captured by your prey

Chapter 18

"Manager Zhou!"

Zhou Sheng turned around and saw that it was Zheng Yi who was calling him, so he quickened two steps and followed from behind: "When I called you that day, you seemed to be smashing something, and suddenly there was no sound, what happened? Yet?"

Zhou Sheng was taken aback for a moment, remembering that there was such a thing, the phone call she had with Zheng Yi ended when the phone fell out.Because Xie Xiyuan was the one who tidied things later, she almost forgot about it. "I'm fine, don't worry... By the way, I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the dinner." The phone call that day was Zheng Yi's appointment for this matter Zhou Sheng.

A few days after that, Xie Xiyuan took care of things in the store, and the store slowly returned to its normal rhythm. She handed over the affairs to An He and the others, and came back to the company by herself. Zhou Sheng was also very happy to be able to Meet her at work.It's just that, as she said, the two of them didn't interact much in the company, and everything seemed to return to the way it was when nothing happened.

Xie Xiyuan honestly told Zhou Sheng that he was still hostile to Zheng Yi.Zhou Sheng also understood that it was impossible for this guy to be calm when facing such a thing, so he nodded and told her okay.Xie Xiyuan herself felt a little guilty when she said this, she knew that her reaction was a bit unreasonable, Zhou Sheng just didn't have much contact with people in her private life on weekdays, it doesn't mean that once she contacts someone, People are special, but I...

"Okay...understood."

Zhou Sheng told her so, and seemed to be indifferent to what Xie Xiyuan said.

After hearing the words, Xie Xiyuan was a little puzzled, she didn't understand why Zhou Sheng agreed to her unreasonable request so simply.

Zhou Sheng didn't give her any answer immediately. She knew that the impact of Xie Xiyuan's experience on her could not be improved in a short while, and such a long-term impact could not be easily overcome by her own willpower alone.How could Zhou Sheng not remember the way she apologized to him that day, obviously she was the one who hurt, but she seemed to be the one who felt uncomfortable.In her opinion, Xie Xiyuan was the one who had a greater psychological burden after such a thing happened.

And the downcast person in front of her did make a secret note in her heart that no matter what, this kind of thing would never happen to her again.

To Xie Xiyuan's surprise, after that, Zhou Sheng deliberately kept a distance from Zheng Yi on occasions other than official business, and did not have too many emotional conversations.

Xie Xiyuan felt guilty instead, and she told Zhou Sheng that she didn't need to deliberately reduce social interaction for her own sake, but Zhou Sheng remained calm and told her: "No, I've always been like this." See Hearing such Zhou Sheng, Xie Xiyuan suddenly understood that he had been attracted by this person all along, but it was hard to express that feeling, but this feeling had appeared many times before.

One day after the evening shift, the two of them ran into a gust of wind at the lower door of the company building. Zhou Sheng glanced at the people around him, and raised his hand to straighten her scarf. "Wrap it tightly, otherwise the wind will blow into the clothes and it will be cold."

"Okay!" Xie Xiyuan smiled.

It's the end of the year again, and everyone will naturally get busy. This winter seems to be extraordinarily cold. I don't know if it will snow, but this city hasn't had much snow for many years.

Xie Xiyuan knew that Zhou Sheng was afraid of the cold, even though she would never take the initiative to say so, Xie Xiyuan went over to stick to her consciously. It was still difficult for Xie Xiyuan to cross the line in the company, and she herself knew it was not good, but in the She is very active outside the company.

During the holidays, the city is obviously much deserted. The store is the cleanest during this period. Those who have homes have gone back, and those who have no homes have the right to go out on vacation because there are no customers.Xie Xiyuan enjoys this time very much every year. In previous years, she would rest alone for a while. Now she will choose a few days to go to find Zhou Sheng. Maybe the two of them will not go anywhere, but they just stay quietly Together, when Zhou Sheng was reading, Xie Xiyuan was beside him slowly planning the next year's affairs, and when he was sleepy, he went to Zhou Sheng's place to take a nap.

In fact, Xie Xiyuan was also curious about Zhou Sheng's family, didn't Zhou Sheng's family live in a small city nearby, but Zhou Sheng didn't go back during such a holiday.She just thought about it, remembering that Zhou Sheng and her family seemed to have some kind of very subtle estrangement before, although it was not that fierce to the point of incompatibility, but there was always a thin wall that made it difficult for them to get close.

At first, she thought this because she cared about Zhou Sheng, so she didn't deliberately ask, so she didn't expect that she would break into her family atmosphere unprepared.

"Uh?"

Xie Xiyuan looked at the noisy living room behind Zhou Sheng, and then at Zhou Sheng who opened the door for her. Although there was no abnormal expression on Zhou Sheng's face, he was clearly enduring.There were several people sitting in the living room behind her, including a child who was climbing up the table, jumping on it and trying to touch the chandelier with the toy in his hand.

"my family."

Zhou Sheng said this softly, and Xie Xiyuan immediately understood.

"Why don't you..." Before she finished speaking, Xie Xiyuan immediately bypassed her and went straight inside.

"What a coincidence—Mr. Zhou's family is here too. Happy Chinese New Year! Isn't it just right? Here is a little thing I brought to Mr. Zhou. It's not a lot. I hope you don't dislike it!"

She strode to the crowd in the center of the living room, and put the things in her hands that she and Zhou Sheng had been free to eat for a while in the center of the coffee table, and quickly looked at the surrounding people. Sitting on the sofa are two older ones who should be Zhou Sheng's parents, while a man sitting on the other side looks a little similar in appearance. It may be her younger brother that Zhou Sheng once mentioned, and he is holding a child next to him. The dissuading woman and the noisy child are probably his wife and child.

Xie Xiyuan didn't even sit down, so he bent down and enthusiastically took out the things he had prepared from the bag to share with them, and said with a smile while sharing: "I'm here to ask Mr. Zhou to get the company's cooperation documents. I will not make too much of it, because we are a small company, not as big as Mr. Zhou’s company, and we are usually taken care of by Mr. Zhou. Mr. Zhou—that’s really good! So there is no You can’t take credit for it, as for me, although I’m talking about being obedient, it’s very obedient, and it’s actually quite real.”

Zhou Sheng was a little stunned at first, but he understood after listening to a few sentences.

The long speeches that this person blows out don't need to be rehearsed at all, even if they come out temporarily, the tone and gestures are still very sincere, and Xie Xiyuan doesn't dress casually when he goes out, so he looks really model kind.

Zhou Sheng was standing nearby, answering twice from time to time.After Xie Xiyuan came in, she was mainly talking there, and she didn't stop distributing things to others, and she said everything should be done while giving others.

"This is your grandson. It's so cute. I just happen to have some snacks here—little brother, here's this for you." Xie Xiyuan handed him the chocolate that was originally intended for Zhou Sheng.

The boy glanced at the appearance of candy, then dropped the toy in his hand and took it from Xie Xiyuan, and the toy car fell to the corner of the coffee table beside him.The mother of the child next to him symbolically said Xiaoyu, thank you sister, and the boy stopped looking up after getting the things. Xie Xiyuan quickly smiled and waved his hands to tell the woman that it was okay, and praised her a few times, the child is so good such as.After she finished speaking, she got up, saying that it's not good for her to stay too long to bother everyone, and she was just here to get a document and deliver things along the way...

Zhou's mother had a good impression of this guest, and seeing that Xie Xiyuan was about to leave after sitting for a long time, she quickly wanted to stop her and say hello to her: "It's so windy outside, please sit for a while during the Chinese New Year, and you still give away so many things?" Zhou Sheng, didn’t you just prepare fruit in the kitchen? Hurry up and bring it out for everyone to eat!”

Zhou Sheng didn't show much expression at all, and now she didn't know what expression to use to face such a situation, so she could only respond and return to the kitchen.

After she finished washing the dish used to hold the fruit, she was picked up by the person beside her.

"Put it here?"

Even without looking up, she knew that Xie Xiyuan was following.

Usually her few family members who want to save face will not let the guests into the kitchen, who knows what Xie Xiyuan said outside.Zhou Sheng could see that her family members had a good impression of Xie Xiyuan. Xie Xiyuan's flattery was written on the surface, and he enthusiastically put gold on their faces. They also happened to eat this way, Zhou Sheng Never liked them either.

"You must be upset to deal with them." Xie Xiyuan washed his hands, rolled up his sleeves to his elbows, and said softly while cutting the fruit that Zhou Sheng handed over.

From the living room behind him, the sound of children playing and adults chatting loudly still came from the living room.

Xie Xiyuan turned his head to look at Zhou Sheng's slightly frowning face, leaned forward and kissed him as if to flatter him: "If I don't stay, won't you be even more worried?"

"It's because things are troublesome that I am worried that you will stay with me." Zhou Sheng said unhurriedly, "It has always been like this in previous years. It will be fine after this time passes. I am fine, so don't worry."

The kitchen is not spacious, but Zhou Sheng finally felt that he had a chance to breathe here.

"I... I'm just guessing. When you were with them outside just now, your parents are very traditional people, right? They dote on their son very much, and they are very rude to you. Maybe you have always been like that from before to now. Treated like this. You don't kiss them, and you don't like children... The children make such a mess outside, I'll help you collect them when they leave. "

Xie Xiyuan said calmly, cut up the fruits and put them on the plate.

She was once curious about Zhou Sheng's family, because Zhou Sheng's character was too introverted, and this didn't seem to change her life as her social status slowly improved in the later stage, so Xie Xiyuan guessed that this was probably related to related to her family.Now that I have personally encountered it, I can probably understand it.

Xie Xiyuan asked Zhou Sheng to go out with his things, and he followed beside him, so as not to keep them talking to Zhou Sheng.

After returning to the living room, Xie Xiyuan immediately changed back to his familiar appearance of worldly likes and dislikes. Zhou Sheng sat beside him without saying a word, listening to Xie Xiyuan introduce some scenic spots in the city to her family. , while providing them with convenient and affordable information.Occasionally, Zhou Sheng's mother would say a few words intentionally or unintentionally. Their family, Zhou Sheng, had been working here for so many years and never knew what was outside, and then Zhou Sheng would listen to Xie Xiyuan to rescue her, or change the topic Go elsewhere.

Xie Xiyuan is too good at dealing with this type of people.

To put it bluntly, they are essentially the same as the guests who come to the store every night, and there are countless more vulgar ones.

Zhou Sheng's mother seemed to always talk about Zhou Sheng's failure in the number of outsiders, and kept telling Xie Xiyuan what was wrong with Zhou Sheng. "If you don't hurry up and get married when you're too old, you see who will want her in the future! And you think she has such a good job, which man would dare to want her? There will be no children in the future. Tell me about this kind of person!"

Xie Xiyuan listened to her with a smile on the side, very patiently.

At the end of the story, Mother Zhou took Xie Xiyuan and enthusiastically told her, "You too, you should find a man to marry earlier!"

Zhou Sheng has always been unwilling to accept these remarks, but she couldn't do anything to refute them, so she could only lower her head and try to persuade herself not to care.But when she heard her mother say those words to Xie Xiyuan, she deliberately glanced at Xie Xiyuan, but the man seemed not to hear, still maintaining her sincere and sincere eyes to cater to those words.

Of course Zhou Sheng knew that Xie Xiyuan would never like it no matter what... Yes, she must face more things she doesn't like on weekdays.

At this moment, Xie Xiyuan inadvertently turned her head to the side, just in time to meet Zhou Sheng's gaze looking at her, as if she could read Zhou Sheng's expression, she returned Zhou Sheng with an unobtrusive smile.

Zhou's mother finally found Xie Xiyuan as a good confidant, and Zhou's father next to him would occasionally insert a few words. As for Zhou Sheng's younger brother who was more favored at home, he followed his mother's words. I forgot that Xie Xiyuan first came to visit as a business partner of Zhou Sheng.

And Zhou Sheng couldn't get involved in this room, as if Xie Xiyuan was more like a family member of these people than she was.As for her, she didn't like these conversations and these momentary noises, and she didn't want to accept them from the bottom of her heart.

When several people were talking about being happy, Xie Xiyuan's phone rang, and she answered it with an apologetic gesture, and walked to the corner of the balcony. The call was from An He.

An He said that she was shopping for the things she needed in the supermarket, so she called to ask Xie Xiyuan if there was anything else she wanted to buy. Xie Xiyuan thought about it and it seemed that there was nothing particularly urgent, so he asked An He to prepare more and clean up. An He told her that the disinfectant for the wound was ready, but An He's voice was overshadowed by a sudden burst of children screaming from the living room.

Xie Xiyuan originally wanted to look back, but held back, he knew what was going on without looking at her, so he just showed his bored expression where no one could see.Zhou Sheng must be very unhappy now, Xie Xiyuan thought, it should end sooner.

When she was about to hang up the phone, she seemed to think of something suddenly, and quickly stopped An He.

"By the way, call me Xinxi."