Chapter 182 - (Its Him!) Several Years Have Passed, and (1/2)

Chen Yuanxi still wore a polite smile on his face.

Shu Xiaoman cleared her throat and squeezed out a standard business smile. She took the business card from Chen Yuanxi with her hand and gave her business card to him, lowering her head slightly.

“Oh! You’re from YH Company. You can discuss it with my assistant in detail for orders because he should be clearer about that. If you want to talk to me about something personal—” Chen Yuanxi looked at his watch and said, “you have 10 minutes.”

“Mr. Chen, since I’m neither your relative nor your friend, how can I have anything personal to talk to you about? Please arrange for your assistant to discuss it with me.”

Chen Yuanxi fell into silence for about three seconds before he called someone and gave an order about something. Then he asked the driver to take Shu Xiaoman to the office.

After hesitating for a short moment, Shu Xiaoman got into the car and sat in the passenger seat.

Seeing that Chen Yuanxi was about to leave, tears streamed down her face. She wiped the tears from her face gently and tapped the window. “How have you been these years?” Shu Xiaoman asked with the most common and the most intimate words to greet him, an old friend she had not seen for such a long time.

“I’m fine,” Chen Yuanxi answered with a smile.

“Well…” Shu Xiaoman nodded and waved goodbye to Chen Yuanxi. She looked so serious, as if she were waving farewell to someone whom she would never see again.

“They asked us to compete with other companies for the bid through formal channels,” Shu Xiaoman reported to Zhao Yuan on the phone.

“Oh? It’s unbelievable that their company has a down-to-earth new leader!” Zhao Yuan asked meaningfully, “What kind person does Mr. Chen seem to be?”

“Just like you saw in the photo. He is the new deputy general manager of their company, and his surname happens to be Chen,” Shu Xiaoman answered.

“He—! Emm—” Zhao Yuan raised his voice a lot unconsciously.

Shu Xiaoman shook her head. She had thought that after such a long time, Zhao Yuan’s feelings for Lin Wenxi should have cooled down, but she was wrong. From the time he founded the company until now, Zhao Yuan had never been so nervous in front of an employee. He was almost incoherent, as he lost his mind and could not stay calm anymore. Shu Xiaoman could not imagine what would happen if he met Lin Wenxi.

In Shu Xiaoman’s memory, there was only once that Zhao Yuan had lost his mind. It was because of his cell phone that he had used when he was still a college student. The cell phone was missing for no reason during the relocation of his company. Zhao Yuan immediately ordered to stop the process and rummaged everywhere in the company until he found the cell phone in a trashcan in the corner. His former assistant was fired because of this, and after that, he employed Shu Xiaoman as his assistant. At the beginning, Shu Xiaoman was confused as to why Zhao Yuan had kept this cell phone for such a long time. It was not until she saw the familiar number when she was paying the phone bill for Zhao Yuan that she vaguely understood everything.

Zhao Yuan had used this phone number all the time when he was in university. It had been several years since he graduated from university, but he was still paying for the number.

Shu Xiaoman had secretly checked the cell phone once. Obviously, it had been wiped carefully every once in a while, so the screen was as bright and clean as a new one, apart from a clear scratch on it. Shu Xiaoman remembered that Lin Wenxi had been annoyed because Zhao Yuan answered a phone call and was on it for too long. He then scratched an “L” on the screen with a small knife. He said that it would make Zhao Yuan hold him to his ear every time he answered the phone.

Shu Xiaoman thought it was too childish, but she was very moved. However, in addition to being purely moved, she felt a fire within her, as if she wanted to burn everything out.

Shu Xiaoman thought that she would read messages of love between Zhao Yuan and Lin Wenxi on his phone, but to her disappointment, she only found some common greeting messages between average friends. They were so polite and formal and she could even not understand how they had become so close later. Shu Xiaoman was a little confused. “Are they really a couple? Who really loves the other one and who doesn’t?” she wondered.

Calls from all the other people in the contacts had been set up to be rejected. Only for one number had the call records and text message records not been changed yet.

“Mr. Zhao, what’s wrong with you?” Shu Xiaoman asked with concern.

“I’m okay. You can prepare for the bidding right now,” Zhao Yuan said.

“Okay. Mr. Zhao, I met someone today. Guess who,” Shu Xiaoman added.

“It must be Chen Wanxin. Then you will ask me why I didn’t tell you we were getting married, right?”

Shu Xiaoman frowned slightly. Zhao Yuan seemed too smart!

“Yes. As your first assistant, I think I have the right to know it in advance so that I can arrange the related issues!” Shu Xiaoman said.

“You’re both my only assistant and my college classmate, so you know everything about my past. If you still think the same way as years ago, what will your reaction be if you know that I’m going to marry Wanxin?” Zhao Yuan asked.