Cover the glass with water

Xin Qianyu has nothing to do with such a weak heart.

He quickly relented, but he didn't know how to continue the topic, so he said, "It's cold here, let's go upstairs and sit down."

The two went back upstairs, Su Zhong was still wearing that ridiculous Santa costume.

He dressed up like this to please Xin Qianyu, however, it seemed to backfire, Xin Qianyu was not happy at all, even a little angry.

Su Zhong shrunk his body into the fat clothes, not knowing what to do.

Xin Qianyu herself also felt embarrassed, so she opened her mouth to start a new topic: "Well...how is the listing of Yu Zhuo going?"

Su Zhong paused for a moment, then quickly returned to work, and immediately felt more at ease. He said calmly, "Domestic companies cannot be directly listed in the United States. I suggest making a vie structure first..."

The so-called vie is a variable interest entity (variable?interest?entities), that is, the "vie structure", which can also be called "agreement control", which is a method adopted by domestic companies to achieve overseas listing.Most domestic companies are listed in the United States through vie.

Xin Qianyu began to discuss the matter of vie with Su Zhong.

Although these two are young, they have a "professional style" that has been tempered and honed. No matter what disputes happened in the last second, as long as they enter the working state, they can be calm and peaceful, with almost no personal feelings involved.

The two discussed it outside for a long time, and Xin Qianyu thought about making a phone call back home to mention this matter with Xin Mu. It happened that his cell phone was lost, so he asked Su Zhong, "Lend me your cell phone." Hit it."

Naturally, Su Zhong would not refuse, so he gave Xin Qianyu the phone.

Xin Qianyu picked up her mobile phone and dialed her number, and soon heard the ringtone from the crack of the sofa - it turned out that his mobile phone had dropped under the sofa.

"It turned out to be there." Xin Qianyu hung up the phone, staggered his fingers, and accidentally slid to the call record. He looked down and was secretly surprised.

He saw the call records in Su Zhong's cell phone——

During the two years of separation, Su Zhong made at least hundreds of calls to Xin Qianyu's - of course, none of them got through.Because he has been blocked by Xin Qianyu.

Xin Qianyu's heart was trembling, but she pretended not to care, quickly restored the phone interface, and returned it to Su Zhong.

He couldn't imagine how many calls Su Zhong had made to him in those two years, and what kind of mood Su Zhong felt when he couldn't get through.

This discovery made Xin Qianyu extremely tangled——

Xin Qianyu thought to herself: So he has been trying to contact me?

But he thought again: Is he a fool?Won't you call from another number?

Xin Qianyu suppressed her doubts and said nothing.

He always tried his best to avoid mentioning the topics related to the breakup.

Because m-global wanted to cooperate with Yu Zhuo, there was a work exchange between Xin Qianyu and Su Zhong.

Xin Qianyu also went to the m-global office in Manhattan.

When Xin Qianyu arrived downstairs, Su Zhong's assistant Thomas came down to pick him up.Xin Qianyu jokingly asked him, "Are you there too? Why don't you see Li Lisi?"

Thomas' face changed slightly, and he said, "She's in Asia."

Xin Qianyu then said: "Last year when Su Zhong was transferred to Asia, she followed him. This time when Su Zhong transferred back to the United States, why didn't she follow him?"

Thomas replied: "I don't know about that. Her transfer has nothing to do with my boss."

"Really?" Xin Qianyu asked sideways.

Thomas nodded hastily: "Of course, of course. She is not a member of Mr. Su's team."

In fact, before Xin Qianyu broke up with Su Zhong, Li Lisi used green tea to keep saying that she and Su Zhong were gay and had no other ideas.She acted "openly and aboveboard", while hiding Thomas from the past.Thomas really felt that Li Lisi was innocent at the time.But after several years, Thomas finally noticed the problem.I'm not a fool, I can always see it after a long time.

However, Su Zhong didn't seem to respond, and Li Lisi didn't puncture the window paper, so Thomas must be playing stupid to the end.

Now that Su Zhong is vigorously pursuing Xin Qianyu, Thomas naturally begins to be a sensible person.

Thomas only said: "Actually, in the past few years, Li Lisi has always wanted to get close to the boss, but the boss ignored her. In fact, the boss is very capable, but he can only deal with data, not people. Yes. He can only understand three points when others talk to him. So there is always something inconsiderate..."

Xin Qianyu shook her head and said, "Don't tell me these things. The past is in the past."

Thomas sighed and said, "Where is it so easy to pass? You see, my boss can't pass."

Xin Qianyu didn't answer the question.

Thomas only said sadly: "You don't know something. After you left, the boss had a problem. He has been intervening psychologically, and it hasn't stopped until now." An expression that wipes away tears but he can only rub the corners of his eyes without tears.

When Xin Qianyu heard the word "psychological intervention", she immediately became serious: "Really? Does he have a psychological problem?"

"I don't know about that." Thomas showed a sad look, "but I have been in charge of making appointments for him, so I know he is seeking help from a psychological counselor. I don't know about the others. But I can feel Well, this is about you."

Xin Qianyu fell into deep thought and began to carefully recall everything that happened this year.

It has been almost a year since he and Su Zhong reunited. During this year, Su Zhong did look much more fragile than before, and even made Xin Qianyu feel distressed from time to time.

But he never thought that Su Zhong might have a psychological problem.

However, now that Thomas mentioned it, he felt as if he had been hit in the head and woke up.

In the workplace, Su Zhong looks the same as usual.

However, Xin Qianyu could sense a change in her heart when she was getting along in private.

Su Zhong can perceive Xin Qianyu's emotional changes more keenly, but correspondingly, Su Zhong is also more vulnerable to injury.

In the past, Su Zhong would not show frustration, loss or loss, but now he frequently appeared in front of Xin Qianyu with an injured posture.

Those two years... what happened?

Sitting opposite Su Zhong, Xin Qianyu couldn't help but asked, "I heard that you are receiving psychological intervention treatment, is that right?"

Su Zhong was a little surprised: "Who did you hear that from?"

Xin Qianyu was stunned, but still betrayed her teammates without any guilt: "Your assistant said that."

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Xin Qianyu was also afraid that Su Zhong would dismiss Thomas in a fit of anger, so she defended: "He asked me to pay more attention to your mental state. It was also out of kindness."

"Hmm." Su Zhong replied humbly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xin Qianyu said, "I heard that you only saw the doctor after I left? Did you see the doctor because of me?"

"Yes." Su Zhong still had that honest look.

Xin Qianyu's heart tightened, and she subconsciously felt guilty: "I'm sorry."

"You don't need to apologize. You didn't do anything wrong," Su Zhong said.

"But in the end, it's also because of me..."

"I should thank you." Su Zhong said, "I went to receive intervention to correct my social barrier problem. This problem existed before I met you. But I have never faced it squarely. It was you who made me choose to face it. to it, and to intervene."

Xin Qianyu looked at him firmly: "So, you are going to treat social disorders?"

"Yes." Su Zhong replied, "You don't have to feel guilty, because you didn't cause this in the first place. This is a problem I have always had."

Hearing what Su Zhong said, it is undeniable that the guilt in Xin Qianyu's heart has indeed subsided a lot.

However, Xin Qianyu still frowned: "Why didn't you intervene before?"

"Probably..." Su Zhong pondered for a while before finding the right words to describe, "Be afraid of difficulties."

"Afraid of difficulties?" Xin Qianyu was surprised to hear this word from Su Zhong's mouth.

"Yes, I am afraid of difficulties." Su Zhong nodded, "It is easy for me to learn anything in my life, and I have never suffered any setbacks in learning-except in social aspects. My emotional intelligence is really too low. Learning social interaction is very important to me. It’s too hard for me. I still feel very difficult. It’s so natural to others, but I can’t do it. Sometimes, I even suspect that I’m not a normal human being…” The more I said, the more It's sad.

Xin Qianyu once again saw a fragile crack in Su Zhong's eyes, which had always been as solid as ice.

Xin Qianyu began to ask herself: Is it too harsh to ask Su Zhong with the social level of a normal person?

Su Zhong continued: "But I will work hard." Then, Su Zhong looked at Xin Qianyu sadly: "Don't dislike me. I can do better."

Xin Qianyu's heart immediately choked up: "I don't despise you." His tone was also much gentler than he realized.

Hearing what Xin Qianyu said, Su Zhong breathed a sigh of relief.

Xin Qianyu struggled for a while before asking him: "Do you know that Li Lisi followed you to the Asian branch?"

Su Zhong said: "She told me so."

"How do you feel about this?" Xin Qianyu asked.

Su Zhong said: "I think she is very strange."

"..." Xin Qianyu smiled helplessly and said, "Do you know that Li Lisi has a crush on you, and she has a lot of hostility towards me?"

Su Zhong was taken aback: "I don't know."

Xin Qianyu sighed, he couldn't tell whether he was depressed or helpless.

Su Zhong felt that this statement was very disturbing, and he asked, "When did this start?"

Xin Qianyu replied: "From the first time I met her."

Su Zhong was shocked: "It's been so long? Then why didn't you tell me?"

Xin Qianyu was dumbfounded, and said for a while, "Because I always feel that you should know if I don't tell you..."

Su Zhong became more and more puzzled: "How would I know if you didn't tell me?"

Xin Qianyu smiled self-deprecatingly: "The little boy's thinking—you wouldn't know if I didn't tell you? That's because you never planned to understand me? If you really cared, how could you not know?" Said With that, Xin Qianyu shrugged, stepped out of her emotions and looked back, realizing that she was naive enough back then.

Su Zhong was confused by this series of rhetorical questions.

Su Zhong said depressedly: "I really don't know you very well, and I don't know what you like..."

Xin Qianyu shook her head: "Forget it, it's meaningless to say that."

"But I don't think you understand me either." Su Zhong said suddenly.

"Huh?" Xin Qianyu was taken aback.

"Do you know what I like best?" Su Zhong asked suddenly.

"Modeling? Analysis?..." Xin Qianyu frowned, "Mathematics?"

"No," Su Zhong replied seriously, "I like you the most."

"..." Xin Qianyu's consciousness trembled as if being passed by an electric current.

"Look, you don't know, is it because you don't care about me and don't like me that you don't understand me?" Su Zhong began to talk about logic seriously again, "No, it's just because I didn't say it. Do you agree? "

Xin Qianyu was a little dizzy from the phrase "I like you the most", so she nodded.

Su Zhong also nodded with satisfaction: "So, I will tell you more about my thoughts in the future. I hope you will also tell me more about what you like and what you don't like."

Xin Qianyu's mind was inexplicably wavering.

But Su Zhong glanced at his watch and said, "Okay, the appointment time is up, I want to see the next client, if you have nothing to do, you can go back first."

Xin Qianyu's lingering wavering disappeared in an instant: "Oh, good."

After speaking, Xin Qianyu turned around and left.

After Su Zhong received the guests and finished his official business, he planned to deal with his private affairs.He finally realized that Xin Qianyu didn't like Li Lisi, so Su Zhong thought that in the future, he would be in charge of the jade carving business, and he would probably go to Asia often.If Li Lisi was there, Xin Qianyu would not be happy.

For this reason, Su Zhong went to the big boss's office to discuss: "I want to transfer Li Lisi, the HRD of the Asia-Pacific headquarters."

"Transfer?" the big boss asked, "Where will you be transferred?"

Su Zhong said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, where there is me, there cannot be Li Lisi."

"I understand what you mean." The big boss nodded.

Su Zhong left.

The big boss immediately called his assistant and said, "Go and fire Li Lisi, the HRD from the Asia-Pacific headquarters."

The assistant nodded in confirmation, and immediately went to work, but secretly said sorry for Li Lisi.

Li Lisi's future is in doubt.A clerical worker was fired when he was in his 30s. If he wanted to find a job again, the pressure and resistance were very high.

Unemployment hits middle-class Americans like Li Lisi very hard.

The medical insurance is gone, and the mortgage must continue to be paid.

But re-employment has become very difficult, especially since she has become accustomed to living in an office and rarely working overtime but earning an annual salary of tens of thousands.She couldn't imagine what it would be like to be unemployed.Now that the economy is bad and the unemployment rate is too high, when she sees the news about "the middle class is unemployed, and now they drive a Mercedes-Benz to receive relief" with a million-dollar salary in the past, she always gives cheap sympathy, "It's so pitiful", but she still has a feeling in her heart. I don't care about it in a leisurely way, feeling that all this is far away from me.

Only now did she know that she was about to become a member of the unemployed army, and panic instantly overwhelmed her like a tide.

And Su Zhong didn't know about all this.He went to work as usual, went to a familiar coffee shop for lunch, and when he looked up, he saw a haggard Li Lisi walking towards him.

Li Lisi said with tears in her eyes: "I don't know where I offended you? Aren't we friends? Why did you ask the company to fire me? Is there any misunderstanding and you can't talk about it?"

Su Zhong was a little surprised: "I didn't let the company fire you. I just said that I don't want to work with you anymore."

Li Lisi swallowed, feeling startled and frightened: "What's the difference between saying that and saying you want to fire me?"

Li Lisi smiled wryly, and said, "You really... don't you know that you are already a big shot who can put others to death with just a word?"

"Of course I know." Su Zhong answered calmly and took it for granted.

Li Lisi choked for a moment, with tears in her eyes: "What happened? Why don't you want to work with me? Aren't we friends?"

"No." Su Zhong was still indifferent, "Xiaoyu will be unhappy."

Li Lisi understood in an instant, her heart hurt like a crack: "Is he jealous? I... I am really innocent, think about it, I know you are gay, how could that be?" ..."

"I don't want to think about it, and I don't understand." Su Zhong thought he was not good at analyzing these methods, "Xiaoyu said you are, and you are."

Li Lisi felt sore in her heart: "Aren't you worried that this is wronging me?"

"I'm not worried." Su Zhong said with his usual indifference.

Li Lisi seemed to realize only now that Su Zhong was an extremely indifferent person who lacked the ability to empathize.

I don't know if it's innate or the influence of the day after tomorrow. Su Zhong's feelings are not only not full, but also very dry.His heart can produce only about as many emotions as a glass of water.Even if he sprinkled a little here and a little there, it would be very rare, and it would be dried by the wind in an instant.

However, no one expected that Su Zhong would give Xin Qianyu all of this full glass of water.

Since this glass of water was given to Xin Qianyu, it is natural that there will be no drop of it for others.

Su Zhong also has no feelings for Li Lisi, and occasionally he can be kind, which is just social etiquette.

Li Lisi's face instantly turned ashen as if her blood had been emptied.

She has never been so embarrassed for a moment, she feels that she is really pitiful and ridiculous.

She spent so much thought and scheming, thinking that she was already very close to Su Zhong's heart, that she was no longer an ordinary colleague in Su Zhong's heart.However, reality slapped her hard.

Perhaps, Li Lisi should have woken up early in the morning, and she should have withdrawn when Su Zhong refused to enter.But the emotional investment made her more and more irrational, the more she invested, the more reluctant to leave.Even if someone pursued her once in a while, as long as she looked at Su Zhi, she would feel that the suitor was unsightly.Because Su Zhong is so outstanding, Li Lisi always thinks that she can win the moon first when she looks at him who is close at hand, so naturally she looks down on others.

It wasn't until this moment that she deeply understood that the so-called "the moon is the first to be near the water" is actually just a dream.