The next day, at 7:30 in the morning, in the girls' dormitory, Duan Jiabao and Luo Yan were still sleeping in, but Jiang Xiaoguo and Liang Shuang got up early. Jiang Xiaoguo wore Duan Jiabao's newly bought white suit and prepared to go to work at the company, and went to do an interview with Manager Guo.
Seeing that Jiang Xiaoguo was wearing the same clothes as herself, Liang Shuang took off her white suit, changed into a pink hollow long skirt, slung a white Chanel bag over her shoulder, and hurriedly left the dormitory in a pair of crystal high heels.
Not long after Liang Shuang left, Jiang Xiaoguo also left the dormitory with her handbag slung over her shoulder. When she walked downstairs to the dormitory, she saw Golf driving to pick up Liang Shuang. Jiang Xiaoguo couldn't help but curl her lips, walked past the two of them, and went to work with her head held high.
After looking at Jiang Xiaoguo, Chen Zhuo looked at Liang Shuang who was standing in front of him and said with a smile:
"Why aren't you wearing that white suit?"
Liang Shuang pursed his lips and gestured to Jiang Xiaoguo:
"I don't want to wear the same clothes as others, especially Jiang Xiaoguo!"
"Jiang Xiaoguo, how did she offend you?"
"nothing!"
"Forget it, forget it. I'll buy a different one later!"
Seeing Liang Shuang looking unhappy, Chen Zhuo smiled, pushed the suitcase in his hand over and said:
"Take a look at the suitcase I bought for you. Isn't it beautiful?"
Seeing that Liang Shuang just looked at him without saying anything, Chen Zhuo smiled and said:
"I know you're still mad at me for leaving you alone at the InterContinental Hotel last night. But strictly speaking, it's all my dad's fault. He insisted that I go back to have dinner with my clients. What can I do about it, right ?"
Seeing Liang Shuang pouting and looking aggrieved, Chen Zhuo struck while the iron was hot:
"But, I bought your favorite suitcase early in the morning and came to the school to find you, right?"
"Chen Zhuo, I have a question for you!"
After looking at Chen Zhuo, Liang Shuang hesitated for a moment and said directly:
"When you met other pretty girls before, did you always spend money to buy things and make them happy?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Giving Liang Shuang a rather reproachful look, Chen Zhuo said seriously:
"Xiao Shuang, listen carefully. I have only done this to you and you alone. And I swear to heaven that I will only do this to you and you alone from the past to the present and in the future. Are you satisfied?"
"Don't you and I understand?"
Thinking of what Jiang Xiaoguo and Duan Jiabao had said, Liang Shuang tried:
"It's so fresh. You say you like me today, but it changes tomorrow, right?"
"That's not right!"
Hearing Liang Shuang say this, Chen Zhuo blurted out without thinking:
"My girlfriend is so pretty, she looks fresh no matter how you look at her, right?"
Hearing the same answers from Chen Zhuo and Jiang Xiaoguo, Liang Shuang couldn't help but continue asking:
"What if there's something better looking ?"
"impossible!"
Chen Zhuo smiled and said helplessly:
"You know, I'm so busy with work, how can I have time to care about other girls?"
"Chen Zhuo, you..."
Chen Zhuo's answers to the first and second questions were exactly the same as what Jiang Xiaoguo and Duan Jiabao predicted. Liang Shuang couldn't help but frown. In addition, Yuan Xudong said that Chen Zhuo already had a fiancée, so she couldn't help but start to worry. Her confidence in Chen Zhuo was not as firm as it was at the beginning. Could he really be lying to her?
"Xiao Shuang, Xiao Shuang?"
"ah?"
Hearing Chen Zhuo's voice, Liang Shuang woke up from her daze. Seeing her like this, Chen Zhuo couldn't help but said:
"No, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell today?"
As Chen Zhuo spoke , he stretched out his hand to touch her face. Liang Shuang slapped him away, shrugged his nose, sniffed the smoke in the air, and said angrily:
"Are you smoking again? Didn't you agree not to smoke?"
Seeing that Chen Zhuo was speechless, Liang Shuang became more and more annoyed and said:
"Now I really don't know which of your words are true and which are false!"
"I admit that smoking was wrong on my part, but..."
Without waiting for Chen Zhuo to finish explaining, Liang Shuang turned around and walked back to the girls' dormitory. Seeing her like this, Chen Zhuo quickly changed his words:
"Xiao Shuang, can I quit?"
Ignoring Chen Zhuo, Liang Shuang walked slowly. Just when she was about to step into the girls' dormitory, she stopped, ready to wait for Chen Zhuo to catch up with her and coax her. Unfortunately, not only did Chen Zhuo not catch up with her, but he drove away from the school and even took the suitcase that was originally intended for her back with him. Looking at the BMW driving away, Liang Shuang could not help but pout. This time she was really angry. She found that apart from buying things to coax her, Chen Zhuo did not seem to care about her as much as she thought.
At the same time, Jiang Xiaoguo rushed to her company. As usual, she made herself a cup of ginger tea, then sat down at her seat and started working. She sorted out and revised the interview materials that Manager Guo gave her while sighing. Seeing her sighing like this, the colleague sitting next to her couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Xiao Guo, what's wrong with you?"
“Look at this!”
Jiang Xiaoguo showed the annotated interview materials to his colleague next to him, shook his head, pointed to the idiom "Three people make a tiger" and said:
"Three people make a tiger. The original metaphor is that if more people say something, the falsehood will become true. It doesn't mean there is strength in numbers. This is too outrageous. I can't stand it!"
“Isn’t this too illiterate?”
Seeing that there is such a weirdo in the company, the colleague next to him couldn't help but complain:
"Who wrote this? Graduated from kindergarten, right?"
After taking a look around, Jiang Xiaoguo slid over to his colleague and whispered:
"Ah Tang!"
"Ah Tang?"
Hearing Ah Tang's name, the colleague glanced at her workstation and thought to himself, you can't judge a person by appearance. A journalist who looks gentle and refined can actually misunderstand the meaning of "three people make a tiger". If people outside knew about this, wouldn't they laugh their heads off?
"How can I work with her from now on?"
While Jiang Xiaoguo was sorting out and revising the interview materials full of loopholes, she was whispering with her colleague next to her. At this moment, Manager Guo walked past the two of them with documents and heard Jiang Xiaoguo's words. Perhaps because he was guilty, Manager Guo concluded without a second thought that Jiang Xiaoguo was gossiping about himself with other colleagues. He walked past with a blank expression and returned to his office to work.
About half an hour later, Jiang Xiaoguo sorted out and revised the interview materials and rewrote an interview outline. She took the rewritten interview outline and a cup of coffee and walked into Manager Guo's office. Manager Guo was sitting at his seat instructing Ah Tang on a work project.
"From now on, just do your best to complete the tasks I assign to you. I don't want to hear any doubts, okay?"
"Okay, Director!"
After seeing Manager Guo finish speaking, Jiang Xiaoguo glanced at Ah Tang who was standing in front of Manager Guo's desk, then handed the coffee and the interview outline he had written to Manager Guo and said with a smile:
"Boss, coffee!"
Without paying any attention to Jiang Xiaoguo, Manager Guo directly snatched the interview outline from her hand and started reading it. Jiang Xiaoguo smiled awkwardly and put the coffee in her hand on Manager Guo's desk. Then she stood aside and waited for Manager Guo's instructions. Just as Jiang Xiaoguo was happily waiting for Manager Guo to go with her for the interview, Manager Guo closed the interview outline she had written and handed it to Ah Tang at the desk, saying:
"Tang, come with me to the interview this afternoon. Go back and prepare well!"
"Okay, Director!"
Seeing Ah Tang walking out with the interview outline he had written, Jiang Xiaoguo slightly widened her eyes. She looked at Manager Guo hesitantly and said:
"Boss, what do I do?"
"Are you free?"
Looking up at Jiang Xiaoguo, Manager Guo said calmly:
"If you have nothing else to do, change the bucket in the tea room. It should be running out of water soon!"
Hearing that Manager Guo wanted to change the bucket in the tea room himself, Jiang Xiaoguo stammered:
"But...but I'm ready for the interview. I...I..."
"Didn't you say that you couldn't work with someone like me?"
"ah?"
"Ah what?"
Manager Guo frowned and pushed the coffee on the table and said:
"Take this away, I don't drink black coffee!"
"Okay, Director!"
The carefully prepared interview ended in such a mess, and Manager Guo disliked her. Jiang Xiaoguo walked out dejectedly with her coffee in her hand, and then changed the water bucket in the tea room, silently mourning her misfortune in her heart.
In the afternoon, after Manager Guo and Ah Tang came back from their interviews, the company held a department meeting to solicit news proposals. No one had any good ideas, but at this time, someone proposed the blind date investigation project that Jiang Xiaoguo had mentioned.
"How about dating apps? I remember Jiang Xiaoguo mentioned to me before that she wanted to write an article about blind dates and dating apps. I think this is a good idea. What do you think?"
"How popular are dating apps, Lao Guo?"
"ah?"
Hearing the company leader asking about him, Manager Guo glanced at Jiang Xiaoguo who had remained silent, and then said with a guilty conscience:
"I can't judge this. I put all my energy into work and have no time to think about emotional issues!"
After listening to Manager Guo, the colleague next to him continued:
"So, young people nowadays are very busy with work, so their social circle is too small, and it is difficult to find a suitable partner in life, so there are still many users of dating apps..."
Listening to what her colleagues said, Jiang Xiaoguo picked up the coffee on the table and drank it. Her eyes were hiding behind the cup as she stared at Manager Guo who was sitting opposite her. Seeing her looking at him like this, Manager Guo couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, fearing that Jiang Xiaoguo would be impulsive and want to die with him, and reveal all her special hobbies in front of the company leaders. Just when Manager Guo was enduring Jiang Xiaoguo's death gaze and wanted to say something to save the situation, the colleague next to him said excitedly:
"There's one right here, a very kind man, only one meter away from us!"
"Let me see, let me see!"
"Look at this profile picture, it's quite pretentious, who is this?"
The colleague next to him was using the dating app, checking the profile and photos of the "peerless warm man", while looking around and smiling:
"Who is it? Tell the truth. Huang Yongzheng, is it you?"
"I?"
Huang Yongzheng, whose name was called, smiled and said:
"Do I need a blind date?"
"It's not Huang Yongzheng, the age is written as 35!"
A colleague next to him interrupted, and then he looked at Manager Guo who was a little fidgety and joked:
"Hey, Lao Guo, aren't you exactly thirty-five? This so-called 'peerless warm man', could it be you?"
"How is that possible? I'm only... thirty-five years old!"
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Manager Guo said awkwardly:
"It could be... someone from another floor, above our floor, or below, it could be anything!"
"No way?"
Seeing Manager Guo looking so guilty, the colleague next to him couldn't help but laugh:
"A truly warm-hearted man, male, and 35 years old. Is this really such a coincidence?"
"Yes, Manager Guo, is it you?"
"Didn't you say you were busy with work and didn't have time to think about emotional issues?"
…
Seeing that everyone was making fun of Manager Guo, Jiang Xiaoguo stood up and said boldly:
"No need to look for it, I know who this 'peerless warm man' is."
"Who is it?"
"Who is it?"
"Hurry up and tell me!"
…
"yes……"
Glancing at the fidgeting Manager Guo, Jiang Xiaoguo saw that he was also looking at her. Their eyes met, and she could see that Manager Guo was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Jiang Xiaoguo said boldly:
"It's me, the 'peerless warm man' is me!"
"you?"
"Gender: male, age: thirty-five?"
“Is this true or false?”
"Are you kidding me?"
"Who would believe you?"
Seeing that no one believed him, Jiang Xiaoguo said directly:
"Gender: male, age: 35, profile: I only want to warm you up, right?"
“It’s true!”
"It's written in the introduction, it's just for you!"
"Jiang Xiaoguo, you can do it!"
"Why?"
Seeing everyone discussing at once, Jiang Xiaoguo smiled and said:
"I'm also doing this for work. I'm writing an article about blind dates, right? In order to get more comprehensive information, I registered two accounts. This way, I can convince others that I'm a truly 'heartwarming man', and only then will they accept my interviews!"
“Oh~~”
“So that’s how it is!”
"Great job, Jiang Nuannan!"
“I have an idea, I have an idea!”
"That's probably what it is like. Sorry to make you all laugh!"
After explaining, Jiang Xiaoguo sat down again. When no one was paying attention, she looked at the stunned Manager Guo, nodded slightly and blinked. The meaning was self-evident. From now on, everyone is on the same boat. I have taken such a big blame for you, how can you not help me?
…
After the meeting, Manager Guo was very satisfied with Jiang Xiaoguo's performance. He called her to the office to encourage her and let her take full charge of the next blind date project. When night fell, the two went to the company cafeteria to eat together. Colleagues who knew her joked with her:
"Jiang Nuannan, when are you free, share your experience with us, how can we become a popular man on the dating website?"
"That's right, brother, teach us if you have the chance!"
"Okay, there's a chance to teach, there's a chance to teach!"
…
In the company cafeteria, near a window, Manager Guo and Jiang Xiaoguo sat opposite each other. Manager Guo ordered a pizza, and Jiang Xiaoguo ordered a bowl of skewers. She picked a skewer of tofu and handed it to Manager Guo, who was sitting opposite her, and said with a smile:
"Manager, would you like some tofu?"
"No, I don't eat tofu!"
Seeing Jiang Xiaoguo eating the braised tofu with gusto, Manager Guo adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and said meaningfully:
"Xiao Jiang, don't take what others say too seriously!"
"Why don't you take it to heart?"
While eating the braised tofu, Jiang Xiaoguo looked at Manager Guo with eyes slightly wide open and said cutely:
"Isn't this a compliment to my strong business ability?"
"You post-90s people are the ones who are most clear-headed!"
Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaoguo would say this. Manager Guo smiled and said:
"By the way, Xiao Jiang, why don't you complete the formalization procedures this week?"
Hearing Manager Guo say that he could apply for a permanent job this week, Jiang Xiaoguo could not help but say excitedly:
"Boss, what day is it?"
"What day is it? Let me see!"
As Manager Guo was talking, he was groping for his phone. Seeing that he couldn't find it after searching for a long time, Jiang Xiaoguo couldn't help but say:
"Boss, did you forget your cell phone?"
“Maybe I forgot it in the office!”
"I'll get it for you, take your time eating!"
After saying that, without waiting for Manager Guo to speak, Jiang Xiaoguo jumped and ran to his office, looking for his phone on his desk. Before he could find it, he accidentally found an original interview document. At this time, a colleague passed by and saw Jiang Xiaoguo was still in Manager Guo's office. He walked over and said with a smile:
"Jiang Xiaoguo, let's go and eat!"
"Three... three people make a tiger!"
"What?"
"Three people make a tiger!"
Jiang Xiaoguo showed the original interview materials in his hand to his colleague next to him, and pointed at the words "Three people make a tiger" on it and said depressedly:
"The supervisor wrote this!"
"So this illiterate guy is Manager Guo!"
"Shh, keep your voice down!"
"Forget about it, it's just an idiom. Let's go and eat!"
"You go first, I'm still looking for his phone!"
"Then I'm leaving!"
“Hmm~~”
After his colleague left, Jiang Xiaoguo continued to look for his phone. At this moment, some WeChat messages popped up on Manager Guo's computer.
"Brother, when are you free?"
"Brother, when will you have plenty of time?"
"Honey, are you working overtime tonight?"
"If we have time, why don't we go to the hotel to arrange our son's full moon banquet!"
…
Looking at the WeChat message on the computer screen, Jiang Xiaoguo couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly. She always thought that Manager Guo was single, and it was understandable for such a man to go on blind dates with other girls. However, she didn't expect that Manager Guo not only had a wife, but also had a child who was already one month old. What she hated most in her life was cheating men, especially those who cheated even after having children, because her father was such a scumbag. When she was very young, he left her and her mother to be with another woman.