At 3:30 in the afternoon, during tea break, the delivery boy walked in on time carrying drinks and desserts.
"Ms. Lu, your boyfriend ordered afternoon tea." He came here every once in a while. The more times he came, the more people he knew.
"Thank you." Lu Xining said, motioning for him to put it in the tea room.
As soon as the delivery boy left, she gave her colleagues a look: "Why are you just standing there, pick what you like."
When these people heard this, they immediately came over.
Everyone has a tacit understanding. Except for the one with the comic label, which belongs to Lu Xining, they can choose at will.
Lu Xining graciously gave the manager a drink and sat down himself.
During this time, some people will hold coffee and continue working, some will chat about the parts they are jointly responsible for, and occasionally they will talk about some personal matters.
"Xiao Lu's boyfriend is really interesting. He buys her afternoon tea and takes us with her every time."
"It's just that this one is super expensive. We are usually reluctant to buy it, and it costs your boyfriend a lot of money."
"It's okay. He said thank you for taking care of me." Lu Xining was humble.
"Oh, where did you find this magical boyfriend? Forget about women, I almost fell in love with him." The man with glasses exaggerated.
"No, what should you do with your girlfriend?" Lu Xining deliberately pretended to be frightened.
"Hey, compared with him, I always feel that I'm not good enough to my girlfriend."
In fact, Jin Shaoheng didn't do anything specific, but there were always little surprises and romances from time to time. Even though they belonged to Lu Xining, they would still find them occasionally, and they couldn't help but sigh that others were willing to put so much thought into them.
"Me too, me too. Fortunately, my girlfriend is not in our company, otherwise I would have no way of surviving."
"Hahaha."
Everyone was having a good time, and it was obvious that Lu Xining's "boyfriend", although he did not show up, was very popular in their department.
In fact, not only is he popular, everyone in the Jin Group now knows that Lu Xining from the R&D department has a very caring boyfriend and is already famous.
Although they were the center of the discussion, Lu Xining knew that everyone was just chatting to relax.
Occasionally I would interject a few words, but most of the time I would secretly send WeChat messages to Jin Shaoheng.
Because throughout the day, the two of them had a fixed time to chat during tea time.
"Our department hasn't had a dinner together for a long time, so I'll invite you all to dinner tonight." The manager organized a party on a whim.
In fact, we should get together right after the press conference, because there was a traitor and everyone was in no mood.
"Okay, okay, why don't you call Lu Xining's boyfriend." Someone suggested.
He always eats other people's food, which makes them like this boyfriend twice as much, and they have long wanted to get to know him.
"No, he's very busy, and he's not very gregarious." Lu Xining refused immediately.
"Isn't it too insincere to refuse without even asking?" someone said.
"We old men won't compete with you for your boyfriend." Someone else teased.
Although Lu Xining's boyfriend did not appear, his presence was very strong, and they had long been curious.
She wouldn't grab it, but she was afraid they wouldn't be able to eat it by then.
Lu Xining was thinking this, but for this reason, it would not be good to refuse, so he said: "Okay, I will talk to him later."
In fact, I had already thought of something to say to excuse Jin Shaoheng.
"You can't deal with us." Someone saw through her mind.
"No." Lu Xining said sincerely.
But everyone looked disbelieving. The man with glasses simply took her phone and said, "Don't worry, send him a WeChat message in front of us."
"Ah?" Lu Xining was dumbfounded.
"Hurry." The man with glasses urged.
It’s hard to refuse such kindness.
Lu Xining had no choice but to open his phone in front of him. Fortunately, not many people knew about Jin Shaoheng's private WeChat account, otherwise he would have been betrayed by now.
She struggled for a moment and typed out a line of text resignedly: "The department is having a dinner today and would like to invite you to attend. Are you free tonight?"
The man with glasses was staring here, and she felt very guilty, praying that Jin Shaoheng would never agree.
I don’t know whether it was really the prayer that worked, or whether Jin Shaoheng was really busy, but there was no response from the other end.
"Maybe he's busy." Lu Xining said slightly embarrassed.
But I was secretly relieved.
"It's okay, he will reply naturally when he sees the message." My colleague comforted me.
"That's right, there will be a next time if there is no this time."
After drinking coffee, everyone returned to their workstations to work.
Lu Xining also quickly forgot about this incident. After finishing the work at hand, he remembered the WeChat message he sent before.
I turned on my phone and saw that Jin Shaoheng hadn't responded yet.
Whether he goes or not is one thing, but he has never failed to reply to his message for such a long time.
in a meeting?
Lu Xining wanted to ask Liu Weijie, but was afraid that he would feel that he was too clingy to Jin Shaoheng, so he held back.
Later, when she needed to send documents to the attic, she learned from her secretary that Jin Shaoheng was on a temporary business trip.
There were a lot of things in the company, so she didn't think much about it.
Two hours later, it was time to get off work.
Colleagues asked again to confirm that Jin Shaoheng would not show up. Although everyone felt regretful, they did not say anything, and it did not affect their mood for eating.
Only Lu Xining looked at her phone from time to time. Jin Shaoheng still didn't reply to her messages, so she was still a little worried.
Even though he was on a business trip, he didn't have time to reply to messages. This only means that things are very difficult, right?
Seeing that she was distracted, everyone thought there was something wrong between her and her boyfriend, and exchanged glances to heighten the atmosphere.
Lu Xining was about to go out and make a phone call when the box door was opened.
"big boss!"
"big boss?"
Everyone was shocked when they saw the person walking in.
When Lu Xining heard this title, his heart skipped a beat, and he raised his eyes and saw Jin Shaoheng.
"Sorry, I'm late."
He took off his coat and sat down on the chair next to Lu Xining.
Everyone looks at me and I look at you, uh, I want to ask who invited the big boss?
The most important thing is that the big boss actually took advantage of it.
"Mr. Jin, why are you here?" the manager asked.
"Didn't you say you called me during the department dinner?" Jin Shaoheng asked, his hand naturally resting on the back of Lu Xining's chair.
Uh... This action is skillful and ambiguous. Is it possible? Various speculations floated in the minds of colleagues, but they didn't dare to ask.
When things came to this point, Lu Xining had no choice but to give up her last struggle. She held Jin Shaoheng's other hand on the table and introduced to her colleagues with a smile: "My boyfriend."