"Didn't I tell you not to take risks by coming in? Why don't you listen?"
The voice was so light that it seemed like an illusion, and it passed by Song Shu's ears so quickly that he couldn't catch it.
Song Shu seemed to be stunned. She paused for a long time, looking down at the red teacup, and then she blinked gently.
"Auntie An."
"… "
"I thought you didn't recognize me."
An Xingyun was silent for a few seconds, then raised his eyes and scanned the person in front of him who had completely shed his childish appearance and had grown up.
She sighed again, "Yes, you've changed a lot, so much that I can hardly recognize you... Have you been living alone all these years?"
Song Shu poured the cup of black tea in his hand, which had been added with cinnamon twice, into the abandoned pool. While taking out the tea powder again, he whispered, "Aunt An, don't be sad for me. I'm doing well. Uncle Yu's family takes good care of me."
"Yu Yuntao, I almost forgot about him." An Xingyun nodded gently, "His son is the Yu Qisheng from Junsheng Law Firm that was rumored in the company, right?"
"yes."
"This matter has been kept secret. Don't mention it to anyone else, not even Qin Lou."
"…" Song Shu blinked, "Okay."
The frozen temperature in An Xingyun's eyes melted slightly. "Then there are rumors in the company that you and he are engaged. Is this true?"
"… "
Song Shu lowered his eyes helplessly.
An Xingyun and her mother Bai Song graduated from the same university. They were not in the same major, but they met at an extracurricular student activity and gradually became close friends. When An Xingyun joined Qin's, Bai Song also made a lot of efforts and persuasion behind her.
Due to their personalities, both of them are independent and in some ways extremely tough and even stubborn.
After An Xingyun entered Qin's company, because the two of them belonged to different factions and happened to have some competition and grudges between them, in the eyes of everyone, the two of them had no connection at all - and because of this, all the confidants and subordinates related to Bai Song in the company at that time were purged and implicated, but this true lifelong friend of Bai Song was ignored and was able to stay in the company until now.
And in that disaster that year, if An Xingyun had not received the news in time and informed Yu Yuntao to rescue Song Shu, Song Shu probably would not have had the chance to stand here again.
Therefore, at this moment, Song Shu was very clear that any questions An Xingyun asked her had nothing to do with gossip - An Xingyun was like her non-blood-related elder, who simply cared about her affairs.
Song Shu naturally couldn't lie to such an elder, "Aunt An, Yu Qisheng and I are just classmates and friends. At most, I am grateful to Uncle Yu's family for helping and caring for me. There is nothing else."
"Yu Qisheng is a good kid, can't he?"
"It's not a question of whether it's good or not." Song Shu's Ceylon black tea had reached the final stage of processing. Her movements became slower and slower, and her voice became softer and lower. "It's just that Yu Qisheng is not suitable for me, and I am not suitable for him. And... this matter comes first, and I don't want to consider anything else."
An Xingyun raised his head and glanced at her calmly, "I really hope you can treat everyone equally and not consider anyone - but can you do it?"
"… "
"If you can really do it, then what happened to Qin Lou? What about the time you spent alone in the office tonight?"
"… "
Song Shu naturally knew what An Xingyun meant.
She also remembered that even before that incident nine years ago, An Xingyun had a great prejudice and dislike towards the Qin family's only grandson.
Thinking of this, Song Shu's lips curled slightly.
An Xingyun glared at her and said expressionlessly, "You can still laugh? Do you know how dangerous Qin Lou is to you?"
Song Shu smiled and lowered his eyes. "Nothing. I just thought that you, Aunt An, have been working as an assistant beside Qin Lou for so many years. It must be very hard for you to tolerate him."
"… "
When An Xingyun heard Song Shu mention the madman, his expression became more complicated.
"He is even less suitable for you, especially now. Qin Lou's character is too paranoid after all. His obsession with you... Even if there is no grudge between your two families, I would never agree. What's more, now you don't know where this matter will go, who we will involve along the way, and even what the end result will be, who can stay out of the game and who is in the game - why bother to provoke him, it will not benefit anyone."
Song Shu lowered his eyes, "I didn't take the initiative to provoke him, Aunt An. It's just that some people are like some things, you can't avoid them."
"Including the option of joining VIO?"
"..." The topic once again came back to the core conflict between the two of them - this was also the point that had caused countless disputes when Song Shu was in contact with An Xingyun before returning to China.
Song Shu said helplessly: "I told you a long time ago that the current violet is like a pool of stagnant water. Those things hidden in the mud have been comfortable for too long. They are no longer willing to come out. I must be the bait. Only when I enter the game can they be lured out, and the truth of that incident can be truly revealed."
An Xingyun remained calm, "What if you die? I took such a risk and tried so hard to contact Yu Yuntao to rescue you, not to let you come back and die in nine years."
Hearing this, Song Shu laughed.
"If I die... that would be even better. That incident would have a chance to be completely exposed. I don't believe that I would die silently like my mother, or myself back then, in the big network of relationships that we have spent nine years building."
"Song, Shu."
An Xingyun lowered his voice and warned her.
Song Shu withdrew from that cold smile, her eyes curved, and she returned to her original gentleness and harmlessness. Then Song Shu lowered her head and stirred the spoon in her hand, smiling faintly, "Don't worry, Aunt An. I won't really let myself go to that step."
"..." An Xingyun was obviously not reassured.
Song Shu looked back at her, "Even for those who are still alive, I won't."
An Xingyun stared at her for two seconds, then looked away and gathered the almost cold coffee into his palm. "In that case, I can't persuade you. But you have to be sensible when taking risks, understand?"
"Got it, Aunt An."
An Xingyun nodded and turned to leave.
Song Shu suddenly asked in a low voice behind her: "Is there anyone in the assistant team that Sister An suspects?"
An Xingyun paused and remained silent for two seconds before speaking, "Did you figure it out?"
"If I hadn't noticed, I wouldn't have pretended to be at odds with you when I was in the assistant group."
"To clear me of suspicion?" With his back to Song Shu, An Xingyun finally showed a gentle smile, but quickly suppressed it, "It's not suspicion, it's just that I don't trust you that much."
Song Shu nodded, "I understand. I will be more careful next time."
"You're... careful enough."
An Xingyun thought of the scene in the assistant group that she almost failed to catch, shook her head helplessly, and turned to walk out.
After countless attempts, Song Shu finally brewed a cup of Ceylon black tea that satisfied her. She had tasted too much and couldn't drink any more. Thinking that there was someone on this floor who she could flatter without being suspected, Song Shu happily carried the cup of black tea to the general manager's office.
To pass through the general manager's office, one must pass through the assistant secretary team's office. Someone from inside the completely transparent glass door looked up and caught a glimpse of Song Shu's figure, and chuckled.
"You really spared no effort in seducing and pleasing me. Jiajia, you better be careful. If your job is taken away by the newcomer you trained, wouldn't that be miserable?"
Xu Jiajia felt uneasy and worried when she heard that, then shook her head, "No, Miss Qin is a very nice person."
"Heh, if you're a nice person, you wouldn't rush to the general manager's office even though you already have a fiancé."
“… That’s enough.”
An Xingyun frowned at the computer desk, "Have you finished your work? You dare to talk about the general manager behind his back. Do you want to quit directly if you don't want to work overtime?"
“… … ”
An Xingyun's words were final and binding among the assistants. No one else dared to refute him and they all lowered their heads.
An Xingyun's eyes passed over someone in the room and fell back to the computer without any expression.
She sighed helplessly again in her heart.
Song Shu...
On the other side, Song Shu had already knocked on the door of the general manager's office and pushed it open.
The man who was resting with his eyes closed behind the desk opened his eyes and was about to scold, but when he saw that it was Song Shu, he suppressed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
His originally gloomy eyes twisted, and he transformed from a wolf about to pounce on him into a curled-up stray puppy.
"Tired." Qin the stray puppy looked at Song Shu pitifully.
Song Shu walked over and placed the brewed Ceylon black tea on his desk. "I just learned how to make it. I added less tea powder, so the concentration is relatively low. You can try it—don't drink too much, or it will affect your rest."
Qin Lou's eyes lit up, "Did you make it yourself?"
"Um."
"Have you added some clam shell powder? I heard it can improve your skin's appearance."
"… "
Song Shu endured it and didn't make the mistake of accidentally dumping the still hot tea on the general manager's face on the last day of the second week after officially joining the company.
"Would you like to drink?"
"Drink." Qin Lou hurriedly invited him over.
Song Shu looked at him curiously as he held the cup in front of him, as if he was studying the difference between the black tea brewed by his little clam shell and that made by others.
Song Shu lowered his eyes.
"Work finished?"
"Um."
"… "
"What do you want to say, little clam?"
"Can't I just not take those medicines?"
"..." Qin Lou stopped holding the cup. After a few seconds, he lowered his eyes and smiled, "Are you scared?"
"What are you afraid of?"
"Well, what are you afraid of? That's a good question."
Qin Lou's expression completely faded from the pitiful and innocent look just now. He put the red teacup back on the table and leaned back in his chair. At this moment, he returned to the appearance of the madman that Song Shu was most familiar with.
The madman laughed through gritted teeth.
"What do you think a person who relies on medication to avoid being locked up in a mental hospital is afraid of?"
Song Shu sighed.
She relaxed her body, leaned against the edge of the desk, then slowly leaned down and hugged the man in front of her, whose eyes were full of fear and anxiety but who was pretending to be fierce.
"No matter how crazy you are, you are still my madman. Why should I be afraid?"
"… "
Qin Lou's pupils shrank.
After a few seconds, he lowered his eyes and sneered, but reached out and pulled the person in front of him off the table, pulled him into his arms, and then hugged him tightly.
He choked slightly as he suppressed his trembling voice.
"Don't leave me again... I don't want to 'die' again."
Song Shu's heart trembled, and then he slowly hugged Qin Lou back.
"Yeah. I'm not leaving."
…Even for this person, she must stay alive in this game.
They already owed each other so much.
All the suffering will be worth it only if you pay it back with your entire remaining life.
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