Depressed wife runs with the ball

Zhou Xing went downstairs and sat in the car, not driving away for a long time.

The matter of picking up Guo Tongchu at the airport did not disturb Chu Yue for long. He cleaned up the house and took out the unopened Legos from the cloakroom to start building them.

That morning, she brought the unopened cake of white tea to Ji Yan and told him to buy a few baskets for Zhou Xingzhi. Ji Yan looked at her strangely. She had never been involved in the market before, and she had never asked about these kinds of personal relationships. So why was she now asking him to send a gift to the client? And it was just a relatively inexpensive tea?

"Is the Xinghui project too tiring? If you don't want to do it, just let someone else do it. I'll hire a few more people." Ji Yan just thought she was tired and wanted to give a gift to let the client have more time to progress the project.

"No, I just sent it when I asked you to." She didn't want to explain any more, and just let him send it while she went back to the office to draw.

Ji Yan pursed his lips and could only buy a box of tea to send to Zhou Xingzhi's secretary Jiang Tao. Jiang Tao looked at the gift box, feeling a little embarrassed, and could only accept it first and make plans later.

Chu Yue's old iPad didn't last long; after a system upgrade, it went black and froze. Luckily, the data was still stored in the cloud drive, so all the images weren't lost. She scheduled a repair appointment and found Ji Yan, telling him she was going to get the iPad repaired. Ji Yan was free, so he drove with her.

The store is located in a busy downtown area, and there are a lot of people. The repair office is on the second floor. We gave the iPad to the repairman and explained the problem. He told us to wait and let us know when the repair was complete.

Ji Yan was bored, and thought her phone, iPad, and computer were ridiculously old, so he dragged her upstairs to look at new ones. Chu Yue was uninterested, just following him around, idly swiping at the prototypes.

"Hey, hey, hey, come and take a look at the IPAD first. If you change to a new one, your work efficiency will be higher, right?" Ji Yan invited her warmly after seeing her look.

"The old one can be used after repairing it. I have a mortgage to pay and it was just renovated. How can I afford to buy a new one?"

She didn't want to replace it because she had no money and because she was really nostalgic. If she hadn't been so reluctant to replace her office laptop, her palms wouldn't have been rubbed red every time she took it out.

"Oh, I'm here with you. Did I ask you to pay? Besides, I'm considering the company's business. You can't take the fixed assets away, right?" If she hadn't been refusing, he would have replaced her pile of slow-reacting things long ago.

After hearing what he said, Chu Yue no longer had any concerns and began to carefully select. The new one was really easy to use for drawing, but it didn't have as many libraries and brushes as her old one.

Ji Yan turned to look at his laptop. Chu Yue was hunched over her iPad, drawing. Zhou Xingzhi's eyes were blinded by this scene. So, a complete set of Apple devices could win her heart. It was truly...cheap. He couldn't help but laugh at himself, wondering how he could have been so wrong.

Back in the office, Jiang Tao pointed to the gift box on the coffee table and reported, "Mr. Ji from Qucho Design Studio sent you some tea. What do you think we should do with it?"

Tea leaves? He stared straight at her, a hint of coldness emanating from his eyes, and said indifferently, "Jiang Tao, do you think I'm short of this little tea?"

Jiang Tao quickly took the tea leaves, lowered his head, not daring to look the boss in the eye, and said guiltily, "I'll take it back right away."

The old iPad was repaired and the new iPad was in her hand. However, she didn't buy a laptop because changing computers was too troublesome and she was not used to the MAC system.

Summer quietly ended, and autumn arrived. The temperature difference between morning and evening was obvious. Chu Yue hung a coat in the office as a backup. A noise came from the office door, and it continued for a long time. Ji Yan heard the noise and went out to check. It was Chu Yue's mother, Huang Yunfu.

Although she is in her 40s, she still can't hide her youthful beauty, but now she is standing at the door of the office and yelling like a shrew.

"I'm here to look for my daughter. What's your business? Why are you stopping me?" She yelled, pushing and shoving the receptionist who tried to stop her. Seeing Ji Yan, she immediately put on a fawning and pretentious expression: "Hey, Mr. Ji, long time no see. I'm here to see Yue'er. She's upstairs, right? I'll go find her."

"She's not here, Auntie." Ji Yan looked indifferent. This was not the first time that this mother came to the office.

"If she's not here, where else could she be? I called her but she didn't answer. There was some misunderstanding a while ago, and as her mother, I'm trying to give her a way out. I'll go upstairs and take a look." Huang Yunfu was about to go upstairs when Ji Yan emphasized again with a cold face, "I said she's not here."

Huang Yunfu's face looked a little ugly, but because Ji Yan's father was an official, he couldn't get angry.

Chu Yue just sat on the second floor and listened. Now that they had come to the company, he was afraid that he would not have peace in the future. Thinking of this, he hesitated whether to go out.

Ji Yan added, "Whether she's here or not, she won't want to see you. It was like that in college, and it's the same here. Auntie, if you come to harass her again next time, don't blame me for calling the police!"

Huang Yunfu was an elder after all, and it was embarrassing to be lectured by a junior. Many people in the office leaned out to watch. Seeing that there was no movement on the second floor, she didn't want to stay any longer, so she shouted loudly to the office on the second floor: "Yueyue, we are family after all. Some things are better discussed behind closed doors. If you think it through, come home anytime. Your father and I are waiting for you at home!"

After saying that, he glared at Ji Yan, stomped his feet and left.

Ji Yan calmly said to a group of colleagues who were looking in from the sidelines, "Don't discuss this in private. There's nothing to see. Let's get back to work."

Pushing open the door of Chu Yue's office, she leaned her elbows on the table, supported her chin with her left hand, and stared at the computer screen in a daze.

"Tea or coffee?" Ji Yan took out his mobile phone, ready to order some tea, give everyone some benefits, have some afternoon tea or something like that.

"Cold brew tea." Chu Yue ordered something that looked healthier.

Cold brew tea? Where can I find this? Ji Yan was puzzled.

"Wasn't that box of tea returned? Cold brewing is also good, you can try it." Chu Yue explained.

She had never explained her relationship with her parents to Ji Yan, and he hadn't asked too many questions. From college till now, he had always protected her silently. She was grateful, but it was just gratitude. There was really no way their relationship could go any further.

Every time his girlfriend, Xinxin, came to see him, Chu Yue always felt guilty towards her and would always prepare some gifts for her in the office from time to time.

"Xiao Yue, come here, it's an urgent task. Tomorrow, Mr. Zhou from Xinghui will be attending the meeting in person to listen to some reports on the results of our project. Please prepare the PPT and go with us tomorrow." Zhang Jianing suddenly came in with a stack of documents, his phone screen still stuck on the communication interface with Xinghui's advertising department.

Chu Yue stood up, took the stack of information, and said softly, "Okay." Ji Yan handed the phone to Zhang Jianing and said, "Sister Ning, everyone has been very busy recently. Can you help me order afternoon tea as a token of your sympathy?"

"Okay, thanks, boss." Zhang Jianing took the phone and went out to call everyone to order afternoon tea. Ji Yan also went to his office to get tea leaves and teacups to make tea.

"Come to think of it, why did you suddenly ask me to send tea to Zhou Xingzhi that day?" Ji Yan had never figured it out. There were almost no people who could make her ask for a gift. This was the first time.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know he would refund it. I'll transfer the money to you." Chu Yue's thoughts were still on the situation when her mother came to make a fuss. When he mentioned it, she remembered the matter of picking up the tea leaves.

"Is this about tea? Zhou Xingzhi, what's wrong with you?" Ji Yan asked ambiguously, with the desire to gossip clearly visible on his face.

"Huh?" Chu Yue was completely confused. It was just a bag of tea, what was there to gossip about? Besides, if he was asked to deliver it, wouldn't it be sent out in the name of the firm? How could it be said that this party A had done something to her?

"You've never cared about these social conventions. Someone who asked you to personally deliver a gift must be very meaningful to you, right? How's it going? Is there something going on?"

Chu Yue sighed lightly, rolled her eyes at him, and continued to work on her own drawing.