falling grass in pairs

What he didn't expect was that when he arrived at the company the next day, he was the first to face a sky full of gossip.

As soon as he arrived at the company, Yan Ze felt that the atmosphere was not right. Several eyes glanced at him vaguely, and when he turned his head, or even looked at others, several people lowered their heads and ignored him.In the past, there were a few people who greeted each other casually with him, but today there are a few who seem uncomfortable.

Even Qi Yang glanced at him hastily before walking away.

Although he had doubts in his heart, Yan Ze didn't take it too seriously.Until it was almost noon, Li Li called him over.

After closing the office door, Li Li sat in front of the office with her legs crossed, elegant and generous. When she saw Yan Ze coming, she closed the folder and asked him to sit opposite.

Yan Ze was a little nervous, inexplicably feeling that the atmosphere was a bit oppressive.Usually Li Li would come to talk to him, or ask him to come in and explain something, but today she pretended to have a serious talk with him.

"Sister Li, what happened?" Yan Ze asked.

Li Li took off her rimless glasses and rubbed her forehead: "Yan Ze, what's your relationship with Manager Jiang?"

"Manager Jiang?" Yan Ze was taken aback for a moment.

"Jiang Cheng, manager of the general planning department."

Yan Ze was stunned for a moment, his brain froze for a moment, and he replied reflexively: "He is my brother's friend, and we knew each other before."

Li Li nodded, said nothing more, and put a piece of paper in front of Yan Ze.Yan Ze picked it up and took a look, and immediately understood that it was an itinerary and a speech, the location was Shenzhen, and there was even a detailed schedule.

Yan Ze's heart sank, and he watched Li Li's reaction carefully.

Li Li has no expression on her face, she just looks a little tired, but there is no excessive emotion in her eyes: "I was the one who went to the default investment list before. If I can win this investment, I will spend a few days. May be able to make it to headquarters."

Yan Ze's heart was shocked, and he immediately understood what happened.Li Li found out what he had agreed to!

But even he himself hasn't confirmed with Jiang Cheng yet, how could Li Li know?

"Sister Li, I didn't want to agree to go this time. I was going to talk to Manager Jiang yesterday about not going, but something was delayed. I don't know where the head office—"

Before Yan Ze finished speaking, Li Li interrupted him: "Yan Ze, you are just an intern, so it stands to reason that this kind of thing is not within the scope of consideration at all... You know that this investment is successful, and the planning department It is a credit to everyone. How many people from the head office are vying to go, how could this kind of thing happen to you?"

Yan Ze's body trembled, and he looked at Li Li in a daze.

Is it as exaggerated as she said?

Why did Jiang Cheng talk about this matter with him so casually, like two people going out for a walk?

As if realizing that her tone was too aggressive, Li Li turned the pen in her hand, lowered her head and concentrated on twisting the cap of the pen: "I shouldn't have asked you about this kind of thing, after all, for this default list, I also... worked hard for a while. Time. But as an intern, such performance is useless to you..."

Yan Ze immediately understood the look, attitude, and weird atmosphere of those people in the morning.

When Li Li said this, her intentions were already obvious.

She hoped that Yan Ze would give up on his own initiative.

It's just that Yan Ze never thought that this matter would be known by the whole company.

He leaned forward, put his hands on the table, and looked at Li Li without blinking.The image of this intellectual woman who had been affectionate and dependent in his heart from the very beginning was disintegrating little by little.

"Sister Li, in fact, if you don't tell me, I won't go either. As you said, I'm an intern after all, and I don't need to participate in the talks of this kind of project, let alone travel. But this matter , are you really panicked? So much so that the first time you confirmed the change of the list, you leaked the news without even discussing it with me..." Yan Ze took a deep breath, and there was a flash in his head A thought flashed through, "Sister Li, tell me the truth, the conversation with Fang Shaoming before was actually settled, right? Xiao Yin was fired, so who went after that?"

Li Li's profile is soft and sexy under the dim light of the office.At this moment, she lowered her eyes indifferently, with a cold expression on her face: "Yan Ze, who do you think you are talking to?"

"It's you, isn't it?" Yan Ze said softly, and smiled in disbelief, "I said why she has such a good relationship with you, but she didn't ask you for help once in the last two days, and she didn't even say hello to you .”

"Yan Ze." Li Li stood up and interrupted him, "I don't need to add details about Manager Jiang. Have you ever thought about how I know about this?"

Yan Ze frowned, and then stood up.

"Before I knew it, everyone in the company knew that you were on the default list. Later, I immediately checked with the internal staff at the head office. After confirming that, several people came to ask me. I have no reason to hide it." , Li Li took a deep breath, and stared closely at Yan Ze, trying to get a glimpse of the secret from his expression, "I don't need to add oil and vinegar to the rest."

Yan Ze's eyebrows moved, and the light in his eyes moved: "Then this morning..."

"You're a newcomer, so it's normal not to know." Li Li said, "Jiangcheng is gay. A gay who has come out publicly."

With a bang in Yan Ze's head, he understood everything.

He stood there for a long time without reaction, unable to digest for a while.

Those eyes and weird atmosphere in the morning suddenly had an explanation.

Yan Ze's appearance is indeed good, this is an indisputable fact.It's fine if he's short and poor in his seventies or 1.6 meters tall.

With his external conditions and the opportunity Jiangcheng gave him, it was not difficult for their relationship to be guessed in this direction.

But who?

Yan Ze slowly clenched his fists.He tightened his back, his body was stiff, even though he looked generously at Li Li's, his palms were covered with sweat.

Only Jiang Cheng and himself know about this... They haven't even made a decision yet.

Besides Jiangcheng, could it be someone else?

Li Li gave Yan Ze a day off.

Yan Ze took a taxi directly to the head office without saying a word. At around ten o'clock in the morning, he stood in the high-tech zone lined with high-rise buildings, looked at Huayi's 30-storey high-rise buildings, and called Jiangcheng.

To his surprise, he was hung up on two calls in a row. When Yan Ze finally got impatient and wanted to go upstairs, Jiang Cheng called back: "I'm in a meeting, what's wrong?"

"I'm downstairs with you."

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone: "Give me 10 minutes."

Yan Ze walked up and down the stairs violently, and finally leaned against the glass door next to the shopping mall, looking at the sky with some dizziness.The high-tech zone is the most prosperous generation in the city, with a lot of traffic, and of course, the most congested.White-collar workers in high-heeled shoes and small bosses whose hair is fixed with hairspray rush out from the entrance of the subway station. Do they raise their hands to look at their watches, and step on the smooth stone floor in a rhythmic tap-tap-tap.

Jiang Cheng came down in less than 10 minutes. Seeing that Yan Ze's expression was not right, he stepped forward and patted him on the waist without saying a word: "Get in the car and talk."

The two got into Jiangcheng's car, and Yan Ze took a deep breath: "You said you were going to take me to another place, but the headquarters sent a message stating that the order has been confirmed. What's going on? Didn't say yes."

Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment, and said, "I mentioned this matter to Mr. Li, and he agreed directly at that time, so I didn't think much about it."

"So you told the people in our branch?" Yan Ze turned his head and stared at him fiercely, "Why don't you discuss this with me and tell President Li instead?"

"What kind of anger are you making?" Jiang Cheng frowned.

"What kind of fire did I get? Don't you know the best? I'm a fucking intern. I'm not an insider and I don't know how much your project has affected you. It can't be my fault! Yes, I didn't before The reason for expressing your attitude is because I don't know, you have already come out to the company, so have you ever thought about the rumors that you will have if you take me there so openly?"

Yan Ze's clear eyes were wide open at the moment, his chest heaved and fluctuated, and because of his emotions, his words were thrown into confusion, but Jiang Cheng immediately understood when he heard the last sentence.

His hand that was on the steering wheel slipped down: "Speaking of it, is it because of my coming out? I don't think there is anything wrong with it. You are the person approved by Mr. Li, and I know you As a backup, there are no risks or problems in this meeting, and it doesn’t matter who you bring.”

Yan Ze didn't speak, but still stared at him coldly: "Then please withdraw this quota now! I don't care about it!"

Jiang Cheng stared at him for a long time, then suddenly covered his glasses and let out a low laugh.Then, before Yan Ze could react, he grabbed Yan Ze's wrist, leaned over and bit his lips hard.Yan Ze almost punched and kicked, struggling hard, but found that there was no room for resistance in front of Jiang Cheng.

With a sweet taste in his mouth, he pushed Jiang Cheng away, and just as he raised his hand, Jiang Cheng grabbed his wrist again.His breath in his ear was obvious: "What are you making trouble with, huh? What are you making trouble for? After all, you just care about my coming out of the closet. Yan Ze, you and I are exactly the same."

When Yan Ze pushed open the car door and left, he didn't turn his head.Jiang Cheng watched his back as he quickly walked to the elevator entrance and opened the door, silently clenched the steering wheel, his always gentle and smiling eyes were full of sternness.

Anger can always burn people into reason.Yan Ze walked along the road, washing the irritability from his mind while blowing the air.Thinking clearly, some ideas flooded into my head.

Is Jiang Cheng an openly gay man?

He's not bi, let alone playful, he's gay through and through.But since this is the case, everyone knows his aptitude, but he can still get along like a fish in water in such a big company, without affecting his status and career at all. Presumably, he is either very capable or has a strong relationship.

He also couldn't tell what was wrong with him, his consciousness preconceived that Jiang Cheng was a cynical master, he wanted to play this game, and dragged himself into this muddy water.Yan Ze was almost dazzled by this subconscious thought.

I don't know how long I walked. I walked to an unfamiliar intersection and stood for nearly 15 minutes before I got a taxi. When I got home, my ears were red from the cold.For the first time, Yan Xianglin was at home at this time. Seeing his younger brother like this, he was taken aback for a moment, then went up to him and filled him with a cup of hot water, and pulled him to the sofa to turn on the air conditioner.

"What's the matter, what are you doing?" Yan Xianglin frowned.

Yan Ze shook his head.

No matter how troubled he was about Jiang Cheng's affairs, he still couldn't say anything.I can't tell my brother about this.Subconsciously, he resisted from the very beginning. Yan Xianglin knew that there was a connection between him and Jiang Cheng.Perhaps it was because Yan Xianglin had warned him to stay away from Jiangcheng from the very beginning, just like when he was protecting his younger brother when he was a child, he told him to stay away from dangerous places.

Now that Yan Ze thought about it, he felt more and more that his brother was right.His intuition told him that Jiangcheng was very dangerous, but he didn't know why.

"Don't say it if you don't want to." Yan Xianglin rubbed his head after a while, "Did you sleep well these days? The dark circles under your eyes have come out."

"I'm really sleepy." Yan Ze rubbed his brother's shoulder.

Yan Xianglin then patted the top of his head: "The quilt is spread in the room, go lie down for a while."

"Yeah." Yan Ze didn't move, "Just for a while."