Qin Wei was wearing glasses and eating xiaohuntun when a woman dressed in a Chanel dress suit looked at her.
To be more precise, her gaze fell on Qin Wei's xiaohuntun.
"Is it delicious?"
She asked.
"Huh?"
"Are the xiaohuntun delicious?"
She asked again.
At first glance, this woman looked rather snobbish. Qin Wei adjusted her glasses with one hand and put down her soup spoon with the other:
"Who are you?"
Since the other party did not get an answer, she seemed unwilling to say more, turned around and left.
Qin Wei: "?"
...
Shen Kai, the CEO, made a special effort to get up early today.
He stood at the company's door like a marble statue, accepting everyone's admiring glances.
No one knew what the CEO was doing standing face-to-face with the security guard at the door.
Until the last employee ran over panting.
"Morning! Security guard..."
Qin Wei ran to the door and took a look at the time, very good, there were still three minutes left.
Sprint!
"Wait."
A low and pleasant male voice stopped her.
Qin Wei stopped in her tracks and squinted back at him.
She touched the bridge of her nose. Oh, she had left in such a hurry that she had forgotten her glasses.
Qin Wei looked blurrily at the person, completely unable to recognize who he was.
【Qiao Sixiao: Such beautiful eyes, it’s a pity she’s blind.】
【Qin Wei: But I can still recognize voices, right? Right?!】
"Who are you?" Qin Wei asked him.
"It's me," Shen Kai said, then added after thinking about it, "We met in the elevator yesterday."
Qin Wei blurted out:
"Mr. CEO!?"
She wasn't stupid. Yesterday, she was reprimanded and inspected by the executive director, half because she was late and half because she was caught being late by the CEO.
It seemed that the CEO was standing at the door today to catch latecomers. How unlucky! If she had known earlier she would have gotten up earlier and squeezed onto the last subway...
"What are you holding?"
The CEO didn't know what she was thinking. Instead, he pointed at the canvas bag she was holding.
"Breakfast..."
Qin Wei said, then took a step back.
Unexpectedly, Shen Kai took a step forward.
"Xiaohuntun?"
Qin Wei nodded.
"Give it to me."
The tone was imperative. Shen Kai said, holding out his hand.
Qin Wei: "???"
But thinking that she was late and caught by the CEO, would he take advantage of her situation?
For work, she handed it over...
...
An ambulance came that morning. Employees watched as the CEO was carried out and put into the ambulance before it drove away.
Assistant Liu Simin was anxious as a dog the whole time, thinking that he went to work feeling fine, so why did he suddenly feel unwell?
"Kai!"
When Qiao Sixiao heard that Shen Kai was hospitalized, she also hurried over. She pushed open the door of the CEO's private VIP room and saw Shen Kai sitting on the hospital bed, seriously looking over financial statements.
"What happened? How could Kai suddenly be hospitalized when he was fine?"
Qiao Sixiao questioned Liu Simin.
"It was my own stomach problem acting up, it had nothing to do with him." Shen Kai spoke plainly.
Qiao Sixiao looked at Shen Kai. He was wearing a patient's gown with an open collar that revealed his firm, healthy-looking chest. That skin...
【Qiao Sixiao: Stop with this nonsense...】
"The CEO ate xiaohuntun this morning, and then his stomach started to feel uncomfortable and hurt so much he was sweating..."
Liu Simin complained on the side, "There's spicy chili oil in there. Miss Qiao, you know that the CEO has a bad stomach and can't eat this kind of unhealthy food, but he just wouldn't listen..."
"Shut up."
Shen Kai, with his good-looking eyebrows...
【Qiao Sixiao: Sun Tiantian...】
Shen Kai frowned for the assistant not to say more.
"Xiaohuntun again..." Qiao Sixiao secretly clenched her fist. Could it be related to that junior clerk!?
It seemed that Shen Kai could guess what Qiao Sixiao was thinking, so he said to her:
"It was because I wanted to eat it myself. Don't make things difficult for her."
Sure enough.
Qiao Sixiao turned and left the ward...
...
It was night time and raining heavily.
Junior clerk Qin Wei, who worked overtime until 9:30 pm, stood at the company door and sighed deeply at the pouring rain—
"Calling a taxi is too expensive. There goes my perfect attendance award. It feels like I’m losing money just by going to work this month..."
It would take ten minutes to walk from here to the subway station. Although she would get soaked, the subway ticket only cost four dollars.
Qin Wei hesitated for a moment before rushing into the heavy rain.
"Get in the car."
A Porsche Cayenne blocked her way. The driver was her.
Qin Wei didn't know her name and couldn't see her clearly, but she recognized her voice.
They had met at the company yesterday.
"Oh."
Although she didn't know the other's intentions, she still got into the passenger seat...
【Qin Wei: And so began the road of no return...】
Qiao Sixiao glanced at the expensive leather seat, which was now wet. She didn't say much, only took out a Hermes towel:
"Wipe yourself."
Qin Wei obediently took the towel and wiped her already messy hair even more messy.
"Did you need something from me?"
Seeing the other hesitant, Qin Wei couldn't help but ask first.
"Are you hungry? I haven't eaten yet either. Let's go eat together."
Without waiting for her agreement, Qiao Sixiao drove straight to the city’s highest end Western restaurant.
The average spending per person at the Western restaurant started at 3,000 dollars. Only elites could afford to dine here, and this was Qin Wei's first time at this kind of occasion. The hoodie she wore clashed with the surroundings.
Qiao Sixiao selected a seat near the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down. Soon, the waiter brought various high-end Western dishes. She told Qin Wei not to be polite and to enjoy the food freely.
Qin Wei was starving. She had only a bowl of thin porridge for the whole day at work. At this point her stomach was growling. Since the other party told her not to be shy, she would not really be shy at all.
What was the other’s intention? She was truly hungry now, so she would eat first and talk later.
“Look at the dining environment here—the elegant violin music, the panoramic view overlooking the capital from above.
And the ingredients—all air-flown in that day from their places of origin, prepared by internationally renowned chefs.
Just the white truffle slices on your plate, those thin slices already cost over a thousand dollars...
So many people long for this lifestyle, so many envy it, yet this is just Kai’s daily life. Now look back at yourself... what exactly are you doing?”
Qin Wei stared at the thin slices on the plate. She had just eaten the pasta and had deliberately pushed those slices aside...
“I thought they were dried chestnuts. I took a bite and they tasted bad. I didn’t think they would be so expensive!”
She quietly put them in her mouth. Even if they tasted bad, she had to eat them since they cost so much. Being expensive must mean something.
Qiao Sixiao rested her chin in her hand as she watched the woman across seriously eating. She hesitated whether to continue:
"Can you understand what I'm trying to say?"
"I understand."
By the time she finished speaking, Qin Wei had already eaten everything on the table that she could eat. She wiped her mouth and asked Qiao Sixiao,
"Can we go downstairs somewhere else to eat more?"
【Qiao Sixiao: You already ate so much but still have the nerve to eat more! Are you starving!? Have you never seen food before!?】
【Qin Wei: =_=......】
"Sure."
After some hesitation, Qiao Sixiao also felt that her opponent was clearly the shameless sort to take cheap advantages. But that was fine. She certainly had money to spare. As long as the other didn’t bother Kai, giving her one or two hundred thousand was not an issue.
Not to mention, it was only a meal or two.
"You can eat whatever you want, but you have to promise me one condition first..."
"Sure, sure, let's go quickly. Places will start closing soon."
