Xia Xiaobing's car was a rather understated BMW.
The simple white color and unpretentious design make it a fairly common car in the southern part of the city. Given the size and current status of Ji Chunqiu's company, this car seems quite fitting for the boss's status.
Lu Zhe walked to the back door and had just touched the handle when he heard President Xia's brisk voice: "Why don't you sit in the front?"
Upon hearing this, he looked up and saw that President Xia had already gotten into the driver's seat and was fastening his seatbelt.
Lu Zhe thought about it and felt that it wasn't really appropriate for him to sit in the back seat while his boss was driving. After all, generally speaking, it's the driver who drives in the front and the boss sits in the back.
So he got into the passenger seat and fastened his seatbelt.
The car started moving, slowly driving outwards. Once it reached the top of the slope, the area suddenly brightened – the car had left the underground parking lot and entered the surface.
As they went uphill, Lu Zhe subconsciously turned his head to take a look.
Xia Xiaobing gripped the steering wheel with both hands, staring straight ahead with a calm expression. Her pert nose and thin, cherry-red lips made Lu Zhe's gaze linger for a moment longer.
However, he quickly looked away, while secretly reminding himself—the matter between Tang Qi and Xue Xiaodie hadn't been resolved yet, so he shouldn't get distracted!
But as soon as he looked away, Xia Xiaobing glanced at him and asked, "Where do you live?"
Lu Zhe: "Actually... President Xia, you can just drop me off at the intersection ahead."
Xia Xiaobing was slightly puzzled: "Really? You live around here?"
Lu Zhe pointed in a certain direction outside the software park: "Yes, the apartment building over there at the intersection."
Xia Xiaobing glanced up and was even more surprised: "Huayang Jinjiang? The property prices there aren't low!"
Lu Zhe scratched his head: "I'm not renting a place, I'm staying at a friend's house. A friend of mine lives there and had a spare room, so he let me..."
Xia Xiaobing glanced at him again, and from his slightly uneasy expression, she suddenly realized a certain possibility.
"Could it be your girlfriend?"
Xia Xiaobing spoke with a smile and a relaxed tone, but there was no hint of a smile in her phoenix eyes. Of course, she was looking at the road ahead, so Lu Zhe couldn't see this detail.
Lu Zhe simply answered honestly, "She's not my girlfriend yet."
"Oh? Not yet...does that mean it's still under development?"
Xia Xiaobing's lips curled up, her smile becoming more pronounced, but her eyes grew colder.
Lu Zhe scratched the back of his head with both hands—for some reason, he felt the atmosphere in the car was a bit hot, making him nervous.
He said, "I don't know either, let nature take its course."
Xia Xiaobing nodded: "That's true. When it comes to feelings, you just have to let things take their natural course. But you're already living in their house, this relationship..."
Lu Zhe explained, "It's mainly because I helped her out a little, so this is probably her way of repaying me?"
Xia Xiaobing: "I see, that's pretty good."
As we spoke, the car drove out of the software park through the rain, crossed an intersection, turned a corner, and then made a U-turn, arriving at the roadside next to the luxury apartment building.
Lu Zhe turned to look at her and said, "Let's stop here, Ms. Xia, thank you."
Xia Xiaobing: "There's also an underground parking lot here, and you can take the elevator directly upstairs..."
Lu Zhe quickly said, "No need, really no need."
Xia Xiaobing stared at him, and at the same time, she unconsciously gripped the steering wheel tightly.
The car was parked on the side of the road, and Lu Zhe unbuckled his seatbelt.
Suddenly, Xia Xiaobing asked again, "Do you have the equipment to play football now?"
Lu Zhe: "Of course there are."
Xia Xiaobing nodded: "That's good. We might be playing soccer tomorrow night, so get your soccer cleats ready."
Lu Zhe couldn't help but ask, "So, what time is the game tomorrow?"
Xia Xiaobing replied without much hesitation, "Four o'clock in the afternoon."
Lu Zhe: "It's four o'clock and you're still not off work..."
Xia Xiaobing smiled and said, "Whether I leave work or not is not up to me."
Lu Zhe couldn't help but laugh. How could he not be happy to leave work early to play football?
"Okay, no problem, I'll definitely be ready!"
After saying that, Lu Zhe got out of the car, closed the door, turned around and ran wildly toward the entrance of the apartment building.
He rushed into the building in just a few seconds, so he only got a few raindrops on him and wasn't soaked.
But the BMW remained parked on the side of the road.
The car sat quietly, with only the windshield wipers moving back and forth. Only after Lu Zhe's figure disappeared through the door did the tall, beautiful woman in the driver's seat finally make a move. But instead of starting the car, she took out her phone.
Xia Xiaobing opened WeChat and sent a message to the manager of the nearby football field: "I need to book a five-a-side game tomorrow at 4 PM. I have five or six people with me; could you please find five individual players?"
Football field manager: [That's still during everyone's work hours. Five people going solo might not be enough to get everyone together.]
Xia Xiaobing: [I'll cover all the expenses for the event; you can play for free if you come. Drinks are also included—Gatorade or Red Bull, your choice.]
Football field manager: [Okay, I'll post an announcement in the group chat to ask. It should be fine.]
In Mr. Xia's opinion, the fees for these kinds of venues aren't high; a game only costs a few hundred yuan, and a dozen or so drinks are just a small fraction of that. But there's never a shortage of people who like to get a little something for free, and as long as you ask for free drinks, you can usually scrape together enough for a game.
After all, the group chat created by the golf course manager to arrange games has several hundred people. There's bound to be someone who's available at that time.
Xia Xiaobing opened the company's small group chat for arranging soccer games and sent a message: [We're playing soccer tomorrow at 4 PM. Anyone else asking for leave?]
A group of people responded with "Received", "No problem", and "OK".
After doing all that, Xia Xiaobing put down her phone and started driving again.
However, as she crossed the intersection, she glanced at the apartment building in her rearview mirror.
"A wealthy female friend whom I have a crush on... is that right?"
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When Lu Zhe entered the house, he heard the sound of games playing in the living room.
He changed into slippers and went over, only to see Miss Tang indeed curled up on the sofa, gripping the game controller. She had clearly heard the door open, which was why the game had just paused.
Tang Qi looked at him and then realized, "Oh right, it's raining outside! Did you get wet?"
Lu Zhe looked down at the sparse raindrops on his clothes, then looked up and said, "It's alright, we were close by, so I didn't get too wet."
As for the brief time he spent in the female boss's car, and how beautiful she was... he didn't want to talk about those things. And Miss Tang didn't think much of it, or even ask a single question.
Tang Qi simply patted the sofa: "Want to play together?"
Lu Zhe glanced at the screen: "Isn't this a single-player game?"
Tang Qi laughed and said, "Just get a two-person one..."
But just then, both of them heard their phones ring. It was Lu Zhe's phone that was ringing.
He took out his phone and saw that the caller ID showed Xue Xiaodie.
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