at Yu Sixie strangely, "When did you start to like looking at other people's phones? I don't remember you being like this before."
After a period of preparation, the meeting officially began and everyone's attention was returned to the meeting without any distractions.
While no one was paying attention to them, Yu Sixie reached out from behind Xitong and grabbed her waist, pulling her towards him. The man was very strong and directly moved the ergonomic chair on the rollers and leaned over to get closer to Xitong.
At this time, Wen Yanming, who had not received any message from Xitong, raised his head from his mobile phone and looked at her, just in time to see the two people pressed tightly together. Yu Sixie turned his face to the side, and the dim light and the long distance made it impossible for him to see their movements clearly.
"What are you doing?"
Xitong exclaimed in a low voice. The man licked her earlobe with his wet tongue, bit her earlobe with his teeth, and squeezed out a few words, "I'm jealous."
"Why are you jealous?"
Xi Tong felt confused. She tried to push Yu Sixie away, but it was completely futile. The man held her waist tightly, and out of her sight, he arrogantly glanced at Wen Yanming, who was sitting in the same position opposite her.
"As long as it's related to you, I'm jealous of everything."
Yu Sixie’s words stunned Xi Tong. When did he say such a thing?
At noon, Xitong and Wen Yanming had lunch together in an office building next to the Lihe Group, a coffee shop with a very romantic decoration. Coincidentally, the owner was a Frenchman who loved Chinese culture.
"Are you two really a perfect match? You're such a perfect match. I've never seen two people so well-matched."
The store manager insisted on expressing his appreciation in his unstandard Chinese.
Yu Sixie, who was sitting at a double table by the window, frowned when he heard this. The gloomy aura he exuded scared away several young ladies who wanted to ask for his WeChat.
"No, we are good friends."
Wen Yanming took the initiative to explain before Xitong opened his mouth. He turned his head to look at Xitong and blinked his right eye, meaning please forgive me!
Xitong understood, "Yeah, just good friends."
The music in the coffee shop was familiar to both of them. They had bought a tape of an Icelandic band together in a French record store. They hummed along with the melody in tacit understanding, and the owner behind the bar also joined them.
Although both were wearing suits, Wen Yanming naturally blended into the warm and artistic decoration of the store, while Yu Sixie, dressed in black and white, looked like an adult who had strayed into a fairy tale and was out of place.
He stared at the two of them, his jawline tightened, and his dark pupils were filled with overwhelming emotions.
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After working on the project with Lihe's team for a whole day, Xitong was exhausted when she returned home. In the afternoon, when she went to the hospital for inspection with the team, Yu Sixie did not join them, and did not go home for dinner in the evening.
Xitong didn't ask him what he was doing. He was at least the president of a group. They were all adults who needed to work and take responsibilities. She felt there was no need to interfere too much.
Besides, there is no relationship between them...
After taking a comfortable bath in the bathroom, Xitong hummed a song and ordered a barbecue takeout, calling Su Luyao who lived across the street and had not left the house for several days.
It was a rare opportunity that Yu Sixie was not around, so the two best friends could finally have a long chat.
The aroma of barbecue wafted through Yu Sixie's simple and clean room. Xitong and Su Luyao sat side by side on the sofa. Boxes filled with mutton skewers, bone-in mutton skewers, beef skewers, enoki mushrooms, eggplants, oysters... filled the entire desk.
Su Luyao chewed a skewer with one hand while looking around Yu Sixie's room. "Xiao Xi, are you sure it's okay for us to eat in his room? I see that Mr. Yu's room is spotless. Will he, a mysophobe, throw us out?"
"He dares?"
As Xitong took a bite of the sizzling lamb, she felt her soul elevate. These past few days at the Yu family, they'd been eating healthy, prepared meals. Father and Mother Yu were so focused on maintaining their health, prescribing nourishing foods like donkey hide gelatin, peach gum, and sea cucumber. While Xitong and Su Luyao weren't averse to these, they were more accustomed to snacks often referred to as "junk food."
After a few beers, the two began to talk more.
"You haven't been out these days? Have you been reading novels at home?"
Su Luyao shook her head, then nodded, "I didn't go out, but I wasn't reading novels."
Xi Tong looked at Su Luyao in disbelief, and even drank slower. "Then what are you doing?"
For her best friend, nothing is more important than novels.
Su Luyao hesitated for a long time but couldn't say anything. She buried her face between her knees. Xi Tong pulled away her arms that were covering her cheeks, and could clearly see the blush on her cheeks.
Could this girl be in love?! Xitong was as excited as if she had discovered a new world. After 29 years, almost 30 years, her best friend who had been single all her life actually fell in love with a man. You have to know that they have traveled more than half of the world and met so many outstanding men, but Su Luyao didn't feel any attraction to any of them.
Who on earth could have caused her best friend, who even a certain country's prince disdained, to fall in love with her?!
Xitong must know tonight no matter what.
"Yaoyao, tell me, who are we talking to?"
"don't want."
Su Luyao took a sip of wine and refused flatly.
"I'll be sad if you do this..."
"Is our friendship so fragile? You didn't even tell me this. I even shared all my little skills in bed with you... Ugh—"
Su Luyao quickly covered Xi Tong's mouth and looked at the closed door in fear to make sure no one had come in. She dared not breathe, "I surrender to you. It's... it's Wen Yanming."
Now it was Xitong's turn to crash. "Who? Wen Yanming???"
Su Luyao pushed Xi Tong away in disgust, "I knew you would react like this, that's why I didn't want to tell you."
"No, no," Xitong said, the mutton in her mouth no longer having any flavor. "I didn't mean anything else. I'm just shocked. Didn't you always hate him? Why do you suddenly like him?"
Xitong clearly remembered that when she was in Europe, Wen Yanming knew that she had a best friend, so every time he asked her out to play, he would ask if she wanted to bring her best friend along. At first, Su Luyao would join their activities, but later she was unwilling to come.
She said that she really couldn't accept a person with such high energy like Wen Yanming. If he was the sun, she was a rat, and they were not from the same world at all.
"I don't know either," Su Luyao's face flushed red. She stood up, opened the curtains, and cracked the window, letting the cool breeze blow away the heat on her face. "I just want to take care of him, want to see him smile, and want to talk to him."
"Xitong, our relationship won't change just because I like him, right?"
Su Luyao turned her back to Xi Tong. The reason why she couldn't say it was largely because of Xi Tong's presence.
She knew how much Wen Yanming liked Xi Tong.
But it is hard to say whether Xitong is interested in Wen Yanming. Although she loves Yu Sixie very much now, who can resist such an outstanding man who is always by her side?
"No, there will be nothing between him and me." Xitong walked to Su Luyao and held her hand tightly.
Just then, there was a steady knock on the door.
Xitong patted Su Luyao's shoulder and turned to open the door. Mother Yu, dressed in a purple silk dress, stood dignified at the door and looked at Xitong with a smile, "Can I talk to you?"
The smell of barbecue in the room drifted into the corridor through the open door. Xitong was only wearing a thin suspender top, the roundness of her breasts was about to burst out, and there was brown barbecue sauce at the corner of her mouth.
She was instantly petrified on the spot.
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