Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Those who plant trees will be rewarded with rain.
Guan Mi watched Shen Yanfeng drive away before getting in the company car.
She leaned back in her chair, her eyes fixed blankly on the windshield.
After a moment, she lowered her head, inserted her fingers deep into her hair, and leaned weakly on the steering wheel.
A heavy feeling of fatigue swept over me, and my mood plummeted to the bottom.
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Less than two hours after they separated, Guan Mi's phone rang.
It was Shen Yanfeng calling.
She hesitated for a moment before pressing the answer button: "Hello."
"Come downstairs." He seemed to be smoking, his voice slightly hoarse. "I sent you some food."
"good."
She walked to the balcony and looked down, then breathed a sigh of relief. The car parked downstairs was indeed not the car that Shen Yanfeng drove out today.
She was afraid he would come in person.
The driver, Lao Zhang, came forward carrying two exquisite food boxes containing Japanese grape shrimp made into sushi. "Mr. Shen said that if you can't finish it, you can share it with your roommate."
"Thank you." Guan Mi took the food box with both hands.
The driver was Uncle Zhang who took her to the hospital when she had a fever last time.
When she walked down just now, there was no change on his face, but his attitude was obviously more cautious and respectful than before. It was a subconscious sense of distance when dealing with people of different status.
Guan Mi was in a state of mixed emotions, not looking directly at the other person. "Uncle Zhang, thank you for coming here so late at night."
Lao Zhang smiled and said modestly, "This is my job. I won't bother you anymore. Secretary Guan, go to bed early."
Back at the apartment, her roommates were all in their rooms. Guan Mi placed her things on the living room table. She sat on the sofa, remaining quiet for nearly five minutes before getting up.
She knocked on the doors of her two roommates.
Not long after, the three of them sat together to eat, and the half-bottle of red wine left from the last barbecue was taken out.
"Oh my god, grape shrimp sushi, this one has to be 500 yuan, right?" Zhuang Shuimo held it in her hand, reluctant to eat it. A third- or fourth-tier game streamer like her might get cramps from live streaming, and she might not even make 500 yuan in a single night.
"Is this a gift from your boyfriend? Is it compensation for not coming to see you this week?" Yu Tongtong joked.
Guan Mi's expression froze for a moment, but she quickly returned to normal. She took a sip of wine, and as she put down the glass, she said slowly, "He and I have broken up."
The expressions of her two roommates were even more surprised than the last time they heard her say she wanted to resign.
Zhuang Shuimo asked hurriedly: "Why? Aren't you going to meet the parents? Could it be that he cheated on her? Or..."
Yu Tongtong hurriedly tugged at Zhuang Shuimo's sleeve, signaling her not to speculate. "No wonder you looked so bad lately. I thought you were tired from work."
Guan Mi shook his head, smiled, and said nothing.
"Did we break up the last time we went to the Summer Palace?" Yu Tongtong said softly, "You seemed to cry that day."
"It was about that time."
Zhuang Shuimo then realized how rash she had been and regretted what she had said about the autumn atmosphere that day.
"Sorry..."
Guan Mi smiled and said, "It's okay. It's been a while. My fate with him has come to an end. It's normal for us to break up."
"Still curious...was he the one who made the mistake?"
"No, he's very good. I think even after 20 or 30 years, he will still be a very special and beautiful person in my heart."
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The next morning, Guan Mi finished dealing with a few work emails, put on a black sweatshirt, and went downstairs with his bag.
She didn't expect that Shen Yanfeng was also wearing a black sweatshirt and jeans.
...This coincidence is too deliberate.
She subconsciously wanted to turn around and change it, but he grabbed her wrist and stuffed her directly into the passenger seat.
"Is it that serious?" He said calmly, "It's just a piece of clothing."
After saying that, he slammed the car door with a bang.
After Shen Yanfeng got into the driver's seat, Guan Mi couldn't help but say, "Let me drive."
There is no reason for a boss to have his secretary act as a driver.
Shen Yanfeng: "It used to take more than a hour—"
She couldn't help but interrupt him softly: "You said yesterday that you would cooperate with me."
Shen Yanfeng stared at her for a few seconds, and finally gave in. "Okay, I'll let you drive in and park when you get to the door."
Guan Mi didn't argue anymore. She lowered her head and opened her bag. Inside was only one change of clothes for tonight, a smoky gray slim-fit sweater. She had originally thought that staying indoors would keep her warm, so she hadn't brought an extra coat to save time.
Otherwise, she could have taken off her sweatshirt when getting off the car. At least she still had a long-sleeved shirt underneath.
She thought to herself that this was fine, better than appearing with Shen Yanfeng wearing couple outfits, which would make anyone think too much.
The man in the driver's seat saw her opening her bag several times and could somewhat guess what she was thinking.
His expression didn't change, but his grip on the steering wheel tightened a lot.
Is he so shady?
At that time, she and Wen Li went to eat seafood openly with the coupons he gave them, and she didn't hide anything.
Why is this the only treatment he gets when it's his turn?
The more Shen Yanfeng thought about it, the more his heart sank. He didn't say a word along the way, and when he was almost there, he drove directly into the villa.
But in the end, he still took her feelings into consideration, turned the steering wheel, took a longer detour, and stopped in a remote and quiet place.
Guan Mi looked around in the car and only unbuckled his seat belt after making sure that no one looked familiar.
She was about to take off her sweatshirt when she suddenly felt a piece of clothing with body temperature and a faint scent of cedar covering her head, and everything in front of her was dark.
After Shen Yanfeng took off his clothes neatly, he was left with only a thin T-shirt.
The exercise before going out this morning made the muscle lines in his arms look very clear and smooth, not overly bloated, revealing a restrained yet powerful tension.
When Guan Mi pulled the clothes off his head, he heard his low voice: "The wind in the mountains is strong, don't catch a cold."
She said "Oh" and asked hesitantly, "Are your clothes left in the car?"
Shen Yanfeng glanced at her and retracted his gaze: "Just put it in your bag, okay?"
Guan Mi didn't say anything else. He silently folded the clothes and stuffed them into the bottom layer of his bag.
After getting off the car, the two people walked towards the villa, always keeping a distance of a shoulder between them.
They were the last to arrive. There were more than ten or twenty people gathered in the huge villa. All of them were outstanding in appearance, and both men and women were beautiful. The scene was as exquisite as a small cocktail party.
Guan Mi even felt that this circle probably not only restricted financial resources and power, but also appearance.
Guan Mi followed Shen Yanfeng in. As soon as she entered, she clearly felt several pairs of eyes looking at her.
This is inevitable. After all, the man walking in front of her has the attraction of a spotlight even if he does nothing.
He walked calmly and with a relaxed posture, exuding an aura that was hard to ignore, and easily became the focus of the audience.
She didn't follow him, but found the villa manager nearby and asked where her room was.
"You are Secretary Guan, right?" The housekeeper said with a kind smile. "I've arranged a room for you on the third floor. I'll take you up."
Guan Mi followed him up the elevator.
The room is at the end of a slightly dark corridor, but the moment you open the door, it becomes bright and open. Outside the balcony is the mountain view in the midst of autumn.
Under the midday sun, sumac, red maples and ancient pines are intertwined, and the hot steam from the private hot springs is lingering in the air, making people feel relaxed and at ease.
"This is the best place to enjoy the autumn scenery. Mr. Lu specially reserved it for you." The housekeeper said with a smile.
Guan Mi was a little sensitive about the word "especially", then turned around and politely thanked him.
"Then I'll go downstairs first. Lunch will be ready soon. You can rest first. Someone will come to invite you later."
After the housekeeper left, Guan Mi first took out the clothes and hung them in the closet. She found a bag to put Chen Yanfeng's clothes in, then sat on the wicker hanging chair on the balcony and started a video call with Guan Tang.
Guan Tang's face looked quite rosy, and she didn't look like anything was wrong. She happily said that Qiao Qiuying and Guan Da would go to the school together to have dinner with her in the evening.
"Oh, sister, I almost forgot about this." Guan Tang suddenly lowered his voice and spoke cautiously, "Did you have a fight with your brother-in-law? He came to see me at school the day before yesterday, and he looked very bad. Before he left, he asked me how I was doing recently..."
Guan Mi's face suddenly turned away from the screen. She lowered her head and remained silent for a while. When she looked up again, she said softly, "We've broken up. Don't call him brother-in-law anymore."
After saying this, Guan Tang exclaimed and there was a knock on the door at the same time.
Guan Mi thought that someone was coming to ask her to go downstairs for lunch, so she stood up and opened the door, holding her cell phone.
As the door opened, the man who was about to knock on the door raised his hand and lazily raised his eyelids.
On the phone, Guan Tang was still chattering: "But why? You and your brother-in-law are so good, why did you break up? Sister, I only want Wen Li to be my brother-in-law. I really only recognize this brother-in-law. Can you reconcile for me? Sister..."
Before Guan Mi could react, Shen Yanfeng took the phone away.
He lowered his head and looked at the girl on the screen whose eyes suddenly widened.
He smiled and spoke slowly in a gentle voice: "There is no possibility for your sister and him. I will be your brother-in-law from now on."
Guan Tang: “……?”
What's going on? Isn't this her sister's ridiculously handsome boss?
"He's kidding you." Guan Mi snatched the phone back. "Have a good rest this afternoon. I'm hanging up now."
Chen Yanfeng watched Guan Mi hurriedly hang up the phone, then leaned against the door frame with his arms folded leisurely, staring at her coldly, "Tell me, which of my words were a joke?"
"I think it's best if our relationship isn't just about the people downstairs, but also about my parents." Guan Mi took a deep breath. "They don't know yet that Wen Li and I have broken up."
"Why do you let your family think you're still a couple after being apart for so long? Don't you think this is unfair to others?"
"What's unfair?" Guan Mi didn't understand what he said.
Chen Yanfeng frowned and looked at her for a long time, "Guan Mi, you..."
He didn't continue talking, and a cold snort escaped from his throat.
If he continued, he would seem like someone seeking status.
Seeing half of his body still exposed outside the door, Guan Mi was afraid of being seen, so he quickly asked: "Are you here to get clothes?"
Shen Yanfeng shook his head.
"bite--"
The sound of the elevator door opening suddenly rang out!
Guan Mi immediately became alert.
The next second, the whispers of a man and a woman could be clearly heard in the corridor.
Almost subconsciously, she pulled Shen Yanfeng into the room.
"We'll have dinner soon, can we eat first?" The woman's voice was filled with both flattery and fear.
"No, who told you to talk to another man with those big red lips?"
"He was the one who wanted to talk to me. So please be gentle later. You hurt me last night."
"You scratched my back until it bled, why didn't you tell me..."
...Guan Mi didn't expect that someone would talk about such private matters in the corridor.
After hearing the impatient sound of the door closing next door, she immediately let go of Shen Yanfeng's hand.
Shen Yanfeng coughed lightly, and a barely perceptible hint of unnaturalness flashed across his expression.
"It's time to eat."
He whispered, turned and walked out of the room, then paused at the next door, knocked on it twice slowly and forcefully, then went downstairs.
During lunch, Guan Mi deliberately stayed away from Shen Yanfeng and sat with the only star present.
This person was one of the protagonists whose good deeds were interrupted by Shen Yanfeng knocking on the door.
She was wearing a knitted dress with a rather large neckline, and especially when she lowered her head, the kiss and bite marks of varying depths under her collarbone were very obvious.
The looks from the other people at the table were all meaningful, but she was completely unaware of it.
Guan Mi reminded her in a low voice while picking up some food.
She was stunned at first, then looked down, her cheeks instantly flushed.
"Are you cold? I'm a little hot after eating. Can I lend you this sweatshirt for a while?" Guan Mi asked softly.
"Ah... ok, ok, thank you so much."
After taking off his sweatshirt, Guan Mi immediately felt a pair of eyes staring at his back.
She took a sip of red wine, turned back calmly, and met Chen Yanfeng who was looking at her without deviation.
After lunch, Guan Mi was drinking coffee alone at the bar.
In the living room, a group of young men were playing cards with Lu Kai, and the sound of laughter filled the entire villa.
Shen Yanfeng and Liao Yihai were talking on the balcony.
He did not sit down. His left hand loosely held a glass of whiskey and his right hand held a cigarette. He took a puff occasionally, and the smoke rose up and brushed across his tall nose. His well-defined profile appeared even deeper in the mist, with a kind of nonchalant yet fatal attraction.
"Before the competition, I asked Dai Rou if she wanted to return to China, but she refused," Liao Yihai said. "She's where Cheng Du is buried."
Chengdu.
This person is the only one Guan Mi has never seen in the group photo he saw in the old house.
Eight years ago, he died in a drag racing accident, and this incident became the deepest pain in the hearts of the four remaining people.
Since then, Shen Yanfeng and Lu Kai have left the team, and Dai Rou has lived abroad for a long time, guarding the city that Cheng Du left. Only Liao Yihai still insists on the track, continuing the championship dream that Cheng Du could not realize.
Chen Yanfeng took a sip of wine and said, "Let's go to the Cheng family together in a couple of days."
Cheng Du was the only son of the Cheng family. After he left, only his parents were left at home.
Over the years, they didn't have any more children, and spent their days in the empty house. During holidays or weekends, Chen Yanfeng would always go to visit alone; only on occasions like the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival would Lu Kai go with them.
Lu Kai always felt a huge sense of guilt, always believing that Cheng Du's death was caused by him, and he couldn't face Cheng's parents. So every time Chen Yanfeng went, Lu Kai would prepare many precious supplements and ask him to take them with him, as a silent token of his gratitude.
Liao Yihai smiled and said, "I have to go, and I have to bring the trophy with me."
With a cigarette between his lips, Shen Yanfeng turned around, his eyes looking through the glass door into the room.
He saw Guan Mizheng lowering his head slightly, his eyes focused on making coffee.
At this time, Lu Kai came over.
He just won a sports car, but he wasn't very excited. That group of people were too deliberate in letting him win. It would be fine once or twice, but it would be boring if it happened every time.
He leaned against the door frame. "Why are you hiding here?"
Without waiting for anyone to answer, he bent down slightly, took Shen Yanfeng's cigarette box from the table, knocked out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lowered his head to light it.
Guan Mi had just finished brewing and was about to pick up the cup when she saw a woman with noble temperament walking towards her.
She remembered that her name was Yan Xiyue, the daughter of the Yan family, who had pursued Chen Yanfeng passionately and publicly.
Yan Xiyue approached gracefully, a faint smile on her lips, "Secretary Guan, I'd like a drink too. Could you please make it for me?"
Guan Mi put down his cup and picked up the sharing pot, "Here is another cup of freshly made one, if Miss Yan doesn't mind..."
"I do mind it," Yan Xiyue smiled lightly, but there was no smile in her eyes. "I'm a picky person and only drink freshly brewed coffee. If it's left for more than a minute, the flavor will be off. It's not the same taste anymore."
"Besides, isn't this Secretary Guan's job?"
"Tsk, that girl isn't your Yan family's secretary, so why would you order her to make coffee for you?" Lu Kai obeyed the order and came over. He took the sharing pot from Guan Mi very naturally and picked up an empty cup. "If you ask me, you just don't have this kind of luck. The coffee made by Secretary Guan is not something that everyone can drink."
Yan Xiyue's beautiful eyes widened slightly, and she raised her hand and patted his shoulder angrily, "Lu Kai! Which side are you on?"
Lu Kai jokingly said, "As for me, I always stand on the side of pretty girls. Beauty is justice!"
These words immediately made Yan Xiyue angry and ran away.
Lu Kai lowered his head and sniffed the coffee without caring, then gave Guan Mi a thumbs-up and said, "Her family and the Liao family are good friends, otherwise I wouldn't have let her come. She's deliberately trying to cause trouble."
Guan Mi was about to thank him for helping her out, but he had already started talking to her about coffee.
As he was speaking, a warm and clear voice came from far away.
"Akai, I asked the butler to refrigerate the wine you brought. The longer it's chilled, the better it tastes."
Guan Mi raised his eyes and looked at the man walking towards him.
The man was tall and thin, with a fair face and handsome features, especially his eyes, which were clear and gentle, with a faint smile.
In a trance, in a trance...
Lu Kai turned around with his coffee in hand and said, "You're so late, I thought you were taken to see a girl by your old Xu again."
Xu Yao stopped at the bar and smiled helplessly: "He can be quiet for a while. My cousin is getting a divorce, which is enough to keep him busy."
"Your dad is really capable. He always has a hand in everything."
"Who said it wasn't..." Xu Yao said, and raised his eyes inadvertently, just in time to catch Guan Mi's quickly looking away.
He paused and looked at Lu Kai with a slightly questioning look.
Lu Kai said bluntly: "Guan Mi, Yan Feng's secretary, you two can get to know each other..."
"Secretary Guan," a cold voice suddenly interrupted, and at the same time, a black cell phone was handed to Guan Mi, "Go up and make an emergency call to France."
Lu Kai was stunned for a moment, looking at the person who suddenly appeared. A light bulb went off in his head, and he suddenly remembered that he had indeed thought about introducing Guan Mi to Xu Yao before.
It seems that Shen Yanfeng still remembers this.
Hahaha.
Guan Mi opened her mouth and wanted to say that she had just contacted them before dinner, so how could there be an emergency call suddenly? But when she met that chilling gaze, she immediately swallowed her words back.
She reluctantly took his phone, smiled at them and left.
Xu Yao didn't notice anything was wrong. He turned around and greeted the man beside him gently: "Yan Feng."
Shen Yanfeng nodded slightly, gave Lu Kai a warning look calmly, snatched the cup of coffee he was about to drink from him, and turned back to the balcony with a calm expression.
Lu Kai: “…”
Well, he didn’t have the good fortune either.
He was furious and shouted at the figure behind him: "Doesn't the secretary of Renguan have a cell phone? Why did you have to give your phone to someone else? What are you thinking?"
Xu Yao, an outsider, quipped, "Saves the process of reimbursing the phone bill?"
…
Guan Mi took Shen Yanfeng's phone back to the room and called Chris with his own phone.
Sure enough, nothing happened.
She dozed off in the room for a while, and when she woke up, she took her two mobile phones and the folded sweatshirt out, hoping to find a chance to return them to Chen Yanfeng.
I went downstairs and took a look around, but didn't see him.
Everyone in the villa was having fun on their own, and she felt she couldn't join in, so she simply walked out.
The afternoon sunshine was just right, shining on my body and dispelling the chill of late autumn.
Guan Mi walked aimlessly along the stone path, admiring the autumn scenery in the villa.
When I walked around a ginkgo forest whose leaves had obviously turned yellow, I unexpectedly saw the man from noon. He was standing alone by the landscape pond, holding a camera in his hand.
Xu Yao heard footsteps and turned around. Seeing Guan Mi, a slight surprise flashed across his eyes, then turned into a gentle smile: "Secretary Guan? Come out for some fresh air too?"
Guan Mi nodded, didn't come closer, smiled at him politely, and went deeper into the woods.
After a while, she walked to a bench under a big tree and sat down.
An autumn wind was blowing at this time, and the leaves on the branches fluttered down.
She raised her head and looked at the falling leaves swirling in the sky, her long hair blown by the wind.
Xu Yao, who was not far away, happened to raise his camera and inadvertently captured this moment.
It was not until the evening that Guan Mi saw Chen Yanfeng. He and Liao Yihai were drinking and talking in the yard. He didn't care at all that his phone was away for most of the day.
At this time, someone patted Guan Mi's shoulder gently. She turned around and saw that it was the little star from noon.
Ji Xueying.
"Hi, can I have a drink with you?" she asked softly.
Guan Mi nodded and took the red wine from the servant's tray.
"Thank you so much for today," Ji Xueying said, "otherwise I would have made a fool of myself in public."
Guan Mi smiled and said, "You're welcome."
In fact, she felt that she had not done anything. In her opinion, the real help should be to stop those rude looks on the spot.
The two of them didn't join the bustling crowd, but sat on the sofa and drank a few drinks quietly.
In the courtyard, Lu Kai was asking Xu Yao, "How was the shoot today? I need to pick out a few good ones for promotional purposes."
"Take a look." Xu Yao handed the camera to him directly.
Liao Yihai jokingly said, "Xu Yao has won a photography award. Don't you think it's a waste of his talent to let him take promotional photos for you?"
Lu Kai raised his foot and kicked: "Go away, stop talking nonsense."
Shen Yanfeng leaned lazily on the back of the chair, half closing his eyes.
He drank a little too much tonight and felt dizzy, but he was thinking about meeting Guan Mi in a while.
Even if she was reluctant, he had to go, after all, the phone was still with her.
"Huh? Isn't this Secretary Guan? Did you two go out together this afternoon? Did she even model for you?"
The drowsy man suddenly opened his eyes. Lu Kai was standing next to him. He tilted his head slightly and saw the photo on the camera screen.
Amidst the falling autumn leaves, Guan Mi's silhouette was thin.
He frowned, reached out and took the camera, stood up and said, "I'll have someone send you a new one tomorrow."
Xu Yao raised his eyebrows, somewhat confused.
Lu Kai: "No, that won't work. There are a lot of promotional photos he took of me in there."
"Give them together." After Shen Yanfeng finished speaking, he stood up with the camera in his hand and walked into the house.
When drinking the last glass with Ji Xueying, Guan Mi saw Shen Yanfeng walking past her with a cold face.
Not long after, her phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number. When she picked it up, she heard only two words:
"Go upstairs."
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