Dead but not stiff

It was another Monday morning full of chaos. Chen Nali, who was dressed in a black OL outfit, stepped on a stiletto heel measuring ten centimeters in length, and walked powerfully through the long lattice room. She was burning with a murderous aura visible to the naked eye. At the door of Bai's office, he stretched out his arms and pushed the door open with a bang and walked in.

In the office area outside, the extremely sleepy office workers were all so startled by the news that they couldn't close their jaws, and immediately became energetic and began to whisper.

"Damn it? What's the situation with Chen Nali? Do you dare to be so rigid with Boss Shen?"

"So is it a business or a private matter? Has Mr. Shen, the straight man with cancer, started to gossip about sex?"

"Mr. Shen is not Chen Nali's style, is she? Doesn't she like the type of handsome young men?"

"A woman's heart needle may suddenly change her taste."

And Chen Nali, who was closed by the thick glass door, naturally couldn't hear other people's discussion about her mate selection criteria, and the other protagonist, Shen Bai, was directly slammed by Chen Nali on her desk. Attracted, no, it should also be taken aback.

He glanced at the document first, then raised his head and looked at Chen Nali with displeasure: "Have you lost your mind?"

Chen Nali picked up the document that she had slapped on the desktop, and yelled at Shen Bai's eyelids: "I don't show off, you think I'm helloKitty. See for yourself, you want [-]% of it, it doesn't take two weeks, I'll do it for you in one night .”

Shen Bai frowned slightly, and his tone was full of surprise and doubt. After listening carefully, he felt a little sad: "...I really want to know what you sacrificed for this?"

Chen Nali exploded when she heard it, pointed at Shen Bai and covered her face, "Put away your filthy thoughts of stinky men, is my mother the kind of person who sells her body for profit? That Boss Wang and his wife are my college roommates! Those who don't want to use this level of relationship, but some bosses are too inhumane, so I can only follow suit."

Shen Bai raised his eyebrows, took the file and opened it to read it. After a while, he suddenly heard an irrelevant off-topic question: "I heard that Boss Wang's wife used to be the mistress. Are you the last one?" Do you hate Xiaosan? How could you associate with such a person?"

"So didn't my mother say that she didn't want to take advantage of this relationship? Why? Suddenly, my conscience found out? Knowing that I treat my subordinates too harshly?"

Shen Bai cleared his throat, as if he didn't hear what Chen Nali said later, he closed the document and handed it back to her, "Since the goal has been achieved, there is no need to delve into the process. If you complete this project, the bonus will not be distributed to me, will you?" ?”

Chen Nali snatched the document from his hand vigorously, and spat in disdain: "Beast!"

"Please be mindful of how you speak to your boss."

"Heh..." Chen Nali suddenly gave a smirk, she put the document on the side of the table lightly, raised her legs and sat on Shen Bai's desk charmingly, leaned down and leaned in front of Shen Bai, and said ambiguously: " Mr. Shen, you said that if I yelled, "Mr. Shen, don't want it" at this time, would everyone who rushed in later believe you or me?"

Shen Bai pointed to the camera diagonally above his head expressionlessly, "I think everyone should believe it."

"Damn it!" Chen Nali couldn't believe it, "Is this thing turned on?"

"Otherwise what do you think?"

"I--"

Chen Nali's words were interrupted by the knocking sound of the door, and the two looked towards the door at the same time, only to see Gu Xi'en standing there, seeing the posture of the two people inside, he was taken aback for a moment, and then a slight smile appeared on his lips , Said to the two: "Sorry, should I knock on the door first?"

"Gu Gong!" Chen Nali jumped off the table with lightning speed, rushed in front of Gu Xien, grabbed Gu Xien's hand and held it tightly, with tears in her eyes: "Gu Gong, you have to make the decision for me! We Boss Shen is so inhuman! In order to facilitate the smooth progress of the project, he actually asked me to sleep with the old man! It's a naked unspoken rule in the workplace, who knows if he is like this in private! Gu Gong, you You must help me expose him well!"

Shen Bai: "???"

"Don't listen to this girl's nonsense!" Shen Bai's previously immobile image instantly collapsed, he hurriedly got up from the chair, quickly walked over and pulled Gu Xien away from Chen Nali, and explained anxiously with a pale face: " She is slandering! Am I such an unlimited person?"

Chen Nali shook her hands with tears in her eyes, pointing to the document on the desktop: "That's the evidence!"

Shen Bai was furious: "Do you still want to do it?"

Chen Nali withdrew her hand in seconds, lowered her eyebrows and complained softly, "Look at Gu Gong, that's how he threatened me."

Gu Xien stopped Shen Bai, who was on the brink of mania, lightly patted Chen Nali on the shoulder, and said to her with a smile: "I have no right to interfere with your company's internal disputes, but Shen Bai's private relationship between men and women can be left to me. "

Chen Nali: "???" Dog food?

"Don't worry." Gu Xi'en comforted her softly: "He is an old man who has been single for many years and just fell in love. His practical experience is about zero, so you can just treat him as a paper tiger."

Chen Nali: "???" I'm sure the dog food is correct, but that guy, Old Shen, hasn't taken down Gu Gong with real guns, can't he?

Shen Bai's nose, which was stamped with a paper tiger, was still inexplicably happy. He glanced at Chen Nali, raised his chin, and pointed to the door: "What are you doing in a daze, go back to work."

Chen Nali went over to grab the documents on the table in grief and indignation, and when she passed by Shen Bai, she bent down and bowed exaggeratedly, and said respectfully: "Boss, I was wrong, I shouldn't question your morality, let alone question your and The relationship between Gu Gong and Gu Gong is stronger than that of Jin Jian, and you should not have any unreasonable thoughts about Gu Gong, so look at my year-end award..."

In front of Gu Xien, the big-tailed wolf Shen Bai went online, and he said with a haughty and majestic tone: "As long as you have the ability to do good deeds, neither the company nor I will deduct the employee's year-end bonus for unwarranted charges."

Chen Nali hurriedly took out her mobile phone, tapped it a few times and raised it to Shen Bai's mouth, looked at him eagerly and said, "Mr. Shen, please repeat what you just said. I will record a voice and keep it as a background."

Shen Bai: "I—"

Chen Nali turned her eyes towards Gu Xien, and Shen Bai immediately changed her words: "I agree with your proposal."

When Chen Nali walked out of the office and just closed the door, Shen Bai turned around abruptly and forced Gu Xien to the wall, and there was another unexpected wall thud. He lowered his head and lifted Gu Xien's chin, narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "You just said that my practical experience It is about zero, so I would like to ask, when do you plan to let me practice it myself?"

Gu Xi'en blinked at him, and Shen Bai moved a little closer, the two of them were almost nose to nose, and they could almost hear each other's breathing.

"You..." Gu Xian hesitated to speak.

Shen Bai: "Me?"

"...Wait a little longer." In Shen Bai's expectant eyes, Gu Xi'en avoided his sight after saying this. He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment, then stretched out his hand to push him away.

Shen Bai didn't move stubbornly, his expression looked a little angry: "Why?" He said in a questioning tone: "I like you and want to sleep with you, is this a difficult thing?"

Gu Xian raised his eyes to look at him, there was a trace of emotion in his eyes that he couldn't understand, but it was fleeting, and it was replaced with a slightly sarcastic smile: "Can you stop being so hungry?"

"Yes, I'm just that horny." Shen Bai answered him without any concealment: "I'm a normal man first, and a normal man has physical desire for his lover, is that wrong?"

Under his questioning, Gu Xien paused for a few seconds, lowered his head and looked at the ground, and after a while, he heard him say softly: "I'm sorry, Shen Bai. You are not wrong, this is my problem, I—"

Shen Bai, who was suddenly agitated, interrupted Gu Xien's words. He looked at the way the other party was deliberately avoiding his eyes, and his heart suddenly became angry.This aggrieved feeling of being isolated from the outside by his lover made him so angry that he just wanted to vent and relieve, and wanted to transfer this pain away.So he sneered and asked, "Is it only me who can't?"

Gu Xien was taken aback by his inexplicable question, and looked at him in confusion: "What?"

"I said, I'm the only one who can't, right? What about others? For example, that Li Huan, he can, right?"

After these words, Shen Bai managed to see the same unreasonable expression on Gu Xien's face as he did at the moment. Seeing him frowning, he said in a very incredible tone: "What are you talking about? It's none of other people's business ? Also, how do you know Li Huan?"

"Of course I know." Shen Bai continued to pour out his excited emotions without reservation, "During his birthday party, he asked for yours by name, didn't he? So, he will get it after all? You can't forget it in your heart." , I can still pronounce his name when I'm drunk, how good is his job? Then why don't you try mine and see which one of us can satisfy you more?"

What responded to him was Gu Xi'en's direct fist. Shen Bai was caught off guard by his punch on the jaw, and he staggered back a few steps and hit the sofa before he managed to stabilize his body.Gu Xien pressed forward and grabbed his collar. The height difference forced him to raise his head, staring fiercely at Shen Bai, who was also in a state of confusion, "That Tang Qi told you?"

"If you are honest enough with your lover, I don't need to listen to stories from other people." This completely thoughtless sentence, almost instantly regretted by Shen Bai when he uttered it.

What the hell is he talking about?The person in front of him is Gu Xi'en, why would he use such a sarcastic tone to provoke a person he should have protected.

Gu Xien's hand holding Shen Bai's collar trembled faintly. Shen Bai noticed it, and a distressed expression began to appear on his face. He reached out to hold the other's shoulder, but Gu Xien opened it halfway, and he put down Shen Bai's clothes. The leader stood there and took two deep breaths, then spoke again, with a cold and unfamiliar tone: "If you want a lover who will split up everything in the past and spread it out in front of you for you to taste, I'm sorry, I can't do it. I can't be obedient to you, if there is someone who can, you can go to him."

Shen Bai finally became anxious. He stepped forward to hug Gu Xien, but was blocked by the other's arm again. He stood there anxiously and regretfully admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't—"

"It's me who wants to say I'm sorry." Gu Xi'en's eyes were serious and relieved, "I take it for granted, what you need is a lover who is as pure as white paper, who can treat each other honestly and sincerely deliver. But I can't, I have Some..." He paused, his voice became dry and slow: "...the unspeakable past, this past is very disgraceful, but it is a part of me. I don't want outsiders to know, and I don't want it to be my weapon , or a weakness."

Shen Bai's heart cooled down little by little in Gu Xien's slowly uttered words.

After Gu Xi'en finished speaking, he suddenly smiled at him. That smile was so beautiful that it made Shen Bai's heart ache.Also in this pain awareness, Shen Bai gradually felt the danger. He watched Gu Xien's lips slightly parted, and a voice yelled at him desperately in his heart: "He wants to break up, don't let him talk anymore."

Almost at the same time as the voice in his heart sounded, Shen Bai had already made a move. He rushed over and stretched out his hand, one arm wrapped around Gu Xien's body, and the other directly covered his mouth.

"Don't talk about it." Shen Bai pressed the other party's head on his shoulder, "Don't talk about breaking up, I won't break up."

He didn't give the other party a chance to interject at all, and he firmly grasped the right to speak, thinking of what to say incoherently: "I made a mistake, I will correct it, and I will not ask in the future. The past is the past, and we will look forward , and that matter, I will bear it at the worst, and if I can’t do it, I will solve it with my hands, anyway, it’s been like this for so many years, and I’m not in a hurry.”

Gu Xien was silent for a while, broke free from his grasp, glanced at him and said, "I didn't want to say goodbye."

Shen Bai, who had already voluntarily cut off the land and paid the compensation: "..."

"However," he changed the topic again: "Since it has caused problems, why don't we take this opportunity to calm down with each other, the work on this project has come to an end for the time being, and I happen to have something to go back to City C, so use During this time, let's think about it ourselves."

Shen Bai refused without even thinking about it. Gu Xien stopped what he wanted to say, and said in a rational and calm tone: "Now you are eager to prove your determination not to break up with me, so you say you don't care about my past and conceal it. But you I know very well in my heart that Li Huan is your knot after all, and the past that you don’t know belongs to me is also your knot. These knots will explode again in the future, and become the object of our mutual attack and harm. Weapons. Don’t be too quick to deny it, because these are highly probable, extenuating things.”

Shen Bai hesitated to speak, Gu Xien sighed: "Some things, I will tell you slowly in the future, such as Li Huan, such as... my parents." When he said his parents, there was a difficult meaning in his words , obviously much heavier than mentioning Li Huan.

"So, Shen Bai, give me some time, and I will give you whatever you want, including myself."

Shen Bai slowly opened his eyes wide, this sentence was completely a confession, when it came out of Gu Xien's mouth, it was like a typhoon passing through, setting off a violent storm in Shen Bai's heart.

"Okay." He replied pleasantly and excitedly, but he also made a request: "But there is a premise, if you need my help, don't refuse, even if it will reveal your secret to me in advance, you are not allowed to Getting hurt by refusing my help is my only bottom line, okay?"

Gu Xian finally showed him a familiar smile, and he nodded with a smile, "Okay, I promise you."

Just as the atmosphere calmed down, there was a knock on the door, and Shen Bai echoed in.The glass door was gently pushed open, and Fang Shi, who was holding a stack of documents in his arms, leaned in from the door. Seeing the two people standing inside, he first smiled politely at Gu Xien, then turned to Shen Bai, and spoke to him Said: "Mr. Shen, the document you want has been printed."

Shen Bai asked in surprise: "Why are you? Where's Xiao Zhao?" The Xiao Zhao in Shen Bai's mouth was Zhao Wanwan, the little assistant who worked hard.

"Oh," Fang Shi answered him naturally: "Miss Wan Wan is taking leave today, and I happen to be free, so I will help her with the remaining work."

Shen Baiqi said: "Shouldn't she ask me to ask for leave? Why didn't I know?"

Fang Shi replied honestly: "Miss Wan Wan said that she sent you a WeChat message this morning. Her ... her period is here and she can't bear the pain, so she asked for leave temporarily."

"Oh." Shen Bai replied with a single word to cover up his embarrassment of ignoring the WeChat of his subordinate asking for leave, and then stretched out his hand to Fang Shi, "Then give it to me."

Only then did Fang Shi walk in and hand the document in Shen Bai's hand.

Shen Bai took it, went to the desk and put down the document, turned around and saw that Fang Shi was still standing there with his hands down, and said to him: "Okay, it's none of your business, you can go to work first."

"Okay, Mr. Shen." Fang Shi gave him a cute smile, and when he turned around, his eyes didn't stop on Gu Xien, he moved straight to the door, opened it and walked out.

"Then I'm leaving too." Gu Xi'en glanced at the closed door, then turned to Shen Bai and said, "Chen Huan came over from City C today and said he was going to invite the members of the project team to dinner. People are very strong at persuading people to drink, so be careful."

Shen Bai said with a smirk: "Then it's fine if I don't go, I'm bigger than him, and he can't say anything if I don't go."

Gu Xian: "Oh."

Shen Bai leaned over, and continued to tease recklessly: "Or, do you want me to go? They reminded me not to get drunk. Is this the tacit agreement in my heart that I will definitely go?"

Gu Xian: "Then you better not go."

"That's not okay, what will you do if I don't go? What if you get drunk and are taken home by bad guys?"

Gu Xian glanced at him: "Don't you think this villain sounds familiar?"

"I took my daughter-in-law home. It's a matter of course. How can I be regarded as a bad person?"

Gu Xien didn't bother to pay attention to him, opened the door and was about to go out, Shen Bai took out the car keys, and shouted at him: "I'll see you off, I just happened to go to the construction site to see the situation."

Gu Xien was noncommittal, and the two of them left the office together, walking out side by side.

On the way, I met Fang Shi again. He was standing in front of the printer and was at a loss. When he saw the two people walking towards him, he called out hesitantly: "Mr. Shen."

Shen Bai, who was about to pass by, stopped and looked at him suspiciously.

Fang Shi said awkwardly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Shen, I... this printer doesn't seem to listen to me, and I can't press any buttons."

Shen Bai: "...ask other colleagues."

Fang Shi: "Everyone here has gone to a meeting..."

"Then use it later."

Fang Shi lowered his head and replied sadly, "Okay."

Witnessing the conversation between the two, Gu Xien sighed and said to Shen Bai in a low voice, "At least you should be gentler with my friend's students."

Shen Bai: "Is there something wrong with my attitude? I haven't used this printer before, so I might as well ask someone else."

Gu Xien shook his head, walked over to Fang Shi and said, "Fang Shi, right? Do you remember me? I met you last time when I had dinner with you, Teacher Tong."

Fang Shi nodded slightly, and then heard Gu Xien ask: "You haven't graduated yet, have you been recommended by the school to come here for an internship?"

Before Fang Shi could speak, Shen Bai answered his question first: "Oh, no, last time I went to play golf, he worked part-time there, just happened to meet him. Then he asked me if he could come I was doing an internship in my company, and I thought it was your friend's student, so I asked him to come."

Gu Xien nodded, "So that's the case." He smiled and said clearly: "Then I probably understand, because Fang Shi is the company you agreed to join, the whole company is the most familiar with you, and has an inexplicable feeling towards you." Rely on it, the legendary fledgling complex."

Shen Bai frowned: "Shouldn't he be the most familiar with Xiao Zhao?"

"But Xiao Zhao asked for leave, didn't he?"

Shen Bai was too lazy to worry about this, so he stretched out his hand to Gu Xien, turned to Fang Shi and said, "These common sense operations should be taught to you the day you join the company, if you can't remember them, then ask others, and try to remember them this time." Stay here. Now that you can come here for an internship, learn as much as possible, whether it is professional or non-professional knowledge, what you learn is yours, and it will be very helpful to you in the future."

Fang Shi nodded tremblingly, like a child who did something wrong.

Gu Xien patted Fang Yi's arm in relief, and said to him: "Your Teacher Tong cares about you very much. He should be very happy that you can practice here."

Fang Shi hummed slightly, Gu Xien looked at him and smiled, Shen Bai couldn't wait and urged Gu Xien: "Then let's go."

The two said goodbye to Fang Shi, turned around and walked out together.

Fang Shi slowly raised his head, looked at the backs of the two walking away side by side, biting his back molars vigorously, with a dull expression on his face.