"Ah... my boyfriend is here. I won't talk to you anymore. Mr. Chocolate, bye." She interrupted him and hung up the phone in a hurry.
Before I could say these five words, "You don't have to pay it back," there was a mechanical beeping sound next to my ears...
The lingering sound in her eardrums seemed to still be lingering on her last words - my boyfriend is here.
Gu Haoran, is she her boyfriend?
He put down his cell phone with a smile. After getting along day and night for a year and living under the same roof, did he still simply think that they were just ordinary friends?
Or maybe it was him all along, just wishful thinking.
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In Yuanchen Villa, Gu Haoran threw aside the towel wiping his hair and asked: "Whose phone number is it?"
At this moment, Xia Tong was hugging the pillow and biting her fingers, feeling so worried that her liver ached because of the tens of thousands of dollars she owed.
"What's wrong?" He crawled to her side and stared at her face, feeling a little strange.
Xia Tong turned around, with a slumped expression, and asked in a low voice: "Gu Haoran, can you lend me some money?"
He laughed, "How much?" The supplementary card of his credit card was always in her hand. The day he gave it to her, he hoped that she would act like a normal woman and buy more things for herself, and stop working so hard all night long on drawings.
As a result, he waited and waited, but never received the message that she used his secondary card to swipe the card?
He later broke down and asked her. She had a baffled expression at first, as if she didn't know anything about the card. Finally, she almost turned the whole room upside down before finding the card in a corner and asked carefully:
"Gu Haoran, what is the password?"
He collapsed even more.
Xia Tong thought for a while, that dress cost 68,000, and depending on the quality of the store, the pair of shoes probably cost 2,000. So the total is 70,000?
She said weakly: "Seventy thousand."
There was a hint of joy at the corner of his mouth. Because of her suddenly enlightened brain, this little woman finally knew how to spend money?
Unfortunately, Xia Tong obviously interpreted that joy as a sneer, and she quickly changed her words: "Fifty thousand?" Oops, she could only borrow the remaining twenty thousand from colleagues and friends.
His smile froze. After all, he seemed to be even more unhappy. Xia Tong's voice became even lower: "Thirty thousand?" It seems that she will have to find An Dachen tomorrow to explain the situation. I hope she will see that she has worked so hard in the past.
For the sake of the painting, I gave her a few months' salary in advance.
He completely put away his smile, and just when Xia Tong was about to press down further, he took a deep breath and suddenly turned around and left.
Xia Tong sat on the bed, feeling depressed to the lowest point.
How do you say that, talking about money hurts feelings. Look, isn't this the most obvious example?! He was affectionate towards her before, but as soon as she mentioned money, he immediately walked away.
Damn it, Xia Tong’s depressed hammer bed!
A few minutes later, he appeared in the room again and threw a piece of light paper in front of her: "Here you go."
It's a check! Xia Tong held it tightly, staring at the countless zeros behind it, and her head felt dizzy.
"Thank you!" she said excitedly.
"No need." He said calmly, but the strange feeling in his heart became even stronger.
After a while, he sat down, held her in his arms, hesitated for a moment, and finally sighed.
"If you want or buy anything in the future, just use my card to swipe it. No need to be so polite..."
"Oh..." Xia Tong nodded, thought about it, and felt something was wrong: "But..."
"It's nothing." He pressed her head: "We don't need to be so clear-cut..."
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He has been very busy recently, so busy that he doesn't even have time to eat. Because of Ruihua's full support, the construction plan of the 'Drug Research Center' is in full swing.
Not only is this project huge, it has also won unanimous praise from the media. There were so many glowing words about this public welfare construction in various newspapers and magazines that he was stunned.
He thought that Di Sheng still had a long way to go, but he didn't expect that he would be on the right track so quickly.
In recent times, Di Sheng's reputation has been increasing day by day, and people seem to have gradually forgotten the devastating drug trafficking incident a year ago. Not only have the stocks continued to rise, but many cooperation projects that were stopped in the past have begun to be reopened...
Everything was going in the right direction, and he also fell into an extremely busy state.
He was even grateful for this state, which prevented him from thinking about other things. Otherwise, he was really afraid that he would...
"Excuse me..." The mobile phone rang on the table. He flipped through the design drawings at hand and pressed the answer button: "Hello?"
"Qin Mujue!" Qiao Raoruo's cheerful voice came from the phone, "What are you doing?"
He handed the design drawing in his hand to the person standing next to him and said, "I checked it and there is nothing wrong with it. I will construct it according to the drawing."
"Yes." The man took the drawings, seemed relieved, and walked out of the office.
Only then did he get free time: "I was busy just now."
"Are you busy, busy, busy?" Qiao Raoruo criticized his usual suggestions: "You said you are only 30 years old, and you work hard like a little old man. Are you afraid that you won't dare to scream tomorrow?
Now that you are a father, why don’t you just call me grandpa instead?”
He smiled, understanding that she was doing it for his own good, and he didn't refute.
"Are you free this afternoon?" she asked.
In the afternoon? It seems that there is a meeting to be held. Regarding the specific implementation details of the second construction period of the 'Drug Research Center', it is necessary for him to hold a meeting to explain to his subordinates.
As soon as he finished speaking, he was opposed by Qiao Raoruo: "No, cancel."
He frowned, he hated others interfering in his work, except for one person, and of course it was definitely not Qiao Raorao.
"Have you forgotten?" Qiao Raoruo said, "Today is Guaiguai's birthday!" She shouted, what kind of father is this? He didn't even remember his daughter's birthday?
Guaguai's birthday? He was stunned and turned over the desk calendar on the table. Then he remembered that today is July 15th, Guaguai's sixth birthday. He was really busy and had completely forgotten about it.
Realizing that he was at fault, he said, "Okay, the afternoon meeting is cancelled."
Qiao Raoruo's tone relaxed: "Hey, I just took Guaiguai to the mall and bought her a set of clothes. Now I am coming to Disheng. You should hurry up and get ready. Let's go out to have a meal together."
He, Qiao Raorao and Xia Guaiguai have dinner together?
Such a trio made him feel strangely awkward. Recently, Qiao Raorao always went to school to see Guaiguai and had a good relationship with her. But he still couldn't accept the fact that another woman appeared in his life.
Even though this woman is not annoying. But——
He thought for a while and decided to wait until the meal was over before talking to Qiao Raorao tactfully.
He said: "Okay, I'm almost done with the work at hand. Which shopping mall are you at? I'll drive directly to pick you up."