Proposing after seven years

Seven years later, in the huge conference room, an important meeting was going on.

As an architect and the owner of a family business, Li Jie has already taken over from his grandfather. He is very busy at the moment, because there are many successful works that have made him famous in China. The project he just won has plunged the whole company into a tense situation. at work.

Just when Li Jie asked his assistant to show the idea to the staff present, a call came into his mobile phone.Li Jie took out his mobile phone, looked at the flashing name on it, his lips curved into a smile, it was rare for the surrounding atmosphere to slowly rise from freezing point, and it was no longer so depressing.

"Sorry, I'll answer the phone first." Li Jie stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

With one hand in his pocket, he looked into the distance and connected the phone.

"Ajie, are you free? I need your help with something." Xiao Ling's soft voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Tell me, what's the matter, I'll go right after the meeting." No matter how busy he is, Li Jie has always been responsive to Xiao Ling's request, and will be there whenever he is called.

"I have researched another super delicious dessert, you want to come and try it for me." Xiao Ling looked very excited on the other end of the phone.

Li Jie raised his hand and glanced at his watch, "Okay, it will be over soon. About 10 minutes later."

"Well, so slow. Hurry up, please please." Xiao Ling urged.

Li Jie couldn't bear Xiao Ling begging him, "Okay, I'll try my best, it will take 10 minutes if it's quick."

It is about a 5-minute drive from the company to the dessert shop where Xiao Ling works. He promised to arrive in 10 minutes, which means that his important meeting will end early.He never had a sweet tooth, but for Xiao Ling, he broke the rules time and time again to help her try new products, and this has been going on for more than seven years.

"Okay, then I'll adjust it again and cook the most delicious ones for you." Xiao Lingchao happily hung up the phone.

Li Jie hung up the phone with a smile, and when he looked back, although his expression softened a little, he was still working with a serious look, "Hey, let's continue the topic just now." Sitting back to his original seat, Li Jie glanced at the audience, Looking at the assistant.

Everyone sat upright in order to pass the performance in front of the serious boss in front of them.

Coming out of the conference room after the meeting, Li Jie walked quickly while explaining work to his assistant.While waiting for the elevator at the elevator entrance, he pulled up the sleeve of his suit and glanced at his watch. It was not long before he made an appointment with Xiao Ling.

For seven years, the friendship between him and Xiao Ling has always been above AUO but not full of lovers.Many people know about his relationship with Xiao Ling, but his attitude towards Xiao Ling makes everyone incomprehensible. Those who know Li Jie know that Li Jie has been single for many years and has never been rumored. The only opposite sex around him is Xiao Ling is alone, his doting on her has surpassed the doting on his lover, but they are not lovers.

"Boss, do you have an appointment with Ms. Xiao?" The assistant looked at the boss as if he was in a hurry, and couldn't help but ask.Li Jie nodded.

"Boss, you and Ms. Xiao have a good friendship, but it's not a romantic relationship. Everyone is very curious." The assistant usually follows Li Jie, so he dares to ask some private questions.

"Curiosity? Are they curious about my love life, or about my relationship with Xiao Ling?" Li Jie glanced at the assistant, a little puzzled.He and Xiao Ling have been friends for more than seven years, and they have always been very good. In his opinion, there is nothing that makes people sick.

"I'm just curious that you and Ms. Xiao have such a good relationship, why are you not lovers?" The assistant hesitated for a moment, and expressed the doubt in his heart.

"Do you have to be a lover if you are in a good relationship?" Seeing the elevator door slowly open, Li Jie glanced at his assistant and walked in.

"You obviously put her first, why do you still say that?" The assistant looked at the closed elevator door, wondering.

Outside a very high-end dessert shop at the corner of the bustling street, there is an endless stream of passers-by, and the passing vehicles are about to squeeze the street.

Li Jie finally parked the car, walked outside the dessert shop, pushed open the glass door, and a burst of cool air came over him.There were a lot of people in the store, his handsome face and wearing a famous brand suit, his elite temperament quickly attracted the attention of customers in the store.

The clerk hurried up to greet him, "Mr. Li, you are here, Xiao Ling is waiting for you inside."

Li Jie smiled lightly, and the clerk led him into the kitchen.

From a distance, Xiao Ling could be seen busy. She was wearing a work cap, her long black hair was neatly tied inside, and she was also wearing a set of white work clothes.

Seeing Xiao Ling concentrating on his work, Li Jie made a silent gesture to the clerk beside him, and leaned on the kitchen door with his hands folded and looked at her.

The clerk backed out with a wicked smile.

Li Jie looked at Xiao Ling, she was no longer as young as she was seven years ago, but her eyes were clear and her smile was as sweet as before. Compared with seven years ago, her figure was not so thin, but much plumper. Although she was still a head shorter than him, she was already very feminine.

Just when Li Jie looked at her with a smile, she suddenly raised her head, the two looked at each other, a sweet smile appeared on Xiao Ling's face, she walked over and hugged Li Jie's arm, "Ajie, wait for you to do it for a long time Well, don’t tell me you’re here, I’ve already made some snacks, come and have a taste.”

"Let's see if you put poison in the dim sum first." Li Jie teased her with a smile, recalling the first time she invited him to her house for dinner, the happiness was beyond words, she was accompanying him through the hardest time in life The saddest years of people.

"Come on, no one will poison you. You are my white mouse. Every time you try it for me, who do I turn to if you are poisoned?" Xiao Ling said with a serious look.

"Hehe, it turns out that my life was saved to make me a white mouse, so I really have to do my duty seriously." Li Jie leaned back against the dining table, "But the person who wants to be your white mouse Are you lining up?"

"They are not as professional as you, but I have cultivated you for seven years, hurry up and try it for me." Xiao Ling handed a small plate of delicate snacks to Li Jie, "It's super delicious, sweet and glutinous Yes, it tastes great."

Li Jie glanced lightly at the exquisite dim sum that Xiao Ling seemed to have spent a lot of time making on the plate, and then at Xiao Ling's sweet smiling face, "Feed me."

Xiao Ling had no choice but to pick up the snack and put it into Li Jie's open mouth.

Li Jie savored the dim sum carefully, he really suffered as he didn't like sweets, but he had been used to being abused by Xiao Ling these years, although it was difficult to accept it, at least he didn't strongly reject it.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Xiao Ling waited for his reply with a confident look.

"Hmm..." Li Jie frowned, "It's too sweet."

"Is there?" Xiao Ling picked up a piece with her slender fingertips and took a bite, "No, it's just right."

"I'm a senior food taster, you may not be able to eat it if you know how to cook it, understand?" Li Jie said bluntly.

"I have a lot of fans of the delicacies I cook. Do you think it's too sweet? Is it okay to eat desserts without sweetness? I'm so picky and vexatious." Xiao Ling put the plate on the table and said angrily.

Li Jie looked at Xiao Ling's angry look and smiled, "Criticism can help you improve, but you actually said I was making trouble for no reason? Xiao Ling, come here and spank your ass."

"No, I'm angry." Xiao Ling sat on the chair, looking at the newly made product with a disheartened expression.

"Just now I was joking, the dim sum is delicious, really." Li Jie coaxed Xiao Ling.

"If you don't believe me, I won't listen to you again." Xiao Ling pouted.

Li Jie put his hands on Xiao Ling's shoulders, "You are very powerful, no matter how much you eat, you won't get fat."

Xiao Ling looked a little smug, "Really? Many people say that."

"Haha, Xiao Ling, you're too easy to coax." Li Jie really got angry quickly, and Xiao Ling who disappeared quickly couldn't laugh or cry.

"It doesn't matter, let me see if you have put on weight." Xiao Ling said, then reached out to pinch Li Jie's stomach.

Li Jie looked astonished, he clenched his fist and coughed lightly to cover up the strange feeling of his body at this moment like a conditioned reflex.It is false to say that he is indifferent. As a physiologically normal man, it is impossible not to respond to a woman's touch, "Come on, I have regular exercise, only abdominal muscles, no fat." Li Jie held Xiao Ling Wrist, pulling her hand away from his abdomen.

"I don't believe it, I saw you have a small belly a few days ago, let me verify your body quickly." Xiao Ling relentlessly grabbed Li Jie's abdomen.

Li Jie quickly moved away, Xiao Ling threw himself into his arms because of inertia, Li Jie gasped, and his lower abdomen tensed up.

"Ahem." A cough came from the door, and the two looked over at the same time.

Xiao Ling's colleague was standing at the door with embarrassment on his face.

Xiao Ling didn't seem to see her colleague's face, she turned her head to look at Li Jie, "Let me touch it, I just want to know if you have a belly."

Li Jie held Xiao Ling's hand, "Alright, it's lunch time, let's go eat."

"Okay, I'll sneak attack your stomach next time." Xiao Ling smiled wickedly.

Li Jie stood up and shook his head. They have known each other for seven years, probably because he has never revealed his love for Xiao Ling, so she has always been so thorny, but in the eyes of outsiders, I am afraid that it will attract gossip. .It's just that he finally realized that he really had feelings for Xiao Ling, and that feeling became stronger and stronger as he grew older.

In the locker room, Xiao Ling changed into his work clothes.

"Xiao Ling, are you going out for dinner?" The colleague winked at the side.

"En." Xiao et al. nodded, and put the changed clothes into the cabinet.

"Your relationship is not simple." The colleague glanced at Xiao Ling and said in a low voice.

"Don't get me wrong, we are just good friends, okay?" Xiao Ling calmly clarified the relationship between the two.

"Good friend? We don't believe it. He comes to pick you up from work every now and then. Every time a new product comes out, he will come to help you taste it. When he looks at you, his eyes are full of love. If you say that you are okay, it is a lie." Human."

Xiao Ling leaned against the cupboard and looked at the ceiling, lost in thought, "Is there? We have been together for seven years, and we have never confessed, how is it possible. By the way, he has a girl who looks up to him, she is super pretty, anyway, it can't be me , so stop guessing."

"I didn't make random guesses. There must be something between you. Everyone has been discussing like crazy these days. It means that Mr. Li likes you, but you don't know it at all." The colleague shook his head after speaking firmly, "Xiao Ling Xiao Ling, it's too late to realize."

Xiao Ling smiled helplessly, "We are really just good friends."

It's not that she hasn't had a boyfriend in these years, and Li Jie won't interfere with her. If he really had feelings for her, he would have told her a long time ago.Although Li Jie would accompany her through the difficult period of broken love at the end of each relationship, he never expressed that he would become her boyfriend, so it was impossible between her and Li Jie, and what outsiders saw was just It's just an illusion.

"So intimacy is just a good friend relationship. I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it." The colleague insisted on his point of view, and walked out of the locker room covering his ears.

"Forget it if you don't believe me!" Xiao Ling walked out of the locker room talking to herself.

Li Jie and Xiao Ling left the dessert shop and went to the restaurant, where they ate face to face.Halfway through eating, Xiao Ling looked at Li Jie seriously, "Ajie, can you do me a favor?"

Li Jie put down his chopsticks and looked at Xiao Ling, "What's the matter, let's talk."

"That's... can you treat Zou Qingqing better? She has come to complain to me about you."

"What are you complaining about?" Li Jie looked into Xiao Ling's clear eyes, and his tone was very flat.

"She said that you treated her very badly and didn't have time to spend with her at all. You spend more time with her when you have free time. She is really nice." Xiao Ling said with a sullen look.

"Really?" Li Jie was silent for a while, because Xiao Ling asked him to take care of Zou Qingqing seven years ago, so he kept his promise to treat Zou Qingqing a little bit better, nothing more than sending flowers and jewelry on festivals, but he had never been in any confessed her in front of people.

However, Zou Qingqing was a greedy person, she readily accepted the material he gave her, but now she became more and more greedy, she wanted his company and his approval, which Li Jie could not agree to.

"Xiao Ling, let me tell you frankly, I have endured her for seven years, because you asked me to, I have been tolerating her. She is not pitiful at all. From the very beginning, she knew that our relationship is very strong. , and started to take advantage of your kindness, pretending to be pitiful to win your sympathy, to be honest, I don't want to waste any more time on this kind of woman." Li Jie looked at Xiao Ling angrily.

"But she really went on a hunger strike and became very thin. Just treat her a little bit better for me as it is for me, okay? Anyway, hasn't it been like this for so many years?" Xiao Ling pulled Li Jie's sleeves shook.

"So I don't want to continue this lie, it's boring." Li Jie put on an attitude that he didn't want to continue to cooperate.

"No, Zou Qingqing won't be able to accept this." Xiao Ling quickly stopped Li Jie's thoughts.

"Then what good does it do for me to continue this lie?" Li Jie glanced at Xiao Ling and said in a negotiating tone.

"I will make a lot of desserts for you to eat." Xiao Ling looked very determined.

Li Jie smiled helplessly.

"Zou Qingqing is good-looking and knows how to dress up. Even if she becomes your real girlfriend, it's not bad. It's rare that she likes you. It's hard for you to be nice to her. If she meets someone she likes in the future, she will naturally treat you Let go, and then you can find a girl you really like." In Xiao Ling's eyes, Zou Qingqing is a very infatuated person, so she tried her best to speak good words for Zou Qingqing.

"I don't want to spend my time with her. I just want to be by your side. You are much prettier than her." Li Jie didn't want to talk about that woman anymore.

"No wonder, the girl you admire is a girl like a fairy. How could you think that a girl like me with mediocre qualifications and who doesn't know how to dress up is good-looking." Although Xiao Ling was the person who stayed by Li Jie's side the longest these years, But she also has self-knowledge. Ever since she followed Li Jie to that villa and met the girl Li Jie liked, she knew that she couldn't compare with her.

But that girl is very busy as a designer. First she went abroad to study, and then she participated in fashion shows everywhere, so there has been no progress between Li Jie and her.Since Li Jie is very free, let him help others when he is free.

"Ajie, do you agree to help?" Xiao Ling begged softly.

"Okay." Li Jie couldn't listen to Xiao Ling's pleading, so he reluctantly agreed.

Xiao Ling made a V gesture, "Then I'll leave it to you."

"Understood, isn't it okay if you win?" Li Jie looked at Xiao Ling's cute appearance, and there was nothing he could do about her. In his eyes and heart, she was never what she said was mediocre, but most beautiful.

"It's a deal." Xiao Ling happily picked up the chopsticks and continued her lunch.

Seeing her good appetite, Li Jie had to admit that he had unconditionally compromised with Xiao Ling.

After nightfall, the dessert shop closed. Xiao Ling walked out of the dessert shop with a few colleagues. The whole street was empty. She hadn't seen Li Jie waiting for her to take her home after the night shift for several days.

"A guy who values ​​sex over friends." Xiao Ling cursed in a low voice.

"Xiao Ling, why didn't your nice gentleman come to pick you up?"

"Have you not been here for a while?"

Colleagues surrounded Xiao Ling, wondering if she had fallen out with him.

Xiao Ling looked very discouraged, she felt a little lost, but she didn't know why.

"Xiao Ling, aren't you really stupid enough to introduce Mr. Haohao to that depressed customer?" the colleague at the side asked in surprise.

"Otherwise, Ajie is her antidote." Xiao Ling said sullenly.

"You idiot, you are such a good man, you are stupid to push him to other girls." The colleague scolded her as if she thought Xiao Ling was stupid.

"We are just good friends, and he doesn't like me. Even if he is really good, if he doesn't belong to me, I can't push him away. Maybe he gets along well with Zou Qingqing." Xiao Ling shook hands Looking at the railings on the side of the road, looking at the shops along the street with flashing neon lights, there is a faint sense of loss in the bottom of his eyes.

"Hey, Xiao Ling, you've lost your mind, let's go home first." The colleagues waved to Xiao Ling and walked to the other side of the road.

"Am I out of my mind?" Xiao Ling patted her head lightly, really wanting to call Li Jie, but worried that he would be with Zou Qingqing, so she had to walk home alone, and she wanted to walk back. To clear my mind.

Not long after walking, a tempting fragrance wafted from the side of the road.

"Roast chicken." Xiao Ling was overjoyed and quickly found a roadside stall.

After ordering roast chicken and two bottles of beer, Xiao Ling sat on the stool and drank by himself.After drinking all the beer, Xiao Ling was already very drunk. She had always been a bad drinker, but she became addicted to drinking. The cold wine passed through her throat, allowing her to forget a lot of troubles.

"Boss, have another bottle of beer." Xiao Ling raised his hand and shouted at the boss.

The boss quickly brought the wine over. Seeing that she was a girl, the boss was a little worried, "Miss, you are drunk, don't drink too much."

"It's good to be drunk. I haven't been drunk yet. I want to try it out and see if I can forget all the unhappy things." Xiao Ling poured the wine into the glass while talking.

"Miss, remember to call and ask a friend to drop you off later, it's not safe to be a girl by yourself." The boss reminded kindly.

"Got it, actually I think I look pretty safe, I should go home no problem, I'll just call a taxi."

Xiao Ling waved to the boss, looking drunk, "Boss, you are so busy with business, so don't worry about me."

The boss shook his head and went about his business.

Just when Xiao Ling was about to finish her beer, her cell phone rang suddenly.

"I'm scared to death, who will call me so late?" Xiao Ling picked up the phone, squinted his drunken eyes, and saw Li Jie's flashing profile picture on the screen, "Hmph, so he is a guy who values ​​sex and despises friends." .” Xiao Ling hung up directly.

The phone rang again, and Xiao Ling hung up again.The phone rang again, Xiao Ling didn't care about it, the feeling of paste in her head made her drowsy, she fell asleep lying on the table.

When the phone rang for the first time, it was the owner of the roadside stall who picked up the phone, "Yes, there is a pretty girl who fell asleep here drunk. Are you her friend? Then hurry up and bring her She should go back, it's dangerous for a girl to be outside at this late hour." The owner of the roadside stall looked at Xiao Ling who was sleeping soundly on the table and shook his head.

"I'm not drunk, I'm obviously not drunk..." Xiao Ling was talking in his sleep.

When Li Jie rushed over, Xiao Ling was still lying on the table of the roadside stall, watching the cars passing by the roadside with drunk eyes, eyes lowered.

"Get up, go home." Li Jie ordered Xiao Ling to wake up.God knows how nervous he was when she hung up the phone, and when it was a man who finally called her and answered his call, he was going crazy.

During this time, Zou Qingqing, whom Xiao Ling asked him to take care of, considered himself his real girlfriend because of his good attitude towards her. Only then did he realize that the only woman by his side was Xiao Ling.

Right now she was drunk, her face was flushed, she was lying on the table, not paying attention to her image at all, he couldn't help kicking the stool she was sitting on, "Did you hear, Xiao Ling, get up for me."

Xiao Ling glanced at him with confused eyes, then waved his hands, "No."

Li Jie admits that he has been really busy with work recently, and that he needs to deal with the big burden that Xiao Ling threw at him, which made him inadvertently indifferent to her.But she didn't answer his calls, and now seeing her lying on the table like a drunk, he really couldn't get angry with her.

After Li Jie helped check out, with the help of the boss, Xiao Ling lay on Li Jie's back and left the roadside stall.