Xu Tingbai found that something was wrong with Lin Qingle after he came to Xia Tan's house today. Although they were talking and laughing during the meal, he always felt something was odd.
"We're here." The car stopped at the gate of her community. Xu Tingbai saw her staring ahead in a daze and reminded her.
Lin Qingle came back to his senses: "Ah? Okay."
She reached out to open the door, but Xu Tingbai frowned and held her back: "Are you unhappy about something?"
Lin Qingle turned around: "I'm not unhappy..."
Xu Tingbai: "You looked weird after you came out of his house. What's wrong? Tell me."
Lin Qingle didn't know why her mood suddenly dropped. She thought... maybe it was because of what Xia Quan had just said to her.
The words Xia Quan said were clearly a reflection of Xu Tingbai's past. When she heard these words in the past, she just thought that Xu Tingbai was being too picky and that he didn't understand her enough. How could she feel that he was a burden to her when she liked him so much
But now, from a third-person perspective, when she saw a young man saying these things to her and she couldn't say anything to comfort him, and even though she knew clearly in her heart that he was right, she realized that it was she who had always been lacking in understanding.
In the past, she was in her own world, thinking that everyone else was wrong, that she was the victim and the one who suffered the most. But now, looking at Xia Quan, it was as if she was facing the Xu Tingbai of the past.
The one who suffered the most was him...
"If your eyes don't get better and you become blind for the rest of your life, you won't come back to find me, right?" Lin Qingle suddenly said.
Xu Tingbai's expression froze: "Why are you suddenly talking about this?"
"I just want to ask you, is this true?"
Xu Tingbai slowly loosened his hand and looked at her without saying anything.
Lin Qingle felt a pain in her heart. She took a deep breath, opened the car door and walked out.
Xu Tingbai: "Lin Qingle—"
She stopped outside the car door.
Xu Tingbai suddenly felt uneasy and said hastily, "There is no such thing as if. I am back now, right?"
Lin Qingle was silent for a moment, then suddenly walked outside the driver's seat.
Knocked on the door: "Come out."
Xu Tingbai opened the door and got out of the car: "What's wrong with you..."
Just as he finished speaking, the person in front of him suddenly threw himself into his arms. She threw herself so hard that Xu Tingbai took a step back after catching her, and was directly pressed against the car door.
Xu Tingbai was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything. He just reached out and hugged her.
"Xia Quan told me today that there is a girl who likes him." Lin Qingle threw herself into his arms, her voice muffled.
Xu Tingbai asked softly: "And then?"
"He also likes her, but he doesn't want to tell her. He said... he can't see her, can't protect her, and doesn't want to delay her."
Xu Tingbai frowned and suddenly realized what she was unhappy about.
Lin Qingle raised his eyes: "At that time, I subconsciously stood in the girl's perspective, wanting to tell him that if he liked her, he liked her, and not to delay her. But I found that it was not right. From another perspective... This might be unfair to the girl, and in the end it might really hurt both of us."
Xu Tingbai touched her head and said, "This is their business. They will make their own choice in the end. We can't interfere."
"I know, I didn't mean to interfere... I just thought about myself and you." Lin Qingle hugged him tightly, "Xu Tingbai, I shouldn't have blamed you before."
Xu Tingbai chuckled: "What a fool."
"fine."
"What?"
"It's a good thing you saw it."
Fortunately, we saw it, fortunately... we are lucky.
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Xia Quan's eyes are completely blind and cannot be restored. He is different from Xu Tingbai.
And the girl named Yang Yisi was not her, so she couldn't impose her past thoughts on her...
"Deputy Manager, someone from the finance department is here."
Lin Qingle nodded to the visitor, calmed himself down, took his computer and went to the meeting room.
She really felt sorry for Xia Quan and the girl, but she also knew that although she could empathize with them, she was just a spectator... She couldn't do anything.
"Assistant Manager, this is the advertising budget for the new series."
"knew."
Recently, we have resumed work after the Chinese New Year, and everything seems a little hectic.
Lin Qingle has been busy with the new series of home furnishings by Aurora HME recently. This series focuses on environmental protection. There are few such home furnishings in China at present. If they want to make a breakthrough, advertising and promotion are very important.
A week later, there was a big meeting to discuss the planning of this project.
After an hour-long meeting, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was a little low. In particular, all the people in the planning department, including Lin Qingle, were silent and did not dare to speak.
Because today, the competitor suddenly launched a series of environmentally friendly home furnishings, and the advertisements were overwhelming and swept the Internet. This is extremely disadvantageous to them.
"None of you know what's going on with the opponent, right?" Xu Tingbai sat in the main seat and spoke in a calm voice. Although he looked calm, several managers below him were already sweating.
"We actually conducted an investigation and knew they had some actions, but we didn't know they were so much faster than us..."
Xu Tingbai: "You call this an investigation? What are you investigating if you don't even know the launch date?"
"… "
Planning Manager Ge Hui said: "Mr. Xu, then, it doesn't matter if we start later. We can perhaps let the product speak for itself, we can..."
"What can you say?" Xu Tingbai suddenly threw down the document in his hand. The document spun on the table and stopped steadily.
Xu Tingbai raised his eyes, his eyes solemn: "In this plan, I don't see the key point that our home furnishing company wants to create, and I don't know who the target audience is and whether it is suitable for the place where it is placed. You said the product speaks? The advertisement can't explain it clearly, who is the product talking to?"
"Because we have just resumed work, time is a bit tight..."
"Why are other companies not urgent, only you are."
Ge Hui's throat tightened and he dared not say a word.
Xu Tingbai: "Who is responsible for this plan?"
Ge Hui: "I mainly..."
"Okay, let's disperse first. The person in charge will stay, and everyone else can leave."
People from other related departments filed out one after another, their speed clearly indicated that they were afraid of being called out suddenly. People from the planning department also took their computers and left, looking at the person in charge who stayed behind with sympathy before leaving.
I'm sure I'll get scolded...
Xu Tingbai looked out the window, and when the footsteps died down, he was ready to talk to the person in charge again, but when he turned around, he was stunned. Because it was not only Ge Hui, the planning manager, who stayed, but also Lin Qingle.
All his anger was suddenly suppressed, and he frowned slightly: "Deputy Manager Lin, why are you still here? Do you have anything to say?"
Lin Qingle raised his eyes and glanced at him. "The later stage of this project is in my hands. I know our department did not do well this time. Mr. Xu, I am very sorry."
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“…” Xu Tingbai coughed lightly and looked away.
Ge Hui said: "This is what I was mainly responsible for. It was too late for Qingle to make any changes as the meeting was approaching."
Lin Qingle quickly said, "No, no, Mr. Xu, we brought a plan that we are not satisfied with to the meeting. This is our common problem."
Pretty good at taking over.
Xu Tingbai originally wanted to scold him, but he couldn't say anything harsh in front of his girlfriend.
"Forget it, there's no point in saying anything else now."
Ge Hui suddenly raised his eyes.
Xu Tingbai glanced at him and said, "Then I'll give you three more days to revise it. Are there any problems?"
Ge Hui nodded repeatedly: "No! No problem!"
Lin Qingle: "Okay, Mr. Xu, we will work hard."
Try hard... He looks so serious that he's almost raising his hand to swear.
Xu Tingbai looked at Lin Qingle's serious expression, and his bad mood inexplicably improved a lot, and he smiled silently.
Ge Hui was stunned when he saw the smile on his face.
Xu Tingbai saw that the other person was looking directly at him, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "Anything else?"
"ah?"
Xu Tingbai said coldly: "If you have nothing to do, just go out. Why are you in a daze?"
"Oh, oh!"
Ge Hui quickly retreated, Lin Qingle smiled apologetically at Xu Tingbai and followed him out.
"Manager, I will take care of the online part then." Lin Qingle said as they walked back to the department.
Ge Hui nodded and suddenly pulled her back: "Did you see Mr. Xu smile just now?"
Lin Qingle: "Ah? He, isn't he very angry? What is he laughing at..."
Ge Hui: "You didn't see it? Did I see it wrong?"
"Hmm... maybe."
Ge Hui: "But this time the plan was so unsatisfactory, and he didn't say a single harsh word and let us out. Is this... possible?"
Lin Qingle was puzzled. Xu Tingbai probably seldom said harsh words. Anyway... she had never heard him say such harsh words.
"Manager, Mr. Xu may not be as fierce as you say."
As someone who was once scolded for a whole hour because of a planning proposal, Ge Hui shook his head and said, "No, no, no, maybe you were lucky and didn't meet him. But I was lucky today too. He was angry in the meeting just now, and he didn't say anything after asking us to stay."
Lin Qingle thought for a moment and said, "It's useless to say so much. Our main task now is to race against time to write a plan."
"That's right." Ge Hui didn't think much about it and said, "Let's go. I'll take care of the offline business."
"OK!"
After Lin Qingle returned, he gathered his men to work. Three days was a bit short, and after the working hours, the planning department was still brightly lit.
Aurra does not advocate overtime culture. On weekdays, the company allows employees to get off work on time. Even if they occasionally work overtime, the maximum working time is 9 o'clock in the evening.
But today, a group of people in the planning department worked until ten o'clock.
Haven't gotten off work yet? Lin Qingle's phone vibrated. He took a look and replied: Soon, I'll let them go back first.
Xu Tingbai: They? What about you
Lin Qingle: I'm fine, but my form was interrupted when I went back. I'll write a little more.
Xu Tingbai: It’s too late. Let’s continue tomorrow. I’m going home.
Lin Qingle: No, Mr. Xu, you said at the meeting today that we should hurry up. I think you are right.
Xu Tingbai: “…”
After Lin Qingle put down his phone, he asked his subordinates to go back first.
"Deputy Manager, how about I stay and buy you a midnight snack?"
Lin Qingle: "No, it's getting late, you can go back. The manager has already left, don't worry."
"oh… "
There was really no point in staying, so the subordinates packed up and walked out together, discussing in low voices as they walked:
"Today in the conference room, the manager and deputy manager must have been severely scolded by Mr. Xu."
"Of course. Mr. Xu hates it most when a case is submitted without much polish."
"Tsk... That's too bad for our deputy manager. She wasn't in charge of this project before."
"Who made it happen later? I got scolded, and now I've been given a deadline."
"You think it's easy to digest a lecture? I heard from other departments that although Mr. Xu's words are not as harsh as they seem, they are very hurtful."
"Yeah... scary."
Everyone left and the office became quiet.
Lin Qingle propped up her head, thinking about what she was doing. When she heard footsteps approaching and finally stopping beside her, she said, "Didn't I let you go? I don't need you now."
"If you don't need them, will you need me?"
Lin Qingle was startled, and turned around to look: "Why are you here?"
Xu Tingbai leaned against his workstation and said, "I was waiting for you to get off work. Who knew you would never get off work?"
"I'm busy..."
Xu Tingbai, who knew why she was busy, looked a little unnatural: "There's no rush."
"Whoever said that, I'm anxious."
Xu Tingbai couldn't persuade her, so he simply pulled a chair and sat down next to her.
Lin Qingle was startled: "…Why are you sitting down?"
Xu Tingbai leaned back and said, "Your army has already left, what are you afraid of?"
"It's getting late, you should go back and rest."
"You know it's getting late." Xu Tingbai leaned over and looked at her computer. "Where are you at? Let me see."
“App launch…”
"Oh." Xu Ting glanced over it, opened the folder on her desk and started reading.
"What are you doing?"
"Work overtime with you."
All the lights in the office were off, except for the one above her head.
Seeing that Xu Tingbai really didn't want to leave, Lin Qingle stopped "chasing" him and devoted himself to his work again.
With this big Buddha beside her, helping her think of ideas and organize thoughts, she worked much faster.
An hour later, she hit save, deciding to call it a day.
There was the sound of turning pages around him. When Lin Qingle finally had some free time, he glanced sideways at the person next to him.
Xu Tingbai was concentrating on the document in his hand. His profile was handsome and his eyebrows were like ink paintings. Under the light, the cold atmosphere of work was softened. In his suit and tie, there was only a contradictory atmosphere of seriousness yet seductiveness.
"What are you looking at?" He suddenly glanced over, his eyes indifferent, but in such a quiet atmosphere, he was inexplicably alluring.
Lin Qingle pursed his lips and blurted out: "You are so beautiful... I don't even want to work anymore."
The fingers that were turning the pages suddenly stopped, "It's beautiful, are you just going to look at it?"
Lin Qingle: “…Ah?”
Ting Bai threw the folder on the table and reached out to hold her chair. The chair was on wheels, so he exerted a little force and the chair and herself slid over. He placed her legs between his own legs and held them firmly.
"Half time, right?" He put his arm around her and asked in a low voice.
Lin Qingle: “…I’ve written quite a lot.”
"Oh, then take a break." He leaned over and suddenly lowered his head to bite her lips.
Lin Qingle's eyes suddenly widened and he pushed the man: "What are you doing..."
Xu Tingbai's expression darkened, and he said slowly: "Didn't you say it was beautiful just now? Don't you want to kiss it?"
Lin Qingle swallowed his saliva, and was bewitched to the point of not knowing which way to go: "I want to..."
Oh no!
"You can't kiss like this!" she quickly added.
Xu Tingbai smiled and said, "It's okay, just think of it as... a little relaxation in the workplace."