Yi Xian doesn't know why she is so angry, she is not a person with a lot of mood swings, she looks at everything around her with the coldness of everyone in the world, and keeps a safe distance from all people and things, but this time she lost her sense of proportion in Ah Monster.

After going to the detention center last time to no avail, she went there two more times, but the reply she got was that Ah Qi refused all visits, and the lawyer was nowhere to be seen. She tried to write to him again to persuade him to hire a lawyer to defend him, but the letter was returned untouched. He didn't even open it and looked at it.

He refused all her help, and at that time Yi Xian thought that he must be desperate, and she had tried this despair, so she tried her best to help him. But now it seems that she was wrong, and she was very wrong.

He knew from the beginning that he would be safe, and he said he didn't need a lawyer, and he really didn't. Thinking of this, Yi Xian suddenly felt that what he had done before was so ridiculous.

Yi Xian lightly hooked her lips and smiled self-deprecatingly, sure enough, she was still more suitable for keeping a distance from people, and helping others was not what she should do.

When he got home, Yi Xian walked into the study and threw the thick basket of information about Hengsheng's finances and Ah Wei on the table into the wastebasket.

The mobile phone rang suddenly, and it was Su Yan, who had not appeared for a long time.

"Yi Xian, can I go to your house for a few days?"

Su Yan's request was a bit strange, but Yi Xian didn't ask, just said, "Come on! I'm at home." ”

The effort was not big, and Su Yan arrived. She was dressed in a light black casual suit, her hair was tied into a ponytail, she had no makeup, and her face looked a little haggard, she said hello to Yi Xian lazily and flashed into the house.

She didn't have much luggage, only a small hiking bag, which she casually threw on the floor of the entrance, walked into the living room by herself, and sat down on the pale gray fabric sofa, her legs crossed.

This is the first time Yi Xian has seen Su Yan outside of heavy makeup at night, no longer a bar owner with all kinds of charms, but more like a casual child.

She poured a glass of water for Su Yan, Su Yan took three or two sips and drank it dry, she was really thirsty and hungry.

"Is there anything to eat?" she asked.

"Instant noodles, the kitchen is over there, you can cook them yourself. Yi Xian turned around and went back to the study.

Su Yan was stunned for a moment, the routine operation shouldn't be that Yi Xian, who is the host, should cook it for her as a guest, but forget it, Yi Xian was originally a weirdo.

Su Yan didn't bother to cook the noodles by himself, so he boiled the kettle of boiling water and soaked it simply, dealing with filling his stomach as quickly as possible.

When Yi Xian came out of the study again, Su Yan was half-lying on the sofa watching TV, looking as comfortable as if he was at home.

"How long are you going to stay?" was Yi Xian's first question. She didn't ask why Su Yan disappeared during this time, where did she go, in her opinion, it didn't matter, anyway, the person had come back safely.

"For a while. I didn't think much of it. "Su Yan is not very planned, and she has a lot of impulsive decisions.

"Why me?" This is Yi Xian's second question, among several people, she has the farthest relationship with Su Yan, and the personalities of the two people are cold and hot, and they are far from each other.

"I don't want to be found by Lu Li so soon. Su Yan replied directly, "And you have the least questions, I don't want to answer reporters' questions now." ”

Yi Xian said, "You sleep in the bedroom, there are new toiletries in the bathroom cabinet, take it yourself." ”

"Where do you sleep?"

"Study. Yi Xian came out of the bedroom with the futon in his arms, "Here you clean up by yourself, if you want to change the sheets into new ones, go to the cupboard to get them." ”

Su Yan followed her to the door of the study, and watched Yi Xian neatly open the sofa bed and lay out the bedding, "That, you don't have to be so polite, I can sleep in the study, and the master room is still yours." ”

"You're welcome, I need to work, and the study is more convenient. Rest assured. I'm going to rest, you're at your own convenience. ”

Su Yan looked at the door that was tightly closed in front of him, scratching his head, he was really a strange person. However, it was also for this reason that she decided to find Yi Xian, with few words and few questions, she could be given a space to be quiet alone.

However, now that Yi Xian really doesn't ask or care about anything, leaving the space completely to her, Su Yan is a little unaccustomed to it.

Su Yan smiled bitterly, walked back to the living room and turned off the TV, at least she should be a qualified and sensible tenant and not disturb the host's rest.

Among several people, Su Yan and Ye Yanran have known each other for the longest time, have the best relationship, and are the most comfortable to get along with, but if she goes to find Yanran, I am afraid that Lu Li will find her in a few hours. With her understanding of Lu Li, she had no doubt that he had already found someone to target Ye Yanran, as long as she appeared beside Yanran, Lu Li would be the first to know.

As for Ah Bao, she has a gentle personality and is intellectual, and she is the one who can take care of people the most, but the nature of the reporter makes her question one after another, and the logic progresses until she finds out the whole truth she wants to know. Su Yan is really in no mood to do such a psychological analysis of himself now. There are many things that she still wants to think about by herself.

In comparison, Yi Xian is her best choice, but how long can such a day pass? Since she chose to return to J City, it was only a matter of time before Lu Li found her, and some things had to be faced after all.

Su Yan walked to the balcony, at this time, the moon outside the window was bright and the stars were sparse, and the shadows of the trees were mottled, she looked at a certain point of nothingness in the distance, thinking about her thoughts faintly.

She slowly took out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, holding a lighter in her hand and playing with it repeatedly, but finally did not light it. Throwing away the cigarette, her hand unconsciously stroked her flat abdomen.

……

Since Ji Yufan was injured, Ye Yanran not only took the initiative to take on the work of driving to and from work, but also formulated a special nutritious recipe for him, gave up the habit of working overtime, and took him to the hospital to change dressings every day after getting off work on time, he prepared dinner according to the recipe, and after eating, the two of them would watch a movie together, sometimes even chat for a while, and then go back to their rooms to wash and rest.

At work, she also quietly made some adjustments, reducing Ji Yufan's field work, allowing him to stay in the company more to deal with administrative affairs and participate in the design of new projects.

Now Ji Yufan can mix with Ye Yanran every day from morning to night, it can be said that he is a blessing in disguise, and his heart is so beautiful that he doesn't want it. He even hoped that his little injury would never heal.

The new assistant arrived soon, a little girl who had just graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, and was still led by Tang Fei. Now the personnel of the three groups are all equipped according to Auchan's requirements, and soon the personnel department issued a project evaluation activity for design assistants.

Those who excel in the competition will be promoted to junior designers, and those who are also unqualified will be eliminated.

Received a notice from the Ministry of Personnel, the public office on the seventeenth floor was directly blown up, and the company has not engaged in such activities for several years, basically the direct boss is responsible for a symbolic year-end assessment, and then a salary increase according to annual seniority.

As long as the relationship with the boss is not too stiff and there are no major mistakes in the work, you can smoothly transition to the next year.

People who are accustomed to messing around are extremely disgusted by this initiative of the personnel department, and of course, it is undoubtedly an opportunity for those who are motivated and want to be promoted. Therefore, for a while, there was a lot of discussion on the seventeenth floor, and there were people who had any ideas.

Ji Yufan came to her office with a few documents that needed to be signed by Ye Yanran.

Ye Yanran took the document and said while flipping through it: "Sit down, my back still hurts today, I didn't get a wound again!"

Yesterday, the new assistant took the project information on the top of the cabinet, but he was too short and accidentally stabbed a whole bundle of materials on the top of the cabinet, Ji Yufan happened to be next to him, and subconsciously reached out to catch the information box, so that he didn't hit anyone, but his wound was torn.

Ye Yanran was distressed, but Ji Yufan was secretly happy, so that his happy life could be extended again.

He lay on the table, looked at Ye Yanran with sparkling deer eyes and said, "Did you suggest the project evaluation to the company?"

Ye Yanran didn't deny it, "You prepare well, don't take it lightly." ”

He winked cutely and said, "Do you mean me?"

"The evaluation is fair, just and open, and the capable live in it, and there is no question of favoritism. If you fail the grades, you will be eliminated. ”

Ye Yanran answered very officially, but Ji Yufan's heart was still sweet, he had just carefully looked at the evaluation project, the main assessment item is design ability, each assistant will draw an existing project in the form of lottery to design independently, and then the selection team established by the company will score, this one alone accounts for 70% of the entire evaluation score, and the rest is work attitude, professionalism, team coordination, etc., as for seniority, it is not considered at all.

Compared with Tang Fei and several other senior assistants, the only minus point is that he has a short working experience in Shangcheng, but this one is so coincidentally not in the score sheet, if Ye Yanran does not work in it, he will not believe it.

Ye Yanran knew what he was thinking, she did make some efforts, but it was also based on his superior ability.

"Don't underestimate the enemy, this time I participated in the evaluation not only the design department, but also the assistants of the other two design departments, several of them, the ability is also good, and the new assistant of Kang Jin, who has several years of work experience before coming to Shangcheng, I also learned about it during the interview, and the design level is good. ”

"I know, don't worry, I won't embarrass you. ”

Ye Yanran handed him the signed document, "Prepare the conference room, and the reporter from "Yaju" will come over for an interview in a while, and you will notify me when the person arrives." ”

This visit was arranged by Auchan himself, since the last time he said that he wanted to create Ye Yanran to become a star designer, the company's marketing department has done a lot of work and arranged various forms of publicity interviews for Ye Yanran. And this time, he was able to get an interview with "Yaju" again after more than a month, which was promoted by Auchan.

Soon Ji Yufan informed Ye Yanran that the reporter of "Yaju" had arrived and was already waiting for her in the conference room.

This time it was still Shi Qing who was in charge of interviewing her, and unlike last time, this time she brought the entire interview team of makeup artists, stylists, photographers, and lighting engineers to occupy the already small conference room at once. Ye Yanran pushed open the door of the conference room, and was startled when she saw this posture.

was slightly stunned before reaching out to greet Shi Qing.

Shi Qing held her hand back, and her attitude was as cold as last time.

Ye Yanran didn't think it was different, indifferently cooperated with makeup and styling, and then took a number of work modeling photos in her office at the request of the photographer.

After doing these preliminary work, Shi Qing arranged for the other staff to leave and stayed by herself to start the interview, she looked around at Ye Yanran's office and said, "Your working environment is more boring than mine." ”

Ye Yanran smiled faintly and didn't answer, she felt that she didn't need to answer such words at all.

Shi Qing picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, then put it down in disgust: "The coffee beans are not fresh enough, if I guess correctly, the roasting time is at least more than three months, it is hard to imagine how you can create excellent works in such an uninteresting, tasteless, and cramped office environment." ”

Every office in Shangcheng is uniformly deployed, regardless of the size of the room, the internal office facilities are all standardized design, which is very in line with Auchan's uniform work style, and Ye Yanran's office is no exception. However, Shangcheng, as the largest home improvement company in J City, is not in bad condition.

Ye Yanran didn't know why she couldn't get into Shi Qing's eyes, but she could feel Shi Qing's hostility towards her.

She glanced at the unopened voice recorder on the table, and still gave a standard answer lightly: "Shangcheng is currently one of the companies with the best working environment in the industry in J City, of course, we still need to work harder and make greater progress." ”

Shi Qing stared at her with burning eyes, and said unceremoniously: "I'm not talking about Shang Cheng, but you." As a designer, I don't think it's difficult to decorate your office environment appropriately, right? But if you look at you here, there's nothing, to put it mildly, take away your water glass, this office can be someone else's at any time. ”

Ye Yanran's office is indeed like this, there are no greenery, no furnishings, except for the laptop on the desk, there are no personal items, it can be said that what it was like when she moved in was and what it is now.

In the face of Shi Qing's aggressive criticism, Ye Yanran always maintained an indifferent smile, "You are wrong, the water cup is also uniformly equipped in the company's pantry." ”

Shi Qing leaned heavily on the back of the chair and continued: "I really find it hard to believe that a person who has no requirements for his own working environment can create an ideal living environment for others. ”

"And actually, I did. I think Miss Shi knows this very well. ”

Shi Qing was stunned by Ye Yanran's words, she took a sip of coffee in disgust to hide her embarrassment, and when she raised her eyes again, she was already a fighting personality, "Even so, it can only be said that you are good at design skills, and your works are soulless." ”

"I think it's not too late to draw conclusions about this after Ms. Shi has carefully studied my designs, but I can guarantee that I am passionate about each of my works. I don't care about the ones you just picked, the office just provides me with a quiet and independent workspace, as for the drinks, just a pick-me-up, and the rest doesn't matter to me. ”

Shi Qing snorted coldly, with a cold smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were full of disdain.

Ye Yanran continued to say lightly as if she hadn't seen it: "Maybe Miss Shi needs an elegant and fresh environment when writing, a cup of mellow coffee, and even a piece of beautiful music to stimulate her own literary thoughts, which is understandable." But this does not mean that all creators need it, in my unbridled thinking world there is all the inspiration I need, I am happy to gallop in it, and I no longer need other external conditions to set off. ”

"You mean you're more talented than me, aren't you?" You can't use up your talents, Miss Ye, you're too arrogant, right?" Shi Qing's hostility became more and more obvious.

"I didn't mean that, it's just that everyone's work habits are different, and Miss Shi doesn't need to measure me by your personal standards. As for talent, Miss Shi, our industry is different, and there is no comparison. ”

Ye Yanran was still not in a hurry, she was calm, she glanced at the recorder on the table again, "Miss Shi, why don't we get down to business, okay?"

Shi Qing unwillingly turned on the recorder and began to start the formal interview according to the interview draft drafted in advance, her perfunctory was too obvious, she was completely reading according to the script, but Ye Yanran was still calm. You can't ask everyone to be fully committed to their work, you just have to try to do your part.

She didn't know why Shi Qing had been so hostile to her since the first time they met, targeting her everywhere, not giving up any opportunity to hit and belittle her, as if she was born with a grudge against her.

All she can do is not be humble or arrogant, not deliberately please, and not deliberately targeted.

At the end of the interview, looking at the moment when Shi Qing turned off the recorder, Ye Yanran secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

At this time, Shi Qing suddenly said, "Are you very familiar with Shao Jie?"

"We haven't known each other for a long time, and it's a pleasure to work together. ”

Shi Qing's eyes were cold and scrutinizing, and dark waves surged in her deep pupils, "What about in private?"

Ye Yanran suddenly found the root of everything, and became calmer, "Friends who can eat and chat together." ”

"That's all?"

Ye Yanran smiled, "Miss Shi, what else do you think?"

Knowing the root of the matter, Ye Yanran felt that such a hostile Shi Qing was a little cute, so she said a few more words: "We met through a friend's recommendation in August this year, when I had a project that encountered some trouble and needed to find a skilled construction team, so Lu Li recommended Shao Jie to me, we have a very happy cooperation at work, and we can talk in private!"

Shi Qing was obviously relieved, "Are you Lu Li's friend?"

"Acquaintance, it's a friend of a friend!"

Shi Qing got the answer she wanted, the expression on her face relaxed, she told Ye Yanran that this interview will be launched in the Christmas version of "Yaju", and the layout arrangement will wait for the editor-in-chief to finalize, but she is very confident that the position will not be bad.

After Ye Yanran thanked her politely, she sent Shi Qing to the elevator.

While waiting for the elevator, Shi Qing's face suddenly showed the delicate appearance of a little daughter, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know what hobbies Shao Jie has?"

Ye Yanran shook her head, "We don't have much personal friendship. ”

Shi Qing lowered her eyelashes in disappointment and waited quietly for the elevator.

Ye Yanran felt more and more that this kind of Shi Qing was very interesting, she thought for a while and said: "But I know that he likes spicy food, it should be spicy and unhappy, and he likes the kind of small restaurant with a small façade and an authentic taste hidden in the alley." ”

Shi Qing suddenly realized, "What did I say, last time I said that the French restaurant of the Long Island Hotel invited a Michelin chef to invite him to go with him, he rejected me in one bite, it turned out that he really didn't like it." ”

She smiled shyly, "Thank you for telling this, Yanran." ”

When it came to the French restaurant at the Long Island Hotel, Ye Yanran suddenly felt a little weak.

Seeing Shi Qing away, Auchan just came out of another elevator and stopped her, "The interview is over?"

"Just sent away. ”

Auchan nodded, "That's right, I have something to look for you, go to your office to talk." ”

The two walked through the public office room on the seventeenth floor to Ye Yanran's office as they spoke.

The seventeenth floor exploded again, a big boss like Auchan, usually on his own exclusive floor, wants to see someone who will summon people with a phone call, when will he succumb to the mortal world, it is simply a rare encounter in a century, the last time he came to have a department meeting was strange enough, this time the picture of entering the office side by side with Ye Yanran is equivalent to confirming the previous scandal.

Everyone is privately discussing whether this is considered a big boss who has disclosed Ye Yanran's relationship in disguise?

Ji Yufan brewed coffee and was about to send it to the office, but when he arrived at the door, he was stopped by someone with good things.

"You're not afraid of disturbing the big boss's good deeds when you go in like this? ”

Ji Yufan smiled, "How could it be? ”

The good man shook his head and said, "Young, still too young." ”

Before the words fell, Tang Fei's voice sounded, "Xiao Ji, Sister Yanran asked you to send two cups of coffee in." ”

Then the man walked away.

The two people in the office didn't know that there were so many things going on outside, one really didn't care, and the other didn't need to care.

Auchan took a sip of coffee, put it down, and looked at Ye Yanran inquiringly.

Ye Yanran didn't know why he came down in person, but seeing his action of drinking coffee, he thought of Shi Qing's words just now, and said, "Have you drunk that this coffee bean was roasted three months ago and is no longer fresh?"

Auchan took another sip and said: "It is true that the taste is not mellow enough, and it is a little sour, I will inform the administration department to pay attention to it when purchasing." ”

He replied so solemnly that Ye Yanran was taken aback, "I didn't mean that, in fact, very few people will drink it, but it just so happened that the reporter Shi who I just interviewed was an expert, and he drank it in one gulp, so I casually asked your opinion." I couldn't drink it myself, I thought most people were like me. ”

Auchan narrowed his eyes, "So you're planning to test me?"

Ye Yanran had a feeling that the more she depicted it, the darker it became, "Don't get me wrong, I'll just talk about it casually." ”

"But I'll make it better. Are there any other requirements, such as whether the restaurant staff is eating to the liking?"

Ye Yanran had a black line, where did she dare to say anything else, she hurriedly changed the topic, "You came down in person, are you looking for me in any hurry?"

Auchan's face froze, "Is Serena in trouble with you?" why don't you tell me?"