[Net King + Black Basket] Seijuro, your mother calls you to go home for dinner!

evening.

At the dining table, only Akashi and his wife were left staring at each other in silence, with the clink of bowls and chopsticks in their ears, neither of them wanted to be a preemptive strike.

Masashi sent Seijuro to the study to wait, and even the servants behind him and the housekeeper Shikawa retreated obediently after receiving his gaze.Xun Li looked at his dignified face suspiciously, and guessed at the next moment that he had something to say to her.

Xun Li put down his chopsticks reservedly, straightened his body, and waited for the next sentence.

"You don't have to go to work tomorrow."

"Uh?"

"Not only tomorrow, but also in the future."

Xun Li, who didn't understand the situation for a while, blinked blankly. The thunderbolt from the blue sky made her almost slap the table.

"Why?!" Masashi must have a reason why he had to do this.

She was disappointed by the other party's usual unsalty answer, "There is no reason."

"How--"

"Remember, this is for your own good."

There was a rare trace of tiredness on his tense face, and after he finished speaking, he threw down the napkin and got up and walked towards the study.

His unclear "order" made her furious.She knew that Masashi had never really let go of his guard in the past four years, and never even treated her as the mistress of the Akashi family (his wife).

Xun Li didn't mind this at all, she thought that she might not be able to see through him for the rest of her life.In fact, she had to admire his flawless acting in front of Seijuro - because of the existence of the child, they had to pretend to be a respectful couple.In the final analysis, this is just a cover-up, just to give Seijuro a superficially beautiful family.

They knew that their relationship was not even considered friends.

Xun Li, who was left alone in the restaurant, was eager to know what happened, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously.She subconsciously linked this incident with editor-in-chief Kanai.

What will it be?

She has always been cautious when working, and has never had a major shelter since she got started.Xunli had even just finished designing the coloring page she was given last Friday and had just emailed Oshima.Prior to this, Oshima, who was in charge of personnel affairs, had not vaguely raised the word "dismissal" before.

Xun Li yawned lazily, tears streaming down his face.

"Forget it, let's talk about the future."

She rubbed her temples with a headache and decided to go to bed early tonight.Since Masashi told her not to go to work, it would be a good choice to sleep in on Monday.

Xun Li overestimated herself, and her mentality was not good enough to leave this matter to the point where Java could sleep peacefully.Imagine countless possibilities in seven tedious hours, expulsion?transfer?Job hopping?Or do you want her to stay at home and take care of her husband and children? (She believed that Masashi would not make such an international joke),

Xunli stared at the ceiling for nearly a night, and when the hour hand reached five o'clock in the morning, she couldn't bear it anymore, got out of bed half-closed with her swollen and sore eyes, and turned on her laptop.

Oshima emailed her back last night.The dedicated deputy editor impressively attached a letter of resignation signed by Kanai to the email.

"I don't know the specific reason. The editor-in-chief Jin Jing didn't give a reason. I guess it has something to do with Boss."

Oshima's postscript made Xunli think again.The Boss here is Akashi Masashi, it's hard not to guarantee that he didn't do something wrong.

"Isn't it just that I don't want to continue working... As for taking so much trouble!"

Xunli closed the computer screen with a "snap", feeling uncomfortable.

However, it didn't take long before Oshima called her personally, with even more exciting news——

"Turn on the computer, go to the gossip section on the news page. The headline is..."

Before Da Dao finished speaking, Xun Li freed up one hand to start the machine, click on the web page to search, and find the gossip area, and it was done within one minute.

"Akashi Marriage Crisis!?"

The corner of her mouth twitched and stared at the exaggerated title displayed on the screen, and the font was specially blackened and bolded.

"Where did this come from? It has nothing to do with my dismissal, does it?"

"Look carefully!"

Oshima was surprised by Xun Li's overly calm.Despite the confusion in the latter's head, she calmly browsed through the breaking news at a glance.

"So, the editor-in-chief Kanai went to pick up Masashi yesterday afternoon and helped him carry his luggage. He touched it with both hands and was photographed by the paparazzi. As a result, everyone thought that Masashi and I were going to divorce the next day and he carried it outside. I have a new love balabalabala..."

Xun Li would never admit that she was angry, but because of her depressed mood, she spoke a little faster, her face darkened a little, and her voice lowered a little.

"Stop, stop! Impulse is the devil!" The cold-faced woman Oshima panicked, and asked her to stop at a loss on the other end of the phone.She retracted her previous evaluation, Akashi Kaoru is not calm at all! !

……

Kaoru choked for a moment, and suddenly felt that he and Masashi needed to have a serious conversation between Seijuro's parents.

"I see, thank you Oshima-senpai." She took a few deep breaths, and her tone finally returned to normal.

"Don't mess around." Da Dao took good care of this hard-working junior, even though she took the most leave of absence in the entire editorial department.

"Hi~"

Xunli accidentally closed the webpage with trembling hands, and when he tried to open it again, he found that "the content does not exist" was displayed on the screen.Masashi acted fast enough, and ordered the gossip news to be blocked before the click-through rate exceeded 50. She wondered how he knew that he was photographed by paparazzi and uploaded to this news website.

Xunli's hand did shake, but cautiously, she pressed the screenshot button before!

"Tsk tsk, your circle is really chaotic."

In any case, she was surprised and gloated, and saved this screenshot in an encrypted file with peace of mind.She felt quite proud of grabbing Masashi's little tail.He used to think that Masashi was a perfect man who existed like a god, but he would fall into the hands of the evil paparazzi one day.

——But Xun Li soon stopped laughing.

The paparazzi have dedicated 20 years to dig out unknown lace from this honest and honest young entrepreneur.Whether this is true or not remains to be investigated, but an inadvertent photo and fabricated news are enough to bring about a storm called "family scandal".

The image of a good couple that the husband and wife have worked so hard to maintain for five years may also be destroyed.

Suppose the news spread like wildfire, from gossiping young women to husbands, to children who eavesdrop, and finally to kindergarten classes, and sooner or later Seijuro would hear it.

Gossip is very harmful to children who have not experienced social training.Xun Li shuddered, not daring to imagine the consequences.

not to mention……

What if there really was an improper relationship between the two?The incident has sparked gossip among paparazzi, then and now.

Xunli covered her face gloomily, there was too much information in her mind to sort out.These self-made materials are enough for her to write a bloody romance novel about "those things that the boss and her husband don't know".

"Speaking of which, who the hell is Jinjing?" She rolled down from the big bed with a grunt, crossed the laptop and grasped the phone tightly. "It is necessary to understand her situation."

The so-called understanding of the situation is nothing more than asking for help from Sister Dianzi, who knows everything.Xun Li vaguely explained the situation and avoided talking about Masashi's scandal.

"Kaneda Xingzhi is a strong woman who came from behind. She was born in a well-to-do scholarly family. She and Masashi were college classmates. It is said that her parents intended to let her enter the government department, but she changed her major halfway through college and entered Akashi after graduation. Work for its publishing house."

Dianzi didn't disappoint Xunli, she got more information than she expected.And Dianzi's explanation was all in her expectation, not surprising.

Character, ability, appearance... Except for his not-so-excellent family background, Kanei fits Masashi's position in every way.Adding that they are old acquaintances, Xun Li secretly guessed the possibility of both Jinjing and Masashi.

——She was naturally very upset.

Jinjing knew her well from the beginning, especially her family situation (the younger sister in the family is Mai), but Xunli never really saw the identity of this unkind boss, including the purpose of accepting her.

What makes Xunli even more dissatisfied is Masashi's solution, but he forced her to clean up the mess he left behind.

Xunli guessed the whole story, and decided to change jobs.Dianzi seemed to have guessed her mind. Although she knew nothing about the gossip news, she also realized that the person on the other end of the phone was not in the right state.

"Don't think too much about it."

"Ah."

"...Or did you find something?"

"It's nothing."

"This matter is not over yet." Dianzi sighed, "Kanei has been obsessed with work during this period, and he can be called the pillar of the publishing house. It is indeed worthy of doubt."

"Understood, I will wait and see."

Xunli hummed softly in her heart, she was just worried that their little actions would have a bad effect on Xiaozheng.

**

As Dianzi guessed, things had just begun.

The paparazzi with the photos on hand contributed anonymously to several newspapers and news networks. The gossip about Akashi’s current patriarch soon appeared on the headlines. The name "Kori Matsubara" was also mentioned once in the article, obviously to provoke the story The protagonist asks them to come forward and explain.

Xun Li threw the newspaper heavily on the table, forced himself to be calm, and drank a stomach full of thick and bitter black coffee.

She never took off her thick-rimmed sunglasses, and her peaked cap almost covered the upper half of her face, revealing only her small chin and a few strands of brown hair.Diagonally opposite Xunli is the high-end office building where the editorial department is located, and she is not yet ready to rush in and fight Jinjing.

It is rare for Xunli to become a workaholic with super high efficiency. On the afternoon of the day when she was told to be fired, she quickly found a job related to translation and proofreading online. She was not afraid of having no money to support her family (enough).

It wasn't that she wanted to make a fuss with Jin Jing in the place where she had worked so hard, she was here just for some trivial matter.

Xunli reached the 21st floor unimpeded all the way by relying on the task card that has not been invalidated.The editorial office was empty during the lunch break, so deserted that only the faint "humming" sound of the constant temperature air conditioner could be heard.

"Sure enough." Through the glass door, she saw the editor-in-chief who was sitting in her seat typing on the keyboard.

Xunli is well aware of Jinjing's almost obsessive-compulsive schedule. After all, it is very unlikely that he wants to avoid talking to Jinjing from other talkative editors.

She knocked on the door lightly, and in the trash can next to the door, she saw a bouquet of fresh tulips in full bloom in perfect packaging.

"Surprise!"

Xun Li's seemingly nonchalant smile was disdainful in Jin Jing's eyes, even cast a layer of irony.

They were on an equal footing since they had terminated the relationship between their boss and employees, so Xun Li had nothing to fear.

"I didn't expect you to come."

"I don't mean anything else."

"...What do you mean?" Jin Jing stopped what he was doing, and turned his head to look at her—it was a little different from what he remembered.Xunli's smiling face aroused the desire/desire of her poisonous tongue, "You should have found out a lot of interesting things, right? Suppose you want to question my feelings about Akashi Masashi, I don't think it is necessary for me to tell. "

Xunli looked at her unexpectedly, and Jinjing's frank courage really made her admire.

"You think too much." Why is everyone so self-indulgent, including herself.

"Oh, what about you? Let's weigh your own weight before evaluating, Matsubara Kaoru." Kanai's expression was the same as before, and she still maintained her usual indifference.

Her sharp eyes down to the freezing point made Xunli undeniably go back to the ridicule given to her by Masashi who was sitting across from him one day, like a blunt weapon hitting her heart——

"The Akashi family can't afford to lose this person, please respect yourself."

"Matsuhara Kaoru, you don't deserve to stand beside that man."

……

Xun Li came back to his senses, and dismissed Jin Jing with a contemptuous look that looked directly at a fool.

"Editor, you really don't need to bother to piss me off." First, Masashi only cares about Seijuro's father in her heart, but his importance is not as important as the child's.

second--

"Then why are you here?" Jin Jing laughed back, as if the tension just now had never happened.

Xun Li calmly arranged her haircut, "Oh, I'm just here to ask for this month's salary."

"..."

Kanai's smile froze completely at the corner of his mouth.

"Also, if you don't like tulips, just tell me. Although I pick them from my garden for free, the labor costs are very expensive."

Xun Li shrugged, feeling a little sad.

"...Get out." Jin Jing's sinking face foreshadowed the prelude to her fury.

"Goodbye."

Xun Li didn't stay any longer, and left the editorial office without a trace of cloud after smiling and nodding to her.

"That's right, just because I don't care, I won't be bothered by these gossips after dinner.

My heart is small, and I can't tolerate anyone except Seijuro. "