The noise of the hotel was gradually left behind by Wu Jue, the vehicles on the road still came and went, seemingly never tired, and the car river in the distance flashed with a real and illusory red light, like a mime with no ending in sight, rising and falling in the boundless night.

The wine has dissipated, the sadness is drifting away, and the cold wind on the skin makes Wu Jue know that he should immediately take a taxi home.

She stood on the side of the road, her shoulders hunched, waiting for an empty car to pass by.

However, just like many things in Wu Jue's life, as long as it is about waiting, it is always so difficult, even such a trivial thing as waiting for a car cannot be spared.

Zheng Jue was helpless, a black car suddenly stopped in front of him, the familiar body, Wu Jue was thinking about whether it was the one she knew, and the window on the side of the road had been lowered.

Lin Jiahe poked his head slightly and raised his eyes to look at her: "Wu Jue from the Finance Department?" ”

Because his appearance was too sudden, Wu Jue had just come out of his sad love, and he didn't know how to express his crampedness and panic in the face of his boss for a while, so he could only nod in a daze, and his answer was inevitably stiff: "Mr. Lin, hello." ”

"How do you go home alone?" He continued to ask, his face expressionless, no different from Wu Jue's understanding of Lin Jiahe.

"It's not the same as my colleagues." She answered truthfully, but she never knew what kind of expression was accurate in the face of Lin Jiahe.

"There aren't many taxis now, where to stay? I'll give you a ride. He seemed to think for a moment before he said this.

Wu Jue was at a loss again. It stands to reason that she was lucky enough to sit in the big boss's car, and this kind of once-in-a-century thing happened to her, and as a small clerk, she should naturally be ecstatic. However, because of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she suddenly didn't know how to choose.

Lin Jiahe glanced at her lightly, and his tone revealed a vague arrogance and impatience: "What? Don't you want to come up? ”

"No, no." Wu Jue waved his hand in a hurry, and said honestly, "I just think it's too troublesome for you, I'd better wait for a taxi." ”

"Come on." Probably because of her frightened appearance that made him unbearable, his voice softened, and he didn't get out of the car, but leaned over and helped Wu Jue open the passenger door from the car.

Obviously, if Lin Jue continued to stubbornly move forward, she was really ignorant of current affairs, so she had to approach and bend over and sit in.

Lin Jiahe's car is very spacious, but with him like this, I always feel a little cramped, in order not to be embarrassed, fasten my seat belt, and after reporting the address, Wu Jue tried his best to find a topic with a smile: "I just came to the stage to accept the award in such a hurry, I didn't expect Mr. Lin to remember me." ”

"I've always had a good memory." He started the car, looked ahead, there was a hint of smugness in his expression, and after a while, he said, "I still remember the other day when you got off work, you stood on the side of the road and threw money to a beggar. ”

"Oh." Wu Jue nodded sneeringly, it turned out that he was indeed looking at her that day.

"I'm curious what you said that day, and I look very unhappy." He continued.

What did she say? It's just a meaningless statement about the rich and the poor. She waved her hand disappreciatively: "I don't remember what I said, but anger is possible." You see every day on TV clamoring that the society is developed and the people are rich, but there are still beggars everywhere in this city, and the government's inaction will not matter, and the rich people who are poor and extravagant will take the time to lend a helping hand. ”

"Rich people are not saviors." He scoffed at her words.

"Yes, otherwise, how can a small white-collar worker like me have the opportunity to do charity." Wu Jue smiled, I don't know if there is any hidden irony. She is not a cynical person, but when faced with this man, she can't help but have such a narrow feeling.

Unexpectedly, Lin Jiahe didn't seem to realize her sarcasm, she actually saw something similar to a smile from the side of his face, and she was not sure if it was true or false for a while.

"How long have you been with the company?" Suddenly, he changed his mind.

"Almost a year."

"How does it feel?"

His words were like a poll, Wu Jue thought for a while: "Big company, the salary is good, the benefits are good, you see-" Wu Jue raised the notebook in his hand slightly, "I won the grand prize in the first year, Mr. Torin's blessing, I really can't find anything bad." ”

People with high positions have probably long been accustomed to flattery, Wu Jue said this, his expression was expected to be disapproving: "I also want to know what kind of attitude my employees have towards the company, it doesn't matter, if there is any dissatisfaction, you can say it directly." ”

Lin Jiahe's strictness made Wu Jue have a little ill-intentioned impulse: "Mr. Lin, I really don't have any dissatisfaction, but since I finally had the opportunity to meet you face to face, I want to make some requests, can I?" ”

"Of course."

"I want a little less work and a higher salary. In fact, you all know that there are too many cases of unequal pay for equal work in the company, and small employees like me obviously do more work than many people, but the salary is much less than that of others. ”

Of course, she just wanted to use jokes to resolve the embarrassment of sharing a car with Lin Jiahe.

"You mean you're complaining to me that you're doing more than your manager and getting paid less?" Lin Jiahe turned his head to look at Wu Jue, without too much expression, but his eyes were serious.

Wu Jue secretly felt that it was not good, it was purely a joke, and when he asked like this, it seemed that he had just done something to make a small report. In case her hapless manager was accidentally pulled into the water by herself, she quickly explained: "No, no, I'm joking, I'm just thinking about finally meeting the president to see if I can get lucky and get some benefits for myself, and it has nothing to do with our manager." ”

"Oh." He nodded thoughtfully.

Wu Jue looked at his side face, thinking that such an unsmiling person didn't know what it meant to laugh, in order to make up for the previous mistake to the manager, Wu Jue continued to say tentatively: "However, I really have a small report from our manager to play." ”

"Huh?" He turned his head to look at her, as if he didn't know why.

"I think our manager is a waste of the company's finances?"

"Why?"

"Because he always works overtime, and he always drags our subordinates to work together, which is too wasteful of water and electricity."

Lin Jiahe looked at the road conditions in the night ahead, still with that expressionless face, and after a long time, he nodded thoughtfully: "Well, it's indeed a very strict question." ”

It seems that she is really not suitable for joking and telling jokes, she didn't expect him to answer so strictly, and she didn't know how to say it for a while, so she could only look at him a little stunned.

Doesn't it mean that the boss will be happy if the employees work hard?

Probably because she was too focused on him, Lin Jiahe suddenly turned around, glanced at her, the corners of his mouth rose, revealing his white teeth, and chuckled: "I'm joking." ”

This is the first time Wu Jue has seen Lin Jiahe smile, maybe people who don't like to laugh have a smile that looks good at ordinary people, because it is rare enough. His smile is very beautiful, especially the curvature of the corners of his mouth, which is obviously full of evil, but it seems to have a childlike childishness.

Wu Jue reacted, laughed dryly, and only felt that in this heated carriage, a layer of fine sweat surged behind his back.

"It's strange—" he said after a moment, suddenly, "why don't you seem to be afraid of me at all?" ”

"Afraid of you? Why? ”

"Because my subordinates, especially female subordinates, seem to be afraid of me when they face me."

Wu Jue suddenly felt funny, because of this sentence, but also for him to be a little self-righteous arrogant. But he was her immediate boss, so she smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also afraid of you, but I just didn't let you see it." ”

"Really?" He laughed, too, but this time with a hint of sarcasm.

Wu Jue suddenly understood that the person next to her was much, much more complicated than she imagined. People's hearts are the most difficult puzzle to guess, let alone people like Lin Jiahe.

She felt as if she was in an unknown battle, and she had already sketched out a thousand faces of the enemy, but when she really came to the city, she realized that it was just her own imaginary imagination from beginning to end.

Fortunately, I soon arrived at the street where I lived, and this nameless panic in my heart disappeared for the time being.

Wu Jue got out of the car, stood outside the car, waved goodbye to Lin Jiahe, and thanked him very politely like a subordinate to his boss. And he just nodded lightly in response, with peace of mind.

The car quickly disappeared into the river of cars at night, and Wu Jue even suspected that the experience just now was nothing more than a baseless reverie.

Lin Jiahe is right, he is feared, especially women, his status, his money, his temperament and appearance, his unsmiling, his not angry and powerful, all of which are terrifying.

What he didn't know was that in fact, she was really afraid of him, very scared, afraid of every second in the car, which made her feel frightened and trembling, afraid that every word and expression of his face made her a soldier.

When I got home, I suddenly felt so tired that I was about to collapse, and I fell directly on the bed with my clothes, but I couldn't sleep, and my mind was chaotic.

I turned over, opened my eyes, and saw a dartboard on the wall, with a small photo pasted on it, which was cut out of a certain financial magazine, and there was no smile on the face of the man in a suit and leather shoes.