The quilt was still warm. After sitting for a while, Lin Qingle looked back at the messy bed and suddenly remembered something.
Yesterday, the two of them went to sleep after a lot of trouble and had no energy to deal with the sheets. But now that I think about it, even though I wiped them yesterday... the marks were still left.
She has no experience, so she will still be at a loss under his guidance...
Lin Qingle recalled what happened last night, stood up, and took off the quilt and bed sheet with a red face. When she put on the new bed sheet, Xu Tingbai had already finished his shower and put on his clothes.
Xu Tingbai looked at the bed sheet on the ground and understood what was going on. He walked forward and took the corner of the cup: "I'll help you."
"oh… "
The two of them quietly made the bed. The quilts and sheets under the bed were rolled up into a ball, as if stating what they had done last night.
Lin Qingle felt a little embarrassed and changed the subject casually: "Let's eat something. How about takeout?"
Xu Tingbai saw that she was uncomfortable, smiled and said, "Whatever, anything is fine."
"oh."
Lin Qingle sat on the bed, took out his phone and started ordering takeout. Xu Tingbai opened the door and walked out, going to the kitchen to get some water.
On the other side, Dong Xiaoni was packing up in her room. When she heard the noise outside, she came out of her room, "Qingle, I only ordered sushi. Let's order something else—"
The voice stopped abruptly, and Dong Xiaoni was stunned looking at the tall man in the kitchen.
Xu Tingbai turned around when he heard the voice: "She is in the room."
Dong Xiaoni stared at him blankly: "You are..."
Xu Tingbai stepped forward: "Hello, I'm Xu Tingbai."
Dong Xiaoni blinked her eyes. "Ah, hello, hello. My name is Dong Xiaoni."
As expected! It's as good as its reputation! Yu Tingting is not lying! What a handsome guy! !
"Xiao Ni, I ordered dishes from 'Yu Du Huang', um... let's eat together." Lin Qingle suddenly remembered that his roommate was outside, and hurriedly chased after him.
Dong Xiaoni: "Okay..."
"Well, I'll order some more."
Dong Xiaoni nodded, gave Xu Tingbai a dry laugh, and quickly walked to Lin Qingle's side, "Let me see what you ordered!"
As he said that, he pulled her aside, and seeing that Xu Tingbai couldn't hear him anymore, he quickly said, "Okay, you brought the man back while we weren't paying attention! I didn't even see the shoes, I thought you were the only one in the room."
Lin Qingle: "How did I take advantage of you not paying attention! I just put his shoes in the shoe cabinet, I didn't hide them on purpose."
"Tsk~ Don't quibble~ I had something to do at the base today so I came back to get something, otherwise I would have missed it!" Dong Xiaoni raised her eyebrows and said, "Student Lin Qingle, you are quite wild~"
Lin Qingle choked: "What are you talking about? Yesterday it was because, because..."
"If you can't find an excuse, don't look for one, because it doesn't matter at all." Dong Xiaoni patted her shoulder, "Bring your boyfriend home to sleep with you, that's what I should do, I understand."
Dong Xiaoni’s word “sleep” is very meaningful.
Lin Qingle wanted to say something, but it seemed like there was nothing to say! Because last night... it was almost the same.
"Tingting doesn't know about this, right?"
"I didn't say..."
"That's right. If she knew, how could she not be at home today? Given her personality, she would definitely come back as fast as she could to watch." Dong Xiaoni pretended to take her phone to look at the menu, but couldn't help but secretly look back at the man in the kitchen: "Damn, he's really handsome, you've earned it, you've earned it."
Lin Qingle: “…”
More than half an hour later, the food arrived.
Lin Qingle was going to the guide dog base with Dong Xiaoni today, and Xu Tingbai had other things to deal with, so after dinner, they left separately.
—
Monday, working day.
After a weekend of fermentation, everyone in the company already knew the gossip about the boss and a deputy manager of the planning department. When Lin Qingle was standing downstairs waiting for the elevator, many people looked at him sideways.
"Good morning, Deputy Manager!"
"Qingle, good morning."
At this time, Ji Chaochao and others from the same department happened to come over. Lin Qingle turned around and looked at them, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Good morning."
"Have you had breakfast?"
"Not yet."
"Oh, take that one."
"OK."
The three of them went down to the restaurant floor. After Lin Qingle left, a few people from other departments started talking in low voices.
"That was Mr. Xu's girlfriend. She's really pretty."
"Yeah, eh... You said she was so young and became the deputy manager right after joining the company. Did Mr. Xu help her?"
"Don't tell me, Lin Qingle's ability is really good. I've heard our director praise him before."
"That's right. How could someone like Mr. Xu use a backdoor?"
"Lin Qingle graduated from A University and worked in a very powerful advertising company before. He is more than qualified for this position now. Don't use age as an excuse. Our President Xu is not young at all."
"Shh... that's amazing."
"Maybe this is called a strong alliance? Our President Xu would look down upon weaklings."
…
There were a lot of voices in the company, some of which reached Lin Qingle's ears, but she was busy with work and didn't want to care about what everyone thought about this matter.
At the end of the get off work day in the evening, colleagues started to pack up and prepare to leave.
"Anyone wants to eat hotpot tonight?" Ji Chaochao stood up and suggested.
"Yes, yes, I'm going."
"Count me in!"
Ji Chaochao: "What else! Qingle, do you want to go?"
Lin Qingle glanced at her phone. Yu Tingting and Dong Xiaoni were probably not at home for dinner today. Xu Tingbai probably was busy since he didn't send a message. So she closed her computer and nodded, "I'll go—"
"Off work, huh?" Lin Qingle had just agreed when a voice interrupted him. Then, everyone saw a familiar figure walking in from the corner.
The department, which had been quite noisy at first, suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at each other and no one dared to speak anymore.
Lin Qingle was also stunned when he saw the person coming, because this was the first time Xu Tingbai came to the office when everyone in their department was there!
Lin Qingle: "Get off work."
Xu Ting walked to Lin Qingle's side without looking away: "Let's go."
Lin Qingle hesitated and looked at his colleagues: "I thought you were busy, so I just agreed to go eat hot pot with them."
Xu Tingbai looked at Ji Chaochao who was closest to him and asked, "She wants to go eat hotpot with you guys?"
This was the first time Ji Chaochao was questioned by Xu Tingbai. He stood at attention and said seriously, "No, we don't eat hot pot!"
Lin Qingle: “Ah?”
Ji Chaochao glanced at his colleagues and said, "I suddenly don't want to eat hotpot anymore. What about you?"
colleague-
"No, no, I'm going home to have dinner with my mom."
"Then I won't eat it either. It'll make me angry!"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Ji Chaochao nodded repeatedly and smiled at Xu Tingbai: "Boss Xu, please go to dinner with our deputy manager. You guys go."
Lin Qingle: "Didn't you just say—"
Ji Chaochao: "I'm leaving get off work first! Goodbye, Mr. Xu, and everyone else."
"Chaochao! Wait for me! Together!"
"… "
The people in the department left in a short while. Lin Qingle looked at his colleagues who were escaping quickly and wondered, "Mr. Xu Tingbai, how scary are you?"
Xu Tingbai glanced at her: "What?"
Lin Qingle: "When you came, everyone ran away."
Xu Tingbai said calmly: "I'm fine."
"That just goes to show how scary you are. You didn't do anything and yet you made people so scared."
Xu Tingbai pulled her up and said, "Oh, are you scared too?"
"Me? I'm not afraid of you..."
"That's fine. As long as you see me not running away, that's enough." Xu Tingbai checked the time: "By the way, Chen Ke and Xia Tan asked me to go today. Will you come with me?"
"Where are you going?"
"Max." Xu Tingbai said, "Just sit for a while. If you feel uncomfortable, we can leave early."
"Oh... It's okay. We are all your friends. I won't feel uncomfortable."
Xu Tingbai's eyes softened: "Okay."
Max was at the bar where they had reunited before, and it seemed that his friends came to this place often.
Lin Qingle had been here twice and was not unfamiliar with the place.
"Xu Tingbai! Here!"
Still on the second floor, when Lin Qingle followed Xu Tingbai upstairs, they saw someone greeting them from afar.
Xu Tingbai pulled her over, and when they reached the booth, Lin Qingle realized that there were quite a lot of people there tonight. Apart from Xia Tan and Chen Ke, who were familiar faces, she didn't recognize the other men and women.
"Mr. Xu... has a girlfriend?" After Lin Qingle sat down, he saw a woman sitting opposite him and asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Xia Tan raised his chin towards Xu Tingbai, "Hey, you didn't say you came with Qingle. Tsk, I can see that you came here on purpose to show off."
Xu Tingbai poured Lin Qingle a glass of juice and looked up at him: "No?"
Xia Tan spread his hands: "Okay, okay, I can't be the only one eating dog food, let's eat it together."
Chen Ke: "I heard from Xia Tan that you were with this girl before. I never thought that our President Xu would have a day when he would be unable to resist a beautiful woman."
"Isn't it? Seeing him act like a woman shouldn't get close to me before, I almost thought he was gay."
"Ha ha ha ha-"
Xu Tingbai picked up the wine glass and glanced at his friends who were laughing so hard: "Are you done talking? Do you want to drink?"
"Come on, let's congratulate Mr. Xu on ending his single life."
…
Xu Tingbai ordered some food for Lin Qingle alone, and he talked with Xia Tan and the others and drank, while Lin Qingle sat aside to eat. After a while, Chen Ke met a few acquaintances at another table and called Xu Tingbai and Xia Tan over.
"You sit down and eat something. I'll go over there and we'll go home when I come back." Xu Tingbai told her.
Lin Qingle: "It's okay, just do your thing and don't worry about me."
"wait for me."
"Um."
Xu Tingbai stood up and walked over. Lin Qingle was not familiar with anyone else present, so he put down his chopsticks and sat there watching the band performing in the audience.
"Your name is Qingle, right?"
Just then, a woman with short hair at the same table spoke to her.
Lin Qingle nodded.
Short-haired woman: "Those men go to have fun as soon as they get to the bar. Let's have fun too. Come, I'll toast you a glass."
Lin Qingle picked up the juice in front of him: "Thank you."
The short-haired woman smiled and said, "It's our first meeting, we're all friends, let's drink a little."
It's not that Lin Qingle can't drink, but Xu Tingbai just gave her some juice, so she took it. And now the person in front of her is Xu Tingbai's friend, so she won't refuse.
"OK."
The short-haired woman pushed a cup to her. It was blue and small, and looked very pretty. "It's blueberry flavored, very delicious."
Lin Qingle took it, and the short-haired woman touched her: "I didn't expect Xu Tingbai to be married in the end. When he was in college, many girls couldn't get him."
Lin Qingle: "Are you his classmate?"
"Yes." The short-haired woman said, "Many of us are from that school. Oh, Zi Ai is also from that school, but she didn't come today."
Lin Qingle paused when he heard Zhao Ziai's name.
"Done."
Lin Qingle smiled and drank it. The wine was indeed blueberry-flavored, with a bit of alcohol, but it tasted good.
"This wine is new to the bar. It tastes good, right?"
Lin Qingle: “Yeah.”
The short-haired girl pushed another cup towards her: "You took our idol away. I envy you so much."
"Yes, yes, Qingle, tell us how to pursue him." Another girl continued.
Lin Qingle held the new glass of "blueberry wine" in his hand and said, "I don't know either."
"Eh? You're not keeping any secrets, are you?"
Lin Qingle put down his glass and said, "Really..."
"No, tell me, let me learn it. I'll use it after you break up."
The short-haired girl smiled and glared at the person who was speaking: "Tsk, what are you talking about."
"Ah? Hahaha, I was just joking. I'm just curious. And I'll tell Zi'ai when the time comes so she can die knowing the truth."
"That does make sense." The short-haired girl looked at Lin Qingle, "You stole someone from our Zi Ai, so it's not too much to say something."
The girls in front of me seemed to be talking to each other peacefully, but in some way, that was not the case.
Moreover, they are more or less related to Zhao Ziai, at least... they are more on her side.
Perhaps the alcohol had some effect, Lin Qingle said in front of the curious or hostile eyes of several girls: "I really don't know how to pursue him. I never pursued him. He pursued me."
"ah?"
Lin Qingle picked up a new cup and clinked glasses with the stunned short-haired girl: "And I'm not the one who snatched Zhao Zi'ai away, because Xu Tingbai has never been hers."
Short-haired girl: “…”
No one spoke in the booth for a moment. At this moment, rock music started playing downstairs. It was very passionate and the sound of the music could drown out everyone's voices.
That was perfect, she didn't want to talk to them anymore.
Lin Qingle picked up a glass of blue wine and drank it again. Hmm... This is really delicious.
But Lin Qingle didn't say anything, the others were not idle. Several girls on the opposite side took out their mobile phones and chatted frantically in the group:
Shit... what was she pulling
Xu Tingbai is the type of person who will chase people and deceive ghosts.
Just showing off. Last time, Zi Ai was pissed off by this woman.
I heard that this woman is from Xu Tingbai's company.
Is this true or false
She is pretty, but how long can they stay together? Don't you know Xu Tingbai's temper? I have never seen him smile at a woman.
…
A few people were chatting animatedly while Lin Qingle was watching the performance alone. The more he watched, the more dizzy he felt. However, he was not dizzy from a discomfort, but rather slightly tipsy and a little excited.
She rubbed her temples and looked at the wine. It was so delicious, but it could make people drunk.
"Why are you all sitting here? Keep drinking." The short-haired girl put down her phone and pushed another cup to Lin Qingle, "Come on, I'll drink with you."
Lin Qingle waved his hand: "Just drink, I can drink a lot."
The short-haired girl chuckled and said, "No, you are the protagonist today, so of course I have to drink with you."
"but… "
"Don't worry, you've only drunk a little, you won't get drunk."
"She really can't drink much. Let me do it." Xu Tingbai came back at some point. He sat down next to Lin Qingle, took the glass of wine and drank it.
The short-haired girl was stunned for a moment, and smiled reluctantly: "Xu Tingbai, you can also be a hero and save the damsel in distress."
Xu Tingbai put down his wine glass and said nothing more, because he saw that Lin Qingle's eyes looked a little strange, "Did you drink?"
Lin Qingle immediately moved back: "No."
Xu Tingbai pulled her over directly, leaned over and kissed her on the lips, "You haven't drunk it yet, doesn't this smell like alcohol?"
Lin Qingle covered his mouth: "Are you a dog... and you still smell it."
Xu Tingbai pinched her cheek, with a smile in his eyes: "Who told you to lie to me?"
"I just drank a little bit..." Although, my head started to feel a little dizzy.
"How much is one point?"
"Just a little bit." Lin Qingle snorted and turned his head to look at the band below, "What do you care about me..."
It was easy to tell that she had been drinking, her cheeks were red, her eyes were bright and a little confused. It was even more obvious when she spoke, she sounded delicate and sweet, and the ending of her voice seemed to have a little hook.
Xu Tingbai felt itchy, pinched her face lightly and turned her head back: "See if I can control you... Go home."
Lin Qingle: "Leaving so soon? This band still has a song to sing later."
Xu Tingbai pulled her up from the sofa and coaxed her, "Okay, come over next time if you want to listen. It's better for you not to sit here now."
"What's wrong with me now?"
"What do you think?"
…
Xu Tingbai said hello to his friends and left with Lin Qingle. From beginning to end, he talked and laughed with her, almost completely ignoring everyone else.
After the people left, a woman in the booth picked up her phone belatedly and said, "Fuck, I should have recorded Xu Tingbai's appearance and sent it to Ziai."
The short-haired girl said: "... I want to piss her off to death."
"Let her be shocked with us! Was that Xu Tingbai? Who said he couldn't laugh?"
"What do you mean you can't laugh?" Xia Tan and Chen Ke came back, "Who are you talking about, Ting Bai?"
"Yeah, just now I saw him talking to his girlfriend, don't laugh too happily..."
Xia Tan: "That's really funny. I've been thinking about it for almost ten years."
"What?! Ten years?"
Xia Tan said faintly: "You don't know, right? That girl is the one he has cherished since he was a child. Now that he finally gets her, he must be very happy."