Forced to make a fake show with the president

Facing the closed door, Tan Yuqing took a deep breath, then pushed the door open and walked in, trying to look as normal as possible.

"Pei Xi, I'm here to bring you lunch."

In the office, Pei Xi was standing by the window with a cup of coffee in his hand. Hearing this, he paused for a while before turning around: "Well, let's eat inside."

After speaking, she put down her glass, got up and walked to the lounge.

Behind her, Tan Yuqing also followed, but when passing by the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, she subconsciously glanced downstairs.Sure enough, he saw a figure running away in a panic.

"Zhou Zhenzhen..."

So Pei Xi was looking at her just now?

Although Tan Yuqing knew that it was impossible between them, the feelings in her heart still fluctuated uncontrollably.

She remembered the six photos in the anonymous email, and jealousy and suspicion surged in a flash.

"What's wrong?" Pei Xi, who was walking in front, turned her head and asked Tan Yuqing who was standing by the window.

"It's okay, I thought of something I care about." Tan Yuqing shook his head, quickened his pace to catch up, and followed Pei Xi into the lounge side by side.

While laying out the dishes, Tan Yuqing seemed to ask unintentionally, "Where's the thermos? Why don't you use it?"

A look of unnaturalness flashed across Pei Xi's face, and he said vaguely, "The cup is not mine, and I have asked someone to return it."

"It's not yours?" Tan Yuqing paused and guessed the answer in his heart, "Whose...is that?"

"A friend." After finishing speaking, Pei Xi picked up his chopsticks, as if he didn't want to continue this topic.

"Oh, friend... ah." Tan Yuqing clenched her fingers.

Zhou Zhenzhen, who didn't even want to look at her before, is now close enough to be called a friend.

Tan Yuqing lowered her head, looking absently at the bowls and chopsticks in her hands.

In fact, she is not the kind of person who gets too involved in her partner's private life, but she hates being deceived and concealed by others, especially by her partner.

It was like this on Christmas Eve half a year ago. Why did you lie to her when you obviously didn't want to eat apples.

The most hateful thing is that even lying will be discovered by her.

Tan Yuqing looked up at Pei Xi, who was eating absent-mindedly, and couldn't get up or down.

"Do I know that friend?" She mustered up the courage to ask again, but the answer she got was still unsatisfactory.

"I don't know, what's the matter?"

Tan Yuqing lowered her head and shook her head, hiding her expression under her long hair: "It's okay, I just want to ask her the recipe for making soup."

"That's it." Pei Xi replied vaguely, and continued to eat.

[There will be no next time. 】Tan Yuqing recalled in his mind that Pei Xi had sworn to be honest with her, but it turned out that it was just a talk.

Why didn't she want to trust Pei Xi unconditionally, but, just, why did Pei Xi voluntarily give up such an opportunity.

If you can't even be honest and trustworthy, how can the other party deliver your sincerity.

Tan Yuqing ate the same meal and sat in the same position as before, but felt that everything had changed.It was as if there was a piece of rice paper between the two of them, and it was clear that it could be pierced through with a little force, but neither side made a move for a long time.

bad feeling.

The weird and silent atmosphere continued until the meal was over. Although Pei Xi noticed it at first, she thought it was Tan Yuqing thinking about something else, and it would be fine after a while, so she didn't care.What's more, she herself is still caught in feelings, self-doubt and self-blame, she has no time to take care of others, so she only leaves everything to time.

But it turns out that time does not solve the problem.

For the next three days, whenever Pei Xi got along with Tan Yuqing, he would always feel that the other party was vaguely alienated.The atmosphere seemed to be shrouded in a layer of tulle, oppressive and dull, making people breathless.

Time has entered the summer vacation, and Fang's work is getting more and more busy.Pei Xi originally planned to continue working overtime this weekend to completely resolve the latest project and the sponsorship of University A's celebration, but getting along with Tan Yuqing made her more uneasy.

Therefore, it was decided to advance all the work and take Tan Yuqing out for fun on weekends, and then spread out all the knots between the two of them and resolve them in one go.

But she didn't know that in Tan Yuqing's eyes, her desperate efforts were perfunctory and evasive.

"Hey, Yuqing, I'm busy with work from today, and I may not go back. You don't have to make my dinner anymore."

Tan Yuqing clenched the phone tightly and sat at the dining table in a daze for a long time before realizing what the other end of the phone meant.

"No... aren't you coming back?" She confirmed again, her gaze fell on the steaming fish soup.

The color is rich and the aroma is wafting, but somehow it makes people feel dull.

"Well, probably not coming back."

"Ah, I see." Tan Yuqing lowered her eyes, and wanted to ask to stay, but the words turned into a joke, "What kind of work, why do I feel like I'm busy all of a sudden."

"Some cooperation, about the anniversary of University A and so on."

"Ah, the anniversary of University A, it seems that the time is indeed coming soon." Tan Yuqing waited for a while, but did not hear the response from the other end of the phone, a little embarrassed, "Then you continue to work, I will not bother you."

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, Tan Yuqing sat alone on a high chair, looking at the reflection on the glass tabletop for a long time without regaining consciousness.

"Not coming back……"

Pei Xi is not coming back, does it mean he doesn't want to see her again?

Tan Yuqing thought that last year, Pei Xi moved his office to 2039 in order to avoid her.

Suddenly, Tan Yuqing laughed: "What, so I am such a narrow-minded person. Pei Xi has done good things, and I remember everything so clearly."

Smiling and laughing, she suddenly lost her voice, lowered her head deeply, biting her lower lip, with as ugly an expression as she wanted.If you have to say it, it looks like a homeless stray cat, or the kind that got caught in the rain.

The heat on the table gradually decreased, and by the time Tan Yuqing recovered from his wild thoughts, the food had completely cooled down.

"You can't waste food."

She forcefully cheered herself up, picked up the chopsticks, and ate by herself.

When I can't eat any more, except for half of the rice in the bowl, the vegetables and soup are only reduced by a thin layer.

"My appetite is so small, save these for tomorrow."

"Heat it up, and it can be delivered to Fang as lunch."

Suddenly, she stopped.

"Wait, did Pei Xi just say 'starting from today'? That means he won't come back for the next few days..." Tan Yuqing denied it by himself, "How could it be, how could it be that he won't be back in the future Woolen cloth."

As she spoke, her voice became smaller and smaller, and her tone became less and less firm.

"Sure enough, let's check tomorrow."

When sleeping at night, Tan Yuqing accidentally knocked the water on the coffee table, and the pillow and bed sheets were wet.

In the middle of the night, she had to get up and throw the pillowcases and sheets into the washing machine, and it was already 01:30 in the morning.

"Where are the spare pillows?" After changing the sheets, she began to search the space under the bed board, but found nothing.

"It's impossible to put it in the closet." With the mood of giving it a try, she opened the closet, and unexpectedly found a brand new pillow inside.

but……

"Strange, I seem to have seen this pattern somewhere..."

As she spoke, she suddenly stopped, and suddenly took out her mobile phone to open the anonymous email.

"Ah, it's the one on Zhou Zhenzhen's pillow."

The joyful mood cooled down quickly, Tan Yuqing tightly clutched the pillow in his hand, then turned around and threw the pillow into the trash can.

That night, she slept with a corner quilt on her head.

The next day, Tan Yuqing didn't get up early and slept until after eleven o'clock.

"It's broken! If it's later, we won't be able to catch up with lunch."

Tan Yuqing got up, washed up hastily and began to heat up the meals.Fortunately, there was still a lot of food left yesterday, and it was basically not moved. It was slightly heated and put on a plate, which looked the same as freshly fried.

"Sorry, Pei Xi! Just treat it as saving food, and I will compensate you tomorrow."

After putting the food into the lunch box, it was already twelve o'clock, and Tan Yuqing hurried out of the villa only to realize that he forgot to change his slippers.But time was running out, so she hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and ran to Fang's headquarters.

The taxi came quickly, but even so, it was already 12:30 when Tan Yuqing arrived downstairs at Fang's headquarters.

At this time, she has already had dinner with Pei Xi.

He hurriedly took the elevator and came to the CEO's office on the top floor, only to find that the door of the office was locked.

At first, Tan Yuqing thought that Pei Xi had gone into the lounge to rest, so she knocked hard on the door, but after waiting for a long time for no response, she realized that there seemed to be no one inside.

Coincidentally, at this moment, the door of the assistant's office opposite opened, and Qiao Xu walked out from inside.

"Miss Tan...?" She widened her eyes in surprise, "Why are you here?"

With such a big commotion just now, she thought something happened.

But looking at the man in front of him wearing... rabbit ear slippers and sweating profusely, something must have happened.

Noticing Qiao Xu's gaze, Tan Yuqing took a step back in embarrassment, as if he could hide the two slippers on his feet.

"Where's Pei Xi? Isn't she here?"

Qiao Xu caught a glimpse of the food box in her hand and understood.

"President Pei's words, just now..." She stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking.

"What's wrong? Did something really happen?!" Tan Yuqing visibly became anxious, and even clenched her hands into fists nervously.

"Ah... also, not..." Qiao Xu felt a little headache when he remembered what happened just now, he hesitated whether to tell Tan Yuqing.

"What the hell happened!"

Seeing Tan Yuqing getting more and more anxious, Qiao Xu had no choice but to confess, "Boss Pei just went to eat, he should be downstairs."

"That's it, thank you." Tan Yuqing breathed a sigh of relief, bent over to thank her, and hurried downstairs with the food box.

Behind her, Qiao Xu looked at her leaving figure with a headache.

"It's broken now. I hope Miss Tan can't find which restaurant Mr. Pei is in."

Because it was Zhou Zhenzhen, the project leader of the partner, who invited Mr. Pei to have dinner.

However, sometimes, the more you want to avoid something, the more you can't avoid it.

Tan Yuqing came out from Fang's, and found Pei Xi in the restaurant next to Fang's building without even looking carefully. Of course, she also saw Zhou Zhenzhen who was smiling happily opposite her.