Chapter 41 Taste
Shi Jingyuan stood by the floor-to-ceiling window smoking, his shirt buttons undone, revealing his lean forearms.
He glanced at Lin You and put out the half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray.
"Ms. Lin, you graduated from a prestigious university. Do you know what it means to be ungrateful and to burn bridges?"
As soon as we met, he started to mock me directly.
Lin You: “…”
She had a dead pig-like expression and asked coldly, "Is Shi always expecting me to repay your kindness?"
Shi Jingyuan was stunned by her question.
If he said yes, then everything he did would be a purposeful means; if he said no, then there would be no reason to blame her.
The atmosphere suddenly became stagnant.
After a long time, Shi Jingyuan was the first to break the silence.
"I won't deny that I went looking for Hu Bao'er just for you. I even...had people go door to door and buy up surveillance records from every store within a five-kilometer radius of the community to find it."
Hearing this, Lin You looked up in surprise, his face full of disbelief.
Shi Jingyuan walked up to her and looked down at her, as if trying to see some emotion in her eyes.
But I didn't feel moved, only shocked.
He suddenly remembered He Xuan's evaluation of Lin You a long time ago.
He Xuan said that Lin You must have been hurt. Although she seemed gentle and easy to bully, her heart had already died long ago. Anyone who provoked her would surely die miserably.
He remembered that he scoffed at the comment at the time.
Now it seems that He Xuan was right.
Lin You has no heart.
"Forget it. Just go away." Shi Jingyuan took a few steps back and took out a cigarette in annoyance.
Lin You glanced at the cigarette butts piled in the ashtray and frowned.
"Boss Shi," Lin You walked over and took the cigarette from his hand, "If you smoke too much, your body will smell bad."
*
"Did she really say that?"
After listening to Shi Jingyuan's description, Qian Ling almost laughed to death.
He gave a thumbs-up and praised, "This Miss Lin is an interesting woman! No wonder you can't stop thinking about her."
The more Shi Jingyuan thought about it, the more speechless he became. He drank another glass of wine in silence.
Liang Wu came later because he had surgery.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Qian Ling who couldn't stop laughing and Shi Jingyuan who was drinking alone.
Liang Wu asked Qian Ling directly, "What happened that made him sad? Tell me about it so I can be happy too."
Hearing this, Shi Jingyuan glanced over with sharp eyes.
Liang Wu pretended not to see it, and moved closer to Qian Ling to listen to him tell the whole story.
"Alas, our Shi Zong finally found a woman he liked, but he didn't expect her to be so difficult."
Liang Wu also sighed repeatedly and filled their glasses again. "This kind of woman is too difficult to deal with. If I meet her, I will just give up and choose the next one."
Shi Jingyuan raised his eyebrows, "Don't give up. I asked you to come here not to persuade me, but to help me find a solution."
There are at least eight women around these two men, if not ten in total. While hugging them left and right, they can also make all the women obey them.
There should be something in the handling of relationships between men and women.
If he really couldn't do anything to Lin You, he wouldn't have called them here.
Liang Wu surrendered, "Alright, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. You can't do it, but Qian Ling and I are experts. Don't worry, with us here, we can help you get any woman you want."
Shi Jingyuan sneered, "I can't? Do your patients know that you have a habit of bragging?"
Liang Wu waved his hand and said, "I'm serious, I'm not bragging."
Shi Jingyuan stared at her coldly, "Then tell me, how do we take him down?"
Liang Wu cleared his throat and said, "Three clever ideas. The first one is to use money."
"Pretend to buy a gift for your sister, then take her shopping, let her try on clothes and jewelry for your sister, and then buy everything she tries on. Then, do a complete reversal and tell her that you were just looking for an excuse to give her a gift."
After hearing this, Shi Jingyuan looked at him as if he were an idiot.
Liang Wu's scalp tingled when he was looked at. "What do you mean? I can conquer no less than ten women with this trick!"
Shi Jingyuan rubbed his aching temples, picked up his coat and left.
Liang Wu and Qian Ling both asked him what he was doing.
He only replied with two words, "Go home."
Liang Wu yelled at his back, "I just told you one brilliant idea, at least listen to the second and third ones."
Shi Jingyuan didn't even turn his head.
Liang Wu couldn't call him back, so he could only pull Qian Ling over to exchange ideas.
Shi Jingyuan walked out of the bar and instinctively reached for a cigarette.
As soon as his fingertips touched the cigarette box, he retracted them.
He remembered Lin You's words and raised his arm to smell it.
Does it really smell like that?
During that period, Shi Jingyuan's smoking frequency dropped significantly and he almost quit smoking.
Afterwards, he thought back and found it incredible. How could his lifestyle change just because of her words?
*
Lin You worked on the manuscript for several days and finally completed the first order after his comeback on Wednesday night.
The next morning, she sent the order to the buyer's email.
After sending the message, she was distracted and would unconsciously check her phone at work, just to wait for the buyer's reply.
My cell phone usually rings non-stop during work hours, but this morning it was eerily quiet.
After she looked at the screen for the twelveth time, a message came in.
She couldn't wait to open it, her eyes slightly disappointed.
The message was from Shen Yi, saying that he had moved and wanted to have a pot-roasted meal at home in the evening.
He said she was his only friend in the city and wanted to invite her to celebrate with him.
"My only friend..." He said this in a pitiful way.
Lin You typed his rejection into the chat box, deleted it all, and then replied with a single "OK."
Lin You waited until the end of the workday but did not receive a reply from the buyer. The email receipt clearly showed that the other party had signed for it.
She couldn't figure out what was going on, and she walked absent-mindedly.
Shi Jingyuan was sitting in the back seat of a business car. When he passed the company gate, he happened to see Lin You walking without looking at the road and almost bumping his head into the glass door.
He frowned, put down the tablet in his hand, and said to He Xuan:
"Please turn down my social engagements tonight and book a restaurant for me."
He Xuan responded and asked, "What kind of restaurant should we choose?"
Shi Jingyuan pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go to the restaurant where I had dinner with Mr. Liu last time."
He Xuan remembered, "I know, it's the one where Sister Lin held an umbrella for me..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw that Mr. Shi's face had darkened.
Shi Jingyuan: "Hold your own umbrella from now on. Don't wait for others to do everything for you. I pay you a high salary so that you can't even hold an umbrella?"
He Xuan: “…”
What should you do if you encounter a boss who becomes completely unreasonable after getting jealous?
"Got it, Mr. Shi."
What can I do? Thinking about my monthly salary, of course the boss is right.
Shi Jingyuan picked up his phone and called Lin You.
"You agreed to have a meal with me once a week. I want to have this week's meal today."
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