Miss you
Thinking of the lingering dream last night and now suddenly seeing the person in person, Xia Tangyue couldn't help but feel his cheeks getting hot. He changed his sitting position awkwardly, and under the table, his hands were nervously clasped together.
Wen Zheng's mellow voice slowly fell: "You are quite amazing."
"Ah?" Xia Tangyue looked up blankly.
Wen Zheng sat down in the empty seat in front of her, and his deep eyes took in Xia Tangyue's expression.
"Huh? You didn't watch the news?"
After playing with Xi Na for the whole day, Xia Tangyue hadn't touched her phone, so she took it out and took a look. There were a lot of push messages, and one of the titles caught her attention.
"Scandal in the art world: Mulin Art Museum was exposed for hiring private detectives to follow its peers, and its vicious competition violated the legal red line"
When I clicked on it, I saw a video push, and the number of likes and reposts reached one million.
Xia Tangyue clicked on the search box again and found that the hot searches were all related terms.
"From tracking to stealing secrets: The inside story of vicious competition in Mulin Art Museum is exposed, and the industry calls for the establishment of a blacklist system"
"From curatorial competition to illegal stalking: Mulin Art Museum's malicious business practices were reported, and the people involved have been detained"
"'Business espionage scandal' shocked the art world: Mulin Art Museum was suspected of systematically tracking and stealing the core business secrets of Zhijian Art Museum"
…
Basically, every piece of news has been forwarded over a million times.
Xia Tangyue smacked his lips and blurted out, "It's so popular!"
Wen Zheng looked at her, a faint smile on his face: "I voted for you."
"Hmm...ah?" Xia Tangyue was shocked.
Did he vote for these news on Douyin?
No wonder every video has so many likes.
Before Xia Tangyue could finish his next sentence, a voice called Wen Zheng from not far away. He stood up, made a wait gesture to the other party, and then said to Xia Tangyue: "My friend asked me to play basketball, so I'm leaving."
The sea breeze blew up his shirt, and his tall and strong figure quickly disappeared at the end of the beach. He started playing beach volleyball with a few men of his age. When he was ready to catch the ball, the muscles on his lower back outlined a smooth arc through his white shirt, which was looming with the movement.
Xi Na came over at some point, followed her gaze, and said shockingly: "He must like you."
Xia Tangyue's throat tightened and he couldn't speak. He couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts.
It’s not a small amount of money to invest in Douyin+ for so many videos. How much money did he spend to create such high popularity?
Why did he do that?
They are just the relationship between guests and bosses.
Could it be that he really likes her? Does Wen Zheng like her?
But……
Xia Tangyue hesitated and said what was in his heart: "With his conditions, there should be a lot of girls who like him."
"That's the theory." Xi Na replied while eating: "The handsome owner of the B&B who drives a Porsche doesn't think there will be a window of opportunity."
Xia Tangyue sighed somewhat disappointedly: "That's right, maybe he has a girlfriend?"
"I think he should be single." Xi Na put down her chopsticks and analyzed seriously: "I observed that day when we were having a barbecue. We played until so late, and he didn't take out his phone to play WeChat or chat. If he had a girlfriend, he would definitely not be like this. How could his girlfriend be at ease when he was still having a barbecue with other girls so late? She would have called him repeatedly."
"Be more confident." Xi Na looked down from Xia Tangyue's face and said very sincerely: "You are young and beautiful, and you have a good family. It's normal for a man to like you."
She held Xia Tangyue's face and turned it towards Wen Zheng: "If such a handsome man was sent to you, if it were me, I would have to taste him twice before leaving!"
"If you encounter such a perfect person, you have to act quickly. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. If you take the initiative, maybe you two will have a future. Happiness is something you have to fight for yourself!"
"Listen to me, I'll go back after dinner and create an opportunity for you two, you have to seize it!"
…
Xia Tangyue was absent-minded during the meal.
She thought about it carefully and felt that Wen Zheng was actually a good guy. He was well educated and in good shape, knew how to treat people properly, was well socialized, and was not the kind of rookie who had just entered society. Most importantly, whenever she faced him, she would always feel an inexplicable excitement, like a cluster of bubbles bursting out from the calm water.
She seemed to be a little moved.
Night falls quietly.
The blue starry sky covers the entire earth, and the rolling waves sparkle in the moonlight.
After the game, Wen Zheng wiped the sweat from his neck with a towel and took the mineral water handed to him by his good friend Duanmu Yu.
Duanmu Yu: "The club will open in a week, why don't you come back to take a look?"
The cold water flowed through his throat, quenching his burning thirst and tense nerves after the game. Wen Zheng nodded slightly: "Yeah."
"Zhuang Chen is going to Beijing to attend university, right?" Duanmu Yu and Wen Zheng stood side by side. "Do you plan to go north with him?"
“That’s the idea.”
Duanmu Yu smiled, and then as if remembering something, "Gu Jiaping also resigned from Yaoying. I heard that he went to work in the investment department of Furen Group."
"A two-faced person like him will fall sooner or later." Duanmu Yu said disdainfully: "When he was the marketing director of Yaoying, he secretly sold our new energy vehicle research and development data to competitors. If it weren't for the lack of evidence..."
Before he finished speaking, Duanmu Yu smiled softly, "Luckily you were there at the time, alerted him in advance, and prevented the situation from developing further. You always put him first, and he probably regarded you as a thorn in his side."
Wen Zheng's attitude was cold, as if he disdained to mention such a person.
"The environment here is so nice. No wonder you don't want to go back to Beijing." The person who spoke was Wen Zheng's Harvard classmate Sylvia, a passionate and unrestrained American girl. She smiled and raised the volleyball and threw it at the two men.
Xina pulled Xia Tangyue towards them and hid herself under a palm tree with light movements.
"Will this work?" Xia Tangyue questioned Xina's plan.
"Of course you can, believe me, just act more realistically then," Xina said.
Xina's idea was to pretend to be tripped by a shell on the beach and seek Wen Zheng's help. Then Xina made an excuse to leave and created an opportunity for them to be alone together.
But watching Wen Zheng chatting with the blonde girl, Xia Tangyue's mood suddenly sank. An inexplicable feeling of loss enveloped her. She suddenly didn't want to carry out this plan anymore, and pulled Xina back in a depressed mood.
But many times what happens is God's will.
Xia Tangyue just happened to step on a shell on the beach and sprained his ankle.
"Ah——" She cried out in pain. Xina helped her sit down.
Xia Tangyue covered his sprained ankle and wondered how unlucky he was to actually sprain his ankle.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly fell beside her and covered her completely.
"Twisted it?" Wen Zheng looked at her with lowered eyebrows.
Xia Tangyue felt awkward for a moment, and responded softly, while subconsciously looking at Xi Na - Xi Na winked at her slyly.
"Can you help me look after her? I have some urgent work to deal with." Xina said to Wen Zheng.
"Can."
Xina ran away.
Xia Tangyue tried to get up from the sand, but her sprained foot was powerless. Wen Zheng helped her up and took her to the marble park bench nearby.
"There is no redness or swelling, so it's not serious. I'll find you an ice pack to apply on it when we get home tonight. You'll be fine tomorrow." Wen Zheng sat side by side with her.
He was tall and had long legs, so the park chair seemed particularly cramped under him. His long legs were casually propped up, with his knees almost touching the edge of the opposite flower bed. The hem of his black casual pants was lifted up by the sea breeze, revealing his bony ankles, which were still stained with a few drops of fine sand.
Xia Tangyue quietly moved to the side, but smelled the scent coming from him and felt a little embarrassed. She took the initiative to say, "I'm sorry to bother you again and disturb your date with your friends."
"Hmm?" Wen Zheng looked at her. Perhaps the word "date" was too ambiguous, so he explained, "Sylvia is my classmate from Harvard. She came to China to look for her fiancé and she just happened to meet with us classmates here."
Xia Tangyue lowered his head and said nothing, but his mood suddenly changed from cloudy to sunny.
Thinking that she couldn't stay for long, she said to Wen Zheng, "I'm going back to Beijing and will stay in the room until next Tuesday. Are you free these two days? I want to invite you to play."
Wen Zheng smiled faintly, his dark eyes becoming even darker in the night.
"Where do you want to take me when I'm free?"
Xia Tangyue hesitated for a moment. She hadn't contacted the boat she wanted to rent, and she hadn't researched the route yet. "I'll prepare it first and tell you when the time comes."
"OK."
After sitting for a while, Xia Tangyue stretched his legs and felt that there was nothing wrong, so he planned to go back.
Wen Zheng held out his hand to her, "Can we go?"
His palm looked broad and dry, with distinct joints and a shallow scar at the base of his palm. Xia Tangyue was stunned for a moment, and Xi Na's words flashed through her mind: It would be a pity not to take the opportunity to get close to such a handsome man - she put her hand on him as if possessed by a ghost.
Just as imagined.
Wen Zheng's palms were warm and thick, and his movements in supporting her were steady and powerful. In order to accommodate her pace, he even deliberately slowed down his pace.
Arriving at the parking lot, Xia Tangyue saw the Panamera from the day before. He noticed that the license plate number was from Beijing and said with emotion, "It takes more than a thousand kilometers to drive from Beijing to here."
"Although the journey is long, the scenery along the way is beautiful and it is worth it." Before Wen Zheng shifted gears and started the car, he did not forget to adjust the seat for the co-pilot Xia Tangyue to be more comfortable.
"I'll take you back to the B&B." Wen Zheng steered the wheel and asked, "Is your friend done with her work? Do you want to go pick her up together?"
Xia Tangyue pursed her lips in embarrassment. Ten minutes ago, Xi Na had sent her a WeChat message to inform her that she had returned to the B&B.
"No, no, she went back." Xia Tangyue smiled awkwardly.
"Will you come again when you return to Beijing this time?"
In the quiet carriage, Wen Zheng suddenly asked this.
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