midsummer night

After living with Lu Chengfeng, He Xiyuan's deliberate humility and flattery towards his colleagues and boss also began to weaken rapidly.Even though the relationship between the two is unclear, Lu Chengfeng's company met his most basic food and sexual needs, filled his vacancy for many years, and relieved his anxiety of living in the northern capital.

But emotionally, he still didn't expect too much. Lu Chengfeng looked indifferent most of the time, and his life was extremely regular. Except for weekends, he usually didn't spend much time with him.

On weekends, he and Lu Chengfeng lived in the villa. The housekeeper tidied up the separate study room, and he brought in some frequently used clothes.Except for the first few weekends when they couldn't help but have sex together, sometimes He Xiyuan just stayed in the room to sleep, or read a book or watched a movie with the cat in his arms.

But this was enough for some people to discover that the relationship between him and Lu Chengfeng was extraordinary, and there were detailed rumors in the work and social circles.

There are many people around to please him, some even wanted to introduce their Omega child to Lu Chengfeng, and gave He Xiyuan many gifts, making him dumbfounded.Later, he returned the gift to the other party, saying that everything was a misunderstanding, and he didn't have that much face to be a matchmaker for Mr. Lu.

If He Xiyuan wanted to use his relationship with Lu Chengfeng, he might be able to achieve many benefits.But he is not as smooth as the money circle in Beijing, and the interpersonal relationship that pleases each other is also tiring for him, so he doesn't want to perform at all.

He didn't want to be used by others because of his relationship with Lu Chengfeng, nor did he want to be a channel for power exchange between others and Lu Chengfeng.

But he couldn't avoid some compliments. For example, because of his pivotal contribution to the gold mine project, Zhu Ping said in front of several senior executives at a private dinner: "If it wasn't for Xiao He, Mr. Lu might not have negotiated the business so quickly. It's done."

When he heard such words, he didn't shirk or answer the other party's words. He just raised his glass to these executives and drank the wine in the glass.

After the meal, Jianling executives wanted to leave Beidu to discuss projects in other mines, so they asked the driver to drive directly to the airport.

He Xiyuan still maintains the means of transportation he used to go to work, and rarely asks the driver to pick him up and go to get off work.Even if there was a dinner in the evening, because his boss and colleagues were there, he didn't ask the driver to pick him up to avoid suspicion, and walked to the subway station with Gao Qingnian after the meal.

Gao Qingnian was a little drunk, and the recent projects finally had some clues. He naturally got a commission, and he didn't have to worry about being eliminated by the group due to substandard performance within two years.

After Jianling's top executives built a capital empire, their appetite remained the same as in the early years. They wanted both high-quality projects and cheap prices.This caused headaches for analysts like He Xiyuan and intermediary negotiators like Gao Qingnian.

The price will drop when it is cheap, and there is no pie in the sky. This is a simple reason. The CEO of Jianling picked up a few bargains in the early years, and then managed it well. Carve up, there is not much left.This is probably the reason why Lu Chengfeng did not agree to sell the gold mine to Jianling until the end.

Gao Qingnian regrets this very much. After all, Jianling only makes strategic investments, and his performance is nothing more than the rise and fall of stocks.If the acquisition is successful, he can even participate in the future operation of the gold mine, and his cooperation with Lu Chengfeng will be further improved, and he will show his face in front of Jianling's senior management.

Whenever I think of this, I always want to sigh after getting drunk.His usual decent middle-aged elite appearance began to collapse from the corners, and the smell of alcohol came from his body and mouth.

Gao Qingnian and He Xiyuan walked side by side on the street. The city looks better at night than during the day. The light shines from the square glass office window, like a glass box illuminated by white light. young people.

Gao Qingnian chatted about the project after the end, and suddenly approached He Xiyuan and said, "You can ask Mr. Lu to introduce you to people you know in the industry. At least get close to him. You don't need his resources for nothing."

He Xiyuan replied: "It is natural to know people, but seniors will not regard everyone they know as resources or projects. He is not that kind of person."

Gao Qingnian suddenly smiled: "Xiao He, sometimes it's good to see you feel young, you don't worry about anything, you don't need to know anything."

He Xiyuan: "It's true not to worry, I will always know what I need to know."

Gao Qingnian: "Then do you know that when Mr. Lu asked Mr. Zhu about your name and position, Mr. Zhu took care to introduce you to him?"

He Xiyuan felt a pause in his heart, and the cool night breeze poured in from his collar.

Gao Qingnian seemed to be getting more and more drunk: "What a great opportunity, I also said that you are the one I recruited, and you have good academic qualifications. Lu Chengfeng can understand that he likes you, but he is rushing to send you to him." It's a bit of a sham."

He Xiyuan asked calmly, "What does it mean to send it to him?"

Gao Qingnian: "Mr. Lu asked me for your resume. Hey, there were several high-level meetings later. Only Mr. Zhu and I went, and you were not there. Mr. Lu glanced in our direction and nodded. Head, expressionless, not very happy looking at it, not the same as when you were here."

Then he laughed idiotically, and continued: "Xiao He is lucky. If I have such an acquaintance, I will work on a few more projects quickly, and then I will be able to retire early."

Gao Qingnian went on to say: "Mr. Zhu has thought about it for a long time. You said that it is not easy for us to recruit someone, right? He has taken up all the money, power and capital. In the future, if we have something with Mr. Lu, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it fails. Introduce the project."

He Xiyuan didn't know how he got back.He was lying on the bed in his room looking at the ceiling, two days before the weekend, he needed to ask Lu Chengfeng what Zhu Ping and Gao Qingnian gave him.

Towards the end of the year, there are more parties and dinners.He Xiyuan doesn't like crowded and noisy places, and most of the friends' gatherings he attends have less than ten people.

He has lived alone for a long time, and he has developed a dull feeling, even paying Lu Chengfeng's monthly rent is an almost persistent persistence.His bottom line is that if he needs to move out one day, at least he can negotiate a date decently for paying the rent.

And since he heard what Gao Qingnian said after he was drunk, he inadvertently asked how credible Lu Chengfeng's words about Gao Qingnian were when he was drunk.

After hearing this, Lu Chengfeng replied directly: "Zhu Ping said that you have been working in Jianju for two years, and I asked you about the business you are responsible for at work."

Of course, Lu Chengfeng also checked other information, for example, He Xiyuan applied to the same investment bank where Lu Chengfeng worked at that time a year before graduating from university, but for various reasons did not receive an interview.When Lu Chengfeng went to North America last month, he also called He Xiyuan's school by the way.

Lu Chengfeng said: "I do have your resume, and this information is also public on other websites. Sometimes I think, if I had the chance to meet in college, maybe we would have been together very early."

Hearing Lu Chengfeng's conclusion, He Xiyuan paused, and replied with a smile: "If it wasn't for the estrus period, the senior is just my alumni and client now."

Lu Chengfeng didn't speak.

Apart from shyness, He Xiyuan was deliberately avoiding him.Not just avoiding him as a person, but avoiding his calls, messages, gland marks, and their relationship.

He found that Omega could always find various places to hide: in his arms, the quilt close to the edge of the bed at night, the bedroom next door on weekdays, and the office after get off work in the evening.Lu Chengfeng knew that he was hiding from him, but he didn't know the specific reason.

When he was by his side, He Xiyuan was all normal, talking and laughing, occasionally looking up at himself.

But He Xiyuan was extremely silent in the room or in the garden alone, sitting with the cat in his arms, stroking the thick golden-gray fur with his hands.I went out alone on weekends, and sat on an outdoor seat in the business district to read a book all afternoon, with a bowl of taro ball jelly in front of me.

The driver and the housekeeper told him these details, and He Xiyuan didn't even tell him where he went.

In the evening, when He Xiyuan came home and saw Lu Chengfeng sitting on the sofa in the living room, he smiled at him, sat beside him and said a few words about what he had seen in the afternoon, then went back to his room and did not come out before dinner.

He Xiyuan even knew how many cafeterias and Eating Clubs there were on the campus where he was studying, but he knew nothing about He Xiyuan.

The farther the other party is from him, the more he wants to go further.

He Xiyuan didn't even mention his family very often, this information was found by Lu Chengfeng additionally.Of course, he will not tell He Xiyuan for the time being that there is no malice in checking his background, he just wants to know more about his future partner in advance.

Lu Chengfeng had never imagined what his future partner would look like before, and he even thought it would be okay if he didn't have a partner.But when he looked at He Xiyuan, he suddenly realized that everything about him was just right, from the matching of pheromones to the slightly alienated personality.

In Lu Chengfeng's memory of middle school, Xia Dao's years were just a vague shadow in his memory.His life is full of bizarre scenes, and it is his mother's hometown, not his.

The flight back to Europe every summer and winter is his way home. Xiadao’s step-by-step and monotonous life is not much different from European boarding schools. The unplanned accident is a pheromone matching value.

He got that value at random, but soon forgot about it.In the past ten years, he occasionally thought of this number, although he had forgotten what kind of person the other person was.

Judging from the vague memory, apart from the environment he lived in when he was young, his self-esteem when he was young, and the so-called right age to do the right thing, He Xiyuan and him are probably a good match.

Even though the reunion after so many years and the opportunity to be together came very suddenly, even though He Xiyuan likes to live alone and has absolute requirements for privacy and space; even though his lover usually closes the door, he is only willing to move to him on weekends when he doesn’t work much He stayed in his villa for a day or two, and he still felt that He Xiyuan was very suitable for him.