she's not at ease

Luo Yao didn't give Lu Yi any chance to refute, unless Lu Yi himself admitted that there were no important documents to sign at all, and all of this was just a tentative hook thrown by her.

Of course Lu Yi wouldn't do that.

So inexplicably, she could go home and rest directly after the departmental dinner, but now she has to pay a little rest time for her "probing" behavior.

Lu Yi began to think about which document she should take up for signature so as not to be judged.

She didn't realize that her resistance to Luo Yao had begun to gradually decrease unconsciously, especially when she almost mistook other people for him just now.

Although Luo Yao didn't know about this matter, Lu Yi still felt a little guilty.

All the accumulation made Lu Yi completely unable to feel any resistance to tonight's "unexpected" meeting.

After solving the last bit of doubt in her heart, when she returned to the table, Lu Yi finally stopped being absent-minded, and began to tentatively participate in the interaction with her subordinates.

A buffet meal was enjoyable, and at the end everyone took a group photo and sent it to the WeChat group, and many people took it to Moments.

Lu Yi was in a good mood, so she also sent the photo along with a short sentence.

It was a normal thing at first, but as soon as the status was sent out, I received an instant reminder of likes.

She clicked on it and found that it was Luo Yao's thumbs up.

It was obviously just a like, but Lu Yi stared at the phone interface for a long time... Seeing this like, she would think that she was having a lively dinner party, while Luo Yao was sitting alone in the office Work overtime while waiting for her to pass.

I don't know why, but I feel a little pitiful.

Until the voice of a person beside her brought her back from her thoughts.

"Director, in which direction are you going back?" Zhou Jia asked.

Behind her stood a group of colleagues who were planning how to go back.

When they came out of the shopping mall after dinner, they found that it started to rain outside. Not all the colleagues who came had a car, and it was difficult to get a taxi on a rainy day, so it is best for those who have a car to drop by. people take it back.

"I won't go back. I have something to go back to the company. You can discuss it yourself."

Lu Yi simply answered.

More than 20 minutes later, she parked the car on the side of the road downstairs of the company, and walked down holding an umbrella.

She first went back to her office to pick out a document that needed to be signed, and then took the elevator to the 24th floor where Luo Yao was.

In Lu Yi's vision, it's just a matter of signing, and the procedure should be very fast.

But who would have thought that when she arrived, she found that the lights in the president's office were brightly lit, and no one was there.

The computer screen on Luo Yao's desk was still on, but he didn't know where he was.

Standing abruptly in the empty office like this, Lu Yi was caught in a dilemma: should she sit down and wait for someone to come back, or should she lock the door and go out to wait.

Just when she was torn between the two options...

"Lu Yi."

Lu Yi was startled by a voice suddenly coming from the side and rear.

She turned around abruptly, only to see Luo Yao was standing by the door and looking towards herself: "When did you come, why didn't you make a phone call?"

Lu Yi wrinkled the tip of her nose: "Why do you..."

"I just went to the bathroom." As if knowing what the other party was going to ask, Luo Yao answered directly.

"Have you brought the papers?"

She stepped forward slowly and asked.

"Ah, here it is." Seeing Luo Yao mentioning the document so directly, Lu Yi didn't talk nonsense, and handed over the document in his hand.

Luo Yao seemed to have been waiting for a long time. After taking a cursory glance at the document, he picked up the gel pen on the table and signed his name on the document without delaying too long.

The words "dragon, flying and phoenix dancing" are as beautiful and majestic as she herself.

Lu Yi stood aside and stared at these two words, frowning silently.

In her memory, she vaguely saw the old "Luo Xin" pay the bill and sign when swiping the card at the counter. If I remember correctly, the font of "Luo Xin" is neat and elegant.

My thoughts started to run away again, and the feeling of something wrong in my heart resurfaced again.

until--

"Lu Yi."

"What's wrong with you, I called you twice."

Luo Yao's voice interrupted Lu Yi's thinking, and there was a slight doubt in her eyes, as if she didn't understand why Lu Yi could be distracted in just such a short time.

Lu Yi didn't intend to answer her question either.

She deliberately changed the topic: "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered that I might have to buy something on the way home."

"Mr. Luo, shall I go first?"

"and many more."

"It just so happens that my work is done, let's go together." Luo Yao stopped Lu Yi who was about to leave alone, turned off the computer, and walked out of the office together.

The bright lights in the office finally went out and fell into a silent darkness.

The two came to the elevator side by side and walked in together.

Lu Yi coped with Luo Yao's words word by word, not seeming to care too much.

She thought that it would only take less than half a minute to go from the 24th floor to the first floor, and she only needed to bear it for a while before parting ways with the other party.

But who knows things backfired.

Just as Lu Yi was staring at the number of elevator floors jumping and descending, the bright red number suddenly stuck at "10".

There was a loud bang, and the entire elevator suddenly shook because it stopped running.

The originally bright light suddenly became much dimmer.

The sudden change made the two have different reactions.

Luo Yao was frightened at first, and after recovering, he quickly pressed the emergency call button in the elevator.

After doing all this, she turned her head to care about Lu Yi's condition, but she saw that Lu Yi had already clenched the handrail behind him tightly against the wall of the stairs behind him, as if he was facing an enemy.

Such skilled elevator emergency evacuation movements seemed to have been practiced countless times.

In the quiet elevator, apart from the sound of the machine running stuttering, the rest is the amplified breathing of the two people.

It's not hard to see that Lu Yi's nerves are tense.

"Lu Yi?" Luo Yao tentatively called out to the other party.

Lu Yi didn't answer.

"Don't be afraid, someone will come soon." She tried to continue to comfort her, but these words seemed to touch a sensitive nerve in Lu Yi.

Lu Yi retorted stiffly, "I'm not afraid."

Luo Yao glanced at the other party's tightly clenched hands and tense body, and felt that these words were obviously not convincing.

It is really a shame to pretend that you are not afraid even though you are very scared.

Or maybe it was just to save face in front of him.

Luo Yao narrowed his eyes, but didn't open his mouth to reveal.

But the person had already moved a little closer to Lu Yi against the elevator wall.

Under the dim light, Lu Yi's long eyelashes trembled slightly, revealing her fear. Her mind went blank, and the news reports of her father's death kept appearing in her mind.

At this moment, a pair of cool hands held her.

"What are you doing?" Lu Yi quickly withdrew her hand, with an obvious expression of resistance on her face, "I said, I, it's nothing."

"I know."

"But I'm a little scared."

Feeling the resistance in Lu Yi's body, Luo Yao deliberately softened his tone.

It sounded a little aggrieved.

This made Lu Yi unable to hold back and began to feel annoyed at her overreaction just now. She pursed her lips and did not speak again.

After a while, Luo Yao stretched out his hand again in front of Lu Yi.

She stared seriously at Lu Yi's eyes, and stretched out her palm along the skin on the back of the opponent's hand, climbing up inch by inch until it completely covered the back of Lu Yi's hand, and then clenched it tightly.

This time, Lu Yi did not shake off.

Unexpectedly, after being held by the other party, she seemed to be less nervous, and the lingering fear in her heart was finally reduced.

And Luo Yao's voice sounded again at this time, the corners of her lips slightly raised under the not-so-bright light: "Now I'm not so afraid."