Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 432

Chapter 432 I’m afraid I’ll break my heart, too

Throughout the summer, in Du Xiaoxian’s impression is non-stop meetings, meet guests, negotiate contracts, week after week, monotonous but not boring, her small body, like hiding a huge amount of energy, and sometimes the meeting late into the night, everyone is sleepy, she can still be energetic for everyone to make coffee.

A woman, thin and small, but can be such a role model, many former despise her company executives, but also slowly accept and assist her.

At the beginning of the year, Lu Ding Shen finally went back to Ya Wan, in his opinion, Du Xiaoxian actually had a talent for business, which was probably inherited from his genes. She did very well and was very interested, enjoying herself every day, apart from working and studying. She didn’t become disheveled or withered because of the loss of her husband, but instead glowed with a radiance he had never seen before. So he was relieved to go.

Every weekend, Xiaoding would bring Gu Nianbin to G City to spend a night with her, and then send her to her ancestral home early the next morning. For Du Xiaoxian, this was a very precious time, she would leave her work and studies aside to spend time with her daughter, eating with her, watching TV, chatting, and learning about everything she was doing at school, Gu Nianbin was away, she wanted to give her daughter double the love as much as possible and didn’t want to miss out on her daughter’s growth bit by bit.

Du Xiaoxian arranged her own life to the full, she could not remember how long she had not thought of Gu Nianbin, overloaded work made her physically and mentally exhausted, every day she came home very late, to the bed a lie down, not more than two minutes to fall asleep. So she kept lamenting that time passed too quickly, as if she had just woken up, and in a blink of an eye, it was time to go to bed again.

In fact, it’s not that she doesn’t want to, in a certain moment of lowered eyes, in a certain moment of distraction, or in a short dream, she is thinking about him, scheduling time in such a tight schedule, is afraid of thinking about him, but there are always times when he exploits the gap, letting her have a short lapse of concentration.

For example, right now, Cheng Ruichang knocked on her desk before Du Xiaoxian looked up in a bit of a trance.

“Mrs. Gu,” Cheng Rui Chang saw her looking out of focus at the photo on the table and knew she must be thinking about Gu Nianbin again.

Hearing the voice, Du Xiaoxian completely sobered up, “You want something from me?”

“This is the last time we went together to talk about that project, the other party gave an answer but made some caustic conditions, take a look.”

Du Xiaoxian took it and asked while looking at it, “What do you think?”

Cheng Rui Chang said, “Although the conditions are a bit harsh, the profit is still there, but I think it’s best not to cooperate.”

“Why?” Du Xiaoxian asked him with her face tilted up, suddenly realizing that he was still standing all the time, she busily made a gesture to invite him to sit down, “Mr. Cheng, sit down and talk!”

Cheng Rui Zhang smiled, sat down, and said, “I think the other party is falling on their sword by making such a request, bullying Gu for not having anyone, there’s no need for us to cooperate with them, and spreading the word as if Gu really can’t do anything if they change the head of the family.”

“You shouldn’t think that way either,” Du Xiao Xian sighed, “It’s only human for the other party to think that way, after all, Nian Bin is really absent, and it’s really not convincing for me, a person who doesn’t know anything, to sit in this position. But they don’t know that Gu still has a capable general manager like you. To be honest, if it wasn’t for you and Secretary Meng, I wouldn’t have lasted long ago.”

“Mrs. Gu, you mustn’t say that,” Cheng Ruichang said heartily, “Your efforts are there for all to see, and they all admire you to no end. It says you’re a woman of honor.”

Du Xiaoxian laughed uproariously, “I was just rushing to the duck, it’s good that you guys don’t laugh at me.” She flipped through the information in her hand and added, “This is also considered the first project I handled, I still hope it can be done, if it’s done, I’ll be more confident, and everyone will also have more confidence in me, right?”

“Good, since Mrs. Gu has decided, I’ll go and communicate with the other party one more time, hopefully we can negotiate the terms a bit more and see if they can make a little concession.”

“Good, thanks for your hard work, Mr. Cheng.” Seeing Cheng Ruizhang getting up to leave, Du Xiaoxian was also busy standing up.

“Mrs. Gu, you don’t have to be like this every time,” Cheng Ruichang smiled and invited her back to her seat, “Remember that you’re the Acting President, you have to act like a president, don’t always be so polite to your subordinates, it will destroy your own prestige.”

Du Xiaoxian said, “I didn’t have much moxie in the first place.”

“If you don’t have it, you have to cultivate it, otherwise where would anyone be afraid of you.”

“Why would I want anyone to be afraid of me, can’t we all just be friends?”

Cheng Rui Zhang sighed, did not want to continue, this is not the first time that such a conversation, he is completely out of good intentions, work matters, what he said Du Xiaoxian listen to, but certain aspects, the acting president is a little stubborn, or her personality, or want to play the affinity card, but as a leader, lost majesty, management, is not an easy thing. The company is so big, so many people, casually will let people take advantage of the loophole.

Meng Zi He was typing on the computer, his afterglow glanced at Cheng Rui Zhang coming out, lifted his hand, leaned back into his chair, and didn’t say anything, just looked at him with bulging eyes.

Cheng Rui Zhang, as usual, treated it as if he didn’t see it and walked over without looking at it, then suddenly retreated a few steps and said, “You persuade Mrs. Gu to put away the photos of Mr. Gu, it breaks her heart to look at them.”

Meng Zi He snorted coldly, “What does it have to do with you if Mrs. Gu is sad? It’s only human for her to miss her husband. People aren’t thin-skinned!”

Cheng Rui Chang heard something in her words and didn’t bother to talk to her, walking straight out the door.

Meng Zi He kicked the foot of the table in anger and secretly cursed the asshole.

Everyone thought that she and Cheng Rui Chang were dating, and for the first month or so, they did get along like that for a while, but ever since Gu Nian Bin’s accident, their relationship changed, and because of the panic, the whole company was in a mess, and everyone up and down the company was busy, especially her and Cheng Rui Chang, who were practically helpless.

The problem is that during that period of time, as Du Xiaoxian’s most relied on right hand man, they were together almost every day, but Cheng Ruichang didn’t even look at her, looking like she was just an ordinary colleague, as if she was a businessman. She was so angry, but she could do nothing about it!

He was a stranger to her, but suddenly he would call her one night with simple words and a flat voice, “Are you home?”

“In.”

“I’m coming over.”

“Good.”

She answered more simply and her voice was flat, but when she hung up the phone, she jumped up, cleaned the house, burned incense and bathed herself, and sat on the bed waiting for him.

Yes, she fell, although Cheng Ruichang was not her ideal man, she just fell hopelessly in love with him! She grew up smart and pretty, and was courted by the boys, so she was high-minded and proud. Cheng Rui Zhang was not the kind of man who was handsome to the core, and his family was not distinguished, but she was inexplicably attracted to him!

Throwing dignity and condescension aside, she waited when he said to come.

We were all adults, and of course she knew in her heart what coming over late at night meant, but the man was so good at what he did that in the moment of fireworks, only one word came to mind: lust!

Occasionally she was confused: was it the man she loved, or was it his bedside manner?

Cheng Ruichang never had any soft and honeyed intentions towards her, he looked very different from usual after taking off his glasses, as if he was a bit strange, he didn’t say a word, he just looked at her in silence, those dark sunken eyes flashed with a crazy light, as if she was a prey, this gaze made her heart tingle, and surprisingly, she was flooded with anticipation.

The man never spends the night at her place, and afterwards only gives her a token kiss on the forehead and leaves in silence.

When they met again the next day, he was still cold, and she was furious and mad, but there was nothing she could do about it, there was really nothing she could do about it, because after a while, he would call her again, and she would always say yes on the spur of the moment. Even after a long time, when he didn’t call, she would get impatient and take the initiative to call and ask him if he wanted to come?

Men sometimes Hou will be on the phone murmuring, as if in the consideration, that time, Meng Zi He really feel very embarrassed, feel self too cheap work, the phone sticking in the ear like an iron as hot as the silence of her minutes want to hang up, but surprisingly not, hang up, she will not have the courage to play again, hang up, or the man in the future, will never look for her again.

It was good that Cheng Rui Chang would agree every time. This made her feel fortunate that it wasn’t that humiliating, at least he was still interested in her.

Although he was huffing and puffing, Meng Zi He still took advantage of the time when he was sending the coffee in to mention to Du Xiaoxian, “Xiaoxian, Mr. Gu is in your heart anyway, so it’s the same whether you look at it or not, so put the photo away.”

Gu Nianbin was not there, and Meng Zi He privately started calling Du Xiaoxian’s name again, at first just to show intimacy, but later to get angry at Cheng Rui Zhang.

Because once Cheng Rui Zhang heard her and said a few words to her, she was not convinced and did not change her words. Seeing him frown slightly, her heart rose up a kind of mischievous pain! But at the bottom of her heart was sadness, knowing that only in this way would she attract his attention, and he would be willing to look at her one more time!

Meng Zi He thought Du Xiaoxian wouldn’t listen to her, but she didn’t expect her to laugh silently and really put Gu Nianbin’s picture in the drawer.

Seeing Du Xiaoxian being so submissive, Meng Zihe was again a bit unable to bear it and explained, “I was afraid that you would look sad.”

“I know,” Du Xiaoxian let out a light breath, “I’m also afraid of grieving myself.”

She got up and walked to the window, turning her head to look out the window, blue sky day, sunny, opposite the spire of the high-rise building like a sword, pointing straight up to the sky, the blue glass curtain wall glittering, the distant high-rise buildings, downstairs the traffic like a river, pedestrians like weaving.

You really don’t want to come back to such a prosperous world? Summer is over. If you don’t come back, are you going to wait until winter?

Meng Zi He looked at her skinny back, sighing long and hard in his heart, missing is really the most painful torture in the world, the person she misses is right next to her, at least she can still see it, while Du Xiaoxian misses a person who can never come back!