The idea of holding a dinner at HarborHouse was come up with by Xu Jinghe.

As the first group activity of new and old employees after the expansion, and then in the name of celebrating the bidding qualification, it is of great benefit to stabilize people's hearts, Xu Jinghe's idea is to tell the personnel department first, and then take the event planning to send the hospital to Ye Shucheng to see, she talked a lot excitedly next to her, Ye Shucheng didn't say a word, but finally signed it.

Since Su Nian left that day, she could feel that Ye Shucheng's mood had not been high, and she had also thought of ways to make him happy, including the dinner party, which she also had the ingenuity to make him happy, but most of the time she had a cold face at him, and she was a little trembling even when she spoke.

She could actually feel that although Ye Shucheng had helped her out of Su Nian that day, she still preferred Su Nian in her heart, thinking that she had said something that angered Su Nian, and the name that Su Nian almost came out that day also sounded the alarm for her again, and she had to be on guard.

These days, Ye Shucheng's physical condition is not very stable, and occasionally she still has stomach pain, so she simply doesn't go to the company, and writes and draws in the ward every day with the design drawings.

From three meals a day, to helping to take care of some affairs at work, occasionally when Rita is too busy, she has to go back and forth between the company and the hospital on behalf of Ye Shucheng, there is no spare time, she takes care of him like this for a few days, and finally sees that his attitude has softened, and when he speaks, it seems that he is not so stiff.

It is said that she doesn't stretch out her hand to hit the smiling person, and she whispered that the maid is usually a few days, and it is not in vain.

When An Ziyan came over, she and Ye Shucheng happened to have just had lunch, she packed her lunch box and went out to throw it, and bumped into An Ziyan head-on.

An Ziyan was slightly stunned when he saw her. Instead, laughing, it's a greeting.

He felt a little emotion in his heart, in the end, when he needed someone in Ye Shucheng, it was Xu Jinghe who was by Ye Shucheng's side.

He actually didn't like Xu Jinghe before, but people are divided into many faces, and he now thinks that in fact, which person has some shortcomings, no matter how unlikable Xu Jinghe is, he still has a sincere heart for Ye Shucheng.

He took advantage of Xu Jinghe's failure to come back, and when he said this to Ye Shucheng in the ward, Ye Shucheng had no expression.

He squinted. "Aren't you still thinking about Su Nian?"

Ye Shucheng said: "I don't think it matters who it is, I will marry Jinghe." ”

It's good to get married, and you don't seem very happy. ”

Ye Shucheng sat on the hospital bed and took a drip, flipped through the documents with one free hand, leaned his back against the head of the bed, and was a little distracted when he heard the words.

Tie the knot...... Is it a good thing? ”

In his eyes, it never was.

His first and deepest impression of the wedding was when he was nine years old.

His mother Cheng Yi achieved her dream in a warm and cold spring day, married into the Ye family and became the young grandmother of the Ye family, from a third party to the upper position, Cheng Yi waited for more than ten years, and finally at the expense of his son. Finally able to be with Ye Jin openly, that is the man she missed, she didn't have much nostalgia when she left Ye Shucheng, she was full of joy to go to a new life.

He couldn't attend Cheng Yi's wedding, because when he went, he was stopped at the door, and Cheng Yi didn't even want to see him.

Before the age of nine, he was used to living a life of exile with Cheng Yi and his sister Cheng Kexin, and he never lived in a decent house, he was stopped outside the Ye family's villa, such a magnificent house, with a garden and a lawn, and the brightly dressed men and women in it talked and laughed, everything was strange to him, it was not easy for him to find there, but the bodyguards stopped him to death.

He heard people passing by seeing him and talking.

Isn't that the bastard......"

The one that Cheng Yi doesn't want? ”

It's so small, it's so pitiful. ”

Maybe it's because he's a child, and those people don't control their volume much when they talk.

The child lacks the ability to observe words and emotions and the cognition of retreating from difficulties, the bodyguard is always difficult to beat a child, stop him but can't drive him away, he stands outside the villa door until the sunset, watching the excitement inside, and waiting for Cheng Yi paranoidly. In the end, he waited for Ye Xian, the son of the Ye family.

Ye Xian is the real pride of the sky, he grew up in the Ye family, pampered and pampered, Ye Shucheng is actually only four years old, but he is much more precocious in the deep-water wealthy family, seeing Ye Shucheng waiting outside the door in dirty clothes, across the iron gate, he said to Ye Shucheng Don't wait, your mother doesn't want you anymore.

The little Ye Shucheng didn't speak, just stubbornly continued to wait, that day he waited until the night, he felt that Cheng Yi was probably going to entertain the guests, and he couldn't take care of him, but when the guests dispersed, he still didn't see Cheng Yi's figure.

It was the most memorable wedding of his life, his mother's wedding, and he was locked behind the iron gates for the longest and fruitless wait of his life so far.

So when it comes to getting married, he can't get excited.

Even when it comes to marriage, he feels that it is dispensable.

When he found Xu Jinghe a few years ago, Ye Jin and Cheng Yi knew that he had a close relationship with such a woman, and they also knocked on the side and told him that he should pay attention to the influence, although he was not a public figure, but after all, he was the illegitimate child of the Ye family's sensitive identity, and many people were staring at him, and Cheng Yi had the intention to give him a business marriage, so he had more control over his feelings.

Where would he listen, the Ye family was in a lot of trouble because of this matter in those days, he and Cheng Yi didn't know how many times they quarreled, in fact, Xu Jinghe was not his girlfriend at the time, he just couldn't accept Cheng Yi jumping out at that time and speaking as a mother.

Many things are recognized, it doesn't mean that he has seen it, the gap between him and the Ye family seems to be insurmountable, he recalled the last time he saw the Ye family, it was Ye Xian, in the mall, he took Su Nian, and Ye Xian asked him if he had changed women.

Thinking of Su Nian, his originally not very good mood was even worse.

An Ziyan didn't stay in the ward for a long time, after Xu Jinghe came back, he felt that it was not convenient to talk and left in a hurry, Ye Shucheng sorted out his thoughts for a long time, but he couldn't concentrate when he looked at the documents.

Su Nian's words on the day he left have been around him for the past few days, making him unable to even sleep peacefully.

When Rita came back, she brought some documents that needed to be signed and showed them to Ye Shucheng one by one, "This is the training list of the architectural design department. Because the director over there is in a hurry, the class has started yesterday, do you need to take a look? ”

His face, which had always been frozen, loosened a little, and he took it and looked down carefully.

He scanned the list back and forth three times, but didn't see Su Nian's name.

Rita had a hunch when she saw him press his finger and look at the names one by one, and finally heard him ask, "Are you sure there's nothing missing from this list?" ”

"It's final, the digital version is on my computer, nothing is missing," Rita said. ”

Xu Jinghe was still drawing at the window, and he had already pricked up his ears when he heard the content of the conversation.

Ye Shucheng looked at it again, and his heart slowly sank.

It is impossible for Su Nian not to sign up for this kind of training. If she signs up, she is also eligible, and there is no reason why she should not be on the list......

He pulled out the creases of the list, and there was a faint, untouchable panic that diffused in his heart.

He said it very seriously that day, "Go, did she take it seriously?"

Thinking of her last words that day, he was suddenly a little afraid.

She won't take the initiative to give up the design, she has paid too much for it, he knows best, but what if she really can't hold on?

He thought of a worst-case scenario-

Did she resign?

Rita later asked him to sign a few papers. He forgot about it and went to sign it mechanically, but the feeling of uneasiness lingered, and seeing that Rita was going to take the documents away, he glanced at Xu Jinghe and called, "Jinghe." ”

Xu Jinghe was stunned for a moment, put down the drawing board and walked over.

Can you buy a pack of cigarettes for me? He asked.

She was stunned for a moment, and she was reluctant in her heart, thinking that this kind of thing was almost the same as asking Rita to do it, but thinking that she was taking this opportunity to show her sincerity, she didn't refuse, and took her wallet and went downstairs.

Xu Jinghe left, and he felt a little more free to ask, "Rita, have you seen Su Nian in the company recently?" ”

Rita replied: "No. ”

Rita is smart, she doesn't dare to meddle anymore, what happened in the hospital last time made her palpitate, what happened objectively said, just do your own work, otherwise, like last time, she was kind but did bad things, fortunately Ye Shucheng didn't pursue her, otherwise she really couldn't say it clearly.

He was silent for a moment, and then asked, "The internal training registration staff of the architectural design department...... Unscreened lists. Do you have one? ”

No, it's just for me to confirm. ”

He lowered his head slightly, unable to tell what mood he was in, and it took a long time to say "um" and say, "You can go." ”

Now he felt that he shouldn't have asked anymore.

What to ask, what is the point of asking if she has resigned,., asking?

After Rita left, the room was quiet and terrible, he left the hospital bed, stood at the window, and saw that Xu Jinghe downstairs had bought something and folded it back, and his heart suddenly became irritable. Slowly leaning against the window, his fists clenched tightly.

An Ziyan once said that he didn't know how to care about other people's feelings when he spoke, he admitted, he now feels that the day has passed, but Su Nian did it first, and he can't find any reason, he can't watch Su Nian beat Xu Jinghe and be indifferent, he found enough reasons for himself, but he still began to regret it.

You shouldn't say that kind of thing.

In the afternoon, the sun was scorching outside, and his heart was also in a state of anxiety, and he couldn't get rid of it.

When Xu Jinghe came back, Ye Shucheng had already changed her clothes, she was still holding a cigarette in her hand, and she was stunned when she saw this, "You want to go out?" ”

Well, a trip to the company. ”

She said: "But I only went through the discharge procedures this afternoon......

You help me with the formalities, I have to go back to the company for something," he paused, and seemed to think that this arrangement was inappropriate, "Or you don't care, I'll do it tomorrow." ”

Tomorrow is the weekend. "And you're going to the HarborHouse dinner tomorrow night, right?" ”

Then I'll call Rita to do the formalities next week, and I'll talk to the doctor and leave, how about you? ”

Xu Jinghe was dumbfounded, "You're gone, why am I staying here?" I'll go back to the office with you. ”

He looked at her for a few seconds and sighed, "Jinghe, you have worked hard to take care of me these days, I will call the driver and ask him to send you back to Yishui Yunju to rest." ”

He didn't have an inquiring tone at all, and before he finished speaking, his mobile phone had been taken out to dial the driver's number, and she looked at it with a sneering face, put the cigarette he asked for on the table, and bowed her head to wait.

Ye Shucheng is a more assertive person. She had always known that most of the time, she had been obedient to his arrangements, and she had no complaints about it in the past, but now, as the problems that gradually came to the fore after the two of them had officially interacted, she was sometimes dissatisfied with his style.

Ye Shucheng was really anxious, and before she hung up the phone and was about to leave, she was a little at a loss and stopped her, "You're leaving?" ”

Well, you wait a minute. The driver will come right away. ”

She was dumbfounded, "That'...... Where are you staying tonight? ”

He was stunned.

He had been living in Rongcheng before, and he hadn't thought about it at all.

She spoke before he could speak: "Is it okay for you to come to Yishui Yunju?" You're still sick, and it's not good to be alone in Rongcheng...... Me, I don't really want to go over there......"

The latter words fell low, she hated the house in Rongcheng very much, what was that, it was supposed to be the place where she lived in, Su Nian didn't know when the dove occupied the magpie's nest and turned it into the love nest of herself and Ye Shucheng, she felt disgusted when she thought about it.

He said: "There is Aunt Liu in Rongcheng, I'm fine." ”

As she spoke, she spoke up behind him, "Why do you want to live there alone?" Shucheng, I'm your girlfriend, isn't it okay for me to take care of you? ”

He paused and turned back.

She pursed her lips, staring into his eyes with some worry, concern, and apprehension, a silent indictment of his refusal.

She has been taking care of him in the hospital these days, sleeping in the hospital's escort bed, and even going to a company in a hurry, he was silent for a few seconds. "Okay, I'll go to Yishui Yunju tonight."

She laughed, "I'll let the cook cook, I'll wait for you." ”

……

Group Headquarters.

When Ye Shucheng arrived at the company, he went directly to the sixteenth floor, the goal was very clear, from the moment he walked into the big office, his eyes followed Su Nian's workstation, there was no one there, he approached, and found that the computer was on, and the water cup on the table was still there. But there was no trace of Su Nian.

The others saw that he was all greeting, and He Zeng naturally lowered his head slightly when he got close, "Mr. Ye." ”

He pointed to Su Nian's chair, his face tense, "What about people?" ”

He Zeng replied: "Go downstairs to the printing department to get the drawing." ”

The heart he had been hanging on only then landed, stopped for a few seconds, and asked a lot of redundant questions.

She's ...... these days. Are you alright? ”

He Zeng didn't know what he was asking, his expression was a little hesitant, and he didn't answer for a long time.

Something must have happened in the hospital that day, but Su Nian obviously didn't want to say it, and he didn't want to ask questions about people's scars strongly, he only knew that Su Nian's recent work status was terrible, not to mention the slow speed of drawing, and he was more prone to mistakes than before.

He didn't know how many times he stressed to Su Nian during this time, asking her to adjust her state, but she was indifferent, and the email of the successful bidding for the horticultural exposition project of the Architectural Design Department did not inspire her, and he felt a little disappointed and frustrated.

Seeing He Zeng's expression, Ye Shucheng lost the interest to ask again, "Forget it." ”

He left and went to the office of the director of the architectural design department, and the purpose was also very clear, and when he went in and sat down, he asked, "Who determines the internal training quota?" ”

The deputy director was also there, and he said, "...... It's me. ”

What are the principles of screening? ”

Veteran employees. Grassroots, junior designers or design assistants, serious work attitude, no arrears of drawings ......" paused, remembered something, and added: "There are also those with a bachelor's degree or above, who belong to architectural design related majors." ”

He said expressionlessly, "I remember saying that we use meritocracy and don't care about academic qualifications. ”

The deputy director secretly said to himself, what is this, one of these two people wants to have an academic degree and the other says no. There was only one person left in the middle of the past, but it was all difficult for him.

After hesitating for two seconds, the deputy director spoke again: "In fact, there is one who is not eligible in the department, that is, Su Nian, when the quota was determined that day, Mr. Xu participated, saying that the participation of low-educated employees will reduce the quality of training, or cause dissatisfaction among all new employees who apply for training, I think there is some reason......

Ye Shucheng's face was expressionless, and his eyes sank slightly.

Xu is always the business director, why is he involved in the technical department? ”

The deputy director and the director looked at each other, and it was Xu Jinghe who heard about this training in the management meeting at that time, and then volunteered to participate in the quota screening. Xu Jinghe's identity is placed there, no one will question it, the deputy director said: "Xu is always kind to help, and besides, there is some truth in her analysis......

Ye Shucheng ran out of patience and continued to maneuver, "Add Su Nian's name and let her enter the class next week." ”

The director and deputy director were stunned, no one expected him to say Su Nian's name so bluntly, and when he heard it, he simply came for Su Nian.

Didn't I make it clear? Ye Shucheng asked again.

The deputy director said: "In case Mr. Xu knows ......"

Whoever has an objection, come directly to me. ”

His voice was deep and steady, unrefutable.

When Su Nian's name returned to the list, he felt that a stone in his heart had landed. Leaving the director's office, when he went out, his eyes swept over, but he still didn't see her, he left with a hint of sadness, but when he turned the corner of the elevator room, he met the person he had been searching for.

The elevator room was empty at this time, Su Nian had just come out of the elevator, his head was lowered, his hair was loose, some hair strands fell down his cheeks, his eyelashes were drooping, and he looked thoughtful, and the album looked a little heavy. She lifted it with great difficulty, but she didn't look up, and she crashed into a human wall, and the atlas in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

She was startled, and hurriedly bent down to squat down to pick up the album, these days He Zeng saw that she was no longer pleasing to the eye, stained the brand new album, He Zeng might kill her, her hand was touched by another hand that reached out to pick up the album when she got a book, only to remember something, raised her head and apologized, "I'm sorry......"

The gaze instantly froze when it met the other party's line of sight.

The words also stopped.

Ye Shucheng also bent down to pick up the album. Quietly looking at her at the moment.

She opened her mouth and swallowed the last word of her apology.

She won't apologize to this kind of person, she struggled to pull out a detached smile, "Mr. Ye is here." ”

He didn't speak, she just let success block him in just a few words, he didn't want to see her indifferent appearance, and he didn't want to hear her call him that.

She didn't seem to be very interested in his reaction, and Fu lowered her head again, and her hand was about to be withdrawn, when he suddenly held it down.

He grabbed her hand.

She was stunned and tried to withdraw her hand, but he didn't let go.

She was anxious and angry, looked up and saw that there was no one, and lowered her voice, "Let go of me." ”

He didn't say a word, but the strength of his palm didn't slack at all.

Her hands were small, soft and boneless, his eyes drooped, and he looked at her thin shoulders quietly, and the collarbone at the neckline of her T-shirt was deeply sunken, and he thought more than once that he wanted to make her fatter so that she would be healthy. But he didn't make it in the end.

Later, he didn't have a chance to do it.

Su Nian saw that he didn't let go, she was a little panicked, there were already a lot of rumors about her in the office, she didn't want to be someone else's laughing and talking after dinner, what would others say about her?

The shameless junior is still entangled with Ye Shucheng.

Aren't you afraid of others seeing? She spoke in a cold tone.

He looked at her and didn't speak.

He had felt helpless for days until this moment to find a proper hiding place, and that day in the hospital, the words she said when she left, the way she looked at him, made him feel as if a catastrophe was coming.

She still couldn't pull her hand. "Aren't you afraid that Xu Jinghe will see it?"

He was stunned for a moment, and she took advantage of the gap to withdraw her hand and sneer.

He has a weakness after all, and the weakness is Xu Jinghe, three words are enough.

She picked up the atlas one by one and stacked it, and heard his voice go low.

You and Jing He ......"

She looked up at him.

You are against Jing He, Jing He is against you, so what am I? He asked.

She was stunned.

His eyes were full of loss and uncertainty, and misty sadness.

Her heart hurt as if she was about to split, she had never seen his expression, it didn't look like him at all.

He is always calm and calm, even if there are some emotional changes, he is condescending, but at this moment he looks a little fragile.

She opened her mouth, dumb.

The inside of my throat seemed to be stuffed with cotton, and I couldn't make a sound.

She lowered her head and didn't look at him, she couldn't look, she didn't dare to look, one more glance was a little more confused, she always unconsciously forgot what her identity was, forgot how many wounds she had stumbled and fallen along the way, what was he? Pushed her away and threw her to the ground, now looking like a victim......

She packed up the atlas and got up, he also stood up, and heard her say, "Mr. Ye, I'm leaving." ”

He was silent, and just as she passed by, he turned around, "Su Nian......"

She paused.

An Ziyan said that I don't put myself in the shoes of others when I speak, I admit that I am a very selfish person, what I say to you......" He paused, "If it hurts you, you can forget it." ”

She froze.

She was a little surprised that he would be so blunt and take the initiative to say that he was selfish, and he was still continuing.

I have...... I want you to remember the words. ”

She wanted to turn back, but she was afraid to turn back, she was afraid to see him, she would die like a moth to a fire, she couldn't.

He said: "When I want you, it's not because you're a cheap woman to send to your door, it's not because it's a smooth deal between us, it's not because it doesn't matter to me it's just one more woman, it's just because I want you." ”

At this moment, the elevator room is quiet and empty, and the deliberately low male voice flows like a violin note.