Chapter 421 - Go with Me

Chapter 421 Go with MeIn the evening, Xia Mingde called Xia Yu and asked her about her situation. Xia Yu had already asked Second Brother not to tell his father about her situation, fearing that he would be worried, but he ended up telling him still.

Xia Mingde still cared about Xia Yu, so he decided to come to S City in advance, and he could also give some instructions to Xia Yu and his apprentices. Xia Yu thought that it was good, so she didn’t oppose.

After Shen Yan returned, Xia Yu told him her father’s situation, and he did not object, either. It was also an encouragement to everyone if her father was present.

Xia Yu took the opportunity to tell Shen Yan that she was going to work herself. Shen Yan thought about it and agreed because he still had some more important things to do. Liu Sijie also had to stand by all the time, so the company had nobody but Xia Yu to keep an eye on.

Xia Yu convened a meeting as soon as she entered the office the next morning. Xiao Tang and others were also very active in the business related to Li Wen’s corporate prospectus. When they entered the conference room, Xia Yu was already sitting there, holding a cup of hot water.

“Xiao Tang, hand these materials out!”

Her voice was a little hoarse, and Xiao Tang immediately asked with concern, “Xia Yu, what’s wrong with your throat?”

“Nothing! Go to do your business!”

Xia Yu handed over a stack of papers that had been prepared on the table to Xiao Tang. She glanced at them and immediately handed them out.

After all the people were seated, and the materials were handed out, Xia Yu took another sip of water and said, “I have revised the plan you made yesterday. The one you have in your hand now is already modified.”

Xia Yu coughed halfway through her talk and drank some water again, then continuing to say, “The proposal from Li Group is very good. If it is put into effect, it should be much better than making a feature story ourselves. As for how to do it specifically, I have already written it in the plan. You can look at it yourself.”

Everyone in the audience looked down at the plan in the hands. Xia Yu had written it in a very detailed way. From a live interview of users, by reporting their true feelings, they could let those users know more about their products. And from jointly reporting with the media to start a feature story together with network platform, an integral plan was formed after step-by-step efforts.

It was almost noon when the meeting ended, and the final agreement was achieved unanimously.

The next step was to submit the plan. Before the implementation, it was always necessary to have the management group’s consent. The task was only possible to be assigned to Xia Yu.

She did not go out to eat at noon and only asked Xiao Tang to get her a bowl of porridge from the staff canteen. When she was having it, someone outside knocked at the door.

“Come in!” Xia Yu looked up and saw Hao Qing looking stiff and cramped at the door.

Xia Yu asked, “What is wrong?”

Hao Qing smiled and said, “Nothing. I heard that your voice was a little hoarse during the meeting in the morning. I happen to have some throat lozenges in my drawer, so I bring you some.” She then put a box of throat lozenges on Xia Yu’s table.

Xia Yu looked at it and said, “Thank you!”

She stood there for a while, and Xia Yu thought that she didn’t have the intention to leave, so she asked, “Is there anything else?”

“That!” Hao Qing brushed back her hair and raised her head which had been lowered down. “That woman is crazy. Please forget it!”

Xia Yu was stunned. She didn’t expect Hao Qing to run in only to pour these words out. She knew that she was concerned about her. After a short pause, she continued to lower her head down, having the porridge. “Thank you, I am fine. Just go out to work!”

Xia Yu ate a throat lozenge given by Hao Qing, but it didn’t actually work.

She had been working on the plan until too late last night. Plus, she had been very busy with so many trifles these days. She caught a cold under a weaker physical condition. Especially, her competition with Su Hai was around the corner. When she thought of this name, Xia Yu felt that her throat was more painful, and even her head fell into dizziness.

Xia Yu used her final strength to have half a cup of water and began to work. As a result, scarcely had she settled down her mind when she received a call from her Second Brother.

“Hey, Junior Sister, are you busy?”

Xia Yu looked at the manuscript, uttering only one word, “Busy!”

“Oh! Then I will make a long story short. When my master comes over, let’s pick him up, okay?”

Xia Yu was stunned and said, “How did you know that?”

“I made the suggestion to the master, so I naturally know about it.” Second Brother was a little proud.

“I will call you at that time” Xia Yu said.

Xia Yu embellished the plan again in the afternoon, but she did not go to find Shen Yan until late after almost all her colleagues left the office when it was time to leave work. It was then that she had to go out with the plan.

Although it was already spring, the cold wave had not completely subsided.

Xia Yu went to the door of Shen Yan’s office and knocked on the door twice, but there was no sound inside. The plan was squeezed tightly in her arms. Was he there or not on earth?

She moved her head closer to the door and looked inside through the crack in the door, but she couldn’t see what was going on inside, so she tried to knock on the door again, and there was still no sound. Was he not there?

Xia Yu held the folder and turned her head back, and a figure pushed forward in front of her.

“What are you doing here with such a furtive look?” Xia Yu was so scared almost to drop the plan in her arms onto the ground. Shen Yan held a coat in one hand and a computer in the other hand. It seemed that he had just rushed back from somewhere.

Xia Yu felt a lump in her throat at that moment. There was no sound in the hallway. She even didn’t hear the footsteps when Shen Yan approached her as if everything fell down from the sky, and now he was standing in front of her.

“How dare you ask!” Xia Yu rolled her eyes at him sourly.

Shen Yan saw that Xia Yu was obviously a little frightened and then asked, “Why do you look for me?”

Xia Yu still held the document in her arms and said, “There is a plan that needs your approval.”

“Is it urgent?”

“A little.”

“Then wait a minute!”

Shen Yan took out his key to open the door and turned on the light. Before Xia Yu could walk in, he picked a document up from the table like the wind and came out, with the light turned off. He said in a flat voice when passing by Xia Yu, “I am going to pick up someone at the airport now. You may go with me, and as for the document, you can look at it on the way!”

Xia Yu was stunned for a while and then said, “Pick up someone?”

Shen Yan had arrived at the elevator door and pressed the button. He turned around, only to see Xia Yu standing still there.

“Come on!”

It was then that Xia Yu came to her senses and ran to him in small steps. On the road, Shen Yan focused on driving and didn’t talk with her. He only made a phone call to Liu Sijie with a Bluetooth earplug after getting onto the highway.

“I am already on the way to the airport. The flight may be delayed. You can make sure whether there is something wrong with the house.”

Liu Sijie replied over there, “I have already visited the house again in the afternoon, and I arranged it according to your request definitely, but do you really need to pick her up in person?”

Shen Yan smiled with the corner of his lip upward and said, “It doesn’t matter. I think it’s better to pick her up personally in good faith. You only need to make sure that the house is fine. I will send her there directly after I pick her up.”

Shen Yan hung up the phone and pulled off the Bluetooth earplug. Then he turned to look at her. She had been sitting quietly since she got into the car. The blue folder was placed on her knees, with her hands placed on the top of the folder, and her face was facing the window, only leaving a small half of the silhouette of her face to Shen Yan.

It was very strange that Shen Yan who was anxious after so many busy days felt better now when looking at the little half of the silhouette of her face. He slowed down the car slightly and said, “How is the case of Li Group going?”

Xia Yu handed over the folder to him. He opened it and had a look. He then smiled and said, “So fast!” He signed it and returned the file to Xia Yu.

Her fingers clasped the edge of the folder tightly.

Shen Yan noticed her little movement and turned on the car stereo omnivorously. FM radio was a program that Xia Yu often listened to. The female anchor’s voice was soft, like a plume of smoke which was melted in the moonlight. But Shen Yan quickly changed the program. After changing into several radio stations in succession, he was still not satisfied. It was either an advertisement or a bubblegum pop song. He was about to be irritated.

Xia Yu twisted the corner of the folder and uttered, “Just the one hosted by Xiao Fang.”

“What?”

“That one called Not Lonely Tonight.”

This was obviously a midnight emotional program, and Shen Yan asked with the corner of his lip upward, “You like this sort?”

Xia Yu glared at him and said, “Why can I not like this sort?”

“OK!” He turned the radio back again. The female anchor’s soothing voice flowed out of the sound gently, and Xia Yu stopped talking, stretching her body a little and leaning against the chair to listen to it.

Shen Yan glanced at her with the corner of his eye, and the smile which was hung over his mouth became brighter and brighter.

On the latter half of the course, they kept silent, but the voice of the female anchor seemed to ease the loneliness inside the car. Their car arrived at the destination when the program almost came to an end.

It was past ten o’clock in the evening, and the terminal building of S city was still brightly lit. Shen Yan parked the car and went down with his coat in the hand first.

“I haven’t had dinner yet, so I will find a place to have something first!”

He said while putting his coat on. Xia Yu, sitting behind, saw his tall and slim figure crossing the road. She could only follow up. They entered the terminal, where there were a lot of passengers carrying their suitcases. Shen Yan went straight to a noodle restaurant on the second floor and found a place, sitting down.

“Do you also want to eat something?” He took the menu and handed it over to Xia Yu.

Xia Yu shook her head. In fact, she did not have dinner when she was working overtime in the company. She only ate a few biscuits, but she didn’t want to eat anything since she had no appetite.

“Then you just have some porridge.” Shen Yan spontaneously ordered a bowl of porridge for her. After the waiter left, he asked again after a few seconds of silence, “How come you suddenly want to handle this?”

“Because Li Group wants to get it done!”

“That lad is really troublesome! Fine, if he wants to get it done, then get it done.” Shen Yan seemed to be thinking about something. After a few seconds, he lifted his eyes and asked, “Do you think it will waste too much money and labor to complete this matter?”

Xia Yu smiled and said, “I have worked out the account. It is actually profitable.”

“It seems that you are also committed to the business.” Shen Yan’s tone was slow and gentle. He showed a smile at the corners of his mouth, but Xia Yu was somewhat breathless when being stared at by him. “Tell me how long you have been preparing this plan.”

“Not very long. I only worked for one more night.” Xia Yu was really speechless. Shen Yan will pay special attention to everything related to Li Wen.

“Why does it not seem to be the real case?” He suddenly leaned over and approached Xia Yu. “Why do I feel that you have been planning and preparing for this matter for a long time?”

Xia Yu’s hands which were put on her knees dug into the flesh, and she really wanted to punch him in his face. Considering that he had been exhausted indeed these days, she didn’t do that. She smiled lightly and said, “Really? You were present when Xiao Tang sent me the file last night.”

Shen Yan did not respond for a while, but his eyes were fixed on her face. Even though there was a table between them, Xia Yu still felt great pressure hanging over her. This man had a pair of sharp eyes.

They looked at each other for half a minute like this, and Xia Yu felt that she was about to give up soon when Shen Yan who was on the opposite side suddenly had the corners of his mouth upward.

Xia Yu still looked at him with a blank expression. The atmosphere here was a little strange at this moment. Fortunately, the waiter brought the noodles and porridge, interrupting the silence on the table.

It seemed that Shen Yan was really so hungry that he directly took his chopsticks and lowered his head to eat the noodles.

Xia Yu looked at the porridge with preserved-egg and minced pork congee in front of her. She stirred it twice with the spoon and then said, “I really have lost my appetite.”

Shen Yan looked up from the steaming noodle bowl and glared at her. “It’s good for your stomach to eat a little even though you have no appetite.”

Xia Yu had an illusion for a moment. Somehow, she felt that it was not Shen Yan who was sitting opposite, but her mother. Finally, Xia Yu helplessly finished the bowl of porridge, which was luckily very delicious unexpectedly.

After dinner, they sat in the noodle restaurant for a while. Not until the broadcast in the terminal sounded and reminded that the flight had arrived did Shen Yan go to settle the bill and stand up to leave.