Xia Xiaobei sat at the desk for an afternoon. It had been more than half an hour since the get off work time had passed, but the documents piled up in front of her still had no trend of decreasing. She went to pick up the coffee on the table, but she grabbed the empty handed down and looked up. At some point, Lei Yunze stood in front of her.

What he confiscated was her coffee cup. He frowned and looked at it and said, "It's all cold. If you have a cold, don't drink coffee, drink milk."

After saying that, he really made a bunch of milk like a magic trick.

Xia Xiaobei stared at him for a while and felt that the world was really fantastic.

She thanked her, took the milk and continued to work hard. After a while, she found that Lei Yunze had not left yet, so she stood by and watched her work. So she raised her head and asked him: "President, don't you get off work?"

Lei Yunze turned around and sat down on the reception sofa in the secretary's room: "My hardworking employee hasn't gotten off work yet, so how can I, a boss, leave first?"

Xia Xiaobei snorted from her nose, thinking that she was so busy that she was not assigned to her by her, so why are she pretending to be polite to the employees now?

He simply ignored him and let him look at him and continued to bow his head to do things.

The rest of the secretariat got off work early, and the whole office was quiet. Lei Yunze really did nothing as he said, just sitting on the sofa smoking alone. She was used to not turning on the headlights when working overtime alone. Only the faint light of the desk lamp, a dim yellow and orange-red halo, covering her serious and thin side face.

She was devoted to her work, and she was really like a nobody. She turned the pages and pondered slightly. Sometimes when she was tired, she would stretch her arms, or stretch her back, rub her neck, and yawn. Lei Yunze stared at her in the smoke circles, and she indulged in without realizing it. The smoke in her hand had been burning for a long time, and the ashes had accumulated for a long time, but he had no idea.

After Xia Xiaobei finished a plan, he looked up and drank a sip of milk. He suddenly saw a little red light in his hand about to fall, and hurriedly reminded him: "Be careful!"

Lei Yunze was stunned for a moment and hurriedly brushed off the ashes. His distracted look was really rare. Xia Xiaobei couldn't help asking him: "President, don't you have to accompany your girlfriend? You are going to get married, so there should be a lot of things to do together, right?"

He snatched this one and lit another one. His brows were slightly frowning, and there seemed to be a hint of impatientness between his eyebrows. No matter how others talked about it, he always felt that it was really depressing to tell his marriage from her.

He has been receiving elders of the Wen family for several days. He suddenly came to Shanghai, but he didn't dare to be lazy. He had to laugh and perfunctorily every day, and he was like a tight string. Even though this marriage was not what he wanted, he still had to deal with it with it.

He even said with tiredness: "Do you just hope this wedding will be completed smoothly?"

His sudden questioning made her fall. She vaguely realizes something was wrong with Lei Yunze today, so she could only smile and ask: "Isn't it? Your fiancée is so beautiful and elegant. Whoever marrys her will be very happy. You will definitely be the most suitable couple."

She searched all the praises that could be thought of in her little head, but after hearing this, he didn't look very happy, but instead sighed softly.

"What about you? When will you do something with your third brother...?"

She thought for a while and smiled: "Maybe after you, but it depends on what Shaoqian means. We plan to move to the United States with Xia Nan after resigning, and maybe we will hold a wedding there."

He seemed to laugh, his face hidden in the dark, and his voice was filled with a faint sarcasm: "So you still remember Xia Nan."

"certainly."

"But I am his father."

"That was just an accident!"

They suddenly became tit-for-tat, and the harmonious atmosphere that was originally disguised disappeared. Lei Yunze swallowed, suddenly turned sideways, and a fire lit another cigarette.

Xia Xiaobei couldn't see his eyes clearly, and could only face the red light of the cigarette butt, and said to him: "President, I believe you are like me, and you don't want the mistake four years ago to affect your future, so I hope you won't mention this matter again in the future."

In the darkness, he seemed to smile: "So that's how you think."

She nodded: "President, what you need to consider now is your fiancée. Her pre-marital uneasiness is very serious, so you should spend more time with her."

He didn't answer and stood up. His shadow was pulled long by the light of the desk lamp, and he walked towards her step by step. As he approached, his hand pressed in front of her, his tone was unprecedentedly serious.

"Why did you have to be born?"

"What?"

"Why should I give birth to a child?"

He approached a step, and she immediately felt invisible pressure and unconsciously shrank to the back of the seat, but still answered him calmly: "I just can't bear to harm a life."

"Is that right? It's only less than two months old, and the child has not yet formed. Where does life come from?" His smile was so cold, as if it was about to be cold to the core. His eyes were cold, his tone of speech was very calm, with a nearly contemptuous smile: "Then why do you stay in the world to work? Why do you have to stay with me for four years? If you don't want to have anything to do with me, you can leave on the first day of the report, or on the one we did, you can ask me for a considerable amount of money. You don't need to be trembling in this position for four years for this salary!"

She was shocked all over and shook her head instinctively. The fear in her heart was like a place she thought no one knew when she was a child. She had buried a small treasure with self-righteousness, but was easily dug out by adults and was sneered disdainfully.

But he didn't let her go, and he had to force her further. He grabbed her wrist and asked almost cruelly: "You like me, right? So you gave birth to the child quietly on my back, so you have to stay by my side for four years! Because you love me!"

As he roared, Xia Xiaobei seemed to hear the sound of something shattering. The slight sound of "crack" came out from the bottom of his heart, then spread to the first bone, every inch of skin, cracking them into the smallest pieces, and then hurting the last time.

"No, no..." She wanted to avoid it, but he didn't give her a chance. He said, "You like me", instead of asking her, "Do you like me?" This man was so arrogant at all times. He first guessed that she was a commercial spy and wanted to seek the wealth of his Lei family, but now he insisted that she liked him. For four years, those humble pasts seemed to have been awakened all of a sudden. Her carefully hidden thoughts were now exposed nakedly by him, and the wound was ferocious and bloody.

She was angry and anxious, and slapped her in the face: "Mr. Lei, please give me the priority. I can sue you for your current behavior to harass employees with your position!"

Lei Yunze didn't say anything and looked at her quietly. Maybe she never expected her to dare to hit him, so she was stunned for a moment. But this strange calm made Xia Xiaobei more and more scared, and he felt a chill coming from the bottom of his heart.

He suddenly hit her thin neck with one hand. She was so scared that she almost screamed, but heard his bone-cold voice: "Look up and look at me."

She refused to say: "Do you do?"

His hands were even harder, and his fingers were like steel and iron bones. It made her feel difficult to breathe. She had to raise her head, but her eyes were still afraid to contact him.

She waited for a long time before she heard his hesitant voice: "If I said I didn't want to marry Wen Ziyan at all, if... without Shaoqian, would you... love me?"

She thought she was hallucinating, or Lei Yunze was not standing here today. It took her a while for her to find her voice, but she still didn't understand: "...what...if?"

He didn't answer, and she gradually felt something was wrong and hurriedly laughed: "This joke is not funny at all... President, I'm going to be strangled to death by you... Look, can you let go of your hands first?"

He seemed to be in a state of contemplation, but the strength in his hand gradually relaxed. She found an opportunity to push him away, and didn't even take his bag, opened the automatic door and ran out.

After she left, the secretary's room returned to a cold and silent silence. The small desk lamp on her desk was still on, illuminating Lei Yunze's pale face. He held the corner of the table with one hand and stroked his forehead with the other, stiffening his body, and not moving for a while.

It seemed as if after a long time he raised his head and looked at the direction she left, but just moved his lips, and his voice was desolate: "I'm sorry, I said it wrong, what I want to say is...I love you..."

Xia Xiaobei hasn't been so afraid for a long time.

After living alone for a long time, her courage became stronger. But today she was really scared and ran into the elevator, but her heart was still pounding.

She called Ye Shaoqian to pick her up, and got out of the elevator and waited for his car at the door. She also turned around from time to time to look behind her. Although she knew that he would not chase after so long, she still felt frightened when she remembered the scene just now.

Ye Shaoqian's car arrived soon. He opened the door of the back seat and waved to her. She hurriedly got in and urged the driver to drive. Along the way, he was still looking out the window with restlessness.

Ye Shaoqian held her hand, felt her nervousness, and asked her: "What's wrong, the palms of his palms are so cold?"

"Oh... it's windy at night."

He then said to the driver, "Pull the air conditioner higher." He asked her again, "Why didn't you see your bag?"

"The bag... I'm too anxious to get out, I forgot."

He looked at her a few more times and nodded thoughtfully.

The car drove in the central ring for a while before she gradually calmed down. She looked at his feet and asked, "Are you all right? Can you come out for a walk?"

He smiled and rubbed her hair: "Don't believe it? Why don't you get out of the car later and I'll carry you in?"

She was also amused and asked him, "Since it's all right, why don't you drive by yourself?" She remembered that when his legs were not good, she kept complaining to her that the driver was most annoying, saying that it was boring to bring a big light bulb on a date.

He felt a little unnatural when he heard this, and after a while he said, "It's not David's guy, he said that he just didn't let me drive myself."

"Oh," she nodded, "Where will you go to eat later? Or do you go home and make it yourself?"

Since Ye Shaoqian's feet have recovered, they have rarely met. In addition, she has caught a cold again. Today is the first time that the two of them have met since he removed the plaster. He said, "You are so tired of working overtime, I really can't bear to let you cook again, so I suggest going to the Huaihai Road house to eat French cuisine."

She said, "Okay, you have eaten small porridge and side dishes for so many days, and you just want to eat meat when you get better."

He assured her seriously: "In some aspects, I have always been very dedicated to the small congee and side dishes."

The two of them had a sweet candlelight dinner. When they were about to finish, Ye Shaoqian suddenly asked her: "By the way, have you been doing your second brother's marriage all the time?"

She was stunned for a moment, and when she remembered what happened in the office at night, she suddenly felt a chill in her heart. I wonder why Ye Shaoqian asked about this. She quickly picked up the red wine and took a big sip, and said vaguely.

He said, "I haven't seen my second brother in a few days. Look, let's take a day to treat him to a meal in the past few days."

He took the word "we" very clearly. The fork in her hand slipped and fell to the ground very clearly. The enthusiastic waiter next to her hurriedly came up to help her change a set of tableware, but she opened her eyes wide and asked him, "Why should I invite him to dinner?"

Ye Shaoqian said: "It's his wedding in a few days. You see, we must be there. Even if we are giving red envelopes, whether to pack a red envelope or separate one, it's a matter of attention." He thought carefully, and his arm crossed the dining table, grabbed the frozen little hand, and held it and said: "It's going to be spread out sooner or later and put it on the table to explain it clearly. Didn't you say that it was just an accident? Let's sit down and talk about it carefully. As long as you explain it clearly, your second brother won't make things difficult for you, and Xia Nan is still with him now, right?"

She nodded in confusion, still feeling a little at a loss. Before she sat together, her palms began to sweat. Thinking about the way Lei Yunze looked to strangle her tonight, and then thinking about her sitting next to Ye Shaoqian. Ye Shaoqian sat face to face with him, talking about how many red packets were, whether to pack one or two red packets, she felt cold on her back.

She couldn't help but bargain: "Can't you not eat it?"

He smiled and pinched her palm: "She Nan, don't you want it anymore?"

She shook her head: "That won't work, you have to eat."

He smiled even deeper: "Don't worry, I'm here in everything. My second brother has been too irrelevant to me since he was a child."

After dinner, they still went back to their own houses. Ye Shaoqian was very disciplined these days, and he drove her downstairs to the bottom of the building, then kissed her forehead and watched her go up.

After she got home, she sat on the bed. When she remembered the dinner party that Ye Shaoqian proposed during the meal, she still felt restless. Had she not learned enough of the painful lessons she had last time in Hainan? After thinking about it, she decided to call Lan Jia for help.

The phone was connected. When she heard her drunken voice, she knew that she must be amour again. Without saying much, she just said: "Wait, I'll go there immediately. You can hold on for me before I arrive, and you are not allowed to drink and lie down!"

When we arrived at amour, Xia Xiaobei had already seen Lan Jia wave at her at the bar. There were always beautiful women in the nightclub, but Lan Jia was there, she was the only rose blooming.

The two of them laughed from afar. Lan Jia waved her hand and called the waiter, ordered another bottle of strong wine, and wanted to pour her wine in person.

She waved her hand and said, "No, I still have a glass of ice water."

"What emotional problems are you facing?" Lan Jia asked with her eyes blinking.

She shook her head and was helpless: "Mars hit the moon, and the earthlings have nothing to do."

"Then you should go to the National Space Administration."

She sighed: "If it can be solved."

Lan Jia's gesture of opening wine was amazing: "Maybe you can try a glass of strong wine and take a sip, so spicy that you forget all the troubles."

Xia Xiaobei squinted her eyes and looked at her. She seemed to have changed her release recently. Her long bangs covered half of her face. She raised her head slightly and saw the bottom of her vodka. She didn't need to persuade her to drink, she didn't need a drink companion, and she didn't need a reason. She had only seen this way of drinking in Lan Jia.

In the dim light of the bar, she vaguely saw a scar in the corner of Lan Jia's eyes that seemed to be undetectable. While she was refilling herself and tilting her face again, she finally confirmed that there was indeed a scar under the corner of her eyes that was a treaty.
To be continued...