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On the night of Zuo Qing's twentieth birthday, he found a tarot teacher. The other party turned over the card under the dim light: "In the next few years, you will be confused in your relationship."
The left clears the peach blossom and draws the moon card, which represents the hidden secret or danger. She didn't take it seriously, and sighed to herself that the two hundred and ninety-nine yuan was wasted. Until I met Shen Yebai that year.
Zuo Qing had said more than once that he probably owed Shen Yebai in his last life. After working for five years, she first worked as a company publicist and then turned to be his secretary. This man has been in business for many years. He is excellent, rich, and has a bad temper. Including the slap she received just now.
The cause of the incident was that Shen Yebai had a meeting this morning, and a distinguished customer came from out of town, so Shen Yebai drove to the company by himself and arranged for Zuo Qing to go out to pick up the customer. When Zuo Qing went out, he found a very familiar and beautiful girl squatting at the door.
She looked at Zuo Qing angrily: "So you two have been living together?"
It's a bit outrageous for a secretary to live under the same roof with his employer.
Zuo Qing was in a hurry and didn't want to explain. She is a little taller than the other party, with a burgundy suspender silk top, black wide-leg pants, paired with pointed high-heeled shoes, and a wavy head that looks cool and bright. She raised her head slightly: "My boss just went out half an hour ago. Since you dare not block him, there is no need to block me. Miss, to be honest, I have lived here as long as you have known him, and not only... …”
Before he could finish speaking, Zuo Qing was slapped.
The girl probably used all her strength to suckle, and Zuo Qing's face quickly swelled up.
"Did you know that we are getting married soon!"
The one who hit the man burst into tears.
Zuo Qing was speechless, she really didn't know.
Having been in the workplace for many years, Zuo Qing was beaten at the door of her house, her face was swollen, and she restrained the urge to curse, and she was not good at fighting back. But Zuo Qing was worthy of Shen Yebai's fancy. It took her ten minutes to find a friend with a strong background to pick him up. It is said that it is the daughter of a friend of the client. The two are old acquaintances, and they also prepared a bottle of red wine as a gift to send directly to the airport.
Shen Yebai went to the hotel after the meeting, and saw that the customer was drinking wine, and he was in a good mood. Shen Yebai walked over to greet each other, and then ordered to serve. The atmosphere was very good, and the customer directly signed a large order.
Shen Yebai asked Zuo Qing on WeChat: Where are you?
Zuo Qing posted a selfie. She was lying in the beauty salon with an ice pack on, her face swollen as if she had been treated with acupuncture.
Shen Yebai made a question mark.
Zuo Qing was too lazy to say it completely, so he jumped out with the key words: at the door of the house, your female student, you drank too much.
Ten minutes later, Zuo Qing received a large transfer.
Shen Yebai probably owes her something, she suddenly thought melancholy.
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In fact, it was a complete accident that Zuo Qing was selected by Shen Yebai. Back then, she accompanied Xue to the interview, both of which were in the same major. By the way, she also rubbed an interview sheet with HR.
At the end, there was a man sitting in the room, in a suit and leather shoes, dressed in business attire. Several other teachers valued his attitude, but the man kept his computer on the whole time and was busy with other work.
The interviewer asked her: "Name."
"Left Qing."
"What do you think your strengths are?"
"I'm very observant," she always said of herself.
After the man heard it, he raised his head and glanced at her. The other interviewers were influenced by his eyes and wanted to see some other emotions on the man's face, such as admiration or dislike. But his expression was calm, and he went back to work. Her interviewer asked some other questions, professional skills, awards, and it was over.
The students felt that the result was not ideal, so they rushed to the next game. They were in the same elevator, and the man in the suit was there. As soon as the elevator arrived, the man strode out, turned his head and walked towards the back door of the office building.
Zuo Qing called for an online car-hailing service and had to wait for a while. She was not in such a hurry, and went to buy coffee at a leisurely pace. She waited for a few minutes, as if she suddenly thought of something, she went to the supermarket to get a box of fruit-flavored chewing gum.
The location of her taxi was set at the back door. When she walked over, the man was still there, standing at the door, smoking a cigarette. On the flower bed not far away, a few cigarette butts that had just been thrown around formed a circle.
She walked over and gave him the box of candies. With a strong smell of smoke on his body, he glanced at Tang, and his eyes fell on her. Calm, but also surprised.
Fang was her sharp-eyed, and when she saw him coming downstairs, she went to "711" to get two packs of cigarettes.
She held up the coffee and shook it: "I bought the sugar by the way. As the boss, it's all like this, don't worry."
He took the box of chewing gum.
But Zuo Qing didn't expect that he was Shen Yebai, who interviewed the young boss of the company, owned the top five brands of domestic products, and was a young entrepreneurial talent.
He is indeed dealing with a thorny cooperation case today. The other party's backtracking was unclear before. Now it has been found that some goods of the partner have been detained by the customs, which may have potential safety hazards. If he is suspected of smuggling, his company will definitely be implicated, so he spends the whole day asking for guilt. Fortunately, he has the qualities that an entrepreneurial boss should have.
He is a reassurance for many people. Today was the first time a stranger saw that he was annoying. She is really observant.
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In this way, Zuo Qing became Shen Yebai's personal secretary.
After hearing that Shen Yebai recruited Zuo Qing, the investor opened a bottle of good wine and set up a seafood feast. The investor took Zuo Qing's hand and threatened that as long as Zuo Qing managed Shen Yebai well, the year-end bonus would definitely be a big red envelope.
Shen Yebai sat at the wine table, drank a lot of wine, and sat quietly. Hearing them talking about himself, he looked towards Zuo Qing. His red eyes glowed like spring water under the light.
Zuo Qing gestured to him with his eyes: Are you okay?
Shen Yebai nodded. Zuo Qing looked up and down at his boss, with stiff eyebrows and handsome features. This job is highly paid, and Zuo Qing, who has just joined the job, really feels that he has lost his shit luck.
But gradually, Zuo Qing realized that it was not the same. She gets a high salary, and accordingly there are many things that she needs to worry about. Working for Shen Yebai, of course, is not only responsible for business matters.
At that time, her trial period had not yet passed, and the most impressive time was when an advertiser from Party B came to the program. She made tea in advance, and when the group walked in, she saw Shen Yebai at a glance. He was wearing a smoky gray suit, and he was rigorous and straight.
Twenty minutes after the meeting started, there was a lot of movement inside.
Through the narrow crack of the door, I could vaguely see that Shen Yebai's face was very bad, like the snow on a winter night, white and cold. Several of the staff of Party B seemed to be talking, and Shen Yebai rushed them directly: "Zuo Qing, see off the guest!"
Zuo Qing opened the door and didn't speak. One of the middle-aged men helped him with his glasses and was still persuading him: "It's just an idea, it's just a design, why should President Shen be so aggressive?" The teacup above fell over.
The man saw that he was really angry, so he kept silent, pushed the door and left.
Zuo Qing first sent people out, and then returned to the conference room to help clean up the mess. Auntie was sweeping the floor, there were glass shards on the ground, and the wet yellow-brown tea leaves.
Ten minutes later, the door opened.
In the dark afternoon, Shen Yebai stood at the door. The afternoon light is very strange, like orange-yellow egg liquid flowing all over the place. Zuo Qing raised her head, in the yellow eyes, she couldn't see Shen Yebai's face, only his silhouette with light behind his back.
But intuitively he was looking at her, from her eyes to her thin calves.
He asked her, "Are you alright?"
Only then did Zuo Qing notice the strangeness on his legs. When Shen Yebai threw the teacup, the hot tea was poured straight towards the door. Next to Zuo Qing was a person from Party B, and she subconsciously took a step forward. She was wearing a professional suit and her legs were red and swollen. At that moment, she actually felt a tingling, but she shook her head.
Because of the dim light, she couldn't even see Shen Yebai's face, but she felt Shen Yebai's emotions. Including the looming unwillingness under his uncontrollable anger when he just got angry.
It should be like this.
Zuo Qing heard it right. The promotional video that Party B wanted to make was to show the founder's harmonious family atmosphere. They had a script and wanted to shoot behind the scenes of the Shen family, including the slightly younger Mrs. Shen from the Shen family. In the script, they arranged Shen Yebai made dumplings for her.
It was quiet around the conference room, no one disturbed. Shen Yebai walked over slowly, holding the scalding spray he didn't know when to get it in his hand, and slowly squatted down: "Does it hurt?"
Zuo Qing bent down slightly: "A little bit."
Shen Yebai sprayed her seriously, but his expression was smiling: "My mother has been dead for a long time, and she... hasn't even eaten the dumplings I made."
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Shen Yebai later took Zuo Qing to the cemetery.
He was very busy in those days, with meetings one after another, but he still found time to go to other provinces. Shen Yebai drove the car by himself, the speed was very fast, and he didn't speak much. It was raining rain outside the car window.
He took her to worship his mother, the real mistress of the Shen family in the early years.
Zuo Qing held an umbrella and watched him stand quietly in front of the tombstone. He was very careful, picking up the withered leaves and putting on fresh bouquets.
Shen Yebai wiped the raindrops on the tombstone without speaking. But Zuo Qing knew that Shen Yebai's refusal failed because of investment promotion.
Later, the filming of the short film was carried out as scheduled, and Zuo Qing had also been at the filming site, seeing Shen Yebai in a white suit with gold threads embroidered on the cuffs of the clothes, which was a crane with auspicious clouds. He is very cooperative and personable.
Kind and courteous. Shen Ye Bai Zhuang Zhuang cooperated well, got up early to warm tea, greeted Mr. Shen, practiced calligraphy in the study, swam, and finally went to the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves and made dumplings.
The camera followed all the way, and the long robotic arm crossed the crowd and focused on Shen Yebai. With his expression like a spring breeze, he smiled at the table and served the young Mrs. Shen with food. A plate of mushrooms and corn dumplings, the wife ate one, and said with a smile, "We Yebai are really good sons that I have cultivated for many years."
Zuo Qing knew that Shen Yebai never called this wife mother, but usually called "Auntie". The line on the script is "good boy", Xu is the young Mrs. Shen who was too nervous before the filming team and misremembered.
Her eyes fell on Shen Yebai, worried that he would lose his temper.
But Shen Yebai smiled, sat down, and brought some vegetables to the old man. The meal was enjoyable and the atmosphere was harmonious. At the end of the shooting, the director came over to say hello to Shen Yebai, saying that he was young and promising, and he would definitely have a bright future in the future.
Zuo Qing sent Shen Yebai home. As soon as he entered the house, he began to drop things. The decorations in the entrance and the incense burner on the table and cabinet were crackling, which sounded frightening.
Zuo Qing wanted to say something: "Mr. Shen, you..."
Shen Yebai was standing in a messy living room, still wearing the crane cloud picture suit, but his carefully blown hair collapsed a little, and the black bangs covered his forehead, which didn't look like he had aura in the daytime, showing that he of exhaustion.
There are not many lights in the house, and the light is dim. Shen Yebai seemed to be tired, sitting on the sofa, turned to call her: "Zuo Qing."
Zuo Qing put down his bag at the entrance and packed it slowly.
Shen Yebai closed his eyes and sighed a long time: "Excuse me."
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Zuo Qing stayed at Shen Yebai's house that night.
When cleaning up the living room, she saw a medical record sheet, the authoritative medical record certificate of the city's top three hospitals. Only then did she know that Shen Yebai had mild bipolar disorder and should take medicine.
At dawn, Shen Yebai came out wearing a nightgown. There was a cheese and bacon sandwich on the table, and a plate of fruit was cut. Zuo Qing was heating milk in the kitchen. Shen Yebai was a little stunned when he heard Zuo Qing's voice coming from the door: "Go take a bath first, then come over for breakfast."
The sun is shining brightly. Shen Yebai sits on a chair after taking a shower, picks up a sandwich to eat, and the stereo in the living room is playing the financial report of this quarter. Zuo Qing pulled out the chair and sat down, held up the milk glass, and said inadvertently, "I saw your medical record."
Shen Yebai raised his head, his eyes full of emotion.
Zuo Qing said to him in a relatively relaxed tone: "Didn't Shen always quit his medicine secretly recently?"
Since she knew him, Shen Yebai never showed his emotions at first, and sometimes he would show happy emotions because of his work achievements, but he never got angry easily like he did recently, and threw things directly.
Shen Yebai put down the things in his hand and looked at her: "Do you know what is the most important thing as an entrepreneur?" Shen Yebai didn't know whether he was talking to Zuo Qing, or whether he was recounting the requirements of his strict father. , "It's 100% control over yourself."
So the medicines his doctor prescribed him either watered the flowers on the balcony, or were flushed into the sink, the brown liquid washed away with the water, the pills would be dependent, and he only trusted himself.
The breeze gently blew the long hair on Zuo Qing's shoulders. She has delicate features, and she has a girl's simplicity when she doesn't wear makeup. She looked at him, as if comforting: "I just think that no matter what business my boss is starting, his mood is the most important. The happiness of drug dependence is also a kind of happiness."
It seems that no one has ever given Shen Yebai such an answer.
He looked at Zuo Qing, and another emotion filled his dark eyes. But he didn't say anything, just slowly ate the rest of the sandwich and drank the milk from the glass.
Zuo Qing accompanied Shen Yebai to the hospital that day.
The family doctor also contacted Zuo Qing at the same time and handed her a document full of notes, all of which Shen Yebai needed to avoid and pay attention to. Shen Yebai decided to take medicine on time and carry out rehabilitation treatment according to the course of treatment, so Zuo Qing moved into Shen Yebai's house.
In the past few years of taking medicine steadily, Shen Yebai's changes have been obvious. His business is in full swing and his career is thriving. When eating with the investors, everyone said that his secretary favored him and asked him to renew a ten-year labor contract with Zuo Qing.
Some media also noticed this upstart in the industry, so Shen Yebai frequently appeared in magazines, and the limelight was booming for a while. He had good luck in peach blossoms, and the daughters and nieces of his clients all cast their eyes on him, asking the elders of the family to invite him. Shen Yebai did not refuse, and asked Zuo Qing to order roses. The rose bouquets shipped by air were rich and fresh, and they were given to different women in turn from Zuo Qing's hands.
Another social event, Shen Yebai drank a little too much and was sent back by an international student girl. The doorbell ding-dong, Zuo Qing came to open the door. Shen Yebai smelled of alcohol, she helped him into the house and poured honey water for him to drink. Seeing his red eyes and his uncomfortable look, she couldn't help but say to him, "Why do you drink so much?"
Shen Yebai lay down on the sofa: "Are you angry?"
Zuo Qing: "How dare I, you are my boss. You are drinking medicine, alcohol will destroy the properties of medicine, you should have quit drinking..."
Shen Yebai on the sofa kept looking at her with wet eyes, looking drowsy and clear.
"I'm so dizzy." His voice was hoarse.
Zuo Qing then shut up, she couldn't do anything about him.
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On the day he was slapped, Zuo Qing did not dare to go to the company and wore a mask when he came home from the beauty salon. The night is up and down, and outside the car is a huge LED screen, which is a concert poster of a certain group. Zuo Qing looked at the big screen and remembered that Shen Yebai had also taken her to watch their concerts in other places before.
There were red and blue mottled lights that night, and there were beautiful young men and women in the surging evening wind. Zuo Qing waved a light stick, held Shen Yebai's hand, and shouted loudly. On such a night, Shen Yebai rarely laughed the whole way. He let her hold his hand, and his eyes were full of emotion.
He is far away from the company, and it seems to have spawned another dark night in a distant city
Last updated: October 5, 2022