Chapter 49 Temper
Xu Mo returned home very early. Apart from the planned work, Han Yan did not assign her any other temporary tasks. She probably had been in meetings all day and had no time to take care of her.
Xu Mo worked slowly and just finished the planned work by the time she got off work. When she got off work, several colleagues came to chat with her and talked about their respective projects. The colleague smiled and said that after taking on such a big project from Landa, her promotion to manager this year was guaranteed. Xu Mo pursed her lips and smiled awkwardly without much confidence.
Unexpectedly, when she looked up, she saw Han Yan passing by her workstation and glanced at her. Xu Mo was a little nervous at the time, thinking that it would be a temporary job, but she didn't expect that the other party just smiled slightly and told her to leave work early.
Xu Mo packed up her things and went home. It was still early when she got home. Dudu came to greet her, calling out. Xu Mo petted the cat, held it up and kissed it for a while. She smelled the faint odor of the cat and frowned slightly: "It's time to take you to take a bath."
Dudu cried out, as if dissatisfied. Xu Mo put the cat down and found a nearby pet shop on Dianping.com. After confirming with the store that it was okay to give it a bath, she put Dudu in a cat bag and carried it downstairs.
After moving to Lin Jingchuan's house, Xu Mo had never taken Dudu to take a bath, so this was her first time in this pet shop. The pet shop is located in an apartment and the decoration is girlish. The owner is a young woman. Although there are no other customers, she said that it will probably take two hours to finish. She asked her whether she would come to pick him up later or wait here. Xu Mo said that Dudu was a little timid and needed someone around, so she sat in the store and waited, playing with a fat golden dot in the store.
After playing with the cat toy for a while, the phone in her bag suddenly vibrated. Xu Mo looked at the caller ID for a moment and swiped the screen: "Hello?"
There was a bit of noise coming from Zhao Tingyu's end: "Xu Mo, where are you?"
Xu Mo said: "Me? I'm near home."
"Isn't Lin Jingchuan with you?"
Xu Mo: "He hasn't finished get off work yet, right? I got off work early today."
“…”
Xu Mo frowned slightly: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Zhao Tingyu pressed his brows together, hesitating whether to tell Xu Mo what was happening. He frowned and remained silent for a while until a voice came from Xu Mo: "If you don't say anything, I'm hanging up."
Zhao Tingyu's frown deepened. Even though he would be hurt, a short pain would be better than a long one. He chose to tell Xu Mo, "I was having dinner over here on Xingsheng Road. Guess who I saw?"
Xu Mo was silent for a moment: "Lin Jingchuan?"
Zhao Tingyu looked at the couple standing by the Maotai wall at the corner from a distance. They looked quite a good match from a distance. "Yes, besides him, there is another woman with him."
Xu Mo's heart sank.
Zhao Tingyu was silent for a while. "I told him he had a married first love, but you didn't believe me then."
"Is that his first love?"
"I've seen the photos the private investigator gave me. Although the woman has changed quite a lot, I guess it's true."
Xu Mo sighed deeply and put the cat toy in her hand back on the table.
She looked at the bell on the cat toy that had not yet stopped spinning and said nothing.
Zhao Tingyu's voice continued, "You're not a man, so you don't know the devastating power of first love. His first love was in the same industry as you. After graduation, he went to a consulting firm in Shanghai and soon fell in love with a partner there. He even divorced his wife for her, which helped her get a promotion. Wow, what a formidable character."
Xu Mo licked her lower lip, feeling a little dry, and her eyelids drooped. "So?"
"..." Zhao Tingyu didn't expect her to be so calm.
"Are you concluding that he doesn't love me, that I've made a mistake in choosing him, and that I should divorce him as soon as possible?"
"Zhao Tingyu, I remember I told you last time at the hospital that I've been having a bit of a Mercury backlash lately. First, I got into a car accident, and then things haven't been going well at work. First, someone replaced me as project leader, and I guess my boss hasn't been that satisfied with me lately. So I'm really tired. Seeing him chatting with beautiful women, ugly women, or his first love, if it's just a casual chat, you don't have to tell me."
"What? You don't want to care?" Zhao Tingyu was stunned for a moment, then became ecstatic. "So you don't really like him that much, right, Xu Mo? I know you..."
Xu Mo interrupted him: "You don't understand me. No one understands me better than I do. What I mean is, if you don't have substantial evidence, don't speculate. Because based on this alone, even if he really cheated, confronting him wouldn't yield any results. There are too many possible explanations. So there's no need to rush to tell me when you see something like this. I'm very tired, and our time is precious."
"Do you need substantial evidence?"
Xu Mo took a deep breath. Zhao Tingyu might really need to see a psychiatrist. He still didn't understand what she meant. She had enough worries recently and didn't want to be bothered with such things.
There was no point in saying more, so she chose to end the conversation.
"...I'm hanging up now."
Five minutes later, Xu Mo received a PDF report on her mobile phone. Judging from the name, it should be the one Zhao Tingyu mentioned. He asked a private detective to find out about Lin Jingchuan's past.
Xu Mo locked the screen and closed her eyes to think for a while.
"Dudu, Mr. Dudu, Dudu is dry now." The owner smiled and poked his head out of the bathroom. "I'll tidy it up later and you can take it away. It will take about ten minutes."
Xu Mo nodded and looked at the clock on the wall which pointed to 9:23 in the evening. Her gaze followed the second hand twice and finally lowered her eyes.
She opened WeChat and clicked on the document sent by Zhao Tingyu.
Since Zhao Tingyu has already spent money to buy it, it would be a waste not to take a look at it, she thought with a good attitude.
Lin Jingchuan had a dinner with a big client in the evening at a private restaurant on Xingsheng Road. He didn't expect to meet Han Yan there.
Han Yan saw him before him. She walked towards him slowly and said softly, "I didn't expect to meet you here."
Lin Jingchuan nodded: "Long time no see."
Han Yan laughed: "We just met last night, how can it take so long?"
Lin Jingchuan's expression was indifferent: "Did we meet last night?"
Han Yan knew he was playing dumb. Last night, when he came to pick up Xu Mo, he'd clearly made eye contact with her, and she'd seen a hint of disbelief in his eyes. But now he was playing dumb. Why? Perhaps it was to avoid suspicion, but it also meant he was deliberately keeping his distance from her, a realization that made her a little uncomfortable.
She curled her lips and smiled slightly: "Long time no see, old classmate."
Lin Jingchuan nodded: "Why are you here?"
"I had a dinner with a client," Han Yan said. "I switched to Firm A. We met at the last briefing."
Lin Jingchuan nodded: "Yes, I remember now."
Han Yan extended her hand to him: "Mr. Lin, please consult me more in the future."
Lin Jingchuan didn't extend his hand, but said calmly, "Han Yan, the person in charge of Lan Da's project is President Ou. I'm nominally the deputy project manager, but in reality, I'm just holding this position."
It was obvious that she didn't want to get involved with her. Han Yan's hands were suspended in the air. She was silent for two seconds, and a slightly stiff smile appeared at the corner of her lips: "I know, but as a project manager, I still have to..."
"Project manager? Isn't Xu Mo the project manager?" Lin Jingchuan frowned slightly. "With your qualifications, you should have been a senior manager in Shanghai long ago, right? How did you end up being a manager at this small firm?"
Han Yan was silent for a moment. When she looked up again, her eyes were already watery. "What if I say I did it for you?"
Lin Jingchuan raised his eyes, his tone calm and somewhat indifferent: "Han Yan, you are not young anymore, you should know that college students may be moved, but people of our age will only want to laugh when they hear this."
When Lin Jingchuan returned home, the lights in the house were on. As soon as he entered, he saw Xu Mo squatting on the ground opening a large white bag.
He changed his shoes and walked up to her: "What are you dismantling?"
Xu Mo didn't raise her eyes, and continued to move her hands: "I bought a new bag of cat food for Dudu."
Seeing that she hadn't torn it open, Lin Jingchuan squatted down and wanted to take the thing from her hand: "I'll help you."
But she stopped her. Xu Mo held the cat food and insisted on tearing open the bag herself, then poured the cat food into the food storage bucket.
I moved a little too hastily and the cat food spilled out without me noticing.
Small yellow-brown triangular pieces were scattered all over the floor. Xu Mo frowned at the stunned man and said with a calm rage, "I told you not to come over here. Didn't you understand?"
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