Chapter 3:First Meeting
Gan Qi consoled herself while following the man to room 601, which was a completely different luxury suite from 602, with a sagging European-style crystal chandelier hanging in the middle of the living room, a spacious open sofa, and a huge oil painting of a nude foreign woman on the back wall, Gan Qi immediately turned her head to look at the kitchen which was nearly brand new with shiny and glowing pearl-white tiles at the other end of the living room.
And then to the bathroom, which had a high-grade hydrotherapy Jacuzzi, surrounded by a variety of small color-changing light bulbs, and finally the bedroom, under the round golden ceiling, there was a soft and comfortable round bed, shrouded by a circle of blue bed curtain echoing the ocean blue velvet curtains in the distance, the densely packed candles on the ground were arranged into a one-meter-long heart shape, accompanied by scattered rose petals. She was stunned, a place that looked like a TV show would be where she would stay on her first night away from home.
The man hastened to explain with a smile: "This is my daughter's house, she came back from abroad, she decorated it herself, oh, young people, I, as an old man, don't understand, either. She's not here recently, so you can stay here first."
Seeing the man talk about his daughter again, she once again suppressed the bad thoughts, nodded her head and agreed, and then the man went out.
Gan Qi carefully looked around the bedroom, she could see the distant mountains from the window, the house was spotless, the bed smelled of perfume, there were various colors and styles of lingerie sets in the closet, other than that, no personal belongings, no pictures of the man's daughter. No matter how silly or naive she was, she knew there would be no such thing as a free lunch, but it was already late, in addition, this place was remote, she was unfamiliar with the place, and she had nowhere to go. She secretly decided to leave tomorrow morning, she wrote a letter of resignation, saying that she could not take the job.
Gan Qi did not sleep all night, she got up early, she made the bed sheets and quilts extremely flat as if she had never slept, she backed up the backpack that she did not bring anything when leaving from home, gently came to the door, she did not dare to touch any one of the advanced furnishings.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, she gasped and opened the door, the man was holding a plate of breakfast and said with a smile: "Seeing that you were very tired yesterday and didn't have dinner, I specially prepared something rich for you this morning. I knew that you would get up early because you couldn't get used to it. Look, I guessed right."
Gan Qi, who had never got any care, was still moved, she had never been able to reject people, she quietly put down the backpack and hided the so-called letter of resignation, sitting at the table and eating breakfast with the man together, if she didn't have so many doubts, she would hope that this was a sincere and beautiful relationship. She thought there would always be a chance to escape next time.
After breakfast, the man fulfilled his promise and took Gan Qi to Room 601 to teach her to use the computer, the machine was rebooted a few times before she was able to turn it on, he put Gan Qi's hand on the mouse, and then covered his own hand over it and clicked on it, Gan Qi was sitting upright, the man put his hand on her shoulder again, and clumsily outlined the office software and the mailbox and so on, during this time, the man went out to take a phone call, she was able to ease her cold and convulsing body a little bit, and she heard the man say:"I've got someone better here, no need to see that brat, huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, boss!"
After answering the phone, the man perfunctorily told Gan Qi how to turn the computer on and off and ended the teaching process hastily. He said that he needed to meet someone in the afternoon to talk about something and asked her to follow.
Gan Qi realized that the man was afraid that she would escape, so he had to take her with him. She followed him to a cafe without saying a word, the bright sun suddenly darkened after entering the cafe, the man let her sit against the window, he pulled the chair and stuck close to her. Gan Qi followed his example and asked for a cup of coffee that she had never tasted before, she took a sip and it was so bitter that she couldn't help coughing, the man tried to hide his contemptuous smile but failed, she pretended to be relaxed and listen to the music, but actually she was observing the environment of the cafe, looking for an exit for her to escape.
At that moment, she saw a young man walking towards them in a hurry, and reached out his hand to shake hands with the man, saying: "Manager Xue, right? Hello, how are you? Boss Deng has been asking me to come and see you, I've heard a lot about you!"
The man casually shook his hand back while sitting, he didn't introduce Gan Qi, and directly returned: "Boy, I'm telling you the truth, I'm not interested in your robot stuff at all. If the boss hadn't asked me to see you, I wouldn't have the time. Go back and tell the boss that you don't have the ability to take over this project. Be careful with your words, or I'll make you pay!"
After saying that, he pulled Gan Qi and left. Gan Qi also began to be afraid of this Manager Xue, who was completely different from the way he treated her. She looked back at the young man with some sympathy. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a healthy and slightly rough complexion.
He stared at the contract on the table that had not yet been opened, and held his head with both hands, looking frustrated.
From the few words between the two of them, Gan Qi roughly guessed that Boss Deng was the boss of Manager Xue, but he operated behind the scenes, and everything was handled by Xue. Xue thought he had full control and often said one thing to Deng and did another.