As summer approaches, the heat becomes more intense.
Lu Yi steps into the hotel auditorium on a pair of high heels with a thin strap, puts her parasol away, and stuffs it into her bag.
"I feel like I'm melting," complains her colleague who enters behind her. Lu Yi promptly hands her a handkerchief, accompanied by a cool and considerate smile.
"Thank you."
Yu Qian says as she wipes off the sweat with the tissue, taking care not to damage her makeup.
Yu Guang glanced at Lu Yi, whose gentle and cool demeanor was such that not only was there no sweat on her face, there were no pores or blemishes.
Lu Yi's beauty was pure.
From the first time she came to the company, she was stunning.
With fair skin and a beautiful appearance, she looks both fragrant and soft from a distance. Judging by her clothes and lifestyle, her family must be wealthy. She studied Western Art History and graduated from the University of London. She is a local girl, but I don't know much more about her. She doesn't say much, and even less about herself.
At first, everyone thought she was difficult to get along with and kept their distance.
After getting to know her, everyone likes her because she has a good personality, is capable at work, easygoing, and has no airs.
"She complains a lot when she has to work overtime on Saturdays.
The air conditioning in the room is enough to dissipate the heat, and my colleague crumples up a handkerchief and throws it in the trash.
Since Party A needs to launch on the 1st, they are a week ahead of schedule.
As the design and build party, we can only work together. The whole team is working like a beehive, the content team, the design team, and the construction team are working around the clock to meet the deadline.
They came to make the final confirmation.
However, the person in charge of reviewing and accepting the work on the client side was slow to arrive.
Colleagues made several calls, but all went unanswered. When they finally got through, the person on the other end said that they had not been clearly informed and that they were currently busy with work and could not come for a while.
When they asked when it would be done, the person on the other end had already hung up.
It was obvious that they wanted to ignore her.
Yu Qian was so angry that she cursed. She was already annoyed at having to work overtime, and she wanted to die if she encountered a party that deliberately caused trouble.
Why did I say they deliberately caused trouble?
When she took on this project, everything was going smoothly and normally, but the person in charge of Party A fell in love with Lu Yi at first sight and harassed her many times with his words. Later, when his confession was rejected, he simply tore off his face and put obstacles in the project, both overtly and covertly.
The last time they checked the text of the exhibition, the other party kept finding mistakes.
Lu Yi was innocent, and they suffered as a result.
"Is he sick? We were having a good discussion, and he said we didn't make ourselves clear. He's stalling. Is our time not time?" The phone was thrown down, arcing across the table. Yu Qian frowned in anger.
"I'll keep calling until they come."
Lu Yi took the phone back in front of her, and under her long eyelashes, her gaze was calm and gentle: "Since they are determined, it's useless to call as much as you want."
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"How can I leave you here alone? Li Chengming is going to come over, and I don't know how he's going to embarrass you."
"It's okay, I don't have much to do anyway." Lu Yidao said, "I'll let you know when the result comes out.
No one wants to work on the weekend, and although she felt guilty for leaving this matter to Lu Yidao, she personally didn't mind, and Yu Qian stopped insisting.
"Okay, then, my dear, you have worked hard."
Her colleague had canceled a date with her boyfriend to come out with her, and it was still early, so they could still go to the movies.
Lu Yi smiled and said, "Enjoy your date. If they call you, tell them to contact me."
"Okay, baby, I love you so much!"
Yu Qian left and Lu Yi found a seat in the hotel's coffee shop.
Lu Yi called Party A's side. The assistant answered first, still using the same superficial sales pitch. Before she could finish, the call was transferred to another person. Li Chengming's tone was sarcastic: "Miss Lu?"
"Mr. Li, when will you be free to come over?"
"Waiting impatiently? I thought someone like you should be very patient. Or is it that you are patient with others, but not with me?"
Lu Yi's tone was neither humble nor arrogant. She said, "Mr. Li, don't make this difficult for me."
"This is called being difficult, Lu Yi. You didn't think about that day when you rejected me, so you don't know what being difficult is," Li Chengming's voice lowered, "In that case, let's have dinner together when it's over, maybe I can be quicker.
The waiter brought the coffee.
Lu Yi looked up and smiled at the person, then answered the phone with a cold voice, "That's okay, Mr. Li is busy first.
"Just be stubborn."
Li Chengming scoffed and hung up the phone.
That day, she checked the text content with Party A. It was raining and her car was being serviced at 4S Garage, so Li Chengming was persistent and determined to drive her back to the office.
When they arrived at the office, Li Chengming confessed to her that he felt something when he first saw her and wanted her to be his girlfriend.
Lu Yi really had a headache. She didn't want to get involved in personal matters at work, and she refused in a tactful way that preserved the other person's dignity.
"Why?" Li Chengming did not understand and presented his own conditions, including a suite in the suburbs and a car, which were not bad conditions. Lu Yi's refusal was unexpected.
"It's just that I haven't considered it yet." Lu Yi told the truth. She really had no intention of dating, and she was willing to follow her family's arrangements and get married.
Li Chengming was still able to keep his cool at that time and decided that she was just being shy. After a few days of following her, he realized that she was not. He asked her privately for dinner and coffee, but she refused all his invitations. He felt insulted and could not swallow his pride.
Why not? She's so arrogant and beautiful that she thinks she's better than everyone else?
In the following projects, Li Chengming set up obstacles both overtly and covertly. He waited for Lu Yi to admit her guilt to him. When the project was about to end, he never waited for her to show weakness and apologize, but instead she became cold and distant.
Lu Yi held her phone in her hand, thought for a moment, and then calmly opened a chat box, typed a few words, and sent it.
Her best friend Yu Yin called immediately and asked where she was. She gave an address and Yu Yin said, "Come over in 15 minutes, I'll be nearby.
Lu Yi had just finished half a cup of coffee when Yu Yin arrived.
She is tall and pretty and used to be a part-time model. Now she manages her own WeChat account and blogs as a hobby. She sat down, crossed her long legs and took off her sunglasses.
The two were childhood friends, having attended the same middle school and high school, and had both chosen to study in the UK. They were so close that they were often teased for not being blood sisters.
"What company are you working for? They bring people in to work on weekends."
"It's a temporary situation."
After hearing about the temporary situation, Yu Yin tugged at the bottom of her lip and looked at Lu Yi with confusion in her eyes: "I actually don't understand. If you want to work, can't you stay in your own company? Why go to Yixing and take this kind of abuse?"
Given their family background and wealth, as long as they don't lose their minds and want to start a business, they won't be poor for the next three generations. The salary from her work is not even enough to pay the monthly management fees for her house.
She is outgoing and doesn't like to go to work. She does things she likes to kill time.
"I don't hate going to work." What she hates are the things that come out of work.
Lu Yi can't say she has a strong sense of career, but she really likes what she does, and she just wants to do her best at whatever she does.
"So what are you going to do in this situation?"
"Wait," Lu Yi said, standing up and smiling gently. "Let's go. There's a Yun Yin nearby. I'll give you a massage."
"You really can keep your cool," Yu Yin said, always impressed by Lu Yi's stable emotions. She grabbed her bag and left.
Yunying is a membership spa with a Thai style. The room they booked had a small garden outside with a small fountain in the middle. The sun was just right, so it was perfect for relaxing and taking in the scenery while taking a bath.
The work is not worth mentioning, just do it and leave if you don't like it.
Yu Yin had just found out that she had agreed to the arranged marriage arranged by her family, and the marriage partner was none other than Lin Jinshen.
Lin Jinshen's resume is nothing to sneeze at. He grew up with an elite education, graduated from an Ivy League school, and after graduation took over the management of the Lin Group's core industry - Huayu Hotel Group Company, a multinational hotel management company with eighteen major hotel brands under its umbrella and more than 5,000 hotels nationwide.
Unlike today's tech billionaires, the Lin family is old money. The family members are reserved and introverted, rarely making public appearances.
Judging by their family background, the Lu family is even considered to be marrying up.
But no matter how dazzling the aura, after marriage, you still live with that person, and how that person is is what matters most.
Yu Yin met Lin Jinshen once, and she is still very impressed.
She had gone to visit her cousin and ran into them talking business. At first, she didn't see anyone, just her cousin talking, his voice so tense that it seemed like he was facing the head of the family, choosing his words carefully, not like an interaction between peers, but like he was facing an elder.
Seeing this person, Yu Yin understood.
His expressionless face had deep, serious eyes. If he didn't look so young, she would have taken him for an elder in the family.
Towards the end, her cousin, who had recently acquired some good vintage wine, invited him to taste it. Lin Jinshen looked at his watch and declined, saying that he went to bed at eleven.
Yu Yin rolled her eyes: "My father doesn't go to bed on time like that."
Lu Yi laughed, her eyelids closed, and the technician's hands had the right weight and rhythm to create a lazy drowsiness.
"Old-fashioned, dull and boring," was Yu Yin's first impression, "You wouldn't want to spend the rest of your life with this kind of man, and you're almost thirty and have never had a girlfriend, so there must be something wrong.
Lu Yi listened, "I thought these were all plus points.
She chose Lin Jinshen for two reasons: he was clean and had never been with another person of the opposite sex. The other reason was that his appearance and family background were top notch.
"What are the advantages? He's not a normal person. You're looking for a husband, not a roommate. Besides, who among adults doesn't have needs? Why is there no one of the opposite sex around him? Think about the reasons yourself."
Yu Yin jumped to a conclusion for her: "Either there's something wrong with his body, or there's something wrong with his orientation."
Lu Yi laughed silently.
"I'm telling you seriously, my cousin has business dealings with him, and he says he's practically not a living person, no emotions, no feelings. While studying in the United States, he took on the additional responsibility of managing overseas branches. After returning to China, he took over the group directly. And now that he's getting married, he's following the family's arrangement for a business marriage. Doesn't he have his own feelings?"
Lu Yi commented after hearing this: "Sounds quite excellent."
"The point is not whether he's outstanding or not. The question is whether someone like him is fit to be a husband."
Lu Yi simply said, "I know, but it hasn't been decided yet, has it?"
Her parents were also hesitant about choosing Lin Jinshen, so they chose another candidate for her. There were two options in front of her.
They hadn't even met yet.
"It's too late to decide. I can't just stand by and watch you jump into the fire pit," Yu Yin said in a serious tone, adding, "I know you don't want to get married, but you can't be too casual about it.
Lu Yi nodded in agreement.
While they were talking, the phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and then hung up. Before she could hang up the phone, the other party called again, so she just put her phone in silent mode.
Yu Yin heard the sound and asked, "Why didn't you answer?"
"It's work-related."
"Did Party A call?"
"Yes."
"Then why didn't you answer?"
"Suddenly I'm not in such a hurry."
If she's not in a hurry, then someone else is.
Yu Yin remembered that they were in charge of the project, and the client was an industry under the Cui family. The young master of the Cui family was her junior and an acquaintance they had known since childhood.
She knew Lu Yi well. Before her bottom line was touched, she would take a friendly attitude and tolerate everything. But once her bottom line was touched, she would not be a clay Buddha and allow others to manipulate her.
Yu Yin laughed and closed her eyes: "I gave them face."
After the face-saving and afternoon tea, at exactly 6:00 p.m., Lu Yi answered the phone.
The caller was polite, and despite his impatience, he did not dare to lose his temper. He asked where she was and said that they were already at the hotel and could inspect the goods right away.
Lu Yi said, "Okay, wait a second."
"It's done."
"I'll go with you." Yu Yin had nothing to do anyway, so she said, "Let's go see who it is."
Lu Yi looked at her.
Yu Yin raised her hand and said, "I promise not to overdo it."
"Let's go." Lu Yi did a deep cleansing, and after that, she didn't wear any makeup, just a touch of nude lipstick to enhance her complexion, but her pale skin made her look even more demure than usual.
When they arrived at the hotel, there were already a few people waiting in the lobby. Li Chengming had been looking at the time, his expression worried. When he saw her, he walked over to her and forced a smile.
"Sorry for the delay," Lu Yishisi appeared nonchalantly, her voice soft and penetrating.
"That's okay, I can wait," the voice squeezed between her teeth.
Lu Yishisi smiled softly, still looking gentle and harmless.
There were no problems with the exhibition, and Li Chengming unexpectedly cooperated. After inspection and approval, it was delivered on time.
When Li Chengming left, he whispered secretly, "No wonder Miss Lu doesn't look at me, it turns out there's a higher branch to climb, but I underestimated you".
He has been deeply involved in this industry for many years and is considered a veteran in the company. He has never seen such a serious temper. He was scolded to no end and couldn't figure out who Lu Yipan's high branch was.
Lu Yi looked at him, neither angry nor mocking, just calmly looking at him, smiling faintly, brushing past him lightly, more like ignoring him.
It was as if he didn't exist.
He wasn't angry at all, there was no need for that.
Li Chengming's face became more and more unpleasant, and his pride was completely strangled.
Yu Yin held her arm, stomped on her high heels, stretched out her slender fingers, and lightly plucked her red lips: "Is Mr. Li always like this? I'm a friend of Lu Yi's."
Li Chengming extended his hand politely, but before he could shake her hand, he pulled it back. He still had the same smile on his face, "My friend Lu Yi is well-mannered, and there are some things she can't say. I'm different. I have no qualities, and my greatest hobby is scolding people."
"Can you give me your home address? I don't want anything else. I'll buy you a mirror online so you can look at yourself before you go out. People can't tell the difference between animals and humans, and they really take themselves for granted."
Li Chengming walked away with a dark face.
Yu Yin raised her eyebrows slightly.
The corners of Lu Yi's mouth turned up: "Looks like I'll have to treat you to dinner."
"Definitely."
The exhibition hall was on the third floor, and the two of them took the elevator to the first floor.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the hotel.
The staff at the bottom of the lobby were on high alert. They came out in a long line, waiting with bated breath as if they were facing a great enemy. After a moment, a group of people came in, dozens of them, dressed in professional suits, their lips pursed, staring straight ahead with serious expressions. The one at the front was tall and took a firm step.
He had a strong face with three-dimensional features, and his nose was especially high and straight. The impact of that moment was like a sudden electric current.
After the impact, she felt cold, distant, and lacking in warmth.
The other person was unsmiling, expressionless, and his poker face was like an infectious disease that quickly infected the people around him.
It was a very typical image of an elite man. He looked familiar, but she didn't recognize him.
They should not have crossed paths. As they passed each other, they suddenly and unexpectedly looked at each other. For a short while, both sides calmly averted their eyes and looked straight ahead.
Lu Yi lowered her eyes.
Yu Yin let out a soft snort, "Strong brother."
"You know him?" Lu Yi asked.
Yu Yin looked at her with a hopeless expression. She wrinkled her nose and smiled mischievously, "Congratulations, this is your future husband.