mutual benefit [gl]

The atmosphere in the box froze in an instant, and the dense tea fragrance turned into the flames of war.

Gao Xiu looked into Ji Cixi's eyes, there was a deep chill in her eyes,

and of course,

Gao Xiu laughed.

And panic.

Gao Xiu's fingertips stroked the fine lines carved on the purple sand teacup, and after the teacup was slowly turned in a circle in his hand, his movements stopped abruptly.

"Miss Ji, you are too sensitive."

he laughed.

Ji Cixi didn't speak, just looked at him.

"The position you applied for last time in our company...is the assistant of Manager Sun Yao. Since Manager Sun has already left, how can you successfully compete for the job, Ms. Ji?"

Gao Xiu smiled helplessly.

Ji Cixi's pupils shrank suddenly, and a trace of astonishment flashed across his face.

Sun Yao resigned?

She remembered what Sun Yao said to her that day:

"Whether traps and opportunities can be converted or not. It depends on what the person who gave you the opportunity thinks."

"At this age, why bother to be an opportunist."

Ji Cixi's hands drooped slowly and hid in the dark, her knuckle fingers were twisting the corners of her clothes.

A chill rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

Sun Yao actually resigned?

Why didn't Chen Yuanzhen tell himself?

still is……

Or even she didn't know about it yet.

"Miss Ji, are you okay?"

Gao Xiu said with concern, he gestured to the teacup in front of Ji Cixi with his hand.

"You look very bad, would you like some hot tea to warm you up?"

"now that……"

Ji Cixi suppressed the panic in her heart, pretending to be calm and raised her eyes to ask.

"Since Manager Sun has resigned... why did Mr. Gao come to me?"

"Ah... The resignation of Manager Sun Yao has not been announced to the public yet. Ms. Ji knows about it before many executives of our company."

Gao Xiu once again skipped Ji Cixi's question, but this time, he revealed some slightly useful information to Ji Cixi.

The matter of Sun Yao's resignation is still undisclosed.

But Ji Cixi is not a fool, she is currently an unemployed vagrant, but the Chen Group has revealed to her the decision made by the internal high-level.

What is the reason?

But this time, Ji Cixi didn't ask again.

"Your company is looking for me, what's the matter?" Ji Cixi skipped over the things she was most confused about, and insisted on Gao Xiu's purpose for coming to her today.

Gao Xiu glanced at Ji Cixi, and immediately said with a smile:

"Of course, I want to provide Miss Ji with a job."

As he spoke, he took out a black wallet from the inner pocket of his suit, took out a business card from the wallet, put it on the table, and slowly pushed it to Ji Cixi.

"I want to hire Miss Ji as my assistant."

Ji Cixi's eyes flashed.

The business card showed Gao Xiu's identity as a lawyer, but it didn't indicate which law firm he was from.

"Introduce myself to Ms. Ji again, my name is Gao Xiu, and I am the personal lawyer of Chairman Chen Zhishan."

Ji Cixi reached out to pick up the business card, put it in front of her eyes and looked at it carefully for a moment, then she put down the business card again.

"Why did Lawyer Gao choose me? And... how can I be sure, Lawyer Gao, you are not lying to me."

"Lied to you?" Gao Xiu smiled lowly, "In a few weeks, the news of Manager Sun's resignation will be released. By then, you should be able to know whether I have lied to you. As for your doubts, why? will choose you..."

Gao Xiu slightly suppressed his smile.

"Of course it's because someone recommended you to me. I also trust my friends, so I choose you."

Ji Cixi raised her eyebrows slightly, and said with a smile: "Oh? Then may I ask, which noble person recommended me to you?"

"This question...sorry, I have no comment." Gao Xiu lowered his eyes and said, "It's just that if I were Miss Ji, I wouldn't ask so many questions now."

As he spoke, he looked up at Ji Cixi, his sharp eyes shook Ji Cixi's spirit.

"The area where Ms. Ji currently lives belongs to the commercial and prosperous area in the downtown area of ​​Z. The average rent in the entire city of Z is now 5000 yuan, which is several hundred yuan more than in the first half of last year. And Ms. Ji was in a tutoring class before. Working in an agency, you can earn a salary of at most [-] yuan a month, and then remove the daily expenses... When you have a job, it is very difficult to cope with the rising rent, not to mention that Miss Ji is eating her original savings Woolen cloth?"

Gao Xiu's smile deepened.

"Can someone like Ms. Ji allow herself to sit and eat like this? Or..."

At this moment, Gao Xiu's eyes suddenly became cold, and even his voice became flat in an instant.

"Or is it that Ms. Ji has other noble people helping her now, and Gao doesn't know about it?"

Ji Cixi was speechless for a moment.

"The rent of more than 1 yuan per month, what is Miss Ji relying on to support it... Is that little savings really enough?"

Gao Xiu's voice was very gentle, but his words were aggressive.

"Miss Ji may now feel that I am begging you to come to work, so it is normal to be suspicious. But in fact... I took the time to find you today, but it is just to save my friend's face. If you are really not interested , that’s all.”

After Gao Xiu finished speaking, he picked up the teacup, raised his head and drank the tea in one gulp, then smiled at Ji Cixi, and stood up.

"Then I'll take my leave."

As he said, he really bypassed Ji Cixi and walked towards the door.

The situation was reversed, Gao Xiu's pace was no slower than when Ji Cixi was gesticulating to leave just now, his pace was very fast, just when he opened the door and was about to leave.

Ji Cixi reached out and picked up the business card on the table, closed her eyes and said:

"Please……"

She stood up, head down.

"Please, Mr. Gao, let me try."

A confident smile appeared on Gao Xiu's face, he didn't turn around, but said with a smile:

"Miss Ji should wait until the news of Manager Sun's resignation is officially announced, and then contact me."

After he finished speaking, he opened the door and left quickly.

When he walked away, Ji Cixi felt as if all the strength in her body had been drained, and she slumped on the chair.

She didn't care about anything else now, she reached out to pick up the teapot, poured a cup of hot tea into her teacup, and drank it in a hurry.

After drinking a cup of tea, Ji Cixi took a breath.

Chen Yuanzhen was right, that guy Chen Zhishan...wasn't in the same class as her at all.

She wanted to take out her mobile phone to contact Chen Yuanzhen, but the moment she touched her pocket, she retracted her hand and picked up the teapot to pour herself a cup of tea.

After walking out of the teahouse, Ji Cixi only felt that her legs were very weak. Fortunately, it was more convenient to take a taxi at this time. She stopped the car and went home directly after she walked out of the People's Square.

After returning home, Ji Cixi washed his face with cold water to wake himself up, and then called Chen Yuanzhen.

"ended?"

Chen Yuanzhen quickly answered the phone as usual, and only after hearing her voice, Ji Cixi felt that his hanging heart could be let down a little.

"What's wrong with you, why don't you speak?" Chen Yuanzhen asked.

"What's the matter with you?" There was some urgency in her voice, "You wait at home, I'll go over now—"

"It's okay." Ji Cixi interrupted weakly before Chen Yuanzhen finished speaking.

Hearing Ji Cixi's voice, Chen Yuanzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought something happened to you, what happened?"

"Do you know... Gao Xiu?"

Chen Yuanzhen was taken aback when she heard the words, she searched for the person's name in her brain, but found nothing.

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

"He's your father's personal lawyer, don't you know?"

Chen Yuanzhen was surprised when he heard the words, and said, "The old man's personal lawyer? Impossible... The legal affairs of the group have been entrusted to the best firm in Z City. This person... I have never heard of it."

"You said before that your father has a hidden special assistant, right. This high-level cultivator... probably is."

Chen Yuanzhen nodded, "Maybe, I'll ask Zhou Ming to check his background. What did this person tell you today?"

"I'll ask you again," Ji Cixi said, rubbing her swollen eyebrows.

"Sun Yao resigned, did you know?"

Chen Yuanzhen's body shivered suddenly.

After a while, she said in a low voice, "Who did you listen to?"

"Gao Xiu."

Chen Yuanzhen gritted her teeth secretly, she sighed, and said, "It hasn't been decided internally. But, I guess he didn't lie to you."

"So you don't know?"

"I do not know."

Ji Cixi opened her eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "But he told me about this...Chen Yuanzhen, do you still remember what Sun Yao said to me when he saw me?"

"En." Chen Yuanzhen responded in a low voice.

"If it's according to what you said, the old man had his eyes on me at that time, but he only came to me now. He came to me when he chose to abandon Sun Yao... This is not a gesture of favor to me, but a knock on the mountain."

"Ah."

Chen Yuanzhen did not refute her.

After that, the two fell into a long silence.

After a while, Chen Yuanzhen broke the silence.

"I thought you were going to ask me if you could do it."

Ji Cixi smiled wryly upon hearing this.

"Then you will definitely answer, I believe you or something like that. Or you will also say, it doesn't matter if you want to give up... right."

Chen Yuanzhen did not speak, expressing his acquiescence.

"That kind of nonsense doesn't make me feel at ease, you'd better save it."

"I know." Chen Yuanzhen smiled, "But I still want to say it."

"You are really... very troublesome."

"If Teacher Ji wants to give up, just tell me." Chen Yuanzhen pursed his lips and smiled, "No matter what I do, I will let Teacher Ji get away safely."

Ji Cixi's hand holding the phone trembled slightly, and she turned to look out the window.

It was snowing outside.

Xuesi crossed the window, making an inaudible rustling sound, but Ji Cixi heard the sound clearly.

The sound of snow, which was so subtle that it could be ignored, was intertwined with her ears very clearly at this moment along with the beating of her heart.

Maybe that wasn't Xue's voice, but Chen Yuanzhen's breathing.

She and Chen Yuanzhen fell into silence again, but at some point this silence would no longer be embarrassing.

Ji Cixi hung up the phone, she sat on the sofa and looked at the snow outside the window.

At the same time, Chen Yuanzhen's eyes were fixed on the heavy snowflakes flying all over the sky.

"It's snowing... that's great."

The author has something to say: Actually... I also want to be a writer who can write cookies [crying]