Zhu Yiyi’s heart skipped a beat. She blinked and realized He Shen was only looking at her upper body.

She was stunned.

She turned to look at the others, only to find that they were all standing respectfully, while she was the only one sitting there, audacious and defiant!

Amy’s eyes showed her: My dear, are you trying to rebel?

She jumped up from her chair, “No, no.”

He Shen didn’t say anything, and the others were silent as crickets.

He looked at her across the conference table.

After waiting for a while, making sure she had nothing to say, he nodded and said, “Now, let’s begin the meeting.”

Zhu Yiyi’s heart, which had been stuck in her throat, finally settled.

As long as she didn’t make any mistakes at work, Amy was always tolerant. She winked at Zhu Yiyi to comfort her.

The topic of this meeting was the upcoming costume drama “Morning Phoenix.”

The drama was adapted from the popular costume fantasy novel “Palace of Morning Phoenix,” which had been a huge hit in the past two years. The copyright was bought by Timeshun Media, and filming was about to begin soon. The project, with an investment of nearly hundreds of millions, was highly valued by everyone in the company, which explained why He Shen himself was personally leading the meeting.

Throughout the meeting, Zhu Yiyi almost typed her keyboard to death.

Finally, the advertising planning department received its core task:

The publicity plan for the drama’s filming and subsequent release, in plain terms, was to create hype, pair up actors, and attract traffic.

He Shen sat back in his main seat, tapping his index finger lightly on the table: “Does anyone have any questions?”

Several minutes passed, and no one responded.

He Shen: “The meeting is adjourned.”

It was like a tightly stretched string being allowed to relax, the atmosphere in the entire conference room became much lighter.

People gradually dispersed.

Zhang, the assistant from the secretary department, was organizing He Shen’s meeting materials, and said in a low voice: “Mr. He, there’s another video conference tonight.”

Zhu Yiyi, who was leaving with Amy, heard this and subconsciously looked over.

He Shen glanced back unintentionally.

Their eyes met, and it was like an undercurrent in the calm water.

Zhu Yiyi’s eyes burned, she immediately looked away and walked out, head down.

As she stepped out the door, she heard the man behind her say, “Come earlier, around noon.”

“Okay, what about Mr. He’s evening plans then?”

“I have personal matters.”

In the evening, He Shen finished work and picked up his phone, he habitually sent a message to Zhu Yiyi.

He opened WeChat only to find that they hadn’t chatted for a long time.

The chat history was still stuck in last month.

Yiyi: I’ve left the key at the apartment entrance.

Yiyi: Thank you for taking care of me this year.

He Shen hadn’t replied to these two messages.

He expressionlessly clicked “Select multiple messages,” and selected all the way up, finally deleting them all with one click.

Until the message history stopped at a time before they broke up.

It was a voice message.

At midnight, Zhu Yiyi whispered: “Dear Mr. He Shen, good night.”

He Shen listened to it countless times over and over again.

The early autumn in Beijing, the sunset dyed half the sky red, the light reflected back and forth between the towering buildings, it was already time for Timeshun employees to get off work.

He Shen calculated the time and sent two messages.

He Shen: Off work yet?

He Shen: I’ll drive you back to the apartment.

It was the same tone and sentence structure as before, as if they had never broken up.

Zhu Yiyi: I’m off work.

Zhu Yiyi: No need, Mr. He, I’m already on the subway, I’ll be at your place soon.

She replied with a distant and indifferent tone.

As if she wanted to carry out what she said on the day of the breakup – to return to their original positions.

He Shen turned the phone over on the desk.

After a long time, he replied: Okay.

On the other side, Zhu Yiyi exited the subway station and walked towards “Jia Yue Bay.”

It was the most luxurious residential area in Beijing, with a price of hundreds of thousands per square meter.

He Shen’s apartment was there.

Zhu Yiyi remembered the first time she came to this place, where every inch of land was valuable, was because she was delivering an urgent document to He Shen.

It was a stormy night, she had tried everything, but the security guard still stopped her at the entrance of the community, with a contemptuous tone: “What do you think this place is? You can’t just come in like this, I don’t want to lose my job! Someone like you, a poor person, you’ll never be able to afford a toilet here even if you work your whole life!”

Zhu Yiyi was soaked through, like a drowned chicken, she walked back dejectedly.

“Wait.”

A rapid sound of footsteps suddenly rang out in the rain.

Zhu Yiyi stood there, stunned.

The next moment, a black umbrella covered her head, shielding her from the wind and rain.

She raised her head abruptly.

He Shen held the umbrella with one hand: “Sorry, I just received a call from my assistant, he said someone delivered an urgent document, but they didn’t have my personal contact information, so they’ve been waiting outside the community.”

Zhu Yiyi remembered her current state of dishevelment, she was too embarrassed to face anyone, she lowered her head and her voice was very small: “Mr. He, here’s the document.”

She presented it with both hands.

But he didn’t take it.

Instead, he took off his coat and carefully draped it over her.

Zhu Yiyi stared at him blankly.

“Summer rain can easily make you catch a cold,” he explained.

At that moment, the anxiety of work, the humiliation of the security guard, and the overwhelming sense of grievance all reached their peak after He Shen’s comfort, Zhu Yiyi, who was always carefree, suddenly had tears in her eyes.

It was the first time she cried in front of someone else, and in front of her boss, whom she had only met a few times, she cried without any image.

Like a child who had suffered a great injustice.

He Shen waited quietly, until she calmed down, he said calmly: “Wait for the rain to stop at my place.”

That was the first time Zhu Yiyi entered his private domain.

The apartment was clean, tidy, and without any trace of human life.

Just like him, purer than moonlight, unattainable.

She was most surprised by He Shen’s study.

Two-story bookshelves, each shelf filled with collector’s editions, and a wooden spiral staircase covered with a sheepskin rug, going straight up.

At that time, Zhu Yiyi’s mouth was open wider than a duck egg, in her ordinary vision and simple life, everything in the apartment was like a fairy tale.

She couldn’t imagine that later, after she started dating He Shen, she would often lie on that wooden spiral staircase.

Doing intimate things with him.

“Ms. Zhu, you haven’t been here for a long time, welcome welcome!”

After their relationship started, Zhu Yiyi often went in and out of the community, the security guard had already changed his attitude to one of respect.

Zhu Yiyi wanted to say that she probably wouldn’t be coming back anymore –

But she didn’t say it out loud.

She nodded and walked into the community.

She went all the way to the 29th floor.

This place was one household per floor, with high privacy.

Zhu Yiyi stepped out of the elevator, walked towards the apartment door, and pressed the doorbell several times.

No one answered.

He Shen should not be back yet.

She found a place to stand and wait, bored, she squatted down and played a match-three game.

When she got tired of squatting, she simply sat on the ground.

Anyway, they had broken up now, she didn’t need to care about her image.

He Shen saw this scene when he came out of the elevator.

The little girl, who didn’t know how long she had been waiting, was squatting on the ground, her head leaning against the wall, her eyes closed, she was asleep.

The match-three game in her hand was stuck on the last step.

He furrowed his brows, quickened his pace, and his leather shoes made a crisp sound on the floor.

Like a wake-up call.

After Zhu Yiyi became pregnant, besides being prone to nausea, she also became very sleepy. But she wasn’t completely asleep, she woke up after a few sounds, she rubbed her eyes: “Mr. He, are you back?”

“The floor is cold, get up.”

He said, without waiting for her to refuse, he pulled her up.

Zhu Yiyi quickly pulled back her hand, “It’s okay, I only sat for a few minutes.”

He Shen looked at his empty palm, after a few seconds, he returned to normal, “Why didn’t you go in directly? I haven’t changed the password.”

“You haven’t changed it…”

Actually, she knew.

But when they were dating, Zhu Yiyi had seen many valuable things in the apartment with her own eyes.

A black coral ornament, worth hundreds of thousands.

A landscape painting, an authentic piece, priceless!

Even the carpet at his doorstep was imported from abroad, worth hundreds of thousands.

It was truly “gold everywhere.”

Zhu Yiyi: “It’s not good to just walk into someone else’s house.”

He Shen pursed his lips, turned around silently and opened the door.

The apartment was very different from a month ago.

Zhu Yiyi was confused, not only were all the large ornaments gone, but the entire room was covered in plush carpets, even if you bumped into something, it wouldn’t hurt. The color was white like feathers, clean like snow pearls, she stepped on it, it was simply a waste of beauty.

She stayed where she was and didn’t dare to go in.

He Shen changed his shoes at the entrance, walked inside, poured a glass of warm water from the bar, and turned around, he found Zhu Yiyi still standing at the entrance.

“Why don’t you come in?”

“…Just walk in like this?” She moved her little white shoes that were covered in mud.

“Your slippers are still there.”

Zhu Yiyi was stunned.

He Shen’s eyes moved to the living room, “I haven’t had time to throw them away.”

“Oh, it’s okay, I’ll take them down for Mr. He later.”

“…”

Zhu Yiyi put her bag at the entrance, changed her shoes and came in, “Can I go to the study?”

This time it wasn’t her being fussy.

There were confidential company documents on the computer in the study.

He Shen didn’t say anything, he turned around and added some hot water to the cup, “Drink some water.”

Zhu Yiyi moved her dry lips, “Thank you.”

After drinking a glass of warm water, her whole body felt much better.

The temperature in the apartment was also just right.

Zhu Yiyi, who was pregnant, was more prone to feeling hot than usual, she often wanted to take off her clothes at work, but she was afraid of catching a cold, so she could only make do with what she was wearing.

It was especially comfortable at He Shen’s place.

She didn’t notice that the temperature in the apartment had been lowered by one degree.

The two of them went upstairs.

Zhu Yiyi was in front, He Shen was behind.

The study was on the second floor, next to the master bedroom and the guest bedroom.

The guest bedroom was Zhu Yiyi’s.

In the past, when Zhu Yiyi went on business trips, the old and small community where she lived had very inconvenient transportation, in order to avoid getting up early and getting stuck in traffic, she would stay at He Shen’s place the night before. But at first, she would sleep in the guest bedroom for the first half of the night, and then He Shen would finish work, take a shower, and carry her to the master bedroom to sleep.

She would always be sleepy, “Finished working?”

He would pat her back, gently coaxing her: “Yeah, no work tonight, go back to sleep.”

Zhu Yiyi blushed and rolled into his arms, quietly scolding him for being shameless.

He laughed, his chest vibrating slightly.

Suddenly, a question came from above.

“What’s wrong?”

Zhu Yiyi immediately came back to her senses, she suddenly felt embarrassed, she looked around nervously, “Nothing, nothing.”

She pushed open the door of the study, it was also covered in carpet, just like the living room.

It was probably He Shen’s preparation for the winter, he was afraid of the cold.

Zhu Yiyi searched through the desks, she couldn’t find it, and finally went to the drawers.

As soon as she opened it, there was a full box of condoms.

The top one was open, Zhu Yiyi even remembered how many were used inside.

Because she was the one who opened it.

She was also the one who put it on him.

“Can’t find it?”

He Shen came in from outside the door.

Zhu Yiyi’s hand trembled, she accidentally pulled the drawer open, and everything inside spilled out onto the floor.

The box of open condoms rolled to He Shen’s feet.

Against his leather shoes.

He Shen picked it up with one hand, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and asked knowingly: “What is this?”

Zhu Yiyi’s face instantly burned red.