Reborn as the ex-wife of the paranoid male lead Chapter 79

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Chapter 79



You say what?

With three simple words, Jian Shiwu directly became the focus of everyone. From the beginning, Shen Cheng had no intention of joining in the conversation of a group of people. He didn’t seem to be interested in everything, but now, he actually took the initiative to talk to an intern.

Not only the management team, but also the viewers in the live stream were all abuzz:

"The cameraman deducts a chicken leg!

"Why take out the boss's face."

"This voice, so sexy my god."

"What's going on, isn't this a workplace variety show, why does it feel like the opening of a romance script!"

The crowd's eyes were burning, and Jian raised his face, his white cheeks tinged with a starry blush.

Under such circumstances, his reaction was quick. Since he said he was not familiar with the management team and was caught, he pulled some tricks and said: "Don't get me wrong, because we are interns, and we are new to the company. We are not familiar with most of the people in the company for the time being. But don't worry, we will definitely work hard to integrate into the company and get acquainted with everyone as soon as possible."

Official politeness.

On the one hand, it defused the awkwardness of saying that he was unfamiliar with the company's management and on the other hand, it expressed his loyalty to the company.

The others followed, covering their lips and smiling.

Shen Cheng and Jian Shiwu looked at each other, the man's eyes deep: "Intern."

Jian Shiwu nodded his head.

The corners of Shen Cheng's mouth curled up in a smile that meant something: "Not bad, work hard."

The white lights of the restaurant fell on the man's handsome face, he looked away from him, his somewhat stern side face a familiar curve. He was close enough to smell the fresh scent of the man, and if it wasn't the wrong time, if it wasn't the wrong place, this kind of peaceful afternoon, it would have bee as if they had never been apart.

Jian’s eyes dropped, his gaze naturally falling onto the executive’s dinner plates.

The food was sumptuous, roast pork, cabbage vermicelli, and egg custard, and if you looked around carefully, it was all the food you loved.

The viewers in the studio were amused when they saw his expression:

"The child is really hungry."

"Hahahaha, eyes like a wolf."

"Really hungry haha."

Jian Shiwu pursed his lips, the knot in his throat rolled a little, it took a lot of effort to finally withdraw hus gaze from the plates of dishes in front of him. Although his eyes were withdrawn, in his mind he was still circling the dishes.

In some trance, he picked up the spoon at hand, and started drinking the free green vegetable soup from the canteen.

Suddenly while he was in a trance, a somewhat low voice came to his ears, "Jian Shiwu"

Jane Shiwu, who was drinking the soup, bit into his spoon and looked sideways in confusion.

It was natural. Nothing felt wrong.

Shen Cheng was taller than him, and when he straightened his back, he looked at him from a height, and he said, "Is the soup good?"

Jian Shiwu didn't understand what he meant and said honestly, "Yes."

Shen Cheng: "Hmm."

Jian Shiwu thought this question was a bit strange, but he was always very natural when facing Shen Cheng, so he habitually said in passing, "You can try it too."

Because he saw that there was also soup on Shen Cheng's plate.

Then Jian Shiwu saw Shen Cheng turn his head, his gaze was deep, and there was something that Jian Shiwu couldn't quite understand. His slender hand was holding chopsticks, but there was no other movement.

Jian Shiwu swept his head down and said, "Where's your spoon?"

As he looked around, there was none, and just as he was wondering, he saw Shen Cheng's gaze faintly move down, finally landing on his own hand.

At that moment, it seemed that the whole world was quiet.

Jian Shiwu froze, he looked down and found his own spoon in his left hand, while just now he habitually picked up the right-hand side of the spoon, used that for drinking, he actually used Shen Cheng's spoon.

"...I'm sorry."

Jian Shiwu sounded like a schoolboy who had done something wrong, his voice low, putting the spoon back as he said it, timid and cute.

When he looked up again, he met Shen Cheng's somewhat teasing gaze.

Jian Shiwu was inexplicably restless, and saw the man slowly pick up the spoon. His slender hand held the porcelain-white soup spoon, like jade. Under his actions, the slow-moving Jian finally reacted. He hurriedly reached out and held Shen Cheng's arm, his milky voice was like that of an anxious little rabbit: "I've used this one."

Shen Cheng raised his eyebrows.

Under Jian Shiwu's dumbfounded look, Shen Cheng put the soup spoon back into his bowl and opened his lips, "Use it and keep drinking."

Silence fell over the room once again.

He thought that Shen Cheng was going to drink from his own spoon, but who knew that the man was only helping him to return the spoon to the bowl of soup.

Then Shen Cheng came closer, his long arm stretched out and took the clean spoon from the inside of Jian Shiwu, his movements natural, he didn't seem to mind at all that the two people's spoons had been swapped, and after swapping spoons, he whispered to the person still somewhat baffled at his side, "Eat."

......

After this series of actions, the live room was crowded with pop-ups:.

"It's going down right."

"Hahahaha, so cute!"

"Obviously these two people don't know each other, but I just feel so knocked out!"

"Agreed."

The other executives also quietly looked at this scene. Those who knew Shen Cheng seemed to even have their jaws drop in shock, they had previous experience of dining with Shen Cheng and were well aware of Mr. Shen's cleanliness and OCD, the spoons used by others he felt were too dirty to even look at, not to mention picking them up.

......



At the dinner table, Jian Shiwu returned to his senses.

He looked away from the others, expecting the other colleagues to mock his stupidity, but who knew that after meeting the gaze of Sun Liman across the table, the woman was with a bit of envy.

?

Don't get it.

Just as Jian Siwu was about to withdraw his mind and continue chewing on the steamed buns, Sun Liman said, "I've finished my steamed buns, do you guys want some more, I'll go and get some for you."

The not-so-small voice reached the ears of the others.

One of the executives asked in passing, "Is that all you're having for lunch?"

Sun Leman nodded, a small face looking a little pitiful, "Because we didn't earn enough points."

The rest of the management team laughed and smiled.

"The director of your variety show is very strict."

"Can you get satisfied from this?”

"You’re all young, it’s not good for your growing bodies."

The overseas executive who was near Sun Liman was generous, he took the initiative to say, "We've picked quite a lot of rice, let's eat together if you don't mind."

The interns, who had been gnawing on white steamed buns, all perked up their ears at the words.

Sun Liman, who was the most excited, said expectantly, "May I?"

The executives glanced consciously or unconsciously at Shen Cheng, the classes are already very distinct, it may seem like a simple dining table, but there is a main board in place.

Shen Cheng raised his eyes, not reacting much, and said in a light voice: "Let's eat together."

The interns cheered a little.

Many of the executives pushed their extra dishes over, they weren't really that enthusiastic, but they couldn't figure out the reason why Mr. Shen was sitting at this table, and since the boss had given his nod, they had to show their appreciation whether they really wanted to help or put on a show.

Jian Shiwu had been craving roast pork for a long time.

All the other executives would take the initiative to bring over some small dishes, only Shen Cheng didn't move, and no one really dared to go to Shen Cheng's plate to take the dishes.

Just as Jian Shiwu was about to withdraw his gaze and eat, the dish he had been longing for was brought to him by a pair of slender hands. As if deliberately waiting for all the other interns to have their dishes and not come over to grab from him. This dish was placed between Shen Cheng and Jian Shiwu, which also prevented others from coming to peek.

Jian Shiwu bowed his head and heard the low voice of the person beside her, "Eat."

Inexplicably, his heart skipped a beat.

In a trance, he remembered that when he used to eat at home, Lui Heng would steal the meat from him, and every time when he was angry, Shen Cheng would leave his share for him, and then he would also say to him in such a stable voice, "Eat."

In the end almost half of the dishes on Shen Cheng's plate were fed to Jian Shiwu.

The other interns would like to try a few bites, after all, the executives did not give them much, just set out a small plates to taste it. Shen Cheng was different, almost his whole dish was given to Jian Shiwu, and others did not dare to go to grab, after all, Mr. Shen is sitting there, the high and glamorous aura emanated on its own, and others didn't dare to approach it at all.



...

When the management team finished eating and left, Jian Shiwu was surrounded.

Sun Liman was the first to slap the table: "Shiwu, your luck is also too good!"

Jinzhe nodded back.

"I envy you so much..."

"If only I could have sat next to Mr. Shen just now."

"Oooh so greedy."

Of the four, Sun Liman was the most jumpy and outspoken, but before their complaints could be voiced, Jian Shiwu pushed the plate he had secretly kept in the middle, "I haven't finished eating just now, let's eat together."

If it were any other time and place, no one would pick up someone else's unfinished meal.

But none of the people here were not smart, the deadline for today's task was 8pm and it was now 1pm, if they didn't eat more, they simply wouldn't make it that long.

Plus, everyone was so hungry that they couldn't care less where some of the food came from.

Jinzhe was the first to take the lead in eating: "Thanks bro."

Sun Liman didn't hold back either, she smiled at Jian Shiwu and said, "You have a conscience."

Even Su Yuluo, who had never been a talker, nodded to Jian Shiwu in greeting.

As they ate, they also exchanged a few words about their morning internship, sort of getting a general idea of how those points were deducted from each other.

Su Yuluo chose to be the photo collection, and he said, "Some people were busy working, and I disturbed their work when I went to ask about the photos and got points deducted."

"Mine was a customer intent survey." Sun Liman bit into her red meat: "It turned out that points were deducted because I was scolded by several clients for my speaking skills."

Jinzhe, who was in charge of the big site set-up, said, "Points were deducted for helping to tally the list with the wrong format."

All three people had finished, but only Jian Shiwu did not say anything.

It's not that he didn't want to say it, but after listening to it, he was a little embarrassed about his luck. What kind of life is this? At least everyone else is working. Because of his unusual silence, the other three looked over curiously.

Sun Liman: "Shiwu, what's wrong, what difficulties did you encounter?"

Before Jian Shiwu could say anything, the people in the live broadcast room were already laughing.

"Hahahaha, Jian was deducted points for trying to sharpen a pencil for someone else."

"Life is not easy, Jian."

"Even though the other three are the ones with serious jobs, I just love watching Little Jian."

Sure enough, when the other three knew why, they all gloated in unison, according to them, although there were mistakes made, but the basic mistakes had been made in the morning, and they should be able to step into the right track and get the position in the afternoon, only Jian Shiwu had been turned away until now, which was difficult at first hearing.

Under the somewhat sympathetic gaze of the crowd, Jian Shiwu stood up and walked outside.

Sun Liman shouted, "Where are you going, lunchtime isn't over."

Jian Shiwu said without looking back: "I'm going back to familiarize myself with the working environment."

......

The three people sitting at the table were silent.

After awhile, Sun Liman said, "Does he have a working environment, isn't he unemployed?"

Jinzhe also shook his head.

They were all a little glad that they hadn't chosen C. Otherwise, if they had met someone like Gu Duan, they would have had to be kicked out.

Only Su Yuluo said, "Some people rely not on opportunities, but on creating opportunities for themselves."

......



18th Floor



It was still mealtime, and the staff on the floor were not so busy, resting in twos and threes, some chatting about family matters in the pantry, some sleeping at their workstations, others continuing to catch up on work.

Jian Shiwu went over to get some water and greeted the others politely.

Someone said, "Little brother, don't come to get the water, this machine is broken."

"Right." Another girl with glasses also said, "It will only be okay if someone comes to fix it this afternoon.”

Jian answered, and he approached, looked up and down at the water dispenser, then said, "I should be able to fix it."

The others looked at him in shock.

The short-haired girl who had started talking at the beginning said, "You, you can fix it?"

"Well, I can try."

Generally speaking, the office actually rejects newcomers, but Jian Shiwu's looks are naturally of a very soft kind, and is covered in a kind of student-age kind of childishness that sometimes made him look like the next-door neighbor’s little brother, a bit endearing.

Jiam Shiwu squatted down in front of the machine: "I used to fix it when I was at home."

In his previous life he had done all sorts of work at the company, and this sort of trivial thinh was something he encountered from time to time, so he was comfortable fixing these things. Sure enough, and after tossing the machine around for twenty minutes or so, it was ready.

"It's really got water."

"It's ready to be powered up."

"Wow little brother you are good."

The four interns actually ignored a point, that is, colleague relationship, of course, it is not that other people are not willing to go to a good relationship, for one thing, First, no one is willing to take the initiative to talk to the interns. Everyone is very busy. Second, their identities as stars, and although they are not very famous, naturally they will not have a halo, but there is still a gap in identity, many people will feel that they are separated by a layer of film and are unwilling to contact.

Jian Shiwu took the initiative to do the work of the workers and help fix the machine, breaking this layer of separation at once, he was very attentive and said to the short-haired girl when he first powered up to connect the water, "I'll do it, this one just got fixed, so the pressure is different, it will splash your clothes."

The short-haired woman was slightly surprised.

When the others came over to pick up the water, Jian Shiwu didn't take credit for it, getting his own water and going out. As soon as he was out of the pantry, he saw the woman not far away waving at him, "Little brother, tired from being so busy for so long, I have food there, go and have some."

Jian smiled politely, "I had a full lunch, thank you, I'm not hungry."

The short-haired woman wasn't offended, she saw the sign on Jian Shiwu's chest and whispered, "Is this the score Master Duan deducted from you?"

Jian Shiwu hesitated for a moment and nodded.

What he didn't expect was that just casually helping to fix the machine would benefit a number of colleagues who were waiting for a drink of water at lunchtime, they all came over and said.

"You just get used to it, Master Duan has a bad temper."

"Yeah, he’s like that when he gets into a working state."

"No."

Jian Shiwu didn't go along with it, just smiled lightly, and just as the crowd was getting ready to go back to work he said to the short-haired woman, "Sister Lu, I see you have some honey here, can I borrow some?"

The short-haired woman was curious: "Yes, you can, but what do you want to do?”

Jian Shiwu showed a mysterious smile.

......



At half past one, the lunch break was over.

"Knock, knock."

There was a knock on the door from outside the office.

After awhile, an impatient voice came from inside: "Please come in."

Gu Duan, who was sitting at his desk, looked up and saw that it was his little assistant from this morning, and he frowned: "Didn't I tell you that everything was fine?"

It was bad luck again.

Jian Shiwu had no doubt that he was going to be docked points.

But he was frank enough not to panic in the slightest, carrying a paper cup in and saying, "Just now Sister Lu and the others said that the first draft had been done and sent to your email, she was afraid you hadn't noticed, so I came over to remind you."

This was indeed the secretary's duty.

Gu Duan was a little surprised that those guys would actually be willing to talk to Jian Shiwu.

But this doubt was suppressed to the bottom of his heart, he glanced at the email received, then waved his hand, "Got it, go out."

A few moments later, the child who had been standing in the doorway instead approached.

A paper cup was placed on the table and Jian Shiwu said, "Seeing as your cup is out of water, I have poured you a drinj."

Gu Duan was unforgiving: "I said I don't want water, take it away."

At this point, it can be seen that this manager really doesn't have any good feelings for the assistant, and if it is someone who easily gets embarrassed, he would retreat.

But Jian Shiwu was still standing in the same place, his white face is full of seriousness, his voice is very soft: " "You said you don't drink water, so this cup is not water, it's honey tea."

?

Gu Duan looked up in disbelief.

The first thing he saw was a fair face with round, watery eyes, and Jian said, "I saw you clear your throat this morning, so I asked around with Sister Lu and the others, and I knew you had a cold recently, so I made honey water, which is easy to drink."

Gu Duan was about to speak, but did not expect the little steel cannon Jian Shiwu to open his mouth to continue: "At noon I heard them say you eat spicy fish, and just now when you spoke, your voice was a little more dry than in the morning. I saw your cup was still empty so you should not have taken medicine, I have asked the sister of personnel to bring a cold punch, a little later I will brew it for you. "

?

Gu Duan: “ Who asked you to...."

"I'm very sorry that I didn't do my job as an assistant and let you take your medicine just now." Jian Shiwu said meekly: "The temperature of the air conditioning in this room is a little low, I'll go out later and turn it up for you a little."

“….”

A calm fell over the room.

All Gu Duan's words were blocked. He wanted to scold him, but he didn't know where to start. He took a sip of honey water with a low curse, and unexpectedly, it smoothed his throat. Quite a few more sips, and the body felt more comfortable, and the anger naturally lessened, not to mention that he had already drank the boy’s water, he was unable to scold.

When he looked up, he met those watery eyes again.

Jian Shiwu saw that his face was not good, and asked obediently, "Is the water too hot?"

......



Gu Duan choked.

He pointed at the door with some trembling, "Get out."

Jian Shiwu blinked and heard the man say with some annoyance, "Isn't it just a matter of handing in the proposal, I’ll do it tonight for sure!"

The child standing in front of the table really bowed and went out in a disciplined manner, just as Gu Duan breathed a sigh of relief and hadn't rested long when he door rang again.

Jian Shiwu, who was carrying cold medicine, stood in the doorway, smiling, “It’s time for you to take your medicine."

"......"

That day, the project team felt the boss's grievance through the door panel, after all, the previous assistant knew how to back off. While Jian Shiwu was: whatever you say, I have a way to diffuse it.

If Gu Duan is a cranky hundred steel, Jian Shiwu had a way to turn those sharp difficulties soft.

And in one afternoon, Gu Duan who had been vey unhappy all the time, was scolding other project team staff over the project problems, while at the same time, he slowly felt.... a little comfortable.

This manifested itself in the form of.

There must be a glass of warm water at hand when he wants a drink.

When using a pencil it is definitely sharpened.

The boy would go out of his way to remind him to check any new mail and not miss it.

He has a habit of dropping things and throwing papers when he doesn't get his way, but today the office is all clean and everything is neatly organized.

......

It was a new experience.

He had been particularly annoyed with those life assistant-like roles before, so his own special assistant wasn't allowed to come over except for work stuff, but today it was unexpected that the annoying person seemed to be okay.



Evening President’s Office



At 8pm, the lights were still on in the office, and Shen Cheng was sitting at his desk going over papers, his clear face looking a little stern in the light, pages of paper full of text being turned and scratched by him.

"Knock, knock."

Someone knocked on the door and entered.

The secretary was respectful: "Mr. Shen, the project team has submitted the final draft and sent it to you, please look it over, and we can organize the meeting tomorrow."

Shen Cheng nodded: "Hmm."



After the meeting

He opened the computer and raised an eyebrow, "Gu Duan didn’t delay this time?"

Every company has technical people, some of whom are called geniuses, and these people generally have their own little tempers and broken habits, and Gu Duan was an extremely strong genius whose unpunctuality and temper were well known in the company.

The secretary smiled and said, "Yes, he was very punctual today, I heard it was because of the little assistant who came to the project team today.

?

Shen Cheng's movements paused, his face was turned sideways so the secretary couldn't see his happiness or anger, only to hear him repeat in a low voice, "The assistant?"

"Yes."

The secretary didn't notice that something was wrong, and added fuel to the fire, "I heard that this assistant is very capable, otherwise Master Duan wouldn't have been able to deliver the manuscript on time, he should like him quite a lot."

 

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