Chapter 74 chapter 74 You are aloof, then don't...

When Zhuang Youkai came to pick up Peiyi, he saw Zhao Manzhi stacking the dining table and chairs to change the light bulb. Peiyi helped her hold on, with a nervous look on her face, "Sister, why don't you let my brother do it?"

Zhao Manzhi was trembling a little because of her fear of heights. Hearing this, which sounded like a provocation, she gritted her teeth and stood up, "No, I can do it."

"But..."

"Don't be stubborn." After watching for a while, he walked over to change Peiyi, held the chair, raised his face, and asked her with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Have you started practicing gymnastics?"

Zhao Manzhi didn't want to pay attention to his teasing. As if turning a deaf ear to him, she unscrewed the broken light bulb and handed it to Zhuang Youkai, then moved her chin to the side, "Give me that one."

Zhuang Youkai picked up the new light bulb and handed it over.

This was not her first time living alone, and she was quite good at handling these small matters. It could only be said that she had not yet developed the talent for cooking. Apart from fast food, she could not cook anything decent, otherwise

she would be a hexagonal warrior with living alone skills. After quickly installing it, Zhao Manzhi patted the dust off her hands and said to him proudly, "As an independent woman, I am very experienced in this area, so if there are small problems that cannot be solved, you don't need to ask a repairman, you can just ask - ah!"

Joy turns to sorrow. She was so busy with her success that she forgot that she was still standing on the stool that Zhuang Youkai was holding. When he let go, the dining chair shook. Zhao Manzhi was so scared that her face turned pale and she dared not move.

Zhuang Youkai pretended to be surprised, "Independent woman?"

"Why did you let go?" She squatted down tremblingly, holding the back of the chair, "Peiyi, help your sister."

Peiyi stepped forward happily, but was glared back by Zhuang Youkai.

"Peiyi is still growing. If you fall and crush her spine, who will be held responsible?" He reluctantly opened his hands to her, "You don't know how to use a ready-made person."

Zhao Manzhi rolled her eyes, walked around him, slowly stepped on the table and got off.

She didn't even look at him during the process.

As soon as she got home, Zhuang Peiyi sighed in pain, "How can you chase girls like this? There's no way you can catch them!"

Based on her observation just now, it was only Sister Mandy who was kind-hearted, otherwise she would have kicked this arrogant guy out long ago.

Zhuang Youkai ignored him, "Have you finished your homework? If not, go and finish it."

"I can get full marks for such trivial things even if I close my eyes." Zhuang Peiyi was a smart little girl, and she already spoke in Zhuang Youkai's tone, "What's important is you, you can't have this attitude!" "

Why can't you?"

She really judged seriously, "It's a taboo to say one thing and mean another. You want to care about her, but you can't say it out loud. All she hears is you constantly pouring cold water and saying harsh words. How can she be close to you?"

Zhuang Youkai sneered, "Little kid knows shit."

"..." Peiyi was silent, "For example, for this sentence, Sister Mandy will say very gently that I'm still young and don't understand."

"And you, you can only say you know shit."

"That's the difference."

She now suspected that the man in front of her could graduate from Eton College because his family had a lot of money.

Peiyi wanted to say something, but it was obvious that the other party had lost interest in listening. He leaned back on the sofa, crossed his long legs on the footstool, and started to look at the report with a tablet. He shook his finger and motioned her to go play.

"I'm serious! Brother, you can't be like this." Peiyi risked her life to advise, "Sister Mandy also said that she likes gentle people the most. If you don't change, there will be no hope."

Unfortunately, the tyrant only sneered, "You like gentle people, so you were deceived by that ribs?"

"Which ribs?"

"You don't know him."

The top priority for these two people is to learn how to avoid judging people by appearance.

Peiyi is young and can still be saved, but what about Zhao Manzhi...

He thought, his eyebrows raised.

"Did she say anything else besides saying that she likes gentle people?"

Zhuang Peiyi recalled with her big round eyes.

Sister Mandy is very beautiful and speaks gently, but when she mentioned this topic to her, she felt a kind of inexplicable sadness.

When the lights dimmed, she wanted to change the subject, but it was Zhuang Peiyi who asked impatiently that Zhao Manzhi sighed.

"Maybe I liked your brother before, but I was young at that time and didn't know what I wanted. He is very good, but not the kind of good I want. He stands in too high a position, so he can't put himself in others' shoes to care about others. So in comparison, I still prefer someone who can stay with me, understand my feelings, and be gentle and considerate."

As she said this, she pinched the little girl's collagen-rich face, "You don't understand it now, but you will understand it when you grow up."

How should she tell Zhuang Youkai these words? Her Chinese level is not as good as her English. She turned it around in her mind for several times and didn't know how to phrase it.

In the end, she had to pick a few key words to say.

"Well, she said she wanted to care about people, stay with her, and be gentle and considerate." Peiyi counted on her fingers to make sure she didn't miss anything, and then nodded, "That's it."

These characteristics are indeed very different from her brother. No wonder Sister Mandy is so sad.

She would be sad too.

"She knows shit." This time, this rude comment fell on Zhao Manzhi.

Zhuang Peiyi stopped him immediately, "If you continue like this, you will be further and further away from your wife!"

"Even if you are pretending, can't you be gentle to her?"

Zhuang Youkai refused directly, "I won't pretend for anyone."

"Okay, you are noble." Peiyi said, "Then don't live next door to her for now."

"..."

The next morning, Zhao Manzhi met Peiyi when she went out. Seeing the two dark circles under her eyes, she asked with concern, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

"Oh... nothing." She was just dragged to review her homework in advance, and she almost had to learn calculus.

The elevator reached the G floor. Zhao Manzhi walked out as usual, but was stopped by Zhuang Youkai, "It's raining today, I'll take you."

She looked out and saw that the rain was fine and dense. It was indeed not a good weather to take the MTR.

"Thank you."

Peiyi's school was close, so she got off the car first, and then Zhuang Youkai drove her to the venue.

It has been a while since we officially entered the site to set up the exhibition. For convenience, the group meeting was also held nearby. Because the exhibition hall is far away, Zhuang Youkai sometimes can't make it, so he asked Jeffery to do it.

Yu Lili felt sorry for this, "I don't know what Director Raymond is busy with recently. I haven't seen him for a long time."

It's not that no one has doubted his identity. At that time, a girl said that she asked her friends in Huanye about Raymond's situation. The other party was stunned and said, "Raymond does exist, but in Huanye, it usually refers to only one person, that is, our chairman."

But if you ask him what the chairman looks like, he has no idea. After all, he is busy with all kinds of things, and small fish and shrimps like them will never see him.

Talking about this, everyone present was shocked, "...Impossible?"

Not to mention whether the person who sits in the top chair of the board of directors and fights with those old foxes every day is so young, just judging from the magnitude of this small project, no matter how much Huanye attaches importance to it, it is impossible for the chairman to come in person to supervise it. When discussing these things, Zhao Manzhi was always very quiet. On the one hand, she was not interested, but more importantly , she did not want to be involved. She knew how petty Zhuang Youkai was. 

Therefore, when she suddenly got a ride with Director Raymond, she was afraid that people in the same group would see her, so she asked him to drop her off at the intersection. The last section of the road was only a hundred meters, so she would not be embarrassed to walk there. 

Zhuang Youkai pondered for a moment and agreed. 

As soon as he opened the car door, fine rain rushed in. Zhao Manzhi quickly opened the umbrella, turned around and thanked him again, as if they were not familiar with each other. 

He nodded and said nothing. 

The car door was closed, and the sound of the rain was isolated outside. The raindrops that had leaked in without paying attention just now left a trace of dampness on the seat. 

He wiped it with a tissue, and when he looked up, the reflection in the rearview mirror caught his eyes. 

A man followed Zhao Manzhi, walking towards the venue with laughter and chatter, wishing that the wrinkles on his face would burst. 

He vaguely remembered that it was someone from the project team, and Zhao Manzhi was not the kind of person who liked to flirt with other people. 

Then it could only be that someone was plotting something bad. 

No one knew what happened to Raymond, who was always gentle and kind. At the meeting today, he criticized the progress reports of many companies. The most unlucky one was Bruce from Wondershare, who was criticized for having almost no merit. 

Bruce was also confused. He knew that Wondershare's progress was a bit slow recently, and he was also slacking off, but Raymond had turned a blind eye to things in the past, so he didn't get so angry all of a sudden. 

But no one dared to say anything to refute him. After all, Raymond's aura was really majestic today, as if he was really the chairman who was elusive. 

They had lunch together, and after lunch they would go to watch the construction of the exhibition hall, so they took this opportunity to talk more. 

"Today was so scary. My palms were sweaty when I was reporting. Fortunately, the questions Raymond asked were not too harsh." A girl said, glancing at Bruce, "Bruce is so unlucky! Oh my God, did he scold for about five minutes?" 

Today's unlucky chief sighed, "There's nothing I can do. I know I'm doing a bad job. I can't move forward without the company's budget approval. I had already planned to explain to Raymond, but I didn't expect him to get so angry." 

Yu Lili wrinkled her nose, "He looked unhappy when he came in. I thought at the time that I had to be more obedient today." 

"Did you feel that way? Raymond's behavior was like he had been heartbroken." 

Zhao Manzhi was drinking ice lemon tea, and almost spit it out when she heard this. She finally managed to hold it back and coughed a few times. 

Yu Lili patted her on the back and continued to gossip. "Sad and melancholy, even a little inexplicable anger, these expressions appeared on Raymond's face together, just like a fallen god. But I am curious, Raymond can also be heartbroken?" 

"He looks like the kind of person who lingers in the flowers, is he still a romantic?" 

The discussion about Raymond did not last too long. There was not much time for lunch break. After a quick meal, everyone devoted themselves to their busy work. 

Guangyi participated in the exhibition for the first time, and Zhao Manzhi had to personally contact and understand many matters. Katrina used herself to guarantee that the project would be done well, and the progress was closely monitored. 

Zhao Manzhi did not dare to relax for a moment. From the exhibition layout to the materials, and then to every link, she had to personally confirm it. She was busy until after nine o'clock in the evening. 

She walked out of the venue and prepared to take a taxi, but saw Zhuang Youkai's black Benz parked on the side of the road. 

It was still the place where she got off in the morning, but the pouring rain had stopped long ago. The slightly hot and humid night breeze seemed to hit her cheek. 

Zhao Manzhi stood there and thought for a while, then moved forward and pulled the door