She didn't fall in love with him at first sight; she fell in love with him every time she saw him.
Dai Shuo, whose full name is Dai Shuoqige, is a Mongolian girl whose name alone suggests she must be a talented singer and dancer.
Six years ago, Rui Yan met Mu Chen, who came to borrow her umbrella, while accompanying Dai Shuo to the audition for the Lan University Student Art Troupe.
At that moment, Rui Yan and Dai Shuo were having an in-depth discussion about how handsome the boy playing the hulusi on stage was when they heard a gentle and pleasant male voice enter their ears.
"Excuse me, may I borrow this umbrella for a moment?"
She looked up and saw a smiling face. He was tall and slender, with clear eyes and a warm, sunny smile. He was wearing a black shirt with the sleeves slightly rolled up, and black cropped trousers that revealed his slender ankles.
She saw him again the next evening, when he was waiting for her by the flower bed below the girls' dormitory.
In late autumn, darkness falls early. The last rays of the setting sun shone on him, making his face appear as serene and gentle as an oil painting.
The third time they met was the night Rui Yan didn't recognize him. A young man, who looked like a runaway protagonist from a martial arts film, appeared from around the corner carrying a long stick, coming against the wind.
Rui Yan knew that her feelings for Mu Chen were the legendary love at first sight. No, it wasn't love at first sight; she fell in love with him every time she saw him.
*
After confirming that the person in front of him was Rui Yan, Dai Shuo reached out and hugged her, his voice trembling with tears.
"Where have you been? You dropped out of school without a word back then, and I haven't been able to contact you for so many years."
"It's a long story. Are you alright?" Song Yunxi asked softly, then gently patted Dai Shuo's back.
Dai Shuo paused for a moment, and after controlling his emotions, he spoke, "It's fine, I'm just too excited to see you."
In the end, this reunion of old friends after many years didn't turn into a tearful and melodramatic scene.
Song Yoon-hee said, "I've really missed you these past few years."
"You didn't even contact me when you thought of me." Dai Shuo released Song Yunxi and suddenly noticed the bandage on her hand. "What happened to your hand?"
“It was an act of bravery. It's alright.” Song Yunxi glanced at the several receipts Dai Shuo was holding, showing that they were currently on the maternity ward floor. “Dai Shuo, you…”
She was about to offer her congratulations when Dai Shuo ruthlessly interrupted her. "Stop, don't overthink it. One of my students is sick, and I'm here to pay her bills. There were too many people queuing downstairs, and I heard that the maternity ward was less crowded, so I came up here."
That almost turned out to be a blunder.
Song Yunxi caught the key point in her words: "You became a teacher?"
"Yes, it's in the Tourism College. But they don't teach classes, they only handle internships."
Song Yunxi laughed out loud. It was hard to imagine what Dai Shuo, who was so crazy back then, would be like as a teacher.
Back then, Rui Yan and Dai Shuo hit it off immediately. It's probably impossible to find many girls as crazy as the two of them again.
They're the ones who stand on the rooftop where a shooting star streaks across the sky, shouting that they want to marry two rich men; they're the ones who fight and kill each other in the dormitory corridors with swords; they're the ones who come back drunk and cause a scene on the basketball court; they're even the ones who see a traffic cop on the street riding a motorcycle and run up to ask the policeman if there are snacks in the trunk for drinking...
Anyway, to use a joke they made back then: they might have escaped from the same mental hospital.
Song Yunxi wanted to chat with Dai Shuo a little longer when Dai Shuo's students called. They were waiting downstairs for Dai Shuo to finish paying the fees so they could take their sick classmate to get an IV drip.
"Let's add each other on phone and WeChat, and get together in a couple of days," Song Yunxi said, handing over her phone.
She injured her right hand, and it was still a bit inconvenient for her to operate the phone with her left hand, so she had to ask Dai Shuo to do it for her.
After Dai Shuo finished operating the phone, he returned it to Song Yunxi and left in a hurry, leaving behind the words: "If you dare to disappear again, just wait and see."
As Song Yunxi turned around, she saw Mu Chen walking towards her from the other end of the corridor, only a dozen meters away. Song Yunxi quickly turned back to look at Dai Shuo, but thankfully, she was now just a silhouette in the crowd.
She wasn't ready to let Mu Chen know that she was Rui Yan in this situation.
When Song Yunxi first arrived at the Platinum Hotel and learned that Mu Chen was the general manager, she thought it over carefully. Perhaps starting over as strangers was the best way for them to get along.
After all, she had liked him so much back then, but ultimately didn't get him. Years later, she returned with a different identity and had to interact with him in the same hotel as him, as his superior. If it were still Rui Yan and Mu Chen, it would be somewhat awkward. But if it were Song Yunxi and Mu Chen, maybe she could give it another try, because Lin Xiaoran had heard gossip that Mu Chen was still single.
Seeing Song Yunxi standing there looking around, Mu Chen walked over and asked her, "What's wrong?"
As Song Yunxi was thinking of an excuse, she happened to glance at the self-service coffee vending machine next to the cashier. "Hmm... I want to drink coffee."
Mu Chen smiled, reached out and pulled Song Yunxi to the vending machine, asking her, "Which flavor do you want?"
Song Yunxi casually pointed: "Latte, please."
Mu Chen then ordered coffee on the screen and scanned the code to pay.
While waiting for the coffee to be made, Song Yunxi turned to Mu Chen and asked, "Why did you come over? How is Mu Xian?"
"Everything's normal. The doctor said the discomfort might be caused by psychological factors." As he finished speaking, the coffee was ready. Mu Chen handed the coffee to Song Yunxi, saying, "Be careful, it's hot."
"She originally wanted to wait for you to come back so she could thank you in person, but I asked my brother-in-law to take her back to rest first. Anyway, there's plenty of time in the future."
Song Yunxi took a small sip of coffee and nodded slightly. "Mm."
"Want some more?"
"It's too hot, I'll drink it later."
After listening to Song Yunxi finish speaking, Mu Chen took the coffee cup from her hand and naturally took her hand. "Then let's go back."
*
There were quite a few plot twists today. Song Yunxi, who was a scheming woman in the morning, became a heroic woman who did something righteous by noon.
Not only did the hotel staff show great concern and inquire about her well-being, but Jiang Hailang and Lin Xiaoran also coincidentally visited Song Yunxi's room during their lunch break to check on her.
But Song Yunxi felt that their visit was a pretense; their real purpose was to disturb her rest. Because after hearing that she would recover quickly as long as she took her medicine and changed her dressings on time, the two of them stopped caring about her and instead played around quite a bit.
The suite had gaming equipment, and after Jiang Hailang projected a motion-sensing game onto the TV, he called Lin Xiaoran over. "Come on, let's cut the watermelon."
Lin Xiaoran turned to look at Mu Chen and Song Yunxi, and whispered, "The big boss is here, I'd better slip away."
Just as she turned to leave, Jiang Hailang pulled her back. "It's lunch break now. You're in your sister Song's room, what are you afraid of? He's not a capitalist."
He pushed Lin Xiaoran to the TV; the game was already in standby mode, just waiting for him to press the start button. "I'll protect you from now on." As Jiang Hailang finished speaking, a watermelon fell from the screen.
When Pan Zhe came in, Jiang Hailang and Lin Xiaoran were having a great time, while Mu Chen and Song Yunxi were sitting at the dining table eating quietly.
Song Yunxi couldn't use chopsticks because of her right hand injury, so she had to use the spoon in her left hand to finish her lunch.
However, the spoon was much more convenient to use than she had imagined. Mu Chen would carefully pick out the food and rice and place it on her spoon, and all she had to do was put the food from the spoon into her mouth.
Mu Chen asked Pan Zhe, "How did it go?"
This refers to the person who committed the crime that morning, because Pan Zhe, representing Platinum Hotel, accompanied the police to the police station to handle the matter.
Pan Zhe said, "That person confessed that he was a fan of Zhou Tian. He felt that Zhou Tian had been bullied, so he wanted to avenge her."
Although Zhou Tian has only been in the industry for a year, her sweet and innocent image has attracted quite a few male fans, including a few die-hard fans.
After Zhou Tian and Mu Chen had a scandal last time, Zhou Tian was warned by Mu Xian.
Having been in the entertainment industry for so long, Mu Xian naturally knew its ins and outs. If Zhou Tian hadn't contacted paparazzi in advance to wait outside the restaurant, and hadn't used the excuse that it wasn't safe for a girl to go home alone late at night to ask Mu Chen's driver to give her a ride, there wouldn't have been those blurry, poorly written entertainment news stories online.
If Mu Chen likes Zhou Tian, Mu Xian will naturally say nothing. But if this young girl, Zhou Tian, is plotting against Mu Chen with malicious intent, then she cannot stand idly by.
Therefore, Mu Xian suspended all of Zhou Tian's work, and the script that was being discussed was given to another girl in the company.
She just wanted Zhou Tian to reflect on her actions. Although the entertainment industry is a big melting pot, she still didn't want a young girl to be tainted with inappropriate colors as soon as she stepped into it.
Unexpectedly, instead of reflecting on her actions, Zhou Tian went so far as to play the victim on her Weibo side account. Her fans naturally assumed she had been sidelined by her boss, Mu Xian.
A couple of days ago, some of Zhou Tian's fans started a fight on Weibo, but Mu Xian's fans were relatively rational and ignored these small-time fans, so the fight didn't escalate. Unexpectedly, today someone actually stalked Mu Xian with a knife, attempting to harm her.
"Zhou Tian?" It seems this little girl still needs to learn more about life.
Mu Chen placed another piece of lamb liver into Song Yunxi's spoon. He had looked it up; lamb liver could replenish blood and treat night blindness.
Song Yunxi said, "Can I change the dish?"
Mu Chen kept putting several bites of lamb liver on her plate, making the other dishes on the table seem almost invisible. The thing is, she really didn't like lamb liver.
Mu Chen spoke in an extremely gentle tone. "Change to another bite later."
Song Yunxi sighed deeply in her heart. After many years, she had returned with a different identity, but she still couldn't escape the fate of eating lamb liver.
Back in Lan University, every time I ate with Mu Chen, there had to be lamb liver on the table. He said lamb liver could cure night blindness, so she wouldn't not recognize him next time.
Although the lamb liver was cooked in various ways, including frying, stir-frying, stewing, and boiling, it was still lamb liver that she didn't like.
Mu Chen watched as Song Yunxi reluctantly put the food from the spoon into her mouth before turning to Pan Zhe and instructing, "Have Zhou Tian's agent take over all her accounts and issue a public statement saying that Zhou Tian will prioritize her studies and temporarily withdraw from the entertainment industry." He added at the end, "Don't tell Mu Xian about this."
"Yes." Pan Zhe accepted the task and went out.
Mu Chen put another bite of beef on Song Yunxi's plate. It was so easy to tell what she liked to eat, because the corners of her mouth curved up in a smile as soon as the beef was put into the spoon.
Jiang Hailang lost the game, and Lin Xiaoran jokingly teased him, "President Lang, you're no good."
Hearing her say that, Jiang Hailang pretended to be angry and sat on the sofa, crossing his legs. No matter how Lin Xiaoran tried to pull his arm to coax him into playing another game, he just looked at her without saying a word.
Mu Chen tapped the table to attract their attention, then raised his wrist to check the time: "If I'm not mistaken, you can make it to the office in time for the afternoon shift if you leave now."
Jiang Hailang glanced at his watch. "That's right. Then I won't bother you two any longer." He turned to Lin Xiaoran and said, "Come to my house tonight, and I'll show you whether I'm any good or not."
"Goodbye, President Mu; goodbye, President Song."
After saying that, Lin Xiaoran quickly followed Jiang Hailang out. No matter how unruly one is, it's not appropriate to skip work in front of the big boss.
Song Yunxi also got up from the dining table, but Mu Chen grabbed her as soon as she reached the door.
"Where to?" he asked, slipping his arm through Song Yunxi's shoulder and pushing the half-open door shut.
"Going to work."
"Your hand is injured, you're allowed to take leave."
Song Yunxi stared at Mu Chen for several seconds with a half-smile on her face before mimicking his tone and speaking leisurely: "If I'm not mistaken, by the time you get to the office now..." She paused, grabbed Mu Chen's wrist to check the time, "it seems you'll be too late for the afternoon work start time."
Mu Chen was suddenly amused by her and let go of her arm.
Song Yunxi turned and opened the door. "I have a conference call with He Yi's people this afternoon." Before leaving, she added earnestly, "Recovering from your injury is a small matter; making money is the big deal."
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