Chapter 5: Planning to steal a dog in the middle of the night or seeking revenge?
The day they broke up, he got extremely drunk and when he got home, he found that the door to the apartment they lived in together wasn't closed properly.
The dog is gone too.
He thought the dog had run away on its own.
They couldn't find it even after searching with a large sum of money, so they gave up.
What's the use of a dog if the person is gone?
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a dog thief.
Even with the car window only slightly lowered, Xu Si'an could hear Qiao Xu cursing at the dog.
"You little brat, stop right there! I'm exhausted. Can't you slow down?"
Qiao Xu needed to cross the street to buy wontons, so she had to hold the dog in her arms while crossing the street.
Xu Si'an watched the person and dog enter the store before instructing the driver to start the car.
Cherry seemed to sense something and kept calling out as she turned around.
Qiao Xu turned around and looked towards the door, where she saw a black car drive by.
"What are you yelling for? Don't yell."
After dinner, Qiao Xu received a message from the insurance company saying that Xu Si'an indicated he would negotiate with her privately and even sent her his phone number.
In addition, according to the insurance contract, the insurance company paid Qiao Xu 15,000 yuan in vehicle compensation.
She placed the cherry in its nest by the bed and squatted down beside it.
"Cherry, I saw him again."
"He hasn't changed at all; he's still just as annoying."
As she was talking, Qiao Xu sat on the floor and hugged the dog in her arms.
"What should I do, Cherry? I'm trying so hard not to think about him, why does he keep showing up?"
"He should be married by now."
The puppy sensed its owner's mood and rubbed against her cheek.
"Cherry, do you want your biological mother or your stepmother?"
"If you want a stepmother, I'll give you back to your biological father."
After Cherry made a few whimpering sounds, Qiaoxu put it back in its nest and climbed onto the bed herself.
She turned on her phone and switched to another WeChat account.
There is a person on the WeChat blacklist who is in the same company work group.
He hasn't changed his WeChat account; has he been waiting for her all this time?
Qiao Xu, as if possessed, removed the person from the blacklist.
After taking a shower, Xu Si'an sat on the sofa in a black bathrobe, holding a phone in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
"I said, didn't you say you didn't like her? Why are you checking her address?"
"Are you planning to steal a dog in the middle of the night, or are you going to seek revenge?"
"A breakup, it's not that serious."
He Yanxun meticulously recounted everything Qiao Xu had done in Jiangcheng.
The iPad next to Xu Si'an still displays Qiao Xu's ID photo.
When did her father leave?
"It seems to have been about six months after you broke up."
Xu Si'an opened WeChat and instinctively reached for the pinned WeChat account.
The very last chat log above is from four years ago, the day the dog went missing: "Qiaoqiao, you don't want me anymore, and Cherry doesn't want me either."
He scrolled up, past hundreds of WeChat messages, but hadn't sent a single one.
I tapped the screen a few times, and to my surprise...!!!
Sent successfully?
"A good horse doesn't eat the grass it has already grazed, a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow, and it's even more so than Qiao Xu—"
“My brother recognizes people; if it’s not her, he acts like she’s dead.”
Before He Yanxun could finish saying "Holy crap," the call was disconnected.
Xu Si'an put down his wine glass, wanting to take back those three words, but found it was too late.
He added Qiao Xu as a WeChat friend in the work group.
However, there has still been no response.
The next morning, she was woken up by a dog licking her before the alarm clock even went off.
"Okay, okay, I'm awake, I'm awake."
Qiao Xu reached out and hugged the dog, rubbing its head. She then grabbed her phone and saw a WeChat message from 2 a.m. yesterday.
She opened the app, and the phone hit the dog on the head.
Cherry: Waaaaah~
Qiao Xu rubbed her eyes and saw that the person she had released last night had sent three words.
[Stealed my dog?]
"Cherry, did you secretly tell him you were here with me?"
The dog with its mouth pinched looked innocent; it was the one that was stolen.
Qiao Xu didn't reply. She wanted to add him back to her blacklist, but it felt like she was trying to cover it up.
Never mind, let's switch back to WeChat.
After switching back, I noticed a new friend request notification.
Qiao Xu instinctively wanted to refuse, but...
He's his boss now.
I didn't see it, just ignore it.
No sane boss would add an employee on WeChat in the middle of the night.
After washing up, Qiao Xu remembered that her car had been overturned by a capitalist, so she had to take a taxi to work.
During peak hours, I waited in line for more than ten minutes to hail a taxi, and by the time I ran into the company lobby, I had already scouted the location.
Just as the elevator doors were about to close, she jogged over and called out, "Excuse me, please wait a moment."
Qiao Xu: ...I didn't check the calendar before I left home.
Xu Si'an stood with the finance director, and Qiao Xu was stunned for a few seconds.
"Aren't you coming in?"
"Hello, Mr. Xu. Hello, Director Zhang."
The finance director is a woman in her forties. Because she used to be a secretary in the president's office, she has a fairly good relationship with each department.
"Xiao Qiao, it's rare that you arrived on time."
Because of the information she saw this morning, Qiao Xu doesn't dare to look at the man's face next to her.
Did he find out?
Or was it sent to the wrong person?
"I took a taxi, so I'm a bit late."
Director Zhang asked curiously, "Taking a taxi? Where's your little darling?"
Qiao Xu looked up, smiled, and gritted her teeth: "My car was hit and overturned."
"ah?"
"Who is it that drives so badly?"
Qiao Xu chuckled: "Your driving skills are pretty bad."
The elevator stopped on the sixteenth floor, and the finance director got out.
With only two people left inside, the atmosphere inexplicably became awkward.
Qiao Xu looked up at the numbers flashing in the elevator, all the way up to the thirtieth floor.
As soon as the door opened, she rushed out and ran towards the emergency staircase.
Before the two people at the secretary's workstation could even greet each other, a gust of wind blew past.
"Xiaorou, was that Xuxu just now?"
Ye Yurou put down her coffee and stood up; "Hello, President Xu."
Fang Kexin belatedly realized that Xu Si'an had already entered the transfer elevator by the time she was about to greet him.
"So, Xuxu ran so fast just now because she was in the same elevator as President Xu?"
"By the way, why is Xuxu late? She's usually the first one to arrive."
Qiao Xu entered the office a second before the elevator stopped, and Xu Si'an could still see the glass door of the assistant's office shake slightly.
He curled his lips slightly and muttered a curse under his breath.
"What a spineless person."
She was so scared just because it was the same elevator, but she wasn't scared when we were in the same bed.
After changing into her high heels, Qiao Xu picked up her laptop and walked to the door of the office next door. Just as she raised her hand, wondering whether to knock, the door was opened.
My hand almost hit the boss's jaw.
Qiao Xu's face stiffened as her wrist was grabbed: "President Xu, the meeting is in session."
"Anyone who didn't know better would think that Assistant Qiao harbored a grudge against me, the new boss, and wanted to smash my brains."
Qiao Xu shook off his hand and reached out—
Xu Si'an raised an eyebrow: "What do you want? Money or the car?"
"Give me back my employee ID."
"It's in the trash can. Go to the cleaning room and find it yourself."
Qiao Xu: ······
This ex was completely unqualified.
A good ex should act like they're dead, and even if they reappear, you should pretend to have amnesia.
In the conference room, Qiao Xu, as the president's assistant, presided over the meeting.
She was reluctant to admit it, but her hardworking ex-boyfriend did have a captivating charm.
"Assistant Qiao, Assistant Qiao..."
When Qiao Xu came to her senses, she saw that the people in the conference room had already left one after another.
Ye Yurou and Fang Kexin were also packing up their computers and documents, giving Qiao Xu a "good luck" look.
As Qiao Xu closed her laptop and stood up, someone pressed her shoulder down onto the conference table.
"During the two-hour meeting, Assistant Qiao spent an hour and a half staring at me. What, is he plotting something against me?"
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