Depressed wife runs with the ball

Another message popped up on WeChat: ...Just pretend I didn’t ask.

After finding the advertising agency and explaining her needs, she lay down in the hotel again, opened her laptop, and stared at the blank drawing software.

The next afternoon, she went to the advertising store to pick up the banner as agreed. The owner handed it to her and said gossipingly, "Officer Zhou is very handsome, right? There are many girls who give him gifts every day. I guess yours is not very attractive."

"Oh, really?" She had no interest in these things.

The owner looked at the banner in her hand and shook his head.

When she arrived at the police station with the banner, there were actually quite a few girls sitting there, waiting for something. She approached the policewoman and asked, "Hello, is there anyone here named Zhou..."

"Waiting for Officer Zhou, right? There's a line in front." The policewoman was used to it and answered as usual without even raising her head.

She glanced at the women sitting on the stainless steel benches—young, middle-aged, young, and old—and thought, "Wow, it seems Officer Zhou is very popular this week." "Beautiful lady, I'm just giving you a banner. Just give it to him for me when the time comes." She placed the banner in front of the policewoman's computer.

"You didn't see him today?" The policewoman's eyes lit up when she saw the banner. She had the materials to be recognized as an advanced employee this year! She looked up and saw a beautiful woman.

"No, thank you for your help." Chu Yue said and walked out of the police station. The matter was completely over.

Zhou Xingzhi and several people in the institute frowned as they looked at the banner hanging on the wall. Who could write like that?

What does a "6" score mean? Is it good or bad? Wouldn't it be ridiculous to just post this material for an end-of-year award like "Excellent" or "Advanced"?

"Xingzhi, who did you save?" the police officer who passed the exam with him asked curiously.

"Beautiful girl. But unfortunately, she's a little bit mentally ill." He initially thought that the girl might have just suffered a shock and couldn't bear it psychologically. Now it seems that she might really be a little bit mentally ill.

Chu Yue was sitting in the coffee shop on the first floor of the hotel, talking on the phone with an oil painting professor whom he met in college. He was in a good mood, chatting and laughing.

On the table was the small sketchbook she always carried with her. The open page depicted a scene of her underwater life painted in watercolors.

Zhou Xingzhi rushed to the hotel, still wanting to find out what had happened to the girl.

As I walked into the front desk, I saw in the coffee shop on the first floor that the person who was depressed and wanted to jump into the sea to commit suicide yesterday was now holding his mobile phone and talking and laughing, a completely different person from yesterday.

It turns out that she can smile, and her smile is quite beautiful. She is wearing a gradient denim dress and a hollow white shawl. She looks warm and radiant, as if she is just a tourist who comes to relax.

He went to the coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee, took it to the table where the girl had put the coffee, and sat down. Chu Yue was on the phone when he turned around and saw someone sitting in his seat. He was obviously stunned and walked over to her, wanting to explain things clearly.

Zhou Xingzhi looked at the painting on the table. The paint box was a little dirty, with a lot of solidified paint on the lid. Half of the coffee was left. The painting was a little dark, and even the person who jumped down was gray. He opened his eyes and looked at the foam floating up.

Chu Yue said to the phone: "Teacher Yang, I will talk to you when I get back. Let's not talk anymore. It will delay you from taking care of your grandson." The person on the other end of the phone nodded with a smile and hung up.

"Sir, there's someone here..." She stretched out her index finger and tapped the table as a reminder.

The tone of his words was completely different from when he'd spoken on the phone. It was filled with an impatient politeness, and even a sense of distance. After all, he had saved her life, so even if she didn't expect tears of gratitude, she should at least treat him warmly, right?

"How is your wound healing?" He looked up at the person who was about to sit opposite him and observed her complexion. It seemed that she had recovered a lot and her lips were rosy.

After Chu Yue sat down, he realized that it was Officer Zhou who had saved him yesterday morning. His expression did not fluctuate much, and he just responded lightly: "Not bad."

"Do you mind telling me why you want to commit suicide?"

Chu Yue frowned slightly. She had not thought about committing suicide. She just felt that Grandma and Jiaojiao in the sea were so real that if she jumped in, she could touch them.

"Mind." She put away the sketchbook, closed the paint box, and prepared to leave at any time.

Zhou Xingzhi could see her resistance, so he didn't want to ask any more questions. He had already checked everything he needed to. "When are you planning on returning to Qiancheng?"

Chu Yue looked him up and down. First, she hadn't called the police, and second, nothing had happened to her. Third, she had paid off her medical bills, and fourth, she had presented him with a banner. Was this man afraid that she would commit suicide again? "Is this also your responsibility?"

"Just a routine question."

"Tomorrow." She picked up her bag and went back to her room.

Zhou Xingzhi turned around and shouted, "If you really have something to worry about, you can talk to a psychologist."

Back in Qiancheng, she sat in her office and started to get busy. Ji Yan pushed the door open and sat across from her. "How was your vacation?

Chu Yue didn't even look up, only focusing on the design on her computer screen. "Talk about it!"

"Look at you, your senior brother cares about you, right? If you're really still unhappy, I can grant you a few more days of leave, how about that?"

Ji Yan and Chu Yue are senior and junior brothers and sisters. After the firm was founded, he brought the newly graduated Chu Yue to do the design. That year was really hard.

Lao Jia from the marketing department was arranged by Ji Yan's father and already had some resources on hand.

At first, he looked down on the fledgling Chu Yue, thinking that she had no experience and that no matter how many awards her personal design works won, it would be useless in terms of market demand. Moreover, she was a girl and would definitely not be able to survive.

Ji Yan took her to meet clients, communicate requirements, and design materials. The two often argued all night in the company because of some clash of inspiration.

At the beginning, they did lose a few clients, but because Chu Yue had a talent for design and a unique aesthetic, she brought many new clients to the company, so Lao Jia kept quiet. Sometimes he would come with the bidding documents and ask for her opinion.

Chu Yue also worked very hard, and in just half a year, he was already able to take charge of the design work independently. Ji Yan then let go and became the boss, focusing on management. Although the two had known each other for many years, when they quarreled, it was so fierce!

Especially Chu Yue. Although she looks good and is cold to others, when she really quarrels with the boss, her mouth is like poison.

The new male colleague in the company always tried to ask her about her marital status in a roundabout way at first, but when he saw her arguing with her boss, he quietly put away his little thoughts.

Although he graduated and started working, Chu Yue never let go of his secret love for his senior brother Guo Tongchu.

She had been secretly in love with Guo Tongchu for three years, and almost everyone in the college knew about it. Only Guo Tongchu pretended to be stupid and always kept her hanging, chatting with her from time to time.

When she was heartbroken at school, she would ask Chu Yue to pick her up from the bar and take her back to school. Although she didn't end up in a relationship with him, this secret crush also helped her block many people who wanted to pursue her in the college.

After graduation, Guo Tongchu worked as an environmental designer at Xinghui. Even though he was very busy at work, he would occasionally send a WeChat message to Chu Yue to show his concern.

They were in the same city, but he no longer asked her out to have dinner together. He always made excuses saying he was on a business trip.

Guo Tongchu probably knew Chu Yue's family situation. She was not liked by her parents, had a younger brother, and suffered from mild depression.

He was keeping her hanging because he enjoyed the vanity that came with a beautiful woman pursuing him, and he didn't accept her because he thought Chu Yue's condition was too troublesome.

If the two of them were in a relationship, putting aside her depression, her family would not be able to give her any support, which means she would have to rely on her own efforts to buy a house and a car.

There were more than one beautiful woman chasing Guo Tongchu, so he just kept chatting with them in a nonchalant manner.

Chu Yue's family conditions are not bad, but she has lived with her grandparents since she was a child and only returned to her parents' home after graduating from high school.

My parents' thoughts are all on that younger brother. In order to train him to become an excellent heir to the family, they put in every effort. They sent him the most expensive teachers and the best schools, and even sent him abroad to study finance at Ivy League schools. In short, everything he eats, wears, and uses at home is top-notch.

Even after seeing Chu Yue graduate from high school, the first thing he thought about was whether to let his daughter go to school or get married? If she got married, she might be able to find a wealthy second-generation man from a wealthy family to help cover the various expenses for her brother's future in the United States.