We can't live a good life together
Tao Xingye threw the diagnosis sheet into the trash can after getting the medicine. As soon as he got into the car, Lin Yu started scolding him, "How can you be so slow, a grown man? Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"
He glanced at Lin Yu, his eyes falling on the pile of medicine in her hand, but he still held back and just asked the driver to drive. She became more afraid of heat than Tao Xingye, even though her hands were so cold.
"Adjust it to 26 degrees." Tao Xingye took her diagnosis sheet. Fortunately, she was in good health and the baby was still pregnant.
"I want 20 degrees!" Lin Yu snatched the order from his hand, crumpled it up, and threw it at his feet. When the driver refused to adjust the temperature, she reached forward and stretched out her hand to adjust it herself.
"Behave yourself." Tao Xingye didn't understand why Lin Yu had such a bad temper. He pressed Lin Yu's shoulders and pushed her back to her place. "When your hands get warm, I'll turn it up to 20 degrees for you."
The man was pinned down by him and couldn't move, but he still looked unconvinced and looked at him as if he were an enemy. Tao Xingye was so angry that he laughed instead, "Why didn't I know you were so angry before?"
Lin Yu struggled a few times. Tao Xingye exerted force with his hands, and pain spread to his waist. Half his body was numb. "Behave yourself!" He said in a hurried, deeper voice. Lin Yu froze, not moving. She sat quietly beside him, staring out the window.
Her hair was now very long, hanging down behind her shoulders, making her look even thinner. It was a shame she had refused to eat that morning. Tao Xingye's fingers touched her lower back, and almost instantly, Lin Yu's body tensed up, and she turned around and glared at him warily.
"Try glaring at me again." Tao Xingye pinched her. Lin Yu felt pain and kicked him on the leg.
The two people in front noticed the movement behind them and were about to speak to persuade them, but Tao Xingye grabbed Lin Yu and pulled her into his arms. Lin Yu struggled constantly and Tao Xingye could hardly hold her down.
Lin Yu went into Tao Xingye's arms, and when she couldn't kick Tao Xingye, she started hitting him with her hands. She had no rules and just swung her hands around. Tao Xingye didn't take it seriously until she slapped him on the back.
"I'm really impressed by you." Tao Xingye pushed Lin Yu away and let her hit me. "Keep hitting me! If you keep hitting me, you won't be able to leave today. Not only today, but also tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You won't be able to leave for the rest of your life!"
Lin Yu pursed her lips and looked at him, tears welling up in her eyes. Her tears burst out at once as if the string had broken.
"I..." Tao Xingye couldn't bear to see Lin Yu's tears, so he moved closer with a soft voice.
"Get out of here." Lin Yu screamed and kicked him, curling up in the corner, almost a meter away from him.
Tao Xingye had never been so angry before, and he also got angry and shrank to the other corner, and the distance between them became even greater.
The car stopped and Tao Xingye ignored Lin Yu's attempts to stop him. He took Lin Yu's hand and walked out of the car, but Lin Yu held on to the car door and refused to get out.
"Behave yourself. I have to go to a meeting." Tao Xingye glanced around and began to bend Lin Yu's fingers in a low voice. Lin Yu didn't answer him, nor did she let go. She insisted on staying in the car.
"Whatever you want!" Tao Xingye shook his hand away. "Then you can live in the car. No one is allowed to let her out today."
Tao Xingye said this and signaled the driver to close the door. Lin Yu calmed down and sat in the middle, letting the driver close the door. Tao Xingye was furious and walked upstairs to the company building without looking back.
The meeting room was already prepared, waiting for him to arrive and begin the discussion. He rambled on and on, all just complaining. Tao Xingye grew increasingly annoyed, his face stiffening. "Dismiss this meeting for now. Go back and discuss this. I need a concrete idea before I leave work this afternoon."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone stood up and said, "Boss Tao, this project is a loss. Our company will have to bear the loss of the one-third of profit. If it were you, I would..."
Tao Xingye looked up and saw that person stopped talking. He knew he had said something wrong and quickly apologized, "Please forgive me, Mr. Tao. I was just too impatient."
"Just too impatient?" Tao Xingye tapped the computer with the knuckles of his index finger. The crisp tapping sound spread in the conference room, one after another. The conference room became quieter and quieter. Everyone breathed lightly, and no one dared to say a word, for fear that the anger would affect themselves.
The bruises around Tao Xingye's eyes had long since turned green and purple, making his expression even more terrifying. No one could tell what he was thinking. After a long moment, Tao Xingye suddenly laughed, his voice very soft, "Get out."
No one in the conference room dared to move. Tao Xingye leaned back in his chair, swayed back and forth, and returned to his usual relaxed state. Only then did everyone let down their guard.
"Oh, right, isn't the Ghost Festival coming soon? I plan to prepare some gifts for everyone." Tao Xingye looked around with confusion, finally stopping at the man just now. "Brother Zhou, you will be in charge of the purchase this time. You can also learn how to save one-third of the cost."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's hearts lifted up and they all looked at the person sitting in the middle.
Tao Xingye ignored him and just pounded his waist lazily, "Why are you still standing there? I think it's time to get off work." Tao Xingye looked at his watch, closed his laptop, and got up to leave.
As soon as he left, the conference room erupted in discussions.
"What does Mr. Tao mean by this? How can you celebrate the Ghost Festival for your employees without any reason?"
"Isn't the Ghost Festival a commemoration of the dead? Isn't Mr. Tao warning us?"
After everyone had spoken, the topic finally turned to Zhou Weijie. Zhou Weijie graduated from one of the top two universities in the country, and his position in the R&D center was second only to Zhang Songge.
If Zhang Songge had not asked for leave, he would not have been qualified to attend this meeting.
"What are you afraid of?" Zhou Weijie patted the others' shoulders sarcastically and imitated Tao Xingye's way of typing on the computer. "I'll show our boss how to save one-third of the cost."
"Weijie!" Li Chen glanced at the people around him who were all harboring ulterior motives, and couldn't help but remind them, "The boss is still our boss after all, so stop being so nagging."
Zhou Weijie pulled his wrist away. Ever since he joined the company, Li Chen's attitude towards him had obviously changed. It was just that the higher the rank, the more powerful he was.
Li Chen is now the head of the legal department, so of course he doesn't see me as the second-in-command in the R&D position.
Even though Li Chen was in the law department, which was not the same major as mine, I was still his senior and a few years older than him. How dare he disrespect me in front of so many people!
"It's up to you. In my mind, he is just a rich young man. How could he have the ability to run such a big company without the support of his family? And be our boss? He just relies on his family." Zhou Weijie said this and slammed the door and walked out with his computer.
Li Chen was too lazy to bother with Zhou Weijie. He was thirty years old and still had no brains. He just kept saying whatever he wanted. Didn't he know that walls have ears? He might kill himself one day without even realizing it.
Li Chen thought of something and looked around the conference room. It looked like there were no cameras on the surface, but everyone knew how advanced invisible cameras were now.
Where could the hidden camera be hidden? Li Chen looked at the pots of green radish in front of him.
"Li Chen is quite clever." New assistant Chu Yan looked at the face on the screen, staring directly at the camera. The man's eyes were uncertain, still searching. But one thing was certain—Li Chen had guessed the presence of a camera in the conference room.
Tao Xingye half leaned against the bookcase and looked at the screen. He felt that the acting skills of his employees were better than those of professional actors. The person on the screen stood up and went out. At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Boss Tao, can I come in?"
It’s Li Chen.
The two looked at each other. Tao Xingye didn't intend to turn off the computer. He even turned the screen half a circle outwards. "Come in."
The moment Li Chen pushed the door open, he noticed the computer screen opposite Tao Xingye. Wasn't the picture on it the conference room or something else?
"These surveillance videos cannot be used as evidence to dismiss Zhou Weijie!" Li Chen's tone became obviously anxious. Although he was five years older than Tao Xingye, his baby face looked particularly childish.
Perhaps because he studied law, he always spoke in a gentle and elegant manner and rarely got so flustered.
"Then what reason do you think I should use to fire him?" Tao Xingye hammered his lower back, waiting for Li Chen's answer with a smile. The man must have thought of the answer, but refused to speak.
Tao Xingye didn't intend to let him speak. "Why do you think I would fire a good employee who works hard and strives for the company's benefit?"
"Mr. Tao certainly wouldn't fire an employee like that, but if he took kickbacks, he wouldn't be what you call a good employee! You appointed him as purchasing agent for the Ghost Festival just for this reason."
"That's exactly what I did." Tao Xingye waved his hand and looked at him indifferently. "Anyone can see that this is what I did."
If Zhou Weijie still wants to rush into trouble and take kickbacks, he will have no reason to keep such a treacherous employee.
"Everyone who makes purchases will take kickbacks to some extent." Li Chen walked forward. "You're going to discourage other employees."
"I'm disappointed in them! It's best if they all get out together with Zhou Weijie, so I don't have to investigate them one by one." Tao Xingye opened a drawer and tossed a file to Li Chen. "If it weren't for the funding chain issue this time, I wouldn't have discovered the problem in the account book. I really should praise them for their good accounting!"
From the procurement of metal materials to packaging and shipping, they were taking kickbacks, yet their accounts were flawless. He could let them go, but all of these people had to be expelled.
The bone conduction project was completed, but the capital chain was getting tighter and tighter. He had been looking for the problem for so many days and had done so many market researches, but who knew that the problem occurred within his company!
Li Chen looked at the internal bill, and his blood seemed to freeze. He couldn't move and opened his mouth, "You...what do you mean?"
Showing himself the bills, which only insiders could see, was it a sign of trust or a test? Or was it a combination of both, like the question posed to Zhou Weijie: if he didn't take kickbacks, he could continue to stay at the company; if he did, he would fall into Tao Xingye's trap.
Zhou Weijie's ending depends on the choice he makes.
What about me? The challenge Mr. Tao gave Zhou Weijie was clear, but what was the challenge he posed to himself?
Thinking of this, Li Chen broke out in a cold sweat. He met Tao Xingye's gaze. They were both smart people, and by this point, their intentions were already clear.
Tao Xingye took back the account book and said, "Li Chen, I hope you won't let me down."
It was a well-known fact within the company that Li Chen and Zhou Weijie were close, and Tao Xingye hadn't originally intended to keep Li Chen. After all, that man was his senior, and it was Li Chen who had discovered the camera.
This is a talent, a rare talent not only in the field of law.
Things were becoming increasingly complicated, but Tao Xingye liked this complexity. Compared to Zhou Weijie's choice, he was more looking forward to Li Chen's choice.
Would this person tell everyone else everything he heard from him? Would he remind Zhou Weijie that Tao Xingye was deliberately setting a trap?
"If President Tao wants to reshuffle the cards, why would he go to so much trouble? If he uses the program from the Dow Group, what can't he find out? Even if the account books are well kept, they will still have to go to jail." Chu Yan said quietly.
Tao Xingye glared at him, and Chu Yan quickly continued, "Of course, I just said that casually. I don't mean to ask you to reconcile with your father."
“…” Tao Xingye locked the cabinet and walked out with the key.
After staying up there for nearly an hour, I wonder if Lin Yu has learned his lesson. Is it time to take his medicine? Thinking of this, Tao Xingye went back and got a glass of water to bring downstairs.
He didn't park his car in the underground garage, but in the open space in front of the company building.
When Tao Xingye opened the car door, he was stunned - Lin Yu was lying on her side in the chair, sleeping soundly with her arm as a pillow. He glanced over and saw that the air conditioner was already set to the 20 degrees she had been thinking about.
The driver looked aggrieved. "Your wife keeps complaining about being hot. I'm really at my wit's end."
"My wife." Tao Xingye didn't know where the pride came from, and his tone was quite proud, which made the driver confused.
"You go eat first." Tao Xingye got in the car, and with a hot body, he carefully moved closer to Lin Yu, but still woke Lin Yu up.
She woke up, and Tao Xingye no longer hesitated to move. He supported Lin Yu and put her head on his legs, letting her lie in his arms and continue to sleep. Lin Yu couldn't sleep at all. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, "I want to eat too."
Although her tone was harsh, it was a rare moment for her to proactively ask Tao Xingye for something, and Tao Xingye sensed a hint of coquettishness in her tone. He suddenly became curious about how Lin Yu was coaxing the driver into giving him a hard time. "I should have installed a camera earlier," he murmured, holding Lin Yu's hand.
"Pervert." Lin Yu pulled out her hand and kicked Tao Xingye again. Her kick just hit Tao Xingye's lower back, and Tao Xingye's face turned pale.
"You..." Tao Xingye didn't want to say more. If he continued, Lin Yu would definitely notice the injury on his waist. "Which restaurant do you want to eat at? I'll drive you there."
Tao Xingye said as he stepped directly from the back to the driver's seat. He fastened his seat belt. Lin Yu's voice just happened to ring out, "I want to eat my grandma's cooking. Take me there."
"..." Tao Xingye glanced at Lin Yu and said, "Change to another one."
"I only want to eat the food cooked by my grandma. I won't eat anything else!" Lin Yu didn't know what was wrong, and tears started falling again.
Tao Xingye unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car. Before he could open the door, Lin Yu rushed out from the other side and ran straight towards the road.
"Come back here." Tao Xingye rushed over, grabbed Lin Yu's wrist and stuffed her back into the car. "Why are you crying? Are you trying to make me feel bad so you can run away?"
Lin Yu remained silent, head bowed, and motionless, shutting herself in. Tao Xingye felt as if there was a glass cover around her, the door already locked, no one could get in.
"Lin Xiaomai, can't you just live a good life with me?" His tone was full of complaints, but more of helplessness.
The company's affairs were not yet settled. How could he dare to let Lin Yu go back to the countryside alone? If he let her go, would she run away again? If she ran away, how could he find her?
"Next time." Tao Xingye's voice was heavy. He was afraid that Lin Yu would become even more desperate to escape, so he didn't want to give Lin Yu too much of a good face. The tear on Lin Yu's chin was about to fall, and he couldn't bear to watch it, so he raised his hand and wiped it away with his index finger.
Lin Yu's tears were cold, and her face was cold too.
"Can you take care of yourself? Why do you have to turn the air conditioner so low!" Tao Xingye took off his suit jacket and put it on Lin Yu, but Lin Yu resisted and didn't want to wear it. He held Lin Yu's arm and stuffed it into the sleeve. His suit was several sizes larger than Lin Yu. He patiently buttoned all the buttons one by one from the bottom.
There was no one around, he couldn't leave, and Lin Yu refused to get out of the car, so he could only order takeout and eat with Lin Yu in the car.
The driver came back from his meal and smelled the aroma of rice from a distance. Thinking that Lin Yu had ordered it herself, he quickly ran over and said, "Sister, your husband doesn't like other people eating in the car."
As soon as he finished speaking, the driver met Tao Xingye's gaze through the glass as he was feeding chicken soup into Lin Yu's mouth with a spoon.
"..." Tao Xingye looked away uncomfortably, "She insisted that I feed her." His tone was tinged with boasting that he himself didn't even notice.
The driver curled his lips, squatted under a tree and started smoking.
The way the two people in the car were eating didn't look like the wife had asked her boss to feed her. The wife looked very reluctant, and every bite was extremely forced. How could a couple be like this? They were so close but still looked so distant.
Tao Xingye forced Lin Yu to finish a bowl of chicken soup, and then fed her a lot of meat and vegetables, and then he began to eat with satisfaction.
He was so preoccupied with his project with Liu Quan that he ate absentmindedly, taking a few bites before clearing away the leftovers. The person next to him sneered, "You don't even want to eat, yet you're forcing me to eat."
Tao Xingye hesitated to speak. He really couldn't do anything about Lin Yu now. Lin Yu was determined not to stay by his side and was against him at every turn.
"Do you want to stay in the car or go upstairs?" His tone was a little aggressive. Lin Yu's face froze and he lowered his head and ignored him.
"Okay, then you stay in the car." Tao Xingye left angrily with the garbage and slammed the door. Lin Yu couldn't help but curl up as he watched the man's back as he walked away.
Lin Yu buried her head in her arms and couldn't help but smell the suit he was wearing and his scent. However, the next second she ripped the buttons of the suit like crazy and threw it to the ground.
In the sunlight, the bloodstains on the back of the suit were particularly obvious.
Lin Yu hesitantly reached out and picked up the suit. Her fingertips touched the base fabric. The brown stain on it was either blood or something else...
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