captured by your prey

After that, Xie Xiyuan and Zhou Sheng never contacted each other again.

Seeing Xie Xiyuan's reaction, Zhou Sheng worried that Xie Xiyuan would be embarrassed the next time the two met.But she didn't seem to need to worry about this, because Xie Xiyuan didn't come to the company the next day.On the third, fourth and even the second Friday, Xie Xiyuan never came back.

It was impossible to say that he didn't care, Zhou Sheng just didn't show it.

Passing by Xie Xiyuan's office and seeing an empty seat, the department manager told Zhou Sheng that Xie Xiyuan had greeted him and said that he would take a leave of absence for a period of time, and if she caused trouble due to the vacancy, she could be fired directly Invite new employees in.Zhou Sheng nodded, as if she knew the situation, but actually she wanted to know about Xie Xiyuan, but she didn't know how to speak from her own standpoint.

The meaning of that kiss was very clear, and Xie Xiyuan's kindness to her all this time, Zhou Sheng was just a little dull, and he wasn't wooden, so how could he not know.

She doesn't dislike Xie Xiyuan like this, but she really didn't think about accepting it before.Xie Xiyuan hadn't been to the company since that day, and her other feelings were very complicated and difficult to describe, only Zhou Sheng made it clear that she didn't want Xie Xiyuan to avoid work because of herself.

As if she had given herself a reason, she just came to the bar where Xie Xiyuan worked part-time.

She came and went in a hurry last time, and she didn't bother to remember the way. Fortunately, the unique decoration and layout made this store quite conspicuous on this street.Zhou Sheng was a little nervous. She chose a weekday to come, but there were especially many people coming to the store at night. Although the atmosphere here is relatively quiet, once there are more people, there will inevitably be noise.

Zhou Sheng had thought about it for a long time before coming here, what to say after seeing Xie Xiyuan, how to explain his mood, finally persuaded himself to open the door and walk into the shop, looked around for a week but did not see Xie Xiyuan people.Zhou Sheng was not in a hurry to find it. She sat down at the side seat, ordered some desserts, and typed several lines back and forth with the mobile phone in her hand to delete them. Suddenly a person came over.

"Hey - you are the boss' friend!"

The owner of the voice played with the hanging hair with his fingers, and sat next to Zhou Sheng without authorization, and then beckoned the waiter to serve two special fruit wines here.

Looking at her upright and eye-catching face and makeup, Zhou Sheng thought for a while before he remembered that this was the girl who came to say hello to him when she and Xie Xiyuan came here for dinner.Xie Xiyuan had introduced this girl to her, but tonight she was dressed so differently from last time that Zhou Sheng couldn't react quickly.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Su Su immediately smiled and waved her hands: "Don't worry, the fruit wine is mine. The desserts on the table will be directly counted as Xiaoyuan's head. You can just be casual here!"

Zhou Sheng hesitated for a moment, then replied: "No, of course I still have to pay..."

The waiter came over with fruit wine, and Su Su took a glass and drank it by herself first, then held the glass with the other hand and brought it to Zhou Sheng, as if she was not polite to her when she was her own.

"By the way, you just said boss?"

"Well—" Su Su's lips let go of the rim of the cup: "She's upstairs, she's been in the office these days, maybe she has a lot to do."

"Agaki?"

"Yes, she knows you will be happy to come!" As soon as Su Su finished speaking, she saw An He's face standing behind Zhou Sheng, so she had to turn her gaze back to Zhou Sheng's face and continued: "But I don't know if she is willing to come down now... She has a bad temper recently, so I don't want to mess with this kind of Xiaoyuan."

"Is she angry?" Zhou Sheng asked, she had never seen Xie Xiyuan angry, and Xie Xiyuan didn't seem to have such a side in her impression.

Su Su frowned: "It's not that she's angry, it's just that she has too many things to worry about recently, maybe she's under a lot of pressure, and she seems to be in a bad state. We all consciously don't go to her. If you want to go, work from the back Just go up the stairs in the room, and there is an obvious studio."

Zhou Sheng took a sip of the fruit wine that Su Su handed her, and the delicate taste flowed down her throat.The two chatted for a while, and Zhou Sheng was very grateful to Su Su for being willing to talk to her, which made her less nervous than before, but made her feel more mixed.After this conversation, Zhou Sheng found out that the owner of this shop was Xie Xiyuan.Zhou Sheng remembered something from the past, that's why she brought her here, and she appeared here that day, then...

After Su Su went to entertain the guests, Zhou Sheng sat there for a while, and wanted to send a message to Xie Xiyuan before going up, but he still didn't know what to say when he picked up the phone again.

She had no choice but to give up, she thought she might as well go straight up.Zhou Sheng got up and walked to the working area at the back. The passageway at the door leads to the elevator and the stairwell. Just as she was about to enter, the door opened from the inside, and a pure and lovely girl leaned on a young man. Come out talking and laughing.

Zhou Sheng walked around them and went up to the second floor.

On one side of the second floor is a hall, and on the other side is a long and thin corridor. There is a room at the end, which is the most prominent place on this floor as Su Su described, and it is indeed easy to identify.

When she walked to the door, she began to feel nervous again, raising her hand several times and putting it down again.

In fact, Zhou Sheng himself didn't know what she was doing here... as a boss to persuade Xie Xiyuan to go back to work at the company?But Xie Xiyuan also said that it doesn't matter even if she is fired.

As a friend, ask her what's going on these days?

Zhou Sheng lowered his eyes, raised his hand to knock on the door and put it down again.She might be able to convince herself that--yes, as a friend--it didn't really work.

Of course she could go back now, but she was unwilling to turn around and leave.

She just felt that there seemed to be many things between her and Xie Xiyuan that hadn't been explained clearly...they never had a chance to explain clearly.

"Why don't you go in?"

Suddenly Zhou Sheng was suddenly pushed from behind.

An Zhi was holding a dinner plate with a plate of rice topped with curry, and a cup of hot coffee beside it.An Zhi, who recognized Zhou Sheng, was a little uncomfortable, but she found that Zhou Sheng seemed to have nothing unusual, so she didn't mention it. "Are you here to look for Xiaogaki?"

"Hmm..." She responded, and then An Zhi knocked on the door. She waited at the door for a while and there was no reply, so An Zhi opened the door and went in.

The space in the room is not big, Xie Xiyuan was sitting in front of the workbench, not knowing what she was writing, the computer in her hand was full of forms, her back was facing the door, even when she heard An Zhi and Zhou Sheng coming in, she didn't turn around.

As if an agreement had already been made, An Zhi put the dinner prepared for Xie Xiyuan on the shelf on the side of her workbench. Xie Xiyuan didn't go to see her, and An Zhi left without saying anything, but before leaving, She hesitated for a moment, but still called Xie Xiyuan: "Xiaoyuan."

The person at the table was immersed in what he was writing, and she turned to look at her only after finishing a paragraph: "What's wrong?"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Xiyuan saw Zhou Sheng standing there with An Zhi.

An Zhi waved his hand at Xie Xiyuan to signal that he would go first, Xie Xiyuan was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that he got up and walked towards this end: "Oh, okay, I understand, you can go to work." She After speaking to An Zhi, he looked at Zhou Sheng.An Zhi didn't forget to close the door when he left, and there were only the two of them in the room, and suddenly there was no sound.

Zhou Sheng didn't know what to say, and Xie Xiyuan was tired of dealing with her feelings in front of Zhou Sheng, so she didn't intend to continue pretending.

Xie Xiyuan sighed softly without moving his expression, she didn't speak, which made Zhou Sheng feel restrained.

Looking up at the person in front of her, she is Xie Xiyuan, but she is not like the Xie Xiyuan I usually see - there is no comforting smile on the corner of her mouth, and her expression is by no means sunny and approachable, nor does she have a smile on her face. With his hair tied up, he let his long hair fall down in a mess.Wearing a baggy long-sleeved shirt, there is still a pen ink stain on the cuff, which has dried out because I didn't bother to clean it up, and her face is terrible after a long period of upside-down circadian rhythm disorder.

"What's the matter, come to me and don't talk?"

The person in front of him still spoke in Xie Xiyuan's tone and voice, which somewhat reminded Zhou Sheng of the original appearance of the person in front of him.

Xie Xiyuan raised her eyebrows when she spoke, which didn't add any color to her bloodless face. After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked to the table, and said while holding the dinner that An Zhi sent just now: "You Let's have dinner, this time... Let me see, it's already this late?"

"Well, it's over, I just ate dessert below," Zhou Sheng replied dryly: "Black Forest Chocolate Cake, and some fruit."

After she finished speaking, she fell into silence again, really not knowing what to say.

Xie Xiyuan was leaning on the table, holding a plate and stuffing food into his mouth, he didn't chew it very carefully, and swallowed a few mouthfuls just to fill his stomach.So she didn't answer the call for a while, and the room fell into silence again, only the sound of Xie Xiyuan's spoon hitting the dishes.

"So--"

She puffed out her mouth full of rice grains and said a few words, but she felt that it was really difficult to make a sound like this, so she frowned and made a gesture of waiting for me, and chewed what was in her mouth. "Is there something you came to see me today?"

As she spoke, she handed Zhou Sheng the hot coffee at the table, and poured herself a glass of water to drink.

Before Zhou Sheng spoke, Xie Xiyuan looked straight into Zhou Sheng's eyes: "You know, I don't just think you're interesting..."

"I like you."

"And I also understand that for you, this may bother you... or be difficult to accept." Xie Xiyuan took a sip of water, and continued to speak with a little indifference in his tone: "So I To be clear, if the distance between us is the same as before, I will not be able to treat you like before, and remain ordinary friends... Occasionally, you may be tolerant of the younger generation, and I will definitely not be able to resist touching you .”

"And, as you can see... I have a life behind me, and that's the mainstream part of my life."

When she talked about her life, her tone and face were not as calm as before: "You always feel that I am like a harmless tail-wagging puppy who follows you. I don't understand anything and don't worry about anything. But in fact I It's more like a wolf covered in dirt and sickness, it may devour you alive at any time—"

Eat you, dirty you, take you for yourself!

"Facing me like this...what do you want from me?"

After Xie Xiyuan finished speaking, the original turmoil in her eyes returned to calm. She didn't know what Zhou Sheng was thinking, and she still couldn't guess what kind of mood she was standing here looking at her.

say something...

The more Zhou Sheng listened to her words patiently, the more ups and downs her mood became.Xie Xiyuan originally thought that Zhou Sheng should go out after listening to it, but Zhou Sheng didn't, then...

She raised her hand to close the notebook on the table, and then slowly walked in front of Zhou Sheng, who was standing there.

"I like you." Xie Xiyuan said to her, and leaned in front of her, repeating his thoughts over and over again in a low voice. "I like you, I don't know why...but I just can't stop liking you."

"If you don't push me away, I'm going to kiss you."

Push me off, stop me now.

Zhou Sheng lowered her eyes, she didn't know how to face Xie Xiyuan, and she didn't think she should leave.Struggling toss and turn, she caught Xie Xiyuan's eyes inadvertently.The light in the room was very dark, only the desk lamp at the other end of the workbench gave off a warm heat, and everything in the room was dyed a layer of dim yellow.Xie Xiyuan was facing the light, Zhou Sheng had deliberately not looked at her, but when Xie Xiyuan turned his head to the side, she happened to see her.

Xie Xiyuan frowned, one hand was tightly clasped on his arm, there seemed to be many complicated things buried in his eyes, trying to get out, but she was forced to take him back.

Compared to Zhou Sheng, she was more like the one in trouble.

If it wasn't for their close proximity, Zhou Sheng wouldn't have noticed that Xie Xiyuan's knuckles and lips were trembling slightly, as if he was biting his teeth to try to suppress a certain emotion.

"Agaki..."

Why does she look so miserable?Zhou Sheng stretched out his hand to hold her, not sure if he was thinking about it, or it was just hard to say: "You, do it..."

Don't show that face...

She used a voice that was hard for her to hear, but she approached Xie Xiyuan: "It's okay, you can do whatever you want..."