At 9 p.m., the lights were still on in Terry's office, and he and Alex had a conference call tonight.

Around the same time, Terry dialed Alex on time: "Good morning, Alex."

"Good evening, Terry, how are you doing?" After three years in China, Alex answered the phone and greeted Terry warmly in fairly standard Chinese.

Next, the two quickly cut back to the standard and fluent English channel to get to the point.

"I'm fine, Alex. Terry replied.

"Oh, great, Alex, I've been missing you a lot lately, thinking of the days we worked together at EB China. Peter said enthusiastically.

Terry knows it's a very American, motivating way to greet people.

Terry's usual gentlemanly reply, "I'm sure it will." Today's call is mainly to communicate with you the idea of EB China Shopping Festival. ”

Alex asked, "EB China Shopping Festival?"

"Yes, there have been successful e-commerce shopping festivals in the world, such as Black Friday in the United States, but there are no such mature projects in China at the moment," Terry said. I hope to create an iconic shopping festival that belongs to EB China. “

"Oh, let's hear why you proposed this project?" asked Terry, with some interest.

"As we are well aware, EB China's performance growth has slowed down significantly this year, and a lot of business has been diverted by China's local e-commerce TaoTesco, so we plan to strengthen EB China's leading e-commerce position by creating a landmark shopping festival, which is one of them," Terry said. ”

"Two?" asked Alex, who had a keen sense of smell, knowing that one was not the core of what Terry was trying to say.

Terry replied: "Second, the joint organization of this shopping festival by EB China's seven business units can achieve a great degree of savings in the marginal cost of such a large-scale marketing campaign, and if the event is successfully held, it will successfully demonstrate the necessity of marketing and procurement business coordination." ”

"Terry, you're looking to co-host a shopping festival to demonstrate the feasibility and value of marketing and procurement, right?" Alex confirmed to Terry.

"Yes, Alex." Terry replied.

"Very good, it's a very good offer. Alex agrees.

Then Terry said euphemistically: "Yes, I think so too, but there is currently no team responsible for the overall management of China's marketing business procurement, although I have this proposal and am willing to be responsible for this project, but I am afraid that the name is not right, it is difficult to leverage the willingness and cooperation of several other business divisions." ”

"Understand, Terry, this is not an easy thing to do, the company is currently encouraging change and innovation from top to bottom, and I am very much looking forward to your performance. Alex is really an old fox, on the one hand, he shows that he supports himself mentally, and on the other hand, he shows that he is physically out of the world, which means that I will cheer you on, you can throw off your arms and do it.

Terry was not surprised by Alex's attitude, he expected that Alex could not have substantial support, so he quickly activated the B communication plan, and said to Terry: "I have such a plan... “

"Haha... After hearing this, Alex said, "No problem, I will definitely support this point." “

After talking to Alex on the phone, Terry frowned: Hmph, don't contribute, don't take risks, and you can still enjoy the credit, of course you support it, old fox.

Seeing that the time was almost 10:00, there was still a missed call on the phone that promised to be dialed half an hour ago.

The two hadn't seen each other for a few days, and it was rare for them to remember to make a phone call to themselves.

Terry picked up his phone and dialed the promise back. It rang several times before the phone was answered.

"Hey, promise," Terry explained, "there's a missed call from you, and I'm still in a meeting. “

The promise said softly: "Well, let me tell you, I'm in Shanghai now, and I have a temporary job flying over." ”

Terry wanted to ask, why did he go to Shanghai without saying a word, but he thought that this was not the first time that something like this happened, and it probably wouldn't be the last. Work is always at the forefront, and he is the one who is informed.

Eventually, Terry replied lightly, "Got it." ”

"I'll be back in a week. The promise said.

Terry was silent for a second before replying with a simple word, "Okay." ”

The two of them faced the phone, not knowing what else to talk about, the most familiar stranger felt like this, and the promise broke the silence first: "I have to get up early tomorrow, I'll hang up first." ”

Terry replied in a deep voice, "Well, good night." “

Hanging up the phone, Terry was a little distracted, the girl on the other end of the phone called Promise was his wife who had been married for many years, and she was also a famous program host on Shencheng TV.

The two both graduated from Hong Kong Chinese University, and when Terry gave a homecoming speech after graduation, he met because of the promise to take the initiative to talk to him, and the promise was a warm and generous, daring to be a beautiful girl. Terry is obsessed with Terry's young and promising and mature and elegant, and frantically launches a pursuit offensive, Terry is attracted by Promise's beautiful appearance and passionate personality, and the two soon establish a romantic relationship.

After graduating, he entered Shencheng TV Station, and spent the first two or three years in charge of behind-the-scenes work, and he was unknown.

After graduating from graduate school, Terry directly entered the apparel division of EB Hong Kong Apparel Purchasing, and his career went smoothly, from an unknown ordinary employee to a senior purchasing manager in his early 30s.

Terry is 8 years older than promised, and the two have been separated for a long time. Promise has a strong sense of crisis, always worried that the two are not in the same city, and the gap between jobs is getting bigger and bigger, so he hopes to stabilize the relationship between the two by getting married, just a few days before the two plan to get a marriage certificate, Promise suddenly received a notice to transfer from a behind-the-scenes post to a behind-the-scenes position to be an economic current affairs program host.

Although the two still got a marriage certificate as planned. But because of work, he promised not to release the information about his marriage.

Terry has received Western-style education for many years, and he is also very supportive of Promise's work, and he is happy that Promise can have a good job opportunity, at first, he didn't feel that there was any problem, but Promise was too ambitious, and he became more and more busy after turning to a host.

In order to have more time together between the two, and because EB China had just been established a few years ago and had a lot of room for development, Terry applied to transfer from EB Hong Kong to EB China when he encountered a suitable opportunity.

However, although they arrived in the same city, the two were still busy separately, and they still couldn't get together all year round.

Either Terry often travels on business, and when Terry finally returns to the deep city, he promises to go out for interviews again.

Either the two are in the same deep city, promising to be busy with various TV programs, and Terry is also on the rise in his career, busy with all kinds of entertainment and overtime.

Two years ago, when Terry was promoted to director, the competition was fierce and the pressure was very high, but Promise did not share the slightest of Terry's burden, and moved out of their house at that time, because he often worked too late and needed to live closer to the TV station to facilitate his work.

In fact, Terry knew that the promise was nothing more than not wanting the paparazzi to photograph them living together.

In this way, the relationship between the two is getting weaker and weaker, as the promise is becoming more and more famous in the TV station, in order to stabilize their position, the two have never dared to mention the matter of having children, Terry has turned 38 years old this year, Chinese men still have traditional ideas in their bones, last month Terry mentioned to Promise that he wanted a child.

The promise is only in her 30s now, and her career is just struggling, so she refused it without even thinking about it.

Although Terry expected this to be the result of such a communication early in the morning, there was still a faint disappointment in his heart...

Terry packed up his things and walked out of the office, only to find that it was raining lightly outside. Driving a red Land Rover from the company's basement, turning a corner and passing by a nearby bus stop, terry saw a familiar figure on the platform, it was wood, Terry hesitated, stepped on the brake and slowly stopped the car....

Terry rolled down the window and honked the horn at Muzi.