Mrs. Lu, Mr. Lu will come back and spend the night tonight.

Listening to Su Mubai's question, Lin Ai turned to look at Su Mubai and answered her seriously: "Boss Su, I'm from the Audit Department."

After saying that she was from the Audit Department, Lin Ai didn't say much.

She felt that she didn't need to say anything, Su Mubai also knew that they were busy auditing the year-end settlement and next year's budget.

After Lin Ai answered Su Mubai, the elevator fell into silence. The only sound in the elevator was the sound of changing the air ducts and ventilating the room.

Lin Ai stood slightly in front of Su Mubai. She didn't pay too much attention to Su Mubai, nor did she act like a fangirl like the other girls in the company. Even in such a quiet and awkward environment, she didn't try to find a topic to talk to Su Mubai.

She just looked at the elevator quietly, waiting for it to reach the first floor and then go home from get off work.

Standing on Lin Ai's right, Su Mubai tilted his face slightly.

He is looking at Lin Ai.

Yes, she looks a lot like Cheng Jian, especially when she is not talking like this, which reminds him of Cheng Jian when she is doing her homework seriously.

Like Cheng Jian, she has fair skin, a high nose and firm, bright eyes.

But no matter how similar she is, she is not Cheng Jian.

Or maybe it's just that their eyebrows and expressions are somewhat similar, but Cheng Jian has passed away for many years, so he magnified this slight similarity.

drop!

The elevator door opened. Lin Ai raised her head slightly and looked outside. Su Mubai quickly retracted his gaze.

At this time, Lin Ai turned around, looked at Su Mubai and said, "Boss Su, I'm going to get off work first."

After saying that, without waiting for Su Mubai to give her any response, Lin Aimai walked away.

In fact, just now in the elevator, when Su Mubai put his hands in his pockets and looked at her expressionlessly, she saw it through the elevator door.

Although the elevator door is not a mirror, the brightness makes it easy to see the surroundings.

Lin Ai was puzzled by Su Mubai's indifferent eyes. She seemed to have never met Su Mubai before and had never seen him. How could he have such a look?

When a boss and an employee meet in the elevator, shouldn't the boss simply ignore the employee?

Maybe something happened and he has something on his mind.

Unable to understand the way Su Mubai looked at her just now, Lin Ai simply stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, she and Su Mubai will never have any interaction in the future. She is just a small worker. She just needs to do her job well and get her salary.

After leaving the company building and exiting the front yard, Lin Ai walked directly towards the subway.

She originally had a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but after her father got into an accident, everything that could be sold in the house was sold, not to mention her car, even her mother's jewelry was sold.

At the moment, there is only one 80-square-meter house left, where a family of four lives.

Before the incident at home, Lin Aijia was considered middle class. His father ran a medium-sized company, but the business environment has been bad in recent years and the company's performance has been getting worse and worse.

In order to revive the company and to ensure the livelihood of his family, Lin Ai's father listened to his friends and sought a loan from an institution.

It is called an institution, but in fact it is a loan shark.

As a result, the company did not recover and was cheated. In the end, it lost all its money and assets and was left with a huge debt. Later, it had no choice but to sell everything that could be sold, including the car that was given to Lin Ai on her 20th birthday.

Nowadays, the lives of several members of the family are basically supported by Lin Ai’s salary.

Her mother had never worked in her life, and no one wanted to hire her when she looked for a job, not to mention that many companies today don't even consider employees after they are 35.

After her father liquidated the company, he has been looking for a job.

After being a small boss all my life, it is really not easy to find a job that I can do.

When people reach middle age, what they fear most is such ups and downs. At this age, it is not easy to turn things around, especially in today's society.

Lin Ai's younger brother Lin Chen is both excellent in character and academic performance. He attends the best high school in City A. His tuition and living expenses are now paid by Lin Ai. Fortunately, the brother and sister have cheerful personalities and can help and encourage each other.

Therefore, after his family fell into poverty, Lin Chen's academic performance was not greatly affected.

With his hands in his coat pockets, Lin Ai couldn't help but take a breath and shiver after a gust of cold wind.

The monthly salary is about 16,000 yuan, which is enough to support the family in City A, but it is still difficult to help her father pay off his debts, and they still don’t know how much money her father owes.

I asked him several times, but he didn't say anything.

The worst thing is that the price of second-hand houses has plummeted in the past two years, and their house was not sold at a good price.

Continuing to walk towards the subway entrance, it would be a lie to say that she didn't feel any pressure or worry about her future life.

With such a big thing happening at home, and her parents and younger brother all waiting for her to support them, it's impossible not to feel stressed.

But no matter how hard and tiring these days are, they have to endure it. After all, she and Lin Chen are still young, and there are endless possibilities in their lives.

Especially Lin Chen, his life has not yet begun, he has not even gone to college, he must be supported to finish his studies no matter what, otherwise in today's society, it will be difficult to move up and get along well.

Although academic qualifications are important and unimportant, they are the stepping stone and the basic threshold. Moreover, in the education they have received since childhood, they are still required to study hard.

If it weren't for the sudden change in her family, she would be studying for a master's degree now.

Then continue further studies.

Due to something happening at home, she later had to give up the interview for graduate school and had to go out to work.

The weather is a bit cold today. Maybe it's because I stayed in the heated room for too long. Now I'm not used to it. Lin Ai pulled her coat tighter and wrapped herself tighter.

Not far away, Su Mubai's car had just driven out of the company and he saw Lin Ai, wrapped in clothes, walking on the sidewalk.

Her back looks a little lonely and depressed.

He and Lin Ai are on the same path, at least for now.

Su Mubai slowed down the car.

He put his hands on the steering wheel and kept his eyes on Lin Ai in front of him.

Lin Ai looks nothing like Cheng Jian at this moment.

Even so, they still have a somewhat similar face.

He didn't stop the car, didn't honk the horn to greet the female employee he just met, and didn't even think about sending her home.

After all, even if they are somewhat similar, she is not Cheng Jian.

His deskmate Cheng Jian has been dead for eighteen years. She was a person who lived in his youth and memories.

Arriving at the subway entrance, Lin Ai walked down the stairs as usual.

After moving, my commute to work is farther than before, and it takes nearly an hour to take the subway.

After watching Lin Ai enter the subway station and her back disappear from his sight, Su Mubai stepped on the accelerator to speed up the car and went home.

However, my thoughts were inexplicably disturbed and my mood was no longer as stable.

Intentionally or unintentionally, he would always think of things when he was in school, and also think of Lin Ai, whom he met in the elevator.