Chapter 65
As soon as the words came out, Song Jiao wanted to die.
She just wanted to tell Xu Jinchao that she hoped to walk hand in hand with her. Isn’t this a good hint?
Everything is perfectly conceived in my mind, first muster the courage, hold the person you want to touch, then look into the eyes of the other party, and whisper:
“Let’s hold hands.”
But in the first step, he was hit by Waterloo. He was so strong that he wanted to hijack someone by speeding.
Song Jiao had no relationship with embarrassment in the past, but now she has experienced firsthand what it means to bury her head in the sand and face the world after being stupid.
Fortunately, Xu Jinchao was really good at clearing sieges. After being surprised, she followed Song Jiao’s words and asked, “Do you want to take me to Kuaitong first?”
Kuaitong has been separated from the friend record since the project was established, and formed a team of its own, led by Yu Lan as the leader for development and follow-up operations, not mixed with the friend record.
It’s perfectly fine to understand that.
Song Jiao immediately said: “Yes, let’s go to Kuaitong’s office first, there is nothing to see in the cafeteria.”
She hid behind the proper reasons given by Xu Jinchao and pretended that she meant it, instead of doing the stupid act of being timid in the face of battle.
Xu Jinchao laughed: “Okay, you scared me just now.”
She was looking at the interior decoration of the park, when Song Jiao grabbed her palm, thinking that something had happened, or that she had accidentally done something inappropriate.
Song Jiao could be considered to be able to relax a little and not let her body become so stiff.
Although it had a bad start, but I could barely round it up, I did achieve my goal, didn’t I?
Desperately doing a psychological massage for herself, she felt the strength of Xu Jinchao’s gentle backhand.
Alpha didn’t seem to care too much about her erratic behavior, and gave her feedback as trustingly as she had done countless times before.
As soon as the predicament passed, Song Jiao couldn’t help but feel complacent at her past actions of narrowing the distance between the two and making Xu Jinchao accustomed to it, which was undoubtedly prescient.
However, the bliss didn’t last long, Song Jiaolaxu turned to the South Corner Tower where Kuaitong was located.
After she got out of the previous panic, the small piece of skin that was touching the other’s palm was gradually heating up on its own.
His heart seemed to move from his chest to his fingertips, pulsing for no reason at every inadvertent little friction.
She was clearly a guide, but she didn’t dare to move her fingers in Xu Jinchao’s palm.
At first, there was a little fear in this burning heat, but then the anxiety faded away, and there was joy and a little shyness mixed with it.
This is also an emotion Song Jiao has rarely felt.
She and Xu Jinchao walked hand in hand many times, but after realizing what she liked, they suddenly had a different meaning, and she didn’t dare to face the embarrassment of the people around her.
The feeling is indescribable, it is both sour and sweet, making people feel heart palpitations in happiness.
Although my heart is filled with the sweet and sour syrup mixed with honey and lemon, and I can taste the complex and changeable, not pure sweetness on the tongue, I am still reluctant to really let it go, and I would rather be sad and happy like this.
How good, Song Jiao thought, she was willing to pay a small price for this sweetness.
If the side effect of loving someone is just the current sourness and shyness, she can continue to like Xu Jinzao for the rest of her life, throbbing for the people around her until the moment her heart stops beating.
She felt that she had really changed beyond recognition, and actively overturned the past rules one by one, just to make a wider place in her heart, so that her secret lover could occupy more of her heart.
But what about this, the happiness she feels now is stronger than it has been in many years before, and she is reluctant to return to the original peaceful world.
After a while, Song Jiao finally accepted her new position and holding hands with Alpha under this premise.
She is really a person who is quite good at adapting to the environment. She just wanted to get used to paying the price for one-sided love. Now she has driven away the shyness that accompanied her, and she can enjoy the happiness with confidence.
She was no longer like a little wooden man who was holding her hand, but gave a soft and enthusiastic response, spreading her fingers that were rarely hot, turning the simple handshake into an active interlocking of fingers.
Xu Jinchao’s eyes were drawn back to Song Jiao again by this change, and he looked down slightly.
Song Jiao gave her a smile and felt very happy. She seemed to have found a little trick about how to show her love naturally and gently, and gave hints.
Omega finally regained his courage.
Xu Jinchao didn’t quite understand the source of Song Jiao’s various abnormal behaviors today.
She also smiled at Song Jiao and let the other party upgrade the hand to be more intimate.
The new park of Friends Records is composed of several low-rise buildings with a large area. The office where Kuaitong is located is located in the south corner of the park, and two buildings connected by a corridor are separately used for independent use.
Xu Jinchao found that the color of the outer wall of the Kuaitong Building was significantly different from that of the friend’s record, with blue and gray as the main body, which is the color matching of the Kuaitong software logo.
Song Jiao said: “The exterior wall was painted later. There must be a distinction. After all, it is an independent team. This is also Yu Lan’s suggestion.”
Walking into the building, the partitions here are basically made of glass. Xu Jinchao guessed that the same is true for Yulan’s office. After Song Jiao was annoyed, she vowed to shovel her privacy film.
The employees who met the two greeted Song Jiao one after another. The latter was in a good mood and smiled back at them without hesitation.
After walking away, the crowd began to talk.
“Mr. Song seems to be very happy today. She smiles so beautifully, much gentler than us, ahem.”
“The Alpha beside her is a little familiar, what’s the relationship with President Song?”
“Your news is outdated enough, Madam Boss. Mr. Song’s Alpha wife, Xu Jinchao, who founded Omnicom, is also one of our shareholders.”
“This love show…”
“Stop chatting, be careful, and let the boss know that you’re done.”
“She’s basically out of the office… well.”
After a short gossip, the Kuaitong people who gathered together to exchange news immediately scattered in an invisible threat named Yutouer.
The head of the family, Yu Lan, is so pretty, so beautiful, so skilled, and a cold face with a knife and thorns is really scary. Occasionally, she sneers like she wants to eat a child, and no one wants to touch her bad head.
The newcomer who was transferred from the friend record last time joked about the title of ‘Yutouer’, saying that the boss of your fast pass sounded very sweet.
As a result, Yu Lan’s car broke down within a few days, and the newcomer foolishly said that he could take her home by the way, and seeing each other the next day had become chilling, more cowardly than anyone else, this kind of intimidation was simply terrible.
Song Jiao and Xu Jinchao got on the elevator and went to the third floor where Yu Lan’s office was.
Unsurprisingly, the partition style on the third floor is the same as that on the ground floor. They are all large panoramic glass, and the logo decoration of Kuaitong can be seen everywhere.
Yu Lan’s office is in the southeast corner, with floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides and partition walls on both sides.
Unlike other office cubicles with semi- or no anti-privacy stickers, the glass wall of Yulan’s room is covered with a thick frosted anti-peep film from head to toe, and the door seam is also blocked by windproof strips. You cannot see the people inside from the outside.
Song Jiao let go of Xu Jinchao’s hand, walked to the door, winked at Alpha, and beckoned her to follow.
Xu Jinchao immediately understood that the wicked kitten was going to tease Yu Lan.
Standing behind Song Jiao, she saw Omega tap the door three times with her knuckles.
After a while, Yu Lan’s cold voice faintly came from inside: “Come in.”
Just listening to this voice can’t tell anything out of the ordinary, it seems to be the attitude of the boss who is stern and stern to report to the employees.
Xu Jinchao lowered his head and leaned into Song Jiao’s ear, teasing with a chuckle, “I thought she would lock the door backwards.”
Song Jiao was swept to the pinna by her small laughing breath, and felt that the ear and half of her cheek were starting to heat up, her body felt tense, and she forced herself to relax.
She rolled her pupils and glanced at Alpha with a slightly reproachful look, her drooping eyes shimmering with grievances.
Xu Jinchao didn’t understand why Song Jiao looked at herself like this for a while, but he kept silent in this strange glance.
She stopped, but when she watched Omega drop her long eyelashes again, covering her bright and dark pupils, she felt a little inexplicable touch and love at the tip of her heart.
Xu Jinchao didn’t have time to think about it, Song Jiao had already twisted the metal door handle and pushed the glass door open.
The interior of Yu Lan’s office is the same as other partitions, and the area is even smaller. Song Jiao mentioned it to her on the way, and this socialist feels that a narrower room is more secure.
The same is true for choosing the position where the floor-to-ceiling windows are attached to the outer wall on both sides, so that she will not feel surrounded by people and gain a little psychological comfort.
Next to the glass door of the office, there is a small reclining chair with the words ‘Please put it here! ’.
Xu Jinchao almost laughed out loud. Although Song Jiao mentioned that Yu Lan asked the staff who helped her deliver lunch or important documents to put things at the door, she still couldn’t help laughing when she saw the bold characters and exclamation marks on the printing paper. meaning.
Yu Lan, her true character remains unchanged.
If not necessary, social activities can be as little as possible.
She followed Song Jiao into the office, turned her eyes to the interior, and found that Yu Lan’s desk was placed in the corner of the wall farthest from the door, which was undoubtedly a very strange position.
The long curtain of the floor-to-ceiling window behind the desk was pulled to the edge of the desk, but Xu Jinchao clearly remembered that no movement inside could be seen from the glass wall. It was probably due to Yu Lan’s psychological sense of being peeped that she had to use the curtains on her body. Hide away, cut off from the outside world.
The computer screen and acrylic bezel covered most of Yulan’s body, and only the female Alpha’s soft leather hat over her hair and her right hand holding the mouse could be seen from the door.
Xu Jinchao had to sigh with emotion, Yu Lan really carried out her resistance to the end, and wished she could write it in big letters and wear it on her body.
Song Jiao closed the office door, hooked Xu Jinchao’s finger, and walked briskly towards Vice President Yu.
It was only when Xu Jinchao was close to the desk that he could see Yu Lan’s face clearly. The other party’s eyes were fixed on the computer screen, and he didn’t give it to the visitor at all. Those who didn’t know it might think it was the habitual indifference of the boss.
The two of them were standing in front of her, and the female Alpha with a beautiful and tired face still didn’t show any peripheral vision.
“What’s up?”
This kind of turning a blind eye is very good. Song Jiao tapped on the table and said in a serious tone, “We have guests.”
Yu Lan raised her eyes from the front of the screen, Xu Jinchao finally laughed, and Song Jiao also showed a smile.
Yu Lan, who was still cold just now, complained loudly in laughter: “Ah, I knew it!”
She lay back.
“My subordinates never enter the door without speaking. It’s too much. Xu Jinchao, you don’t care about Song Jiao!”
The three of them have known each other for so long, and now Yu Lan is relatively relaxed in front of Song Jiao and Xu Jinchao, and will not be as tense and reticent as before.
Song Jiao said innocently, “It was Xu Jinchao’s idea.”
Yu Lan didn’t believe it: “What a joke, only you have so many bad intentions to scare people.”
Xu Jinchao was still laughing, and Song Jiao added:
“At least Xu Jinchao didn’t stop me.”
Just now, Yu Lan was disturbed by the knock on the door, thinking that she had something to deal with by herself, but now she doesn’t bother (mainly because she can’t) to bother with Song Jiao.
She turned to accusing Xu Jinchao: “You partnered with your wife to bully me. It’s terrible, you’ve been broken by her.”
Xu Jinchao stopped her laughter, she apologized to Yu Lan with a smile: “I was wrong, please forgive me.”
Yu Lan had no resistance to her honest friend’s apology, and muttered, “It’s not good for Song Jiao to make trouble with me.”
She rubbed her frightened face.
“I haven’t asked yet, why are you here? Aren’t you recuperating?”
Xu Jinchao looked at Song Jiao, who spread his hands: “She is a hard worker, and she can’t be idle at home. I’ll just let her come to my friends to record and play, at least she can breathe a different air.”
Yu Lan didn’t think the air recorded by her friend was good to breathe. Every inch was filled with tension, and the rhythm was so fast that she was very jealous of Song Jiao’s ability to bring her wife to work.
“It’s not fair, why can Song Jiao bring anyone to the company, and I want to bring my sister with me too!”
Song Jiao smiled slightly: “Xu Jinchao is my specially appointed consultant to the president. The expenses are deducted from my salary. The position is for your reference, as long as you can convince Sister Qin.”
This is obviously unrealistic. Qin Lingyue temporarily took over the position of CEO of Wantong, and shared the heavy work that used to belong to Xu Jinchao with Jiang Chao, Lin Qi, Wang Xiaoqian and others.
Qin Lingyue has a high degree of love and a sense of belonging to the company she and many partners have built together. It is impossible for her to come to her friends to record paddling water. It is better to expect the sun to rise from the west and milk rain in the sky.
Yu Lan was dazed. She collapsed in the office chair and prayed with half of her soul: “Xu Jinchao, hurry up and get healthy.”
Xu Jinchao smiled: “I accept your auspicious words.”
After Song Jiao had persecuted her poor vice president, she was content and led her beautiful sweetheart away. Yu Lan muttered behind her, “Let’s go, at least leave me alone.”
Song Jiao’s office is located in the main building of the park.
Slightly different from the large-scale panoramic glass decoration in the Kuaitong Building, the partition walls on the top floor of the main building are more commonly partitioned with ordinary plaster.
This was already decorated before renting this park. Because we were in a hurry to move in, we didn’t dismantle and re-install it, and the Kuaitong side was still empty at the time. Now it’s the effect of Yulan’s team decorating it before.
Song Jiao led Xu Jinchao to her office, saying it was an office, but it was actually a suite.
In addition to the office area after entering the door, there is a lounge and a toilet. The lounge is equipped with sofas and beds. You can take a nap here at noon, or sleep when you can’t go home after working overtime.
Xu Jinchao noticed the easel erected in the corner of the office, Song Jiao said lightly, “Let the assistant bring it here in the morning.”
Song Jiao only mentioned to Xu Jinchao last night that she wanted her to come to the friend’s record. This morning, she had prepared all the painting tools that Alpha could draw and enjoy.
She said to Xu Jinchao, “I don’t understand this either, so I just let people buy it. Try it out and see if it works.”
Xu Jinchao was moved by Song Jiao’s thoughtfulness, and didn’t think there was anything wrong with the easel, but he still went to sit in front of the easel obediently.
Her angle was just diagonally facing Song Jiao’s solid wood desk. There were no common decorations such as bookshelves or antique shelves behind the desk, but a huge whiteboard on which Song Jiao could turn around and write something at any time.
This simple and casual decoration design is definitely not from the hands of serious designers, it can only be Song Jiao’s own request.
In fact, although this office is not small in size, it is not decorated and filled with great care. Except for the desk, the drinking fountain, and the small tea table by the window, it is the easel that belongs to Xu Jinchao.
After Omega turned to the desk, the large and comfortable leather chair was seated with a smiling woman in power.
There is no need for formal clothes and makeup to show elite status. The long hair that is cut short to the shoulders is braided from the temples and pulled behind the ears. This elf-like beautiful face stares at himself. All this casualness and freedom are undoubtedly in the bottom of my heart. The epitome of true confidence.
Song Jiao said, “I’m going to start work. If you’re bored here, you can go out for a walk. You can also see the park here. It covers a large area and has many interesting facilities. I also have spare computers in the lounge. Do you think? Anything is fine.”
This was actually her remark. Song Jiao hoped that Xu Jinchao could stay by her side, in this office, where she could see.
But she also knew that she should not fix the position of Alpha based on her own preferences, and the other party was not a decorative object that could swing at will.
Although Song Jiao was selfish and wanted Xu Jinchao to be closer to her, she encouraged her to come to the Friends Record, but she wanted Xu Jinchao to have a good time, and she didn’t want the other party to be unhappy for even a minute.
But she heard Xu Jinchao answer briskly: “If you don’t go out, I won’t be bored with you.”
Song Jiao’s simple words sounded more pleasant than the sounds of nature. Omega couldn’t help but smile, and felt that he was a little silly to laugh so easily, so he tried his best to suppress the smile.
Xu Jinchao really felt that being with Song Jiao would be fulfilling, and this was as satisfying to her as the struggle at Wanwantong.
Especially after falling ill, she clearly felt that her mental state was declining along with her body, which to a certain extent was more unbearable than physical weakness.
She began to become unbearable to be alone and lonely, eager to gain warmth in the crowd, to feel the value of existence, and the person who can give her the most sense of security is undoubtedly Song Jiao.
Xu Jinchao was actually a little shameless about her secret thoughts, especially when she saw Song Jiao coming back with a rose, the fear of being abandoned immediately rose in her heart.
At that time, along with the thought of how to accept it with ease, there was also a strong obsession to leave the other party behind at any cost.
The latter kind of thinking is immoral, because Xu Jinchao knows better than anyone (even Song Jiao) that her marriage with Omega is not based on mutual affection, let alone a stable and healthy emotional relationship in the normal concept.
If Song Jiao really has suitors that she can readily accept, Xu Jinchao should bless them.
After all, she regards the other party as her spiritual support. Her Jiaojiao is also a person with independent thoughts. She should be happy that she has finally found a good partner, instead of thinking selfishly and darkly about how to keep her by her side.
She probably never thought about the possibility of Song Jiao leaving her, so she was afraid when she suddenly thought about it.
Xu Jinchao had the urge to reveal the truth for a moment, and she wanted to make it clear to Song Jiao.
She is not [Xu Jinchao], she is a strange soul living here alone, and she has never been able to let go of everything to truly integrate, and go around, the only truly strong bond with this world is Song Jiao.
Song Jiao was very different from before, if she really said it, maybe Omega would choose to stay.
Accompanying this weak her, she clearly said that she didn’t need to reciprocate, but she wanted to take the slightest kindness and ask the other party not to leave.
Fortunately, things didn’t go in the bad direction she imagined, and Song Jiao even bought the bunch of flowers, so it was awkward to give them to herself.
Xu Jinchao breathed a sigh of relief, but he really realized that the fragile side in his heart was still there, and it might have developed into a somewhat abnormal state unknowingly.
The longer she lived here, the deeper the imprint she made, and the deeper the estrangement she faced.
This is not a conflict. The more people accept Xu Jinchao’s image of [Xu Jinchao], the more she knows that she is not [Xu Jinchao], and the more she misses the world that belongs to her true self.
This feeling of being disconnected and connected is terrible, and she has no one to talk to about what she is thinking, so she can only bury it deep and let it spread.
Only when she is with Song Jiao can Xu Jinchao truly relax instead of paralyzing herself. It is difficult for her to describe the difference, but she does feel at ease in coexistence with Omega.
Song Jiao has a meeting in the morning to discuss the future development prospects of Kuaitong.
When she returned to the office, she saw Xu Jinchao sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking out, looking at the back as if in a daze.
Song Jiao called her softly, “Xu Jinchao?”
Xu Jinchao turned back and saw a familiar figure standing at the door. Song Jiao was smiling at herself: “Let’s go, I ordered a restaurant nearby.”
Only then did Xu Jinchao realize that it was noon.
She picked up her mood, got up and walked towards Song Jiao.
When they were side by side, Omega took the initiative to grab her palm. This movement was much more gentle and natural, not the hasty tugging in the morning.
Xu Jinchao also gained support from the grip of this cool little hand, and finally became happy again, feeling that the future is still worth looking forward to.
Song Jiao ordered this restaurant to be one of several on Yu Lan’s recommended list, and she chose it because it was closest to the friend list.
The environment of the restaurant is very quiet, playing light and soothing music.
After the two finished ordering, because everything went smoothly, Song Jiao was in a very good mood.
She unfolded the napkin and sketched on it with a water pen, two grotesque ugly figures holding hands.
Xu Jinchao couldn’t help asking: “What did you draw?”
Song Jiao proudly showed her the stick figure and said, “Draw me and you.”
Xu Jinchao had already experienced the baptism of Song Jiao’s painting skills, she laughed, took the napkin of excellent quality, and looked at it carefully.
Perhaps because the content of the painting was about her and Song Jiao, Xu Jinchao didn’t think the painting style was ugly, but instead saw a somewhat unique style.
Intrigued, she asked Song Jiao for the fountain pen, carefully marked the names of the two under the villain, and showed it to Song Jiao.
Song Jiao’s expression was a little tangled. Xu Jinchao couldn’t understand what was wrong with her, so she couldn’t help but ask again: “Is there any problem?”
Song Jiao said, “Well, you marked our two names upside down.”
Xu Jinchao: “…”
She didn’t believe it, and pointed at the slightly taller man: “Isn’t this me?”
Song Jiao said, “I want to be the taller one in the painting. Anyway, I’m already shorter than you in reality.”
Because Song Jiao really didn’t draw any important physical features, the two villains were equally ugly except one was tall and the other was short, and I really couldn’t tell who was who.
Xu Jinchao didn’t expect her to be so naive, she would be a tall person in the painting, and she was a little dumbfounded.
Song Jiao murmured, “Okay, if it’s wrong, it’s wrong.”
She picked up the fountain pen and began to sketch another villain on the napkin.
Xu Jinchao looked at Omega’s seriously lowered eyelashes, she suddenly said, “Song Jiao?”
Song Jiao stopped and looked up.
“We…will always be together, right?”
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The author has something to say:
Jiaojiao (honest): I wish I could lock you up.