He's Group is the largest enterprise in Jiangcheng, with numerous industries and branches all over the country.
Busy at the end of the year, He Shuyu even had lunch and dinner in the office, and the secretariat team was too busy.
But on a busy day, you can hit the pause button tonight.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and what is going on now is the last meeting of the He Group in the old year.
He Shuyu held her chin and listened to the year-end reports made by representatives of various branches.
Her attitude was rather casual, which was quite different from her usual rigorous and meticulous appearance.
Several directors looked at her many times, but did not say much. The representative of the report also noticed her absent-mindedness, but did not dare to slack off.
After another project report was completed, the representative took a sip of water and wanted to continue talking. The door of the conference room was suddenly slammed, and the quarrel came from the crack of the door.
"I know He Shuyu is inside! Get out of the way! I'm her father, so she can't see me? Believe it or not, come over again, and I'll let you pack up and leave immediately!"
The arrogant threat made everyone in the conference room look at each other.
He Shuyu seemed to recover his mind, the heel of his shoe fell to the ground with a light click, and the hearts of the others also beat.
Secretary Qiu immediately stood up to deal with this emergency, but the door of the conference room was forcibly pushed open.
"Shu Yu! Look at the people in the company? It doesn't matter if I come to see you and ask for an appointment. After waiting for you in the office for a long time, they dare to perfunctory me and say you are busy? Are you so busy? Don't you have time for your dad?"
He Jinshu pointed at He Shuyu's other secretary and sneered and cursed.
He Shuyu motioned her to go out, and then said slowly, "I'm really busy, what are you doing here?"
The meeting was forced to be interrupted, and the directors and senior management of the head office were okay, and they knew how to make a fool of the He family.
Representatives from all over the world looked at each other, curious but afraid to watch the excitement.
He Jinshu couldn't stand her attitude, but he knew that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and said with anger, "Why did you reject my project?"
After the question was spoken, He Jinshu felt ashamed that his eyes fell on him.
Obviously he is He Shuyu's father, so he should have rejected He Shuyu's project.
But he only managed a dispensable subsidiary of the He Group, and was not even qualified to come to the head office for year-end reporting. He Shuyu rejected the project for a week before he got the news.
He Shuyu didn't care about his questioning, pointed his fingertips on the table, and said calmly, "A project that is destined to lose money, why don't I deny it?"
Her attitude made people think that He Jinshu was not his father, but a subordinate who could be fired at any time if it didn't matter.
He Jinshu did not come to find out why she rejected her project, but asked her to sign it.
But she responded with such an indifferent attitude, and after a few months of hard work, she was judged as destined to lose money, how could she bear it
"Why do you say it will lose money? If this resort is built, it can be-"
"What can I do? The sea near Coconut Island will be planned as a natural ecological reserve next year. Why do you reclaim the sea to build a resort on land?"
He Shuyu didn't have the heart to listen to his defense at all, and sentenced him to death in one sentence.
He Jinshu's eyes widened, he never expected that He Shuyu's reason for denying it was this.
The latter glanced at him lightly, "Before handing in the project plan, didn't you even do the simplest investigation?"
It is not a serious news that the sea area near Coconut Island is planned as a natural ecological reserve. Although the official document will be released next year, the matter is already done.
He Jinshu was ashamed.
Sensing that more eyes were falling on him, his cheeks flushed, his heart sighed, and he said angrily, "He Shuyu, I'm your dad!"
He Shuyu was not moved by his words, and his expression was still indifferent.
"If you're not my dad, are you qualified to stand here? Secretary Qiu, take Mr. He to the lounge, and the meeting will continue."
He Jinshu was carried away by Secretary Qiu, and after smashing it in the lounge, he rushed away in anger.
The atmosphere in the conference room was even more dull.
The employees at the headquarters of He's Group vaguely knew that He Shuyu's relationship with his family was not good.
She holds the power alone, and does not give any face to her parents.
Some people talk in private that she only has money in her eyes and no family at all.
Some people also said that she raised a group of worms, and she had done her best, and it was the He family who were aggressive again and again.
The meeting ended soon, and He Shuyu knew that all the delegates were rushing home by plane, and there was no meal plan.
As night fell, everyone in the company who was supposed to go home was almost gone.
He Shuyu leaned on the office chair, looking down from the floor-to-ceiling windows on the 88th floor, he could see the brightly lit Jiangcheng, couples, couples, and families hurried by the roadside holding hands.
Secretary Qiu locked the door of the office and came over, and said in a low voice, "Mr. He, it's almost ten o'clock, are you still leaving?"
He Shuyu turned around the chair and smiled, "It turns out that it's ten o'clock. I'm a little absorbed in thinking about things. You go first, I'll leave later."
Secretary Qiu has been with her for the longest time, but she doesn't know much about her, so she vaguely knows that she doesn't like Chinese New Year.
He wanted to care a few words, but felt that he had no position.
Moreover, He Shuyu kept public and private very separate, and she was very taboo to others to explore her private affairs. Secretary Qiu thought about it and had to say, "Mr. He, please go back early, I'll go first."
The sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground gradually faded away.
He Shuyu sat for a while longer before leaving the office with her bag.
In the center of Jiangcheng, there is a river running through the whole city.
In the winter, the riverside is cold and windy, and when it drills into the seams of people's clothes, it is more like a dense ice thorn, cold and bone-piercing.
Chi Xiuyuan was riding a shared electric car, his nose was reddish from the cold.
He is a fire body, but every time he passes by the riverside, he can't wait to wrap himself in ten cotton jackets.
He finished the course half a month ago, and the university is a day study. His grades were good, and the counselor didn't say anything.
In the past two weeks, he has been working part-time from morning to night, and the money he has earned is quite considerable, but it is still a drop in the bucket.
The dinner party and the resplendent encounter seemed to be just two brief episodes that didn't cause trouble for his routine life.
Chi Xiuyuan also knew that a person like He Shuyu would never lack someone who would turn to him.
He had just gotten off work and was on his way back to the rental house.
The resplendent benefits are very good. Today, we not only left work early for everyone, but also gave everyone a New Year's gift package.
At twelve o'clock at night, the riverside was empty, and there was no one there.
Jiangcheng prohibits the setting off of fireworks, the breath of the year gradually fades, and there is only silence under the street lamps shrouded in darkness.
Suddenly, Chi Xiuyuan's eyes paused.
There was a person standing by the river, obviously he hadn't seen each other for half a month, and his clothes were different from before, but he still recognized the other person at a glance.
The woman wore a knee-length camel coat, and her long chestnut wavy hair floated in circles under the cold wind.
She lit a cigarette with her fingertips, letting the fireworks go out in the cold wind.
The million-dollar brand-name bags were thrown at her feet at will, and the narrow heels of the high-heeled shoes were slightly raised, a little sharper.
In the middle of the night when the family should have been reunited, she stood alone by the river, with no groveling people around, and no friends who could joke around at will.
She faced the river wind alone, she didn't seem to feel cold, and the hand holding the cigarette even took off her gloves, which was exposed and blown cold white.
He Shuyu vaguely felt that someone was watching him, and when he turned around, he saw a shared electric car parked on the side of the road.
Chi Xiuyuan was still sitting on the electric car, looking at her with complicated and tangled eyes.
He Shuyu raised her eyebrows slightly in surprise, too lazy to interpret the complexities and entanglements in his eyes. After thinking about it, she still said hello, "What a coincidence."
It was quite a coincidence that we met again and again within a month.
Probably it was her inaction after the dinner party that made him understand that she really didn't mean that. The young man slightly restrained his stubbornness and the thorns all over his body, and asked, "Why are you here alone?"
The two were neither friends nor related, so if they had to talk about it, his words were a bit abrupt.
With the intention of joking with the children, He Shuyu took out the cigarette, smiled and said, "Don't you think Jiangcheng in the middle of the night is beautiful? I'll come to enjoy the night."
Chi Xiuyuan was not a fool, of course he could hear the perfunctory in her words.
Want to see where is the night
Who would go to a deserted river on a winter night like this, stare at the vortex of the black hole with the cold wind blowing, and drop a cigarette butt on the ground
Probably bumped into by an acquaintance, He Shuyu's mood eased a little.
She put on the gloves she had taken off, and was about to say goodbye to the child, but before the words could be said, her stomach cramped uncontrollably.
She staggered two steps, and when she was about to kneel on the ground, she was supported by someone's arm, and Chi Xiuyuan's slightly disturbed breath was in her ears.
"What's the matter with you? I'll take you to the hospital."
His voice sounded a little anxious, probably frightened by her appearance.
He Shuyu shook his head, "I'm fine, I'm sick, I have medicine in my bag, please—"
Another colic, He Shuyu took a breath, and for the first time felt that the stomach pain was troublesome and annoying.
After swallowing two pills, the pain was not relieved much. In the icy cold wind, instead, I broke out a little cold sweat.
Hot and cold, even more uncomfortable.
"I'll take you to the hospital!" It's not a question for advice anymore.
Chi Xiuyuan helped her by the waist, only to find out that the electric car can only take one person, and it doesn't seem like a good idea to run in the cold wind with a sick patient.
He Shuyu also felt that things were out of her control, and the abdominal cramps came one after another, not only protesting that she didn't eat well today, but also accusing her of standing in the cold wind for so long.
She took out a set of keys from her pocket, "My car is over there, please."
After speaking, she paused, "Can you drive?"
The key was taken, He Shuyu closed her eyes, and the cold sweat that rolled from her forehead to her eyelashes dripped onto her scarf.
The body's protest was stronger than every time before, and she even wondered if she would die from the pain.
However, it is not so easy to want to die of pain, she was hugged by the waist.
The sudden weightlessness in the air made He Shuyu subconsciously hug Chi Xiuyuan's neck.
Heavy coats and layers of scarves blocked contact between the two.
There is no skin contact, but there is a different kind of ambiguous feeling.
The young man in front of him was a little nervous, and it seemed that he tried to restrain himself for a long time before he left her and ran away.
The closeness at hand shows the intimacy of the two.
The eighteen-year-old young man had a broad chest, and his breathing was hot, and he slapped her on the forehead quietly and restrainedly.
His embrace was filled with the scent of clean acacia, which made He Shuyu, who was used to smelling all kinds of expensive perfumes, quite comfortable, even at ease.
She quietly got closer, and the cold fragrance poured into her lungs.
I don't know if the medicine I just took has worked, and the abdominal cramps are not so uncomfortable.
When he was put into the passenger seat, He Shuyu curled his fingers and gently hooked his scarf.
She whispered, "You can take me home, you don't need to go to the hospital."
Noticing the stiffness of the young man, He Shuyu pursed her lips and smiled.
He is still young, and he may not have had such close contact with any woman.
Very nice.
She was a little more presumptuous, "it's okay to go to your house."