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and Li Youxun were in the small elevator together. Vivian was a little nervous, and she subconsciously tightened the arm of Xiaoyu next to her.
Xiaoyu felt her arm tighten. She looked at Vivian in confusion and asked her with her eyes: "What's wrong?"
Vivian secretly glanced at her and stood close behind the two of them. close at hand Editor-in-chief Li, Xiaoyu still answered her with an incomprehensible look: "What?"
Li Youxun had a straight face and condescendingly pointed out the small actions of the two girls in front of him. Watching silently.
He noticed that Xiaoyu was wearing a bud-shaped white coat today, which looked particularly fresh with her high ponytail. . As soon as the elevator door opened just now, he felt a breath of youth rushing towards his face.
In order not to lose his composure in front of his subordinates, he used twice as much concentration as usual to control his eyes and not follow the playful white figure.
Until the elevator door slowly opened, Vivian rushed out in panic, dragging Xiaoyu as if she had been given amnesty. It wasn't until she was about ten feet away that Vivian saw no one around, then she patted her chest and said, "Oh my God, Editor Li's aura is so strong."
Xiaoyu didn't say anything. She thought Vivian was making too much fuss.
Because in her eyes, today's Li Youxun is no different from usual.
Vivian noticed Xiaoyu's calm and calm look from the beginning. Now she couldn't help complaining: "I didn't even dare to breathe in the elevator just now. Why didn't you react at all?"
Xiaoyu snickered in his heart, but on the surface he was trying not to be noticed by Vivian. She still pretended to be frightened, and said with a frightened expression: "It's not that I'm not afraid, I'm scared to death, okay?"
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"Vivian, you still know how to catch me. I don't dare to move. So. Yeah, you're still better than me. When the elevator door opened just now, if you hadn't pulled me out, I would have stayed there. I was stunned."
"Thank you, Vivian. Fortunately, you didn't forget to pull me out."
"You're welcome," said Vivian, who finally regained her composure. : "You're welcome." He looked back at Xiaoyu with a puzzled look.
The sensitive Vivian is not a simple little fish, but even if she has an idea in her mind, she still knows that she must swallow it and digest it again and again.
People with "social self-awareness" - they know how to behave and keep boundaries, which makes people feel like they are in peace.
Vivian’s tutor is committed to making her become such a person. Her future mother-in-law, who came from a distinguished family background, was able to move forward and retreat freely at first sight. It was by no means the so-called fate.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Xiaoyu. What she is thinking about now is that if she doesn't go quickly, there will definitely be a long queue of people to eat.
"Vivian, hurry up. Otherwise there will be more people waiting for you soon."
"Oh, okay."
Vivian also put away her exquisite little thoughts and followed Xiaoyu quickly towards Went to that Japanese set meal restaurant. Xiaoyu was as careless as ever, and she ordered the charcoal-grilled pork belly set meal.
Vivian ordered salmon sushi, miso soup, vegetable salad.
The half-lean and half-fat meat floats on the wooden dinner plate of the small fish. It is roasted over charcoal fire and sizzles with oil. The rich aroma exudes makes people can't help but move their index fingers when they smell it.
Vivian's side is the light red color of salmon combined with the green color of vegetable salad. It is elegant, but it looks very bland and boring.
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It is not difficult to see from this - although the two girls can eat at the same table today, they will definitely make different life choices in the future.
From what Vivian saw in the elevator just now, she suddenly thought of what Chen Anni said to her on her first day of employment: "Zhao Xiaoyu, you were personally selected by the editor-in-chief..."
If it weren’t for the chance encounter just now, Vivian would have completely forgotten that Xiaoyu had such a background. Not just her, but probably all her colleagues have forgotten.
After all, from the first day they entered the company, these two people had no intersection at all. Vivian asked tentatively: "Xiaoyu, I remember when you went to work on your first day, Chen Anni said that you were introduced by Chief Editor Li."
Xiaoyu was reminiscing about the piece of pork belly just now, and suddenly heard that Vivian asked, the expression on her face paused.
She cherishes Vivian as a friend, there is no doubt about this. But that was a secret between her and Li Youxun. She was stingy and didn't want to share it with anyone, not even Qin Xue.
And she also knows that Vivian is not the kind of person who likes to talk about right and wrong.
was entangled, and she planned to tell the truth about the first half of her relationship with Li Youxun. So she said: "Well, I was recommended by Chief Editor Li's friend."
"Then?"
"What then?"
"I mean you How has your relationship been since you started working? "
"It doesn't matter. It's just like you are a superior and a subordinate." "
Xiaoyu specifically emphasized the "colleague" that Li Youxun often talks about. Character. Vivian seemed a little unconvinced.
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But at the moment, she really couldn't understand that these two seemingly unrelated people had any practical intersection in the literary club.
Vivian still feels that Xiaoyu's promotion is a bit too lucky. Suddenly, she remembered that Xiaoyu once mentioned a senior expert whose name she did not want to disclose. Could this person be Li Youxuan?
When she thought of this, Vivian did not dare to ask any more questions out of caution.
Between gossip and propriety, she chooses the second option.
Adults' sense of boundaries is a kind of politeness - it knows how to reserve private space and knows how to say different things and do different things on different occasions without annoying others.
Because of this, ten years later, Vivian and Xiaoyu met by chance in a sea of people. That day, Xiaoyu discovered that the face of the woman opposite him had not been stained by time, and that her life trajectory was just like what he had predicted for her when they met.
Ten years later, these two women can live a life where they can watch the falling flowers from a high platform, and hold the steering wheel and drive freely on the road.
It's just that for Vivian, all of this was achieved step by step, while for Xiaoyu, it was the result of overcoming obstacles.
This is the difference in personality and starting point between people, although everyone's results are the same. Only those who have personally experienced this process can understand where the gap lies.
Although in the eyes of outsiders in the cafe, these two well-dressed middle-aged women who exude elegance and intellectuality in their every move are winners in life no matter how you look at them.
05
In the afternoon, Ajie received the good news of her promotion while texting Xiaoyu.
Ajie quickly congratulated her and said they would have dinner together to celebrate.
Xiaoyu said, "Thank you, I've been too busy recently. I accept your offer, please wait until I've been busy for a while, okay?"
Xiaoyu didn't shirk it, but she was indeed very busy next.
After being beaten by Li Youxuan, she has realized that the opportunity that she once dreamed of was right in front of her. If she doesn't take it well, she will not only feel sorry for Qin Xue and Li Youxuan.
She has failed to live up to her efforts and persistence over the years.
But when Ajie faced Xiaoyu's sudden alienation, he felt a strong sense of crisis in his eyes. His little thoughts began to overflow again, and he mistakenly thought: "It is such a big happy event for someone to get a promotion and a salary increase. It is too insincere for you to simply treat you to a meal."
"No wonder others treat you so well." "Ignore it, just express your feelings over a meal between friends. If you want to develop with someone in depth, of course you have to show your attitude."
After thinking about it, Ajie decided to give Xiaoyu a gift to celebrate. meaning. But soon, he became entangled with the importance of the gift.
After this period of observation, he found that although Xiaoyu's clothes were not many, they were all of high quality.
Although Xiaoyu said: "These are all gifts from friends."
In Ajie's view, there is no free lunch in the world.
If someone can give Xiaoyu so many good things, it means that she must be something special. Especially since that friend is a successful entrepreneur, and businessmen never do business at a loss.
Ajie and Xiaoyu have known each other for such a long time, but there is nothing particularly outstanding about her. So what people picture should be some elements of the family behind Xiaoyu.
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After a few rounds of battle between heaven and man in his mind, Ajie quickly made up his mind.
He decided to spend a lot of money to give a practical gift.
After all, Ajie is not a newly graduated college student, and he still has a lot of savings after working over the years. He is such a calculating person, even the most expensive gift he gave to his ex-girlfriend when he was dating was only four figures.
People will be willing to give only when they see hope.
Now he decided to spend his next investment to build a future for himself.
He took advantage of the break between the leaders' meetings and began to wander around the Internet.
Those brand-name bags with big logos seem to have never been used by Xiaoyu. Although women all love bags, if she doesn’t like the style she chooses, the process of returning or exchanging it will be too troublesome.
And he had no self-confidence. He walked back and forth into the inscrutable luxury goods counter many times to accept the scrutiny of those poker-faced counter ladies.
It is said that a woman's heart is like a needle in the sea, and personal preference is too difficult to grasp.
Ajie casually asked the female colleague next to him, and the girl who was similar to him gave him a suggestion. He thought it was good as soon as he heard it and immediately opened the web page.
has recently launched a new light luxury jewelry brand, which is very popular among young girls because of its novel and unique design style. But because it mostly uses low-cost materials such as alloy, 18K, agate, and artificial crystal, the market price is around a few thousand yuan.
seemed to Ajie to be both affordable and decent, so he took action without hesitation. He begged his female colleague to help him as a consultant, and after half a day, the two of them finally picked out a bracelet.
Although after the merchant's full discount activity, the final payment amount after placing the order was more than 4,000 yuan.
Ajie still felt a little pain in his heart, because this had already cost him half a month's salary.
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After paying, Ajie saw the logistics information showing that he would receive the goods tomorrow morning. So he secretly checked the office address of the literary society on the Internet, thinking that he would give Xiaoyu a big surprise during lunch tomorrow.
In his opinion, this should definitely be done sooner rather than later.
Xiaoyu has made it clear that he has been very busy recently and has no time to meet with him. If he does not seize the opportunity, he will really miss the opportunity.
Xiaoyu, who has no idea what Ajie is thinking, is busy moving his office. Thinking back to when she first arrived, none of her colleagues were willing to talk to her.
Things are really different now, just like an officialdom appearance.
As soon as Xiaoyu started to bend down to prepare for the packing and sorting work, enthusiastic colleagues gathered around him. This colleague and Xiaoyu rarely exchanged a few words except for meeting each other during regular department meetings.
At this moment, he was as familiar as if they were old friends who had known each other for a long time. He took the thick manuscript from Xiaoyu's hand and said, "I'll take it for you, and you tell me where to put it."
"Ah. ..."
Xiaoyu didn't have time to decline the colleague's offer. Suddenly, another colleague came to Xiaoyu carrying a big cardboard box and said enthusiastically: "I asked auntie to get a cardboard box for you to put groceries in. Do you want me to pack it with you?"
"Oh, Thank you, no need."
Faced with this sudden enthusiasm, Xiaoyu didn't want to accept it completely. After taking the cardboard box, she said politely to the two colleagues: "Let me sort it out slowly, because I am the only one who knows the placement of things best."
"Thank you!"
The two of them took it back. Stretching out his hand, one of them said with some reluctance: "Then you pack it up, wait a minute Ask me to help you move such a heavy thing. "
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Xiaoyu can only say: "Okay, okay."
Vivian sat not far away and looked at everything happening next to Xiaoyu. He exchanged meaningful glances with Xiaoyu from a distance and then pursed his lips and smiled.
Time knows people, and knows the heart when things happen.
If you don’t care about anything, you don’t understand people’s hearts.
No wonder everyone in the world loves to work hard and strive for progress. It turns out that as long as you have a little bit of light in your body, those mortals will rush to you one after another.
Xiaoyu naturally didn't dare to trouble anyone anymore, so she stopped what she was doing. I don’t know whether it’s because she is noble or stubborn, but she doesn’t want to deal with them.
was deliberately so ink-stained that after everyone got off work, she silently packed the things alone, and then began to move them slowly like a little ant.
After she had finished moving the heaviest paperwork, she was a little tired and sat on a chair to catch her breath and rest. At this time, Xiaoyu's phone rang, and the caller was Li Youxun.
The man wanted to ask her when she was going to eat noodles, but unexpectedly, a breathless gasp came from the phone.
Then Li Youxuan asked curiously: "Xiaoyu, what are you doing?"
"I changed to a new office today. By the way, you don't know that I changed to a new seat today, right?" "
How could Li Youxuan not know that he was the one who issued the final personnel order. He has been trying his best to promote this matter since the results of the essay competition came out last Friday.
Just when Xiaoyu wanted to continue talking, Li Youxuan interrupted her and asked: "I ask what are you doing now?"
"Oh, I am moving things to a new seat."
"Are you alone?"
"Well, my colleagues are all off work."
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Li Youxuan started teasing Xiaoyu on the phone and said, "I didn't expect you to be so bad at it. You don't even have anyone to help you when you move?"
When Xiaoyu heard this, He immediately explained angrily : "No, I don't want to owe others favors. Why bother others when I can do something myself."
"Oh."
Li Youxuan hung up the phone after saying that.
Xiaoyu didn’t think much about it. After moving for a long time, she was thirsty and wanted to get a glass of water. Just when she came out of the tea room, she saw a familiar figure on her seat from a distance.
Xiaoyu held the water glass and walked happily towards Li Youxun. When she walked up to the man, she said very naturally: "You are here."
"Yes."
"Is there anything else to move?"
Li Youxun said After that, he took off his light gray fine plaid jacket. In fact, Li Youxun's clothes are very good. Today's straight-cut work jacket makes him look very young and elegant.
It's just that Wei Yinman used to like to point out his clothes, but as time went by, he was too lazy to argue with his wife. But recently, he has taken back control of his wardrobe.
Xiaoyu was not polite. She pointed to the scattered debris on the table and said, "These are the only small things left." I've left all the tiring manuscripts for you. Look, my hands are sore after I finished speaking.
Xiaoyu The new clothes she wore today were not only the white wool coat, but also the white cashmere sweater she was currently wearing that had a vague sense of see-through.
For girls who are still young in love, they don't know that this hazy feeling of wanting to talk is the most fatal temptation.
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Anyway Li Youxun felt his throat tightening. In order to divert attention, he deliberately said angrily: "You are embarrassed to trouble others, but you are embarrassed to trouble me. "
" Are you the same as others? "
"......"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence all around.
Xiaoyu was startled by her direct words. At this moment, she finally began to look directly into her heart: " In her heart, Li Youxun is a different person from others. As for who he is, Which kind of person does she belong to? She couldn't find a suitable answer for a while. "
Li Youxun felt a gust of wind blowing in his body. , it was penetrating his body, his vision and hearing at a gentle and slow speed.
Anyway, all he could see was the girl with long eyelashes flashing in front of him. It turned out that after getting closer, I discovered that although the little fish's eyes were not big, their curled eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings.
Although Li Youxun quickly calmed down, he pretended to be nonchalant as if he hadn’t heard the words at all, and started to lower his head and start doing things. Clear away the clutter on your desk.
The little fish took advantage of thirst and swallowed a large mouthful of boiled water.
Well, the water today is a little sweet.
is suitable for Hui Gan.
Li Youxun's performance was so perfect that no one knew that his heart had just stopped for a moment. Soon, he packed up and moved to another office along the corridor.
That office was his starting point back then, and he hoped it was also the starting point for the girl behind him with a clear smile, so that their fates would finally intersect again.
(To be continued!)
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