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Fang Qiran was not annoyed, and sat next to Qi Yubai under Bai Shaorong's arrangement.

Ou Can sat across from them, looked at Fang Qiran with a strange expression throughout the meal, and didn't say a word, as if a small speaker had lost its power.But she also has to admit that Fang Qiran is indeed a very good person, if her gender is ignored, she might be considered compatible with her cousin.

It's a pity that they are swans and horses, one in the water and one on the ground.They are both outstanding, but it is not a good marriage.

In the second half of the meal, Fang Qiran pinched the end of the wine glass with two fingers on the rim of her right hand, her wrist slightly hanging in the air, and asked, "Boss Qi, were you in the equestrian club at school?"

Qi Yubai carefully cut the steak, but he didn't speak after a few seconds. Bai Shaorong couldn't wait, and hurriedly answered for him: "He is, he is, and he started to learn how to ride a horse when he was half a child."

Fang Qiran smiled happily at Bai Shaorong, then turned her head and said to Qi Yubai: "I met you once when I went to the racecourse to pick horses, and I entered school two years lower than you, so you probably don't recognize me."

Qi Yubai put down the knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and said, "Really, I don't remember."

The elders at the table have been paying attention to the movement here, like two vigilant animal trainers.Bai Shaorong obviously liked this girl very much, and couldn't allow their conversation to fall to the ground, so he took up the conversation again: "Yu Bai's horse rides very well, I can let him teach you another day."

"Okay." Fang Qiran shook her wine glass lightly, looked at Qi Yubai bluntly, "I don't ride well, don't bother Mr. Qi."

"Then you will suffer a lot." Ou Can said quietly, "Don't look at my cousin who is very kind now, but when he drives and rides a horse, he becomes irritable. Even I refuse to teach him."

"Cancan!" Bai Shaorong yelled lightly, and glared at her.

Qi Yubai kept staying out of the matter, as if he was listening to strangers.

Bai Shaorong smiled and asked again: "Qiran, what are your plans in the future, do you stay in China?"

Fang Qiran hummed: "For the time being, I plan to develop in China."

"That's right." Qi Zhonghui said seriously: "I heard from your father that he was worried that you, a girl, would stay outside for too long. It's better to come back and help your father."

"That's the reason." Bai Shaorong said, "You have to start a family after all. Girls are no better than boys. It takes only a few years at the same age. You have to take care of life-long events. We met Bai because we were boys. Don't worry, it will be delayed. What's your father's usual attitude?"

Fang Qiran put down her wine glass and smiled at Bai Shaorong: "Fortunately, my dad doesn't rush me about this matter very much. He said that I will find someone I like, and I will be responsible for the good or bad, he doesn't care."

Ou Can picked up a broccoli flower, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and raised his eyebrows at Qi Yubai, which meant that Fang Qiran was quite a hypocrite, what would she do here if she was not in a hurry.

Bai Shaorong said: "That's because he doesn't want to put pressure on you. How can you not be in a hurry as a parent?"

"You are right." Fang Qiran did not refute.

After eating a meal for more than an hour, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.Ou Can, who is usually the most talkative, is not in high spirits, and Qi Yubai seems to have been hit by someone's dumb acupoint, relying on his elders and Fang Qiran to come and go.Ou Can vaguely felt from the lines that this Fang Qiran came prepared, she took out the mobile phone in her bag, and sent a message to Qi Yubai under the table: "Brother, be careful with this woman."

When he came out, Bai Shaorong took Ou Can and walked out quickly, leaving Qi Yubai and Fang Qiran behind alone, hoping that they could say a few more words.

The afternoon sun made the temperature rise a bit, and finally there was a sense that spring was approaching.The city center is always busy with people and cars on weekends. There is a comprehensive shopping mall next to the hotel. A little boy in a denim jacket is running around the square with his friends holding a three-in-one colorful balloon. There is also a girl with shofar braids riding a scooter chasing.

Qi Yubai walked outside the hotel and waited for the waiter to drive over, and took out his mobile phone to reply an email.Fang Qiran was holding a small red bamboo bag by her side and looked at him with a smile. After he put down his phone, he said, "Mr. Qi, are you usually busy?"

"Busy." Qi Yubai replied with one word.

Another car appeared first, Bai Shaorong and Qi Zhonghui got into the car tacitly, and dragged Ou Can into it by the way.

Qi Yubai waited a little impatiently, and looked back at the exit of the parking lot twice.Fang Qiran was about to talk to him, when she heard "Ouch", a little boy ran into his little feet and sat down on the ground with a bang.Qi Yubai turned his head to look at the ground, and immediately bent down with a smile, lifted the boy up from the ground, put both hands under his arms, and his tone of voice was completely different from just now.

"Kid, be careful when you play, are you hurt?"

The little boy stared at him with blinking eyes, grabbed his suit sleeve with his dusty right hand, stood still and shook his head, "I won't get hurt!"

He is not like the aunt next to him, who has no interest in the uncle in front of him, ignores his concern, turns his head to find his companion, stamps his feet and shouts: "Wait for me! I want to take that too, here I'll keep one!" Then he quickly broke free from Qi Yubai's hand, and ran wildly in another direction again.

Qi Yubai's eyes followed behind him and moved to the center of the square before slowly retracting his gaze and smiling again.

"You like children very much?" Fang Qiran asked.

"Fortunately."

A man and a woman with good looks and temperament stood in front of the hotel, and people who came in and out couldn't help but glance at them.Qi Yubai walked two or three meters to the side calmly, Fang Qiran followed, smiled and asked him: "Why are you so nice to a child you never know, but you are so dismissive of me?"

The voice still sounded gentle and watery, but the tone was obviously much stronger, as if venting dissatisfaction.

Qi Yubai glanced sideways at her deliberate smile, and said calmly, "You are overthinking. It's not that you dismiss it, it's that you don't want to be troublesome."

His car was finally driven out and parked in front of him smoothly.Qi Yubai didn't get into the car immediately, but stood by the car door and looked at her across the body: "Do you want me to take you home directly?"

Simply issued a eviction order.

Fang Qiran was obviously taken aback, thinking that Qi Yubai would give her some face after Qi's father spoke, and invited her to sit at home for a while at his father's will, but he didn't expect that the other party directly offered to send her home without showing any sympathy.The sound of the high heels stomping on the ground became more urgent, she stepped forward and opened the car door and said with a sullen face, "Mr. Qi, please."

The co-driver of this Rolls-Royce has hardly ever sat in anyone else except Lin Nan.But today there was no way, Fang Qiran was wearing a skirt, and she had to go through the front row to get to the back seat, so he didn't make a sound to stop her from sitting next to him.

The air in the car was no longer pure due to the strange smell of perfume, Qi Yubai frowned slightly.

After getting into the car, Qi Ran put on a posture that she didn't want to talk to him any more, but before going on the road, Qi Yubai unexpectedly opened her mouth.

"Before you came, did you inquire about me?"

"No need to inquire." Fang Qiran pulled the seat belt buckle and put her brand-name bag on her lap, and changed a tone that was completely different from that in the private room: "I have known you since I was in school."

Qi Yubai started the car and looked straight ahead: "Then you should know that coming to eat this meal is a waste of time."

The car drove smoothly into the main road. Fang Qiran saw that she loved beauty as her life. She pulled down the makeup mirror to check whether the lipstick was in good condition. After listening to his words, she turned her head and said, "It's not. I heard that The version is, you can be male or female."

With a flick of a finger, the car window is lowered, intending to disperse the over-tuned floral perfume.

Qi Yubai said, "Your information is wrong, I'm not interested in women."

Fang Qiran obviously didn't expect him to be so honest, she closed the mirror and looked at him with a slight frown: "Are you serious?"

Qi Yubai hummed and said, "So remember to reject my father next time."

The carriage was quiet, Fang Qiran looked at him with his hands for 2 minutes, his mind had turned several times, Shi Shiran said: "But if I refuse, your dad can still find someone else to meet you."

-

Two weeks later.

Qi Yubai didn't come to the company for several days.Zhang Hong didn't know what he was busy with recently, and occasionally went in and out with Fang Qiran, as if he had forgotten Lin Nan, I hope so.

Zhang Hong still thought that he would not see his boss today, but he pushed open the door of the president's office as usual, and he was already sitting behind the desk.

After glancing at his face, Zhang Hong didn't even address him: "Did you go to the set again last night?"

"I've filled up the gas, here's the key." Qi Yubai threw the things in his hands into Zhang Hong's arms, then lowered his head to sort out the documents.

Zhang Hong took two steps forward, not like a secretary but like a boss: "Are you crazy? Driving for six hours just to have a look, and then go back to the company?"

This is not the first time he has spoken out to persuade.

"Your car's performance is too poor. It only takes me five hours to drive my own." Qi Yubai corrected him.

The chair was quickly pulled away, Zhang Hong stood in front of him and slapped his hands on the table and said, "Mr. Qi, I beg you, do you know that it is absolutely dangerous to drive long distance alone in the middle of the night?"

Qi Yubai raised his head and smiled jokingly at him: "Your car is not in accident insurance?"

"You—" Zhang Hong was choked by him, and immediately didn't know what to say, "You can't forget why he pretended to be chic, and now he is getting closer and closer to Miss Fang."

"That's enough." Qi Yubai stopped him, "It's forbidden to talk about personal affairs during working hours."

-

At noon, the two went to the restaurant for dinner, and when they came back, they ran into someone unexpectedly.

The elevator door opened on the first floor, and there were employees coming out of the underground cafeteria, chatting and laughing loudly.As soon as Qi Yubai and Zhang Hong walked in, everyone looked over in unison, and the conversation stopped immediately.

Qi Yubai is not a boss who gets along well with his subordinates, he is used to this kind of scene, when he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard a loud "Hello, Boss Qi!"

It was Qin Peng, who stood behind two colleagues, a man and a woman, poked his head out, smiled and shook his hands slightly at him.He looked like a different person from when he just came out of the detention center, his cropped hair grew into Korean-style bangs, and his acne improved a lot.

Qi Yubai was not very impressed by his hospitality, and nodded slightly at him as before, and was about to look away, when his eyes suddenly paused, and he just kept looking at him, as if there was something particularly annoying about him.

The two people blocking Qin Peng realized that something was wrong, and moved a step to the two sides wisely, exposing Qin Peng's whole body.Qin Peng was stared at all hairy, his hands and feet were a little unnatural, and asked: "Qi, Mr. Qi, what's the matter?"

This question caused Zhang Hong, who had been facing the elevator door, to turn his head to look at him.Qi Yubai's eyes swept over his upper body again, and finally stayed on the neck area for a few seconds before he said lightly: "The scarf is not bad."

Qin Peng was taken aback for a moment, then reacted with a smile, touched the mottled gray scarf around his neck and said, "I just think its color matches my outfit today. I don't know if it's good or not, but Mr. Qi knows It’s easy to say, it’s definitely not wrong.”

He didn't quite understand what he said, but the pride and showing off in his heart were clearly revealed from his demeanor and movements.

Qi Yubai turned around slowly, facing the elevator door.

The people behind heard that the boss had found an excuse to chat with familiar employees, so they relaxed their nerves.

The female colleague smiled and interjected: "I just said that your scarf is not cheap. If you didn't admit it in the morning, Mr. Qi has sharp eyes."

"That's right." The male colleague shrugged Qin Peng's shoulders with his arm, "It's not kind, and you pretend to be low-key in front of us."

"Oh, I really didn't mean it." Qin Peng scratched his head pretending to be embarrassed, glanced at Qi Yubai's back, and said modestly: "I'm not pretending to be low-key. This scarf was given to me by my brother. I I know it is warm and practical, but I really don’t know what brand and material you are talking about.”

Zhang Hong's heart was suspended in vain, and the next second he put his hand on the boss's shoulder, silently refusing to move away.

"Your brother? My brother? It's so generous to you."

"Of course it's my brother! How can my cousin be so generous?"

Qin Peng replied with a smile on his face: "Brother, brother, it is dear, who is good to me if my brother is not good to me? But I also said to him, let him stop spending money on me, guess what he said, He actually said that he didn’t want this scarf anymore, but it’s a pity that he didn’t wear it a few times so it was so new and threw it away, so let me forget it. Listen, didn’t he let me pick up his second-hand scarf?”

Everyone laughed, and the male colleague said: "I think it's the same for people with two children in the family. Qin Peng, don't worry too much. My two-year-old second child has never bought new clothes. They are all worn out by the boss. ,save money!"

Zhang Hong's right hand pressed Qi Yubai's shoulder without letting go.

The few people behind were still chatting, and Qin Peng was the loudest. He was obviously very satisfied with his appearance just now, not to mention that Mr. Qi took the lead.

Qi Yubai silently looked at his and Zhang Hong's images on the elevator door, and at the penultimate stop, he finally whispered: "Okay, take it away."

The strength on the shoulders weakened a little bit, and finally disappeared when the elevator dinged.

The two of them turned sideways, and the employees behind them filed out. As soon as the door closed, the elevator returned to silence.

During the period from the 11th floor to the top floor, there was no one else, and the cables pulling the elevator shuttle made an inaudible running sound.

The atmosphere is oppressive, with little ventilation.The door is like a mirror, reflecting Qi Yubai's appearance. The blue circle around his eyes has not faded for a long time, and his shoulders are still straight, as if he is holding on and refusing to show weakness.

Zhang Hong waited two floors before speaking: "It's not necessarily that he's talking nonsense."

—

During the lunch break, the process of going from downstairs to upstairs gradually moved away from the noise, and Qi Yubai was left alone in the office, and even Zhang Hong went back to his work station to listen to the message.

Qi Yubai turned around and closed the door, sat down where his subordinates usually sit, moved the seat back, and put his legs crossed on the desk.

The sunlight outside the glass window is a bit dazzling after staring at it for a long time, and the scenery is nothing unusual, it has been seen countless times.He surveyed the area in front of him, every inch had a story to tell.

Lin Nan used to sit naked in the position where he put his feet, with both hands tightly grasping the edge of the table to make himself lighter.Lin Nan's back was tightly pressed against the glass in front of him, struggling to support his body so as not to slip.

There is also a dressing room a few steps away, where Lin Nan used to read scripts quietly.

There used to be many beautiful moments between them, and I have a lot of responsibility for the development to this point, even if the gift is passed on, it should be given.

But he still couldn't bear his anger, and almost wanted Qin Peng to disappear in front of his eyes immediately.

Not long after, there was a loud noise in the office.

boom!

Then came the second sound.

boom!

There is a third sound.

boom!

Zhang Hong rushed over from the outside, and he arrived before anyone could hear: "Mr. Qi, what happened?!"

The door opened with a click, and there was a mess in front of him.

Landline phones, bluetooth earphones, and glasses all appeared abruptly by the floor-to-ceiling windows. The fragments of shells seemed to have carried countless violent rages, and they were caught off guard without saying a word, without daring to have any objections.

There is a piece of transparent water stain on the floor-to-ceiling window, which should be left in the cup, dripping down the glass, dragging out several long streamlines, and leaving a few small patches of dark color on the light gray commercial carpet.

"President Qi..." Zhang Hong stood at the door, looking at the back of Qi Yubai sitting on the chair.

He rested his elbows on his knees, panting slightly.Hearing Zhang Hong call him, he straightened the front of his suit, then turned to look at the person at the door, with a strange sense of loneliness in his eyes.

It seemed that instead of getting pleasure from venting, he became more and more frustrated.

The two were silent for a moment, and Zhang Hong said, "I'll find someone to clean up."

Before he could turn around, Qi Yubai called him to stop: "Zhang Hong."

Zhang Hong took a few steps closer, and Qi Yubai slowly opened his mouth: "When I gave him the scarf, he said thank you twice in total."

Zhang Hong didn't know how to enlighten him, so he simply stood where he was, like the damaged equipment by the French windows, without saying a word.

Qi Yubai lowered his head, his wrist trembled slightly.

"So he really let go."