Zhao Yuan helped Zhao Zhanhuai with a favor, and she was somewhat proud in her heart, and wanted to take this opportunity to restore her previous relationship with Zhao Zhanhuai.
So she came home from school and didn't go upstairs after dinner, just sat on the sofa and watched TV absently, waiting for Zhao Zhanhuai to come back.
Zhao Zhanhuai has been very busy with the company's affairs recently, and it usually ends after ten o'clock in the evening.
Because the atmosphere at home was low during this time, he was overwhelmed emotionally, and even deliberately stayed at the company until after eleven o'clock in the evening before returning.
Today, he doesn't even want to go back.
Zhao Yuan really helped him in the matter of the Lu family's land, but Zhao Zhanhuai, a 25-year-old adult man, couldn't see that Zhao Yuan wanted to take this opportunity to shorten the distance with him? He was so excited on the phone call to himself, and when he went back, he would probably take credit in front of him.
It's just the attitude of a little girl. Zhao Zhanhuai didn't think it was anything.
It's just that he's stressed.
The praise, care and warmth that Zhao Yuan wanted, now he is very clear that he can't give it.
Whether it was because of his sympathy for his younger sister Zhao Mingxi, or because of Zhao Yuan's careful thoughts he had noticed earlier, he could no longer look directly at Zhao Yuan as before.
On the one hand, he really needs Lu's side to let go of profits. But on the other hand, there is no way to get closer to Zhao Yuan against his will.
So on the way back, Zhao Zhanhuai was very thoughtful, and he wished that there were more red lights on the road so that he could go home later. It's best that Zhao Yuan is already asleep when she gets home, so she doesn't have to face it.
But he didn't expect that it was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night when he got home. The car had just stopped outside the Zhao family's villa, and from the floor-to-ceiling glass, he could see Zhao Yuan waiting in the living room with a book and looking out from time to time.
Zhao Zhanhuai's scalp felt numb.
He hesitated in the car for a long time, and had the urge to drive the car back to the company immediately.
But before he restarted the car, Zhao Yuan found his car, with a surprise on his face, hurriedly stepped on his slippers and came out to greet him: "Brother."
Zhao Zhanhuai: "..."
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this night.
Lu Ye's father was called up by the assistant in the middle of the night, and the assistant panicked: "Mr. Lu, it's not good, Mr. Jiang suddenly returned to China and wanted to see you by name, his flight is about to land now, you see it's me Go pick it up or-"
Lu Xu held the phone sleepily, and when he heard the word 'Mr. Jiang', he immediately woke up as if he had been whipped.
He jumped up and hurriedly dressed: "Why did President Jiang suddenly return to China?! Is there something wrong with the company or what?! Hurry up and tell me the flight, and I will pick it up in person!"
Jiang is always the CEO and largest shareholder of Luxu Company. It can be said that the company's ability to support depends entirely on Jiang's funds! That group of rich people leaking a little from their fingers is enough for Lu Xu's company to make a lot of money!
In the past, President Jiang always stayed abroad, occasionally meeting remotely, but now he returns to China in person without saying hello? Is there something wrong with the company
Lu Xu was sweating profusely in his clothes, and hurriedly drove to the airport.
After receiving Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang's face was very ugly. He didn't bring any luggage with him.
Lu Xu's heart skipped a beat. Although he didn't know what was going on, he already felt that something was wrong, so he couldn't help but stumbled and asked, "Mr. Jiang, what's the matter?"
"How would I know what happened?!" President Jiang was furious and cursed: "I was in a foreign country with a fifteen-hour jet lag, and just one hour ago, I suddenly received an investor from Fu's company who suddenly scolded my main business. The news of the company's withdrawal of shares, I don't even know what happened! I was so exhausted that I called and asked, and the other party gave me a hint! So I want to ask you what you did!"
Lu Xu was scolded and his whole body was tense, but he was still confused: "But I haven't done anything recently. All projects are progressing according to your requirements, and everything is going very well."
"Are you going to sell a piece of land in the golf course?" President Jiang said angrily: "If you haven't signed the contract, don't sign it, and the project will be suspended."
Lu Xu was stunned: "Why do you want to stop it suddenly? Although this project won't make a lot of money, the partner is Zhao Zhanhuai, which is a subsidiary of Zhao's enterprise. He is a rising star and has strong ability. If you stop now, don't you want to lose money?"
President Jiang's attitude was very tough: "If you pay, you will pay! Do you think your little money is enough for me to pay?"
…
Although Lu Xu was inexplicable, but seeing President Jiang's frantic attitude, he knew that it was no small matter. It was estimated that this incident had offended some higher-level bosses. The other party directly put pressure on President Jiang, and then put pressure on himself layer by layer. coming!
Lu Xu didn't dare to neglect at all, so he was so frightened that he went back to the company immediately, adjusted the candidates for bidding, and directly crossed out the company of Zhao Zhanhuai, who was about to sign the contract, from the cooperation partners.
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Zhao Zhanhuai received the news after arriving at the company the next day.
The fourth group of his project has already drawn up the contract and is waiting for it to be signed today.
But I don't know why all the contracts faxed in the morning have no response, so I called Lu's, and the people on Lu's side were quite perfunctory, and hung up without talking about the main point.
The person in charge of the fourth team of the project intuitively had a change. He picked up the contract and went to the Lu family in person, but was rejected from the front desk.
The manager of the fourth team of the project panicked, and hurried back to the company to find Zhao Zhanhuai.
Zhao Zhanhuai's side must win the Lu's land, so that the entire project can continue to be mined in the later stage, and for this project, too much cost has been invested in the early stage, and now the contract cannot be successfully signed, which means that all the early stage funds are wasted.
Zhao Zhanhuai thought that Lu's side was a temporary change of mind, and wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price. He resisted his anger and took his assistant to visit Lu's in person.
But never expected.
Lu Shi really didn't want to raise the price, but directly, not to sell.
"Mr. Lu, what do you mean?" Zhao Zhanhuai, even the gentlest person, was so angry that his forehead burst into blue veins: "Didn't you deliberately mess with our company's project? You know how much I invested in the early stage, not counting the cost of money, Human and material resources alone are immeasurable!"
Lu Xu was also furious. For this project of Zhao Zhanhuai, he was scolded by President Jiang last night, and he said angrily: "That's your own business! Business is always accompanied by risks. Don't you understand?"
"Temporary change, who would dare to cooperate with the Lu family in the future?"
"You don't need to worry about this." Lu Xuxin said, it's better than offending the top person.
Zhao Zhanhuai took a deep breath: "In this way, my side will increase the price by 10% from the first negotiated price, and it can't be any more, otherwise—"
"Xiao Zhao, don't you understand what I mean? On my side, stop the project." Lu Xu said: "It means that this land is rotten in my hands, and I won't sell it to you. It's not that you raise the price or not. problem."
Zhao Zhanhuai couldn't understand how things turned out like this: "Why?"
When he mentioned it, Lu Xu was on fire.
President Jiang didn't let Lu Xu tell Zhao Zhanhuai why, so Lu Xu poured his anger on the fact that he was bitten by his white-eyed wolf son: "Then you might as well go back and ask your sister what kind of ecstasy soup your sister gave my son, he still dares to come. Steal my bidding materials, my family is a prodigal, and yours doesn't seem to be a good deal!"
When Lu Xu said this, Zhao Zhanhuai completely thought it was a personal hatred.
Lu Xu was angry that Zhao Yuan used Lu Ye, so he deliberately played with himself
Zhao Zhanhuai's face was ashen when he returned to the company, he strode back to the office, and the door was slammed shut. The entire company's employees had never seen a young CEO so angry!
After the people in the fourth group of the project learned the news, they were even more indignant. A dozen people have been preparing for the project for three months without stopping. !
This land is essential to the progress of this project.
Originally, Zhao Zhanhuai planned that if he couldn't buy it at a lower price, then he would just buy it at the original price, just spend a little more money.
Later profits should cover the full cost.
Zhao Yuan said that she could help, but Zhao Zhanhuai thought that at most she just asked Lu Ye, a classmate in her class, to blow her father's ears, but she never expected that she would let Lu Ye steal the bidding materials and threaten Lu Xu! So much so that now Lu Xu is angry, and simply suspends the cooperation completely!
Now the Lu family directly refuses to cooperate and does not sell it!
It brought greater backlash and losses to Zhao Zhanhuai's company! Now change the address, at least half of the tens of millions that were lost in the early stage must be lost!
A whole project was ruined by a little girl movie.
"It's nonsense!" Zhao Zhanhuai threw the broken contract in front of Zhao Yuan that night: "Don't meddle in my affairs in the future!"
Zhao Yuan's face paled: "I didn't expect things to turn out like this. Lu Ye clearly promised that there would be no problem, and Lu Ye's father was about to sign a contract with you, didn't he? It means that Lu Ye and I have no good intentions to do bad things. Now that things are like this, there must be other reasons!"
"You still want to shirk responsibility?" Zhao Zhanhuai looked at Zhao Yuan with an indescribable disappointment.
This is the matter of Zhao Zhanhuai's company. The company has lost tens of millions, and Zhao's father and Zhao's mother are not very good-looking.
But Mother Zhao couldn't bear to blame Zhao Yuan by the whole family, so she couldn't help but said to Zhao Zhanhuai: "Forget it, things have come to this point, what else can I say?"
"It's really useless to do anything now." Zhao Zhanhuai shook his head with an ugly face: "But in the future, Zhao Yuan, don't instigate your classmates to do anything without my permission. I know your classmates are all Rich second generation, some families may help my company - but with your ability, you will only do me a disservice like today!"
"Also, Zhao Mingxi has left home, so you don't need to do everything possible to fight with her."
As soon as she said these words, it seemed that she had been stabbed into the most secret thoughts. Zhao Yuan's body was tense, her eyes were red, and her fingernails were pinched into the palm of her hand.
Sitting on the sofa, she felt Zhao Mo and Zhao Yuning's scrutiny, like sitting on pins and needles, and her heart became a pot of porridge.
Why is this so
"I didn't." Zhao Yuan cried, "I just want to help you, eldest brother."
However, the family members may only have Zhao father who doesn't stay at home often and Zhao mother who pity Zhao Yuan can't see it.
The other three had already seen it.
If it wasn't to attract the attention of her family, Zhao Yuan would not go out of her way to help Zhao Zhanhuai with this project.
In this regard, Zhao Yuning, Zhao Mo, and Zhao Zhanhuai didn't have any surprises in their hearts.
They only felt that Zhao Yuan, who was in front of them, had vaguely made them not know each other.
In the past, Zhao Yuan didn't seem to have deliberately competed with Zhao Mingxi for favor or something - or maybe they had fought before, but they didn't find it
Or, she didn't have to fight for something in the past, because everyone's heart was crooked, and they were all biased towards her.
This realization made Zhao Mo frown.
And Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning couldn't help but reflect.
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The atmosphere of the Zhao family has dropped below zero recently, and the nanny in the kitchen does not dare to move outside the kitchen, for fear of bumping into someone with low pressure in the Zhao family and touching the bad head.
Now it is visibly dead.
Because of this incident, Zhao Zhanhuai's company suffered serious losses. He had to work hard to save it, so he didn't care about anything else and moved to an apartment near the company that night.
Originally, Zhao Yuning was still living in the hotel now, Zhao Mo's dissolute temperament didn't go home, and Zhao's father was also busy. In addition, Zhao Zhanhuai moved out of Zhao's house again. The Zhao family's villa suddenly changed from the liveliness of the past to a lonely one, like a lonely grave.
Even if Mother Zhao wanted to break her head two months ago, she would never have thought that the current Zhao family would be broken up.
Rather than saying that the current situation was brought about by Zhao Mingxi's running away from home, it would be better to say that it was brought about by Zhao Yuan, who should not have been surnamed Zhao.
Mother Zhao felt anxious when she thought that for a girl who was not related by blood to her, forcing her own family away one by one.
People are like that. The matter of 'not her own', even though Mother Zhao tried her best to make herself forget it and treat Zhao Yuan as her own daughter, she was even better than her own. But once there are conflicts and disagreements, it will still make Zhao mother choked up.
After Zhao Zhanhuai left home that day, Zhao Yuan cried for two hours under a quilt in her room.
But this time, no Zhao family took turns to comfort her.
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What happened to the Zhao family didn't reach Mingxi's ears at all.
She packed her clothes and followed Fu Yangxi back to his house.
Mingxi originally wanted to resolve the conflict as soon as possible, and the estrangement could not stay overnight.
But I never expected that the atmosphere at this moment would be so embarrassing...
She was sitting on the sofa with her schoolbag in her arms, separated from Fu Yangxi, and looked at each other with a blushing face.
How could this be
Mingxi didn't think too much about the glass of water he poured at that time, he just hoped not to be separated from Fu Yangxi immediately.
If I had known this earlier, killing her would not have come to his house for the second time.
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Although there are two bathrooms in the duplex apartment, because Fu Yangxi asked people to transform the second floor into a billiard room and a projection room, and the bathroom on the second floor has not been used for many years, and it cannot be cleaned overnight. So it's like having only one bathroom.
This means that two people have to share a bathroom.
It also means that when a person is taking a shower, that person outside is bound to hear the sound of water splashing, smell the scent of fragrant shower gel, and perceive the sound of water running through the body.
In addition, when the two of them first came in, Fu Yangxi's face was red, and she rushed to the balcony to collect a lot of clothes.
The clothes that are scattered are also very large in size...
If a sweater is changed to Mingxi's, it can hang down to the root of the thigh.
Last time, Mingxi's attention was all on Fu Yangxi's fever.
And I am afraid that Fu Yangxi has also cleaned up.
This time, it was completely unexpected for both of them. That's why a lot of things were lost.
Razors are scattered randomly on the coffee table.
Everything a boy would use.
This suddenly made Mingxi realize that no matter how arrogant the person in front of him was, no matter how arrogant he was, he was really a tall, handsome and energetic young man with juvenile androgen hormones. The wifi hotspot…
Mingxi's eyes fell on Fu Yangxi's slippers, which were a few sizes bigger than her, and the feeling that she couldn't tickle through the boots reappeared in her heart.
"Or I'll go back to school—" Mingxi stood up.
Before he finished speaking, Fu Yangxi also quickly stood up, trying his best to appear calm. He was a head taller than Mingxi, staring at Zhao Mingxi fiercely: "What?!"
"The quilt is just that small piece."
"What a small piece, your quilt is soaking wet, and it will take two days to hang it up. What do you do when you go back, where do you sleep?!"
Mingxi: "Or I'll stay in a hotel."
Fu Yangxi said, "Just stay here, I'll go out and stay at the hotel tonight!"
After finishing speaking, Fu Yangxi added another sentence: "Don't think about it too much, my lord, I have always been righteous, and if something like this happens to Ke Chengwen, I will keep him for two nights."
"… "
Mingxi couldn't tell what the sudden loss was in her heart after hearing his analogy... She couldn't let the owner go out and stay by herself, so she hesitated and said, "That's still, that's still staying here. All right."
Fu Yangxi swallowed, and gave a cold "um", very reluctantly: "Tsk, it seems like this is the only way."
As soon as this is over.
The air fell silent again.
In order to break the weird atmosphere, Mingxi said, "You have a movie screening room on the second floor, why don't you watch a movie?"
I don't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the dark clouds that had been covering Fu Yangxi's head, which had been low in pressure for the past few days, seemed to have spread out a little bit.
Fu Yangxi stood up expressionlessly and led her upstairs: "What movie to watch, you choose."
Mingxi: "Okay."
After a pause, Fu Yangxi put her hands in her pockets, without turning her head, she said coldly, "It looks like we have to eat together tomorrow."
"Not at noon." Mingxi said: "Tomorrow at noon, Dong Shen asked me to accompany him to buy things, some clothes and supplies from transfer."
"Dong Shen?"
"Three o'clock is the depth of the water." Mingxi knew that he couldn't remember Mingxi, and quietly rolled his eyes behind him: "I mentioned it last time."
After a pause, Mingxi hurriedly said, "Let's eat together tomorrow night."
She couldn't describe her psychology at this time. In short, Fu Yangxi had been weird these days. She rarely offered an invitation to eat, so she didn't want to refuse. Moreover, although the two spent a lot of time together, they never ate together alone.
She didn't know if it was Mingxi's illusion, but after she said this, the backs of the people in front looked much more pleasant.
Mingxi couldn't fathom Fu Yangxi's thoughts, so he suddenly took two quick steps, jumped to the steps in front of him, and looked back at his expression.
As a result, I saw Fu Yangxi's face, "Although we can have a meal together, I am still dead. Although I feel tired and don't love me, but a man doesn't cry easily, leave me alone".
Fu Yangxi lifted his eyelids: "What are you doing?"
It doesn't seem to be happy.
Mingxi felt that the boy's mind was really hard to guess, and Fu Yangxi's mind was even more difficult.
In the past, Mingxi, who was strange to him, didn't know what he was thinking about, but now Mingxi started to figure out what he was thinking, but found that the difficulty was no less than doing a few sets of math Olympiad problems.
Mingxi's head hurts: "It's nothing."
She pondered that when she was watching the movie, she must ask Fu Yangxi what was going on these days, and what made him uncomfortable.
Fu Yangxi pushed open the door, and the two entered the movie screening room.
Mingxi stayed for a while.
Is this the life of the rich? The apartment where one lives alone is not much better than the Zhao family's villa. The huge room was empty, only one sofa was left behind. Behind the sofa was a row of shelves, piled up with books and DVDs, and on the opposite white wall was a full-face projection.
The projection is on, showing a faint blue light.
Fu Yangxi walked over, his profile was well-defined, his eyelashes drooped slightly, and the blue light cast a shadow on his face.
Mingxi looked at him, and then at the hand he used to debug the mechanism.
That hand was fair and slender, because it was pampered and without any thin calluses, it would definitely be dry and warm when held in the early winter season.
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Mingxi suddenly began to lose his mind, unconsciously recalling the feeling of holding Fu Yangxi's hand before the last monthly exam.
But in fact, at that time, all attention was on the sprouts of their potted plants.
It's not dissimilar to the way many students hold the hand of the Einstein statue at school before exams.
Can't remember what it was like at all.
Mingxi remembered the feeling of rubbing the top of his hair with his hand again, the force was not light at all, even a little unceremoniously heavy, like rubbing a rag.
It didn't matter much at the time.
But at this moment, she was inexplicably remembered.
Why.
Mingxi subconsciously licked his dry lips.
"Have you seen this?"
When he came back to his senses, Mingxi saw Fu Yangxi raising a sci-fi film.
"seen it already."
Fu Yangxi: "with whom?"
Mingxi's eyes still fell on Fu Yangxi's well-defined face, and he replied subconsciously, "When I first came to City A, I watched it with Shen Liyao, Dong Shen and the others. It was so touching that I cried."
"… "
I didn't expect to get such an answer at all.
Fu Yangxi's fingers holding the video disc clenched tightly.
Fu Yangxi suddenly realized that Shen Liyao knew the people around Zhao Mingxi for a long time, and knew about Zhao Mingxi's family earlier than himself.
"Oh, is it? It's good." Fu Yangxi didn't show any expression, but just stuffed the disc back, her brows and eyes were dark in the blue light.
"Want to watch a different movie?" Mingxi was very at ease: "If you want to watch it, I'll be fine if I watch it again."
After a pause, Fu Yangxi said lightly, "Is the movie good?"
Mingxi recalled the plot and said, "It's about a little boy with artificial intelligence who went through adventures in order to become a real child. It's quite touching."
Fu Yangxi: "You remember it quite clearly."
Mingxi thought he wanted to hear it and introduced it: "It was in the cinema at the time, it was dark all around, and the effect was very good. I still remember a plot..."
However, he was interrupted by Fu Yangxi before he finished speaking: "Suddenly sleepy."
Mingxi:
After listening to it, Fu Yangxi was not sure that she would not pick up Shen Liyao in the middle of the night and beat him up. He knew that he shouldn't have negative emotions because of such a thing, but he was inevitably jealous.
He is jealous that Shen Liyao and Xiao Mask have had a baby kiss since childhood, and participated in the people and things in Xiao Mask's past.
I am even more jealous that Shen Liyao was once liked by Xiao Mask - he really liked it, not the kind that he pretended to be affectionate.
Seeing the messy hair on his forehead, Mingxi lowered his eyes, and suddenly turned around and went downstairs.
"Don't watch?" Mingxi hurriedly followed.
She feels that Fu Yangxi's recent mood swings are like an irregular uncle...
"next time."
"Go take a bath and go to bed early." Fu Yangxi brought Mingxi to the front of the room.
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The moment Mingxi entered the room, Fu Yangxi almost blurted out, so, do you still like Shen Liyao
But he felt like a clown, didn't have the courage to ask, and was even more afraid of getting answers he didn't want to hear.