The company soon notified Ji Huai to make the handover.
Zhang Dandan was extremely surprised. No one had told her that Ji Huai had resigned. She went to his office while he was packing his things.
"Manager Ji." She called softly, feeling a little panicked.
After all, she was introduced by Ji Huai. If he left, her life would probably be difficult.
In the past few days, she had clearly felt rejected. Those female colleagues even called her a bitch behind her back, but she was a newcomer, so she could only endure it.
Doing the most work and getting the least salary is an unspeakable grievance.
"No need to call me manager anymore, I resign." Ji Huai continued what he was doing without raising his head.
Zhang Dandan didn't pay attention to his distant attitude, and said softly, "I heard that you resigned because of family matters. Is it because of Su Jing?"
"She seems to be in a bad state. She was prone to overthinking in the past, and it may have gotten worse after giving birth. I called her these days, but she didn't answer the phone, and she didn't know what was wrong."
Su Jing is not a cheerful person, so she doesn't have many friends. She is the one who takes the initiative between her and Su Jing.
They obviously met Ji Huai at the same time, but it was Su Jing who married him. She had always been quite unconvinced, and sleeping with someone she couldn't get seemed to be a good idea.
"The child was making a fuss and she didn't look at her phone." Ji Huai put away his things and walked out.
"So, what are your plans after resigning? It's hard to find a job now, but you have a high degree of education, so you should be able to find a good one, right?" Zhang Dandan followed closely behind him and asked, his words full of concern.
Ji Huai was impatient when he was asked. He frowned and said rudely, "Are you done asking? You're taking too much care."
Zhang Dandan was embarrassed, then tears flashed in his eyes, "I just care about you, I have no other meaning."
"I'm married and have children, what role do you play to care about me?" Ji Huai's face was as calm as water, and his words had a hint of sarcasm, "Ms. Zhang has been out of society for so many years, doesn't she even understand the most basic social distance? If this happens, I’m afraid I will suffer a big loss in the future.”
Hearing this, Zhang Dandan's expression suddenly changed. She looked at him with an expression of disgust, and the feeling of superiority in her heart disappeared completely.
Ji Huai left a few words before leaving, "Xiaojing is simple-minded and cannot compare to you. I hope Miss Zhang will not contact my wife again in the future. I don't trust her staying with you."
Zhang Dandan was so angry that her nose was crooked. When she turned around to look, she saw a female colleague who was secretly hiding in the corner. She was a "gossip woman" and couldn't help but look like she was watching a good show.
Seeing this, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, as if she could foresee that she would be ostracized by her colleagues in the future.
On the other side, Ji Huai went downstairs and met Su Ming, who was walking side by side with the young boss of his company.
The Su family is not a well-known family in this city, with assets of only several hundred million, but this company is smaller, and their small boss is very flattering to the Su family.
Su Ming was born to Su's father's fourth wife. He grew up in fine clothing and good food, and was a very favored younger son.
The two of them didn't notice Ji Huai. Su Ming seemed to be impatient with the little boss and interrupted him directly, "Come on, I don't invest in this matter. How much money can you make from such a small shop?"
The little boss looked embarrassed, and then he saw Ji Huai in front of him, but he didn't take the initiative to call out.
Su Ming followed his gaze and saw Ji Huai, but pretended not to see him.
In terms of seniority, he should be the first to shout, but he didn't take Su Jing seriously at all, let alone Ji Huai.
Just like this, they were getting closer and closer. The strange thing was that Ji Huai didn't seem to see them. He turned slightly sideways and walked to the side, and he was about to pass by them.
"Hey, Manager Ji?" The little boss called out to Ji Huai.
Ji Huai paused for a moment and turned his head to look, as if he had just noticed him. He greeted him naturally, "Little boss, are you going to the company?"
"Yes, has the handover been completed?" the little boss asked with a smile and nod.
"Um."
Seeing that Ji Huai had no intention of saying hello to Su Ming, as if he didn't know this person at all, the little boss was embarrassed and looked at Su Ming out of the corner of his eye.
Su Ming looked unhappy when he looked at Ji Huai.
He was the only one who didn't want to recognize a relative like Ji Huai and couldn't allow the other party to ignore him.
"Who is this?" Ji Huai looked at Su Ming and asked doubtfully.
Little boss: "..."
Su Ming's face darkened and he gritted his teeth, "I'm Su Ming!"
"Su Ming?" Ji Huai was thinking about it carefully, a little apologetically, "I'm sorry, have we been in contact before? I think you are indeed familiar with me. I am very face-blind."
Su Ming felt that he was completely ignored, so he raised his voice and said, "I am Su Jing's younger brother, and Su Hao is my father. I even went to attend your wedding when you got married."
Ji Huai looked suddenly enlightened and embarrassed, and said quickly, "I mean, I must have seen you before. You were wearing a dark blue suit when you came. I remembered it."
Neither humble nor arrogant, he looks sincere and feels guilty because he can't remember his name. "It's my fault. I can't help it. I'm really sorry."
Su Ming felt that he should be fawned over, but now he was caught up. He couldn't help but look at him and asked, "Where are you going? Resigned?"
"I'll hand over today." Ji Huai nodded, "We're getting ready to go home."
Su Ming: "What will you do next after you resign?"
"I'll change my industry first, but I haven't planned it yet." After Ji Huai finished speaking, he answered the phone and explained to the two of them, "I bought a dog and the other party is going to deliver it to me. I have to pick it up next time I'm free. Let’s talk again.”
After saying that, Ji Huai left.
He didn't bother to please him at all, nor did he greet him with a smile. Su Ming was furious and looked at the little boss next to him, "What's his ability like?"
"It's all in appearance. It's said that he only talks but doesn't do anything, so he's not very reliable." The young boss is still very good at observing people's actions. "He has no ability. Even a company like ours doesn't want him. Where else can he go?"
"Then why are you resigning blindly? After marrying a wife and owning a house, you no longer want to struggle? Or do you think you can give him free rice by finding my father?" Su Ming sneered, with a look of disdain on his face, "You don't even look at how much you weigh. "
"Okay, hurry up and ask your friend to choose a script that can be filmed, and take your time."
Su Ming didn't look down on Ji Huai either. Wasn't he a Phoenix man who only had a house to live in because he married a wife? Otherwise, you will never be able to turn over for the rest of your life!
at the same time.
Ji Huai was carrying a small cage and a bag, putting them in the trunk before driving home.
Su Jing was afraid that he would be in a bad mood, so she held her daughter and waited for him downstairs. When she saw him coming out with a cage, she looked at the dog sitting inside and asked uncertainly, "Is this... a husky?"
"That's right." Ji Huai brought it down and said, "It's been vaccinated."
She looked at the dog again, and the other person looked at her, and moved closer to the cage. Su Jing thought it was cute, and asked him, "Why did you suddenly buy a dog?"
Ji Huai answered without hesitation, "Don't you think it looks a bit silly?"
Su Jing: "..."
She actually had nothing to say in reply, and when she looked at the dog again, she actually felt stupid.
"The location here is a bit remote, and we have a small family, so it's safe to have a dog." Ji Huai squatted down, opened the cage, let the dog out, raised his head and said to her, "Can you give her a name?"
Su Jing thought for a while, "Is it okay to order Coke?"
"Okay." He agreed and squatted down to release the Coke. "From now on, your name will be Coke. You will be happy in everything."
Her hand holding her daughter tightened slightly, and looking at his handsome face full of smiles, it was like rays of sunshine shining through the cracks, warming her heart.
The happiest thing was to be understood. The meaning he understood was her original intention of choosing this name.
Coke has officially become a member of this family.
Although he looked a little silly at first, he was still well-behaved. Unexpectedly, after only half a day, his true colors were revealed and he turned into a mad dog.
Su Jing held her daughter in her arms and looked at the jumping Silly Erha outside the window, feeling inexplicably relieved.
Because it is really sandy and brings a touch of life to this home.
This afternoon.
Su Jing coaxed her daughter to sleep. She took medicine and was so sleepy that she fell asleep.
When she woke up, her daughter was not around, nor was Ji Huai. The window was open, and a dog barked from downstairs.
As soon as she walked down, she saw Ji Huai raise his foot to kick Coke. As soon as he raised his foot, the silly Erha started running faster than anyone else.
While shouting, he ran behind Su Jing.
It can be seen that it is very afraid of Ji Huai.
"What are you doing?" Su Jing walked over and looked at his daughter who was put in the car. When the other party saw her, she danced and asked her mother to run away.
Ji Huai was squatting on the ground digging the soil.
"Grow watermelons." He said, burying the dug hole again, pouring some water on it, and patting it gently.
"Watermelon?" Su Jing picked up her daughter, feeling incredible.
"Didn't you say that the big watermelon you bought yesterday is delicious? I'll save the seeds and plant one to see if it can grow." Ji Huai walked to the other side and washed his hands. His hands were full of dirt, and he turned around and said , "Grow it for you to try."
Their house is small, and the garden outside is even smaller, but during the renovation, a small piece of land was left, just right for planting.
"I just said it casually." Su Jing was still very moved. He could remember her casual words.
It doesn’t matter whether the seeds are planted or not, I am already very happy now.
"I just listened casually." He answered with a smile, wiped his hands, and walked over to hug his daughter, "Here, daddy will hug her."
The other person's mouth dropped, "Wow" and he started crying, as if to say: I don't want my father to hug me.
"Huh?" Ji Huai lowered his head and looked at the little guy, "You didn't cry just now, but now you are crying when you see your mother? Are you complaining to your mother that your father ignored you just now?"
"Yeah?"
He reached out and poked his daughter's little face.
"You just washed your hands. Your hands are cold. Don't poke her." Su Jing said softly, grabbed his hand and touched her daughter's face.
Ji Huai didn't continue and changed the topic, "Would you like to go for a walk? The sun has just set. Let's go for a walk with my daughter in my arms."
"Yeah." Su Jing did not refuse.
Since the third trimester of her pregnancy, she had rarely gone out. After giving birth, she never went out except to the hospital.
Even walking outside the door has become a luxury. He leaves early and comes home late, sleeping in the guest room. Ji's mother can at most help him, but most of the time she takes care of him herself.
Her activity area was in the bedroom. There used to be Qin Qiuhua's family downstairs. Unless she had to go downstairs, she would only stay in her room.
This is how suppressed and pessimistic emotions accumulate little by little.
The two walked side by side along the road. This is also a community. At this time, there are many old people walking their dogs. There are also a group of old people playing chess and children playing.
Su Jing held the child in her arms. She seemed a little sleepy. She walked slowly and patted her daughter gently. After she fell asleep, she asked as if unintentionally, "Where are the eldest brother and sister-in-law?"
"Let's rent a house somewhere else, I didn't ask." Ji Huai put his arm around her waist and slowed down.
Su Jing: "...what did mom say?"
Qin Qiuhua's two children both go to school in the city. Both of them are lazy, how can they afford to raise their children
They may not even have the money to rent a house, and Ji's mother is afraid that she will criticize them.
"Mom actually said that the house was empty and she wanted them to live in it, but I ignored her. Who said they have to live in the house if it's empty? Mom didn't come to help us take care of the children, and she wanted to make trouble for us? They won't be welcome in the future. Come on, don't let me put a foot in." Ji Huai said in an irritable and unhappy tone.
Su Jing knew what was going on and didn't ask any more questions.
It would be best not to come. She is really not good at dealing with people. She would be much more comfortable if she didn't come.
"She's asleep, let me hold her." Ji Huai carefully took his daughter from her arms.
When he picked her up, Su Jing squeezed her sore hands. Her daughter was getting heavier and heavier, and she was tired from holding her. She also clearly felt that her body was weak and her immunity was not as good as before.
When she went back, the sun had already set, and there were only a few golden clouds left in the sky. She held Ji Huai's shoulder, leaning her head slightly on his shoulder, looking at the clouds, and walked back along the original road.
Su Jing's appetite has always been bad. In the past, she would force herself to eat more, otherwise she would run out of milk. Later, after her daughter was weaned from breastfeeding and took medicine, she lost her appetite and had no motivation to eat.
Sister-in-law Li cooked a table and stewed a soup specially for her, but she felt full after moving her chopsticks twice.
Ji Huai was quite good at eating. Su Jing stared at him and thought he ate really deliciously.
"Do you think I'm full?" He put down his chopsticks, filled her with a bowl of soup, and placed it in front of her. "It's okay if you don't eat. Just eat more vegetables."
"I do not want to eat."
"Eat." He spoke forcefully, "When do you eat, when do you get up? If you don't eat, how will you get the strength? After a while, you won't be able to hold my daughter."
Su Jing lowered her head, held the spoon, and ate small spoonfuls.
"After giving birth to a child, you are still picky about food? This habit needs to be changed." Ji Huai did not direct this to her illness, and he would never mention this word.
In his opinion, everything is not a symptom, there are no symptoms, and he will not specifically emphasize it.
"Open your mouth." He peeled off a shrimp and stuffed it into her mouth, "You may have lost a few pounds in the past few days, why don't you eat?"
Su Jing obediently opened her mouth, "Wouldn't it be nice to lose weight? You don't have to lose weight, and you don't have to breastfeed. Why do you eat so much?"
In the past, she wanted to be a cow, so they stuffed it into her mouth hard. If she didn't eat, it was her fault. She didn't have the consciousness of being a mother, so she had to eat until she vomited. Now her daughter is drinking milk powder.
"You have to eat even if you're not breastfeeding. If you want to lose weight, you have to exercise tomorrow. If you don't starve to lose weight, that's very unhealthy." Ji Huai peeled another shrimp for her, "You have to eat like this whether you're breastfeeding or not. Eat more. point."
"How to exercise?" she asked again.
She was in bad health and wanted to get back to her previous figure, but she had no time or energy to think about it. She was unkempt and weak all day long.
Sometimes she was lying in bed, obviously thinking that she had gotten up to exercise, but in the end she found that she was still in bed, and her depression and negativity would come in at any time, and it was like there were two split people in her body.
One wanted to stand up, and the other pulled her desperately.
"I'll teach you tomorrow," he said.
So Su Jing began to look forward to tomorrow, as if she had grasped a glimmer of hope, but tomorrow was very slow, and she lay in bed unable to sleep.
Tossing and turning, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and dizziness.
"Can't sleep." Ji Huai suddenly spoke next to her.
Su Jing turned her head to look at him. There was no trace of sleepiness in her eyes, and she was still anxious and didn't speak.
"You're not sleeping either?" He reached out and turned on the night light.
Su Jing squinted her eyes under the light and reached out to cover her eyes.
"Want to watch a movie?" he asked again.
In fact, she didn't want to. When she was depressed, she just wanted to cry alone. It seemed that only by crying heartbreakingly could she feel relieved, otherwise she would be suffocated to death.
Or fall into persistent self-loathing and feel disgusted with oneself.
As soon as she started thinking wildly, she began to feel that the future was dark and life was like a pool of stagnant water.
"I just found a good movie recently." He said and turned on the movie viewing mode.
When she was pregnant, he often watched movies with her, so he installed a projector in the master bedroom.
Maybe it was because he was very kind to her at first, but the contrast after giving birth was something she couldn't accept. Coupled with various factors, her inner defenses were broken, and she became depressed.
Afraid of waking up his daughter, Ji Huai deliberately turned the volume down. Su Jing looked at the movie he was playing and hid in the bed with a "shua". She stretched out her hand to hit him, ignoring the melancholy she just felt, "Turn it off!"
Show her ghost movies again.
When we were together, he showed her ghost movies every day. She was so scared that she didn't dare to go back home, so she could only stay at his place. She was so scared that she would sleep with him in her arms. Everything that happened next was a matter of course.
"Funny movie, not scary at all." Ji Huai's low laughter came from outside. He said, taking her out of the quilt, "I won't scare you in the middle of the night."
Su Jing nestled in his arms, not believing it at all, "Turn it off!"
Ji Huai took her hand, put it around his neck, and looked at her, "It's really a funny movie, not scary."
"Turn it off," she said again.
"Then kiss me and I'll turn it off." Ji Huai looked at her and said, pointing to his lips.
Su Jing's eyes fell on his face, looking at his slender eyelashes in trance under the light of the bedroom.
She was in a bad mood after giving birth, and the two of them had never been intimate. She felt extremely embarrassed, so she didn't take the initiative to contact him. Sometimes she hated herself, and sometimes she hated him.
"Kiss or not? I pressed play." Ji Huai pretended to let go of his hand holding her waist and continue playing the movie.
"Don't." Su Jing hurriedly came over, kissed him, and soon moved away, but Ji Huai grabbed the back of her head and deepened the kiss.
He used a familiar technique to pry open her teeth, go deep inside, and toss and turn along the line of her lips.
Su Jing was about to die, so he reluctantly let go. In a low voice, he pecked again, "What did you eat? It's softer than before."
After saying that, he buried his furry head in her neck and said seriously, "Why does it smell like milk? It smells so good."
Su Jing saw him sniffing around like a dog, and she was very embarrassed and stopped him, "Don't make trouble."
Ji Huai: "I smell the fragrance."
She held his head in her hands to prevent him from continuing to smell, "Okay, let's watch a movie."
"It really smells good." Ji Huai still didn't want to give up. Like a child who didn't get candy, he insisted on making trouble with her.
She couldn't help it, and after a while of fussing, he held her in his arms again, picked a martial arts movie, and started watching.
Su Jing was held by him and leaned in his arms. Ji Huai held her in his arms and held their hands.
She fell asleep in his arms only halfway through the movie. Ji Huai looked down at her, gently touching her head with his hand, his eyes gentle.