Ning Xi was at a loss, "How can I appease her?"
Lu Tingxiao pinched his brows, obviously having no idea what to do with this situation.
Ning Xi had a sad face. Never mind. She was the one who made the man cry. She should comfort him herself.
Ning Xi quickly squatted there and began to explain, "Aze, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to disappear for such a long time, and I didn't intentionally leave our Ze Ling alone. I was seriously injured before and lay in bed for a whole year. I didn't wake up until a few days ago. Because I lay in bed for too long, I was very weak when I woke up and had difficulty speaking, so I didn't take care of Ze Ling right away. I blocked all the news before to avoid leaking the news and causing too much malicious speculation. I didn't tell anyone. I'm really sorry..."
Ning Xi talked for a long time, her lips were almost broken, and the young man finally said in a muffled voice: "I thought... I disappointed you..."
Ning Xi immediately held her forehead with her hand, "How is this possible! You're so awesome! Picking you up is like picking up a treasure, okay!"
"I thought... I wasn't good enough... I couldn't satisfy you... I thought Ze Ling was just an insignificant existence to you... I suddenly didn't know... I didn't know the meaning of my persistence..." The young man continued, his face full of the dead silence and despair of being abandoned.
Ning Xi almost collapsed. Why did she feel like a heartless person when hearing this
She really didn't!
"Oh my god! How come you like to daydream when you have nothing to do! Don't you know how important Ze Ling is to me? We started with the first design drawing, the first customer, the first flagship store, and have been working hard to build Ze Ling up till now. But I haven't seen our Ze Ling stand on the world stage, and I haven't let everyone know that you, a talented designer, have slapped Dai Wei in the face!"
Gong Shangze still buried his head, clenching his fists tightly, "Boss... I'm sorry... When you were away... I didn't... didn't do it well... I'm sorry..."
"It's okay, it's okay! It's my fault after all!" Ning Xi quickly comforted him.
In fact, she could completely understand Gong Shangze's feelings.
Gong Shangze had already suffered psychological trauma after experiencing betrayal and abandonment. This time, during the long wait, all kinds of speculation, doubts, and self-denial evolved into self-loathing. He even thought that all his efforts were not seen or cared about by that person, which made him feel that everything was meaningless.
For a creator, the most fatal bottlenecks besides "self-doubt" is "loss of meaning", any one of which is enough to ruin a designer.
What's more, Gong Shangze has both at the same time, so it is not easy for him to hold on until now.
If she had woken up any later, such a genius might have been devastated and never got up again.
Ning Xi felt a pang of fear when she thought of this, "There's only one thing you should say sorry to me for. Look at you. I worked so hard to make you into a handsome young man, but you turned back into an old man! Get up and follow me!"
Gong Shangze stood up slowly, "Boss... where are you going..."
"Just go to my place! I won't cheat you anyway!"
Gong Shangze glanced in Lu Tingxiao's direction and said, "I... I'd better forget it... I'm fine here..."
"What's good about that? If I had come later, I might have seen a dried corpse! Why are you looking at my heart? Don't worry, there's a lot of room. You can't be a light bulb! What kind of inspiration can you get if you stay here every day? I'll take you to a different environment, and I guarantee that you'll find that you're still the genius designer XZ who beats everything! You're still the king of this world!"