Zhang Xiao: "I don't want to buy it, you go get it."

Wang Peng nodded and went straight to the place where the appointment was written next to it.

Wang Peng came back soon.

Wang Peng: "I miscalculated. We should have lined up to get in."

Zhang Xiao: "What's wrong?"

Wang Peng: "They released a co-branded game console, and you have to queue up to buy it."

Zhang Xiao: "Want it?"

Wang Peng nodded, then shook his head and said, "No, it's too expensive, and I don't have much time to play."

Zhang Xiao took out his cell phone and sent a message to his secretary.

Zhang Xiao: "Let's go, where else do you want to go?"

Wang Peng: "There is a game room on the fourth floor. Let's go play."

Zhang Xiao: "Okay, let's go."

The two went to the fourth floor again, to the door of a game room called Game House.

The two bought coins and walked in together.

Zhang Xiao saw Xia Qishu.

Xia Qishu was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, with neat short hair. Although she didn't look like a great beauty, she could be described as a pretty girl from a small family.

Xia Qishu is playing a racing game.

Wang Peng also saw Xia Qishu and said to Zhang Xiao, "Xia Qishu, she's here too."

Zhang Xiao: "How about playing together?"

Wang Peng: "Sure, no problem for me."

Zhang Xiao: "Go and call her."

The two walked to a place not far from Xia Qishu and waited for her to finish playing. Wang Peng said, "Xia Qishu, what a coincidence, you are here too."

Xia Qishu turned around and saw Wang Peng and Zhang Xiao.

Xia Qishu and Wang Peng were not particularly familiar with each other, but they were not strangers either. After all, they worked in the same company and had met each other in school before.

Xia Qishu felt a little embarrassed when she saw Zhang Xiao sitting in a wheelchair.

Xia Qishu walked up to the two of them and said, "What a coincidence, you guys are here to play too?"

Wang Peng: "Yes, I also participated in the Dongdacheng project. The company gave me vouchers, so I came here to buy some things."

Wang Peng shook the plastic bag in his hand.

Xia Qishu: "What about the vouchers? Why don't I have any?"

Wang Peng: “There are talents in the project team.”

Xia Qishu: "Oh, I thought so."

Zhang Xiao: "Let's play together. We have vouchers anyway. It's a lot of trouble for Wang Peng to come here once. It's easier to spend them today."

Xia Qishu: "Zhang Xiao, do you have a voucher too?"

Zhang Xiao: "I don't. Wang Peng and I are brothers. There is no distinction between you and me."

Xia Qishu: "Okay, I don't understand your friendship as boys."

Wang Peng: "Boys just want to be each other's fathers. Big son, what do you want to play? Your dad will pay for it today."

Zhang Xiao: "Go to the side."

Xia Qishu smiled.

The three of them walked towards other game consoles.

After the three of them played for a while, the atmosphere gradually became much better.

Xia Qishu: "Let's go play whack-a-mole."

The three of them came to the whack-a-mole game machine.

Wang Peng: "Let's bring some stakes."

Zhang Xiao: "What do you want to bet on?"

Wang Peng pointed to the vending machine at the door and said, "How about the loser buy a drink?"

Zhang Xiao: “Okay.”

Xia Qishu: "I'm OK."

Zhang Xiao: "Come on, who goes first?"

Wang Peng: "The person with the same palm and back of the hand goes first."

Zhang Xiao: "Okay."

Wang Peng: "Palm~back of hand."

Wang Peng and Xia Qishu both used the palms of their hands, while Zhang Xiao used the back of his hand.

Wang Peng: "Xia Qishu and I will go first, and the loser will go with Zhang Xiao, okay?"

The two nodded.

Wang Peng put down the coins and started the competition with Xia Qishu.

Soon, Xia Qishu lost.

Wang Peng handed the hammer to Zhang Xiao and said, "It's your turn, son. Don't embarrass your father."

Zhang Xiao hit Wang Peng and said, "You."

Wang Peng put down more coins, and Zhang Xiao and Xia Qishu started the competition.

Soon, as expected, Zhang Xiao lost, because Zhang Xiao was sitting in a wheelchair and could not hit the hamster at the back.

Zhang Xiao: "I'm going to buy some drinks. What do you two want to drink?"

Xia Qishu: "This is my first time here. I don't know what they sell. I want to take a look."

Wang Peng: "Xiaoxiao, you buy whatever you want. I'll wait for you two to come back."

Zhang Xiao nodded and walked towards the door with Xia Qishu.

The two arrived in front of the vending machine.

Zhang Xiao chose his own and Wang Peng's and asked, "Which one do you want to drink?"

Xia Qishu: "Coke, just like you guys."

Zhang Xiao nodded, took out his mobile phone and paid.

Xia Qishu squatted down and took out three bottles of Coke.

Xia Qishu handed Zhang Xiao a bottle.

Zhang Xiao: "I don't think I have your phone number, please add me."

Xia Qishu: "Okay."

The two took out their cell phones, exchanged numbers, and added each other as friends on social media.

Zhang Xiao’s work phone suddenly rang.

Zhang Xiao took a look and saw it was a message.

Zhang Xiao clicked twice, put away his phone, and said, "Let's go find Wang Peng."

Xia Qishu began to nod.

Xia Qishu: "Why do you have two cell phones?"

Zhang Xiao: "One is a work phone."

Xia Qishu: "You found a job so quickly? I heard you quit a month ago."

Zhang Xiao: “Yes, I found it.”

Xia Qishu: "How's the salary?"

Zhang Xiao: “Not bad.”

Xia Qishu: "Hey, I only make 3,000 a month now. I heard that after becoming a regular employee, the salary will start at 10,000 with various subsidies."

Zhang Xiao: "Yes, come on, just hold on for a year."

The two walked up to Wang Peng.

Xia Qishu handed the Coke to Wang Peng.

Wang Peng unscrewed the bottle and took two sips.

Zhang Xiao: "Wang Peng, go downstairs to get something. He's at the door of Zhixing. I'll send you his phone number. You can call him when you get to the door."

Wang Peng: "What is it?"

Zhang Xiao: "You'll know when you get it."

Wang Peng: "Okay, since you are my eldest son, I will run an errand for you."

Zhang Xiao smiled, took out his cell phone and tapped a few times, and Wang Peng had already gone downstairs.

Xia Qishu: "What is it?"

Zhang Xiao: "Wang Peng wanted a game console, so I asked a friend to buy it for him."

Xia Qishu: "Oh, are you still live streaming games? I noticed that you haven't live streamed on your media account for a long time. Did you change your account?"

Zhang Xiao: "How do you know my media account?"

Xia Qishu's eyes darkened and she said, "I saw you live broadcasting to the World Trade Center that day."

Zhang Xiao: "Oh, I haven't played any games or live streamed recently."

Xia Qishu said cautiously: "You and Li Zhilin..."

Zhang Xiao: "It doesn't matter. I won't pursue you anymore."

Xia Qishu: "Do you not like it anymore, or have you simply given up?"

Zhang Xiao: “What’s the difference?”

Xia Qishu: "Li Zhilin is your white moonlight, right? If you simply gave up on her, if she ever asks you for help, you will still help her without hesitation. If you don't like her anymore, then she will just be a passerby."

Zhang Xiao: "Oh, that's Passerby A."

Xia Qishu: "Do you really not like Li Zhilin anymore?"

Zhang Xiao: “Yeah.”

The two fell into silence for a moment, and no one spoke anymore.

Zhang Xiao didn't know what was wrong with Xia Qishu, and he couldn't ask. After all, Xia Qishu didn't show any interest in him. He was not sure whether Xia Qishu was the same as in the previous life, or had changed.

Soon, Wang Peng came back.

Wang Peng trotted all the way and came in front of the two of them.

Wang Peng: "You are my big dad today, thank you big dad."

Zhang Xiao smiled.

Xia Qishu: "What kind of game console is worthy of calling someone daddy?"

Wang Peng: "It's a co-branded model, and it's limited edition. Do you think it's worth it? Forget it. You can't understand the friendship between boys. Just know that Xiaoxiao is my big dad today."

Zhang Xiao: "Okay, what are we going to do?"

Xia Qishu: "Go catch the doll."

Zhang Xiao: "Okay, let's go."

The three of them went to the place where they could catch dolls.

Wang Peng: "Xia Qishu, do you like catching dolls?"

Xia Qishu: "Normally, I just haven't played it before."

Wang Peng: "How could a girl never play claw machine?"

Xia Qishu: "The last time I came to the game hall was when I was a kid and I came with my parents. At the end of the game, I still had two coins. I wanted to grab the doll, and my sister wanted to too. My dad gave the last two coins to each of us. My sister tried to grab it first, but she didn't catch it, so she snatched my coins. Since then, I have never been to the game hall again, and I have never grabbed a doll."

Zhang Xiao: "Catch them. When you've caught enough for today, then do something else. Wang Peng, if you run out of coins, go buy some."

Wang Peng: "Okay, Dad, whatever you say today is what it comes down to."

Xia Qishu was so amused by the two people's antics that she burst out laughing.

The three men tried to catch the doll for a long time, and finally each of them came out with a big bag.

Xia Qishu: "Thank you for today."

Zhang Xiao: "It's okay, let's go and have a midnight snack."

Xia Qishu: "I'm not going. I want to go home."

Zhang Xiao: "Tomorrow is the weekend, do you have anything to do?"

Xia Qishu: "No, but if I go home late, my sister will start to talk nonsense again, although I don't want to go back either."

Zhang Xiao: "Let's sit down and chat for a while. How about you tell me that the company has notified you to work overtime and you won't be going home tonight?"

Xia Qishu looked at her watch and said, "No, my sister is so annoying. If I ask her to work overtime, she will definitely come to the company to find me."

Zhang Xiao: "Come on, it's okay. Why don't you live in the apartment assigned by the company?"

Xia Qishu: "Interns don't have apartments."

Zhang Xiao: "From today on, you have it."

Xia Qishu: "Zhang Xiao, you..."

Zhang Xiao: "Let's talk about it later. I'll contact the person first."

Xia Qishu: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Zhang Xiao: "Wang Peng, do you have anything to do tonight?"

Wang Peng: "It's okay."

Zhang Xiao: "Okay, you two wait for me for a while, I'll send a message."

Zhang Xiao took out his work phone and sent a message to the general manager of the branch, asking him to turn on his computer and start a voice conference to discuss something. He also asked him to notify intern Xia Qishu to come back to the company for the meeting. He would notify Wang Peng from the project team and arrange an employee apartment for Xia Qishu to move in tonight.

The general manager of the branch quickly replied with an OK.

Zhang Xiao: "Let's go downstairs."

Wang Peng: "Would you like to order takeout?"

Zhang Xiao handed his phone to Wang Peng and said, "You two decide what to eat, Wang Peng, you decide and order it for me."

Wang Peng stuffed the thing in his hand into Zhang Xiao's legs and took the phone.

Zhang Xiao: "Let's go first."

The two nodded, and Wang Peng walked while ordering takeout. Xia Qishu took the bag of dolls from Zhang Xiao's legs into her own hands.

The three of them quickly arrived at the parking lot. The driver got out to get a wheelchair for Zhang Xiao, and several people got in the car.

Xia Qishu's cell phone rang.

Xia Qishu: "The general manager asked me to go back to the company for a conference call. Zhang Xiao, how did you do it?"

Zhang Xiao: "You will know later, driver, go to Xue's Financial Branch and tell your family that you need to work overtime at the company."

Driver: “Okay.”

Xia Qishu: "Really? If I tell you, my sister will definitely go to the company."

Zhang Xiao: "Tell me, are you really going back to work overtime? What are you afraid of?"

Xia Qishu: "Okay, I'll send a message to my parents."

Xia Qishu took out her cell phone, tapped a few times, then put it away.

Zhang Xiao: "Tell me what's going on between you and your sister?"

Xia Qishu: "Hey, this is a family scandal. Zhang Xiao, Wang Peng, if you two know about it, don't tell anyone else."

The two nodded.

Xia Qishu: "My sister has been against me since she was young. She would always snatch anything I like, from small things like a dish or a doll to big things like who my parents send to school and which school I should apply to. I really doubt whether I am my parents' biological child. Why can't I be treated equally?"

Xia Qishu paused and continued, "My sister's behavior has become worse since the campus recruitment. It may be because I got into Xue's and she didn't. She even asked my dad to let me give her the internship quota. Can you just give it up? I agree, but my supervisor doesn't. I am really impressed."

Zhang Xiao picked up a bottle of water and took two sips.

Xia Qishu continued, "My sister has been going crazy since the campus recruitment. Zhang Xiao, you don't know. My sister went to Kaishi Sweet and ordered a lot of cakes and drinks to be sent to the company. She said she would treat everyone to afternoon tea and asked everyone to take good care of me. But she actually asked me to pay the bill. It was over 3,000. I only made 3,000 a month for my internship. Now people in the company look at me as if I were a fool. After all, normal people would not spend a month's salary to treat everyone to afternoon tea."

Wang Peng: "I don't think so. I think you were cheated by your sister. What kind of nice person would say he would treat everyone but end up letting others pay?"

Zhang Xiao also nodded.

Xia Qishu: "Who said it wasn't..."

Xia Qishu said a lot of things, which were consistent with the information Zhang Xiao had learned.

Zhang Xiao: "Have you ever thought about finding a boyfriend? Get the gift your grandfather said and leave home?"

Xia Qishu: "I have thought about it, but my sister always manages to steal my boyfriend away, so he never gets to see my grandfather. From childhood to adulthood, no boyfriend has ever lasted long enough to see my grandfather."

Zhang Xiao: "I can."

Xia Qishu: "Ah? You? What do you mean?"

Zhang Xiao: "I am willing to help you and make sure your sister won't steal you away. What do you think?"

Xia Qishu: "Are you trying to fool my grandfather by acting? You can't. My grandfather is very good at judging people."

Zhang Xiao: "Think about it. Tell me when you're done."

Xia Qishu nodded without saying anything.

Soon, the car arrived at the company gate.

Zhang Xiao: "You two go in."

Xia Qishu: "Okay, thank you."

The two got out of the car.

Zhang Xiao asked the driver to drive the car to the parking lot, turned off the engine, and closed the curtains.

Zhang Xiao glanced at the lights upstairs and saw that they were on. He sent a message to the general manager of the branch, meaning that he was preparing for a conference call.

Zhang Xiao bought a voice-changing software online, and the general manager replied that it was ready.

Zhang Xiao created a separate group, which only included Wang Peng, Xia Qishu, himself, and the general manager.

Zhang Xiao initiated a voice call within the group.

Soon, everyone joined the voice.

Zhang Xiao: "Can you hear me?"

General Manager: “I can hear you.”

Wang Peng: “I can hear it.”

Xia Qishu: “I can hear it.”

Zhang Xiao: "It's like this, the project is basically completed, I want to prepare a celebration party for everyone, and those who deserve promotions will get promotions, and those who deserve bonuses will get bonuses. Because there are both men and women in the project team, I chose Xia Qishu and Wang Peng to mainly plan this. What do you two think?"

Wang Peng: "I have no objection. I can do it."

Xia Qishu: "Me too."

Zhang Xiao was about to continue speaking when he saw a woman, Xia Qiluan, walk into the company's main entrance.

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