As expected, Fu Yanzhou just replied with a "hmm".
Min Xi suddenly felt bored, stopped chatting with him, and exited the dialog box.
Sheng Jianqi was also attending the afternoon discussion, so Min Xi couldn't be careless and took out a tablet from his bag to prepare for the meeting.
The discussion was held in the large conference room that Sheng Jianqi often used.
Min Xi arrived there a few minutes early, and when she walked out of the elevator, she met Director Shi who came down from the elevator next door. He was still wearing the same clothes as when she last saw him at the R&D center.
As he has been busy with new product launches recently, he looks thinner than the last time we met.
The two greeted each other and walked to the meeting room side by side.
Everyone in Shengshi Technology knew that Sheng Jianqi had some opinions about Min Xi, and for a while, it became the number one gossip in the tea room of Shengshi Technology.
If they didn't know that Sheng Jianqi had someone in his heart, they would even suspect that Sheng Jianqi had been rejected by Min Xi before, and that love turned into hate, so he made things difficult for Min Xi when they met again.
After several contacts, Director Shi had a good impression of Min Xi. As for why Sheng Jianqi targeted Min Xi, it was not his business, but for the sake of the third generation Xiao Xiao, he hoped to get along well with Min Xi so that the subsequent cooperation would go smoothly.
"Mr. Sheng is not in a good mood recently. Although he is not the kind of person who takes his personal emotions out on work, no one can be 100% public and private."
It was no secret in their group that Mr. Sheng had a girlfriend, but it was not good to talk about the boss behind his back. He pushed up the frameless glasses on his nose, a habitual action when he was in a dilemma.
"Mr. Sheng broke up with his girlfriend recently, and he's also having a big fight with his family..."
Director Shi sighed slightly and hesitated to speak.
He was not a talkative person, and he felt uncomfortable discussing his boss's private affairs.
Min Xi took a few seconds to digest the information: "I know what's going on."
Director Shi hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood. I didn't mean for you to tolerate Mr. Sheng. What I meant was that when he has a stern face sometimes, it's not directed at you. He's in a bad mood because of personal matters."
Min Xi smiled and thanked Director Shi for the reminder.
Director Shi: “It should be.”
He didn't know much about his boss's private affairs.
Sheng Jianqi met his ex-girlfriend at school. His ex-girlfriend's family was not well-matched with his, but he was determined to marry her despite his family's strong opposition.
Before they even got their marriage certificate, problems arose in their relationship.
…
The focus of today's discussion is the new product launch in two months.
Sheng Jianqi was the last one to enter the meeting room. Min Xi looked up and greeted her politely. Sheng Jianqi nodded slightly to her with a stern face.
Just as Director Shi said, he was not in a good mood.
Sometimes she would unconsciously be curious about what it was like for aloof people like Sheng Jianqi and Fu Yanzhou to be with the person they liked.
Everything went smoothly during the first half of the meeting.
There was a break of a few minutes and the discussion continued.
There will be an interactive session with the guests at the press conference. After reading the interactive plan, Sheng Jianqi frowned and asked, "What is it about?"
What was supposed to come finally came. Director Shi sat opposite Min Xi and gave her a look.
As if to say, he is not targeting you.
Min Xi smiled slightly and told Director Shi not to worry, she would not hold it against someone who had just broken up.
After Sheng Jianqi finished speaking, he kept staring at Min Xi, waiting for her to roll her eyes and then he confronted him directly, but she ended up marking that page carefully.
"Okay, Mr. Sheng, I'll go back and revise it and send the new interactive plan to your email later."
She was pious and polite, and there was no hint of what he meant.
Sheng Jianqi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
The discussion lasted until half past five.
Min Xi walked out of the meeting room and the first thing he did was to take out his cell phone. The conversation box with Fu Yanzhou was still stuck on the word "hmm" from him, and he hadn't sent any messages since then.
After returning to the temporary office, Min Xi discussed with several colleagues and began to modify the interactive plan. He was busy until nine o'clock in the evening and sent the new plan to Sheng Jianqi's email.
Since taking on the Shengshi Technology case, it has become normal for me to get off work at 9:00 p.m.
There was still a constant stream of traffic on the road, and her bright red limited edition SUV was a bit eye-catching in the traffic.
I received a call from my father on the way.
"dad."
There was inevitably a hint of fatigue in his daughter's cheerful and coquettish voice. Min Jiangyuan could hear it and asked distressedly, "Working overtime again?"
"I'm off work now, on my way."
"Your brother said you were on a business trip in Shanghai again."
"Well, I've been here for over a week."
"We've just been married for two months, and you were on a business trip for a month." Min Jiangyuan paused, "Xixi, tell dad, do you not want to live under the same roof with Fu Yanzhou? Are you using the business trip as an excuse?"
Min Xi smiled: "Dad, why do you think so? Haven't you and my mom been apart for many years? Could it be that you are also using work as an excuse not to see my mom?"
Min Jiangyuan was startled, then smiled and said, "You kid."
For a moment I didn’t know what to do next.
Min Xi thought that her father didn't know how to respond and couldn't win the argument with her.
When she was two or three years old and had no memory of it, her father was working in the southern provinces and cities. He was transferred back only a few years ago. The distance was closer, but her father was busier than before. Sometimes she could not see him once a month.
The father is a daughter slave. No matter how busy he is at work, whenever he has some rest time, he will fly home to be with her, no matter where he is. In her memory, every time her father returned home, her mother would rush back.
"Dad, are you home now?"
"Well, I was thinking of visiting your little home. Let's wait for another day."
"No need to wait, go ahead, Fu Yanzhou is at home."
Min Jiangyuan is now at the door of his daughter's villa. His aunt said that the couple are on a business trip and it is unclear when they will be back.
"Drive well. Tell daddy when you get back from your business trip so he can cook for you."
When I heard my father was going to cook, I said, "Dad, the wonton noodles you made are so salty, make them for my brother."
Min Jiangyuan laughed and said, "I'll change it and put less salt."
After finishing the call with his father, Min Xi also went to the basement of the apartment.
There was a black car parked in the parking space where she usually parked. She didn't recognize the license plate and thought it must be a neighbor who parked temporarily in her parking space.
When Fu Yanzhou bought a few more parking spaces, she didn't ask the property management to move her car, so she parked it in the empty parking space next door.
From getting off the car to entering the elevator, Min Xi had been thinking about the new plan to send to Sheng Jianqi. She only came to her senses when she opened the door and saw the bright lights in the house.
She was pretty sure she turned off the lights when she left the house in the morning.
The property management would not come in without her permission, so she quickly opened the shoe cabinet and found an extra pair of men's leather shoes.
Whenever Fu Yanzhou came over, the floor of the house must have just been mopped. Min Xi didn't even bother to put on slippers and walked in barefoot.
On the sofa in the living room, Fu Yanzhou was wearing a dark bathrobe, with his legs naturally crossed, reading a magazine that she often read.
"Why are you here?"
Min Xi pretended not to care.
Fu Yanzhou raised his head slowly, looking calm: "Didn't you ask me to come here?"
Min Xi neither admitted nor denied it. He slowly took off his suit and casually threw it on the sofa.
Just like last time, she walked close to the sofa, and insisted on passing through the carpet under his feet, and gently bumped his leg with her knee, "Make way, I'm going to change clothes."
Fu Yanzhou turned a page of the magazine, raised his head and stared at her silently.
"What's wrong with you?" He grabbed her wrist and pulled hard, intending to have her sit down next to him, but Min Xi tilted and fell into his arms.
Worried that she would lean back, Fu Yanzhou raised his hand and held her waist.
Min Xi put her arms around his neck and said, "Why don't you ask me why I came back so late?"
Fu Yanzhou: "Working overtime."
Min Xi: “…”
He always finds a way to kill the conversation.
"Why don't you go to the study to read?" What she actually wanted to ask was whether he had seen the two packs of cigarettes she bought for him on the desk.
Fu Yanzhou teased, "I've learned a lot from my mistakes regarding the photo. I won't dare to enter your study room casually."
On his birthday, he went straight into the study and was very unhappy when he saw that her photo was covered with a scarf. What if she covered his photo with something again today? There would be no need to quarrel over the same thing twice.
Min Xi didn't get angry because he brought up the past. She was in a good mood and didn't bother with him. "You can enter the study room at will. There are no secrets." Then she asked him, "When will you be back? Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"
"tomorrow."
He flew thousands of miles to see her, and Min Xi wanted to show his sincerity: "I'll take you to the airport."
Fu Yanzhou refused without even thinking: "No need to bother."
He has to get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to go to the airport. She is very irritable when she wakes up, so waking her up so early would be tantamount to making her angry, which is not worth it.
Min Xi leaned close to his lips and bit them hard, not happy with his politeness and distance.
Fu Yanzhou clasped her neck with his other hand and kissed her back, kneading the place where she had a stiff neck with his thumb: "You forgot the pain right after the scar healed. Aren't you afraid of getting a stiff neck again tonight?"
Min Xi glanced at him, leaned into his arms, and buried her face in his neck.
After being apart for a week, when I smelled the familiar scent on him, my heart inexplicably felt at peace.
Fu Yanzhou lowered his head, put his lips on her forehead, and kissed her face, all the way down to her chin. Min Xi's reason was taken away by his hot lips until she was pressed down on the sofa by him.
The light in the living room was on, and she reminded him to turn it off, but Fu Yanzhou turned a deaf ear to her.
There is no difference between under the lamp and during the day. The last time they looked into each other's eyes like this was in a hotel in Jiangcheng.
The kiss deepened, and Min Xi unconsciously climbed up his waist.
…
We hadn't been together for seven or eight days. After taking a shower and lying on the bed, it was already 1:30 in the morning.
Fu Yanzhou wanted to do it a third time, but Min Xi said she was tired, so he kissed her forehead and gave up.
"Go to sleep." He glanced at the ring on her ring finger and took it off for her. "I have told you many times not to wear a ring when sleeping. It affects the blood circulation in your fingers."
While he was talking about his own things, Min Xi said to himself: "Will you accompany me to choose a diamond ring tomorrow morning?" The styles would be the same no matter which flagship store you choose from. There was no need to go back to Beijing specifically to choose.
Fu Yanzhou: "I'm leaving at six tomorrow morning, so I'm too late."
"Didn't you say you would take a day off and not go to the company tomorrow?"
"My classmate is getting married. I will attend the wedding at noon."
Min Xi suddenly thought of Zhu Youran's wedding. She vaguely remembered that Yu Chengtan mentioned to her that day that the wedding would be at the end of the month. Tomorrow, the 28th, is the end of the month.
She confirmed with him: "What classmates? College classmates?"
"High school classmate."
Fu Yanzhou placed her wedding ring next to his plain ring and said, "You go with me, Zhu Youran."
Min Xi said "Oh" and said nothing more.
Fu Yanzhou lay down, turned off the lights, and gave her his arm as a pillow.
Min Xi had no pillow, so he moved to his own pillow and lay down.
In the darkness, Fu Yanzhou couldn't see her expression clearly: "Why don't you use your pillow?"
Min Xi didn't want to argue with him, so she digested her emotions by herself and lied, "The doctor said that my cervical spine is not good, and asked me to pay attention to my sleeping posture."
"Then why do you want me to come to Shanghai?"
"I asked you to come here because I wanted you to accompany me to choose a ring." Min Xi made up an excuse.
"I'm going to sleep, good night."
She narrowed her eyes.
She woke up and fell asleep repeatedly, but her sleep was not sound. She opened her eyes again at half past five, and was awakened by the sound of Fu Yanzhou getting up. In the past, no matter how early he got up, he would never wake her up.
After trying for more than ten minutes, she still couldn't fall asleep, so she turned on the light and sat up.
Fu Yanzhou washed up and came out of the bathroom. "Why are you up so early?"
Min Xi put on her nightgown and was silent for a moment before saying, "I'm not sleepy."
Fu Yanzhou asked, "What do you want to eat? Have someone bring it over at seven o'clock."
"No need to bother. I'm not hungry." Min Xi adjusted the straps of her nightgown.
Her voice was cold, and no matter how slow Fu Yanzhou was, he could tell that she was sulking. The only reason he could think of for her anger was that he had to go back to attend the wedding and didn't have time to accompany her to choose a ring, so she was unhappy.
"I'll come over next week to help you choose the ring."
He patiently explained, "I attended all the weddings of my high school classmates who invited me. After attending Zhu Youran's wedding today, there will be a class reunion..."
Min Xi interrupted him: "You don't need to give a long explanation. I'm not interested in your affairs."
She didn't want to know anything about his past. The more she knew, the more she would imagine, and the more uncomfortable she would feel. She picked up her phone and left the bedroom.
Fu Yanzhou just bent down to pick up his wedding ring, but was so angry at her words that he threw the ring back onto the bedside table.
He stood on the terrace for a full ten minutes before he suppressed his anger. She was spoiled by her father-in-law and Min Ting. Everything had to be done according to her wishes and she never considered others.
Min Xi sat in the study room in a daze for a few minutes and saw two packs of cigarettes next to the table.
She opened the drawer and threw two packs of cigarettes into it.
Feeling confused, she opened her laptop and logged into her email. She saw that Sheng Jianqi had not yet responded to the email she had sent him last night.
There were footsteps approaching the study door, and a dark shadow stopped at the door. She didn't look up, but just clicked the mouse randomly.
Fu Yanzhou was dressed neatly, and knocked twice on the door with his left hand wearing a wedding ring, taking the initiative to reconcile with her. However, Min Xi did not respond at all, and her eyes were always on the computer screen.
He controlled his emotions and said gently, "Will you go to the airport to see me off?"
Min Xi: "I'm busy."
Fu Yanzhou turned and left.
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