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Chapter 32 Can I take care of you
Chapter 32 Can I take care of you
Sang Zhengbai suddenly called me home. Since the last time I went with him to the farewell ceremony of Mr. Shi, this is the first time he has contacted me.
I thought he was having intermittent fatherly love episodes, but finally he thought of maintaining the relationship between our father and son. When I arrived, I found out that he was going to take me to a business reception. A technology company that Sang Zhengbai invested in a few years ago was successfully listed this year, and its stock price has soared. Therefore, he specially held an IPO appreciation reception at the end of the year.
In fact, the component of gratitude may be 20% or 30%, and the rest is for forming contacts and connecting feelings.
On the way to the reception, the two of us didn't say a word for the first half hour, and we each did our own thing. I observed the scenery outside the car, he lowered the back of the seat, closed his eyes and fell asleep in a half-lying position. When there were only a few minutes left to arrive at the reception venue, Sang Zhengbai suddenly had a brief exchange with me.
"You're not too young, and it's not a solution to not do your job all day long. Do you have any plans for yourself?"
I froze and looked back at the seat next to me. In the dim car, Sang Zhengbai still had his eyes slightly closed and lay there quietly.
"Auntie I stayed well there..."
"So you just want to keep messing around like this?" Sang Zhengbai interrupted me, slowly opening his eyes, his gaze was like a sharp knife, glaring at me.
I lowered my eyes, and didn't say anything because I didn't know what kind of answer would satisfy him.
Sang Zhengbai probably thought that I was acquiescing, and his voice suddenly became severe, with a bit of anger that hated iron and steel: "You are almost 26, your career and career are not successful, you have no relationship, and you hang out with those models in your aunt's company all day long, What does it look like? When I was your age, I married your mother, had my own company, a happy family, and a successful career. Will you look at you again?"
Look at me again, I make trouble all day long, I donโt seek progress, every relationship canโt last long, and I have no career to fight for. At 26, I still need to be taken care of by others like a giant baby. .
Even if he doesn't say it, I have a very clear understanding of myself.
"Sorry for disappointing you." I whispered.
Sang Zhengbai hit the cotton with a punch, unable to let out his anger, stared at me for a long time, snorted coldly, and ended it succinctly.
"Next month, you can come to work in the company. I have arranged a position for you in the investment promotion department. There is the external department, which can accumulate contacts for you and just exercise your communication skills."
My heart skipped a beat, and I looked at him with wide eyes in disbelief: "Let me... enter the company?"
When I just graduated from university, Sang Zhengbai also wanted me to join the company. But at that time, I was young and had little experience, and there was no suitable position for me, so he asked me to start from the bottom and work hard to the management step by step on my own.
At that time, I didn't know that I was a "civet cat", and I thought I was the only son of Sang Zhengbai, the heir apparent prince of the Sang family, with a noble status. How could I be a subordinate to the common people?
The dissatisfaction that had been squeezed in my heart for a long time made me feel that Sang Zhengbai didn't value me at all, and didn't mean to cultivate me as an heir.
Later... I learned about my own background and Shi Hao's incident happened again. I was always afraid that Sang Zhengbai would notice something and stop being arrogant, living alone at home all day. If you are in a good mood, go to Alia for a walk and find Xu Xi for dinner. If you are in a bad mood, ask Ayao to report Ji Chenfeng's position and secretly appreciate his decline. After three years have passed.
"You are my son, and if you don't make it, this huge family business will be left to you in the future." Sang Zhengbai straightened the back of his chair, straightened the clothes that were not messy, and said, "Don't let me again this time. disappointed."
The corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably, and the excitement and excitement overcame the unhappiness caused by getting along with Sang Zhengbai. He let me join the company, and he wanted to train me to be his successor. In a few years, I will become the undisputed master of the Sang Group.
At that time... even if the secret is really revealed, what can these people do to me?
Besides, Yan Shanhua couldn't last for so long, at most three years, this secret would be buried in Huangquan with her. In just three years, everything that bothers me and keeps me up at night will disappear. Ji Chenfeng will return to his gutter, and I will continue to live my good life, enjoy the glory, and have no contact with him.
so perfect.
"Trust me," I hurriedly assured Sang Zhengbai, "I won't let you down again."
Won't let him down again. When I said this sentence, I was 100% sincere, and I did make such a plan, but I didn't expect the test to come so quickly.
"Commercial marriage" is a normal thing in the wealthy circle. Only by matching each other can bring more benefits, and only by joining forces can an indestructible alliance be formed. Of course, whether there is love or not, and whether the marriage can be maintained is another matter. Once it is related to interests, the idealistic thing of love is not so important.
When Sang Zhengbai introduced me to Gu Ying, the youngest daughter of the head of Gu's liquor, I understood everything.
No wonder he took me to the reception uncharacteristically and poured me such a big mouthful of ecstasy soup in the car. It turns out that drinking and eating are fake, but blind date is real.
"I have some things to talk about with your Uncle Gu. Gu Ying is one year younger than you. You are a big brother and take good care of others tonight, do you hear?" Sang Zhengbai asked in concern.
Even if I didn't want to show it on my face, I nodded and agreed.
After Sang Zhengbai and Gu Ying's father left, Gu Ying and I were left in the corner, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.
Gu Ying is tall and slender, wearing high heels about 1.7 meters. Her facial features are different from Xu Xi's beautiful and capable, and she is not the lively and cute type of Monica. Light makeup was applied on her face, and her long black straight hair was pinned behind her ears, revealing tassel earrings adorned with sparkling diamonds. She looked elegant, generous, and very quiet.
Even when I was still hanging out with women day and night, she wasn't my preference.
"You don't need to be nervous, we just got to know each other initially, and we won't be tortured to get married so soon." Gu Ying took two champagnes from the tray of the passing waiter and handed one of them to her. I.
"Thank you." Taking the champagne, I took a sip to hide my anxiety.
"Anyone you're dating? I mean, the kind your father doesn't know about."
The champagne glass stopped at a nearly ninety-degree angle for a moment, and the throat did not swallow the wine again. After a while, I put down the glass as if nothing had happened, and said with a grin, "Would it be a little... too abrupt to talk about such an in-depth topic with a man I've only known for less than ten minutes?"
"Sooner or later we're going to talk, aren't we?" Gu Ying shrugged indifferently, "If you feel concerned, it doesn't matter, I can showdown first. I have a lover, we have been together for many years, but his family background is ordinary and does not matter. Accepted by my family. I tried to fight and I failed, so here I am."
The first time I met such a woman, I didn't talk about my preferences, I first talked about my relationship history.
"I'm sorry." I reassured me carelessly.
"This matter has nothing to do with you, you don't need to apologize. And we didn't break up, and he also knew that I was on a blind date, looking for a man who can accept everything about me."
I rationalized my thoughts, quickly grasped her point, and said a little bit strangely: "Aren't you looking for someone who is in a similar situation as you... to cooperate?"
Gu Ying shook the champagne in her hand and said with a smile: "You should think I'm crazy, right? But you see, this is actually a good thing. We pretend to be together, and we can deceive our parents and let them No longer forcing us to meet strange men and women everywhere, and being able to be with lovers under the guise of dating. How nice."
I frowned. "In a few months, I'm afraid they'll be planning our engagement party."
"Then order, what are you afraid of? You didn't want us to get married right away." Gu Ying said, "The two families became in-laws, they got the benefits they wanted, we got freedom, each got what they wanted, and everyone didn't. deficit."
I thought she was a conservative lady, I didn't expect to play so much.
"You're engaged to me, your lover... won't you be angry?"
As soon as she mentioned the other party, Gu Ying's whole expression softened and she sighed: "Compared to me getting engaged to someone else, he can't stand me breaking up with him. This is reality, not a fairy tale, I can't leave everything behind and stay away from him. Traveling to the end of the world, he always has to compromise. The one who loves more... will suffer more."
There was a certain temptation to her proposal. Sang Zhengbai finally faced me again. If he can successfully "associate" with Gu Ying and win the resources of the Gu family, he will definitely value me more.
And... I always need a pretense, a "facade", otherwise Yan Shanhua will not die for three years, should I not have a girlfriend for three years for Ji Chenfeng? It's too outrageous. Even if Sang Zhengbai didn't know about Ji Chenfeng's existence, he would still doubt if I had a physical problem.
"I don't have a lover." I put on a dangling expression, and my smile became more lazy, I said, "But like you, I yearn for freedom very much. I am very interested in your proposal, and your courage and wisdom also impress me. Maybe we can work together."
Gu Ying's diamond flow rate earrings swayed gently. She raised the cup with a smile on her face: "I didn't expect it to be so smooth. It's a pleasure to talk to you. It's a pleasure to work with, Mr. Sang."
"It's a pleasure to cooperate, Miss Gu." After that, I raised my glass and touched her glass.
Although Sang Zhengbai asked me to take care of Gu Ying, but in such a big venue, and Gu Ying is not a three-year-old child, how could she be willing to stick with me all the time? After reaching a verbal agreement, she happily went to chat with her acquaintance halfway through. And before I was discovered by Sang Zhengbai, I quickly went to the outdoor terrace to catch the wind and be quiet.
Recently, have been drinking more and more frequently, which is considered to be a vain quitting. felt a little unwilling. thought that alcohol would not work, so quit smoking anyway, so rarely touched electronic cigarettes during this time. But withdrawal requires a process, and when you want to bite something in your mouth, you will chew gum.
Breathing the cold air, he was blowing bubbles on the dimly lit terrace and playing with his mobile phone when news of Ji Chenfeng suddenly came.
ใIs it convenient to answer the phone now? ใ
Is it considered?
In fact, it is not convenient now, but I still called him back.
Because it was next to the phone, Ji Chenfeng answered it quickly.
"It's so cold today," I said.
Although it is cold, it is very sunny, and there are many stars in the sky. It should be a cold and good weather tomorrow.
"Are you outside?" Ji Chenfeng asked, perhaps hearing that my lips were frozen.
"Yeah." I sniffed, "I'm attending a thank you reception with my dad outside."
I chatted casually, talking about the latest news, about the two kittens, and about Yan Shanhua's illness, until I sneezed and Ji Chenfeng started urging me to enter the house.
"Understood." It was indeed unbearably cold. Holding my phone, I opened the thick glass door that led to the interior from the terrace.
"Sang Nian, I have considered your proposal."
After a slight pause, I breathed lightly, without urging him or interrupting him.
"I'll work for you, take care of the kittens, take care of the grass. And then...if you allow me, I'd like to add another job."
As my fingers tightened, I raised the corners of my lips silently, for the plan that finally succeeded and the good news one after another tonight.
"what?"
The thick carpet on the leather shoe couch, returning to the flashy banquet hall, quickly warmed up. Gu Ying seemed to have finished chatting with her friends, and when she saw me coming back, she walked towards me.
"Take care of you. I'll... treat you with the same care as a small animal," he asked. "May I take care of you?"
The carpet under my feet seemed to have turned into a floating cloud, and I felt an erratic sense of weightlessness, flying up and down again.
If you ask me, in my relationship with Ji Chenfeng, is there a moment when I feel guilty, it should be this moment. But this "guilt" is really insignificant, even shallower than my knowledge of cosmic string theory. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared from my world.
He paid with sincerity, but I also paid for my body and money. Is there anything I owe? A deceiver like him, even if it's not me, will be deceived by others. After being deceived by me, he can still eat and drink well, and he has nothing to worry about. How can he be so happy when he is deceived by others?
"Come to work tomorrow, Doctor Ji." Gu Ying was only a few meters away from me, I made an excuse as usual, and said to Ji Chenfeng on the other end of the phone, "I still have something to do here, hang up first. .
"I saw you talking on the phone from a distance, smiling so sweetly, I thought you were chatting with a beautiful woman, is it just a doctor?" The next second after hanging up, Gu Ying completely walked up to me. Obviously, she heard my name for Ji Chenfeng.
"You read it wrong." I flatly denied it, pulling the corners of my mouth downward.
After the reception was over, Sang Zhengbai took me back to my residence, and of course asked me about my relationship with Gu Ying in the car.
"It's fine," I said. "You don't have to worry, I'll get along well with her."
Sang Zhengbai patted the armrest of the seat and laughed with satisfaction: "This is my good son."