mutual benefit [gl]

The cross-country flight took nearly thirteen hours, from nine in the morning to ten in the evening, but when we got off the plane, the sky was clear again.

This made Ji Cixi, who had only had less than eight hours of flying experience before, very uncomfortable.

Although Chen Yuanzhen pressed her forehead more than once to make her sleep on the plane, Ji Cixi's standard biological clock still couldn't follow human power. Now that she got off the plane, she felt drowsy, but when she looked up, the sun in the sky was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon clock sun.

From now on, Ji Cixi regrets that she really listened to Chen Yuanzhen's words and came to this ghost place with her.

Chen Yuanzhen, who was on the side, slept for seven or eight hours, but she was very energetic at this time. She took off her sunglasses and looked at Ji Cixi, and pointed to the nearby coffee shop with a smile.

"Would you like a cup of coffee?"

Chen Yuanzhen had already arranged everything, and the two of them stayed in the airport hall for less than 15 minutes, when someone trotted over to meet him.

Looking at the person, although I don't know him, he is not a foreigner with blonde hair and blue eyes.This gave Ji Cixi a little bit of comfort.

The two got in the car and went straight to the hotel, Ji Cixi looked out the window blankly along the way.

Strange streets, strange shops, strange people.

Although it has not been an hour since she set foot in a foreign country, she has already had a profound experience of the phrase "being a stranger in a foreign land alone".

She turned slightly to look at Chen Yuanzhen beside her, and saw that she was at ease, without any discomfort at all.

She probably travels between countries like this for a long time.

"I will go abroad in the second semester of my third grade."

Seemingly aware of Ji Cixi's gaze, Chen Yuanzhen looked at the road ahead and said.

Ji Cixi looked away calmly, and only hummed lightly.

"I don't have any concept of hometown in my heart." Chen Yuanzhen said again.

"As long as I am where I am, I will try my best to adapt. Treat it as a home and adapt."

Ji Cixi didn't speak, but looked out of the window with deeper eyes.

Only then did Chen Yuanzhen look at her. She looked at Ji Cixi's delicate side face, and just smiled, and said no more.

The car drove for almost four and ten minutes, and finally stopped at a five-star hotel.

The driver went to check in, and Chen Yuanzhen and Ji Cixi sat down in the lobby bar of the hotel.

As soon as Chen Yuanzhen was seated, a waiter stepped forward, and she ordered in English proficiently, and then she smiled at Ji Cixi:

"I chose this hotel because the afternoon tea here is great. You can try it after the meal will be served later."

The corners of Ji Cixi's mouth trembled, but he didn't speak.

I chose this hotel because the afternoon tea was delicious.

This reason is too casual, right?

It didn't take long for the waiter to serve the dishes. All kinds of exquisite and beautiful refreshments were placed on the exquisitely carved three-tiered shelf. Two teacups.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled with satisfaction, and while paying, took out a few banknotes from his wallet and handed them to them as a tip.

"Do you want to try it?" Sending the waiter away, Chen Yuanzhen put his chin on his hands and looked at Ji Cixi with a smile.

"There are coffee and tea for tea. It's up to you to choose."

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to take a plate of orange chicken rolls from the refreshment stand and handed it to Ji Cixi.

"I guess you don't like sweets, so you chose the salty set meal."

Ji Cixi looked down at the refreshments in front of her, and the corners of her mouth finally gradually curved.

"What about you, don't you like sweets?"

Chen Yuanzhen pursed his lips and said, "No, in fact I quite like sweets."

"That……"

"The key is," Chen Yuanzhen pointed at Ji Cixi with his finger.

"The key is, what do you like."

Ji Cixi was slightly startled, Chen Yuanzhen smiled again and said:

"I've tried everything here, and there's nothing new about it. So for me now, being able to sit here with you is what I'm most interested in."

Ji Cixi looked at her for a long time, but finally smiled helplessly.

"I think you're going to seduce men in this way. I think it might be a little bit of trouble. For me, let's forget it. You're doing it wrong."

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and didn't refute her, but took a sip of black tea from the porcelain cup with painted flowers.

After the two finished their afternoon tea, the driver just now had already been waiting near the front desk. Seeing the two coming, he hurried over and handed over the two room cards.

"The luggage has been delivered, is there anything else you need?"

Chen Yuanzhen shook her head, she reached out and patted the driver's shoulder, and said with a smile, "Thank you, please come pick us up in a few days."

"Yes, then you two rest first, and I'll leave first." The driver said and bowed to Chen Yuanzhen, then nodded to Ji Cixi, turned and left the hotel.

The two went to the elevator, but fortunately the hotel's VIP elevator was empty at this time, so when the elevator door closed, Ji Cixi cast her gaze on Chen Yuanzhen.

At the same time, Chen Yuanzhen also turned to look at her.

"It's from Zhou Ming." She said softly.

The doubts in Ji Cixi's heart were resolved, she pursed her lips and nodded, facing forward again.

The room was on the top floor of the hotel, and it took about 3 minutes from the first floor to the top floor. The two stood side by side in the sightseeing elevator of the hotel, overlooking the magnificent interior of the hotel.

"Ding--"

The elevator issued a notification sound, and the elevator door slowly opened, Ji Cixi stepped out of the elevator first.

She felt the palms of her hands in the pockets on both sides of the windbreaker were hot and humid.

This feeling made her irritated for a while, both physically and mentally.

Her room was just opposite to Chen Yuanzhen. She walked to the door of the room, turned around and nodded at Chen Yuanzhen who had just walked over, and immediately opened the door of the room and walked in.

Chen Yuanzhen stood at the door of Ji Cixi's closed room, she looked at the door of Ji Cixi's room strangely.

In the end, she sighed softly, smiled, and turned to open the door.

When she came to the room, Chen Yuanzhen took a shower first. She had just dried her body and wrapped herself in a bathrobe when she heard a doorbell ringing outside the door.

She wiped her wet hair with a towel and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was Ji Cixi with an expressionless face.

Chen Yuanzhen was stunned, and Ji Cixi was also a little dazed when she saw Chen Yuanzhen's appearance, but soon she recovered.

"It seems that I interrupted, then I'll come back later." After she finished speaking, she turned around and wanted to leave.

"The interruption has already been interrupted, so don't interrupt the second time." Chen Yuanzhen's teasing voice sounded behind her.

She turned around again, and Chen Yuanzhen stepped out of the door.

"come in."

After thinking for a moment, Ji Cixi walked into her room.

Chen Yuanzhen led Ji Cixi to sit down in the living room of the suite, and then went back to the room and changed his clothes.

When she returned to the living room, Ji Cixi had already stood up again.

"Didn't I let you sit?" Chen Yuanzhen smiled, and she also sat down opposite Ji Cixi.

"What can you do with me? Aren't you sleepy?"

Ignoring Chen Yuanzhen's greetings, Ji Cixi took out a few banknotes from the inner pocket of the windbreaker and put them on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa.

"The coffee at the airport, and the afternoon tea just now." She said.

Chen Yuanzhen looked down at the banknotes on the coffee table, and then at Ji Cixi.

"Count me as a treat."

"I don't want to be treated." Ji Cixi said, after finishing speaking, she took out another piece of paper from her pocket, which was a post-it note prepared in the hotel room.

"Air tickets, hotels. I can't pay you back these expenses for the time being. I will pay them back when I go back and find a job. I didn't write the repayment date on the IOU because you are the creditor. So when you want the debt, it should be up to you it's up to you."

"You are..."

Chen Yuanzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she stretched out her hand to pick up the IOU, seeing that Ji Cixi wrote it very formally and carefully, it didn't look like she was joking.

"You..." She put down the IOU with some helplessness, "Can't you accept my love? Just pretend that I invite you to travel?"

Ji Cixi said with a blank expression: "If you were my boss, we went abroad this time on a business trip. I can still treat these expenses as reimbursement from the company. But now you say you are grateful? What kind of affection?"

"I……"

"I know that the cost of accommodation here is not small. Even the best friends would not treat guests so generously for no reason."

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and said, "But I have money...the money is for me..."

Before she finished speaking, Ji Cixi interrupted:

"I want our relationship to be equal."

Chen Yuanzhen was startled.

"The premise of mutual use is equality, not someone's unilateral poverty alleviation." Ji Cixi's voice was as calm as her own expression, but every word was extremely powerful.

"If you think that I can't even return the money to you... then we can cancel what we talked about before. I think I may not be the person you are looking for, Chen Yuanzhen."

"You know I don't mean that."

"But if," Ji Cixi stood up, she smiled.

"If you think I'm the one you're looking for, just accept the IOU."

After Ji Cixi finished speaking, she looked at Chen Yuanzhen quietly, and Chen Yuanzhen also raised her eyes to look at her, the two looked at each other, the undoubtedness in Ji Cixi's eyes made Chen Yuanzhen confused and helpless.

She recalled the 100 yuan that Ji Cixi involuntarily stuffed into her before, and suddenly felt a little funny again.

She smiled lowly, and finally stretched out her hand to put away the banknotes. She looked at the IOU again, got up and went to the inner room to find a pen.

In front of Ji Cixi, she wrote a one-year deadline on the repayment date of the IOU, and finally solemnly signed her name next to Ji Cixi's signature.

"I..." She solemnly put away the IOU, and looked directly into Ji Cixi's calm eyes.

"I don't think I've ever been more sure that you are the one I'm looking for."

The author has something to say: Mr. Ji is still very stubborn today~ He resolutely rejects the relationship of poverty alleviation.

Director Chen: "I really want to be the domineering president in front of Mr. Ji 55555"