Liang Shi: "..."
That's not entirely unreasonable.
Zhou Li walked over and slapped the folder directly on her shoulder. "Finished your work? Gossiping so early in the morning. I'll take you to the advertising team."
Li Ran: "..."
She immediately slunk away.
Zhou Li left the article for the B edition of Entertainment Trends to Liang Shi to write, with the request that Liang Shi submit it as soon as possible, because Zhou Li needed more time to revise it.
Unless Liang Shi was so confident that he could get the draft approved on the first try.
Liang Shi knew that Zhou Li was training her, so she said happily, "Okay, Sister Li, I'll give it to you before I leave work today."
Zhou Li glanced at her, "There's no need to be in such a hurry."
Liang Shi just smiled, full of enthusiasm.
Zhou Li returned to her workstation, and Li Ran asked hesitantly, "Sister Li, is it okay if you give the manuscript to Xiao Liang? She has no experience at all."
"It's only five hundred words anyway," Zhou Li said. "Why don't you write it?"
Li Ran: "...Let Xiao Liang do it, let her get some experience."
Zhou Li glanced at Liang Shi, who had already started researching, and suddenly whispered, "We'll try anything, even if it's a hidden gem."
Li Ran chimed in, "I suddenly feel that Xiao Liang can do it."
Zhou Li: "?"
Li Ran: "The lives of rich heiresses are reduced to nothing more than entertainment gossip."
Zhou Li: "..."
Liang Shi spent the whole morning writing the manuscript, which was only five hundred words long, but he found it very difficult to write.
Because there are few words, every punctuation mark is especially important, not to mention the words themselves.
Although it only occupies a small portion of the page, the content it covers is quite complex, exploring the relationship between the entertainment industry and luxury goods.
Liang Shi spent the whole morning hammering and tinkering, only to realize later that he was a complete idiot.
One hundred and fifty cannot be used.
As lunchtime approached, she deleted sixty more words, leaving only forty.
She didn't turn off her computer and leave until everyone had lunch.
Li Ran asked her, "Xiao Liang, what are you having for lunch?"
"I'll go out to eat," Liang Shi said. "Sister Ran, you guys eat, don't worry about me."
Li Ran suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Should we go find your wife?"
Liang Shi: "...Yes."
So everyone gave them a teasing laugh, and they joked around with each other.
"Bring your wife with you next time you have a get-together."
"I didn't realize that our Xiao Liang is such a devoted and dutiful wife."
"Xiao Liang, hurry up and leave, don't pay them any attention."
"..."
Everyone burst into laughter, and Liang Shi left with his ears red.
Even after she left, everyone was still discussing it.
"You can't tell at all that Xiao Liang is a rich girl; she has no airs whatsoever."
"Yes, she's much friendlier now than when she first came to the magazine department."
"Especially compared to the previous rumors, he is completely different."
"Rumors stop with the wise."
"..."
//
Liang Shi drove directly to the restaurant he had arranged with Xu Qingzhu.
When she arrived, Sally and Cherry were there too, and Sally kept staring at her with a very deep gaze.
Feeling uncomfortable under his gaze, Liang Shi couldn't help but ask, "Sally, is there something on my face?"
“No,” Sally said. “Why did you come to eat near our company?”
Liang Shi: "...Supervise Xu Qingzhu."
Sally said matter-of-factly, "Cherry and I are fine too. Tell me, aren't you here for that mistress?"
Liang Shi: "?"
who?
Mistress?
She looked confused, and Xu Qingzhu coughed softly beside her to remind her, "Zhou Yi'an."
Liang Shi: "..."
Liang Shi, rubbing his forehead in exasperation, picked up a piece of sushi from the newly served bowl and placed it on Sally's plate. "Please, Sally, let me go. Don't ruin my reputation."
Sally steered the question back to its original point, "Then why did you come?"
And she analyzed with great conviction, "You don't come if the mistress doesn't come, but you rush over at noon every time the mistress comes. I wouldn't believe you if you said it wasn't for the mistress!"
"You're the mistress." Zhou Yi'an's voice suddenly rang out from behind, carrying a hint of gloom, startling Sally.
Lin Luoxi turned around, her tone provocative, "Were you called out?"
Zhou Yi'an clicked her tongue, "If you say these things in front of my darling, then you're obviously talking about me."
Liang Shi: "...Shut up."
She looked at Zhou Yi'an expressionlessly, while Zhou Yi'an glanced at her and then at Xu Qingzhu, saying, "My darling really knows how to care for people."
Liang Shi raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Haven't you gone crazy enough yet?"
Her tone of voice was nine-tenths similar to that night, and the smile on her face was the same as that night. Her eyes were filled with intense interest, as if to say—if you haven't gone crazy enough, then I'll go crazy with you one more time.
The fear of being pushed down by Liang Shi that night swept over her from the depths of her memory.
Zhou Yi'an clenched her fists at her sides. "Baby, I'm not crazy."
"Then shut up," Liang Shi said. "Stop disgusting me, or I won't be able to eat later."
Zhou Yi'an: "..."
She gave Liang Shi a deep look, then smiled and said, "Okay, you guys eat, I'm leaving."
After saying that, he looked at Sally and threatened her in English: "Watch your words in the future, and don't slander people."
Sally retorted, "But aren't you the one who interfered in someone else's marriage?! Blanche and Liang Shi are already married, what else can your behavior be but that of a mistress?"
Zhou Yi paused for two seconds, then said coldly, "Only those who successfully interfere are mistresses."
Sally: "?"
Zhou Yi'an sneered, "I was just teasing her at most."
Cherry: "..."
Lin Luoxi had just taken a sip of orange juice when she heard this, so she spat it out. Sally immediately handed her a tissue.
After wiping the water from the corner of her mouth, Lin Luoxi said, "You're quite self-aware."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhou Yi'an had already left.
She just came to get a box of sushi to go, and then went back to drawing.
Sally and Cherry both stared at Xu Qingzhu, but Xu Qingzhu didn't react at all. Even though the atmosphere between them and Zhou Yi'an had been so tense that they could have started a fight at any moment, Xu Qingzhu was completely unaffected. She ate six sushi pieces and was still drinking miso soup.
Sally: "You're so carefree."
Cherry: "Wolf Exterminates."
Xu Qingzhu raised an eyebrow, tore off a piece of paper to wipe the corner of her mouth, and said, "The group meeting is at two o'clock."
The two, who had been eating leisurely, immediately started eating.
However, Sally's large appetite didn't stop her from continuing to ask, "Liang Shi, is there really nothing between you and that Zhou Yi'an?"
Liang Shi said helplessly, "What could there be? I don't like her. Besides, I'm already married."
Sally asked, "So, who do you like?"
Liang Shi: "..."
She paused for two seconds, then answered vaguely, "Who you marry is who you like, right?"
Lin Luoxi put down her chopsticks halfway through her meal, saying, "That's nonsense."
Liang Shi: "..."
Otherwise, how should we say it?
“Don’t you like bamboo?” Sally said. “You can’t even say you like bamboo? OMG.”
"Yes," Liang Shi said. "The person I like is..."
"Alright," Xu Qingzhu interrupted her, trying to smooth things over. "Can't even a meal shut you up? If you don't eat, Liang Shi will."
Sally immediately became sarcastic, "We haven't even done anything to her yet, and you're already protecting her!"
Xu Qingzhu sat by the window, overlooking the towering CBD buildings. The windows were spotless, and the afternoon sunlight streamed in, falling on her.
She basked in the sun with her eyes half-closed, her tone cool and aloof, her speech slow but tinged with sarcasm: "You're protecting you, not my wife?"
Sally clutched her chest, expressing her sadness.
Xu Qingzhu casually replied, "Don't delay my wife's meal."
As she spoke, she used her chopsticks to pick up a piece of sushi for Liang Shi.