When Mai Xiaoshu woke up again, it was already midnight.
The warm yellow light shone on her face. When she opened her eyes with difficulty, the shadow of the light made her vision blurry. After a while of adjusting, she straightened up and climbed up, and found herself lying on a hospital bed.
"Awake?"
A gentle voice came from the door, and Jiang Xingye walked towards her slowly. Seeing that she woke up, his originally frowned brows finally relaxed.
"President... why am I in the hospital?" Mai Xiaoshu scratched his head, trying hard to recall what happened, but only fragments remained.
"The doctor said that you ate too quickly and ate too much, which caused a lack of oxygen to your brain and caused you to faint." Jiang Xingye had just come out of the doctor's office and told her the cause of the illness in a natural manner.
"Oh, thank you...you...ah..." Hearing his answer, Mai Xiaoshu felt ashamed and his voice became smaller and smaller.
Jiang Xingye heard her soft humming and couldn't help but curl his thin lips.
"Do not laugh!"
Jiang Xingye was everyone's prince charming. If possible, she didn't want to admit in front of him that she fainted because of eating too much.
She lowered her head and covered her face with her hands, trying her best to hide her embarrassment, but the pink on her ears did not escape Jiang Xingye's eyes.
Is this shyness?
Jiang Xingye just thought it was funny, rubbed her head lovingly, and comforted her: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else."
"Don't go back on your word!" Only after hearing his promise did she dare to raise her head, her expression both shy and full of expectation.
"Well! I promise not to go back on my word, otherwise I won't be able to have a girlfriend in this life!" Jiang Xingye solemnly covered his chest with one hand and made the promise with a smile in his eyes.
Mai Xiaoshu was immediately amused by him: "Wow, I don't want to cause a big disaster. The girls who like you can line up and circle the hospital three times. If they can't get you, they will blame me!"
Jiang Xingye deliberately held his forehead and sighed, "That's the best. It will save me a lot of trouble!"
After the joke, Jiang Xingye considerately handed Mai Xiaoshu a cup of water to warm her stomach, and looked at her worriedly: "By the way, are you trying to vent your feelings with food because you are too tired from working on the project? If so, I'll remind Cheng Ye not to put too much pressure on you."
"No." Mai Xiaoshu waved his hands quickly, but then he thought again, if Jiang Xingye knew the real reason why he overate to vent, it would be more embarrassing than fainting from eating too much.
She pursed her lips, hesitating, and said, "Well, I've been working overtime every day recently, and it's really hard... But I... I can get through it!"
Jiang Xingye was moved by Mai Xiaoshu's strength. He comforted her gently and shared a funny story about how he became a fat boy when he was a child because he loved food too much, trying to ease her embarrassment.
Before they knew it, they were chatting late into the night. The moon climbed up to the treetops, like a beautiful ornament inlaid in the peaceful night sky.
That night, Jiang Xingye returned home and lay on the bed and found that the moon outside the window was rounder and brighter than usual. Mai Xiaoshu's innocent smiling face faintly emerged in front of his eyes, and turned into a smile in his eyes.
He secretly told himself in his heart that he should cherish this hard-earned beauty.
The next day, the first thing Jiang Xingye did when he got to work was to rush to An Chengye's office. He wanted to ask for sick leave for Mai Xiaoshu, and at the same time remind his good friend that he should arrange his work tasks appropriately.
As soon as he stepped into the office, he saw An Chengye standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, talking on the phone with his back to the door... After a while, An Chengye replied to the other party in a serious tone: "Got it!" and then hung up the phone angrily.
An Chengye turned around with a frown on his face. Seeing Jiang Xingye at the door, he immediately complained to him, "Damn it! The project finally got on track, but the board of directors suddenly wanted to suspend the project because of overspending ."
"No way... This project has a huge return rate. They should have thought of the risks when they agreed to carry it out. Using such a flimsy reason as overspending to stop the project will only make all the previous efforts go to waste. They clearly know that we have put all our efforts into this fight!" Jiang Xingye realized that something was wrong and immediately got into work mode. "It must have been Uncle Yin who proposed it! That old fox has been coveting your shares and wants to join forces with others to bring you down!"
At this time, An Chengye's face had an uncertain expression. Jiang Xingye's guess was indeed the same as his.
"There are five people on the board of directors. You and I each have one vote. We need to get at least one vote from the other three directors. Do you have confidence?" Jiang Xingye added.
An Chengye shook his head, which surprised Jiang Xingye.
"Even if we don't have confidence, we have to try our best and start working." An Chengye stood up and patted Jiang Xingye on the shoulder. "Start collecting information now. You prepare the financial statements and I'll prepare the results presentation PPT. We'll hold a board meeting this afternoon and convince them with our results!"
"Well, don't worry, I will hand in a perfect report."
Jiang Xingye nodded heavily.
The two brothers have always had a tacit understanding and have overcome countless difficulties together. An Chengye said that he had no confidence, but Jiang Xingye knew him. He never fought a battle without confidence, so he believed that they would be able to overcome the difficulties.
Jiang Xingye was about to leave the office when An Chengye suddenly remembered Mai Xiaoshu and called him, "By the way, call Mai Xiaoshu to interact with the animals on the spot."
"She's in the hospital."
As soon as Jiang Xingye finished speaking, An Chengye frowned: "What's going on?"
Jiang Xingye looked at An Chengye whose expression suddenly changed, sighed, and told him that Mai Xiaoshu had fainted and was hospitalized last night.
An Chengye paused for a long time before his expression returned to normal: "Okay, I got it!"
After a busy day, the clock pointed to two o'clock in the afternoon, and the board meeting would start in an hour. An Chengye originally wanted to postpone the meeting, but Uncle Yin, who insisted on suspending the project, jumped out and objected fiercely: "If the project is carried out for one more day, it will cost one more day. If you are really confident that the project can be completed, why postpone the meeting? What are you afraid of?"
Uncle Yin's words made the other two board members, Uncle An and President Wei, worried. In the end, An Chengye had to follow everyone's wishes and hold the board meeting as originally planned.
Before An Chengye had time to eat lunch, the cell phone on the table rang.
"Aye? What's the matter?" An Chengye answered the phone.
"I've got it done here, what about you?"
"Me too."
"Really not going to invite Mai Xiaoshu?" Jiang Xingye's voice was a little hesitant on the other end of the phone. "You know, as long as we tell her that the situation is urgent, she will participate even if she is sick."
"No need, we can handle it." After chatting with Jiang Xingye, An Chengye looked at the mobile phone on the table, hesitating whether to send a condolence text message to Mai Xiaoshu.
For some reason, when he heard Jiang Xingye say that she was sick, he felt a complex emotion in his heart, both worry and dissatisfaction.
Why did Jiang Xingye know that she was sick? Shouldn't she be asking for leave from him?
Moreover, Jiang Xingye said that he stayed by her side last night and waited until she got better before leaving. When did they become so close?
An Chengye's handsome face wrinkled into a ball. After struggling for a long time, he finally typed out a few words:
I heard you were sick? Are you feeling better now?
After sending a caring but not overly attentive message via text message, he stared at the screen for a long time, but did not receive a reply. For this reason, An Chengye suspected that it was because of the poor signal, so he stood up with his phone and walked to the window, but after a long time, he still did not receive a reply.
"If you don't come back, never come back!"
Along with this reproach, he childishly threw his phone onto the sofa with a "bang", his face full of dissatisfaction.
Jian Jun, who just walked into the office, saw An Chengye yelling at the air, and stepped back in fear. He knocked on the door nervously, "Boss, are you okay?"
Realizing that his actions just now had been discovered, An Chengye twitched the corners of his mouth, sat up straight, and coughed lightly, trying to find an excuse for his childish behavior: "There is no sound when I call, this broken phone should be replaced."
"But I just heard you say 'don't reply', it doesn't sound like you're angry because your phone is broken..." Jian Jun looked at An Chengye with a strange expression.
"Of course it's true. Do I have to lie to you?" An Chengye glared at Jian Jun. In order to quickly end this inexplicable conversation, he immediately said in a harsh voice, "Where are the materials I asked you to prepare? You're taking so long!"
Jian Jun came out after finishing the report. Standing at the door of the office, he patted his chest and said with lingering fear: "I'm so scared. Why is the boss so moody lately?"