"You despicable human being! Let go of me!" Yu Daiyu pulled her hand away without giving Yan Zixin a face and angrily said, "Yan Zixin, please don't be so disgusting! I, Yu Daiyu, will never want to see you again for the rest of my life!"
She pointed at the apartment building's entrance. "Scram!"
Yan Zixin frowned at her and tried to pull her arm again. "Shut up, there are a lot of people here. Give me some face! Can we go to your apartment and talk there? Daiyu -"
"Are you leaving or not? If you don't, I will!" Yu Daiyu had no intention of giving Yan Zixin any leeway. She turned around and took advantage of the time when many people were coming home after work to squeeze in between a few people and quickly run out.
When she reached the side of the road, she did not even think and directly hailed a cab. She got into the car and said, "Quickly drive, don't let that man chase us!"
The driver obediently drove the car out. Only when Yu Daiyu finally got rid of Yan Zixin did she let out a long, relieved breath. She lowered her head and looked at her wrist. Immediately, she took out a wet tissue and wiped it again and again in disgust.
Then she held the tissue tightly in her hand. Her eyebrows furrowed as the memories she had tried so hard to forget all those years ago surged into her mind.
This was something Yu Daiyu did not want to think about anymore. It just made her sick to think about it. The tears streaming down her eyes from the wounds and the alcohol she had drunk had assaulted her memory.
How could she be so blind to love a man like Yan Zixin? When Yu Daiyu thought back to how she had given him her first kiss, she felt that this was the biggest stain in her life.
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The next day, Yu Daiyu came to work without enthusiasm.
Last night, she had found an inn to sleep in. Although she had told herself that she shouldn't be affected by Yan Zixin, in the end, she still could not sleep properly.
When she woke up in the morning and looked at her panda eyes in the mirror, she wondered if Yan Zixin had left her apartment building.
With Yan Zixin's character, as long as Yu Daiyu didn't meet him and listened to him, he would definitely be waiting for her in her apartment.
"Show me the new proposal that you submitted to me last week. I want you to bring it to the conference room and present it to President Wei." The manager of the Planning Department tapped on Yu Daiyu's desk as he spoke. "Hey, Daiyu. Did you hear what I'm saying? Why do you look so lifeless today? If you let this situation drag on, it's very easy for you to make mistakes at work."
"I didn't sleep well last night. I'm sorry." Yu Daiyu forced herself to smile.
An hour later, Yu Daiyu followed the manager into the conference room. Seeing that all the top higher-ups of the company were present, as well as Wei Zhengsheng, who was sitting in the executive chair listening to the secretary's words, Yu Daiyu forced herself to stay alert.
Due to the Xian Corporation holding several meetings every week, the Planning Department had to submit several new proposals each week for them to filter through.
Yu Daiyu gently placed the folder on Wei Zhengsheng's desk. "President Wei, here is a proposal for this week."
Wei Zhengsheng was looking at the report in his hand and answered with a faint "hmm". He didn't look at her or the folder next to him.
The manager of the Planning Department gently patted Yu Daiyu on the back and signaled that they could leave. Yu Daiyu nodded and followed the manager out of the conference room.
"How is it? Are you nervous?" The manager asked her with a smile as they left the conference room.
Yu Daiyu looked up. "It's not bad. I had always thought that the higher-ups of Xian Corporation would be very serious during the meeting. I just felt that everyone was very quiet and it didn't make me feel particularly stressed."
The manager chuckled. "That's because this is a small meeting between various departments. If it were a real board meeting, even I would be nervous. After all, you're a newcomer to our department, and among these newcomers, I like you the most. You'll get things done efficiently. You're neither humble nor haughty, unlike the others who are so submissive when they first entered the company, as if someone bullied them. "
Yu Daiyu smiled. "Manager, this is because you are a reasonable person. If it had been anyone else, with my true personality, I would have been scolded to death a long time ago."
The Planning Department's manager just smiled and shook his head. Yu Daiyu glanced at him but didn't say anything.
Some colleagues in the office were still secretly gossiping, saying that she had been recruited by Wei Zhengsheng, himself, and that was why no one dared to do anything to her.
It was probably for this reason that the manager of the Planning Department wanted to bring Yu Daiyu to this meeting especially.
Yu Daiyu suddenly felt happy that she had the honor of meeting Wei Zhengsheng for once. If it wasn't for this rumor, she didn't know what would have happened to her when she first joined the company.
"Are we just going to send the proposal? We don't have to elaborate on the content? Explain our thoughts?" Yu Daiyu changed the subject.
The manager said, "No need. After President Wei reviews the proposal and agrees with it, he will ask us to come to see him. He will only call us if he thinks the proposal is appropriate and useful and saves more time."
••••••
During the lunch break, Yu Daiyu hurriedly ate something before returning to the office and sleeping at her desk for half an hour.
Last night, she had not been able to sleep well, so she wanted to use this break to take a short nap.
"Some people who have only worked for a few days have become very lazy. I just saw you running away from the employee's canteen and thought you were going back to the office to work hard. Who would have thought that you would just go back to sleep." When Qian Chuntao entered the office, she saw Yu Daiyu sleeping at her desk and scoffed.
Yu Daiyu was still sleepy. She pretended not to hear anything as she continued to sleep.
Damn it, whenever she thought about whether she would bump into Yan Zixin when she returned to the apartment later, her heart became stifled.
Yan Zixin was born in America, unlike Yu Daiyu, who had only moved here because of her father's leather business. When she first came to the United States, she attended high school here, and at that time, she was not good at English, and many of her classmates, whether they were local students or Chinese students with good language skills, did not pay much attention to her.
Yan Zixin and his friends liked to cause trouble and constantly bullied her. They originally just wanted to scare her, but they didn't think that Yu Daiyu was not afraid of them at all.
When Yan Zixin saw this, he got angry and went on to say that he wanted to rape her. However, with a contemptuous look, Yu Daiyu bit his ear just as he was about to kiss her.
Yan Zixin was so angry that he threw her on the ground. Yu Daiyu didn't cry out in pain. She didn't want to give them even the slightest satisfaction of seeing her reaction.
Although these boys were still young and aggressive, they did not really intend to do such a bad thing. It was just that they wanted to scare her when they saw her walking outside the school in the middle of the night.
One of Yan Zixin's friends reminded them that someone was coming and that they had to abort their plan. Yan Zixin said nothing and just walked away.
However, when Yu Daiyu got up and brushed the dirt off her body, she was about to walk out of the alley when Yan Zixin, who was leaving with his friends, suddenly turned back.
Due to his sudden return, Yu Daiyu, who was walking out of the alley, almost collided with him. She was shocked. After clearly seeing the person in front of her was him, she shouted angrily, "What do you want now?!"