Chapter 34
They belonged to each other, and to the night, which was black and white and endlessly long.
The woman was beside him, her hand fished out of the covers still slender, her complexion soft and luminous, petite against his palm, but the man who dominated it was still dominated by this uneasiness.
“Wenning.”
He hugged her from behind.
“Why, aren’t you sleeping?” Wen Ning withdrew her hand from the man’s palm, she was unwilling to continue tossing and turning in the middle of the night, and even more unwilling to face the matters of the heart that she had pressed down, “Don’t you have to get up early in the morning and go to the construction site?”
“Can’t sleep.”
Wen Ning rolled over, personally twisted the corner of the quilt for him: “Sleep.”
Apparently, men eat this, Zhou Yinchu lost part of the enthusiasm for that matter, and suddenly peaked to ask about the years when they did not see each other.
The conversation begins, but then breaks off, and Cho seems to realize that there’s a part of the path he hasn’t accompanied, a path he doesn’t want to hear about.
A small detail that silently reveals the truth.
What lay between the two, and the entire fifteen years that separated them, Wen Ning swept a glance at Zhou Yinchu, and there was no way she could easily pass it off in a single sentence– the purpose of her visit was in it.
The purpose of her visit was in it.
The next day, Wen Ning woke up, and after washing up, she subconsciously dressed a little more formally than before. In the end, it is not formal, it is more guarded, without revealing an inch of bare skin, looks inclined to the executive business style, and his relationship is also like subordinate general.
And not so, once discovered, for people to recall that kind of male and female relationship.
After all, she promised Zhou Yinchu to accompany him to the construction site where his company is currently working.
But Wen Ning does not know is that the more she dresses so serious, heavily armed, the more she does not want to attract people reverie, the man in front of her is more prone to this kind of relationship and some kind of role to produce a different correlation.
After one night, the man who had sprung a few times finally let go of the premonition that was clouding his rational judgment, and the sensual feelings that swept over him always overwhelmingly overcame everything: “You can also come to my office anytime after that, if you want to.”
“Zhou Yinchu.”
Wen Ning clenched her fists.
“Who comes to your office for nothing?”
Hell knows what kind of living colorful shit could happen in the daylight of his office.
What was the difference between that and daytime proclamations?
“Why didn’t you used to dress like this?” The man asked again, clearly developing that bit of worldly lust for the workplace sheath dress . . desire.
The white shirt could clearly be seen as an ordinary work uniform, the cut was overly one-dimensional, and the color was uninspired.
But on the contrary, the waistline’s delicacy, even after the shirt’s folds, could not be hidden.
She is beautiful, and this beauty does not need excessive embellishment, a single ordinary shirt, but also better than thousands of deliberate desire to show.
“I usually don’t need to go to work …… again,” Wen Ning’s eyebrows pulled slightly.
“Why, you dress like this today, do you want to be taken as my secretary?”
Wen Ning resisted negatively, “Can’t we just occasionally look more like a working relationship between our superiors and subordinates?”
Zhou Yinchu leaned back towards the sofa, “I wouldn’t dare to recruit such a beautiful secretary.”
Even if she tends to be introverted, the woman who never flaunts is again torn about whether to change her clothes, lest some men make a big deal out of this trivial matter.
Wen Ning was chagrined, “Anyway, can you stop this?”
Staring at her day in and day out, it’s not like she’s wearing normal work clothes or a uniform.
“Blame me,” Zhou Yinchu’s admiring gaze was always possessive, “Don’t change it, I like it.”
Wen Ning didn’t want to pay attention to the man’s fetish’s, the only thing she wanted right now was to accompany Zhou Yinchu to the construction site as soon as possible, as well as to end their trip in Guangzhou as soon as possible, and also not to put off the matter of giving the dead Li Yuanzhe for too long.
Once she recalled her original intention and heart when she came here, Wen Ning was also unable to look straight at what she had done in the past two days.
She dove headfirst into her new tenderness and almost couldn’t find her way north or south.
But when she really recalled this small matter that was nothing special to Zhou Yinchu, she realized that she had fallen into a new anxiety.
Zhou Yinchu WeChat friend circle background picture, into that when they turned back the most unintentional photo together.
Anyone who stretched the picture could see it.
Perhaps she was able to accept that Zhou Yinchu, in the spirit of his posh cockney habits, was going to play this indifferent game of wind and moon. On the hunting ground, everyone had their own selfishness mixed in to one degree or another.
She, however, could never go and accept that Zhou Yinchu was intent on a good outcome.
He was serious.
Then she herself had become a complete villain who wanted to get more with the help of this love affair.
Everyone had warned her of the dangers of being near him, so that she would learn to be wary, but she hadn’t realized that the roles between them were different from what most people had envisioned.
The one who is scheming and greedy is not Zhou Yinchu, but herself.
Wen Ning took advantage of Zhou Yinchu’s washing up session to secretly sit at the foot of the bed and ponder for a long time, confirming that she hadn’t misread the situation, making sure that the two blurred ones, each with a smirk on their faces, colliding with each other weren’t just any other man or woman, but were the very same ones from yesterday’s afternoon.
She pinched out the light from her cell phone screen once again.
Hot summer day.
On the construction site, surrounded by a group of foremen in the middle of the man also do not know how to take time out of it, but Zhou Yinchu did –
He meticulously introduced the design style and concept of each building, as well as the various uses of a commercial nature afterwards.
At the same time, Wen Ning had to admit that the serious and focused Zhou Yinchu was not quite the same as she had imagined.
He knew what was right and what was wrong, and the details of costing in each different area were always precise.
By the looks of it, he also seemed to be particularly enjoying the admiring glances he was casting.
Men are always like this.
But what Wen Ning was thinking was that in this way, the problem of their relationship became even more pronounced, even if she pretended to be a secretary taking notes, but where in heaven’s name is there a boss who devotes himself to his work for a while, but then is able to explain for his secretary attentively.
These days, training secretaries as successors may have, but not many.
Especially for Zhou Yinchu this kind of authoritarian people, before this, did not hear that Zhou will always and the people underneath to discuss the concept of business management.
This group of construction site leaders also thought that they were valued by Mr. Zhou, thinking of taking over a little more work in the South China region.
Zhou Yinchu also made a little speech at the right time.
At once, everyone held Zhou Yinchu in high esteem, bragging about China’s domestic economy in the next thirty years can not be separated from the words of Mr. Zhou.
Wen Ning couldn’t help but laugh out softly.
Watching the man smug in those exaggerated praises, glancing back, right at her, there was no doubt that he was still as expressive as he had been in the past.
There were some behaviors that Li Che couldn’t even exhibit that obviously, and yet it didn’t defy the odds when it happened to Zhou Yinchu.
He raised an eyebrow and didn’t move to smile, but right after that, Wenning realized that she had forgotten too much, and all that was left in her eyes was his face, his look, everything about him good and bad.
They initially traveled around the perimeter beyond the building, until finally, the two followed the large group to actually enter the construction site.
Some of the makeshift paths weren’t well trodden, and everyone here had gray faces.
Wen Ning hadn’t reacted yet-
Zhou Yinchu had already placed the yellow helmet on her head, “Be careful.”
He hadn’t even had time to take any safety measures himself, and while the people around him were always calling out the name “Mr. Zhou”, he ignored them for the time being, and prioritized and defaulted to guaranteeing the safety of her passage.
The action is also rare to retain the patience of the past.
At this time, Wen Ning actually didn’t seem to care so much about the opinions of the other people present, and she realized that as long as Zhou Yinchu was willing to do so, there was nothing she would find difficult to bear.
It was just that she did not come to him with such good intentions, and at the outset, she herself was very clear about that.
She had no reason to fool others.
Just as Zhou Yinchu was concentrating, almost reverently, on fastening the buttons under the brim of her helmet, Wen Ning’s face suddenly had a few cold moments, and it was as if she was pulling away from their days together.
She retreated, gradually pulling away from him by a considerable distance.
Zhou Yin initially thought that it was because of the large number of people, and that Wen Ning was acting this way due to embarrassment.
But that strong negative premonition suddenly reached its peak at this moment.
He quickly heard from Wen Ning’s mouth that she said in a nonchalant tone, “There’s no need to be so nice to me.”
Immediately afterward, the woman unbuttoned her yellow helmet and returned it to him with her own hands, “Zhou Yinchu, I actually came to find you, not because I missed you ……”
Wen Ning had to say it in one breath without reservation, because there was no way she could end up under his burning gaze and still remember the responsibilities she was burdened with, as well as the endless ties left behind by her past life.
She took a deep breath, “I want to ask you for a favor.”
Zhou Yinchu waved his hand, dismissing those who were in the way, and listened to the woman’s sudden confession in silence, not giving the matter any deep thought, “Go ahead.”
Even though the omens in his chest were confirmed by reality, he still didn’t realize that the real storm was approaching.
Abiding by the patience he had managed to cultivate these days, he asked, “Is there any favor you have to mention at this time of the day?”
It was as if such a small thing was not worth mentioning in the context of their intimate relationship.
If they really needed his help, he never put on his mind to explore those small details, just a hand up, he didn’t have the reason to sit back and do nothing.
Zhou Yinchu thinks he is a generous person, tolerate a woman’s small mind, and even think that when a woman takes the initiative to reach out and ask a man for money, at least can also be argued from the side of her emotional dependence on him.
Nothing to do with money.
In the very next second, those negative premonitions he resisted were instantly validated.
“Can you help Li Yuanzhe find a more senior lawyer?”
Wen Ning was caught off guard when she spoke of the man he thought he would never mention in his life, and just when he thought they had cleared the hurdle, she unapologetically brought the truth out in all its bloody splendor and displayed it in front of him-
“Wenning, are you sure you’re not joking?”
“He’s dead,” Zhou Yinchu’s sanity had long since been consumed, these past few days had made him put her ex-husband, her past, behind him, but she had to remind him of it at this time, so he became enraged, “You’re still fucking thinking about him!?”