Before we knew it, it was late autumn.
Two months had passed since the last dinner together. Chu Yi wanted to organize another class reunion recently, so he asked Min Xi if he had time.
Min Xi apologized: [I have been busy with Shengshi’s press conference recently. 】
The date of Shengshi Technology's new product launch was finally set for November 6th, and Min Xi booked a flight to Shanghai on November 1st.
The night before she left, her mother called her and asked her out for dinner.
My mother has been resting these days, so we finally have time to meet.
At the end of September, my mother also took a week off. Unfortunately, she was not in Beijing at the time. She was on a business trip to Shanghai to confirm the invitation list and venue for the Shengshi Technology press conference.
Today, only she and her mother had dinner together. She didn't invite Fu Yanzhou, and her mother didn't invite her brother to join them. It was a rare opportunity for the mother and daughter to chat and talk.
After get off work, Min Xi called her mother and asked, "Mom, shall I pick you up?"
"Just come over, I'm already in the restaurant."
Whenever her mother spoke to her, she spoke in a gentle voice.
My mother chose a relatively niche Western restaurant with an elegant and quiet environment. The only drawback was that parking was difficult.
Being able to drive a car into a parking space in such a narrow and crowded place requires very high driving skills.
Min Xi turned into the narrow road in front of the restaurant. Her mother was waiting for her outside the restaurant. The temperature has dropped recently and the weather has become cooler. My mother wore a mid-length camel-colored windbreaker with a simple and elegant silk scarf.
Seeing the license plate of her car, her mother smiled and waved at her.
Min Xi opened the car window, "Mom, why did you get out of the car?"
Jiang Rui walked over to the car and said, "It's hard to park here. Mom will park it for you."
“…”
Her poor reversing skills were not just Min Ting's fault.
Min Xi asked his mother to stand on the steps, "I can fall in by myself."
Jiang Rui estimated the width of the parking space and couldn't help but worry: "It will be dangerous if you drive directly in, are you sure you want to back in?"
Min Xi smiled: "Let me show you my reverse parking skills."
For more than two months, Fu Yanzhou practiced with her every week. Although it was no longer half a day, but only an hour each time, she persisted and her driving skills improved significantly.
When her daughter was reversing, Jiang Rui tried not to speak for fear of disturbing her daughter's concentration. She was very nervous during the few minutes of reversing.
The car finally backed in, which took six minutes.
Jiang Rui smiled and breathed out. She had never been so nervous when her daughter was learning to walk.
She was not curious about her daughter's driving skills, but her daughter's patience to reverse the car. "Have you been practicing driving recently? Aren't you very busy?"
"I squeezed in time to practice. Fu Yanzhou always accompanied me every time I practiced."
Min Xi got out, locked the car, and took his mother's arm into the restaurant.
Jiang Rui smiled faintly, feeling relieved and happy.
As a mother, how could she not see her daughter's feelings for Fu Yanzhou? She just saw it but didn't say it out loud because she was young once and had loved someone as much as her daughter did.
At that time, she also took the initiative to tell her parents that she was willing to go on a blind date. In the end, she married Min Jiangyuan as she wished, but Min Jiangyuan had no love for her at all.
So some time ago, when her daughter asked her who took the initiative to pursue whom between her and her husband, she didn't know how to answer.
When her daughter proposed to marry Fu Yanzhou, she hesitated and struggled, but finally agreed. At that time, her husband and son disagreed.
She understood her husband's concerns. He felt that he understood men best and that a marriage without love was meaningless.
She was the only one who supported her daughter unconditionally. She couldn't use herself as an example to conclude that her daughter would not be happy just because her marriage failed and she and Min Jiangyuan had not developed any feelings for each other for 30 years.
After agreeing to her daughter's marriage, she often felt uneasy.
Before today, when she was not busy, she would worry, afraid that her daughter would follow in her footsteps and that her indulgence would harm her daughter.
Fortunately, the daughter is not her, and Fu Yanzhou is not Min Jiangyuan.
When they arrived at the table, Min Xi took off his coat and put it on the sofa opposite, then sat side by side with his mother.
Jiang Rui took the menu and ordered food. Min Xi came over to look at it together, resting her chin on her shoulder. Her daughter has liked to act like a spoiled child since she was young, and she was used to it.
"When is the press conference?" she asked her daughter.
"Ten o'clock on the morning of the sixth."
Jiang Rui regretted her daughter's first project she had done independently, "It's a pity that my mother had a meeting that day and couldn't go to support her."
Min Xi said, "There is a live broadcast. You can watch it after you are done with your work in the evening. It is also a way to support me." She added, "Dad didn't have time to watch the live broadcast that day. He said he would watch the screen recording in the evening."
Jiang Rui just smiled and didn't respond.
I ate and chatted with my mother the whole night, and it was already half past ten when we came out of the restaurant.
When they got downstairs, Min Xi hugged his mother.
The daughter clung to her, and Jiang Rui said with a smile: "Mom will take you to the airport tomorrow."
"No. I'm not a child anymore."
When Min Xi was hugging her mother reluctantly, someone called her from behind: "Xi Xi."
She turned around suddenly and saw her father.
The driver opened the door for him and a tall figure got out of the car.
"dad!"
Min Xi asked mischievously: "Hey, who are you here to pick up?"
Min Jiangyuan glanced at his wife, smiled and said to his daughter, "I'm not picking you up anyway."
Jiang Rui thought about it and realized that the last time he saw him was two and a half months ago. They met briefly and didn't say much.
Min Jiangyuan walked to his wife's side and looked at his daughter: "Is Fu Yanzhou coming to pick you up?"
"He didn't know I was having dinner with my mom tonight, so I didn't tell him."
Min Xi waved to his parents: "I'm going back."
Her parents have been living in different places for a long time, and it was not easy for them to see each other, so she couldn't waste their time.
Jiang Rui naturally took her husband's arm, waved to her daughter, and watched her daughter get into the car. The taillights of the SUV slowly went away until they disappeared around the corner. She immediately let go of her husband's hand with a dull expression.
Min Jiangyuan looked at his wife, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
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On the way back, Min Xi received a call from Ju Youyou.
Ju Youyou asked her whether she would go to the company tomorrow morning or go directly to the airport from home.
"Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing, I just want to ask you. I'm going to the airport with you. Mr. Yu said that I will be your temporary secretary for the next week to assist you in handling matters related to the press conference. Just let me know if you have any work to do."
"You're my secretary, so what about Mr. Yu?"
"I'm not the only secretary in the president's office. Besides, Jiachen Public Relations will still be able to handle it without anyone else."
The boss would also attend the press conference, but he would not show up until the day of the press conference, so she didn't say anything and would give Min Xi a surprise then.
Min Xi replied to her: "If you don't go to the company tomorrow, I will pick you up and take you directly to the airport."
"I'll send you my home address right away."
"No, I remember."
When she first joined Jiachen, she worked overtime very late one day and Min Xi gave her a ride once. Her home was in an old neighborhood with complicated traffic conditions and it took many turns to get there. People who were not familiar with the area had to rely on navigation.
"Just wait for me at the main intersection outside." She then told Min Xi the landmark building at the intersection.
The traffic was less congested and it only took Min Xi half an hour to get home.
The light in Fu Yanzhou's study was still on, and the phone on the table was vibrating. Lu Zhen replied: [Mr. Fu, I'm so sorry. I saw your missed call just after the meeting. What instructions? 】
Lu Zhen's job is special. He needs to deal with various emergencies, and news does not happen specifically during the day, so it is normal to have meetings until midnight.
The first special report of Lingyu Group has ended, and my mother also interviewed Fu Yanzhou. After the interview, the mother spoke highly of Fu Yanzhou, saying that she didn't expect him to be so low-key and humble.
Lu Zhen couldn't guess why Fu Yanzhou wanted to talk to her, so she didn't dare to delay. It was too late to call, so she could only send a message to explain clearly.
Fu Yanzhou called back and got straight to the point: "Can you make it to Shengshi Technology's press conference on the 6th?"
Lu Zhen: "Go."
She said generously: "I heard that Min Xi was in charge of Sheng Shi's case, and even the press conference was planned by her."
"The insiders of Jiachen don't know about the relationship between Min Xi and me. They spread the rumor that I was your backer and we kept in touch after we broke up."
Lu Zhen smiled bitterly: "I explained it, but no one believed it."
Fu Yanzhou didn't pursue or care about the boring rumors in the past. "Min Xi explained to her colleagues that we are good friends. I would like to take advantage of this press conference to ask you to cooperate and clarify that we have never dated."
He didn't want Youtian Minxi to be wronged and unable to defend himself because of this matter.
"no problem."
Lu Zhen asked: "According to what Min Xi said, we are good friends?"
"Um."
Lu Zhen smiled: "Then I am lucky again."
Being able to be his good friend rather than a partner in interests in the eyes of outsiders is something that many people envy.
She also secretly envied Min Xi, who could always deal with problems in advance and maintain Min Xi's entire face.
Just because Min Xi said that he and she were friends, he would continue to maintain their friendship in front of outsiders and would not let anything Min Xi said go unanswered.
"How can I cooperate in the clarification?" Lu Zhen asked.
Fu Yanzhou: "I also went to the press conference that day. My seat was in the staff area, and I sat there in the name of Min Xi's family member."
Lu Zhen understood that he was going to take the initiative to make his relationship with Min Xi public.
"Then where should I sit? With you?"
Fu Yanzhou said, "Well, I have arranged the seats for you. You will sit in the front row. The people around us are from Jiachen Media Department. They will be able to hear everything we say. As for how to clarify the matter, you are free to do it."
Lu Zhen now began to think about what to talk about with Fu Yanzhou on the day of the press conference so that people would think that she and Fu Yanzhou are friends for many years, and that she also has a good relationship with Min Xi.
In fact, it is very simple to clarify. As long as Jiachen’s people feel that she and Min Xi are not love rivals, the previous rumors will be self-defeating.
If this matter is handled well, Fu Yanzhou will remember this favor for her, and if she encounters difficulties in the future, he will do his best to help her.
Her mother had told her more than once that since she and Fu Yanzhou were not destined to be together, she should be more open-minded and not let her network of contacts become increasingly narrow.
She assured Fu Yanzhou: "I will definitely get this done for you."
"Don't bother me anymore." Fu Yanzhou hung up the phone.
Just now he heard a car coming into the yard, so he turned off the light in the study and went back to the bedroom.
Min Xi was packing her suitcase in the cloakroom. There were no autumn and winter clothes at home in Shanghai, so she brought a few extra pieces with her.
"Working overtime until now?" Fu Yanzhou asked as he stood at the door of the cloakroom.
"No." Min Xi said now: "I have been eating with my mother until now."
"Mom is back? Why didn't you call me?"
"No one called me brother, just me and my mom."
Hearing that Min Ting was not going either, Fu Yanzhou nodded, took his pajamas from the closet and went to the bathroom.
Min Xi watched him walk out. This business trip would require him to stay in Shanghai for another five or six days.
In the first two months of marriage, two weeks of separation didn’t feel like a long time. It’s less than a week since my business trip started, but it’s already feeling a bit tough.
She packed her luggage and Fu Yanzhou had already come out of the shower.
A message came in on her phone, and Min Ting asked her: [Has Shengshi’s press conference been rescheduled? 】
She called Min Ting back: "Hey, brother, why are you still awake so late?"
"Soon." Min Ting asked, "What date has the press conference been rescheduled to?"
"Ahead of time for number six."
"What time is it?"
"Ten o'clock in the morning."
He asked so many detailed questions that Min Xi thought he had time to watch the press conference live that day, so she told him which platform to watch it on.
Min Ting: "I won't watch the live broadcast. When you go to the scene that day, please save a seat for me. Don't tell anyone." He came to support his sister, not Shengshi Technology.
If Sheng Jianqi knew about his past, he would ask for all kinds of unnecessary greetings.
Min Xi understood: "Okay, I know."
When it comes to Min Ting, Fu Yanzhou always pays extra attention. He raised his eyes and asked, "What live broadcast?"
Min Xi: "The live broadcast of Shengshi Technology's press conference, if you are interested you can watch it, at 10 am on the 6th."
He just nodded slightly and didn't ask any other questions.
Everyone around her was concerned about her project and asked when the press conference would be held. Only he was indifferent. Even now that he knew when the press conference would be held, he didn't say a word about it.
Today is Friday, and Min Xi can sleep with his head resting on his arm again. After taking a bath, he blows his hair dry and goes to bed.
Fu Yanzhou was still not used to her sleeping on top of him, but he didn't know when it started, but it had become a muscle memory and she would sleep in his arms all night every Tuesday and Friday.
He lay down and gave her his arm.
Min Xi thought about it for a few seconds. In case she got a stiff neck, it would affect her work in the next few days. To be on the safe side, she decided not to take the risk.
In the past few months, she has suffered from stiff necks of varying degrees at least five times.
In Fu Yanzhou's opinion, she was looking for trouble.
But what does he know?
She turned off the light and said, "Forget it, I won't use this pillow anymore. I have to catch a flight tomorrow morning and I'm afraid I'll get a stiff neck. I'll just take the loss today."
Fu Yanzhou kissed her: "I'll take you to the airport tomorrow, so it won't be a loss, right?"
Min Xi was satisfied, but he said, "It's still a bit of a disadvantage."
Fu Yanzhou took the initiative to hold her in his arms and held her for a while longer.
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