Chapter 66 Chapter 66 Let the Chairman Know Directly
"Normally speaking, with your boss's conditions, few women would not fall in love with him, unless he has some unknown hobbies or shortcomings that you really resist." Qi Xin put down the wine glass and started to eat the dessert.
Qin Mian fell silent again.
Si Tu doesn't have any unknown hobbies or shortcomings, it's just...
Her initial reasons and methods for being with him were wrong.
Of course, if we put this relationship aside...
Yes, objectively speaking, it is possible for her to fall in love with him.
Thinking back to the times we spent together on a daily basis.
She even had some heartwarming moments with him.
However, her rationality would quickly suppress her heartbeat.
Plus the two of them on that matter...
Sometimes she couldn't tell whether it was because she got a lot of pleasure from that thing that made her feel closer and closer to him, or because she actually liked him a little and so she liked being intimate with him more and more.
Qin Mian's thoughts were a little confused, he frowned slightly and took another sip of wine.
Qi Xin noticed her sudden silence, raised his head, and after examining her for a few seconds, asked, "You wouldn't..."
"No!" Qin Mian suddenly became a little excited and denied it flatly.
Qi Xin realized that something was wrong with her and continued to stare at her with an observant look.
Until Qin Mian looked at her a little uncomfortable, she turned around, put down her wine glass, picked up the plate and picked at the food, and deliberately changed the subject, "What about you? Did you have a fight with Mr. Fang?"
Otherwise, how could someone who likes the other person so much on a normal day use negative words to describe the other person just now?
Now he's saying something about never falling in love with his boss.
It seemed that she regretted falling in love with Fang Zhi.
"Oh." Qi Xin sighed, "It's a long story."
The situation between her and Fang Zhi has become a little complicated now, and she is still uncertain about the next direction, so she is not sure whether to tell Qin Mian too much.
She couldn't explain it clearly, so Qin Mian didn't ask any more questions, just like Qi Xin knew she didn't want to talk and wouldn't ask any more questions.
Each of them gives the other enough space and dignity.
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After the tea break, the group went to the exhibition hall for a visit and interaction.
During this time, Qin Mian received a call from home.
It was her mother who called her.
She saw her mother calling and felt it was difficult not to answer it, so she turned her head and greeted Si Tu beside her, then prepared to go outside to answer it.
The exhibition hall was full of electronic explanations and the voices of exhibitors, so she needed to find a relatively quiet place.
When they came out of the exhibition hall, the two of them rushed inside and accidentally bumped into Qin Mian.
He almost bumped into her and she took two steps back. She was dragged inside by her companions and turned around to say sorry to her.
Then I heard the man's companion say, "Hurry up, it will be over if you don't hurry up."
Qin Mian looked back at the two of them. They looked like college students and guessed that they were too far from here and were delayed on the way.
Qin Mian turned around and continued walking out. He walked to the corridor and found a quiet terrace. The call from his mother had been automatically hung up.
She called back and the other end picked up quickly.
"Hello." Qin Mian held the phone to his ear and looked out.
"Why don't you answer the phone? It's the weekend, are you busy?" Mother Liu Fangfang's voice sounded a little angry.
Qin Mian unconsciously put his other hand in his pocket, "Yes, a little."
"You are the busiest person in the world. It's been so long and you haven't called back." Liu Fangfang started to blame her on the other end.
Qin Mian was silent for a moment.
Her mother, Ms. Liu Fangfang, is a doctor and is very busy at work, but she seems unable to understand Qin Mian's busyness.
Of course, no matter how busy one is, there is always time to make a phone call. As for why Qin Mian rarely calls back, the above brief conversation is enough to give you a clue.
Every time the two of them talk on the phone, it is hardly a pleasant experience.
The last time her mother called her, she asked her to break up with Zhu Yinglong and go back to get a regular job.
This time is no exception.
"What's the point of you being so busy every day? I told you to come back and get a job in the system, isn't that good?"
Qin Mian twitched the corner of his lips, feeling that the other party was being unreasonable. "If you're busy, it's meaningful, but if I'm busy, it's meaningless? How can this be justified?"
"I'm a doctor, saving lives and healing the wounded. What are you?" Liu Fangfang said with disdain, "You're just a small manager working for a small boss in a private enterprise. You'll be a wage earner your whole life!"
"I'm an employee, yes, but I've been promoted now." Qin Mian felt a little proud when he said this, feeling that he could finally show off in front of his mother. "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm now the CEO's secretary."
"The reason I've been so busy lately is because I'm busy getting a promotion and a raise."
However, the mother sneered disdainfully.
It seemed that no matter how Qin Mian climbed up, in her eyes, he was still not up to par.
"You're just a secretary to the CEO. I thought you were so capable. But after all, isn't it just a part-time job?"
Qin Mian pursed his lips, somewhat displeased.
Sometimes she didn't know why she had to compete with her to prove herself.
In Liu Fangfang's view, apart from working within the system, other jobs cannot be considered as presentable. No matter how hard she tries to prove herself, it only provides her with opportunities to be suppressed.
She suddenly lost interest. Whether it was communicating with the other party or proving herself to the other party, it seemed to become less important and meaningless.
But deep down, she was vaguely unwilling. Why, why should the meaning and weight of life be determined only by her parents?
Can't she define it herself?
"You're talking as if you're not just working." Qin Mian couldn't help but retort, "You're still making distinctions here."
"Qin Mian!" Liu Fangfang was clearly dissatisfied with her attitude. "Is this the tone you should use when talking to your mother?"
Qin Mian rubbed his nose and began to feel uncomfortable and irritated.
She knew that Liu Fangfang was going to use the excuse of "I'm your mother!" to pressure her again.
It seems that if children do not obey their parents, they are committing a heinous crime.
Qin Mian didn't want to argue with her; it would be too ugly to fall out.
She lowered her eyes and kicked the ground with her toes. "Whatever you say, it is what it is."
"And that boyfriend of yours!" Liu Fangfang kept pestering him. "How many times have I told you to break up? When are you going to break up? Why haven't you broken up yet?"
"How long do you plan to drag yourself on?
I don't know how she calculated twenty-seven or twenty-eight as thirty.
Qin Mian was silent for a moment, "I won't get married."
"Qin Mian, are you trying to piss me off to death?" Liu Fangfang was so angry that her voice broke. Qin Mian hurriedly moved the phone away, but it was too late. His eardrums were a little painful.
Then she heard her father join the fray, "Qin Mian, I think you've grown too powerful. Every day, you're just trying to piss your mother and me off to death!"
Qin Mian originally wanted to say, where is there a day?
Isn't this the case? We only talk on the phone once every few months?
But if she really made the other party angry, she would still have to clean up the mess, so she finally restrained herself and said, "It's broken up, it's already broken up, you can rest assured."
"Break up?" Liu Fangfang's tone finally relaxed. "When did you break up?"
"It doesn't matter anymore." Qin Mian said in a flat tone.
"That's right." Liu Fangfang couldn't hide her joy. "This is the best. Hurry up and put the civil service exam on your agenda and bring it home. Just a few days ago, someone introduced you to someone from the Housing Authority who's looking for a teacher or civil servant. There's also someone from the military who's also looking for a husband..."
"I won't take the exam, so don't introduce me to any." Qin Mian didn't have the patience to listen any further and couldn't help but interrupt her.
"You're going to go against me again, aren't you?" the other end roared back. "Over the years, so many friends and family have introduced you to so many potential partners, most of whom have stable jobs within the system. And you haven't met any of them. What do you want?"
"I don't want to live that kind of life." Qin Mian repeated this.
However, the mother refused to listen. "What kind of life do you want? A life of feasting and revelry?"
"I want to be free and do what I want." Qin Mian corrected her.
Instead of following the path set by your parents.
"Qin Mian, are you having a good time in Nanzhou?" Liu Fangfang even mocked her, "People should have some self-awareness. A simple and ordinary life is the real life!"
"Stop talking." Qin Mian stopped her.
It is difficult for people to change each other. Even between mother and daughter, there seems to be a huge gap between their thoughts. "I have something else to do here, so let's leave it at that for now."
Having said that, she hung up the phone unilaterally.
She took a deep breath and exhaled. Her phone vibrated again. She lowered her eyes and saw that it was her mother calling again.
She didn't want to argue with her. She always felt bad after an argument, so she hung up the phone.
After returning to the exhibition hall and interacting with the robot for a while, the activity ended.
When leaving, Qi Xin waved goodbye to her, and Qin Mian smiled and waved back.
Si Tu and Fang Zhi also got to know each other through this event and nodded to each other from a distance.
As they walked towards the parking lot, Si Tu casually asked Qin Mian, "Do you know Mr. Fang's secretary?"
"I know him." Qin Mian remembered the photo Qi Xin had sent her of them running into him at the mall, and mentioned it to him.
"So that friend of yours is her." Si Tu smiled and put his hands in his pockets.
Qin Mian smiled and nodded, "Yes."
"What about this time?" Si Tu was a little curious. "What are you talking about with her?"
The two met and chatted during the tea break, and Si Tu saw them when he went to look for her.
Qin Mian was silent for a moment, then only spoke of the parts he could talk about. "Isn't it just praising you for being handsome again?"
"What's the point of being handsome?" For someone who has been praised for being handsome since childhood, such compliments are commonplace. "No matter how handsome I am, it can't make Secretary Qin feel any special attraction towards me."
Si Tu blurted out what was in his heart.
Qin Mian pursed his lips when he heard this.
Si Tu said a few days ago that he believed everything she said, but it turned out that in his subconscious, he knew very well that she was lying when she said she liked him.
Qin Mian had actually noticed it a long time ago, otherwise, he wouldn't have emphasized it that night. But at this moment, when he heard Si Tu say it casually, he still felt a little weird.
Sure enough, pretending to like someone is easy to see through.
It was only after Si Tu said it that he realized he shouldn't have said that.
He licked the corner of his lips, probably not knowing how to continue the topic.
Qin Mian pondered for a moment, then decided to ease the awkwardness, "Not really."
If he wasn't a handsome guy, she really couldn't kiss him, let alone go to bed with him or something like that.
She agreed to the exchange because she was not averse to him as a person.
Otherwise, there will be no feeling afterwards, which is too painful.
"Sometimes," Qin Mian said honestly, "Mr. Si is still quite attractive."
"Oh?" Si Tu raised his eyebrows and looked over seriously, "For example?"
Qin Mian smiled, deliberately teasing him, and glanced at him, "Who would deliberately let others praise them?"
Si Tu shook his head, thinking that she was just comforting him out of consideration for his face, so he didn't bother asking any more questions.
I picked up the car from the parking lot and drove out. There was a bit of traffic congestion because there were many people leaving the show.
The car was stuck on the road in front of the venue. A middle-aged woman in her thirties or forties was walking out with her son who was probably in elementary school.
My son, who is in elementary school, lay on the ground and refused to leave, shouting that he wanted to see the robots again.
The middle-aged woman was helpless, and told him, both coaxing and scolding him, that the event was over and they had to wait for the next one.
Qin Mian watched through the car window for a while, recalling the two college students who rushed over and almost bumped into her when she went out to answer the phone.
Suddenly, some ideas came to her mind.
But just as she was daydreaming, the car started and the mother and son disappeared from her sight, and she came back to her senses.
However, the thoughts that just came to her mind still lingered in her mind, churning over and over again.
The two of them had a great time that night and slept very late the next day.
After lunch and a short rest, Si Tu said he wanted to take her to the beach.
When Qin Mian heard the word "seaside", he thought of the pink dolphin he had encountered before.
"Are you going to see the pink dolphins?"
Si Tu wanted to give her a surprise, so he didn't tell her directly and just said yes.
Qin Mian was quite excited when he heard it, and followed him into the cloakroom with great interest, ready to change clothes and go out.
"What do you want me to wear today?" Si Tu asked her to help pick out casual clothes.
"White, right?" Qin Mian said casually.
Anyway, I'm handsome and I look good in anything I wear.
She had seen him wear the black suit last time, and she wanted to see something different this time.
Si Tu agreed and asked her to wear white as well.
He had just said that he wanted to wear couple outfits with her, but she didn't agree. Now he asked her to wear the same color, just to create the visual effect of couple outfits.
Knowing what he was thinking, Qin Mian hesitated for a moment, but decided to fulfill his wish this time and found a beige skirt.
She doesn't have any pure white clothes because she thinks they get dirty too easily, so she rarely buys them.
Si Tu changed first. Qin Mian looked at him and praised him, "White is also good. It's very sunny."
Si Tu walked towards her with a smile, pulled her into his arms and kissed her, "You too, have become more fresh and beautiful."
Both of them seemed to have suddenly become several years younger, as if they had just stepped out of a university campus, and they looked more youthful than before.
Then they put on hats and sunglasses and went out together.
Si Tu was driving and Qin Mian was sitting in the passenger seat. The two of them talked and laughed along the way. Songs were playing in the car and Qin Mian occasionally took out his phone to take pictures.
Everything was beautiful, just like most couples going away for the weekend.
When they arrived at the beach and parked the car, Si Tu took her hand again and went to the boarding point.
The sea breeze blew and the hat almost flew off. Qin Mian raised his hand to press it down. When he looked up, he was caught off guard and saw someone who looked familiar.
She was stunned. This familiar person looked nothing like anyone else, but like Si Tu.
After staring at the other person carefully for a while, she recognized him!
That’s right! It’s Si Tu’s father, Si Jin, the chairman of SC Group!
Before Si Tu returned to China, Qin Mian had the honor of meeting him several times. She had also seen his relevant information in the company's employee handbook as early as when she joined the group. She knew him.
Not expecting to bump into him here, Qin Mian opened his mouth and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.
Si Tu recognized his father earlier than her.
His eyes darkened, he stopped and stared at the other person without blinking. After two seconds, he glanced coldly at the woman next to the other person.
Si Jin walked towards him with the woman. There was no embarrassment on his face as if he had known about it for a long time, so he didn't care and didn't care how his son felt when he saw it.
That woman, as an executive of SC Group, actually knew Si Tu, but she was very intimate with Si Jin's hand, without any embarrassment or shame of being caught by someone else's son.
Both of them were accustomed to this kind of scene.
Si Jin even remained calm and looked at Qin Mian beside Si Tu with the same scrutinizing eyes.
But Qin Mian was different from the other two. The moment the other party's eyes drifted over, she almost subconsciously let go of Si Tu's hand that was holding hers.
I just said not to let my colleagues know, but now I’ve told the chairman directly.
She was extremely panicked, not knowing what kind of horrible scene would happen next.
Si Tu's palms were empty, and he turned his head and looked at her.
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