CH 74.1

Shen Zhen woke up in Qin Xing’s arms. He laid on the bed. Clearly, he should get up and wash up at this time, but he just didn’t want to move. He had never procrastinated in bed before. Shen Zhen turned over, the tip of his nose surrounded in Qin Xing’s scent. If he had to say it, he couldn’t describe what it was like, but it smelled very good.

It smelled so good he became hard, so he could only get up, go to the bathroom to wash up, and stay in the bathroom for almost half an hour before coming out.

After he came out, Qin Xing had already woken up and was putting on his pants.

Shen Zhen leaned against the bedroom door and looked at Qin Xing putting on his clothes. No matter how he looked at him, he felt that the other was extremely handsome, just like walking pheromones.

So Shen Zhen couldn’t hold back, and threw Qin Xing on the bed. He sat on Qin Xing and asked him, “Going to the company today?”

Qin Xing spread his hands with a doting look and said in a gentle voice, “I should go and have a look.”

Shen Zhen: “I’ll drop you off on my bike.”

Qin Xing: “Thank you, but I don’t think I can get very used to motorcycles.”

Shen Zhen felt a little regretful: “Really? Then I won’t ask you next time, but I have pretty good driving skills.”

If Shen Li was here at this time, Shen Li would want to hit someone.

Qin Xing pinched Shen Zhen’s earlobe: “Get up, I’m going to go make you a sandwich.”

Shen Zhen stood up obediently, and sat on the side: “Don’t add tomatoes.”

Qin Xing: “Okay, no tomatoes.”

Shen Zhen watched as Qin Xing seemed to move with ease among the various kitchen utensils, his pace calm and unhurried. It seemed as if he was not cooking, but making a work of art. Shen Zhen asked him: “Aren’t you a clean freak? You’re fine now?”

Qin Xing raised his eyebrows: “I can’t be counted as a clean freak.”

Shen Zhen: “You don’t count?”

Qin Xing chuckled lowly: “It’s not serious, if I want to overcome it, I can always overcome it.”

Shen Zhen seemed to understand but also not. He didn’t know much about this, he only knew that sometimes excessive cleanliness was also very harmful to oneself, and before he was worried that Qin Xing’s symptoms of obsessive cleanliness would become more and more serious.

Qin Xing finished cooking, and the food presentation was also very nice. After breakfast, the two kissed and then separated, going to their respective companies by car or motorbike. In recent years, Qin Xing had become more and more idle. Other than business out of the country which he had to personally oversee, the domestic business made profit without much supervision needed from him.

Unlike Shen Zhen, who had to work tirelessly and personally worry over every little detail about his company.

As soon as he arrived at his company, Shen Zhen was about to go upstairs when he was stopped by several people.

“CEO Shen, CEO Shen!”

Shen Zhen looked at the young people in front of him, but didn’t remember who they were for a while, so he asked, “Is there something you need?”

Those people nodded hurriedly.

“CEO Shen, do you remember that we used to work in Huitong before?”

There were so many employees in the company, Shen Zhen naturally didn’t have time to get to know each of them one by one. He knew only the management, and the people below would naturally be known by the management, so it went down level by level.

Shen Zhen: “Sorry, I don’t really remember.”

These few people were not upset, and instead said: “CEO Shen, we have realized our mistakes. We hope you can give us another chance. In the future we will definitely work hard in our positions, and create greater benefits for the company.”

“Yes, CEO Shen, we really didn’t know that things would develop like this.”

“CEO Shen, the salary is also negotiable.”

Shen Zhen had a headache: “Whatever it is, please register with the security guard, and then come up and find me.”

After speaking, he got on the elevator without looking back.

The several remaining people looked at each other in blank dismay.

“What does CEO Shen mean?”

“Does he agree or not?”

“I can’t tell…..”

“Let’s go and register first.”

When Shen Zhen reached his office, Li Xiaolin told him about the recent events. He didn’t know that Qin Yue actually fired all the people who had been poached away. After paying the probation period salary, the people were then sent away.

It was useless even if those people went to find labor arbitration.

First, there was no contract.

Second, their probationary wages were not kept from them.

Essentially, Qin Yue found that he couldn’t hold it anymore, and then thought of a stupid trick. Not only was he not clear in the head, he also turned his company into a mess. The dismissed employees basically went to make trouble every day, and the security had to keep stopping them every day, but this kind of thing couldn’t continue every day. In short, it was just a pile of muddled and unclear accounts.

The three people who stopped him just now were the ones who were dismissed by Qin Yue and wanted to go back to work at Shen Zhen’s side.

At that time, Shen Zhen’s company had just been established, and there were only a few core employees introduced by Qin Xing, and he couldn’t hire people with deep qualifications, so many of them were fresh graduates, or had just one to two years of work experience and needed to be trained by the company.

Shen Zhen’s wages and benefits for them were not low, in hopes that they would stay in Huitong after they finished learning the work.

But the result?

Anyway, those who left, he didn’t want them back. Now was no longer the time when he couldn’t hire any people.

Any normal person in the industry with eyes could see the current trend of Huitong. There were already many senior professionals who have sent emails to the company’s public mailbox.

“Wanting to come back now, in their dreams.” Li Xiaolin was both angry and proud.

Shen Zhen: “Don’t bother with them.”

Li Xiaolin asked, “CEO Shen, are you not angry at all?”

Probably because she had been with Shen Zhen for a long time, occasionally when the atmosphere was good, Li Xiaolin could say a few playful words.

Shen Zhen smiled and said: “I told you before, there is nothing to be angry about, everyone has their own choices, it’s not like I can brainwash them, and the company is not a prison, so it’s not like we can trap them, right?”

Li Xiaolin: “Anyway, they will definitely not be able to find a boss as good as you, CEO Shen.”

Shen Zhen: “Who knows.”

He didn’t take pleasure in the bad luck of those who left the company.

But he did unconsciously smile because of Qin Yue’s misfortune.

Qin Yue indeed felt that he probably had encountered eight lifetimes of bad luck.

The company was already on the right track, with sufficient liquidity, and all cooperation projects had been negotiated and would begin launching.

But all of a sudden, problems arose one after another.

The negotiated cooperation project was gone. He called repeatedly to confirm, but the other party just stuttered and said that the situation had changed.

After all, they were all reputable people, and it was impossible for Qin Yue to go to the other party’s company to cause a scene.

The most important thing was that he himself failed to sign the contract earlier, which resulted in the fruit being picked.

And he knew that the person who picked the fruit before him must be Shen Zhen.

After all, he poached employees from Shen Zhen first.

As for the contacted media whom he already gave money to, it also turned out to be in vain.

Qin Yue was lying on the sofa, looking at Su Shiqing who was sitting next to him watching TV, his heart filled with irritability. Turning his head, and seeing that Su Shiqing was watching an idol drama he was even more annoyed: “Switch to the news channel.”

Su Shiqing stared at the TV intently, and said coquettishly, “The finale is coming soon, I’ll switch it after I finish watching this, okay?”

Normally, Qin Yue would of course say yes with a gentle face, but for some reason now, he was so irritable and saw that nothing was pleasing to the eye, and as soon as Su Shiqing’s words fell, Qin Yue stood up and shouted: “I said change the channel!”

Su Shiqing was taken aback. Qin Yue had never yelled at him like that before. He just sat there in a daze, motionless, with tears gathering in his eyes, as if he was about to cry in the next second.

“It’s not aimed at you.” Qin Yue calmed down a bit, and explained to Su Shiqing while putting a hand to his forehead.

Su Shiqing wiped his tears with the back of his hand, shook his head and said, “It’s okay, I’m fine.”

Qin Yue remained restless even by nighttime. He had been sorting out how he wasted a handful of good cards, but every time he felt that he was about to catch a clue, a strange feeling made him unable to concentrate.

“I’m going to sleep in the guest room tonight.” Qin Yue took out his change of clothes from the master bedroom and walked straight to the guest room.

Su Shiqing bit his lip behind him.

This had been the case for a while, and Su Shiqing went back to the bedroom. After thinking for a while, he finally dialed a phone number.

The person on the phone seemed to have been waiting for his call, and answered it almost within three seconds.

Su Shiqing asked softly, “Is it Mr. Liu? It’s me, Su Shiqing.”

“Mr. Liu” on the other end laughed: “You don’t need to use this unfamiliar politeness, Shi Qing can just call me Brother Huan.”

Su Shiqing blushed a little, but quickly said: “I talked to you before, but I’m a little unsure now, I…..I don’t know if my boyfriend still loves me now.”

“Since what happened last time, my boyfriend often loses his temper, sometimes yells at me, and then apologizes to me after the yelling.”

Liu Huan asked: “Shi Qing, I have a question for you, and you have to answer it truthfully, is that okay?”

Su Shiqing nodded: “Okay.”

Liu Huan: “Did you have sex with Qin Yue during this time?”

Su Shiqing’s face was blushing fiercely, and he whispered, “…..No.”

Liu Huan asked again: “Is he in the company most of the time?”

Su Shiqing: “No, he’s been taking care of me. He even hired an expert to look at my leg. Is it because I’m so useless that he’s so irritable? Do I need to do something?”

Liu Huan comforted him: “It’s not your problem, it should be your boyfriend’s problem. He may be under a lot of pressure recently. I suggest you keep a distance. You can separate for a while to let each other calm down. Sometimes when the distance is too close it is difficult to reconcile conflicts.”

Su Shiqing whispered: “But Ah Yue bought this house, and my parents also live here. I can’t tell Ah Yue to move out, can I?”

Liu Huan said generously: “It just so happens that I have an empty house in this city, with three bedrooms and one living room, it’s a duplex building with two bathrooms, and professionally decorated. You can bring your parents to live there first.”

Su Shiqing: “That isn’t quite…..okay, is it?”

Liu Huan: “What’s wrong with it? I’m not telling you to live there for free, you have to pay rent.”

Su Shiqing breathed a sigh of relief: “How much is the rent? I can’t afford too much.”

Liu Huan: “Six hundred yuan a month, is that affordable?”

Su Shiqing said in delight, “Brother Huan, you are such a good person!”

Liu Huan laughed: “Then treat me to dinner when you have time.”

After Su Shiqing hung up the phone, his spirits improved a lot. He and Liu Huan met by chance. They met at the same psychiatrist a month ago. They chatted for a while while waiting, and felt that they got along very well with each other so they exchanged mobile numbers.

Afterwards, they would often send messages to each other, asking about each other’s recent situation, asking about each other’s troubles, but Su Shiqing often spoke and Liu Huan listened.

Su Shiqing was lying on the bed, thinking of Qin Yue for a while, Chu Haoyi for a while, and then Liu Huan for a while.

He remembered what Chu Haoyi said to him: “Do you think Qin Yue treating you well and his love for you can last a lifetime? He can’t, but I can.”

In the past month, Su Shiqing thought of this question countless times, and he was suddenly shaken.