Chapter 69 Eliminating Future Trouble
In the restaurant, Huang Zhaozhao kept rambling on about this and that during the meal.
Xu Jialan grew increasingly impatient and looked at her, "Didn't you say you had questions for me?"
Huang Zhaozhao slowly put a bite of food into her mouth, swallowed it, and then said, "Brother Jialan, don't rush, we can talk about it after we finish eating."
Xu Jialan hesitated for a moment, then crossed her arms and leaned back against the chair.
Two minutes later, seeing her leisurely pace, Xu Jialan finally couldn't help but tap the table with her finger, "Have you finished eating?"
Just then, his phone rang, and he took it out to check it.
Huang Zhaozhao looked up at him, unhurriedly, as if deliberately testing his patience.
Xu Jialan opened the WeChat message and saw a photo of him and Huang Zhaozhao sitting face to face.
It was sent by Chen Yaoan.
He instinctively sat up straight, looking out the window, but didn't see Chen Yao'an.
Didn't she take the photo?
Ignoring Huang Zhaozhao across from him, he quickly stood up from his seat, strode out of the store.
Huang Zhaozhao didn't know what was wrong with him all of a sudden. She followed his back and saw him anxiously searching for something outside the door.
Xu Jialan searched outside but did not find Chen Yaoan.
Has she already left?
He hurriedly went back into the shop and sat down opposite Huang Zhaozhao.
Huang Zhaozhao asked him, "What's wrong?"
At this moment, Xu Jialan no longer cared about gentlemanly manners or the nonsense question she was about to ask. He stared straight at Huang Zhaozhao.
"As a top student in architecture, I think your learning ability shouldn't be that bad, that you have to ask me even the most basic questions."
Huang Zhaozhao put down her cutlery. "What do you mean?"
Xu Jialan chuckled, her eyes sparkling with a wanton air. "I've seen plenty of women and dated quite a few. I can see right through your intentions."
Huang Zhaozhao was no pushover either; she just wanted to appear a bit naive at first, so she made up an excuse to ask him a question.
Now that things have come to this point, there's no need for her to hide anything anymore. However, she never expected that Xu Jialan was also someone who loved to have fun.
She's been with the company for a while now, and I still haven't noticed.
She observed that his life was basically a routine between home and the company; he never went to random places or had any messy relationships.
"Then I'll be frank, I do have feelings for you."
"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in you." He was blunt. "I only agreed to take you on as a favor to the director."
Huang Zhaozhao disagreed, saying, "But as far as I know, you are the son of the chairman of Qingbang Real Estate. Is it necessary for you to give the director face?"
Xu Jialan chuckled, "It seems there are many things you don't know. Why do you think I stayed in Dai County? Isn't Beijing better?"
Huang Zhaozhao may look like an innocent and naive little girl, but she has experienced more than girls her age and quickly understood his situation.
"Since you also like to have fun, wouldn't it be better if we were together?"
"I have a girlfriend."
"I bet your girlfriends never last more than three months."
"You're wrong. She's just my girlfriend now. She'll be my wife and the mother of my children in the future."
His words startled Huang Zhaozhao. What was this? A prodigal son returning home?
"So you'd better give up on me as soon as possible, or don't blame me for not showing you any mercy at the company. I tolerated you before because you were young and a director."
Now it seems that Huang Zhaozhao is not a naive young girl, and he misjudged her before.
"I'm leaving." He stood up and walked away with a flourish.
On the way, Xu Jialan sent a message to Chen Yaoan, asking if she had gotten home yet, but she did not receive a reply.
He tried to explain to her again on WeChat, but when he sent the message, he found that she had blocked him!
Xu Jialan was so angry she laughed. Was she not even given a chance to explain?
At this moment, Chen Yao'an was furious. She knew she should give him a chance to explain, but she was too emotional to resist venting, so she simply blocked him.
After coaxing Zhou Yao to sleep, she was hiding in her room, sulking.
There was a knock on the window facing the street, and Chen Yao'an knew without a doubt that it was Xu Jialan.
After knocking for a while without getting a response, Xu Jialan asked softly, "Chen Yaoan, are you asleep? Could you open the window for me?"
Chen Yao'an lay on the bed, unresponsive.
Xu Jialan was silent for a while, guessing that she was not asleep, and said, "Do you want me to explain first? I had dinner with Huang Zhaozhao tonight to clarify things with her, but I didn't expect you to run into us."
Hearing this, Chen Yao'an became even angrier. She got out of bed, pulled back the curtains, and opened the window. "So, according to you, it's my fault for running into you guys having dinner?"
Xu Jialan smiled ingratiatingly, "How could it be your fault? Of course it's my fault."
"So, you already knew she had designs on you, right?"
"Yes, we discovered it some time ago."
"So, you're not interested in her?"
"Of course, why would I be interested in her? I'm only interested in you." He teased, pinching her cheek.
Chen Yao'an was still angry. "But I saw that you were very patient with her, answering her questions late at night."
“I wasn’t forced by circumstances. She’s a relative of our director, and I have to consider his feelings. My status and position are not what they used to be.”
Chen Yao'an didn't speak for a moment. He was indeed not the same as before. Before, everyone in the government treated him well, but now he was just working for his father.
"You should have told me sooner, instead of making me suspicious."
"It was my fault. If this happens again, I will definitely inform you in advance."
He took out his phone and deleted Huang Zhaozhao's WeChat account right in front of her.
"You're deleting it already? Aren't you afraid of offending your boss?"
"So what if we've offended him? We didn't do it this way before because we were giving each other face. I suspect he did it on purpose from the beginning, so there's no need to give him any more face."
He logged out of WeChat and went to the settings to change his lock screen password. "I changed my lock screen password to your birthday. You can look at my phone whenever you want from now on."
I'm so sorry.
But Chen Yaoan felt a little more at ease.
"Are you still angry?" He reached out and poked her cheek.
"One more thing, I'll trust you for now and see how you perform later."
"For now? Am I really that unworthy of your trust?"
"It's because you have a criminal record."
"Can you remove me from the blacklist now?"
Chen Yaoan opened WeChat.
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The next day, Huang Zhaozhao discovered that Xu Jialan had deleted her WeChat account.
The next second, she went to confront Xu Jialan: "Brother Jialan, why did you delete my WeChat!"
Because her words were filled with emotion, she couldn't control her voice, and everyone looked at the two of them.
Xu Jialan stood up from her seat. "Let's go outside and talk."
All eyes were on them, so Huang Zhaozhao followed them out.
Upon reaching the stairwell, Xu Jialan frowned and looked at her. "I think I made myself very clear to you yesterday. I hope you can restrain your behavior. I don't want my girlfriend to misunderstand."
Huang Zhaozhao, however, remained unmoved, asking, "What if I don't restrain myself?"
"Then don't blame me for showing no mercy."
Xu Jialan didn't want to waste any more words with her. "Although I'm a bit of a scoundrel, I still have some basic principles."
He left after giving her his warning.
Huang Zhaozhao stood there, wondering what he meant. Was he saying that she had no moral principles?
Back at his workstation, Xu Jialan thought for a moment and realized that Huang Zhaozhao was not someone he could easily reject.
He took out his phone and sent a message to Chen Yao'an, asking if she was free to have dinner together that evening.
Chen Yao'an agreed.
He had just put down his phone when Huang Zhaozhao came in and sat down in her seat.
Xu Jialan stood up, walked to the center of the office, looked at everyone, and abruptly said, "Excuse me, everyone, I'd like to invite you all to dinner tonight."
When they heard he was going to treat everyone, they started teasing him, "Why the sudden treat? Is there some happy occasion?"
"There is some good news," Xu Jialan replied casually, her hands in her pockets.
After saying that, he walked over to Huang Zhaozhao and specifically reminded her, "You must come tonight."
Huang Zhaozhao frowned as she looked at him, unsure of what he was up to.
As soon as she got off work that evening, Xu Jialan drove to pick up Chen Yaoan.
She asked him, "Why do you suddenly want me to have dinner with your colleagues?"
"To prevent future troubles."
Chen Yao'an didn't quite understand at first, but she quickly grasped the meaning once they arrived at the restaurant.
When the two arrived at the restaurant, Xu Jialan's colleagues were already there, including Huang Zhaozhao.
Huang Zhaozhao's expression turned quite unpleasant upon seeing her.
Someone asked curiously, "Who is this? Xu Jialan isn't your girlfriend, is she?"
Chen Yaoan felt a little embarrassed being watched by so many people.
Xu Jialan, however, was unusually serious. "Let me introduce you. This is my girlfriend, Chen Yao'an."
A commotion immediately erupted in the private room, and many people unconsciously turned their gazes toward Huang Zhaozhao.
"I've never heard you mention this before; this is the first time we've met."
"It's the first time I've met her, but the work uniforms you're wearing were all designed by her."
"Really? You're a designer?"
Chen Yao'an felt even more embarrassed. Why did he suddenly bring this up? "Yes, I could barely be called a designer."
"No need to force yourselves, please sit down."
Everyone was chatting about this and that, but Huang Zhaozhao didn't say a word from beginning to end.
Everyone knew perfectly well that Huang Zhaozhao had feelings for Xu Jialan. At first, everyone thought it was nothing because Xu Jialan didn't have a girlfriend, but today Xu Jialan suddenly announced that she had a girlfriend, so if Huang Zhaozhao pursued her, then the situation would be different.
At this moment, Huang Zhaozhao finally understood why Xu Jialan had set up this scheme; he wanted to cut off her escape route.
If she wants to stay at the company, she must give up her feelings for him; otherwise, she will be a mistress, and a mistress that everyone knows about.
Huang Zhaozhao found the meal difficult to swallow, and when she had the chance, she confronted Xu Jialan and began to interrogate her.
"So this is what you were waiting for. Do you know how much you've embarrassed me?"
“I already warned you, and if I hadn’t done this, you still wouldn’t have listened to me.”
Huang Zhaozhao said with a dark face, "I'm still your intern, after all."
Xu Jialan didn't indulge her. "Oh, now you remember you're an intern. An intern should act like an intern and work hard, not do these things."
Huang Zhaozhao clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug into her flesh, and gritted her teeth as she said, "I understand."
Chen Yao'an went to the restroom and happened to pass by them, overhearing their conversation.
Xu Jialan turned her head and saw her, saying, "We're going back now."
Huang Zhaozhao followed his gaze.
Xu Jialan walked past Huang Zhaozhao to Chen Yaoan, took her hand, and said, "Let's go back."
"Um."
Looking at their tightly clasped hands, Huang Zhaozhao wondered, "Is their relationship really that good?"
After the meal, everyone dispersed at the restaurant. After seeing everyone off, Xu Jialan and Chen Yaoan were the last to leave, walking hand in hand down the street.
Chen Yaoan asked him, "Why did you call me here today? Just to introduce me as your girlfriend?"
"Of course, now that everyone knows I have a girlfriend, no one is thinking about your boyfriend anymore."
Chen Yaoan smiled.
He suddenly turned around, stood in front of her, and took her hands in his. "If something like this happens again, can you try to trust me first?"
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