In the middle of July, at 2:30 in the afternoon, the sky in Haicheng was overcast and drizzling, and it started raining again.
At the desk of the general manager's office on the 13th floor of Rongtai Building in the Internet Financial Center, a young woman with a beautiful face and cool eyes, wearing a brown short-sleeved shirt, linen wide-leg pants, is rubbing her temple with one hand and quickly reviewing the documents on the table with the other.
It has been six years since Shi Yi came to Haicheng, but she still can't adapt to the long, hot and humid rainy season in Haicheng. When the weather comes, she loses her appetite, becomes listless, and feels uncomfortable all over.
After reading the last document sent by her assistant, she leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes to rest for a while. Thinking that she would have to socialize with people from the Municipal Department of Culture in the evening, she felt very tired and decided to go home and rest for a few hours.
She dialed the intercom and informed her assistant, picked up her bag and left the office, greeting people with nods from time to time. She walked through the open office area and met the company's vice president, Jin Mingruo, at the elevator entrance.
Jin Mingruo is one of the founders of this company, Boiling Point Media Culture Co., Ltd., and is the granddaughter of a leading paper maker in Shanghai, a family friend of the Shi family.
Because the relationships at home were in a mess, she felt upset whenever she saw them, so she went abroad to study after graduating from high school. She had intended to never return, but she didn't expect that her Chinese stomach couldn't adapt to foreign Western food. She had to endure four years of college and returned home in disgrace.
But she was really bored staying in Shencheng. She couldn't stand her brothers and sisters-in-law who kept buzzing in her ears, so she simply tricked the old man into giving her some start-up capital and ran away to Haicheng, the most prosperous metropolis, to live a carefree life.
At that time, Shi Yi happened to be studying for a master's degree in Haicheng, and they met while working part-time. Jin Mingruo met an old friend in a foreign land. Jin Mingruo was outgoing and friendly, and he thought Shi Yi looked depressed. When he was bored, he liked to take Shi Yi out to get together and relax. After a few times, the two became very familiar with each other.
Two years later, Shi Yi graduated with a master's degree. At that time, new media and short videos were developing rapidly. She saw business opportunities in Haicheng, the forefront of everything, and decided to start a business with two friends from her graduate school days. Due to insufficient start-up capital, she tried to invite Jin Mingruo after taking out a loan. Unexpectedly, Jin Mingruo agreed immediately and provided all the funds they needed, saying that she just wanted to be a salted fish, hold a sinecure, and make money at the end of the year to give her dividends.
Shi Yi naturally had no reason to refuse. The four of them rented a simple commercial and residential house in Haicheng and founded a media company with only ten people including employees. Shi Yi was the lead and leader, responsible for overall affairs and finance, his graduate student friend Shen Ting was responsible for content and technology, Rong Ying was responsible for business development and channel promotion, and Jin Mingruo was responsible for being cute and... being their backer, finding connections, and solving all the problems they couldn't solve.
In the past four years, they have worked hard, worked together, and taken one step at a time. The team has gradually grown from ten people to fifty, one hundred, and two hundred people. The business has gradually expanded from Haicheng to the whole country. After several rounds of financing, it has now become a well-known rising star enterprise in Haicheng's industry.
At the elevator entrance, when Jin Mingruo saw Shi Yi, his eyes lit up as if he had seen Ji Shiyu. He put his hands together and asked in a pretentious tone, "Hey, Mr. Shi, you're off work now. Where are you going? How about giving me a ride?"
Shi Yi was already used to it. He glanced at her, sneered, and asked as he got on the elevator, "Where's your car?"
Jin Mingruo followed and pressed the button for the basement floor. He said with a discontented "tsk", "You really don't care about me at all. My car was rear-ended and it's been two days since I sent it for repair."
Shi Yi was calm and composed, "I just got back from a business trip today."
"Oh, that's right." Jin Mingruo forgave her instantly. She didn't wait for Shi Yi's reply, and just assumed that she agreed and said, "Take me to the Huaibei Road area, is that on the way?"
Shi Yi passed by there on her way home. She said "hmm" and asked casually, "What are you doing there?"
"Signing a contract. Talking to a client."
Shi Yi was a little surprised: "Big client?" He actually came in person.
Jin Mingruo shook his head: "Not really."
Shi Yi raised his eyebrows.
Jin Mingruo smiled happily, "It's a newly opened restaurant that specializes in our southern province cuisine. It's very authentic and tastes amazing." For foodies, there is nothing happier than being able to eat food that suits their taste. At first, what attracted Shi Yi to their business was that they told her that they would promote food, drink and entertainment in Haicheng in the future, so they would be the first to get access to all the freshest, most fun and most delicious things.
Shi Yi asked: "Nanyuan?"
Jin Mingruo was surprised: "How do you know? It's this!"
Shi Yi got out of the elevator and said nonchalantly, "I've ordered food from that restaurant before." And more than once. Since it opened in their delivery area, in the past two months, if she was not on a business trip, she almost always asked her assistant to order lunch from this restaurant.
She grew up in Shencheng and was used to the bland and sweet dishes of Shencheng. After living in Haicheng for so many years, although she couldn't be used to the dishes of Haicheng, she still missed the taste of her hometown. She had eaten in many restaurants in Southern Province over the years, and this one was not the most authentic, but inexplicably, Shi Yi's taste buds could not forget it.
Maybe it wasn't inexplicable, but she didn't want to delve into why.
Jin Mingruo had an excited expression as if he had found an ally: "You think it's delicious too, don't you! Originally, when they contacted us, Xiaoye said to assign a BD there, and I thought it was a Southern Province restaurant, so I said I'd go and try it. Unexpectedly, it was surprisingly to my taste. And, let me tell you, the boss is a woman, very young and very beautiful. Just by her standing there, I guess half of the men would be full without even having to eat."
Shi Yi found the car, opened the door and got in, not caring: "Really?"
They themselves are not ugly. In the past two years, the company has transformed and expanded its business, and also done M. It has also signed many Internet celebrities and has seen many beautiful girls. Shi Yi has long been immune to the so-called "beauty".
Besides, what did she care whether she was pretty or not? She just wanted to go back to sleep.
But Jin Mingruo insisted: "You don't believe me!" She fastened her seat belt: "I'm telling you the truth. I haven't seen many people who are so naturally beautiful in all these years. I'm not saying she's beautiful, but she has a temperament that is particularly attractive. She's pure, gentle, and has the charm of a young mature woman. You can't help but want to make friends with her."
When she said this, it seemed like she was being infatuated with her "husbands" whom she changed every year in the talent show.
Shi Yi glanced at her, curled his lips, and said nothing.
Jin Mingruo was instantly furious: "Ah, Shi Yi, what are you laughing at! I'm serious. I bet you will definitely think she is beautiful!"
Shi Yi was not interested: "Okay, beautiful."
"No! You are too perfunctory! You are showing contempt for my aesthetic taste! Come with me, and you will know after you take a look."
"I dont go."
"No, you have to go!"
"Go take a look. You may not be able to convince her. If you sign her for a deep cooperation and let her be our model, we will definitely not lose out. Go ahead, Shi Yi, President Shi, the beautiful Shi..."
"By the way, she seems to have graduated from Shenda University as well. You may have run into each other before. Go ahead, it's no big deal to make a few more friends."
Jin Mingruo kept throwing a tantrum and trying to persuade Shi Yi. Shi Yi was annoyed by her. In addition, Shi Yi was indeed a little curious about Jin Mingruo's description, so he agreed to her reluctantly.
She had seen Jin Mingruo praise people, but she had never seen her praise someone so enthusiastically. How special could it be? She had a question mark in her mind.
Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the underground parking lot of Nanyuan Restaurant on Huaibei Road, took the elevator directly to the first floor and entered the restaurant lobby.
It was not meal time, so there were not many people in the lobby. The front office manager at the order counter obviously knew Jin Mingruo. When she saw them coming out of the elevator, she came over and greeted them warmly: "Sister Jin, you are here. This is..." She looked at Shi Yi hesitantly.
Jin Mingruo glanced at Shi Yi, smiled wickedly and said, "Colleague."
The manager hesitated for a second, but did not ask any more questions. He just smiled politely at Shi Yi and said to them, "Our boss was invited by an old friend of Yunshuijian to have a few words. She said that if you arrive, let us take you to the box to sit for a while, and she will be here soon."
Jin Mingruo responded casually: "Okay, it's okay."
The manager took Jin Mingruo upstairs. Shi Yi walked quietly beside Jin Mingruo, looking around calmly.
Looking around, this is a Chinese restaurant with simple and elegant decoration. The color matching is generous and elegant. It is rare to have style without being too heavy. The light gray floor, light yellow lanterns, light walnut wooden ceiling screen, tables and chairs and escalators, green potted plants, and white calligraphy and paintings are harmonious and complement each other, giving people a very comfortable feeling.
The boss must be a woman with great taste.
This was Shi Yi’s first feeling.
Arriving at the private room, the manager first pulled out a chair for Shi Yi, and then for Jin Mingruo. Afterwards, two other waiters came in with trays, two packs of wet and dry tissues, two bowls of perfectly chilled red dates stewed with golden fungus, and a few small pastries, asking them to taste the food and give their opinions.
Jin Mingruo looked at the wet tissue and smiled, "I don't need it today. I came up from the elevator and my shoes weren't splashed with rain."
The manager helped them tear off the lid of the flavored milk and replied with a smile: "Thanks to your reminder, Sister Jin, our boss later provided wet and dry wipes at the umbrella place at the entrance on rainy days for customers' convenience."
Jin Mingruo was embarrassed: "That wasn't really a reminder."
The boss should be a very thoughtful person.
This was Shi Yi’s second feeling.
As they were chatting, the door of the box was opened again, and a young female voice came into the room: "Sorry, I'm late."
Neither fast nor slow, soft and pleasant to the ear.
Shi Yi's heart skipped a beat and he subconsciously turned his head to look towards the source of the sound.
The sound came from the slender figure at the door. The woman had a gentle temperament, wearing a cotton and linen shirt and skirt, with long chestnut curly hair that fell to her waist like a waterfall, and skin as white as snow. She looked almost sickly, but she had a unique fragile and seductive beauty.
When their eyes met, Shi Yi could see clearly that they were a pair of eyes that were both familiar and unfamiliar to her.
Those eyes were the same amber color as in my memory, clear and gentle, yet deeper, more profound and more touching than in my memory.
Shi Yi almost stopped breathing for a moment, her body hairs stood on end due to the cold. The past that she thought she had long forgotten suddenly broke through the door of her memory with an unstoppable force, swallowing up the clouds and rolling up the sun, sweeping across the world.
Ah.
28-year-old Fu Shitian.
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