Sheng Xizhou was not in a hurry to take out the contract. The man who had always been comfortable in front of her seemed a little uncomfortable at this moment.
No matter how hard it is to face, you still have to face it.
It's not that I don't want to see her, it's that I don't dare to see her.
Sheng Xizhou swallowed his throat, and with an unprecedented caution in his tone, he asked, "Have you had breakfast?"
Jiang Zhi frowned and looked at the man's pale face. She felt that the caution in his tone was like an illusion. She came back to her senses and said, "I didn't know Hesheng was your company. Can we sign the contract? We talked about it before. Okay, don’t let our personal affairs affect your work.”
Jiang Zhi just wanted to finish the work quickly.
For a small company like Hesheng, Sheng Xizhou would never come over in normal times. At the end of the year, it would be enough to just glance at the report.
If he hadn't known that she was coming today, Sheng Xizhou would not have shown up at all.
He looked at her face and couldn't bear to look away.
After a while, the man leisurely took out the contract he had prepared in advance from his desk, picked up the pen, and quickly signed his name on it without delaying on purpose.
Jiang Zhi took the pen he handed over and slowly wrote his name in Party B's column.
There were two copies of the contract. Jiang Zhi took his own copy and regarded him as one of his many customers. "Thank you for your trust. We will complete the work on time according to the time in the contract."
Sheng Xizhou didn't care about the items in the contract at all, it was not important to him.
He looked at her eagerly, with fragile eyes like an injured puppy, and asked again: "Have you had breakfast?"
Jiang Zhi said: "I've eaten."
Sheng Xizhou hummed. For some reason, his voice sounded a little pitiful: "I didn't eat."
Jiang Zhi thought to herself, what does this have to do with her? She chose to remain silent.
Sheng Xizhou has had a bad appetite these days and can hardly eat. His temper is worse than before. People around him can only treat him with caution, for fear that if he says a word wrong, he will offend this person. The young head of the house was unhappy.
Jiang Zhi deliberately pretended not to see his eyes, and said politely: "I won't disturb Mr. Sheng's work. I'm leaving first."
Sheng Xizhou followed her: "I'll see you off."
Jiang Zhi felt that Sheng Xizhou's behavior was a bit ridiculous. She didn't know what happened to Sheng Xizhou in those years. Maybe there was something hidden, or maybe there was some story that she didn't know.
But it has nothing to do with her.
Whether Sheng Xizhou has amnesia or not, it is not her fault.
No matter how many reasons he had to do so, the scars he had burned on her body over the years were all real.
Jiang Zhi coldly rejected him: "No need."
Sheng Xizhou was not someone who would give in just because of her two words, so he insisted on following her. In front of the strange looks from other people in the company, he followed her regardless and hurriedly caught up with her.
"Azhi."
Jiang Zhi felt very uncomfortable hearing this title.
Others in the office pretended to be deaf and blind, and the employees in the corridors and elevators also tacitly pretended that they heard nothing and saw nothing.
Everyone had their heads lowered and their eyes were darting around.
He waited until the CEO, who rarely came to the headquarters, disappeared in the elevator before he dared to grab his colleagues' hands and gossip wildly.
"Ah ah ah, did I read it right just now?! Mr. Sheng's eyes seem to be red."
"He looks like that little puppy that was abandoned in the heavy rain and got soaked all over."
"It's obviously a wolfdog, but the one who walked out without looking back is Mr. Sheng's sweetheart?"
Another colleague looked at her as if she were an idiot and couldn't help but ask: "Don't you usually read gossip news?"
"Being squeezed by 996, you don't have time to care about other people's private affairs!"
"The lady just now, if I read correctly, should be the wife of the Shen family."
"Which Shen family?" This man's jaw dropped.
"Is there any other Shen family in Beicheng?"
"..."
"It seems the rumors are true."
"What other rumors are there?"
"Mr. Sheng and Mr. Shen's wife have an ulterior affair."
"I think Mr. Shen's wife doesn't want to talk to her at all..."
Several people gathered together and muttered, and they stopped gossiping until their boss found out and kicked them away.
Jiang Zhi swallowed her anger and took the elevator downstairs. Sheng Xizhou seemed to really want to give her a ride.
But after signing the contract just now, the amount of time she can spend alone together is already her limit.
She had no intention of giving in, she stopped.
Sheng Xizhou also stopped, his side face curved tightly and his face not very pretty, probably because he anticipated what she was going to say.
Jiang Zhi faced him calmly, "Sheng Xizhou, I was already holding back my nausea when I signed the contract with you. Can you please stop forcing me like this?"
Sheng Xizhou was silent for a long time. Under the sun, his delicate face was almost white and somewhat transparent.
She had abandoned him long ago.
Not even friends anymore.
She no longer needs his tail following her.
Sheng Xizhou opened his mouth, but the air that poured into his throat cut his throat. It was so painful that he could hardly make a sound. He clenched his fists and nodded: "I don't want to force you."
These words are difficult to say.
Sheng Xizhou's voice was hoarse, and his humble voice actually sounded a little pitiful: "I just want to see you off."
Just like it was a long time ago.
He squatted on the steps in front of his house every morning, like a tail that couldn't be shaken off, and kept taking her to the alley to take her to school.
Waiting until dusk, he sat obediently under the old dead tree at the entrance of the alley, eagerly waiting for her to come back from school.
Jiang Zhi didn't mean to say these words to irritate him, but he really felt a little nauseous.
When she saw Sheng Xizhou, all she could think of now was very rough and painful memories.
It lasted from her adolescence to the second year of her marriage.
There was nothing left that could make her feel happy.
Jiang Zhi swallowed back the nausea that surged into her throat and said, "I took a taxi and left first."
Sheng Xizhou watched her get into the taxi. He stood on the side of the road, blowing the cold wind, and didn't leave for a long time. His whole body was stiff and he was still a little reluctant to leave.
After reuniting with myself in memory.
The raging love that once set ablaze like a prairie fire started to burn again.
He can't control it.
He had lost control a long time ago and was only suppressed by his mother.
Jiang Zhi was fortunate that she would only need to contact He Sheng's staff for future communication work, and that these communication tasks could be handed over to the newly recruited assistants. She should not need to face Sheng Xizhou again unless necessary.
She returned to the studio, and the assistant knocked on the door: "Sister, someone from the factory has contacted us."
Jiang Zhi raised his face from the computer, "What did they say?"
The little assistant smiled happily and said, "The price can be negotiated. As long as we keep taking orders from them, it will be easy to negotiate and they can give us the factory price."
Jiang Zhi agreed, "What about the quality?"
The assistant has not yet graduated, so it is inevitable that he is a little green, "They said that it is of high quality and quantity, and that it is of high quality and low price. I don't know if what they say can be taken as true."
Jiang Zhi's studio has received several large orders one after another.
The construction team is very easy to contact, and the people I have worked with often in the past are all trustworthy.
The prices of decoration materials from the factory can finally be negotiated a little lower.
Jiang Zhi was afraid that after the demand increased, their quality would be reduced, so they would use some defective products to fool her, "Forget it, we will just pay attention to it carefully when the time comes. Make an agreement with them in advance to give us defective products. We are I will return it and will never cooperate with you again.”
The assistant nodded seriously: "Okay."
Just as the assistant was about to leave, he remembered something again: "By the way, sister, you didn't come this morning. Someone called you."
Jiang Zhi asked: "Did you say who it was?"
The little assistant shook his head: "No, I asked her who she was, and she stopped talking."
"Then don't worry about it."
The design of Hesheng and another resort hotel can only be done by Jiang Zhi himself for the time being.
Another designer in the studio happened to be busy working on Chu Dai's villa. He was too busy to spare any time.
Jiang Zhi was buried in front of the computer, sorting out the information all afternoon, and his eyes were almost dazzled.
After that, I still have to go to the field for surveying and mapping, and my work is on track and I will only get busier and busier.
When she looked up again, it was already dusk.
The glass door of the office rang three times.
The assistant stuck her head out, smiled and winked at her: "Sister, your husband is here to pick you up after get off work."
Jiang Zhi was stunned when a tall and handsome figure appeared behind his assistant.
Shen Luyan stood by the door and said calmly: "I'm just on my way."
Jiang Zhi remembered that the business district in the city center and her small studio were completely in two directions. Maybe Shen Luyan did not go to the company today, but went somewhere else.
He is always busy and is not in the company every day.
Jiang Zhi stood up and stretched to relieve her sore waist. She asked, "Mr. Shen, don't you have to work overtime?"
Shen Luyan always thinks of these useless details now. For example, she seems to only call him the unfamiliar Mr. Shen, and has barely called him husband a few times.
Every time I have to put on a show in front of others.
Rather than coming from her sincerity.
"No need." Shen Luyan asked back, "Do you want to work overtime?"
Jiang Zhi shook his head, "I don't need it today either."
Shen Luyan is already very familiar with her studio, and the decoration here is getting more and more cozy. No wonder she would rather stay in the studio than go home.
There are green plants on the balcony that she has raised.
She obviously knows how to raise these flowers and plants, but she has never been interested in raising flowers and plants in a yard as big as her home.
"Let's go."
"Um."
Jiang Zhi was no longer surprised by Shen Luyan's behavior of occasionally coming to the studio to pick her up from get off work on a whim.
It is impossible to be sentimental anymore. This is a sign that Shen Luyan cares about her.
