Chapter 28: It’s Hard Not to Fall

“Do you know Cheng Yan’s father?” Qiao Shuyi asked Sheng Yu in the car.

“No.”

“Then why did you…”

Sheng Yu smiled. “I don’t know him, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know me. I went to Zhiyuan Technology for an inspection two years ago. Since he said his father has worked at Zhiyuan for over ten years, he must have seen me.”

“That makes sense.”

Qiao Shuyi nodded thoughtfully.

Sheng Yu was the CEO of Shengshi, so there were definitely more people who knew him than people he knew.

“When did you arrive? How much of my conversation with him did you hear?” Qiao Shuyi asked curiously.

“I took the two o’clock flight. I arrived in Beijing around four and drove here around five.”

Meaning, he had already arrived before she got off work?

So, he had been waiting here all along, and he had even heard everything she and Cheng Yan had talked about.

“Why didn’t you come out earlier?”

Qiao Shuyi pouted, her tone tinged with a reproach she didn’t even realize.

The man glanced at her, a hint of amusement in his voice. “Xiao Tang said you’ve been attracting a lot of attention lately, so I wanted to see what kind of attention it was.”

Qiao Shuyi: “…”

Why did she tell her brother all this?

“What about the other ones?”

“What other ones?”

“The other attention.”

Qiao Shuyi fell silent for a moment. “…None.”

“Really?” Sheng Yu raised an eyebrow. “I heard there was a young owner of a beauty brand, and you even added him on WeChat?”

“It was for work, and I already rejected him. He hasn’t been bothering me anymore.”

“Qiao Qiao.” Sheng Yu suddenly called her, his tone inexplicably serious.

Qiao Shuyi instinctively turned to look at him. “What’s wrong?”

“Did you forget something?”

“…”What?”

“Adding me on WeChat.”

“You mean that…” Qiao Shuyi hesitated.

She had actually thought about adding Sheng Yu on WeChat before, but she was worried that Sheng Tang would find out.

After all, she really hated the feature in WeChat that notified mutual friends when someone liked a post.

What if Sheng Yu liked something on her feed and Sheng Tang saw it?

She would definitely ask her when she added her brother, and she wasn’t good at lying, so she would definitely be caught…

“Is it that difficult?” Sheng Yu raised an eyebrow when she didn’t answer for a while.

“It’s fine…” Qiao Shuyi thought for a moment and looked up. “Do you often check your WeChat Moments?”

“Not really.”

Qiao Shuyi smiled. “Okay, then I’ll add you after I get out of the car.”

…

After arriving at the restaurant, Qiao Shuyi immediately added Sheng Yu on WeChat.

This was the first time in two lifetimes that she had added Sheng Yu on WeChat.

Although she had known Sheng Yu for several years, they had never added each other on WeChat.

They weren’t close before, and there was no need to contact each other. If it weren’t for Sheng Tang as a bridge, they might not even know each other.

But things were different now. They had skipped over Sheng Tang to contact each other, and they were even secretly dating behind her back.

So, Qiao Shuyi felt that adding him on WeChat was necessary.

Sheng Yu’s WeChat profile picture was very similar to his personality: a cold, business-like style, seemingly devoid of emotion.

His WeChat name was also simple: SY.

In contrast, Qiao Shuyi’s profile picture and name were more lively.

A pink anime girl avatar, and her WeChat name was “Sui Yi” .

“Sui Yi?”

Sheng Yu paused, looking at her with a hint of amusement.

“Yeah, is there a problem?”

“Sui Yi” sounded a lot like “Shuyi”

She had even been proud of her own wit!

“It’s pretty casual.”

Sheng Yu deleted the words “Sui Yi” and changed her nickname to “Qiao Qiao.”

“Well, that’s better than you. Who uses their own name’s initials as their WeChat name?”

“It’s better than you.”

Sheng Yu looked at her quietly, his eyes smiling, his gaze gentle and doting.

“…”

Qiao Shuyi suddenly couldn’t speak, hurriedly lowering her head to look at her phone.

She wanted to say, don’t look at her like that.

It’s hard not to fall…

After dinner, the two left the private room together, ready to leave.

However, as they passed by a large private room, the waiter happened to open the door to serve food. Qiao Shuyi casually glanced inside, but her steps involuntarily stopped.

“What’s wrong?”

Sheng Yu stopped as well, looking into the private room.

It was a large private room, the biggest one in the restaurant, no doubt.

There was a large round table in the room, and at a glance, there were about twenty people, both men and women.

Interestingly, their seating arrangement was basically one man with one woman.

Most of the women were young and beautiful, while most of the men… were not young.

Among the crowd, Sheng Yu saw a familiar face.

He Zhou, the current vice president of Shengxing Media.

Seeing He Zhou’s gaze about to turn towards the entrance, Sheng Yu pulled Qiao Shuyi’s hand and quickly left.

“I know them…”

After getting into the car, Qiao Shuyi remained silent for a while before speaking.

“Who?”

“Those girls… they’re Shengxing’s streamers.”

She also saw He Zhou sitting in the main seat.

She could understand that in this industry, especially for streamers, there were unavoidable business entertainment and drinking sessions, but she had clearly seen unwillingness, even resistance, on the faces of some of the girls.

“Yeah, I guessed.” Sheng Yu nodded, his gaze somewhat heavy.

“If it’s normal business entertainment or a dinner party, it should be on the company’s account. You can ask Xiao Tang to check tomorrow if it was on the company’s account.”

“Okay.”

Qiao Shuyi nodded, just about to say something, but her gaze paused slightly when she saw a figure in the distance.

Was that her?

“Brother Sheng Yu, I saw someone I know. Can you drive over there?” Qiao Shuyi pointed to a young girl wearing a black, sexy, bodycon dress in the distance.

Sheng Yu nodded and drove the car over, slowly stopping in front of the girl.

Seeing the luxury car suddenly stopping in front of her, the girl looked surprised.

She was about to move aside, but the next second, the passenger window rolled down, revealing a fair and beautiful face, smiling and greeting her. “KK.”

KK was stunned, pointing at herself. “You know me?”

Qiao Shuyi nodded, just about to introduce herself, but she realized that there were too many people around, and it wasn’t a good place to talk.

So, she turned to Sheng Yu beside her. “Can I ask her to get in the car?”

“Sure.”

KK then noticed that the driver was a young man. Although she only saw his profile, it was enough to make her gasp in awe.

“KK, why don’t you get in the car? We can find a quieter place to chat. I’m also an employee of Shengxing, from the business department.”

KK hesitated for a moment, then opened the back door and got in.

The other party was driving a Cullinan, so they probably weren’t trying to deceive her, right?