late at night
After Zhong Yunxi finished his meeting, it wasn't time to leave work yet, so he sat in Lu Lin's office.
Lu Lin asked with a smile, "The company gossip group says they can tell you two had a fight? They have a very reasonable analysis. Want to see it?"
Zhong Yunxi: ...
"You even joined a group where working people are insulting you? Do you enjoy watching people criticize you every day? What kind of fetish is that?"
Lu Lin: ...
"Your wife works for me, so watch your words."
Zhong Yunxi thought about Bai Yi's work schedule for the week, "Is there a meeting on Wednesday? I'll ask for leave for her in advance. She won't be coming on Thursday and Friday."
Lu Lin sighed: "Runhe, you also have shares. I don't expect you to contribute to the company, so please don't hold us back."
Zhong Yunxi glanced casually at his watch, then at the white light streaming through the blinds at his workstation: "Is it so difficult to give someone related to the shareholders a sinecure to collect social security and a salary? You don't even have this much ability?"
Lu Lin laughed in exasperation: "Does your wife need to collect social security and a salary?"
"I don't want her to work, but she has to agree. Does your wife not work?"
This question stumped Lu Lin. His wife not only went to work, but also dragged him down to be a department head to assist her.
Lu Lin quickly realized what was going on, didn't reply, but steered the conversation back on track, asking with a smile, "Do you need any help?"
Zhong Yunxi glanced up and said, "Take more care of your own heart."
Men of their status are all incredibly proud of how much they pamper their wives, but none of them are willing to admit that they can't win their wives over.
Because of a man's competitive nature, if he can't appease his wife, it's either because he doesn't give her enough money or not enough love, which is quite embarrassing to admit.
Lu Lin clicked his tongue, clearly gloating.
In his judgment, Bai Yi was much more difficult to deal with than Meng Shuang.
Meng Shuang is straightforward and says what she wants; she settles scores on the spot and rarely holds grudges. Bai Yi, on the other hand, seems to be the type who, when angry, will hold a grudge and engage in a cold war.
But Zhong Yunxi just happens to like this kind of thing, and only someone like Bai Yi can handle a man like Zhong Yunxi.
When Bai Yi just got off work, she was always too lazy to squeeze into the elevator and would stay at her workstation for a while longer. Zhong Yunxi went over and said, "Let's go downstairs for lunch."
Bai Yi kept a straight face and rolled her eyes.
Her eyes were almond-shaped, and she didn't seem imposing at all. She wasn't intimidating when she was angry, but when she cried, she could break Zhong Yunxi's heart.
Zhong Yunxi draped his arm over the glass partition of her workstation. "Then I'll turn off their company's surveillance cameras and carry you downstairs?"
Bai Yi: ...
She knew that if she disagreed, Zhong Yunxi wouldn't insist on doing it. He said this to show his attitude: he was determined to have dinner with her today. Even if she didn't go to dinner, he would still stay in the office with her.
She stood up: "Don't follow me."
Even when going out to eat, I drive my own car.
Upon arriving at the hotel restaurant, after sitting down, she pointed to another table and said, "Go over there."
Even now, Zhong Yunxi doesn't always obey her, nor does he always go against her.
She didn't throw away the coffee and desserts he delivered in the morning, and she was willing to come to the hotel he arranged for her to have lunch and rest. As for the matter of setting a table, Zhong Yunxi would follow her instructions and sit down properly.
As long as Bai Yi doesn't oppose him in everything, reconciliation won't be far off; it just will take a little more time.
After finishing his meal, he went to his room for a nap, but Bai Yi naturally wouldn't let him in.
He worked in the coffee shop on the first floor of the hotel, drank iced Americano all afternoon, and only returned to Hong Kong Island East Tower after Bai Yi went to work in the afternoon.
When Zhong Yunxi returned to Qiwu Mountain Residence in the evening, Bai Yi had already eaten dinner and gone upstairs to the second floor.
Bai Yeliang asked, "Do you exchange ten words with me in a day?"
Zhong Yunxi remained silent.
He has been staying by her side as much as possible, trying to get Bai Yi to reconcile with him as soon as possible.
After going upstairs, he still played Moonlight Sonata twice. On Baiyi's balcony, the light was still on. At this time, she would normally be in the living room playing games on her tablet or reading papers, but she probably hid in the bedroom because she didn't want to see him.
Zhong Yunxi stood on her balcony for a while, hearing the background noise of her playing games.
She seemed to be in a better mood, but she just wouldn't forgive him.
On Wednesday morning, Bai Yi had to go to the Third Affiliated Hospital to attend an internal meeting with the marketing department. Since parking spaces at the hospital are always scarce, she asked her father's driver to take her there first.
Bai Yeliang usually leaves for work early, but today he waited for her until nine o'clock.
Zhong Yunxi knew that this was not his place to do such things, but he was still waiting to go out with her.
Bai Yeliang joked, "If you need someone to drive you to work, and they have to follow your schedule, making your whole family miss work and wait for you, if everyone were like you, who would earn money to support the family?"
Bai Yi sensed a hidden meaning in her father's words. She glanced at Zhong Yunxi, feeling that he was the one who had dragged her down, and retorted, "It's not like this every day."
Bai Yeliang simply sighed softly.
Zhong Yunxi had previously inquired about the meeting agenda with Meng Shuang and the others, and it was expected to end around 5 or 6 PM. His schedule was also packed today, and he had already instructed Xue Meng yesterday to try to finish before 5 PM.
After arriving at the hospital, Bai Yi went to the pharmacy department first, following the information in the temporary meeting group.
Runhe's marketing department communicated with the hospital's pharmacy department first. The Third Affiliated Hospital was one of the selected institutions during the new drug clinical trial, and it retained a lot of data and key information, so the communication went very smoothly.
Due to objective factors such as departmental workload and doctor rotation schedules, hospital-wide new drug promotion meetings typically need to be held for two days a week, with five or six sessions required to reach most doctors.
The Third Affiliated Hospital's meetings are scheduled for Wednesdays and Fridays, with three sessions each day. The focus is on Wednesdays.
There was only one session in the morning, so the time was flexible, and ample time for a tea break was allowed in the middle of the meeting.
Bai Yi made herself a latte to perk herself up. Today's meeting wasn't too tiring for her; it was easier than last week's pharmacy meeting. To be precise, communicating with the clinicians was easier.
When it comes to meetings, it's always easiest to communicate with the people doing the work on the front lines, and most tiring to communicate with administrative staff.
Several doctors chatted with her, asking her whether it was more difficult to determine the ingredients or the technology for developing new Chinese medicines.
She said that in most cases, the difficulty lies in determining and optimizing the ingredients.
She was quite surprised when she ran into Yu Shiyuan at the meeting. All the attendees were medical staff from the Third Affiliated Hospital, and she wondered how he got there.
Yu Shiyuan pointed to the person next to him: "My college classmate, Dr. Sun, the attending physician in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology."
Bai Yi greeted Dr. Sun and asked Yu Shiyuan with a smile, "You came to see your classmate and also attended a meeting? Haven't you had enough of your own classes?"
Yu Shiyuan laughed, "What can I do? If he doesn't come to the meeting, I have to stay in the office and record his hospital records. I saw their meeting notice was about Runhe's new drug. I remember you said that when you went back to Yuegang, you were doing new drug support at Runhe. I thought I'd come and see, and I actually ran into you."
Bai Yi asked curiously, "Can you write medical records?"
Dr. Sun remained calm: "You'll get the hang of it after writing it a lot. After all, he has a bachelor's and master's degree in clinical medicine and a medical license."
Yu Shiyuan sighed: "Those doctors are heartless and insane. They grab anyone and make them work."
Bai Yi smiled too.
The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology is also a key department for the promotion of new drugs, and Bai Yi chatted with Dr. Sun for a while longer.
After the morning meeting, Bai Yi and Yu Shiyuan had lunch at the hospital cafeteria.
Zhong Yunxi had not re-added Bai Yi on WeChat, and her phone number was still on his blacklist, so he had no choice but to call Meng Shuang.
Meng Shuang watched her chatting and laughing with Yu Shiyuan, and didn't say much to Boss Zhong.
After dinner, in the conference room, she asked Bai Yi, "Did you have a fight with Boss Zhong? He called me to check up on me."
Bai Yi: ...
Meng Shuang was also following along with the gossip in Runhe's "Slacking Off" group.
But for the sake of her career, she still sided with Boss Zhong, saying, "Don't get too close to Yu Shiyuan. He's a content creator that Runhe has supported through a public relations company. Many people in the company know him."
Bai Yi: ?
Helpless, Meng Shuang bluntly said, "You're getting so close to him, it's easy for people to misunderstand."
Bai Yi remained silent: "They're friends."
“I know. But sometimes, rumors and gossip can spread like wildfire, and they are the hardest to predict,” Meng Shuang reminded her.
"Why does your company have a gossip group?"
Meng Shuang smiled and said, "Working people would be so bored if they didn't gossip at work."
Bai Yi: ...
I thought to myself: You can't gossip about me like that.
After the two afternoon meetings, Runhe also extended a catering invitation, which is the most important part of the event arrangements.
When Meng Shuang saw that Zhong Yunxi hadn't come, she had completely forgotten his earlier instruction to send Bai Yi back home as soon as possible after the meeting.
She dragged Bai Yi to social events at the banquet, but Yu Shiyuan shielded her from the unwanted attention.
After Zhong Yunxi finished a video conference at a distant ocean, it was already past six o'clock. When he arrived at their banquet hotel, he saw Bai Yi sitting in a corner, leaning against the edge of the table. Two people were standing next to her, one holding a glass of water with his hands covered, and the other a man holding what looked like a bowl of porridge.
Bai Yi took a spoonful from that person's hand and put it in her mouth.
Meng Shuang bent down and asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Bai Yi nodded. She was a little drunk, had a headache, and felt dizzy.
"You only drank a tiny bit. I saw you drink red wine last time and you were fine."
Zhong Yunxi strode over, "What's wrong?"
Upon hearing Zhong Yunxi's voice, Bai Yi leaned to one side, almost falling off her chair. Zhong Yunxi quickly reached out and put his arm around her shoulder: "So drunk?"
Feeling guilty, Meng Shuang held up two fingers to indicate two centimeters: "I only drank two small cups of baijiu. Vice Dean Duan and Teacher Bai's maternal grandfather are old friends, so I was too embarrassed to refuse."
"Have you eaten?" Zhong Yunxi asked.
Meng Shuang pointed to the bowl in Yu Shiyuan's hand and said, "He drank a bowl of porridge before drinking the wine, and then drank half a bowl after that."
Zhong Yunxi: ...
Yu Shiyuan looked at the man in front of her and guessed that he was the one she was going to marry.
Bai Yi said that he was the kind of handsome that was quite impressive. He couldn't have imagined it at the time, but when he met him in person, he felt that her description was simple yet accurate.
The ease and grace in her every gesture must have been cultivated through years of being pampered and adored.
It's not about being assertive. The aura of someone in a position of power is never simply about being assertive. It's about looking down from above and having a sense of control. It's about having unpredictable thoughts and actions, and having the confidence to make others feel guilty and compromise with just a glance.
Yu Shiyuan suddenly understood why Bai Yi seemed conflicted and unwilling to think deeply about her situation two years into her marriage when they last met.
Yu Shiyuan felt that Zhong Yunxi was not a good match for Bai Yi. Her willful arrogance, softness, and sensitivity would hurt her in the face of Zhong Yunxi's strong aura.
Zhong Yunxi stroked her head. She looked up at Zhong Yunxi, her mind too dull, unable to remember what she wanted to do. She grabbed his hand and called out, "Zhong Yunxi."
Zhong Yunxi grabbed her hand in return: "You're home now, and you're completely drunk. You dare to drink even when I'm not around."
She grabbed his arms and stood up. Zhong Yunxi put his arm around her waist, and she swayed a few times before she could stand up. There were too many people in the venue, so Zhong Yunxi didn't carry her away directly. Otherwise, it wouldn't be him who would be killed, but Bai Yi.
Zhong Yunxi bid farewell to Meng Shuang and Yu Shiyuan and left with his men.
Meng Shuang turned her head and saw Yu Shiyuan frowning slightly as he looked at their backs. After a moment, he looked away, turned around and sat down, and drank the remaining half bowl of porridge in his hand.
As soon as they got in the car, Zhong Yunxi fed Bai Yi a few sips of warm water. She was already dizzy, and the car ride made her even more so. She covered her head and said she felt unwell.
Zhong Yunxi held her in his arms; she was trembling all over. He asked her if she felt nauseous or had a headache, but she couldn't say for sure.
It's probably because I've never drunk strong liquor before, and my stomach reacted too badly.
It's far from Pierre Park and The Hillside Residence, but relatively close to the East Tower of Hong Kong Island. He asked the driver to take him to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
During the 20-minute drive, Zhong Yunxi had the driver stop on the side of the road four or five times because Bai Yi kept saying she wasn't feeling well. He also bought hangover medicine and gave it to her.
It was an hour later when we arrived at the hotel.
The person finally calmed down and became a little more sober.
She curled up on the sofa and dozed off for a while. Zhong Yunxi stood next to her. She got up, pushed him away, and swayed into the bathroom. She felt heavy all over and wanted to take a bath.
Zhong Yunxi was afraid she would fall in the bathroom, so he followed her in, only to be slapped on the chest by her: "I'm not drunk, I won't forgive you, don't try to take advantage of me, get out."
Zhong Yunxi smiled and filled the bathtub with water. "Even when you're drunk, you're still thinking about arguing with me. You hold grudges too much."
She sat on the edge of the bathtub and kicked him with her leg.
Zhong Yunxi listened to her advice, left the door ajar, and stood at the door to wait, afraid that he wouldn't know if she slipped and fell because she was so drunk.
When she went out wrapped in a bath towel, Zhong Yunxi, as usual, helped her dry her hair.
She sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, no longer pushing him away. After drying her hair, the moment she turned off the hairdryer, she reached out and hugged his waist, her voice soft: "I was drunk, I was dreaming, it doesn't count, I'll still be angry tomorrow."
Zhong Yunxi: ...
Who can get away with this?
"Then how do we make it count so that I won't get angry?" Zhong Yunxi asked with a smile.
She stopped talking.
Zhong Yunxi threw the hairdryer on the ground, cupped her face, and kissed her.
Bai Yi leaned back slightly, her heart suddenly stirred, and she gripped his shirt tightly, her eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings in the wind.
Zhong Yunxi said in a low voice, "What if you don't have the energy to get angry?"
He kissed her from her forehead down her body, and Bai Yi was frightened by his kisses.
He used to be very restrained, but tonight, perhaps the pressure that had been building up for too long finally collapsed, or perhaps it was during this argument that he realized for the first time how powerless he could be, and he wanted to possess it completely, almost to an extreme degree.
Bai Yi's willfulness and bad temper were completely useless at this moment; even the words he uttered were controlled by him.
When she realized that she had been coaxed into calling him "husband" over and over again like a broken record, and she cried without any self-control, whenever she tried to say anything else, his lips and tongue would block her throat.
The night was long, and the physical exertion was almost terrifying.
Bai Yi was tormented by his explosive power and endurance, and often felt like he was about to break.
She was only now experiencing firsthand the authoritative and controlling aura that others perceived as unquestionable by Zhong Yunxi.
Bai Yi thought that she had been acting out of line and had finally crossed his line, so he was starting to get angry.
But after he said "I love you" so many times, she felt happy.
She took a shower in a daze, and sure enough, he asked her again, "Are you still angry?"
Bai Yi's eyes were too swollen to open. With the little strength he had left, he couldn't even vibrate his vocal cords when he tried to speak, only managing to utter a breathy sound: "You're angrier than me."
Zhong Yunxi chuckled softly, "Sorry, were you tired? I won't do it again next time."
Bai Yi refused to let him off so easily: "You said you love me, but I'm not asleep, so you're not allowed to stop."
She always makes strange requests of him, but Zhong Yunxi is used to it.
"I love you, I love you..."
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