Early in the morning is when coffee shops do their best business, and most of the people who come here are office workers working in the nearby business district. Although Tian Xin rushed into the coffee shop as soon as she came out of the subway station, there was still a queue of more than two meters long in front of the ordering counter.
Team.
She stood in line and picked up her phone to check the time. It was now less than twenty minutes before she clocked in, but it would still be at least ten minutes before it was her turn to order. She still had to wait after ordering, and had to rush to get the coffee.
Twenty minutes is definitely not enough for the company. She planned to give up buying coffee, quit the queue and was about to leave when she received a message on her phone: What do you want to buy? I'll order it for you.
Tian Xin turned around and saw a girl with short hair waving and smiling at her. It was Qiao Qi from the planning department. She quickly replied: I want six glasses of iced Americano, thank you.
Qiao Qi was second in line, and it was her turn soon. She placed her order and stood in the waiting area to wait for her order. Tian Xin was sitting in the hall waiting for her, looking around with nothing to do, and suddenly noticed Qiao Qi.
The difference from before. She was in the marketing department and Qiao Qi was in the planning department. They didn't meet much and were just acquaintances, so they didn't immediately see the changes in Qiao Qi: Qiao Qi cut her hair, which she used to keep.
She has waist-length hair, shiny black and smooth, and can be a spokesperson for a shampoo. Now she has a thin Japanese-style short haircut. Not only is her hair shorter, but the quality of her hair seems to be worse than before. Moreover, she has lost a lot of weight.
Slender, now she has lost a lot of weight, her body is like a thin layer of flesh attached to the core of a fruit, thin and weak. When Qiao Qi walked towards her with coffee, she noticed the wrinkles on Qiao Qi's lower eyelids.
There were dark circles under her eyes, and the haggard look on Qiao Qi’s face that even the thick makeup couldn’t hide.
Qiao Qi smiled and said: "After buying it, let's go."
She carried coffee with Qiao Qi to the company. The two chatted on the way. She asked Qiao Qi why she suddenly changed her hairstyle. Qiao Qi smiled and said, "The weather is too hot, so I cut it short to cool down."
This didn't seem to be the real reason why she cut her hair, but Tian Xin didn't ask further.
When she arrived at the company, Qiao Qi distributed the coffee to several colleagues with whom she was close, leaving two cups and walked to her work station. She placed one cup on Zhou Song's desk and said with a smile: "Please."
Zhou Song smiled at her: "Thank you."
Tian Xin sat down at her workstation and felt that the neighbor was very intrusive. She turned her head to look at Zhou Song, and her eyes widened in surprise and she was stunned.
Zhou Song inserted the straw into the coffee cup and took two sips before realizing that Tian Xin had been staring at him. He turned to meet Tian Xin's eyes and said, "What's wrong?"
Tian Xin pointed to his head and asked unnecessarily: "Have you dyed your hair?"
Zhou Song's hair style has not changed. He still has British medium-length hair, but the color has been changed. His hair color is like fire, which is very eye-catching. Zhou Song brushed his hair and asked with a smile: "Is it weird?"
It might be strange for others to have such flaming red hair, but it is not strange at all when Zhou Song dyes his hair red, and he is very outstanding. He has white skin, three-dimensional facial features, and he already has a somewhat mixed-race beauty, but now he has dyed it
The red hair, that gorgeous hair color combined with his handsome face creates a huge visual impact and can give people a strong sense of shock.
Tian Xin: "Ah? No, no, no, you look... very good."
Zhou Song said: "Thank you."
Then Tian Xin quietly told him that Julie was transferred to the planning department, and the salary was good. She was involved in an important case as soon as she entered. Zhou Song didn't care. If Tian Xin hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten about Julie. At the moment
He smiled lightly and brushed it off.
Tian Xin was well-informed and added: "I heard that Secretary Liang scolded Daisy after the last incident. Now that Julie is being promoted, Secretary Liang probably wants to appease Daisy."
Zhou Song was not interested in the overt and covert fights in the workplace at all, and did not want to hear Tian Xin continue talking, so he changed the topic: "I sent the improved plan to your email."
Tian Xin: "Oh, you move so fast, I'll take a look right now."
He and Tian Xin get along well. Tian Xin may be entrusted by Liang Xin to take care of him in everything, but he doesn't care about this. He doesn't want to make friends with anyone in the company. As long as everyone is harmonious on the surface, he doesn't care about others.
Are you sincere towards him or are you just pretending to be so?
During lunch break, Zhou Song saw Julie again. He, Tian Xin and two other female staff were sitting in the tea room. About a dozen men and women walked neatly from the corridor, including Julie. Julie.
He walked at the end of the line holding a thick stack of documents, pouting and looking unhappy.
She found Zhou Song, Tian Xin and others sitting in the tea room, staring at them sharply. Tian Xin greeted her politely, but she ignored him, rolled her eyes and walked over. The group entered in an orderly manner.
In the conference room opposite the tea room, you can see what's going on inside through the glass door.
Xiao Song, a female staff member, whispered: "She followed the case of Chuangmei as soon as she entered the planning department. Why does she still look unhappy?"
Tian Xin said: "Don't you understand? If she stays in our department, she can influence everything around Daisy, but if she is transferred to another department, who will take her seriously? Don't look at her involvement in the Chuangmei case. She actually did it.
It's trivial and tiring work, so of course she has resentment in her heart."
Another female employee said: "Then she deserves it. Who makes her so arrogant? By the way, is the man in the blue suit just now the creative director of Chuangmei?"
Tian Xin: "Yes, he is Shi Haicheng. But now he is the creative director and CEO."
Xiao Song: "Isn't the CEO of Chuangmei his wife Tong Yue?"
Tian Xin's eyes widened: "You don't know?"
Xiao Song was confused: "What do you know?"
Tian Xin: "Tong Yue resigned and left the company to her husband."
Xiao Song was even more confused: "Why? That's Tong Yue, a self-made strong woman. She is so career-minded. Why did she suddenly hand over the company to her husband?"
Tian Xin shook his head: "It seems you are really ignorant."
Xiao Song was extremely curious: "What's going on?"
Tian Xin glanced in the direction of the conference room and lowered her voice: "Tong Yue's daughter died. She was too stimulated and had mental problems."
Xiao Song was shocked, covered his lips and whispered: "Oh my god."
Zhou Song had no interest in the industry-famous Chuangmei Advertising Company or its founder Tong Yue. When Tian Xin and others chatted, he only listened, eating the donuts Xiao Song bought and looking at his phone. Hearing Tian Xin
When Xin mentioned a murder case, his attention was attracted. He raised his eyelids and looked at Tian Xin and asked, "Who died?"
Tian Xin said: "Tong Yue's daughter is on the hot search, and you don't even know about it?"
Zhou Song really had never heard of it. He raised an eyebrow and asked calmly: "He was murdered?"
Tian Xin was stunned for a moment, and keenly noticed the subtle change in Zhou Song's eyes: "No, no, it was an accident."
The incident happened half a month ago. Tong Yue, the female president of Chuangmei Advertising Company, returned home at noon after entertaining clients. She was drunk at the time, fell asleep when she got home, and forgot to close the door. Her four-year-old daughter
Shi Wei ran out of the house while she was sleeping. It was not until her mother-in-law came back from shopping for groceries more than an hour later that she discovered that Shi Wei was not at home. Her mother-in-law woke her up, and the two of them searched for Shi Wei in the community, and found her in the square inside the community.
Shi Wei's body. Shi Wei was lying on her back under the swing frame, with blood flowing all over the floor.
Xiao Song looked pitiful: "Oh my god, didn't that girl come back?"
Tian Xin said: "The person was out of breath at that time. Tong Yue called the police. The police checked the scene and found that her daughter fell from the swing. From the parietal bone to the occipital bone, she was completely shattered. Blood overflowed her head. When she was found, she was covered in blood.
It’s almost drained.”
Zhou Song dragged his chin and listened to this tragedy as a story: "You just said that Tong Yue was insane. What's going on?"
Tian Xin: "Tong Yue felt that she had not closed the door properly, so the child ran out. She felt extremely guilty and regretful, and especially resented herself. A few days after the child's accident, she fell into a trance and fell from the second floor, breaking a leg.
My legs hurt my head again, and I can’t even speak.”
Xiao Song: "Why can't you speak so well all of a sudden?"
Tian Xin shook her head: "I can't remember the specific situation, but she is indeed unable to speak, almost like a mute."
Zhou Song held his chin and lowered his eyes, holding a spoon and slowly stirring the coffee in the cup, and said: "This is called aphasia. It may be aphasia caused by damage to the brain stem, damage to the language center functional area, or it may be caused by mental abnormality.
Language dysfunction."
Tian Xin: "Yes, yes, a friend of mine who is a doctor said the same thing."
Xiao Song sympathized with this poor mother: "It's not her own responsibility. Is there no other adult in the family besides her? Where is her husband and mother-in-law?"
Tian Xin said: "Shi Haicheng works in a company, and my mother-in-law goes out to buy groceries. She and the child are the only two people at home."
Xiao Song: "Her mother-in-law left the child at home?"
Tian Xin: "My mother-in-law is from the country. I don't think you need to be too careful when raising children, so she left the children alone at home before anything happened to them. Who knows what will happen later."
The extension of the tragedy seemed to end here. The follow-up was that Tong Yue could no longer manage the company, so her husband took over the management of the company from her.
Zhou Song was a little curious about Tong Yue's husband. He tilted his head slightly to look at the conference room diagonally opposite. Just now Tian Xin said that the man in the blue suit was Shi Haicheng. At this time, the man in the blue suit happened to be sitting in front of him.
Looking towards the glass exterior wall of the conference room, from Zhou Song's perspective, you can clearly see Shi Haicheng's face. Shi Haicheng has a clean and gentle appearance, but there is too much hairspray on his hair, and his shiny black back and his white
There was a contrast between his face and his fair face, which looked slightly swollen, as if it had been swollen in wine and honey jars. Even the smile on the corner of his mouth had a hint of sweetness. He looked very approachable and had no airs about being in a high position.
, he is handsome, but his face is very complicated. If you look closely at each part of his face, you can see several completely different temperaments.
Zhou Song was meeting Shi Haicheng when a girl suddenly broke into his field of vision and walked into the tea room.
Qiao Qi smiled and said, "What are you doing here?" When she saw Zhou Song sitting among several female staff, she couldn't help but be startled, "Who is this?"
Tian Xin introduced her enthusiastically: "This is a newcomer to our department, her name is Zhou Song." Then she introduced her to Zhou Song, "Her name is Qiao Qi, she is from the planning department."
Zhou Song smiled at her: "Hello."
Qiao Qi shook hands with him and said with a smile: "I only heard from Tian Xin that a handsome guy came from the marketing department. This is the first time I saw him today."
Tian Xin bumped Zhou Song's shoulder and said proudly: "Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, isn't it? Isn't the real person very beautiful?"
Qiao Qi glared at her: "Flower."
She took out several disposable cups and took the coffee one cup after another.
Tian Xin said: "You are already the team leader in charge of the beauty creation project, how can you do these menial tasks yourself?"
Qiao Qi smiled and said, "You need people to do rough work. Besides, I have quit the beauty project and am no longer the team leader."
Xiao Song asked suspiciously: "Have you not been responsible for this project for a long time? Why did you quit now?"
Tian Xin knew something about the inside story, so she stopped Xiao Song first and then asked Qiao Qi: "Did Mr. Shi from Chuangmei ask to replace you? I heard that all the old people in the project team were kicked out by him. I don't know why."
Qiao Qi took a few cups of coffee and took out tea bags to make tea. She just smiled and didn't answer.
Xiao Song asked again: "Why does Mr. Shi want to replace all the old people? Doesn't he know that doing so will offend people?"
Tian Xin shrugged: "Who knows? Not only did he replace our people, he also replaced all the middle management of his company. It made a big fuss."
Xiao Song whispered: "Did his wife and children have accidents one after another, and he was also stimulated?"
Tian Xin doesn't think so: "Most men are more cruel than women. Tong Yue is the best example. Tong Yue has become half a mental patient, but Shi Haicheng still comes to our company for meetings."
Xiao Song: "Hey, Tong Yue is so pitiful. I used to regard her as my idol."
The two chatted about Tong Yue again, and once they started chatting, they couldn't stop talking.
While they were chatting, Zhou Song paid attention to Qiao Qi, because he found that Qiao Qi was a little restless. The cup was filled with hot water, but she did not move the cup away. She just opened her eyes and was lost in thought.
Zhou Song reached over and turned off the water dispenser switch, saying: "Be careful of burning your hands."
Only then did Qiao Qi come to her senses and quickly picked up a rag to wipe the water that had flowed to the floor. She was wearing loose suit pants, and when she squatted down, a small medicine bottle fell out of her pants pocket.
After knocking against Zhou Song's leather shoes a few times, he stopped.
Zhou Song bent down to pick up the medicine bottle, quickly read the words on the bottle, and then handed the medicine bottle to her.
"Thank you." Qiao Qi took the bottle and put it back in her pocket, then went out carrying several cups of coffee and several cups of green tea on a tray.
Tian Xin looked at her back and wondered, "She looks so lethargic. Is she too tired?"
But Zhou Song knew very well that Qiao Qi was not too tired, but was sick. The medicine bottle he picked up just now was some kind of antidepressant medicine. The box of medicine had bottomed out and only a few pills were left. Obviously
Qiao Qi has been taking this medicine for a while. And when Qiao Qi reached out to take the medicine bottle just now, he saw a circle of gauze on Qiao Qi's wrist hidden under the cuff of her shirt. If his guess was correct, what was covered under the gauze was
A sutured scar was still fresh, with blood oozing out and staining the gauze red - Qiao Qi suffered from depression, a very severe depression, so severe that she wanted to commit suicide by cutting her wrists and ending her life.