Chapter 32 32 Can I deliver it myself?
Minister Sun brought over a thick stack of project proposals. Qin Jixiu flipped through them, glancing at his phone from time to time. There were a lot of messages looking for him, but none of them involved the Running Samoyed.
Could it be that the elevator is broken and Gu Qing hasn't delivered the package yet? Or is it that the signal in the building is bad today and the message is delayed?
Qin Jixiu held the cell phone high in his hand, and useless messages came even faster, but none of them was the one he was waiting for.
He suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Could it be that the gift he gave was too expensive and Shi Rui didn't dare to accept it?
No, maybe Rui didn’t recognize the brand when he was a child, and thought it was just an ordinary backpack and threw it aside.
What on earth did Gu Qing tell him? Why didn't he react at all?
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Qin Jixiu quickly sat up straight, cleared his throat pretentiously and said, "Come in."
Gu Qing pushed the door open with a smile on his face and said in a tone like a parent coaxing a child, "Boss Qin, look who's here?"
Gu Qing took half a step back and someone walked in.
The other person was wearing black overalls, Martin boots, and a navy blue jacket. The T-shirt underneath had a white edge on the hem. He had shed the formal work clothes of the president's office and his outfit was very layered.
The moment his eyes met Shi Rui's, Qin Jixiu almost gasped for breath and suddenly clenched the folder in his hand. At least he didn't avoid Shi Rui's gaze, but the force of his leather shoes on the wooden floor was stronger than ever before.
Shi Rui still treated him respectfully: "Boss Qin, I came to see you for something."
"Yeah." Qin Jixiu nodded implicitly and winked at Gu Qing.
Gu Qing walked out in high spirits and closed the door for the two of them.
Shi Rui put his handbag aside, found the remote control skillfully, and closed all the blinds in the room.
Qin Jixiu didn't care why he suddenly pulled the blinds. His breathing was a little difficult, and he tried to keep his tone steady: "What do you want from me?"
"Oh," Shi Rui walked to his desk, bent slightly, lowered his eyes and stared into his eyes, and said, "I'm here to thank Mr. Qin."
Qin Jixiu leaned against the backrest, maintaining a relaxed posture and said, "It's nothing, you're too polite."
Shi Rui looked puzzled: "How did Mr. Qin know what I wanted to thank you for?"
Qin Jixiu's back stiffened: "Isn't it because I gave him a bag?"
"Ah, yes," Shi Rui seemed to have just remembered this. He took the initiative and asked, "Why did Mr. Qin suddenly give me a bag? Assistant Li also worked hard for you before, why did you give it to me and not her?"
Shi Rui didn't leave him any room for maneuver. Qin Jixiu smiled and pretended to be annoyed: "I forgot. I'll make it up to her another day."
Qin Jixiu thought he had gotten back on track, so he continued, "It's just a package. There's no need to come and say thank you. You could just call, send a message, or have Gu Qing pass on a message. By the way, before I left the country, you said you had something to talk to me about. What was it?"
Shi Rui's gaze locked with him, his attention drawn to the movement of his Adam's apple as he spoke. After a moment, he came back to his senses and said, "Thanks to President Qin's support for me in the R&D department last time, Zhao Lei and the others have recently applied for transfers and have already left the department."
Qin Jixiu smiled and quickly thought of the right words in his mind: "Don't think too much. After all, I'm not targeting you. Wu Min has mentioned this to me several times. I just happened to have something to ask Minister Wu that day, and just as I was leaving, I remembered that the employee Minister Wu disliked seemed to be named Zhao, so I asked casually. What's more, they can't beat you, mainly because you have a strong personality and refuse to be easily manipulated. Your style of doing things is very sharp. They are afraid of you, not me."
Shi Rui's eyes suddenly brightened, and he asked, "How did President Qin know all this? Has President Qin been watching me from behind?"
Qin Jixiu cursed in his heart, blaming himself for speaking too quickly.
"No, I overheard them talking about it. After all, you're like Nezha making trouble in the Dragon Palace. It's hard not to have people talking about you behind your back." Qin Jixiu admired his unwillingness to be bullied, but he also reminded him to be careful. "A tall tree attracts the wind. It's good to be low-key. Although you are from my family, my name won't be useful forever."
Shi Rui confirmed that Qin Jixiu was indeed secretly concerned about him, and his heart blossomed with joy, but he nodded modestly: "I understand, President Qin."
Seeing that he looked like he was learning, Qin Jixiu said a few more words: "When you live in a group environment, you have to tolerate people's mistakes. Everyone has different habits, personalities, and even IQs. You will encounter stupid colleagues and incompetent bosses. If you always use your own standards to judge others, you will always rush to the front. At first, others like you, but then they start to encourage you, and you become a useful pawn in their hands. Over time, everyone around you will be offended by you."
"Wu Min is an old fox. He knows everything about the department. He'd be happy to see you help him get rid of the unwanted people without having to do it himself."
"But more importantly, be open to your own mistakes. Although I've been very demanding of you before, you must not feel burdened by your mistakes or feel ashamed. Everyone makes mistakes. If you make a mistake, do your best to make amends and don't dwell on self-blame."
Shi Rui seemed to suddenly understand why Qin Jixiu sent him to the R&D department. If Qin Jixiu was his immediate superior, it would be difficult for him to show his concern for his employees as the company's president.
Qin Jixiu gradually relaxed. Since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it. He was originally going to ask Shi Rui to come up, but Shi Rui came by himself, which saved him the trouble of coming up with an excuse.
"What do you think of me?" Qin Jixiu suddenly asked.
Asking this question at this time would be a bit abrupt for anyone, including Shi Rui. He almost bit his tongue as he opened his mouth: "...What?"
Qin Jixiu also realized that his words were ambiguous, so he changed his question and asked, "How do I treat you?"
In this world, there were only him and Qin Jixiu. Shi Rui noticed that Qin Jixiu seemed to be willing to show his hand. He relaxed his nerves and became a little bolder. He asked, "Mr. Qin, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
Qin Jixiu smiled: "Of course it's true."
"Half and half," Shi Rui said with a look of confusion and incomprehension on his face. "Sometimes I think you treat me very well. You gave me the opportunity to come to the CEO's office, took me out for social events and introduced me to the world. You cared about how a foreigner like me could live in Jiangcheng. You thoughtfully gave me milk tea, and today you even gave me such an expensive bag."
Qin Jixiu coughed lightly, and suddenly felt extremely guilty: "What about the bad aspects?"
"You were harsh, almost ruthless, treating me with indifference. You made me run laps downstairs as punishment, and you made my three female secretaries take turns taking vacations so you could give me more work. On a business trip, you got upset with me and beat me up while drunk, and you didn't even apologize afterwards. I don't understand. Did I do something wrong?"
Listening to Shi Rui's slightly aggrieved accusation, Qin Jixiu felt ashamed and glanced down at the floor. It was all because the floor-laying craftsman had such good skills that he couldn't find a suitable gap in the floor.
He bravely looked over, his mind racing, and said in a tense voice, "You were right. I was training your ability to withstand pressure. Facts have proven that I was right."
"Is that all?" Shi Rui followed with an inquiring gaze.
Qin Jixiu quickly retracted his gaze and said, "Yes, I didn't know you before. It's not like I'm targeting you intentionally. We are not enemies."
Shi Rui was about to open his mouth to say something when someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Behind Shi Rui, the door opened and Secretary Jia strode in. He quickly realized that the atmosphere in the office was not right. The blinds were all closed, and President Qin didn't allow anyone to turn on the lights. Moreover, Shi Rui in front of him was so close to the desk that he had exceeded the social distance for reporting work.
"Uh," Secretary Jia said subconsciously, "Should I not come in?"
Qin Jixiu changed his sitting position and said in a gentle voice that it was okay. He stretched out his hand to him and Secretary Jia handed him a stack of documents.
"Put the documents here first, and go get busy."
It was clearly a simple reminder, but Shi Rui heard something else. Qin Jixiu seemed to have never spoken to him so gently before. The few words Secretary Jia had just exchanged with him could be considered tender.
Why?
Secretary Jia had only been in the CEO's office for a short time. Could it be that Qin Jixiu had already changed his mind? Then what was the point of giving him the gift today? Was he feeling guilty and trying to make amends?
"However," Qin Jixiu changed the subject, "you're just a new graduate. I had too high expectations of you in the past, which caused you to suffer a lot in the President's Office."
"Although I had good intentions, my approach was a bit extreme. I apologize," Qin Jixiu said these three words, and a huge weight lifted from his heart. He stared into Shi Rui's eyes, "Thank you for your hard work during that time. If you need anything, just tell me."
Shi Rui's eyes darkened for a moment, and he uttered a single word crisply: "You."
Qin Jixiu thought he was eyeing his CEO position, and seeing his frank and approving expression, he naturally promised him something: "With your courage, you'll succeed in everything you do. But young people need to be patient and take things step by step. Perhaps one day, Zhengfeng will open a branch in Lincheng, and then it wouldn't be impossible for you to become the general manager."
Shi Rui's father has just become the big boss behind the Lincheng Tourist Area. Catering and accommodation are priced and managed uniformly by the Shi family. The tourist area is in peak season all year round. It is no exaggeration to say that he sleeps on gold every day.
Shi Rui admitted that the Qin family was indeed wealthy, but their family was not inferior at all.
This is not what he wants.
Shi Rui could sense that Qin Jixiu was holding back a lot of things from him, like an awkward clam, poking its head out and then retracting, as if afraid, yet also as if regretting. Was he undecided about confessing his feelings to him, or was he afraid to speak rashly because he was afraid to scare him away?
Since Qin Jixiu wasn't brave enough to be honest, then he could just pierce the window paper. After all, in his dreams every night, he and Qin Jixiu were more than just in love.
He thought he could endure until the day when Qin Jixiu took the initiative to reveal his true colors, but he simply couldn't stand the fact that Qin Jixiu was gentler to other men, even gentler to him.
Secretary Jia is not as good-looking as him, his legs are not longer than his, and he does not have broad shoulders and narrow waist like him, or an inverted triangle shape. What does Qin Jixiu like about him?
Under Qin Jixiu's surprised gaze, Shi Rui walked around the desk and came to his side.
Qin Jixiu's eyes gradually widened, because Shi Rui pulled the back of a chair without warning, made him face him, and then leaned over him, their faces so close that they could hear each other's breathing.
Shi Rui's hair had grown longer, almost exactly the same as in the photo. The impact of such a handsome face was still too strong for him. Qin Jixiu clenched the armrests of the chair.
Shi Rui's gaze traced his eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips. He said in a hoarse voice, "Many people say that President Qin transferred me to the CEO's office because he was interested in me. Is this true? Or is it just nonsense?"
Qin Jixiu was speechless for a moment, because the truth would make him lose face even more.
In his past imagination, he had never imagined being looked down upon by Shi Rui like this. He was extremely unaccustomed to it. His mind was a little confused as he recalled that Shi Rui had filled in 190cm of height on his resume. As it turned out, he had not lied.
Qin Jixiu lowered his gaze a few inches. Under Shi Rui's open coat, his waist was thin but looked very strong.
"No," Qin Jixiu looked away, finally finding his voice, "I was just attracted by your diploma and honors, and thought it would be a shame for such a talent not to come to the CEO's office—"
"Really? But other people's comments are also reasonable and well-founded. Mr. Qin, do you want to know what others say about us?"
Qin Jixiu opened his mouth to scold him and tell him to stop talking nonsense, but he felt too guilty in his heart and didn't want to add another debt to his account.
He tried to push the person away, but all he felt was hard muscle.
Shi Rui took the opportunity to hold his two hands. Those two hands looked big, but they were just right in his hands.
Qin Jixiu noticed that there was something wrong with Shi Rui's eyes. He wanted to pull his hand away, but the struggle made the distance between them closer and more dangerous.
"Shi Rui!" There were still people outside, so Qin Jixiu could only lower his voice and shout.
Shi Rui stared at his faintly red earlobe and chuckled, then pressed one of his hands against the back of the chair. Qin Jixiu immediately glared at him in anger, but this look stimulated Shi Rui to become bolder.
Shi Rui knelt on one leg between Qin Jixiu's knees, their chests almost touching.
Shi Rui tilted his head and whispered in his ear, "Don't be embarrassed, Mr. Qin. I know I'm very good-looking. Didn't you want to take advantage of me from the beginning but didn't dare to tell me? Why don't I just come to you myself?"
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