Falling in Love with My Contracted Husband - Chapter 103
Chapter 103 Indifference To Each Other
The next morning, when Tang Jin Chen appeared at the company, An Zi Xi had already arrived. She was sorting out the documents at her desk. Her soft black hair was gently placed on her chest. She bit her lips slightly, tilted her head, and held a stack of documents in her arms. Her gaze swept across the computer screen in front of her, and her forehead was covered in sparkling sweat.
Tang Jin Chen stopped not far away and looked at her. She had already started to be busy so early. Was she adapting to the secretary’s job? Tang Jin Chen stood there, unable to move a single step for a long time, how should he face her? She told him last night that she was disgusted and told him never to touch her again. She was so cruel.
Tang Jin Chen walked over silently. Steady and powerful footsteps sounded. An Zi Xi seemed to feel something. She stopped moving and raised her head slightly. What she saw was an unusually cold face.
An Zixi’s heart trembled for a moment, but he lowered his head indifferently. After a while, she felt that she shouldn’t ignore him like this. After all, he was her boss.
“Good morning, President.”
He didn’t expect her to greet him so calmly. Tang Jin Chen’s hands tightened in his pockets. He nodded at her and pushed the door open before entering the office.
His expression was similarly indifferent. Only when he heard the door behind him close did An Zixi relax his muscles. He sat down on the chair dejectedly. The document in his hand fell onto the table with a “pa” sound. An Zixi supported her forehead with one hand. She did not want to continue disguising herself. She wanted to leave, so much so that she wanted to leave.
After sitting in her seat for a while, the phone rang. An Zixi reached out to answer it. There were two phone calls on the table. She thought it was Tang Jin Chen’s inside line, but when she lowered her head to look, she realized that it wasn’t.
“Hello? Hello.”
“Hello, I’m Li Qing’s assistant.”
An Zixi frowned. Li Qing? Why is she calling? This woman really appeared in her life all the time.
“President Tang, please show up at Phantom Hotel on time tonight …”
What else did Li Qing’s assistant say? An Zixi did not hear it clearly, but he vaguely knew that there was a family gathering between the Li and Tang Clans. What would they say when they gathered?
After hanging up the phone in a daze, An Zixi tidied up his mood. Good. From now on, Tang Jin Chen’s matter has nothing to do with him. In that case, she did not want to interfere in the matters between him and Li Qing, nor did she have the right to interfere.
Taking a deep breath, An Zixi knocked on the door and entered Tang Jin Chen’s office. Tang Jin Chen was dealing with the project that the company was about to take over recently. He tried his best to make himself busy. Only when he was busy would he not think about her.
Now, he regretted letting her be his secretary, so she would appear in front of him every day. The more he saw her, the more he missed her, the more suffocated he felt.
“Do you need anything?”
His voice was ice-cold, and in this season, it carried a bone-chilling chill. An Zixi expressionlessly looked up at him and respectfully said, “President, Manager Li’s assistant called to ask you to attend a family gathering at the Phantom Hotel.”
“Manager Li? Which Manager Li?” Tang Jin Chen placed the parker pen in his hand, his brows furrowed tightly. He had never been interested in such a party, much less wanted to attend it.
An Zixi really wanted to laugh at Tang Jin Chen fiercely, would he not know which Manager Li it was? He was clearly very familiar with Li Qing.
“Li Qing, Manager Li.”
An Zixi’s lips curled into a mocking smile. Tang Jin Chen’s expression immediately sank when he heard Li Qing’s name. He didn’t want to see this woman again, but he had no choice but to go. As the leader of a company, you have to endure a thousand times ten thousand times what you are unwilling to take on and accept. Including romance, family gatherings.
Tang Jin Chen nodded and said sullenly, “I see.”
After Tang Jin Chen finished speaking, An Zi Xi still stood where she was and did not go out. She just stood there quietly and looked at Tang Jin Chen with an indifferent expression. A faint sadness spread out from her body. Her tiny figure was bathed in light and shadows, as soft as bones.
Tang Jin Chen’s eyes tightened and his expression softened. It had to be said that An Zixi made him feel heartache and wanted him to hug her, but she said that he was disgusting and she said that she would never let him touch her again.
“Are you still busy?”
“Tang Jin Chen, if you meet someone better, forget about me.”
What she said was inexplicable, and Tang Jin Chen was stunned for a long time, unable to react. An Zixi, however, had already bent the corner of his mouth and turned around to leave.
What did she mean? What do you mean better? Li Qing? She can’t even compare to half of An Zixi, how can she say that she is better? Did she know how deep she would hurt him if she casually said that?
Tang Jin Chen forcefully threw the parker pen in his hand on the clean and bright floor, and his entire body emitted an icy cold aura.
Tang Jin Chen hadn’t called An Zi Xi all day. He made coffee, tidied up his papers, and was busy with his own work. If anything happened, he would go out of the office to look for other employees, while An Zixi sat in his seat for an entire day.
She watched indifferently as Tang Jin Chen walked past her again and again, but did not look at her. Her heart ached as if she had been cut by a knife, but she still stubbornly revealed that she was working with the most beautiful smile on her face.
Since he had lived so arrogantly, she could not lose to him. Staying by his side, she should have thought of these things a long time ago.
Tang Jin Chen left early. An Zi Xi looked at his cold back and left the company. Only then did she put down her disguise and reveal a tired face. In the end, he still went to attend some so-called family gathering. Was this proof that he could really forget about her and accept other women?
An Zixi raised her eyes to look at the clock on the wall. There were only two hours left before she got off work. After work, she needed to have a good rest. Of course, he didn’t go home, but went for a walk alone.
However, what An Zixi did not expect was that she would be so humiliated and troubled in these two hours.
Not long after Tang Jin Chen left, An Zi Xi was still busy arranging Tang Jin Chen’s schedule for tomorrow when someone walked towards her and slapped her desk.
An Zixi raised his head in dissatisfaction, wanting to see who the person in front of him was, but there was not just one person in front of him, but a group of people. They stood in front of An Zixi’s desk with their hands crossed over their chests, looking like they were condescending.
An Zixi frowned, but he still politely asked, “Do you have anything to do?”
Needless to say, when she saw their appearances, she knew that not only were they fine, but they also wanted to cause trouble. Ever since her relationship with Tang Jin Chen had been guessed by them, she knew that she would not have a good time in this company.
Now that Tang Jin Chen had left, such a large group of people had come, either to talk about gossip or to cause trouble.
“An Zixi, let me ask you a question.”
The woman in the lead was only a small employee, but she was usually very bold. She liked to chat and gossip in the office the most. Although many employees knew about this, no one reported her because they loved gossip.
Her tone wasn’t bad, but she only asked An Zixi with a tentative tone. An Zixi did not want to quarrel with them anymore, so he could only say, “Ask.”
“What exactly is your relationship with the president?”
The woman in front of her raised her eyebrows and looked curiously at An Zixi. An Zixi glanced at her and saw that the women behind her were also looking at her with their big eyes open. An Zixi thought to himself that they all liked Tang Jin Chen. That’s right. After all, he’s handsome and rich. Where can I find a man like him? Unfortunately, she didn’t want it anymore.
An Zixi smiled and said, “What do you think?”
“I think you must be boyfriend and girlfriend, right?” A rather gossipy woman replied first.
An Zixi curled his lips, sneered, and shook his head, “No.”
Boyfriend and girlfriend? He and her did what a boyfriend and girlfriend should do, but they didn’t have the relationship that a boyfriend and girlfriend should have. Even she herself did not know what kind of relationship they had, what kind of contract was it? Superior and subordinate? Stranger? She doesn’t know.
As soon as she finished speaking, another woman shouted at the top of her voice, with an expression that you thought I was stupid. “How could it not be? Look at the way the president treats you. He’s not a boyfriend or girlfriend, can he be like this?”
“Believe it or not, it’s up to you.”
An Zixi put down this sentence, picked up the cup, and entered the tea room. To base one’s happiness on the pain of others, it was most likely them.
He was clearly already healing his wounds, hoping that his wounds would heal. However, they insisted on pulling out her wound and exposing it to the sun. After seeing her unsightly wound, he would even mock and trample on her fiercely. Such a human nature could not help but make her feel a chill in her heart.
Seeing An Zixi leave like this, the group of employees started to discuss with an unhappy expression.
The employees were discussing happily when the business manager of the company suddenly walked over.
“What are you guys talking about?”
Although the business manager of the company was a man, he was also a gossip. He usually loved to roll around among women. Now that he saw so many women gathered together, a white light flashed in his mind. He had already walked in front of them. He seemed to have smelled gossip, sweet and delicious.
When the employees saw the manager coming, they straightened up and greeted him, “Manager, why are you here?”
“Let me see what you’re doing. Are you off work? Ah, what are you doing here?”
Although he had a stern face and looked angry, what he meant was that if there was any gossip, hurry up and tell me.
The employee in the lead naturally knew the business manager’s temperament. She, who also loved to gossip, hurriedly told him the topic they had just discussed.
“Manager, we are concerned about An Zixi.”
When the manager heard An Zixi’s name, he immediately cheered up. Recently, the matter between An Zixi and Tang Jin Chen had been going through the roof in the company. It was spread all over the place, and he didn’t know how many versions there were. He listened here and there, but he didn’t know what was going on.
Looking at Tang Jin Chen’s attitude towards An Zi Xi recently, it wasn’t right either.
“What happened to An Zixi?”
“Manager, don’t you know that the president has been deliberately making things difficult for An Zixi recently? We’re guessing if there’s something going on between them.”
“What can I do for you?” At most, he was a boyfriend and girlfriend, but he had never seen Tang Jin Chen interested in anyone. As for this An Zi Xi, there were indeed some differences between him and him, but there was nothing special about it. It was obvious from the fact that he had been making things difficult for An Zi Xi recently.
