The suite where Min Xi sleeps is the second bedroom. The decoration of the master bedroom is not to her taste. Before the divorce, she always stayed in the second bedroom whenever she came on business trips.
Maybe Fu Yanzhou would go to the master bedroom, which is his favorite style.
In the pitch-black bedroom, the bedside lamp suddenly lit up, and Min Xi was startled.
She thought that Fu Yanzhou must have turned on all the lights with one click.
Surprise and excitement collided with each other, and she didn't know what to say to him for a moment. She was thinking about how to appear later without scaring him.
The phone suddenly went silent. Fu Yanzhou was used to it. This happened every time she applied lotion. The sound of her phone calls became louder and louder.
Fu Yanzhou opened the shoe cabinet and took out his slippers to change into.
Most of Min Xi's shoes are kept in the cloakroom. There is a whole wall of shoe cabinets for her to store shoes, which makes it convenient to match clothes. She also puts some shoes in the shoe cabinet at the entrance. There are four layers of neatly arranged shoes, and there are two layers of various slippers, so even if a pair of slippers is missing, he will not notice.
Besides, there is not much difference between these slippers in his eyes; they all look the same.
Unlike him, he only has two pairs of slippers at home, and one pair missing would be very obvious.
"Rare?"
She hadn't spoken for a long time, so Fu Yanzhou called her.
Min Xi: “I’m listening.”
She asked knowingly, "Are you home?"
"Yeah, just arrived."
Min Xi climbed out of the bed and leaned against the headboard, "Let me guess what you are doing now."
Fu Yanzhou smiled faintly: "Tell me about it."
He hung up his coat and went to the second bedroom.
Min Xi: "Hanging clothes."
Fu Yanzhou played this childish game with her: "Well. Then what?"
Then he should have gone to the bedroom and definitely not to the kitchen, because when he entered the kitchen he would have seen a glass on the island with half a cup of water in it that she hadn't finished drinking. If he saw the glass, he would have guessed that she was at home.
"You want to go to the master bedroom to change clothes?"
He said, “I guessed wrong.”
Min Xi's heart was beating in his throat, and he thought of a solution in a hurry: "I learned a magic trick from Min Ting a few days ago, do you want to see it?"
Fu Yanzhou was only a few steps away from the door of the second bedroom and asked, "What magic? Poker cards?"
"A great transformation."
Fu Yanzhou: "Become Min Ting?"
"..." Min Xi smiled and said, "I will transform myself for you to see."
As he spoke, Fu Yanzhou walked to the door and held the door handle.
She said, "I'll change now, three, two..." The last 'one' overlapped in the phone and in reality as the door was pushed open.
Fu Yanzhou was stunned when he saw the person on the bed.
He waited for her in their former home.
Min Xi threw her cell phone aside. She got off the bed without wearing slippers and stepped barefoot on the carpet. She took only two steps on tiptoe when Fu Yanzhou strode over and grabbed her.
"I'll go change my clothes." He put her on the bed.
Min Xi smelled a faint scent of alcohol on him, "Did you drink at noon?"
"Yeah, I had a few drinks." I took a nap on the plane and the alcohol was gone, so I came back to take a shower, change into clean clothes and go see him.
Fu Yanzhou went to the bathroom to take a shower. Min Xi rested on the bed for a few seconds. When he hugged her just now, she felt his chest rising and falling, and her heart was beating wildly.
They had this feeling the first time.
While Fu Yanzhou was taking a shower, Min Xi went to the cloakroom to match the clothes he would wear tomorrow and also matched a set for him.
I had just turned off the light in the cloakroom and was blocked by him before I could even step out of the door.
When their lips touched, the sky and the earth went dark.
The kiss lasted so long that Min Xi had to keep breathing but still had difficulty breathing. After the kiss, she grabbed Fu Yanzhou's arm and didn't calm down for a long time.
Under the light of the wall lamp, there was a silhouette of eyelashes under Min Xi's eyes.
She rested her head on Fu Yanzhou's arms, and he looked at her from above. Her brain was lacking in oxygen just now, and she forgot how they kissed from the cloakroom door to the bed.
Her breathing finally calmed down, and Fu Yanzhou lowered his head and kissed her again.
His lips lingered on her neck for a few seconds, and the refreshing fragrance permeated his nostrils. "Changed the lotion?" It was no longer the scent he was familiar with before.
Min Xi: "Well, Bei Qingyu's White Rose series, I'll be the first one to use it."
Fu Yanzhou's lips fell back to the corner of her lips, "That's the Spring Festival gift I intended to give you. Did you go to Beiqingyu Laboratory today?"
"Yeah." Min Xi kissed him back, holding his upper lip. "I saw it in the lab, so I brought it back in advance." What he brought back was a gift box set, which contained lotion, white rose shower gel and white rose essential oil. The rose essential oil for bathing is not sold to the public, it is only for her use.
"I also used essential oils. I put a few drops in my bath tonight."
Fu Yanzhou asked: "How do you feel?"
Min Xi: “As good as you.”
Fu Yanzhou laughed, "What kind of metaphor is this?"
Min Xi didn't say anything, but responded by kissing his lips.
Fu Yanzhou let her kiss him and occasionally responded to her. She had a bad habit of not allowing him to take the initiative to deepen the kiss when she wanted to kiss him.
The friction was the most fatal to him, but she herself could not realize it.
Fu Yanzhou put his right hand on her waist and rubbed her waistline with his thumb from time to time. His palms were burning hot, and Min Xi wanted to lift her waist from time to time, but when she did so, her body would stick to his firm abdomen.
Neither left nor right works.
Fu Yanzhou raised his other hand and touched the switch on the bedside, turning off one of the wall lamps.
The room became much darker.
His face was half bright and half dark.
Min Xi suddenly thought of the wooden table lamp at home and put her arms around his neck, "I want a few more table lamps made by you, and put one in each place where I live."
"Okay. But it may take half a year to be ready."
“Is it troublesome?”
“Kind of.” Painting the lampshade was particularly time-consuming.
Fu Yanzhou took her hand off his neck while she wasn't kissing him, and he leaned over to kiss her again.
She had white rose lotion all over her body and he kissed her all over.
Min Xi couldn't see him, she could only see the wall lamp at the head of the bed and vaguely hear the sound of him swallowing. Her forehead was sweating, as were her palms.
However, it is minus six degrees Celsius outside and the temperature in the room is not very high.
Min Xi's throat was about to smoke. Luckily, tomorrow is not the 10th, so I don’t have to attend a meeting, but if I continue like this, my voice will definitely become hoarse.
"I have a meeting the day after tomorrow..."
The last word got stuck in my throat. My vision suddenly became blurry and my mind went blank for a few seconds.
Fu Yanzhou raised his head and his lips left.
The next moment, he buried his head and kissed her again.
Min Xi raised her foot to kick him. It was an instinctive reaction and she herself didn't realize what she was doing.
Fu Yanzhou took her into his arms with one hand, and Min Xi could finally see his face again and their eyes met. He looked into her wet eyes and leaned against them, kissing her even more gently than before.
Min Xi threw away his weapons and cried and laughed: "I have a meeting... the day after tomorrow."
It's hard to finish a sentence.
Fu Yanzhou kissed her without giving her a chance to speak.
After a year, everything feels familiar and strange.
Every blow hit her heart.
Min Xi has arrived, but Fu Yanzhou hasn't.
When there was enough time to slowly finish two glasses of red wine, the two finally arrived at the same time.
Min Xi couldn't calm down after staying in Fu Yanzhou's arms for ten minutes.
She thought she could finally take a break, but it was just the beginning.
There is only one box at home, which I bought before the divorce but never used up. She was glad that there was only one box.
It's already late at night.
Min Xi forced himself to get up, took out his cell phone and canceled the alarm for tomorrow morning.
Fu Yanzhou took his bathrobe and wrapped it around her back, then he got up to take a shower.
All the bedding was replaced with a new set. When Min Xi came out of the bathroom, Fu Yanzhou had already changed it. It had been a long time since she slept with her head resting on his arm, so Min Xi lay down in his arms after getting into bed.
Fu Yanzhou took her legs and put them on his body, massaging her to relax her, "Because you can't walk tomorrow and blame me again."
Min Xi hugged his neck: "...If I don't blame you, who else can I blame?"
Nibbling and biting his lips.
Fu Yanzhou's Adam's apple slid, but he endured it again and again: "Xixi, don't move."
Min Xi was not afraid: "There are no more at home. You used the last one too."
Fu Yanzhou said: "It's not necessary to use tools."
He took her hand.
It was too late for Min Xi to regret. He put his hand behind her ear and said, "Didn't I teach you how to do it before?"
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After returning to Beijing, Min Xi rested at home for half a day. His throat was uncomfortable, his legs were sore, even his wrists were sore, and no part of his body felt good.
She put on her thickest down jacket and drank coffee on the second-floor terrace.
Her aunt, who was sweeping fallen leaves in the yard, urged her to go inside, "It's cold outside."
Min Xi smiled and said, "I'm thinking about the project plan. I'm out of ideas because I'm too hot."
She was not cold at all. Thinking about what happened in the Shanghai apartment last night, she felt hot all over.
She didn't really want to see him these past few days, but she had to go to Lingyu Group for a meeting at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
On the morning of the 10th, Min Xi showed up on time in the conference room on the 31st floor of Lingyu Group. Several executives of Bei Qingyu had already arrived.
Xiao Chang had been looking forward to today's meeting for many days and connected online early.
Min Xi had no plans to present today, so he didn't project his computer screen and was looking at his notebook.
Five minutes before the meeting started, Fu Yanzhou came in.
The others greeted him one after another. Min Xi looked up and saw that he was wearing a tie today, the same dark red striped tie that he had worn once at a cocktail party in Jiangcheng.
Fu Yanzhou met Min Xi's leisurely gaze. There was a strawberry mark on his neck left by her, which could not be covered without a tie. The scratches on his back and waist reappeared.
Min Xi did not forget that this was in the conference room and smiled politely.
At this moment, he was dressed neatly, looked cold and abstinent, which could not be connected with his out-of-control and unrestrained appearance of the previous night.
Fu Yanzhou always gets straight to the point in meetings: "Fengya's price war shows no signs of stopping for the time being. Director Min, tell me what you think."
Min Xi: "They are fighting their price war, and we are making our products, which has no impact. We have to understand one thing, Beiqingyu's potential consumer groups have pain points, and ordinary products cannot solve their pain points, including Fengya."
"In fact, Zhu Youzhuo also knows this. He is launching a price war to make us lose our composure and disrupt our original direction. Once we are fooled and start a price war with him, we will definitely lose."
She looked at Fu Yanzhou and said, "Price wars mean that profit margins will be squeezed, and the cost of R&D and raw materials will be reduced. I believe that consumers with oily hair care most not whether the shampoo is a dozen yuan cheaper or more expensive, but whether it can really control oil effectively. If it can keep hair refreshed for two to three days and effectively relieve dandruff and hair loss, no one will choose Fengya just because it is a dozen yuan more expensive."
Xiao Chang took over the conversation: "The headache now is that our reputation cannot compare with Fengya for the time being. A bottle of Fengya is more than ten yuan cheaper than ours. Consumers have stockpiled Fengya shampoo and will not need to buy shampoo for a long time, which has a great impact on our sales."
Min Xi: "Don't worry, the impact won't be too big. You don't understand the troubles of people with oily hair. If there is a more effective oil-control shampoo, no matter how much you stock up before, it won't affect buying the effective one. Zhu Youzhuo just predicted your prediction and put psychological pressure on you, making you confused."
Fu Yanzhou listened to their discussion quietly without interrupting.
Min Xi then said to Xiao Chang: "We are not going to engage in a price war with Zhu Youzhuo, we are going to engage in a psychological war with him. As long as we don't fight back, he will be the one who gets scared in the end."
She emphasized again: "The original intention of Beiqingyu is to make a shampoo that can keep hair fresh. We must not follow the footsteps of other oil-control shampoos just to grab market share. My boss once told me that sooner or later, someone will feel your sincerity when you make a product with your heart. Behind all the phenomena, there is no accidental luck."
Xiao Chang's anxiety was mostly relieved before today's meeting. What Min Xi said to him downstairs in the laboratory made him feel like his old self again.
But after all, Bei Qingyu didn't belong to him alone. He looked at Fu Yanzhou: "Mr. Fu, what do you think?"
Fu Yanzhou: "No price war. Focus on preparing for the launch of new products on February 14th."
Zhu Youzhuo thought that he would spend money to invest in the market for Min Xi, but Zhu Youzhuo did not understand Min Xi, let alone him. Min Xi wants to make a product seriously and make Beiqingyu's brand and quality deeply rooted in people's hearts. He and she have the same original intention.
The discussion lasted for two hours and ended at 12:03.
Fu Yanzhou was not in a hurry to leave. He picked up the document at hand and took a look. Bei Qingyu's senior management was quite discerning. Several of them almost rushed out of the meeting room, leaving the space for the two of them.
Min Xi put the pen on the notebook. When she looked up, Fu Yanzhou was looking at her.
She said, "I thought you were going to start a price war."
Fu Yanzhou: "I used to, but not now."
In the past, I would directly spend money to solve the problems and crises she faced, but now I want to accompany her and face every little problem rationally.
Min Xi asked him: "Do you have any other social engagements tonight?"
Fu Yanzhou didn't even think about it: "No."
"Then let's go to my grandmother's house for dinner."
"Okay. I've already prepared the gift."
“…”
He asked casually, "Is Min Ting going?"
"…go."
Min Xi pointed out the name of the group to him and said, "No comparison allowed!"
Min Ting was so busy that he forgot that he had to go to his grandmother's house for dinner tonight. It was his father who called to remind him to go there early.
For today's meal, Min Jiangyuan took out the suit and coat that his wife bought for him a few years ago. Fortunately, he had not gained weight, so they fit him perfectly.
He was embarrassed to be the first to go, so he urged his son and called Fu Yanzhou.
Fu Yanzhou now receives calls from his father-in-law more frequently than from his own father.
"Hello, Dad."
"Are you done yet?"
Fu Yanzhou looked at his watch. It was only half past four, and there was still a pile of documents on the desk that he needed to look at. As Min Jiangyuan's son-in-law, he was very responsive. He replied to his father-in-law, "I'm done. I'm on my way to my grandmother's house. I'll be there around 5:30."
He also took into account the time spent in traffic jams.
Min Jiangyuan: "It's almost time for me too."
Fu Yanzhou didn't have time to pick up Min Xi. He told Min Xi the whole story and reminded her: "Drive slowly. 】
Min Xi: […My dad is so anxious? 】
【Um. 】
[When you get here, help grandma with the housework. I have a meeting that will probably end at 5:30. 】
At 5:20, Fu Yanzhou was the first to arrive at his grandmother's house. Five minutes later, Min Ting's car drove into the yard. The last car to drive in was Min Jiangyuan's.
Grandpa is tending to the flowers and plants in the sunroom, while grandma is busy preparing dinner with her aunt in the kitchen. Today, her daughter and granddaughter are back, and grandma is in high spirits.
Min Jiangyuan took off his coat and went to the kitchen to help. Fu Yanzhou and Min Ting also followed him into the kitchen. The small kitchen was busier than ever before.
When they talked about Jiangcheng, it was actually Min Jiangyuan who deliberately brought the topic to Jiangcheng.
Fu Yanzhou: "By the way, Dad, Xixi has always wanted to go to the B&B in Jiangcheng. When are you and Mom free? Let's go there as a family for a few days."
It was just what Min Jiangyuan wanted: "Early June, I can spare the time." He turned to his son and said, "You can go there too and arrange your work in advance."
Min Ting said: "I won't go. What am I going to do?"
Fu Yanzhou: "Go take pictures for us."
Min Ting: “…”
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