Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Be her umbrella. ...

The answer to him was endless silence.

Lin Zhuowen's heart suddenly sank. For rich children like them, it is normal that they cannot have both love and marriage. Therefore, there are many comprehensive methods, such as open relationship, and mutual use of contract marriage. As long as the media does not take pictures of gossip, they can perform a happy marriage in front of others.

And now, Zhuang Youkai's hesitation is not whether he is interested in Zhao Manzhi. On the contrary, he seems to be seriously considering whether he can give her a future. In the fierce game between reason and emotion, it is indeed impossible to quickly determine the tone.

He shook his head helplessly, "It is said that it is difficult for a rich family to produce a romantic man, but your Zhuang family has produced two at once."

In addition to the person in front of him, there is another one, Yingjie.

In those years, the rumor that the rich girl was obsessed with the poor singer was rampant. In the end, she thought it through and let go, and then she became a rich lady in Singapore.

Zhuang Youkai, who has always been calm, is now in love. You can imagine how irrational he is. I'm afraid that even ten cows can't pull him back. Lin Zhuowen rested his chin on his hand and thought for a while. After a long time, he tactfully advised, "Actually, if it's really with Xu Lingxin, she is a playboy and has a boyfriend. She definitely doesn't mind you having someone else outside. This matter is not black and white. You set too high a moral limit for yourself——"

"It's not me, it's Zhao Manzhi." Zhuang Youkai felt a pain in his heart when he thought of her hiding in the haze. "According to her personality, she would rather die than live this kind of life without seeing the sun. I will never do that."

Lin Zhuowen was helpless and sighed. "If you stay with students for a long time, you will think about pure love. Forget it, happiness is the most important thing. Don't worry about things two hours later and eight kilometers away."

He straightened his coat and prepared to go out. He remembered what Zhuang Youkai said just now and asked, "Hey, do you want to prepare the ice skin?"

Zhuang Youkai looked out the window at the gradually gathering dark clouds and nodded slightly. Half a minute later, he heard Lin Zhuowen open the door and go out. The moment the wooden door lock tongue closed, a muffled thunder roared and cracked the sky and the earth, like a gavel falling heavily, sentencing his love to end in vain.

*

Zhao Manzhi, who was sorting out emails, was also startled by the thunder that was like the roar of a sleeping dragon, and her hands stopped moving and she looked sideways. Thunderstorms in southern China are swift, and within a moment, huge raindrops have already covered the sky.

She subconsciously glanced at the time. There was still about an hour before she got off work, but the rain had no intention of stopping within an hour. It swept away the humid summer air and announced the arrival of autumn to this island south of the Tropic of Cancer.

In such weather, how could she buy snowy mooncakes?

At that time, delivery services were not yet popular in Hong Kong Island, and the physical stores of well-known bakeries were in short supply, let alone the need to expand the online market. Even though she was anxious, she had no idea what to do. And it was unrealistic to ask anyone to run around in such weather. Zhao Manzhi hesitated for a long time while holding her phone, and finally called Fang Ling: "Xiao Ling, where are you now?"

"Ah? I'm down the mountain." There was some noise on the other end of the phone at Fang Ling, "What's wrong, Manman?"

"You're down the mountain, that's great." Zhao Manzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "Please go to the Maxim's at the door to see if there are any snow skin mooncakes left. If there are not many left, buy them all. I'll make up the money later. If not, forget it."

She looked at the movement in Zhuang Youkai's office, lowered her voice, and hesitated to lie, "I'm outside discussing sponsorship and can't get away for a while. Sorry to trouble you. I'll treat you to dinner later."

In fact, it only took five minutes to go downstairs to take a look. If Zhao Manzhi didn't need to stand by at any time, she wouldn't ask others for help.

"Okay, you're welcome. I'll go check for you first."

Fang Ling hung up the phone, looked at Chen Muchuan who was queuing to buy, and smiled very lightly. As expected of a princess, she didn't have to give orders, and there were knights who rushed for her after seeing a dynamic.

She waited for a moment, and saw Chen Muchuan walking out dejectedly, and asked, "Didn't buy it?"

Chen Muchuan shook the bag in his hand, "There are only two bags of two people, let's go to Mong Kok to have a look."

"Okay."

The wind and rain poured into the underground passage of the MTR. They squeezed in the hurried crowd to pass the gate. While waiting for the train to Mong Kok, Fang Ling suddenly said, "Manman called me just now."

"What did she say?"

"Let me help see if I can buy snow skin mooncakes." She chose her words and tried to appear calm, "She seems to be with Mr. Zhuang, it's not convenient for her to buy it herself."

After that, Fang Ling looked at Chen Muchuan's expression. As she wished, the other party's face darkened a little bit, and the blue veins could be vaguely seen on the back of his hand holding the shopping bag.

"The train to Huangpu is about to arrive. Please let the passengers get off first..."

Fang Ling took a half step back, and when most of the passengers had left, she was about to step forward, but was grabbed by the arm and pulled back.

She turned back to look at Chen Muchuan, "Aren't you going to Mong Kok?"

"No." Chen Muchuan forced a smile, "I don't know how long the rain will last. Let's find a shopping mall to eat and see what we can bring. After all, we are buying it for the kids in the group. If there is no snow skin, it would be better to prepare something else."

*

"Manman, these are the last two boxes. They are sold out everywhere. I really can't buy them."

Zhao Manzhi looked at the two boxes of snow skin mooncakes that Fang Ling took a photo and sent. It seems that these were snatched in a fierce battle. She really tried her best.

After all, it was her own mistake. She can blame the heavens, the earth, and herself for being unlucky, but she can't blame the people who helped. Zhao Manzhi replied to her with several "I love you" messages, and then sent a red envelope, "If it's not enough, I'll give you more, thank you Xiaoling!"

"This is what I should do." Although Fang Ling said this, she didn't take the money. Zhao Manzhi didn't want to force her, so she planned to buy her a small gift in Shenzhen tomorrow.

Now the most urgent thing is to solve the problem of snowy mooncakes. If they can't be bought, should we treat everyone to milk tea, or buy some Haagen-Dazs?

But the reason why snowy mooncakes are so expensive is because they are limited to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although milk tea and ice cream are of similar value, they can be eaten at any time, which also loses the special meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

She was thinking about it when a message from Li Ke suddenly popped up: "I just saw your FB. You are so unlucky that your things were stolen in just one day?"

"Yeah, I really want to find sister to find out who

did it. I suspect it was the group of people who had hotpot in the pantry last night, but there is no evidence." "We'll talk about this later. I did buy some for myself, there are three or five left, they are a little ugly after unpacking, do you want them? If you want, I'll bring them tomorrow."

It was like timely help! Zhao Manzhi wanted to kowtow to Li Ke across the screen, "Thank you, team leader, for saving my life!"

"Stop talking nonsense, you are the focus of our drama club now. In front of the God of Wealth, what are these snow skin mooncakes of mine?" Li Ke inquired, "How is it, when will the second sponsorship from the God of Wealth come?"

"You are really obsessed with money now."

"Ruan Wei and Cui Yuanyuan were so excited that they reported the budget for stage design and makeup to me overnight, counting on this money to make a big upgrade in costumes and props. You can't let them down."

Zhao Manzhi sighed helplessly. She had mortgaged her life to Huanye for this money. How could it be unreliable? Despite this, in order to reassure Li Ke, she still promised to ask about the progress later.

"Mandy."

"......Mr. Lin?" Zhao Manzhi tensed up when she was caught slacking off. She quickly reduced the chat interface. "Do you have any instructions?"

"Didn't you always say to just call me Gavin? Have you forgotten?" Lin Zhuowen smiled at her, still so gentle. "By the way, this is the employee welfare for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was originally issued yesterday. You didn't work yesterday and didn't receive it. I just notified the administration to bring it to you."

As he spoke, the girl behind him came forward with three gift bags. Zhao Manzhi took them in a hurry, looked at the exquisitely packaged gift box, and asked, "This is..."

"Oh, snowy mooncakes, with traditional flavors and newly developed ones. I don't know if you like them." Lin Zhuowen said as he thought, will he be punished by God for always telling lies? Maybe one day he should really ask Wong Tai Sin. "If you can't finish it, you can give it to friends and family. Huanye makes this kind of dessert at a very high level, which is very different from those bakeries outside."

"I love it!" Zhao Manzhi was so surprised that she almost jumped up, "Thank you, Mr. Gavin, this is the best Mid-Autumn Festival gift I have ever received!"

"I'm glad you like it. Then you continue to be busy. I'm leaving first."

"Have a good time."

After bidding farewell to Lin Zhuowen, Zhao Manzhi couldn't help but feel excited. She opened a bag, and the white smoke of dry ice in the insulation bag dispersed, revealing an exquisite gift box packaging.

There was no complicated packaging design, but a light gold-plated dark pattern, a restrained ribbon on the packaging, a small Huanye logo printed on the upper right corner, and a separate flavor card attached. Zhao Manzhi took it and could still smell the faint fragrance on it, which was the smell of the common fragrance of Huanye Hotel.

She looked at it carefully, but was afraid of bumping into the things inside, so she was extremely careful and didn't notice that the door to the general manager's office had been opened.

Zhuang Youkai stopped and looked at her. The girl's dark eyes were like falling stars, shining with joy. It was just a mooncake, but how could she be so happy?

He didn't know what kind of magic Zhao Manzhi had. Just seeing her happy, his heart seemed to be blown by a soft and warm spring breeze, and a smile appeared unconsciously on the corners of his mouth.

When Zhao Manzhi looked up, she happened to see this scene. The sound of the dripping rain seemed to isolate all the noise. Zhuang Youkai leaned against the door. His clean white shirt and black pants could not hide his slender and upright figure, adding a touch of nobleness that could not be desecrated. However, the tenderness that was about to overflow from his eyes made this awe disappear, and turned into three thousand spring river waters, quietly flowing through her heart.

She hurriedly put away her things and glanced at the time. Her porcelain-white face gradually turned red. "Why didn't Mr. Zhuang remind me?"

"Remind you of what?" "

It's time to get off work." She didn't dare to look at him. She lowered her head to organize her tote bag and the three boxes of mooncakes. Her heart was pounding. "You're out and you're still standing there laughing at me."

"It's raining so hard, I thought you wanted to wait for it to stop."

"What if it rains until late at night? I have to wait until late at night?" Zhao Manzhi smiled. "I agree, but security won't agree. The worst that can happen is that you get wet. Just go back and take a hot bath."

"It's easy to catch a cold that way."

"It's not like people never get sick. It's not uncommon to catch a cold." She was holding her things and waiting beside him obediently

. "Are you leaving now, Mr. Zhuang? I'll help you press the elevator." He nodded, and Zhao Manzhi trotted over and pressed the down button for the president's elevator. When the elevator door opened, she respectfully let him in, "Please."

After doing all this, she stepped out. Just as it was written in the employee code of conduct, you cannot take the executive elevator. There is a clear distinction between the two, and even stepping in is wrong.

The door was slowly closing.

Zhao Manzhi breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to press the employee elevator. Soon she heard the sound of the elevator door opening. She looked up, but it was not the one in front of her.

Before she could react, a strong hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the special elevator.

Familiar breath, familiar clothes, familiar... body temperature.

You don't even have to think about it, you can guess who did it.

When the elevator started to descend, she gently turned her wrist and tried to break free, "What are you doing..."

"I'll take you there." He said in a low voice, "This way you won't get wet and you won't catch a cold."

"But getting wet and catching a cold is no big deal..."

"I don't want to." He didn't want her to suffer, even a little bit.

In an instant, he suddenly realized that escaping out of fear of something happening was the most cowardly behavior, just like refusing to go out in order not to get wet, which actually only bound himself.

Before everything was settled, as long as he was able to be an umbrella of protection, he would not let this storm touch her at all.