Wang Zhao's feelings are valuable, and she is "selfish" in her relationship.

With menus and pens on the table, and a greenish-orange-red maple leaf in a white ceramic bottle in the center, the dishes are unpretentious, common Japanese home-cooked dishes suitable for private meetings between the two of them, who have temporarily separated themselves from their roles as law firm directors and barristers. Wang Zhao ordered teriyaki chicken steak rice, grilled eel, caviar sushi, miso soup and other meals, and ordered sake, and Shi Changxin ordered tempura and potato salad.

The light of the lamp came down, and Shi Changxin saw that she was haggard, and said with a smile: "What big case have you been busy with in the past two days? ”

He cut the cake for her, a clean double-layer blue cream cake, Wang Zhao was stunned, poured two glasses of wine in silence, and saluted him: "Why did you think of celebrating my birthday this year?"

"Next year, I will take the college entrance examination, I won't be able to get into a good university in China, I may go out to study, your sister-in-law wants me to accompany me, I agreed, I'm old, I can't do it anymore. ”

The sake was sour and spicy, Wang Zhao was in a trance, took a bite of the cake, and said with a slight smile: "What does this have to do with my birthday." ”

She looked much better when she smiled than with a straight face, but it was a pity that she became an old girl, Shi Changxin said: "Hurry up and find a boyfriend, it's one thing to get married or not, it's okay to be in love, every birthday is the same as Han Xiaoyin, someone to accompany you, how good." ”

"Your old point of view is novel enough, in case you are cheated of money, what do I want. Wang Zhao couldn't stand to compare her with the naïve assistant, and changed the topic: "The case of the white swan has made people anxious. ”

She picked up her mobile phone and searched it, and the news about the white swan stayed this morning, fortunately. The waiter served the dishes, Wang Zhao took off his shoes, curled his knees and sat on the modified tatami mat, wrapped in an impatient mentality. I took off the rings on my index and middle fingers, wiped my hands with a wet towel, grabbed a piece of sushi and put it in my mouth, then took a bowl and drank the soup, closing my eyes slightly, and the sticky rice was like the first pure snow in early winter.

Shi Changxin's feet were still in the hole in the middle of the tatami mat to show respect for her, and he said while adding wine: "White swan?

"Yu Xinzhi?"

"Isn't she the legal counsel of the White Swan headquarters. ”

I almost choked, and a breath came up, and the rice became complicated, Wang Zhao wiped the rice grains on the side of his mouth with his hand: "When did she enter the white swan, why don't I know." ”

"You don't know?"

"I don't know, but I know that she attended Bai Louming's dinner, Bai Louming is planning to divorce and is looking for a lawyer. ”

"I asked her to go to the dinner, if you don't go, I'll let her go. ”

"You want her to be a senior partner?"

"It's not that I think, it's that she's fighting. ”

Wang Zhao slapped the table, and a tempura fell on the table.

"How can she Yu Xin's virtue!"

Shi Changxin sighed in his heart and said calmly: "Xiaozhao, don't be like this, a little more smiling face as a lawyer will not hurt you." Now the lawyer industry is not the same as before, there are more and more lawyers, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, everyone thinks that lawyers can make money, and they all want to share a piece of the cake, but the cake is so big, you have been following the rules, and you can't even get a mouthful of leftovers. ”

There is no need for him to hold it in front of Wang Zhao, his words are not rough. In the past, Jingcheng Law Firm was not a famous university, and graduate students from law classes were not admitted, but later Shi Changxin broke this tradition, and the performance of the law firm was booming.

"Yu Xinzhi became a senior partner, what are the benefits to the firm?"

Although Yu Xinzhi is not highly educated and does not study law, her father is a member of the business association. Shi Changxin wanted to speak and stopped, in the conversation of adults, there is no need to break the words.

"Yu Xinzhi has only been practicing for one year, counting the internship period, she has only been working for two years, how can she become a senior partner?

"We can let her enjoy the treatment of a senior partner first, and keep this position for her, we are lawyers, and we have a way. ”

"This is your experience as a successful lawyer? Do everything to achieve your goals? What has become of Jingcheng? Can any cat or dog come in? Can a zoo?"

"Lawyer Wang, don't be so ugly, Lawyer Yu's professional ability is not as good as yours, but he is also a formal lawyer recognized by the state. Besides, in this life, people always have to suffer some losses, to put it loftyly, for the ideal, to put it vulgarly, yes, for the purpose. Don't you have a purpose, you want to be a senior partner! You want to make more money!"

"What I make money and sell is my knowledge, not my personality!

"Personality?" Shi Changxin shook his head, he didn't want to fight with her, he had fought for so many years, and he hadn't fought with her. The food delivered to her door could not satisfy her appetite, and she was unwilling to go out and take the initiative to forage for food, Wang Zhao's thoughts were contradictory.

"Today you have a birthday, we don't talk about these unhappy things, come, have another drink. ”

"I can't drink it anymore, so I'll leave Director Shi first, thank you for celebrating my birthday. She stood up as she spoke, Shi Changxin called out to her, and she didn't look back.

Wang Zhao was sad, not because Shi Changxin didn't help, but because he couldn't take this step.

Shi Changxin couldn't do anything, she gave up the platform and opportunities, and would rather drink alone in a restaurant until she was embarrassed, than go to someone who could satisfy her desires, hold a wine glass and say: "Hello, I am Wang Zhao of Jingcheng Institute, please take care of me!"

Is this hard? Is it a betrayal of her personality? Her bottom line is higher than the ceiling?

If she agreed to participate in yesterday's dinner, if there was something to Yu Xinzhi, she would still be angry, which is unreasonable. Shi Changxin took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the tatami mat, both disappointed and emotional. The maple leaf in the vase did not move at all, the grilled eel was already cold, and next to it was the seaweed that Wang Zhao specially wanted. He drank a glass alone, crushed the seaweed, sprinkled it on the eel, and took a gentle bite, the incredible aroma.

Only when life changes can there be surprises. Even if she changes a little bit and accepts a little bit of sophistication, she may become the next him, which is also his great expectation and wish for an old lawyer who is about to "retire". But no matter how stubborn she is, let alone a senior partner, even whether the resources she has received can be kept, she needs to put a question mark.

However, she couldn't get angry, and even found a reason to excuse her, maybe because it was not the cake that her father bought, maybe she did it too much, so what kind of secret was hidden in the cake that her father bought.

The blue double-layered cream cake melted in the heat and was silently weeping.