Min Xi lay on the back of the driver's seat, not talking to him for fear of disturbing his driving. She looked at him in the rearview mirror from time to time. As if sensing something, Fu Yanzhou suddenly looked at the rearview mirror, and their eyes met in the mirror.
Even though they had been married for almost a year and a half, Min Xi's heart would still beat faster when their eyes suddenly met.
She couldn't explain why she was so useless, so she pretended to be calm and smiled at herself in the mirror.
At the intersection ahead, Fu Yanzhou stopped the car and waited for the traffic light.
Min Xi put a hand on his shoulder, and played with the collar of his shirt with his fingers: "Do you want to play truth or dare? Let's play it in a special way. You can choose me to play truth or dare."
Fu Yanzhou looked at her again in the rearview mirror: "If I asked you to choose the truth, would you be willing to tell it?"
Min Xi nodded and added, "As long as it's about me, you can ask anything. There's only one chance, so ask an important question."
She waited for him to ask her when she started to like him.
The traffic light turned green and vehicles were allowed to pass.
Fu Yanzhou drove first and asked her after they passed the intersection.
"Have you always been partial to Min Ting in your heart?"
Min Xi: “…”
No need to even give a chance.
She leaned back in her chair and raised the center panel.
After two seconds, she lowered the tailgate again, approached the driver's seat, and said, "I just bought an ashtray for Min Ting. How come you remembered it for a year and a half?"
She responded to his previous question: "I'm never partial."
She has the same feelings towards him and Min Ting.
Today's chance to tell the truth has been used up, so we can only wait until next time to give him another chance.
Tomorrow is Saturday, and she asked Fu Yanzhou what his plans were.
Fu Yanzhou was busy this week and couldn't spare time to accompany her, so he discussed with her: "Can I accompany you for two days next week?"
"Sure, there's nothing wrong with that." Min Xi put his hand on his shoulder again.
It's just that she was spending the weekend alone and was a bit bored.
On Saturday morning, Fu Yanzhou got up at about the same time as usual. Min Xi woke up and hugged his neck tightly.
Fu Yanzhou smiled helplessly and said lovingly, "It's not like I won't be back at night."
Min Xi had just woken up, his voice was hoarse and soft: "Hold me for a while before you leave."
Fu Yanzhou didn't care about the time and took her into his arms.
Min Xi had planned to take a nap after exercising too much last night, but when Fu Yanzhou left home, she was no longer sleepy.
I had nothing to do in the morning, so I opened the safe and sorted it out.
It’s called tidying up, but in fact it’s just taking out those old things and revisiting them. She had never used words to record her feelings of liking someone, so no one could guess who was in her heart over the years.
After Min Ting took her passport, he sent a message to complain about her safe, asking her to sell the books by weight, as they were taking up space. Those textbooks belong to Fu Yanzhou, how could she possibly sell them by weight? She had borrowed it and wanted to return it to him after use, but he said he had no need for it and asked her to dispose of it directly.
There was a ticket book on the top layer of the safe. Min Xi opened it and found it was full of plane tickets and boarding passes. The date on each of them was the time when she visited Fu Yanzhou when she was in college.
Sometimes he was busy or not in school, so she couldn't see him even if she went there.
He also said this in the message: [Does Min Ting know that you are playing around? 】
She: [I don’t know. Don't tell him, I'll treat you to a meal. 】
If he had not been so polite and distant to her at that time, if he was willing to chat with her more every time he and Yan Heyu had dinner together, and took the initiative to ask her what she was busy with at school and what her plans were after graduation, if she had not been so ambitious at that time, perhaps she would have confessed to him.
It's a pity that he was not interested in anything about her. He didn't refuse to have dinner with her because their families had been friends for generations.
And at that time she couldn't let go of her pride.
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After enduring two days of the weekend, Min Xi finally looked forward to Monday. As a worker, it was the first time that she was so eager for Monday to come.
The inside information Yu Chengtan received was that Lemeng Food issued a tender notice today.
I waited until I got off work in the afternoon, but there was still no news from Lemeng Food.
Maybe the decision will be made in a meeting today, and we still have to go through the process, Min Xi thought.
Until Thursday, there was still no movement.
Min Xi couldn't sit still, worried about complications and afraid that some company would use its connections to snatch the business away.
She went to find Yu Chengtan and asked him first if he knew about it. If he couldn't find out, she would ask her cousin for help.
Yu Chengtan didn't have time to make coffee today, so she came in a hurry and went upstairs after hanging up the phone. It was only one floor away, but she arrived in less than two minutes.
As soon as she entered the door, she asked, "Mr. Yu, what's the situation at Lemeng Food?"
Yu Chengtan had already found out why Le Meng did not bid, but he didn't know how to tell her. Now that she came to him on her own initiative, he had no choice but to tell her.
"I was just going to talk to you about this. They're not opening the bidding."
Min Xi's face changed slightly. The only reason he could think of was: "Does the previous agency have the priority to sign the contract?"
Yu Chengtan said he would keep half and half: "I don't know the details, but I heard it was signed to another company. It's OK, Lemeng is not the only fast-moving consumer goods company."
He did not mention a word about Fu Yanzhou's sudden intervention in the matter and signing the agency business directly to Zhuoran. If she knew that it was her husband who interfered, she would miss the opportunity and work for a year in vain. She would suffer a double blow, so she had to keep it secret for a while.
He hasn't found a solution to make her feel less uncomfortable yet.
"Please sit down." Yu Chengtan went to make coffee for her.
Min Xi stopped him: "I don't drink coffee."
No amount of sugar could remove the bitterness in her heart.
"Mr. Yu, you are busy. I have something else to do when I get back."
If Lemeng Food continues to sign the public relations agency business to the previous agency, she will have nothing to say. In order to find out what was going on, she called her cousin, who was familiar with Lemeng’s management.
[Sister, please help me find out which company has given Lemeng Food’s public relations agency business to? 】
Min Lu re-edited the message from her cousin and forwarded it to her friends.
Within ten minutes, her friend replied: [It was signed with Zhuoran Public Relations. Fu Yanzhou personally called to arrange it. 】
Min Lu didn't know much about the public relations industry, and didn't know what kind of cooperation or exchange of interests this company had with Fu Yanzhou, otherwise Fu Yanzhou would not have arranged this matter personally.
But she only told her cousin: [It was signed with Zhuoran Public Relations and the contract has been completed. Are you also interested in Lemon Food? If you are interested, I will do it for you after this agency contract expires. 】
When Min Xi saw the four words "Zhuoran Public Relations", his fingers hovered over the mobile phone keyboard, not knowing what to type for a long time.
Maybe Zhuoran PR got this project through other connections.
She kept comforting herself.
[Rarely?] 】
Min Xi came back to her senses and finally asked: [Sister, Zhuoran got the agency business through Fu Yanzhou’s relationship, right? 】
Min Lu sighed, thinking that her cousin had already heard the news and was just looking for her to confirm.
She sent a voice message to comfort her cousin: "Xixi, it is normal to exchange interests in the business world."
After hearing her cousin's reply, Min Xi felt like she had fallen into an ice cave. Her whole body was cold and her ears were ringing for a moment. Zhu Youran took Le Meng's project by using her connection, and the connection was with her husband.
[Yes, I know. I will ask Fu Yanzhou what happened when I go back home in the evening. Sister, you are busy. 】
She finally replied to her cousin.
When I sat back in the chair, I felt completely drained of strength.
She thought that she had slowly walked into his heart, but once Zhu Youran encountered problems, he still couldn't ignore it and couldn't let her go.
He has never interfered in any operations of Lemeng Food, but for Zhu Youran, he can make an exception.
If this happened when they had just gotten married, she would question him, tell him that she had also made a project plan and was just waiting for fair competition, and ask him what to do.
But now, she didn't have the energy to ask again.
What good will it do to ask?
What's the big deal about giving the project to her in the end? It was just a compromise he had to make in order to keep his marriage going.
She opened the folder of Le Meng Food in the computer. Because of him, she had different feelings towards Le Meng Food. She wanted to use her own strength to promote the brand he held shares in and build the brand value of Le Meng Food, so that he would know that she had also put in her sincerity for this marriage.
She pulled many all-nighters to work on project plans that had hundreds of pages. When he was away on business, she would often get so absorbed in the plans that she forgot about time, and when she felt sleepy she would find that it was almost dawn.
He personally shattered the fair competition he thought he could wait for.
She clicked to delete the project plan and emptied the Recycle Bin. She may take on projects in the fast-moving consumer goods industry in the future, but none of them will be Lemeng Food.
Wiping the tears from his face, Min Xi turned off the computer.
It was soon time to get off work, and colleagues at their workstations outside were clocking in and going home one after another.
She looked at the turned-off computer screen, her heart aching so much that she didn't know what to think.
I picked up a book next to the computer, opened it, and couldn't read it.
It was not until her cell phone vibrated and Fu Yanzhou called her that she looked at the time. It was already eleven o'clock. She had not moved at all and had sat in front of the computer for six hours.
Min Xi took a deep breath before answering: "Hello."
Fu Yanzhou asked her: "Xixi, why haven't you come back yet?"
He had just arrived home and her car was not there.
Min Xi's voice was so calm that even he himself found it incredible: "I was still busy and forgot to tell you."
"It's okay." Fu Yanzhou opened the car door and got in: "I'll pick you up."
"No need." When they had conflicts in the past, she always hoped that he would take the initiative to show goodwill and come to her. She said that she didn't want to see him, but in fact, she always missed him in her heart. Last year, because of the cold war when Zhu Youran got married, she waited for his call for a whole day. However, this time, she really didn't want to see him or receive his call.
"I was busy today and forgot to tell you. My brother called me last night and asked me for something. I'm going to stay home tonight." She said this without any hesitation, and she made it up so well that even she believed it.
"Min Ting, what is it that you have to say tonight?"
"It's about our relatives."
It might not be convenient to tell him, so Fu Yanzhou didn't ask further questions. "I'll ask the driver to take you home."
"My brother has been waiting for me downstairs. I am working on the project plan."
Fu Yanzhou believed it, but he was reluctant to let her live outside: "If you are not used to living with Min Ting, call me and I will pick you up."
"Okay." Min Xi hung up the phone.
It was peaceful from beginning to end and I no longer had the desire to quarrel.
I used to be in the cold war and quarrel with him because I still had expectations for him and wanted to cultivate our relationship as a couple. But this time, she had no strength left and didn't know how to continue walking with him.
After putting down the phone, Min Xi’s mind went blank for a long time.
My parents are not at home, Min Ting is on a business trip, and only my aunt is at home.
After sitting for a long time, she stood up and walked to the window, and there was nothing in front of her.
Downstairs, Yu Chengtan habitually looked up before leaving. The light in an office on the 21st floor was still on. He asked the driver to stop the car and hurriedly opened the door and went down.
The lighted office is Min Xi's office.
It's so late and she hasn't gone home yet. She must have known that Lemeng Food has given the public relations agency business to Zhuoran.
When we reached the 21st floor, the door of her office was closed.
"Min Xi, it's me." He knocked on the door hard.
Min Xi came back to his senses and turned around, "Mr. Yu, the door is not locked."
She subconsciously touched her face, fortunately, there were no tears.
Yu Chengtan pushed the door open. Having known her for so many years, he knew from her lonely expression that his guess was correct and she should know everything.
"Why don't you go back?"
Min Xi: “Let’s go now.”
He said he was leaving, but he stood there with his arms folded, not moving.
She looked at Yu Chengtan, "Mr. Yu, you knew it a long time ago, right? You kept it from me on purpose."
Yu Chengtan stood at the door, which was not closed.
"It's too late. It's not appropriate for us to chat here. I'll take you home and we can talk in the car."
Min Xi took her bag and cell phone and went downstairs with him.
There was silence from the elevator to the car.
Yu Chengtan opened the car door for her and protected the top edge of the door with his hands: "Slow down."
Min Xi forced a smile: "I'm fine."
Yu Chengtan hesitated to speak, wanting to say, do you look okay?
He walked around the back of the car to the other side and sat on it. He didn't know her home address and asked, "Where are you going?"
Min Xi told the driver his home address and did not forget to say thank you.
Yu Chengtan explained to her why Fu Yanzhou helped Zhuoran with public relations: "I just found out that Fu Yanzhou and Zhu Youran were high school classmates. Zhuoran is now in a credibility crisis, and Zhu Youran is in crisis public relations. She knows how to do public relations that is most beneficial to the company. Winning the agency business of Lemeng Food is more effective than her explaining and guaranteeing to old customers a hundred times."
"Fu Yanzhou doesn't know that you are also fighting for Lemeng Food. Isn't it normal to help an old friend? Between husband and wife, don't quarrel over work matters. It's not worth it."
Min Xi just nodded and didn't answer.
No matter what Yu Chengtan said, she remained silent.
"Min Xi, say something."
Min Xi turned to look at him and said, "Is there any overseas project suitable for me? Send me out for a few months. I want to calm down."
Yu Chengtan told her to stop thinking this: "You should just stay in China and it won't be a big deal. What do you want to do? Separate for such a small matter?"
Min Xi looked at him for a few seconds. She was too sad now and didn't know who to tell. Only he was the most suitable person. He would not tell anyone, "Zhu Youran is the person Fu Yanzhou likes, not an ordinary classmate."
Yu Chengtan was stunned, then he said slowly: "As far as I know, Zhu Youran and her husband have a good relationship. Don't think too much about it."
"I didn't think too much about it. I didn't suspect that there was anything going on between Zhu Youran and Fu Yanzhou. I also understand why Zhu Youran did this." She paused, "In front of Fu Yanzhou, I will always rank behind others. Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you." Min Xi's eyes were filled with white mist and she couldn't see anything clearly. She felt so out of control in front of her boss, so she turned to look out the window.
Seeing how sad she was, Yu Chengtan said something that had been weighing on his mind for years: "I regret bringing you back."
Min Xi calmed his breath and said, "I regret coming back, but I don't regret entering the public relations industry."
Yu Chengtan didn't respond. Her regret was different from his, but he had no intention of letting her know in this life.
Min Xi asked again: "Is there any overseas project suitable for me? I want to go abroad to calm down."
Yu Chengtan compromised: "You can go abroad, but you are not allowed to divorce impulsively."
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