Zhou Yaze's eyes swept over our side lightly, seemingly not seeing me. At this time, there was a woman following him, but she was not Wu Yanran, but Zhou Yaze's secretary Gao Lan.
Accompanied by Xu Wenbo, they walked to the middle of the banquet hall. I breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did I realize that my palms were all sweaty. How could I be so nervous? I secretly laughed at my own failure.
Li Wanxiang noticed my gaffe and smiled lightly at me: "What? Did you meet an acquaintance?"
I smiled awkwardly at him and whispered: "That person just now was the boss of our previous company."
Li Wanxiang nodded and said with a smile: "I know Zhou Yaze! We have dealt with him before."
I smiled awkwardly, and for some reason my face felt a little feverish, as if someone had seen through something shameful.
Li Wanxiang just smiled slightly and looked at me kindly. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, I coughed lightly, then changed the subject and said to Li Wanxiang: "I heard from Xinnuo that you like sports very much?"
When he heard me ask this question, he quickly responded to me: "Yes, I am good at basketball and badminton. I heard from Xiao Xu that you also like these two sports. We can compare notes later."
I smiled dryly at Li Wanxiang and replied, "Okay."
But I sighed secretly in my heart. In order to sell me, this lawyer Xu went to great lengths to sell me. He told people all about my hobbies. With such a "enthusiastic" friend, should I cry? Or should I laugh?
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Since Zhou Yaze arrived, my mood has been a little out of control. I feel a little distracted when talking to Li Wanxiang, and my eyes glance towards the hall from time to time.
As if he noticed this, Li Wanxiang smiled and said to me: "How about we go out for a walk?"
I nodded to him awkwardly, and just like that, we got up together and walked back to the banquet hall.
At this time, Zhou Yaze and Xu Wenbo were chatting in the hall. Behind Zhou Yaze stood his beautiful secretary Gao Lan, and behind Xu Wenbo stood his girlfriend Ling Wei. Both young and beautiful ladies were carefully dressed.
, fighting for beauty, the scene is really beautiful.
However, Gao Lan should be attending this dinner tonight as Zhou Yaze's female companion, not his lover.
At this time, I wondered in my heart, why didn’t Zhou Yaze bring his nominal fiancée Wu Yanran to such an occasion? After all, Wu Yanran’s identity is more suitable.
Because Gao Lan and we had worked together in the past and were very familiar with each other, so now that she saw me coming out from a distance, Gao Lan waved to me and greeted me politely. She smiled sweetly and said, "Sister Haichao."
, What a coincidence, I didn’t expect to meet you here.”
Gao Lan is a smart and considerate girl. Otherwise, she would not have been Zhou Yaze's secretary for several years. Now that she has greeted me, I can no longer deliberately avoid it, so I walked towards her.
After a few steps, he responded to her with a forced smile: "Yes, what a coincidence."
When Gao Lan and I were talking, Zhou Yaze, who was chatting with Xu Wenbo, glanced at me lightly, nodded slightly at me, and then glanced at Li Wanxiang, who was standing not far behind me.
Zhou Yaze nodded at me, and I could only nod slightly at him in embarrassment.
Zhou Yaze continued to talk to Xu Wenbo, and Gao Lan took the time to chat with me in a low voice. She asked me: "Sister Haichao, why did you come to this party?"
I smiled at her and said softly: "Because I'm at Olin Advertising Company."
Hearing what I said, Gao Lan nodded in realization. She glanced at Xu Wenbo who was standing behind us, and then said to me softly: "Oh, that's it. Your boss is hosting a family dinner, so it's natural for you to attend."
I smiled faintly and then asked her, "You already knew about this dinner, right?"
Hearing what I said, Gao Lan shook his head slightly at me with suggestive eyes, then leaned close to me and whispered: "I was notified at short notice to accompany Mr. Zhou to this dinner."
I suddenly understood and nodded lightly, knowing in my heart that a young talent like Zhou Yaze cannot attend such a so-called upper-class dinner party without a female companion. Of course, if it is inconvenient for his nominal girlfriend to come,
If you participate, then this role will only be filled by a secretary or assistant.
Seeing me and Gao Lan whispering, Zhou Yaze, who was chatting with Xu Wenbo and the others, glanced at us again. Seeing his sharp eyes glance over, Gao Lan immediately shut up, then returned to an upright standing posture, with a professional look on his face.
smile.
I knew that with Zhou Yaze present, there were some things that Gao Lan couldn't say in detail. At that moment, Xu Xinnuo saw me coming out and greeted me there, so he wisely said goodbye to Gao Lan and told Xu Xinnuo and the others.
Go over there.
At this time, Li Wanxiang had already been invited to chat with familiar guests. Several people of similar ages were talking loudly in a corner of the hall, and the scene was very lively.
Xu Xinnuo pulled me to a corner of the hall, looked at Li Wanxiang and the others, and then asked softly in my ear: "How was the conversation just now?"
I smiled helplessly at her and said: "What can we do? We have just started to contact each other, just introduce each other's situation."
Xu Xinnuo winked at me suggestively, then glanced at Li Wanxiang, and whispered in my ear: "Keep up the good work, I see that Brother Li is in a high mood tonight, and he seems quite satisfied with you.
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I smiled helplessly again. Since there were so many strangers around me at the moment, it was difficult to discuss this topic with Xu Xinnuo in depth, so I had no choice but to curl my lips in embarrassment.
Later, Xu Xinnuo and I talked about some other irrelevant topics. At this time, our department manager and his girlfriend came over to me and said goodbye, saying that they were going back early.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, so I said to Xu Xinnuo: "It's too late, I'm going back too."
Xu Xinnuo looked at me and said softly: "What are you busy with? Don't you have any children at home? Why don't you stay for a while before leaving?"
I smiled awkwardly at her and said softly: "Forget it, this kind of occasion is not suitable for me. Besides, I have to go to work tomorrow."
Xu Xinnuo had no choice but to smile at me and nodded.
I went over to say hello to Mr. Xu and Ling Wei, then took my small bag and walked outside.
When I was about to reach the door, Li Wanxiang also came over. He asked me: "Xiao Wei, are you going back?"
I smiled and said to him, "Yes, Brother Li." Then I said politely to him, "Brother Li, let's get in touch later."
Li Wanxiang smiled lightly at me and said, "Okay." Then he asked me, "How about I take you back?"
I quickly declined politely and said, "No, Brother Li, I drove here today."
After hearing what I said, Li Wanxiang stopped insisting, smiled at me clearly, and warned: "That's fine, drive at night and pay attention to safety."
I smiled and nodded gently at him, then walked out of the hall.
Just as I walked out of the front door of Xu Wenbo's living room and was going down the steps, a figure slowly appeared from the shadows next to me. I was completely unprepared and startled, but when I looked closely, I realized it was Zhou Yaze.
At that time, I stood there dumbfounded. It took me a long time to regain my composure and whispered to Zhou Yaze: "You scared me to death!"
Zhou Yaze put his hands in his pockets, smiled coldly, and walked slowly in front of me. I felt that his cheeks were slightly red at this moment, as if he had been drinking. He looked at me steadily, and his eyes looked very cold.
I looked at his expression, sometimes a little confused, and couldn't help but subconsciously asked: "What...what's wrong?" It was only then that I realized that my tongue was actually spinning a little.
Zhou Yaze smiled faintly and did not answer my question. He just whispered to me commandingly: "I'll take you back!"
I was shocked when I heard what he said. After being stunned for a few seconds, I blurted out to him: "No, I drove here myself..."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yaze suddenly came over and held my wrist tightly, and without any explanation, ordered in my ear again: "I told you, I'll take you back! I'll let someone else pick up your car later!"
As he spoke, he held my wrist tightly with one hand, took the car keys from my hand with the other hand, and then pulled me and strode towards his car without any explanation.
At that time, I was almost stunned! I couldn’t react. What was going on? Zhou Yaze! Zhou Yaze, who has always been calm and self-possessed, would actually do such a thing? This can be considered a public place, in front of everyone, and he actually dared to do this.
He walked forward holding the hand of someone who was not his girlfriend!
His hand was like a pair of iron pliers, and my hand was so painful that he squeezed it. I tried to shake him off several times, but failed. I also tried to struggle not to move forward with him, and even wanted to fight.
Shouting: "Are you crazy?"
But for some reason, I didn't do that step at that time. Maybe I was worried that there were many acquaintances of mine in the living room. If I struggled or shouted and startled them all out, the scene would be even more embarrassing.
So, semi-forced, I was dragged into his car by Zhou Yaze. After stuffing me into the passenger seat, Zhou Yaze closed the car door forcefully, then quickly turned around and got into the driver's seat.
I wanted to open the door and escape, but at this time Zhou Yaze, who had quick hands and quick eyes, had already locked the car door and quickly started the car's engine.
It wasn't until the car slowly drove into the road that I felt Zhou Yaze exhale a long breath. I glared at him angrily and asked him sternly: "Are you crazy?"
He didn't look at me at all, and his expression wasn't moved by my words. He just said to me calmly: "Stop talking, I'm drunk, you'd better not irritate me now, you don't want to see us all crash, right?"
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Shocked by his words, I stared at him dumbfounded and said nothing for a long time.