Soft temptation

32.

They are far away, and they are all people who don't talk much, so their contact has become much, much less than before.

Most of the time, Lou Ruan took the initiative to speak.

Send him some new paintings, pat on the food in the learning cafeteria, the cats, trees, flowers in the Academy of Fine Arts, the clouds in the sky, and some funny jokes I saw on Weibo and Douyin.

Occasionally, another person will be mentioned:

[Xie Yanli has also come to Huaqing, he is still popular in Huaqing, there is no one in the school who does not know him]

Seeing such news, Zhou Yuetian usually would not reply.

Lou Ruan said twice that he didn't come back, so she didn't mention it again.

33.

In his senior year, Zhou Yuetian went to Zhou's and started an internship.

Shao Zheng's family already has a suitable heir. Does he have any intention of fighting for property? He just wants to lie flat and doesn't look for an internship.

Zhou Yuetian asked Cheng Lei first, and then asked Lou Ruan after helping Cheng Lei get hired.

【Have you found an internship yet? 】

Lou Ruan returned quickly: [I found it, I found a lot of galleries in the art district, and I am still choosing]

Zhou Yuetian sat in front of Zhou's bright and huge floor-to-ceiling windows and knocked word by word: [Cheng Lei has come to Zhou's, do you want to come]

A day later, Lou Ruan successfully joined Zhou's.

34.

At work, Lou Ruan and Cheng Lei don't seem to get along very well, and they always quarrel.

Zhou Yuetian never cared about it, and never stood aside. He just watched them quarrel until they graduated from university, and the three of them officially joined Zhou's.

Lou Ruan was placed by his side as a secretary, and Cheng Lei went to the marketing department.

There are many people in the president's office and the company's senior management who have great opinions on Lou Ruan. They think it is unreasonable for the college of fine arts to be the president's secretary.

During the meeting, a senior executive even mentioned this matter openly.

Zhou Yuetian didn't say anything.

35.

Half a month later, the company received a real-name report of sexual harassment in the workplace by the senior executive, and it has already become a trending search.

Zhou Yuetian went home with the printed documents.

He respectfully put the document in front of Father Zhou, "Dad, he is an old man in the company, I really don't know how to deal with it."

A few days later, that high-ranking person completely disappeared from the Zhou family.

36.

One night, Zhou Yuetian came home.

The woman who was supposed to be asleep was sitting in the living room, staring at the TV screen unfocused, and only raised her eyes when he came back.

"Xiao Tian, ​​Mom has something to ask you."

Zhou Yuetian paused.

He glanced at the empty living room and walked in.

A woman's makeup is exquisite, but it cannot conceal the traces of the years.

She looks much older and haggard than before. I don't know if it's because Zhou's father doesn't come home recently.

"It's about you about Lei Guoxia, isn't it?"

Lei Guoxia was the executive who was dissatisfied with Lou Ruan being the president's secretary.

Zhou Yuetian stared at her, and suddenly laughed, "Mom, what are you talking about, he was reported."

"I know you want to keep that girl in the company," the woman looked at him and said, "Such a person should really leave the company, but..."

Zhou Yuetian quietly waited for her next sentence.

She looked at him and said, "Do you know that just because you're in the Zhou family now doesn't mean your dad has recognized you, the Zhou family is already yours?"

Of course Zhou Yuetian knew.

Of course he knew that Zhou's father did not fully trust him, and the Zhou family was not his yet.

But it was slowly becoming his.

"If you want to completely take down the Zhou family, if you want to compete with Zhou Qingli and the others, there is only one way, marriage."

"I don't need it." Zhou Yuetian said without thinking.

Zhou's mother stood up abruptly, her expression suddenly changed, "Xiao Tian, ​​do you know what you have worked so hard for all these years? It's the last step, we can't fall by the wayside."

"You get married first, and after you get married, you will be just like your father, you can do whatever you want..."

"Mom!" Zhou Yuetian's complexion changed, and he interrupted her suddenly. He raised his eyes to look at her, "Do you know what you are talking about?"

Zhou's mother's eyes were red, she paused, and then said, "Then you can get a divorce after getting married, and you can get a proper divorce at that time, right?"

37.

Zhou's mother still arranged a blind date for Zhou Yuetian.

Zhou Yuetian didn't go.

From then on, every time he went home, he would face a tearful mother.

Sometimes she would yell, sometimes she would cry all the time, and there were blood red knife marks on the skin that was usually taken care of regularly.

Zhou Yuetian sent the man to the hospital.

She is sick.

You need to take medicine all the time, and you need someone to accompany you.

But in this family, neither the husband nor the son can accompany her all the time.

38.

Zhou Yuetian still went to the blind date arranged by Zhou's mother.

I often visit her in the hospital.

When she was sober, she would always tell him about the marriage repeatedly.

When I am not awake, I always cry and talk about the past.

She said that she used to run away from home to study, and went to work if she had no money. Later, she met his father, who was very kind to her.

When sending her to her hometown to see grandma, she drove an expensive car, and the director of the county hospital treated him with respect.

After marrying him, no one in the family looked down on her anymore, and no one said it was useless for her to go out to study.

Zhou Yuetian handed her the peeled boiled egg, watched her cry and said:

"Dad, is this really for me to eat? Doesn't Jiabao need to eat it?"

39.

Zhou Yuetian closed his eyes, got up and left.

Since then, he will often visit her in the hospital.

Peel her boiled eggs when she is unconscious.

When I was awake, I told her which daughter of the family I met, what they talked about during dinner, what kind of person the other party was, how the company was, and Father Zhou praised him again recently...

He thought that as long as he treated her well, accompanied her well, and followed her all the time, the woman's condition would get better and better, but instead of getting better, her condition was getting worse and worse.

The attending doctor told him that the woman had been ill for many years.

She has been ill for a long time.

Just like this, I don't know how long it can last.

Zhou Yuetian sat in the corridor of the hospital, listening to the sound of the TV in the ward, lowered his head for the first time, and began to cry silently.

After crying for an unknown amount of time, Lou Ruan called.

On the other end of the phone, she didn't know what was going on, she sounded very happy, "Mr. Zhou, what time will you be back in the afternoon?"

Holding the phone, Zhou Yuetian paused for a few seconds before saying, "Mr. Zhou?"

He is not very comfortable with this title.

There was a slight noise from over there, and after a while, he heard her low voice, "Chairman Zhou is here. He has read the financial report and is praising you!"

"Where are you, he asked me to ask when you will come back."

Zhou Yue sat there, listening to the shallow breathing on the other end of the phone, and said softly, "Lou Ruan."

The voice over there was smiling, sweet and sweet, "Huh?"

She was happy because he was praised.

She is happy for him.

Zhou Yuetian stood up and looked back at the people in the ward, "I'll go back now."