Chapter 122.2 - Missing You (1/2)

“Hubby.” Yu Hao turned on the video function and called Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng, adorned in sportswear, was running on a treadmill and sweating all over. He almost fell when he accepted the video call and quickly reduced the speed, then stood gasping for breath.

“You’ve been taking the initiative to call me Hubby quite often lately ma.” Zhou Sheng grabbed a towel and wiped his sweat away.

Yu Hao scrutinised him. He wanted to tell him the good news and also ask him for a bit of money too. He really had no money left. He had been eating Shaxian snacks for several days, and he was on the verge of vomiting from them.

“Are you busy?” Yu Hao smiled. He realised that Zhou Sheng seemed a little thinner now, and his countenance was a little aggressive, but he was grinning from ear to ear.

“I have an exam tomorrow.” Zhou Sheng answered, “I’ve done the PPT for the entire department’s strategic objectives meeting.”

“Exam?” Yu Hao was surprised.

“The internship period’s about to end.” Zhou Sheng smiled sadly, “The old man asked me to report on the project in front of everyone. The branch in Shanghai is expanding its business. After it’s approved, I’ll lead a department and operate under the wing of the general office.”

Yu Hao said, “That’s great! Are you ready?”

Zhou Sheng sat on the chair. He bent over and scrutinised Yu Hao, who was on his phone screen, with his sweat dripping onto the screen, “I miss you. I really, really miss you. We haven’t seen each other in a long time, do you know how much I miss you?”

Yu Hao almost cried on his side. Zhou Sheng laughed again, “Your birthday’s coming up soon; I prepared a present for you, you’ll definitely like it. Once my project’s settled, I’ll go over to find you.”

Three months, it had already been a full three months. Although Yu Hao had already anticipated this the first time he had said “see you next week”, at least all the hard work throughout these three months had not been in vain.

“I’ll report the project to you ba.” Zhou Sheng said, “Take a look at it later? And give me some advice?”

“Okay.” Yu Hao would want to listen to it no matter what. Zhou Sheng turned off the video call. Yu Hao went back home to take a bath and lay in bed. At 8pm, Zhou Sheng FaceTime-ed with Yu Hao on another company number. He was standing in front of a projection screen in the conference room.

Yu Hao saw several people sitting in this conference room, including Zhou Sheng’s department manager and his colleagues. Zhou Sheng had taken pictures of them before to show him. The lights in the conference room dimmed a little, and the PPT was shown on the screen. Zhou Sheng held a remote control in his hand and stood in front, looking perfectly at ease.

“Let’s start the trial ba.” Zhou Sheng didn’t change into a suit and wore his sports attire, “May I trouble everyone to offer some opinions at the end? This will probably be settled by tomorrow. Director Huang isn’t here, we won’t wait for him, he’ll just listen to what he can.”

The conference room was quiet. Zhou Sheng pressed the remote control, changed the slide, “According to last year’s earnings, the Major Business Department did a systematic risk analysis……”

Yu Hao, “……”

Yu Hao once again saw a Zhou Sheng that he had never seen before!

“……for the past two quarters, relative to our competitors……”

The slides of the PPT clicked forward one by one. Zhou Sheng’s expression was quite calm, and didn’t seem to have memorised a script. After moving to the next slide, he turned it back, “Data is dead. Although we are basing it off data, we must be able to make appropriate strategic adjustments, but of course we can’t just blindly follow the data……”

When he flipped to the ‘wind control’ slide, Zhou Sheng said, “This evaluation is 73-pages long. I’ve made a simple summary here……”  As he spoke, he paused slightly and raised an eyebrow to indicate that he had something to say to the audience.

Yu Hao couldn’t understand Zhou Sheng’s report at all, but his movements and voice were just like what he would see in strategic conference videos. Although he hadn’t changed into formal attire, his aura was so formidable that it allowed no leeway for jokes.

Zhou Sheng spent 45 minutes on the PPT, “It’s time for a tea break, then it’ll be a Q&A session.” The trial skipped to this portion. His colleagues in the department came up with all sorts of questions. Zhou Sheng’s answers to them were quite ingenious, which aroused their roaring laughter.

Although Yu Hao didn’t know what they were laughing at, he felt that Zhou Sheng’s attitude in resisting and defusing his opponents’ offence was very interesting, so he laughed along with them.

At 12 o’clock, Zhou Sheng finished answering all the questions tossed at him. “Everyone has worked hard, please fight with me tomorrow ba.”

His colleagues all came up one after another to shake hands with Zhou Sheng and patted his arm to show their encouragement. After the crowd dispersed, Zhou Sheng was in the conference room as he glanced at Yu Hao’s side, “Fell asleep?”

Yu Hao said, “I’m still here.”

Zhou Sheng looked down to text and changed the video to his phone, then went to throw away his Red Bull can. Yu Hao said, “You presented it so well!”

Zhou Sheng put on his earphones, “Did you understand what I was saying? You just know how to praise me brainlessly.”

Yu Hao said, “Didn’t understand it.”

Zhou Sheng quipped, “Knew it. In any case, you’d think I did really well even if I had a lisp.”

Yu Hao laughed.

At that moment, Yu Hao felt much more strongly that he and Zhou Sheng lived in two different worlds. But Zhou Sheng didn’t detect it in the slightest. He took his phone out and let Yu Hao take a look at the office. The other employees have all gotten off work. Zhou Sheng watered the plants, turned off the lights, and picked up his bag.

“Just now, I suddenly felt like I barely recognised you.” Yu Hao said a bit sadly, “But I’m still really happy. That’s the real you ah.”

Zhou Sheng stopped in front of thee elevator, “My dear wife, do you know why I like you so much?”

Yu Hao lay in bed and looked at the video. Zhou Sheng went down to the lobby of the office building. Several girls passed by and Zhou Sheng nodded at them, “Go back early and rest.”

A soft scream was heard from behind.