25 Chapter 25
"Yaoyao, how is it in Qingdao, are you used to living, are you eating well?"
"It's very good, we live in a five-star hotel, eat well, the seafood here is particularly delicious, I will take you to travel when I have the opportunity in the future, it is very good, and the weather is not hot."
"That's good, mom is very worried, I'm afraid that you will suffer, oh yes, I see the weather forecast says that it will rain heavily there tomorrow, so you don't go out, don't eat too much seafood, don't eat raw." Jiang's mother kept admonishing.
"Okay, I know, I definitely don't run around or eat blindly, I'm such a big person, I know how to take care of myself, Mom, you can rest assured." Jiang Yao's heart was warm.
"Also, I went to inquire about the young man introduced by your aunt, and it is really good, you will see you when you come back." Jiang's mother is particularly concerned about this matter.
"Uh...... Okay, when I get back, I guess next week. β
Jiang Yao glanced at Cheng Peiran who was watching TV in the living room, she always thought about what Cheng Peiran had just said to her, although there was no showdown, but the other party should be talking about her, right? It's not that she's narcissistic, combined with some small details before, it should be said that it's her.
But how is this possible, before he and Li Qin broke up, I didn't see that Cheng Peiran had anything special about him, but if I think about it carefully, it seems that the intersection of the two has increased since the day of the concert.
It all started when she returned to being single.
How good is this, Jiang Yao is a little distressed, she really never thought that she would have any possibility with Cheng Peiran, that was her boss, she only admired and respected Cheng Peiran in her heart, the other party had the grace of knowing her, she almost looked at it as an elder, although the other party was not a few years older than her.
In fact, Cheng Peiran was not watching TV, he was texting with people.
"Lawyer Cheng, I'm Bai Yiqing." He had just received such a text message.
"Hello, Miss Bai." Cheng Peiran replied politely.
"Do you want to work with me?" Bai Yiqing got straight to the point.
Cheng Peiran frowned, "I don't quite understand what Miss Bai means, do you want to ask me to be your client?" β
"You and Miss Jiang may not have noticed, I was sitting at a table behind you when I was in that porridge restaurant, I didn't mean to eavesdrop, I just happened to hear it, I think we should cooperate very much, I want Li Qin, you want Miss Jiang, how about it? Lawyer Cheng, you are a very smart person, but someone to help will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. β
Cheng Peiran stared at the mobile phone screen and squinted his eyes, he was too careless to be listened to by this woman.
"Thank you Miss Bai for your kindness, it's better to go with the flow, we are very busy with each other's work, it's better to have less contact, of course, legal advice is always welcome." Cheng Peiran categorically rejected Bai Yiqing's proposal, he is going well here, there is no need to cooperate with this woman in one more move, but it is easy to get burned, can the other party catch Li Qin What does it matter to him, he doesn't like to help with this kind of trouble.
"Oh, hypocritical man." Bai Yiqing looked at Cheng Peiran's reply and sneered, she saw it after only one day of getting along, this Cheng Peiran was very scheming.
is obviously a friend of Li Qin, and with his cleverness, he can also see that Li Qin still likes Jiang Yao, but he secretly shows friendship with Jiang Yao in various ways, and lonely men and widows come on business trips and live in the same room, hehe.
On the surface, he still called Li Qin a brother, pretending to have no intentions, and said that the relationship should go with the flow, and you have the ability to tell Li Qin that you like Jiang Yao!
However, it can be seen that he is a cautious person, and he will not give away his handle casually, so he may already be a little sure in his heart.
Thinking of this, Bai Yiqing smiled, forget it, it doesn't matter if he cooperates or not, anyway, as long as the other party continues to dig the foot of the wall, he is doing himself a favor.
"Good night, go to bed early." She routinely sent a WeChat message to Li Qin.
"Good night." The other party replied so nonchalantly.
Bai Yiqing smiled bitterly, she was always overjoyed when she received a reply before, the other party was a male god, and it was understandable to be cold, she was already very happy to be able to reply to her, she guessed that Li Qin also had a good impression of her, especially the heat of the scandal between the two during this time, which made her fantasize.
But now I see this kind of cold and indifferent reply, I am only sad, where is the other party cold, but I don't care about her and deal with her casually.
What do you have to do to make Li Qin notice that you are good, that woman obviously doesn't want you anymore, why don't you look at me who has been by your side......
After Li Qin replied to Bai Yiqing's message, he sent a message to Jiang Yao, asking her if she had slept and it was inconvenient for him and the crew to come over to play.
Jiang Yao was also speechless, why is this person so cheeky, do you still want to bring someone to the door to show off, I know you have a new girlfriend, you have already behaved obviously, what else do you want me to do, do you want me to cry bitterly and express regret? Originally, there was still a little nostalgia, but now I just feel that the decision to break up was too correct, why did she find such a person as a boyfriend before, this person is really naΓ―ve!
Calm and calm, he couldn't let Li Qin see the wavering in his heart, and after thinking about it, Jiang Yao replied: "Next time, the senior has been bothering about the settlement case, I guess I'm not in the mood to entertain you, you read the script well, I'm also ready to sleep, good night." β
Li Chin: "...... this is good night?"
He actually wanted to go to Jiang Yao's suite to have a look, even if he knew that there was nothing between the two of them, he still didn't feel at ease, he was a lonely man and a lonely woman, and they were all single, and they were all very good-looking, which was too easy to spark.
No, I don't think so, well, I don't.
The next day, if it rained heavily in the morning as Jiang's mother said, everyone was trapped in the hotel, and they could only eat in the hotel, Jiang Yao and Cheng Peiran inevitably met the crew in the restaurant again.
"Early." Bai Yiqing greeted the two with a smile, and her smile was particularly bright when she and Cheng Peiran collided with each other.
Cheng Peiran: "......" This woman is really not a fuel-efficient lamp.
"It's raining so much, I want to go shopping." Someone in the crew looked out the window and complained about the heavy rain.
"The weather forecast says that it will be sunny tomorrow, and I don't know if it's accurate, otherwise it will affect the shooting."
"It shouldn't matter, if it doesn't work, it's just two days late."
Tang Jixiang said unhappily: "It's best not to delay, Li Qin's schedule is full, why is it delayed for these two days." β
"Just hurry up and shoot it."
"I don't know if it will stop at night, I still want to go to the night market, the night market near here is really good, and the food is no worse than this five-star hotel." One of the work smacks the aftertaste, apparently having eaten it yesterday.
Li Qin became a little interested when he heard this, "Where is it, I'll go and see it in the evening." β
Tang Jixiang immediately stopped: "Oh, my ancestor, don't make a fool of yourself, what should you do if you go out and be recognized, the outside is just fresh, how can there be a good hotel, and the outside is not clean." β
"Actually, it's okay, I went to eat yesterday, there is a porridge shop in the night market that tastes very good, Li Qin, if you want to go to me at night, I will accompany you at night, the store is next to the beach, and you can listen to the sound of the waves when you eat, it feels very good." Bai Yiqing stood beside Li Qin and looked at the rain outside the window.
"What's so delicious about porridge." Li Qin didn't like to drink porridge very much, and felt that he couldn't fill his stomach.
"It's really good, I don't believe you asked Miss Jiang about them, I happened to see them go yesterday, there are a lot of people there, I saw the signboard outside saying that they had been on TV." Bai Yiqing seemed to unintentionally pull the topic to Cheng Peiran and Jiang Yao.
"You went to the night market yesterday?" Li Qin frowned slightly, yesterday Jiang Yao also told him that he was busy with work and didn't want to be disturbed, but he actually had the leisure to go to the night market, why lie to him?
Jiang Yao was a little surprised, "That's really a coincidence, but the taste of that shop is really good." β
"Well, it tastes good." Cheng Peiran looked at Bai Yiqing thoughtfully, "I seem to have seen Miss Bai too, there is a girl with a cool hat at the table behind me, it should be Miss Bai, right?" I thought to myself that she didn't want to be disturbed by her disguise, so I didn't say hello. β
"Yes, that's me." Bai Yiqing smiled.
"Oh my aunt, what are you doing running out alone at night, how dangerous it is." Bai Yiqing's agent was so worried when he heard this, "You have to tell me in the future, there are so many people in the night market, at least let Xiao Qiu follow." β
"What's the danger, no one recognizes me." Bai Yiqing didn't care.
Jiang Yao sighed in her heart, sitting at a table behind them? Then wasn't the conversation between her and Cheng Peiran all listened to by Bai Yiqing?
"Let's have breakfast." Cheng Peiran picked a table and sat down, he felt that he should change the topic.
Jiang Yao sat down a little apprehensively, Li Qin's face was a little bad, but he didn't say anything, and Tang Jixiang and them also picked a random table to do, this time the two groups of people did not sit together.
"Senior, do you think she will hear what we say?" Jiang Yao said worriedly.
"Maybe, but what's the matter, you didn't do anything wrong." Cheng Peiran didn't care.
Jiang Yao was right when she thought about it, she didn't say anything excessive, and she had already broken up with Li Qin, it didn't matter, it didn't matter what his current girlfriend heard.
Li Chin's table was also talking about this.
"When did you see the two of them yesterday?" Li Qin asked Bai Yiqing.
"It's only about eight o'clock, I don't remember exactly." Bai Yiqing glanced at Cheng Peiran from afar, "I heard them talk about something like a blind date, I don't think it's convenient to interject. The mouth didn't say hello. β
"Jiang Yao is going on a blind date again?" Li Chin frowned.
"It doesn't seem to be, it means that Lawyer Cheng has been on a blind date several times before."
"That's right." Li Qin breathed a sigh of relief, "What else did they say, did they talk about me?" β
"Yes, but it doesn't seem good for me to say what they say casually." Bai Yiqing was a little hesitant.
"Said bad things about me?" Li Qin subconsciously thought of this.
"No, no." Bai Yiqing hurriedly waved her hand.
"Since you didn't say anything bad about me, then what are you embarrassed to say." Li Qin's heart is like an ant gnawing.
"Actually, it's nothing." Bai Yiqing stroked her hair, "I heard Lawyer Cheng persuade Miss Jiang to make her happy, maybe she misunderstood you, as for what the misunderstanding was, I didn't hear clearly, did you have a conflict with Miss Jiang?" She feigned curiosity.
Li Qin breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he really didn't see the wrong person, Cheng Peiran was helping him, Jiang Yao seemed to really misunderstand the relationship between him and Bai Yiqing, and Cheng Peiran was helping him explain and persuade.
"Well, there's a little bit of an argument, but it's okay, I'll just have a good talk with her another day." Li Qin was in a good mood, Jin Kainan's idea for him was very successful, Jiang Yao must be jealous now, and he ate so obviously that even Cheng Peiran could see it.
"I helped you cover up the past just now, Li Qin probably trusts you more now, should you thank me? I'm a good helper, do I really stop thinking about cooperation? I'll make you do more with less. Bai Yiqing sent a message to Cheng Peiran.
Cheng Peiran looked at the phone screen and squinted his eyes, this woman surnamed Bai has more means than imagined, after he refused, she immediately proved her ability with facts, at first he thought she would be stupid enough to expose and pull back, but he didn't expect to use last night's incident to increase Li Qin's trust in him, and successfully eliminated the suspicion of him in Li Qin's heart.
Indeed, this woman is a good helper, but he really doesn't want to cooperate with such a person, it is too easy to get burned.
Even if he doesn't succeed in acting alone, he can continue to be Jiang Yao's boss and work with her, but if he cooperates with Bai Yiqing, he is afraid that he will fail in the end, and Jiang Yao will definitely be extremely disappointed in him, and may even look down on him.
So this time he didn't even reply to the text message, and directly put away the phone after reading it.
Bai Yiqing was slightly congested, she watched Cheng Peiran look at the phone, and then watched him put the phone away, but the other party didn't reply to her with a single punctuation! Sure enough, he was a hypocritical man, more cautious than he thought before.
After eating, everyone got on the elevator together, Bai Yiqing looked at Jiang Yao and pursed her lips, then turned her head to Li Qin and said, "I've been memorizing lines for the past two days, but I'm familiar with memorization, but I can't find any feeling when I express it, Li Qin, are you good at guiding me?" β
Jiang Yao was present, and Li Qin naturally wanted to make a show, so he immediately agreed: "Okay, I just have nothing to do." β
"Then I'll go to your room with Xiao Qiu later, okay?" Bai Yiqing said sweetly.
"Okay, but you can come back later, my room is a bit messy, I'll clean it up first." Li Qin secretly looked at Jiang Yao, but Jiang Yao stood in front of him with his back to him, and his face was not clear at all.
"Poof, okay, I'll come back in half an hour." Bai Yiqing chuckled.
The two looked like a couple at all, Bai Yiqing said in front of so many people that she was going to Li Qin's room, saying that she was going with the assistant, but who knows, maybe the assistant can't go after "something"; Li Qin also agreed without hesitation, which made Tang Jixiang and the others a little suspicious that they were really coming.
Jiang Yao, who was standing in front, bit her lip, it was really enough, it really shouldn't be with these people, Li Qin really did it on purpose to show her, yesterday Cheng Peiran also comforted her and said that there might be a misunderstanding, but now there is nothing to explain, what misunderstanding is simply the truth.
Together is together, do you need to show off in front of her desperately?
Cheng Peiran didn't say a word the whole time, he just sighed that Li Qin was fighting, but he played a good hand like this.
Li Qin's best capital is Jiang Yao's feelings for him, as long as Jiang Yao still loves him, he can always be invincible, but what he is doing now is completely consuming Jiang Yao's feelings for him, and he is probably like this when he dies.
This was not enough, not long after the two groups of people separated, Cheng Peiran received a call from Li Qin, and he went to his bedroom to answer it.
"Lawyer Cheng, I've heard Bai Yiqing say about you and Yaoyao going to the night market last night, thank you so much for speaking for me." There was a bit of feeling in Li Qin's tone, he really didn't see the wrong person.
Cheng Peiran was really weak this time, he didn't expect Li Qin to be so sincere, he believed him so much, and called him to thank him, "I actually didn't say anything, just let her calm down and don't misunderstand people casually based on feelings, after all, you and Miss Bai are really nothing, there is nothing to thank you for." β
"Don't tell her the truth." Li Qin advised, "By the way, was she jealous just now?" Angry or not? β
"Hmm...... One thing, I just saw that her face didn't seem to be very good, wouldn't you be too much? Cheng Peiran said.
"No, it works well." Li Qin was quite confident, "I still want to thank you, Lawyer Cheng, if you have any situation, you can contact me at any time, I remember you for this favor." β
Cheng Peiran thought for a while and said: "This doesn't matter, but I can see that Bai Yiqing is really interesting to you, if you don't like her, don't be too ambiguous, women are very sensitive, and if your self-esteem is hurt, you may do something extreme, don't provoke her too much if you don't like it." β
Part of it was out of weakness, part of it was an apology for Li Qin's trust, in short, Cheng Peiran felt that there were some things he should remind Li Qin that Bai Yiqing was really not a fuel-efficient lamp.
She is only willing to be used by you now that she likes you, thinking about how close to you to create opportunities, don't really play with her insignificant little white rabbit, she is an ordinary woman in love when she takes off her star halo, and the gentle appearance in front of the media is packaged.
"I know, I'll pay attention, in fact, in private, I don't have anything special about her, just an ordinary co-actor." Li Chin didn't take it seriously at all.
Cheng Peiran raised his eyebrows, forget it, the other party doesn't care about him, he can't do it, he has already reminded him anyway, and he doesn't want to interfere with the rest.
In the end, Bai Yiqing didn't really go to Li Qin's room to tell Cheng Peiran about the lines, but it was already a fait accompli in Jiang Yao's heart, and that was enough.
The atmosphere between the two groups of people has been strange for the rest of the day, Jiang Yao has not had a seizure, but her face has not been very good, every time she sees Li Qin, she has a cold face, and even she tries to avoid eating at the same time as Li Qin, when she sees Li Qin in the restaurant, she will go back to the room, and come down again after half an hour and an hour, or directly ask someone to deliver the food to the room.
In addition to Li Qin, the atmosphere between Jiang Yao and Cheng Peiran was also strange, she kept thinking about what Cheng Peiran said that day in the night market, she felt a little embarrassed every time she didn't work time, but Cheng Peiran hadn't mentioned this stubble since then, Jiang Yao even wondered if she was making herself amorous.
In fact, Cheng Peiran has his own plans, Jiang Yao didn't have any feelings about him in love before, he chased and beat him hard, it would only scare the other party, and it might even cause a backlash, so first of all, he wanted Jiang Yao to understand that it was not impossible for them to develop into a romantic relationship, and the vague confession that night was an opportunity to make Jiang Yao realize that he was a normal opposite sex, not just a serious boss with a sense of distance.
Maybe Jiang Yao still doesn't like him, but what does it matter, you can't eat fat in one bite, take your time, at least Jiang Yao is not only thinking about Li Qin in the past few days, but should occasionally put some thought on him, a "cohabitant", for now, this is enough.
may be because he is in a good mood, Cheng Peiran is very efficient when he works, and the settlement case is going smoothly.
On the fifth day of his arrival in Qingdao, he held initial negotiations with the American side, and the results were much better than expected, and the other party had initially accepted the settlement and not prosecuted, but was not satisfied with the amount.
The amount opened by Qingdao is 70 million, this price is too low, the other party is completely unacceptable, they expected 600 million, and said that this is the bottom line.
Cheng Peiran said that the price can be negotiated, and he will definitely try his best to satisfy the other party.
So the two sides shook hands temporarily, and the people on the American side said that they would go back and discuss the amount of settlement needed, and they were willing to make a little concession for the sake of friendship between the two sides; The people in Qingdao bared their teeth and only felt that these gringos were robbing money.
However, things can be eased for the time being, talking about the price is a tug-of-war, the amount of hundreds of millions is not a day or two can be made, Cheng Peiran also feels that Qingdao is too desperate, 70 million is too stumbling, he wants to help agree to the requirements of the United States, but there are things that he can not do with his mouth, he has to consider the affordability of these people in Qingdao, 600 million is too much, look at those tax bills and statements, they can't take out so much money for a while, even if they really take it out, then working capital will become a problem, the operation of the company will collapse.
Alas, it is estimated that there is something to talk about, and he still has to run several times in Qingdao.
The work has come to an end for the time being, it's time to go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers, Cheng Peiran and Jiang Yao bought tickets to go back.
When Li Qin knew, the two had already gotten on the plane back, and when Cheng Peiran got on the plane, he told him that he was leaving, and he didn't even give him the opportunity to send him off, saying that he was busy with work and decided to go back temporarily, and asked Li Qin to film well.
Bai Yiqing sent a text message to Cheng Peiran after she found out: "Now that the two have been separated, I hope that Lawyer Cheng will seize the opportunity, and if there is anything that needs help, just ask, I will be on call." β
She still hasn't received a reply, but she is not annoyed, Cheng Peiran is a good thing if she never needs her help, it means that he is going well, and she just waits for his good news.