Chapter 7 The President is Dead
Bai Yanjia sang a birthday song and pushed the birthday cake in front of Qin Nian, "surprise, Niannian, I wish you a happy twenty-eighth birthday - Dangdang, look who this is!"
Qin Nian turned around and was silent for a while, "Sister Tong Xi."
"Hey Niannian, happy birthday~ He's getting more and more handsome as he grows older. Look at this little face. He's twenty-eight now. Do you have any girlfriends abroad..."
The three people gathered around to celebrate his birthday happily.
"Nian Nian, make a wish quickly." Bai Yanjia pushed the cake in front of him.
Qin Nian looked at the big cake filled with strawberries expressionlessly, and after a while, he blew out the candles.
After blowing out the candles and dividing the cake, the three of them unanimously gave him the biggest piece.
Qin Nian's gray eyes were dim. He held the fork and stuffed the cake into his mouth one bite at a time.
"What wish did Nian Nian make?" Bai Yanjia asked curiously.
"Son, you are almost thirty, aren't you? Why bring a wife back to show dad?"
"Little Niannian, you haven't even had your first love yet, right?" Bai Tongxi looked at her cousin and said, "Don't ever answer yes, I will despise you."
Qin Nian paused.
His first love was given away.
But just a few minutes ago, his first love ended.
Qin Nian stuffed the cake into his mouth, leaving only the sour and bitter taste of the sweet and sour strawberries.
This was truly the worst birthday he had ever had.
"Your collar is turned out." Tang Jin lowered his head and helped Tang Gu adjust the collar. His peripheral vision glanced at the reflection of the glass window behind him and he raised his head, "Why are you still so careless?"
Tang Gu pursed his lips: "You finally have time to ask me, my brother, to meet you, so why don't I come over quickly?"
Tang Jin rubbed his head and said, "Let's go buy clothes."
"Let's go, let's buy you two more skirts today." Tanggu took her arm and left.
Tang Gu is Tang Jin's brother, of course, not a relative. The two entered the orphanage on the same day, and the director simply asked them to take her last name and gave them the names Gu and Jin.
Although the two of them are not biological, their relationship is no worse than that of biological siblings. It's just that they get busy after working and have less time to see each other.
Tang Gu currently teaches at a university and lives a bit far away from Qin's enterprise.
"You, don't always wear these suits, and occasionally wear a beautiful skirt, right?" Tang Gu said as he took out a long skirt, "Try this, it will definitely suit you."
Tang Jin obeyed and went to try.
"Good-looking." Tang Gu highly recommended it.
"Try it on, this dress suits you very well."
Tang Gu is about the same height as her, at 1.8 meters, but he is a bit tender. When he was a teacher in school, he dressed himself up to be more mature, which was actually not suitable for him.
The two didn't go shopping for too long. After having a meal, they said goodbye to each other, and Tang Jin went home with a bunch of bags in his hands.
Qin Nian was already packing his luggage in the house.
When Bai Yanjia and the others came back, he would naturally move back.
It would be a good idea to move back, so that he could spend less time with Tang Jin. When he thought of this, he felt depressed.
I have just made an extremely tangled decision to accept the fact that I like the other person, but before I can muster up the courage to pursue it, I find that the other person already has a relationship. In this way, it is useless even if the other person seems to like a man.
Qin Nian looked at the huge teddy bear in silence for a long time, then hugged it.
In any case, this was the beginning of his sour and sweet first love... although this first love ended too quickly.
Tang Jin happened to come back and saw him pulling his suitcase and asked, "Mr. Qin is going back?"
Qin Nian had no desire to communicate and said in a low voice: "Yeah."
"Have everything been put away?"
"Um."
"Do you need me to send you off?"
"...No, the driver is downstairs."
Tang Jin nodded clearly, "Then let me take you downstairs." She glanced at the huge teddy bear hugged by Qin Nian, "You still have to carry the box. If you hold it like this, it will easily get dusty."
Qin Nian's lips moved and his voice became muffled: "...Thank you."
"No need." Tang Jin went over and took the bear.
Qin Nian glanced at the pockets of the clothes she had placed on the sofa. They were all from several women's clothing brands, and instantly felt suffocated, with a sour taste welling up in her heart.
Tang Jin likes men, but what's the use? He already has a boyfriend, so these clothes will only be worn by his boyfriend...
The two of them took the elevator downstairs. Tang Jin put them in the car and said, "Slow down."
Qin Nian looked at her deeply, responded in a low voice, and closed the car door.
The Qin family's cars all have glass that cannot be seen from the outside, so Tang Jin couldn't see Qin Nian still staring at her from inside the car after the door was closed.
The low-key black car drove away slowly, leaving Tang Jin's figure behind.
Qin Nian pursed his lips tightly and looked through the car window at her standing figure watching, looking glumly like a big dog that had been abandoned by its owner.
After the car completely disappeared, Tang Jin slowly walked upstairs.
Naturally, when someone leaves, they have to tidy up the room. When Tang Jin was tidying up the room, he swept out a piece of paper from under the bed, as if he had left it accidentally.
The above is Qin Nian's sharp handwriting, but the content is: How to chat with the person you like politely and without being offensive. There are dozens of precautions below. Judging from the blank space on the paper, there should be more.
Tang Jin looked a little funny and swept it together with other garbage.
As soon as Qin Nian returned to Qin's house, Qi Jiao came to the door.
"Senior Qin——"
Qin Nian was in a bad mood and didn't want to listen to her nonsense, so he just said "I like men" and turned around to leave.
Qi Jiao was left behind, feeling as if she had been struck by lightning. For a long time, she walked away as if she was sleepwalking on her high heels.
Qin Nian had another dream that night. He dreamed that Tang Jin walked up to him, grabbed the teddy bear from his hand, and said, "I don't like you, I want to give it to the person I like."
Then Tang Jin turned around and gave the big bear to a boy whose face he couldn't see clearly.
Qin Nian woke up with a fright.
He looked at the teddy bear on the bed, and then at the various stuffed toys around him. After a while, he hugged the big bear tightly.
At least he still has the bear. Tang Jin gave it to him, it's his and he can't take it back.
When he went to work the next day, Qin Nian came in with thick dark circles under his eyes and wrinkled eyebrows. He passed by a group of assistant secretaries and entered the office.
"What's going on, Mr. Qin? He looks very serious today." Secretary Zhao secretly asked Xiao Yang.
Xiao Yang shook his head, "I don't know, maybe I stayed up late last night and was busy working?"
After the meeting in the afternoon, Tang Jin went to hand in the meeting report.
Qin Nian read it with a sullen face and pointed out a few areas that needed to be revised. His voice was like ice and snow blowing on Tang Jin in winter, "In ten minutes, I want to see the revised report."
Tang Jin nodded and took the report back to correct it.
After Tang Jin closed the door and went out, Qin Nian pressed his eyebrows and was very satisfied with his performance.
Yes, that's it, just like everyone else, he can do it.
He glanced at Tang Jin, who was sitting in his seat, revising a report. After a while, he saw her standing up and walking over again with the report in hand.
Qin Nian looked at the time.
...He actually looked at Tang Jin in a daze for ten minutes.
Chapter completed!