"I don't agree."
"I know." Li Xuan nodded.
Such an indifferent attitude obviously angered Qi Boyuan: "It's not important, right?"
"Alright, alright." Chu Tianheng made a pause gesture. "What are you two arguing about? Let's make it clear first. Li Xuan wants to let someone in to do the administration? Who is he? ... Bo Yuan, you should calm down first. Aren't you usually in a good mood? This is not a big deal. Don't be so angry."
"I don't have a beard at all!" Qi Boyuan was so angry that his mind was confused. "No, senior, you don't understand the problem behind this matter at all. In short, I absolutely do not agree with this person coming."
"Then tell me about it."
"I don't know anything I'm talking about." He pointed at the table in front of Li Xuan, "You tell me yourself."
"Calm down." Chu Tianheng patted Qi Boyuan's shoulder and said to Li Xuan, "What do you say? Involve me in this as a referee. Someone has to explain the whole story to me."
"I've made it very clear what I want to say." Li Xuan raised his head. "Continue to recruit administrative staff as needed. Ask Xiao Ding if she can leave a week later to hand over her work. As for Zhao Jizhe, he'll be here tomorrow. Just assign him a position and don't count his share of the salary. You don't have to give him any specific work to do. Just pretend you don't see him."
"Can't see? Unless I'm blind. Li Xuan, if you let anyone into the company, even if you put Sheng..."
Li Xuan's eyes immediately swept over, and Qi Boyuan also realized his slip of the tongue, and he stopped talking halfway. After being interrupted, his tone softened a little: "Anyway, I have no opinion on the other people. You are the boss, you have the final say. But this person is really not good. He is not right as a whole, and his behavior is illogical. I only saw him once and I felt there was something wrong with him. Don't you understand it from your heart?"
"Clear. And then?"
"Then? You're asking me then? Can't you just not let him come? I don't understand why you insist on letting him come."
"Because I want him to go, willingly."
"Are you a philosopher?" Qi Boyuan almost laughed out of anger. "I don't care whether someone comes or leaves willingly or not. My intuition tells me that this person is not right. I cannot accept such a hidden danger in the company. It will eventually become a problem one day."
"No matter how big the trouble is, I can solve it." Li Xuan said lightly.
“But this is a problem that could have been avoided!”
"No, why are you arguing again?" Chu Tianheng tried to reconcile.
Qi Boyuan said with a headache: "Senior, you have never seen this person..."
"Aren't we going to meet soon?"
"You agree?" He widened his eyes.
"I... ... "
Chu Tianheng smiled awkwardly and looked at Li Xuan. The latter pressed his eyebrows and said, "You can avoid it, but I can't. There is no need to discuss this matter anymore."
Qi Boyuan looked at him for a few seconds, said nothing, then turned and walked out of the office.
Li Xuan called him again: "Wait."
Although it was obvious that he was reluctant, Qi Boyuan still stopped stiffly.
"I'm going to finish the drawings first." Chu Tianheng sighed and looked at them. "Let's have a good chat. Why are you arguing? The soundproofing in this house is not good, and there are so many employees watching outside."
He gave a few words of advice, then closed the door and went out.
"What?" Qi Boyuan asked extremely unhappily.
Li Xuan paused for a second: "When Zhao Jizhe comes, don't mention Sheng Min's existence in front of him."
"It seems like you're not unaware that he has problems. I feel sorry for your big star and he can't take the risk, but the company can, right?" Qi Boyuan was so angry that he said something without thinking and shook his head, "Li Xuan, you're too stubborn. I'll see what you can come up with."
No matter how unhappy Qi Boyuan was, Zhao Jizhe still came on time the next morning. The quarrel between Li Xuan and Qi Boyuan had been heard by everyone in the company, but no one dared to take the initiative to talk to him, and he didn't feel embarrassed. He sat next to the administration and followed him to do things.
"Actually, you don't have to do this." Xiao Ding was a little embarrassed. "The boss said you don't have to do it."
Zhao Jizhe didn't react and continued to do what he wanted next time. After so many times, Xiao Ding couldn't bear to leave him alone.
Overall, he is actually a person with a very low sense of presence. When he has nothing to do, he just sits quietly and doesn't talk to others.
But Qi Boyuan's opinion of him did not change because of this, especially every time Li Xuan came out of the office, the look in Zhao Jizhe's eyes when he looked at Li Xuan, perhaps because of his preconceived notions, always made him feel like a snake that had inexplicably entangled itself in a humid jungle, and Qi Boyuan felt scared for Li Xuan.
I don’t know if the latter noticed it, but he never cared about it.
He had another worry—Sheng Min was about to return to City N, and the wound on his hand had not healed yet.
He missed him, but at the same time he was worried that he would come back and see the wound on his hand. This dilemma was just like this, a very sweet torment.
The day before Sheng Min returned from the promotion, Li Xuan went to the hospital to change the dressing. Although he knew it was too late, he couldn't help but ask the nurse again: "Can the stitches be removed today?"
"How can we do it today?" The nurse skillfully wrapped a circle of gauze around him. "It will take until next week at the earliest. Don't worry, young man. Your injury is not serious. Take your time."
This comfort was really ineffective. Li Xuan gritted his teeth and reluctantly said thank you. When the nurse left, he took out his cell phone and found that Sheng Min had just sent him a message.
'The promotional schedule has changed temporarily, so I won't be back this week.'
Followed by an emoticon that says I miss you.
Li Xuan was stunned. This news came as timely as rain. However, the sudden sense of loss overwhelmed the relief of not having to explain why he was hurt. Li Xuan could even see his tightly pursed lips in the reflection of the glass.
'good'.
He typed and deleted it.
'When will you be back?'
Or delete it.
'good.'
Not good, not good at all.
He walked towards the parking lot with a bit of depression, passed by a vending machine, stopped to buy a bottle of orange juice endorsed by Sheng Min. He then clicked on Sheng Min's super chat, and the top post was an initiative to prohibit following private schedules and to rationally pursue stars.
The drink happened to fall out of the dispenser at this time. Li Xuan looked at Sheng Min's smiling face in the promotional picture, and suddenly remembered the inexplicable call from Yang Xu.
It was like a hidden seed of doubt that suddenly found the soil to break out of its shell and quickly took root and sprouted.
No, Li Xuan thought. He frowned and quickly dialed Sheng Min's number, but it rang and hung up automatically, but no one answered.
Without hesitation, he dialed Yang Xu's number.
"Hello?"
"Where's Shengmin? Let him answer the phone."
The conversation was almost the same as that night, even Yang Xu's hesitant state did not change.
"My brother, my brother..."
"Is he on the set? Did something happen?" If it was just a doubt just now, now it almost confirmed his thoughts. "I'm asking you, speak up!"
"What happened? Don't talk nonsense. I don't know." Yang Xu burst into tears under his harsh urging. "He asked me to find the waiter, but when I came back, he was gone. He left a message saying that he had something to deal with. I couldn't contact him for a few days..."
I dialed the number again and walked to the car, but still no call.
In the busy tone, Li Xuan remembered that the calls he had made with Sheng Min in the past few days were extremely short. But Sheng Min took the initiative to call him every time, and it sounded normal. He had a guilty conscience and didn't notice anything wrong.
His heart sank. Sometimes he thought about what Yang Xu said about his debt collector brother who came to visit before Sheng Min left. Sometimes he thought about how Sheng Min said good night to him every day as if nothing had happened.
With his thoughts in a mess, he almost ran a red light and stopped slamming on the brakes at the zebra crossing.
At this moment, the cell phone rang suddenly, and the caller ID showed Sheng Min.
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