Lin Qingle didn’t know what time she fell asleep yesterday. The next morning, she was woken up by her own ringing phone.
When I woke up and looked at this strange yet familiar room, the scene of yesterday immediately flooded into my mind.
It was a kiss... and in bed.
Lin Qingle grabbed the quilt and struggled, sobbing and rolling several times before he got up from the bed.
After washing up and walking out of the room, she passed the corridor where she had been last night, and the sensor light came on again. It was here that she and Xu Tingbai had been inseparable last night.
Lin Qingle pinched his temples... Calm down, calm down, don't think too much.
"I got up."
Lin Qingle's steps suddenly stopped, and when she looked up, she saw Xu Tingbai standing in the living room with a cup of coffee, looking at her.
He had already changed into his going-out clothes, a shirt and trousers, all buttoned up neatly, looking serious and formal. But last night... somehow the buttons of his pajamas came undone, and she had seen his chest!
"Ah... You're up so early."
Xu Tingbai: "Well, something happened."
"oh."
"Then I'll go change my clothes."
"Eat breakfast first."
Lin Qingle hummed softly and immediately turned towards the restaurant.
The breakfast was a simple Western style. There was no one else at home, and it was obvious that Xu Tingbai made it himself.
Pretty virtuous...
Lin Qingle felt warm in his heart and cut a piece of sausage.
"Is it delicious?" He walked over and sat down opposite her.
Lin Qingle nodded: "So you can make breakfast at home."
"Occasionally." Xu Tingbai said, "You sleep here on the first day, and I will provide follow-up services."
Lin Qingle choked and looked up at him.
Xu Tingbai put down the coffee cup: "I'll let Jason take you to the company later."
"Send it to me? What about you?"
"I'm out on business."
"Then let Jason take you there. This place is so close to the company, I can just take a taxi."
Xu Tingbai smiled and said, "I told you, follow-up service."
"… "
This morning, Lin Qingle had some inexplicable illusion, as if they had lived together for a long time.
Like, waking up under the same roof, like, having breakfast together, like now...they are both in the cloakroom putting on their coats.
"Wear a scarf." After Xu Tingbai put on her suit jacket, she saw that her neck was empty in the mirror and reminded her.
Lin Qingle didn't wear it yesterday, and Yu Tingting obviously forgot to put the scarf in the clothes she handed over.
"I don't have a scarf. But I don't need one. We'll be at the office soon. It's not cold."
Xu Tingbai looked at her disapprovingly, took out a scarf from a cabinet, then pulled it over her and wrapped it around her.
The gray and black cashmere scarf matches her outfit today quite well.
"Wear it well, don't catch a cold."
Lin Qingle adjusted her scarf and secretly smelled it. It smelled a bit fragrant.
She raised her lips: "Oh..."
"Did you fall asleep last night?" Xu Tingbai suddenly asked while putting on his tie.
He asked casually, but Lin Qingle almost choked to death on his own saliva.
"Yesterday, last night... I slept!"
Xu Tingbai: "Did you sleep well?"
"… Good."
Xu Tingbai: "Well, that's good."
Lin Qingle looked at Xu Tingbai, who was slender and looked like a clothes rack, in the full-length mirror and asked quietly, "How about you? Did you sleep well?"
Xu Tingbai paused and looked at her.
Lin Qingle: "Not good? Then I won't sleep here."
Xu Tingbai put on his tie, smiled, and hugged Lin Qingle from behind: "If you don't sleep here, I won't be able to sleep well."
Lin Qingle: "How could it be..."
Xu Tingbai put his chin on her cheek and said softly, "Really, don't leave. I slept well. And we have to get used to living together first."
Lin Qingle: “…”
The cell phone rang. Xu Tingbai reached for the phone with one hand, and put his other hand around her right shoulder and onto her left shoulder, holding her tightly.
"Mr. Xu, I'm already downstairs." Jason said on the other end of the phone.
Xu Tingbai: "I'll send Manager Lin to the company later."
Jason, who had received Lin Qingle's clothing package yesterday, was very calm: "Okay."
Xu Tingbai hung up the phone.
Lin Qingle waited for him to put down his phone and said, "Let me go. I'm going to work."
Xu Tingbai, "I'll pick you up from get off work tonight."
"I'll be late."
"I'm not here very early either. I'll pick you up after the client's visit."
"oh… "
Lin Qingle came out from his arms, picked up her bag and wanted to leave, but someone pulled her clothes and she was pulled back.
"what?"
Xu Tingbai lowered his eyes and looked at her: "Just leaving like that?"
Lin Qingle glanced at him twice. He seemed to be smiling but his eyes were very clear. Lin Qingle coughed lightly, hesitated for a moment, and rushed over to give him a hard kiss on the face.
"I'll teach you a lesson! Let's go!"
His girlfriend slipped away from under his hand. Xu Tingbai looked at her back and raised his hand to touch her cheek.
There was a bit of lipstick on the fingertips.
Xu Tingbai smiled softly, his heart softening.
It really adds some color.
—
Lin Qingle was in an unusually good mood when he got off the elevator, even though he knew there would be another pile of work to do when he got to the company.
"Deputy Manager." Jason was already waiting at the elevator entrance. When he saw her coming down, he hurried to greet her.
Lin Qingle: "Good morning."
"Good morning, have you had breakfast?"
Lin Qingle: "Oh, I've eaten."
Jason: "Okay, let's go now."
"Well, thank you for your help."
"Won't."
Lin Qingle and Jason walked through the hall together. Suddenly, she saw a familiar figure. She stopped and looked at the girl standing in the hall with some surprise.
"Es?"
The girl raised her head when she heard someone calling her, and when she saw it was Lin Qingle, she hurried over: "Sister Qingle? Why are you here?"
"Ah... My boyfriend is here." Lin Qingle said, "Why are you here?"
This girl is the one who goes to the same music center as Xia Quan and likes Xia Quan.
"I'm waiting for Xia Quan. He wants to play the piano today. I'll go with him."
Lin Qingle nodded: "Do you live nearby?"
"No." Yang Yisi said, "My home is a little far from here, I took a taxi here."
Lin Qingle was stunned for a moment: "Did you take a taxi here specially?"
"Yes, I want to go to class with him."
The love in the little girl's eyes was simply undisguised. Lin Qingle had never known what Yu Tingting meant by "The way you looked at Xu Tingbai before was simply shouting out how much you like him", but now seeing Yang Yisi, for some reason, he suddenly understood a little.
"Sister, your boyfriend lives here. Could he be Xia Quan's brother?"
"Ah?! No no."
Yang Yisi: "Is that so? Because Xia Quan told me before that his brother liked you, and I thought that was the case..."
Lin Qingle: "No, he was joking, don't listen to his nonsense."
"hold head high… "
"Well, I have to go to work, so I'm leaving now."
"Um!"
Lin Qingle and Jason walked out of the lobby and got into the car. She saw the elevator door open and Xia Quan and the guide dog Yangyang came out.
The little girl's eyes lit up, and she came closer with a smile. Xia Quan frowned slightly, as if he was surprised that she was waiting for him here... But the girl said something, and Xia Quan's face became a little tense again.
It is contradictory, but also happy.
Lin Qingle withdrew his gaze and chuckled... Perhaps, it's good to be happy.
—
The plan was about to be revised, and Lin Qingle was extremely busy for the next two days.
During these two nights, she still slept at Xu Tingbai's house, but she got off work later and later every day, and could basically fall asleep as soon as she lay down after returning home.
Yes, she was able to fall asleep immediately afterwards. Maybe after the first night, she got used to his presence.
On the third day, submit the plan to the upper level.
When the email was sent, the entire department was a little nervous, fearing that the meeting later would be like the previous few days, and they would be criticized by the boss for being worthless under the noses of other departments.
They can't afford to lose face.
Fortunately, at the meeting in the afternoon, both Xu Tingbai and Xia Tan expressed satisfaction with the new plan.
"That's great, that's great. Finally, we don't have to work overtime anymore. It turns out that only the deputy manager can take action to determine whether something is possible!" said my colleague Ji Chaochao.
Lin Qingle: "Let's all work together, don't put all the blame on me."
"Hey, you're really awesome."
Lin Qingle joked, "Why? Are you afraid of my flattery? Even if I flatter you, I don't have the final say on your salary."
"Oh, I'm just telling the truth!" Ji Chaochao said, "Boss Xia is okay, but Boss Xu is really hard to deal with. It was not easy to get through with just one change this time."
Lin Qingle naturally knew that Xu Tingbai was not easy to deal with, but... Over the past few days, this plan was produced under his nose, and he was personally reviewing it. How could it not pass if this version was changed
But she naturally wouldn't say this out loud. It seemed inappropriate for BSS to accompany her to work overtime.
"Eh? What is this scarf of yours..." Ji Chaochao suddenly asked, staring at the scarf she placed on the table.
Lin Qingle followed her line of sight and saw the scarf Xu Tingbai had given her two days ago. Because she had been staying at his house these days, she had been using this scarf.
"Scarf, what's wrong?"
Ji Chaochao suddenly looked at her with shining eyes and whispered, "Oh, you have a boyfriend?!"
Lin Qingle was stunned: "Ah?"
"This one is for men. I've seen it in the store before!"
"I, can't I buy the men's version..."
Ji Chaochao chuckled: "So how much did you buy it for?"
Lin Qingle choked.
"Look! You don't know! It's 9,500 each!" Ji Chaochao said faintly, "This is your boyfriend's, right~"
"… "
Ji Chaochao: "Qingle, you hid it very well. No one in our company knows that you have a boyfriend. There were other colleagues who tried to introduce you to someone before."
Lin Qingle coughed lightly: "Because we have just been together for a short time."
"I see. Which company? What does it do?"
Lin Qingle glanced at her and said, "Why are you so gossipy? You're still at work."
"Oh, I'm just curious."
Lin Qingle hesitated and said, "He's just an ordinary person. I'll introduce him to you later. Let's not talk about him now."
"Okay, okay." Seeing that she didn't want to chat, Ji Chaochao didn't force it and said, "Then let's go make some coffee. We're so tired."
Having just held a meeting, Lin Qingle was a little tired: "Well, let's go."
The two of them went to the leisure area together. While making coffee, they met HR Qian Xiaojing. There was no rush for work, so the three of them just fished for a while at the small table.
"I just saw the big boss coming." Qian Xiaojing said.
"Big boss? Who?"
"Our CEO Xu's aunt, you know her, Su Hanjing, one of the founders of Aurra."
Lin Qingle raised his head from his coffee, a little surprised.
Ji Chaochao: "Fuck... I've heard of her name for a long time, but I only saw her on the news. How come she's here, and no one told her."
"They are not here for a surprise attack, they are here to see our CEO Xu, but you also know that she has shown up at the company, so why don't you directors go and receive her? A group of people just went to CEO Xu's office."
Ji Chaochao was very curious about this kind of workplace queen: "Let's go and wait for her later. You can tell if you can run into her."
Qian Xiaojing: "If you dare to squat, you will definitely get it."
Ji Chaochao: "Mr. Su is also very serious, probably very similar to Mr. Xu..."
Qian Xiaojing: "I just happened to run into him. He looked very serious. People in high positions must have a sense of distance. And if you think about her as a woman, she had to fight her way through to get others to sit in her current position. Her tactics are very impressive."
"Yeah... that's right."
After finishing their coffee, the three of them chatted briefly about gossip and then stood up to return to their workstations.
The three of them came out of the leisure area. Suddenly, a group of people in front of them stood still. Ji Chaochao leaned forward and asked, "Why are you concentrating here?"
Qian Xiaojing had sharp eyes and saw a few familiar directors. "Damn, didn't you just say you were going to wait for President Su? I see you did it."
Ji Chaochao stared and mouthed "No way".
Qian Xiaojing quickly pulled the two of them forward and stood next to the original group of people, whispering, "What a coincidence! President Su is here."
Lin Qingle, who was forcibly dragged aside as a spectator, looked forward and saw, as expected, a group of men in suits and ties were surrounding a woman in black and walking over. The people next to her were talking to the woman as they walked, apparently introducing something to her.
Xu Tingbai was also beside the woman. He followed her and occasionally said a word or two.
"The interior decoration of the company is quite good, better than it looks in the video."
"Yes, President Su, this is our company's leisure area, which provides free drinks and snacks. If you are tired during work, everyone will come here to rest. Usually when the company has guests visiting to negotiate something, we will also be in this area."
"Um."
The pedestrians came over, and the people standing there greeted them as they walked in.
Originally, their superior had just arrived, so they could just stop and say hello and leave. However, they didn't expect that Su Hanjing would suddenly stop and look at them intently after nodding to them from a distance.
Lin Qingle had her eyes lowered at first, but the silence around her made her feel a little strange, so when she raised her eyes, her gaze met Su Hanjing's.
Lin Qingle: “… ?”
Perhaps it was because Su Hanjing looked too directly, everyone knew who she was looking at, so the eyes of the people around her gradually fell on her.
Lin Qingle looked serious, feeling a little uneasy.
What...what happened
"Qingle?!"
Just when Lin Qingle was feeling nervous, she suddenly saw Su Hanjing, who had been looking serious, suddenly show a surprised expression. Under the gaze of everyone, she took a few steps forward and gave her a big hug.
"I didn't recognize it wrongly, it was her." Su Hanjing said and looked back at Xu Tingbai.
There were many employees standing here just now. Xu Tingbai didn't pay attention when he followed Su Hanjing in, so he didn't see Lin Qingle here for a while. He was also stunned at this moment.
"I'm sure I'm not mistaken. I saw your photo on Tingbai's phone during the Chinese New Year." Su Hanjing didn't wait for Xu Tingbai to nod, and looked at Lin Qingle happily, "Oh, by the way, why are you here? Are you waiting for Tingbai to get off work?"
This area is open to both outsiders and employees. Su Hanjing had never heard Xu Tingbai say that the girl he liked worked in his company, so he didn't think of it as a coincidence. He just thought that she was waiting for Xu Tingbai.
However, after she asked this question cheerfully, Lin Qingle was completely petrified. Not only because of Su Hanjing's sudden "enthusiasm", but also because of the shocked eyes of his colleagues.
"Su, hello, President Su." Lin Qingle forced himself to calm down and said dryly, "My name is Lin Qingle, the deputy manager of the planning department."
Su Hanjing was stunned for a moment, then turned around and looked at Xu Tingbai in surprise.
Xu Tingbai coughed lightly and walked forward: "Why are you so enthusiastic? Aren't you afraid of scaring people?"
Su Hanjing reacted and restrained himself, saying to Lin Qingle: "I'm sorry, Qingle, I kept hearing him mention you when I was abroad, and I've wanted to see you for a long time."
"It's okay, it's okay. You don't have to apologize." Lin Qingle couldn't help but look at Xu Tingbai as he spoke. That look was obviously asking for help.
Xu Tingbai knew that his girlfriend must be extremely embarrassed, so a smile appeared in his eyes and he kindly decided to help her take her aunt away first.
"Aren't you shopping somewhere else? Hurry up and look, she has to go back to work and doesn't have time to chat with you here."
Su Hanjing glared at him, then said to Lin Qingle in a gentle voice, "You still have to go to work, so go quickly."
Lin Qingle nodded quickly: "Well, goodbye, President Su."
Su Hanjing looked at her lovingly: "Okay, see you later."
The author has something to say: The chapter about the aunt who adds fuel to the fire!