Chapter 08

“What boyfriend?” Jiang Yimiao only captured the word, she looked down and put the umbrella back into her bag asked a little puzzled.

“I saw it all, in the underground parking lot, so tall, black hair glasses handsome guy eh.”

Autumn Xiaoyan raised her hand to Jiang Yimiao’s head elevated than a height, the impression that she should be to his shoulders a little position.

“No, don’t talk nonsense.”

Jiang Yimiao punched the card and walked straight in the direction of the office, “My friend, half-brother’s own brother.”

“Ah?” Autumn Xiaoyan didn’t react to the second half of her sentence for a moment.

“Qing ……”

Jiang Yimiao had subconsciously wanted to say childhood friend, but always felt that this word was somewhat ambiguous in this current context, and her tongue turned a corner.

“Hair small, know many years, to really have what has long been there.”

Jiang Yimiao and Autumn Xiaoyan’s workstation is next to each other, she put her bag down, straightened her skirt and sat on the office chair.

It wasn’t until she subconsciously said these words that Jiang Yimiao suddenly realized that this was indeed the case, and that she and Zhao Shuming had nothing to do with each other other except for being closer than ordinary friends.

“Ah, what a pity. I thought you’d gotten the hang of falling in love.”

Anyone who no longer hears things outside the window will have a bit of a gossipy heart, and if there were couples arguing downstairs, their ears probably wouldn’t have been able to resist sticking to the window already.

Not to mention that Qiu Xiaoyan and Jiang Yimiao were so familiar with each other, and it wasn’t as if she and Jiang Yimiao hadn’t talked about their college days together, so she knew that Jiang Yimiao hadn’t been in love.

“You like it? Do you want me to introduce you to someone?” Jiang Yimiao remembered what Zhao Shuming had said the day before, “The handsome brunette with glasses in your mouth is still single.”

“No, it’s not like you don’t know that I’ve been hitting it off with my crush lately, your bamboo horse is reserved for you.”

“Bamboo horse ……,” Jiang Yimiao muttered thoughtfully with her head propped up.

For the matter of falling in love, Jiang Yimiao had never been very cold.

She can also support herself alone can also live a very happy life, have good friends can play together together shopping and traveling. But if she met a very suitable person and tried to talk about it, she wasn’t very resistant.

But such a man would probably only appear in novels, would she really meet the ideal person in real life, she skimmed her lips and shook her head to herself.

She felt it would be better to spend her life with her baby doll.

Jiang Yimiao took out the glasses case from her bag and put on her glasses to start today’s work.

The rain stopped for a while at noon, and the haze in the sky was swept away as the sun made a rare appearance. Jiang Yimiao ate lunch in the company cafeteria and stood outside the balcony to take a few breaths of fresh air.

Jiang Yimiao’s work is actually very boring and boring and also quite tired, but chose to do this line of work she does not regret it at all.

After all, she is vulgar, she loves money, the wage is proportional to the pay, she also dry happy.

A cloud drifted over, and only a head of the sun covered up again.

Jiang Yimiao took out the cell phone in her pocket, Zhao Shuming sent several messages on WeChat.

[Today’s one-person meal. The accompanying picture was his noon meal.

[After making the portions for two people that I’m used to, it’s really hard to make a meal for one person.] With a sad emoticon on the back.

This emoticon looked familiar, and Jiang Yimiao could tell at a glance that it was one that Zhao Shuming had saved at her place.

Looking at the picture that looked random but she seemed to be able to smell the aroma coming through the screen, she subconsciously gulped.

[What I ate today was another dining hall set meal, it wasn’t good, it’s better if you make it.] Jiang Yimiao revert back to him with that sad emoticon again.

This wasn’t her flattery, Zhao Shuming’s cooking was really good.

Jiang Yimiao’s family usually had her dad cooking, and her mom rarely cooked. But she remembered one time when her dad had to go out of town for work, and her mom cooked so that Jiang Yimiao really couldn’t get used to eating, and even Shen Man herself couldn’t get used to eating her own food.

In the end, it was Zhao Shuming who cooked with Shen Man after school, but he was the chef, while Jiang Yimiao was responsible for squeezing into the kitchen to try to see if the meat was cooked.

After one operation the table was filled with Shen Man, Jiang Yimiao and him, and Jiang Yimiao remembered the moment when her mom joked that the three of them were also a family of three.

[You can have dinner tonight when you come back from work.] He wore a smile emoji, which was inexplicably a bit funny.

Jiang Yimiao thought about the roasted duck that she had been longing for, and held her cell phone as she chatted with Zhao Shuming for a few more minutes until he asked her if she wanted to take a break, so she went back to her workstation to prepare for her lunch break.

It rained outside for a while and then stopped for a while and then rained again, Jiang Yimiao sat at her workstation and watched the sky outside the window clear up and turn gray.

Until the end of the day, the testing side suddenly had a question for her.

“I have no problem running locally, did you get something else wrong?”

Jiang Yimiao frowned at her computer screen, “Refresh it? Or try restarting it ……”

She glanced at the time, thinking that she definitely couldn’t get off work on time today, it’s true that it’s only normal for programmers to work overtime ……

After two minutes, her coworker came to her again, and Jiang Yimiao returned to him on WeChat.

I don’t know what to do, but I’m not sure if it’s a problem. But I look at my side is still normal, no problem ah].

In the end, she checked the logs and looked at the code, and after half a day of touching and fixing a bug to solve the problem.

Jiang Yimiao touched her grumbling stomach and stretched out in the chair, now it’s already more than six o’clock, she still has some things to do, about an hour to finish, so I have to work overtime again tonight.

She flipped open her cell phone, which was upside down on her desk, and was startled to suddenly see a dozen missed calls.

She glanced at them, and these calls were all from Zhao Shuming.

Jiang Yimiao called back, and it didn’t take long for the opposite party to pick up her call.

“Hey, Miao Miao, are you still not back home?”

“Sorry, I was just busy so I didn’t hear the call.” Jiang Yimiao remembered the dozen or so calls he made at once and hurriedly explained to him.

Since she was a child, her parents had always been lenient with Jiang Yimiao, as long as she didn’t do anything illegal or criminal, they let her go. Because Jiang Yimiao was really a good kid with no rebellious period, her parents didn’t worry about what she would do.

That, and although Zhao Shuming had always been gentle with her, he seemed to look more like a Chinese parent, such as not letting her indulge too much in ice cream or coming home too late, and even the love letters that were secretly handed to her by others who had just been promoted to the first year of high school were destroyed by him.

Once she went shopping with Cheng Wenyao, and then went back to Cheng Wenyao’s house for dinner at night, thinking that Cheng Wenyao’s parents could drive her home at night, Jiang Yimiao lost track of time and stayed at Cheng’s house to play.

At that time, smart phones were just popularized, and Jiang Yimiao had her first touch-screen smart phone, but because she couldn’t change the battery, she played for a day and then lost power.

Only when she got home did she see that Zhao Shuming had sent a dozen messages to her Q.Q and made a dozen phone calls ……

Just like now, he always seemed to be worried about not being able to contact her.

“It’s fine, Miao Miao are you still off work right now?” Hearing her say that, Zhao Shuming breathed a sigh of relief.

“Yeah oh I’m working late tonight! I forgot to tell you.” Jiang Yimiao hammered her head, why was her memory getting worse, “Did you already buy roast duck?”

Jiang Yimiao had already gotten used to eating dinner by herself, every night after work either in the company cafeteria or ordering a takeaway, forgetting for a moment that there was someone waiting for her at home.

Zhao Shuming hmmmed, “But dinner hasn’t started yet.”

Roasted brine products are semi-finished products, not to mention overnight, the next meal is not good, but Zhao Shuming certainly bought a portion for two people.

Jiang Yimiao touched her stomach, “You eat first, if you can’t finish it I’ll go back to eat it tonight, I won’t eat that much for dinner later, don’t waste the food you bought.”

“Hmm, then I’ll make you a late night snack again tonight.” Zhao Shuming stood up his body and put the meat he had just packed back into the refrigerator.

“I don’t have to work late tonight I can probably get it done by seven o’clock and I’ll definitely be home by eight.” Jiang Yimiao roughly calculated the time.

“Okay, it’s fine, I’ll wait for you.” Zhao Shuming paused, “Let me know in advance if you get off work.”

Jiang Yimiao responded to him with a hmmmm ah oh, probably busy, and her reply sounded a bit perfunctory.

Zhao Shuming was afraid of delaying her work and didn’t chat with her any more.

The rain fell majestically, and the ripped out raindrops smashed into the balcony, accumulating a puddle.

Thinking that Jiang Yimiao was afraid of walking at night, Zhao Shuming put down all the work in his hands and waited for her to get off work on the sofa, thinking that he could drive to the company to pick her up later.

But after he waited for a while, the rain suddenly became louder, and she still hadn’t come home.

Zhao Shuming some fidgety, the more up to put on the coffee table on the cell phone pick up and give her a call, still did not connect ……

Zhao Shuming looked at the time and thought that it would be better to drive directly to her company and wait for her, but before he got up from the sofa, a few heavy footsteps suddenly came from outside the door, as well as the sound of the door opening and turning the lock hole.

It was only then that Zhao Shuming realized that Jiang Yimiao she had returned home by herself.

He busily stood up, looked at the pouring rain outside the window, grabbed a towel in his hand, and walked to the entrance hall just as Jiang Yimiao opened the door.

She stood outside the door like a fallen chicken, stomping her feet on the blanket before taking small steps into the house.

“Miao Miao, why did you come back by yourself, it’s raining so hard outside.” Zhao Shuming put the towel on her head and wiped the water droplets on her forehead.

Jiang Yimiao didn’t return to him, being drenched into the room instantly coming into contact with the cold air of the air conditioner, Jiang Yimiao shivered with cold.

Outside the north wind blowing, and cool and hard, the rainwater all slanting run, soaked her all over the body.

But thinking that she could take a shower when she got home tonight, Jiang Yimiao didn’t care if she got soaked. As a result, just after she got off the subway, there was another storm, and she was almost carried to the sky by the umbrella.

Jiang Yimiao’s head was full of singing: “Goodbye mom, I’m sailing away tonight.”

With her head covered by a towel, Jiang Yimiao looked up at Zhao Shuming and sniffled. The umbrella had blown over when she left the subway causing her hair to be half wet as well.

Jiang Yimiao raised her hand and wiped her wet hair with the towel that Zhao Shuming had brought her, and he handed her a few more tissues to wipe her face.

Jiang Yimiao had gone to swimming lessons with Zhao Shuming when she was younger, and he subconsciously held the towel to help her dry her head like he had done in the past, but when she was learning to swim she was actively being a drowning chicken, and now she was passively being a drowning chicken.

Zhao Shuming’s hand smoothly covered her hand.

“Ah, your hand is so hot eh.” Jiang Yimiao exclaimed, the slightly raised calluses on his palms from working out felt wonderful to the touch.

Zhao Shuming sighed, “MiaoMiao …… is your hands are too cold.” He shook her hand, and under the light her palms were frozen and lost their blood color.

“It’s raining so hard, why don’t you let me pick you up?” He frowned, another night walk and a rainstorm ……

“Aiya, when I get home I can take a hot bath, why bother you to pick me up, it’s also troublesome to drive in the rain ah.” Jiang Yimiao honestly said.

Saying that, she skimmed her head and sneezed.

Zhao Shuming reached out and closed the door behind him, looking down at her, his heart was inexplicably very unfavorable.

She never used to be afraid of troubling him, wouldn’t be afraid of delaying him, and wouldn’t feel that he was an outsider.

But now it had changed. In the previous days, he had always been able to deceive himself and others, believing that Jiang Yimiao’s relationship with him could still return to being as close as it had been in the past.

He pinched Jiang Yimiao’s palm, “Miao Miao, in the future, can you not always say things like you’re afraid of troubling me?”