Chapter 88: The Most Familiar Stranger
In the mirror, the slender woman wears a well-textured black dress, and her long jet-black hair is draped over her shoulders. At the moment, she is putting lipstick on her lips in front of the mirror. The matte red color sets off her small and delicate face to be more crystal clear.
After carefully applying lipstick, tidying up his clothes in the mirror again, he opened the bathroom door and walked out with a blank face.
She didn't have to come to today's cocktail party, so the public relations department would have come forward. She was about to go home from work, but was forcibly pulled over by the manager of the public relations department. As an HR, you should participate in more activities of famous companies, which is conducive to helping the company expand its network.
As a result, not long after the drinking party started, she fled into the bathroom under the pretext of touching up her makeup, and she had to rub it for a long time. When I came out of the bathroom, I just walked to the hall and saw the manager of the public relations department waving to me.
The manager of the public relations department is an unmarried woman who has just turned 30 years old, and she has good ability and character. It also happens to be the time when women are the most sexy and attractive, and they can be said to be at home in the company's social occasions.
"Do you remember the Shenghao Group that gave us 30 million in sponsorship last year?" the PR manager whispered in her ear.
Of course I do. It was the largest investment the company has ever received, and it was not only because of this investment that the company's business was boosted, but they also gave an additional bonus at the end of the year, in addition to the third salary. This is a big event in the history books of the company. As an HR manager, almost every time she gives an induction to a new employee, she has to proudly mention how she can forget.
So he whispered: "Of course I do." ”
"Did you see that person over there, it's Shenghao's boss, let's go over and say hello later, maybe we'll be lucky enough to invest this year." ”
She followed the direction pointed by the public relations manager, and her gaze quickly passed through the crowd, landing on the back of the person who was hugged by many people. He was tall, well-proportioned, and wearing a well-cut suit on his body, he couldn't help but wonder what kind of solid body he had to work out for a long time.
"I'm not going, I can't talk about investment. She has always been uninterested in this kind of entrepreneur and tried her best to refuse.
The public relations manager seized this opportunity, his eyes were always fixed on the person's body, and finally the crowd around him was thinning, and the public relations manager grabbed her arm and rushed over halfway.
"Hello, I'm Huang Min, the public relations manager of Zhicheng, you gave us an investment of 30 million yuan last year, do you remember?"
Although she is HR, she still feels uncomfortable with this straightforward relationship, and she has kept her head down and never raised it.
He didn't make any answer, just stretched out his left hand, and his fingers symbolically touched Huang Min's outstretched right hand, and then his searching gaze fell on the person who had been lowering his head.
"This is our company's HR manager, Summer. Huang Min said and pushed the person next to him with his elbow.
Straighten out your habitual smile and look up. It was a pair of bottomless eyes, full of indifference and disdain, where there were things that she had ever known and cherished best. The head "buzzed" and exploded in an instant. Everything around them turned gray, and then slowly faded away, leaving only the most familiar faces in memory.
"Xia Qixi, long time no see!"
Chen Ziyu's familiar voice, countless nights, the haunting voice of her sleep, sounded in her ears again. She just stood dumbfounded, unable to utter a word.
Chen Ziyu's sentence has not been seen for a long time, Xia Qixi froze in place, Huang Min was confused, and could only push the people around him: "Do you know each other?"
This is Xia Qixi's second year in the company, and since the day she entered the company, she has been using the English name summer, Xia Qixi, these three, have not been heard from others for a long time. finally came back to his senses in Huang Min's reminder, and the smile on his face had long since disappeared. As soon as he opened his mouth to answer, the person on the other side had already turned around and greeted others, as if he didn't take her and Huang Min to heart at all.
It's been two years since I was in the hospital, and Xia Qixi left the city where she used to live and came here. Winters here are not very cold and there is very little snow. With her favorite tall banyan tree, she can sit down and look at the blue sky and white clouds in a daze.
She didn't think that she would meet Chen Ziyu again.
Looking at the arrogant people in the crowd, Xia Qixi instantly lost the courage to continue to stay, and despite Huang Min's struggle, he pulled her and fled to the door.
Along the way, Huang Min was trying to ask about the relationship between Xia Qixi and Chen Ziyu, Xia Qixi only used a simple sentence, he had met once at the event before, and he didn't make any other explanations.
Huang Min realized that her inquiry was invalid, and turned to complaining. There was a lot of nagging along the way. Although she is a few years older than Xia Qixi in age, she and Xia Qixi are friends in private, and the relationship is not bad.
"I admit that it's all my fault, causing you to lose a potential big customer, in order to make up for my mistakes, invite you to dinner as an atonement?"
"Sashimi. Huang Min said and threw Xia Qixi a tsundere look.
"Grandma, why don't you just eat me. Xia Qixi knew that Huang Min was deliberately joking, and he didn't pay attention to it.
Sure enough, after turning around, Huang Min parked the car at the entrance of the alley, and muttered as he got out of the car: "I know you are stingy." ”
In July, the weather is generally hot, and even at night, there is still an occasional gust of wind, which is dry and hot. Huang Min and Xia Qixi were sitting at a small table on the side of the road, sweating profusely holding two large bowls of spicy hot food.
Xia Qixi has always been allergic to chili peppers before, and I don't know why I came here to be allergic, but the problem of allergy disappeared. The hot summer weather in the south needs to be relieved by this method of fighting poison with poison. She has been here for two 365 days, falling in love with the hot taste and getting used to life here.
The two of them left with their front feet, and Chen Ziyu also followed with their back feet, but Xia Qixi and Huang Min didn't notice it. He stood in the darkness where the lights couldn't shine, watching their car leave, before turning around and getting into his car.
The fragrance of lavender essential oil wafted from the bathroom, and Xia Qixi buried her body in the foam of the bathtub and slowly closed her eyes.
That year, she came to him "Let's break up, don't come to me again, I'll forgive you".
Since that day, she has never seen Chen Ziyu again. The wedding affair became a taboo, and it was over. Not long after she was discharged from the hospital, she disposed of everything, a carry-on suitcase, and left the city that had made her fantasy and want to live hard.
No one here knew her, and no one knew what happened back then. The colleagues around her or the friends she made later called her summer, and no one cared about the three words Xia Qixi.
Although the cosmetics company is not large, it has a good working atmosphere and room for promotion. Outstanding performance, he was promoted to personnel manager within half a year of joining the company. When I was at work, I was very busy, and when I was resting, I would go shopping with friends or walk around in my flat shoes, and I rarely seemed to think about the past except for a few cold tears on my pillow in the middle of the night.
Jiang Yan has begun to take care of the business of his father's company, and his relationship with Lin Qiao has also eased, and he will occasionally come over to see her when he comes over on a business trip. But their topics are limited to a few things that are inconsequential, and no one brings up old things.
Just when she thought that everything was about to pass, Chen Ziyu suddenly appeared in front of her again. It easily evokes all her memories.
However, Chen Ziyu's attitude at the cocktail party today was obviously just to say hello, and he didn't want to have anything to do with her. Thinking like this, coupled with the effect of lavender essential oil, Xia Qixi's nerves gradually soothed, took a bath and climbed into bed, and soon fell asleep.
As soon as she opened the office door the next day, there was already a cup of low-sugar latte, exuding a rich aroma on her desk.
She turned and glanced at the corner of the common office area not far away, sighed silently, and pushed the coffee off the table.
Last month, the company just accepted a group of college graduates, Xia Qixi is responsible for their daily training and assessment, and then assigned to other business units according to their individual abilities. Among them was a boy, not very tall, with big round eyes, but about twenty-four or five years old, and he spoke very little.
After the assessment, there has been no suitable job arrangement, Xia Qixi is a child who has just graduated from college, and it is not easy to find a job, so she temporarily left her in her department as a small assistant, but she didn't expect her to be a kind act between this thought, so that the adolescent boy has another idea under the effect of hormones.
At the beginning, Xia Qixi just accidentally found that his eyes always followed him, and he was willing to run to his side when he had nothing to do. She only regarded him as a younger brother and didn't care much. Since last week, the boy's performance has become more obvious, occasionally blushing when talking to her, knowing that she likes low-fat lattes, he goes to the Starbucks downstairs in the unit every morning to buy them and put them on her desk.
She once told Huang Min about this in private, and Huang Min persuaded her obscenely at the time, and it was not bad to try it occasionally. Angry, she pinched Huang Min's arm hard. When he was about to come, he scolded for being inhumane.
But now it seems that this matter can no longer be dragged on, and it is necessary to find an opportunity for this kid who has just left school to explain the matter clearly, so that he can completely dispel this idea. Otherwise, she would have to let him leave the company without mercy. After all, Xia Qixi didn't want to leave himself in such a big trouble in the company.
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