Chapter 28 Favoritism
"I'm not the kind of irresponsible man. You can contact me for after-sales service last night."
The next day.
After Lin Yujing completed all the examinations and confirmed that she was fine, she returned to the company with Chen Jingshu.
Once the person who had recovered was sitting in the passenger seat of Chen Jingshu, they wished they could disappear into a crack in the ground every second.
She never imagined that she would be so sentimental when she was sick that she would hug Chen Jingshu and kiss him passionately.
It was an awkward relationship between exes, filled with misunderstandings and conflicts that were hard to explain.
Now, there is an even greater class difference between them, and she tries her best to restrain herself from falling in love with him, yet she repeatedly falls for his kindness.
Lin Yujing frowned, stared blankly out the car window, and sighed.
Just then, Chen Jingshu returned from buying breakfast, opened her car door, and placed the hot soy milk and sweet sugar packet in her hand.
"Warm your hands." After saying that, he touched her palm. "They're ice cold."
Lin Yujing quickly withdrew her hand, subconsciously resisting Chen Jingshu's intimate contact.
"I... last night..." she wanted to say that she was sick last night and not thinking clearly, which is why she did something so inappropriate to him.
But after thinking it over, she realized that Chen Jingshu was the one who took the initiative. She felt that she had simply succumbed to temptation and made a basic mistake that all women make.
Chen Jingshu leaned against the black G-Class door frame with one hand and chuckled softly, "You slept with me before and didn't take responsibility. So naturally I don't expect you to give me a title just because you kiss me."
Lin Yujing frowned, "You were the one who started it..."
"Oh! So you feel like you've been taken advantage of?" Chen Jingshu stared into her eyes, raised an eyebrow, and said with a roguish air, "Girls should never suffer losses in relationships; remember to get your revenge."
"..."
"Jingjing, I'm not the kind of irresponsible man. You can contact me for after-sales service last night."
Lin Yujing looked at him and felt that he was becoming more and more lewd and even pushing his luck. "I've never heard of a kiss having after-sales service."
Chen Jingshu touched his cheek with the tip of his tongue and leaned closer to her, saying, "I have high standards for myself. For example, if you feel it's not enough, or the French kiss isn't intense enough, you can bring it up. It's the service industry, after all, so it's normal to make changes based on the client's feedback."
Lin Yujing bit her lip, wondering how he could have such a noble face and say such vulgar and careless things.
You're annoying!
"If you weren't dissatisfied, then it seems Miss Lin was very satisfied with the service last night?"
Lin Yujing puffed out her cheeks. "The only thing I'm not happy about is that you talk too much. I wish you could just shut up."
"Oh~ so Jingjing likes that kind of kissing where you close your mouth and kiss someone directly?"
Lin Yujing felt that it was better to shut up herself than to make him shut up.
So she turned her head to the other side and stopped looking at him.
"Are you sure you don't want after-sales service?"
"..."
"If I miss this opportunity, I'll have to wait for you at the next shop."
"..."
"Heartless, so cruel."
Throughout the journey, Lin Yujing remained silent, and as soon as the car stopped in front of the JING Capital Building, she quickly opened the car door and got out, saying, "Thank you, Mr. Chen, goodbye!"
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After a whole morning of running around, Lin Yujing didn't arrive at the company until almost 10 a.m.
When Xu Jibai saw her, he asked with concern, "Are you alright? If I had known you would feel unwell, I would have stayed up late with you last night."
Lin Yujing shook her head and sat down at the workstation next to Qi Woxue. "It's nothing, just acute gastroenteritis. I had a few tests done. After that, I just need to eat regularly and keep my diet light."
Qi Woxue reached out and ruffled her hair. "Poor little Jingjing, let's go have Cantonese congee for lunch."
Lin Yujing smiled obediently, "Okay!"
"Knock, knock, knock," someone knocked on the door at that moment. Looking up, I saw Feng Baohui, the director of the administration department of JING Capital.
"Mr. Qi, could you please compile a list of personnel who will be permanently based at JING Capital's offices today?" Feng Baohui said.
“No problem, Director Feng.” Qi Woxue took the list and then asked, “But may I ask why the list was compiled…?”
After all, we are working on the core floor of someone else's building, so compiling a list of people coming and going is a normal practice.
Qi Woxue will also consider screening members who are permanently stationed in the office, which will make management easier.
“President Chen has considered that you are still students and the cost of living in the CBD area is relatively high, so he has granted you special permission to use the cafeteria on the 4th floor,” Feng Baohui explained patiently with a friendly smile. “Afterwards, you can enjoy free breakfast and lunch just like headquarters staff, there will be overtime meals after 8 pm, and taxi fares can be reimbursed when you finish work at 10 pm.”
The people sitting in the office looked at each other in bewilderment. They had originally thought that the other party was worried about outsiders affecting their work, but it turned out that they were afraid that the other party did not treat them as family.
However, some people quickly guessed that this was definitely not a sudden spur-of-the-moment decision by Chen Jingshu.
Lin Yujing asked, "Director Feng, have there been any other cases of such special approval before?"
Feng Baohui also looked puzzled and shook her head, "You are the first case, and it was President Chen who directly gave the order. I don't know the specifics."
After thanking her, Feng Baohui said that someone would come to collect the order in the afternoon and then left.
Xu Jibai led a few people to fill out the forms first, leaving Qi Woxue and Lin Yujing sitting together, exchanging glances.
"We're benefiting from your success again, aren't we..."
Lin Yujing scratched her head. Although she didn't want to take responsibility, she couldn't escape the fact that it was related to her. "Yesterday, the doctor said that my diet was irregular, and he was right next to me."
"President Chen is truly..." Qi Woxue started to say, but suddenly didn't know how to best describe Chen Jingshu, so she paused and carefully chose her words before continuing, "He's wonderful..."
Although the three characters seem dry and weak, they are accurate.
"Senior sister, haven't I incurred another favor?"
"But I think human relationships are fine, but emotional ties are something that can't be broken."
Lin Yujing sighed, thinking to himself that he wished the favor he owed would become something that would advance their relationship.
"Senior sister, I'll go get a glass of water." Lin Yujing sighed, picked up the glass, and stood up. "Take your medicine."
But as soon as she stepped out of the office, her feet involuntarily led her toward Chen Jingshu's door.
Although she hadn't thought of what to say yet, her heart was screaming for her at that moment; it would be good to be closer to him.
The door to Chen Jingshu's office was ajar, and she saw Chu Yan sitting on the sofa.
So he stopped knocking and was about to leave when he heard voices talking inside. It seemed to be about him, so he stopped again out of curiosity.
"My dear young master Chen, this isn't the way to spoil people! You're paying out of your own pocket to let them work at headquarters, on the CEO's floor, and now you've even given them full-time employee privileges." It was Chu Yan's voice. "You're not planning to recruit them all in the future, are you?"
“They’re all graduates with master’s and doctoral degrees from prestigious universities, so recruiting them isn’t out of the question,” Chen Jingshu said calmly. “Besides, isn’t the point of a man to earn money so that his woman can spend it however she wants?”
"Is she your woman? Just your own woman?" Chu Yan asked with a mocking laugh.
Chen Jingshu sighed dejectedly, his tone full of confusion, "Sometimes I just can't understand it either, you know..." Before, she complained that he didn't have enough money and could only buy her secondhand things. Now he has everything, yet even God doesn't seem to want to be with him.
However, he only said half of what he meant; he didn't tell Chu Yan the rest of his complaints and suspicions.
Chen Jingshu narrowed his eyes and laughed self-deprecatingly.
He's incredibly protective of his own, and he won't even say a bad word about her himself.
"Never mind, they're all trivial matters," Chen Jingshu said casually.
"Aren't you annoying? I hate people like you who only say half of what they mean." Chu Yan said irritably, "But lately, the news about the two of you has been spreading quite a bit in Yijing."
"The two of us!" Chen Jingshu exclaimed in surprise, "I have no idea what's going on between us."
"It all started when you first brought someone to your precious courtyard house, then you introduced those biopharmaceutical bosses, signed quarterly contracts with the Hundred Schools Alliance, and now you're openly delivering them to the main campus office. Who would believe there wasn't some personal connection involved!"
"Oh." Chen Jingshu understood. "If that's the case, and I don't object, I admit there are personal feelings involved."
"You took her to the hospital yesterday, and you were photographed." Chu Yan scratched his head, his expression suddenly becoming hesitant to speak. "As a friend, I'm checking first."
"It's not because you're being too rough, or because you need to see a gynecologist or anything like that..."
Before Chu Yan could finish speaking, Chen Jingshu had already slammed a pillow into his face. "Stop spreading these damn rumors. Warn those people, if they keep talking nonsense, don't blame me for being impolite."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Chu Yan rubbed his face, his jaw twitching from the pain. "But in the end, it just means you've fallen for a female college student and are almost obsessed with her."
Chen Jingshu's voice was languid, with a touch of nonchalant roguishness, "Then please help me clarify this: she's not a female college student, she's my first love."
Chu Yan sighed, his face full of utter despair. "Did you know that Old Jiang took Miss back to the country?"
Chen Jingshu paused for a moment, then replied dismissively, "What does it have to do with me?"
"Stop pretending...you guys..."
"Miss Lin, are you looking for President Chen?" Chu Yan was halfway through his sentence when Yuan Shu suddenly appeared from behind Lin Yujing, startling her so much that she trembled.
"Oh, I'll come..." Startled, Lin Yujing couldn't even come up with a decent excuse.
"Looking for me?" The white wooden door in front of her was suddenly pulled open, and Chen Jingshu's roguishly handsome face appeared before her.
Lin Yujing first glanced at Chu Yan inside, only to see him fall silent and, just like her, pretend to drink water in a flustered manner.
“I am…” Lin Yujing nodded, looked at the cup in her hand, and said, “I came to ask you if you want some tea.”
Chen Jingshu raised an eyebrow, turned around and went into the office to bring out his white porcelain cup. "Then thank you, little sister."
Lin Yujing took it and quickly left the spot as if fleeing.
From her unseen perspective, Chen Jingshu looked at Chu Yan with a serious expression, "Don't mention Lao Jiang and his sister in the company anymore."
"Understood, Brother Jing," Chu Yan said apologetically.
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In the blink of an eye.
January 9th (Gregorian calendar) is an auspicious day for marriage.
Yes, it was also the wedding day of Liu Hua and Li Qinci.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Qi Woxue received a wedding invitation from Li Qinci's best friend, who personally delivered it to JING Capital.
What appears to be a gesture of reconciliation is actually a provocation stemming from Li Qin's lyrics.
“You already broke up with Liu Hua on your own initiative, why did Li Qinci have to go through all this trouble?” Lin Yujing frowned, feeling indignant on her behalf. “Senior sister, just ignore her.”
Back in the hospital, Lin Yujing thought Li Qinci was different from her group of troublemaking girlfriends.
But later, after asking Chu Yan to inquire, he learned that Miss Li, who was always arrogant and unreasonable, was just like them.
Even knowing that Liu Hua and Qi Woxue had been dating for many years, he still interfered in their relationship.
“Go.” Qi Woxue’s eyes were firm. “If she’s not afraid, why should I back down? I have to give myself an explanation for all these years of my youth, and for my parents.”
The two elders of the Liu family are heartless and ruthless.
Li Qin's lyrics are selfish, and Liu Hua's lyrics are cowardly.
She should see for herself how the man she worked so hard for to get to where she is today abandoned her.
"Senior sister, I'll go with you." Lin Yujing held her hand. "And remember today well."
Just then, Chen Jingshu and Chu Yan came out of the elevator and walked straight over after seeing the two of them. "What are you doing standing here?"
Lin Yujing glanced at Qi Woxue, and with permission, truthfully informed her, "We are preparing to attend President Liu's wedding."
Chu Yan tapped on their outfits, "You're wearing this?"
Lin Yujing and Qi Woxue exchanged glances. "Is it not allowed?"
Chen Jingshu crossed his arms and couldn't help but smile as he looked at Lin Yujing. He raised his hand and brushed away the stray hairs at her temple. "You little fox with ill intentions."
"Chen Jingshu, don't touch me!" Lin Yujing glared at Chen Jingshu reproachfully and slapped his hand away.
"Chu Yan and I are going to the dress shop, want to come with us?" Chen Jingshu ignored her movements, leaned down, and looked at her with a wicked smile. "Attending an ex's wedding, how can you not... right!"
A mischievous smile flickered in Lin Yujing's eyes as she looked at Qi Woxue and said, "Senior Sister, we can't just stand by and watch ourselves being bullied. Why don't we retaliate?"
Qi Woxue's pent-up anger was also ignited. "President Chen, are you going to help us?"
Chen Jingshu shrugged and replied, "I won't take sides with reason or family, I'll only help Lin Yujing."
A note from the author:
Chen Jingshu, innocent yet flirtatious, or simply pure flirtatious!
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