Depressed wife runs with the ball

"This is outrageous! How can parents behave like this?! I'm so angry!"

Ji Yan was so angry that his face turned red. He only knew that this junior sister was not loved by her father and mother, but he never thought that there was such an outrageous thing.

"Last night, I asked them out and used words to provoke Chu Jie'an. He slapped me in public, so I called the police. I asked them to write a letter of guarantee that they would not harass me again. I asked Su Ying for some wine because she was still at work when I came out of the police station. It just happened to be that."

Chu Yue tried to recount what happened that day as briefly as possible so as not to make herself look too embarrassed.

"No, why is that? Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs." Ji Yan didn't know that human nature could be so... hateful.

"All in all, the matter is resolved."

Speaking of this, Chu Yue actually felt relieved. Not disturbing her was already the best outcome.

Ji Yan was speechless for a long time. He was shocked that there were such parents in the world, but he also felt sorry for his junior sister who had to endure and solve such a thing by herself.

"Yueyue, from now on, whether it's for reporting or communication, you don't have to go. If you don't want to see that Zhou Xingzhi, then we won't see him. It's no big deal. It's just a few bucks. The worst that can happen is that we won't do their project." After thinking for a long time, he said as if he had vented his anger.

Although this senior brother is a bit fickle, he is always loyal, and the two of them can be said to have become friends through fighting.

"The Xinghui project will last for three years. I'm really not suitable to work at their company anymore. I don't think they'll agree to a change of chief designer. Let's just do it for now. People like Zhou Xingzhi always have to save face and won't go any further."

Breaking the contract is even more inappropriate, and there seems to be no better solution at the moment.

"Next time you go to Xinghui, invite me along, so he won't bully you in front of me."

Ji Yan thought about it, then went out to find Huang Jianing and told her to go to Xinghui in the future and not to bring Chu Yue with her.

After get off work, she went home early and hid in her own territory, doing what she liked. When she took out the trash at night, she saw the pair of disposable slippers at the entrance and threw them into the trash bag.

Ji Yan ran into Zhou Xingzhi and his gang at Su Ying's bar, but he didn't want to greet them and just sat at the bar drinking alone. Su Ying asked casually while mixing her drinks, "Is Yueyue okay?"

"How can you be fine when encountering something like that? It's because you look too calm that makes people worry." Ji Yan held the wine glass in his hand, lowered his head and observed the light reflected from the glass lonely, without noticing that Zhou Xingzhi was already sitting next to him.

"What kind of thing is that?" A low, majestic voice fell from above his head, leaving no room for rejection.

Raising his eyes lightly, after confirming the person coming, Ji Yan just slowly turned his head, took a sip of wine, and said helplessly: "Mr. Zhou, long time no see."

"I asked you what that thing was?" He repeated his question impatiently.

"Mr. Zhou likes Yueyue, right? Yes, she has a face that men like." Ji Yan turned his chair, looked at the various people in the booth behind him, and asked himself the question.

Zhou Xingzhi sat down as well and did not deny it.

"We met when Yueyue first started college. She wasn't even an adult then, so tiny and lugging around a lot of luggage. I saw her the moment I went to the freshman orientation. I helped her with her luggage and checked in. And you wouldn't have known it, but this underage girl, even an outstanding student representative, was so utterly unafraid when she spoke on stage."

Talking about the past, Ji Yan's face was full of longing. Back then, it was actually quite beautiful, at least for him.

"I later discovered, haha, she didn't treat the crowd as human beings. After the orientation, many people confessed their love to her. Professor Yang used the school radio to inform those people that they were committing a crime, misbehaving with a minor, and told them to call the police if they caught anyone. That's when the trouble stopped."

"Going to college before reaching adulthood?" Zhou Xingzhi was a little confused.

"She was admitted on an exceptional basis." Ji Yan continued drinking. Su Ying added from behind the bar, "Yueyue has loved painting since she was little. Her grandmother is the village propaganda officer, so she's been influenced by her. She's both talented and hardworking, so it's only natural that she got admitted early. It's a shame, why did she choose Visual Communication?"

"She has no money. The tuition for college is the inheritance left to her by her grandparents, which is more than 20 yuan. Her parents don't plan to let her go to college at all." Ji Yan said lightly.

Zhou Xingzhi's heart tightened at these words, and he thought her aloofness was just an act. "So, she's been following you?"

"Why do you think that relationships between people are so dirty? You and Shen Yaolin are indeed the same kind of people." Ji Yan couldn't help but feel a little contempt for the president of Xinghui.

"Who is Shen Yaolin?" Before she knew the relationship between her and Ji Yan, Shen Yaolin appeared.

"It doesn't matter. Mr. Zhou, Yueyue's life is not going well. The reason she has been staying in Qucho is because I will stop those clients who interfere with her. And you seem to be no different from those clients." Ji Yan was almost certain that Mr. Zhou was not a good person.

"I'm sorry." Zhou Xingzhi didn't think that he was judging others by his own standards, and his hand holding the wine glass tightened.

"Don't mess with her." Ji Yan put down his glass and walked out of the bar.

Chu Yue sat cross-legged on the carpet, fell asleep with his back against the sofa leg. In front of him was the unfinished painting "Expectation", the sea water and himself he saw when he jumped into the sea. The sea water was dark, and he was dragged into the abyss by countless devils' hands. The only light was the faint sunlight in the early morning.

A rapid ringing of the phone woke her from her nightmare, and she broke out in a cold sweat. The phone continued to ring, but she didn't answer it. It was already early in the morning, and the only people who could call her at this time were either Ji Yan or Chu Jinyue.

After a few moments, it finally stopped. The doorbell rang, and she frowned. Could it be Zhou Xingzhi?

He walked to the entrance with his phone and asked cautiously, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Yueyue."

Who else could this voice be but his? His heart couldn't help but sink. His hands behind his back unconsciously clenched the scissors in his hands. He touched his chest and said calmly, "Boss Zhou, is there something wrong so late at night?"

"I'm not going in. I just want to apologize to you. I was wrong at the meeting that day."

My guard relaxed slightly, but I felt a little annoyed. Who would wake someone up in the middle of the night to apologize? Never mind. After all, he was a big customer, not someone I could easily offend.

"You go back, I'm going to sleep." I didn't feel like caring about why he changed his temper so late at night. I just wanted him to leave quickly.

"Yueyue, we knew each other a year ago. You... really don't remember anything at all?" The person at the door thought for a moment and spoke dejectedly.

To be honest, she...didn't really want to hear it, and this person...was calling her a little too familiar. "Mr. Zhou, it's too late today. You should go back first. We can talk tomorrow if you have anything to say."

"Okay, you have a good rest, I won't disturb you." Zhou Xingzhi sighed lightly, stood at the door for a long time, and finally left.

Fortunately, I left.

The next day, at noon after get off work, she received a WeChat message from Zhou Xingzhi: [Are you free tonight? I'll treat you to dinner.]

She stared at the WeChat message on her computer screen, puzzled. Had Party A changed its approach? Was it a retreat to advance? Or perhaps a gentle overcoming of hardness?

"Yueyue, guess who I met in the bar last night?" Ji Yan came in with a lunch box.

"Zhou Xingzhi? Did you say anything to him?" Thinking about the day when he got the wine, he was sitting in a booth chatting and laughing with a group of people. It might not be a coincidence that he appeared on that street.

"How do you know? Is he bothering you again?" Ji Yan handed her the lunch box, a little worried.

"...It's not a big deal. You came to apologize to me in the middle of the night." She stood up and took the lunch box. She opened it and saw teriyaki chicken legs. These were the dishes she had every week.

"You just have great charisma." Ji Yan didn't intend to tell her what happened in the bar last night.

"What did you say to him last night?"

"Nothing, I just warned him."

Chu Yue said nothing, just stared at him.