Jingxia Rose

Chapter 62: Suspecting He Might Be Possessed
Ji Xian didn't refuse anymore and accepted it generously, "Okay, then I'll give you a Christmas gift when I get back."

Xiao Guxing smiled and raised his eyebrows, "Okay, but... I want two gifts, one for Christmas and one for New Year's."

"Don't worry, I won't miss you."

After Xiao Gu left, she opened the gift box. It was a very delicate and small crystal music box, pink and cute, and it would look very girly no matter where it was placed.

Ji Xuan chuckled, thinking to herself, "Is my senior treating her like a little girl?"
However, it is a very appropriate gift to give during Christmas and snow.

She walked around the room and placed the music box on the display cabinet in the living room, next to her photo album and other ornaments.

At first glance, it doesn't look out of place at all.

Xiao Guxing helped her tidy up the table and kitchen, but the smell of barbecue in the house was so strong that even the usual aromatherapy couldn't mask it, so Ji Xian simply opened the living room window to let the smell out.

She took her pajamas and went to the bathroom.

When she came out, the living room was a bit cold, and she shivered. The smell of barbecue in the air had lessened considerably, so she closed the window and went to sleep.

The next day was Christmas Eve. Before 10 a.m., she received a WeChat message from Xiao Guxing.

He said he boarded the plane and would arrive in Beijing at a certain time in the afternoon.

After chatting for a while, Xiao Guxing explained that he wasn't going back for official business, but because his grandmother was unwell and hospitalized, and he needed to go back to visit her.

Xiao Guxing would occasionally mention his family situation to her.

My family is a medical family. My grandparents are both traditional Chinese medicine doctors, and we own a chain of TCM clinics. My parents are medical academicians, my eldest brother is a professor of surgery, my sister-in-law is a neurologist, and my younger sister is currently pursuing a master's degree. After graduation, she will most likely work in the procuratorate.

Such a family background is well-known even among the elite families in Beijing.

But when she's with someone like Xiao Guxing, she doesn't feel any distance from him, nor does she feel the class distinction she used to have when she was with Wen Qi.

Perhaps it was because she and Xiao Guxing first met at a foreign language competition at school that the sense of class distance was smoothed out and disappeared.

However, she met Wen Qi at work, where she was his subordinate. Even though they were in an invisible hierarchy, their differences would gradually become apparent in their daily interactions.

After all, superiors and subordinates can never be as unrestrained as friends.

Even after they became a couple, the way they started was not ideal, like the iron hook of a train that was already showing signs of loosening when it was started.

However, the maintenance personnel chose to turn a blind eye because of their laziness. Even if the vehicle is traveling slowly, the hook will eventually brake and detach after being worn down by wind and rain on the road.

Ji Xuan was that maintenance worker.

A wrong start inevitably leads to an unforeseen and predictable ending.

Wen Qi doesn't have any travel plans this morning. He has a small meeting in Gerna this afternoon, and tomorrow morning he'll be going to the factory. In the afternoon, I'll help him translate documents.

Romantic holidays like Christmas Eve and Christmas Day have absolutely nothing to do with a single person like her or a working person like her.

She finished her work at her desk before getting up to go to another group to find Shen Jia.

It was well past working hours, but Shen Jia's workstation was empty; even her computer wasn't turned on.

"Demi, what brings you here?"

Shen Jia's team leader, Ji Xian, recognized her and greeted her with a smile, asking why Shen Jia hadn't arrived yet.

The team leader looked at her in surprise, "Don't you know? AiJia was fired yesterday."

Ji Xuan exclaimed, "Ah! Has something happened?"

The team leader pulled her aside. "I heard she went to Anatolia the day before yesterday morning, wanting to transfer, and then she came to you?"

Ji Xian nodded, not understanding what was going on.

“That day, she went back to her workstation and lay on her desk crying, saying she wanted to go back to the translation department. She ran into you, and then she cried so hard she couldn’t speak. The others comforted her, thinking she had been bullied by you.” Ji Xian frowned, and the team leader continued, “Yesterday morning in the break room, a colleague asked her if you had scolded her. She looked aggrieved. She didn’t say anything bad about you directly, but every word she said pointed to you being wrong, including the time she made a mistake, which was because you had scolded her the day before.”

The team leader looked speechless and dejected, spreading his hands. "You know, she's good-looking, and she's well-liked by people in the company, especially the men..."

understood.

They were using men's chivalry to their advantage and then targeting her.

Rumors can be terrifying. Once the rumors about bullying subordinates spread throughout the company, Ji Xian wouldn't be able to clear his name no matter how hard he tried.

She laughed, truly surprised that Shen Jia would go to such lengths to smear her.

I never imagined that after spending more than a year with her, I still wouldn't figure out what kind of person she was.

It's true what they say, you can't see into someone's heart.

At this point, the team leader couldn't help but laugh, "It's just a pity that President Xiao is different from other men."

Ji Xuan was taken aback. "Did President Xiao hear that?"

The team leader nodded. "Mr. Xiao happened to be passing by at that time and overheard it. He didn't get angry. Instead, he calmly explained the logic and reasoning to her. In the end, Mr. Xiao said that the company didn't need someone who caused trouble and slandered and belittled colleagues. He fired her on the spot."

So when she went to see Wen Qi yesterday, it might really have been to confess her feelings.

Want to build a future for yourself?
It's also naive.

Fine, there's no need to settle scores with her anymore, since we won't have any contact with each other again anyway.

She had previously only deleted Shen Jia's WeChat contacts, but now she can delete her friends on both WeChat and Telegram as well.

After having lunch at the company cafeteria and resting for half an hour, I drove to Gerna with another translator.

This meeting was different from the previous ones; even the meeting room was much smaller, and there was no simultaneous interpretation booth. Hall took this project very seriously and was personally involved in many aspects.

The meeting lasted an hour, and afterwards, Hall invited Wen Qi to his office for tea.

He said that a few days ago a Chinese friend gave him two cans of fine tea and asked him to try them.

As for the others, they all went back to the hotel first.

The two didn't talk about work, but chatted for a while before Hall asked about their specific return dates.

Wen Qi said that a specific date had not yet been set.

He glanced at Ji Xuan, but couldn't detect anything unusual on her face.

Work-related matters should be finished around the 3rd of next month, but he still wants to pursue Ji Xuan!

So we might stay a little longer.

Hall said he wanted to host a farewell banquet for him, but Wen Qi declined, and Hall didn't insist.

After having tea, the two walked out of the Gerner Building.

Wen Qi's usual car was taken away by Ye Xueyan, so he had to take Ji Xuan's car back.

During the nearly twenty-minute journey, Ji Xian noticed his unusual behavior.

He talked more than usual.

There were so many that Ji Xian wondered if he was possessed by someone else.

For example, right now, he asked her, "The trip to the factory tomorrow should finish around 3 p.m. Do you have any other plans?"

(End of this chapter)