"I'm fine, much better now. It's all in the past. I'm telling you, my editor said I did a great job on the last exclusive interview and this feature in the mountains, so I got a big bonus," she said.
"So that means..." Tang Tang and she had the same thought.
"Last time we went to the bar, we didn't have enough fun, did we? This time, let's find a new place and have a blast for a whole day. My treat."
"I've been waiting for you to say that!"
After saying this, the two hung up the phone with a tacit understanding. Shi Xinxin happily got back to her work, now just waiting to get off work so she could go out and celebrate with her best friend.
Oh, right. She still needed to inform Sheng Chenjin. Although it wasn't out of the respect a personal assistant owed their boss anymore, Shi Xinxin was happy to let Sheng Chenjin, her boyfriend, know that she wanted to go out and have fun tonight.
In the chairman's office of Sheng Corporation, the phone on the desk kept vibrating, but Sheng Chenjin had no intention of answering it.
The phone rang several times without anyone picking up. "He must be in a meeting. I'll call him later during lunch," Shi Xinxin thought.
Without giving it much more thought, Shi Xinxin hung up and went back to her work. However, Sheng Chenjin wasn't in a meeting. Besides his secretary, there was another woman in his office.
To be precise, she was an uninvited guest. Ding Muyu was Sheng Chenjin's ex-girlfriend. They had known each other since college and became a couple in their sophomore year.
After graduation, Sheng Chenjin started his own business, and Ding Muyu, against her family's advice, rented a place with him when he was still a penniless young man.
They worked hard together, but after three years of struggle, Sheng Chenjin still hadn't made any progress. Due to financial problems, their lives became tight.
Ding Muyu started to get impatient and frequently lost her temper with Sheng Chenjin. Every time, Sheng Chenjin felt he was the one who had wronged her, so he endured her scolding without complaint, only wanting to calm her down quickly.
It was not easy for a girl to follow him when he had nothing and live independently against her family's wishes. If he were to get angry with her at this point, it would be a great injustice to her. He had already decided when she chose to follow him that he would dote on her for a lifetime.
Sheng Chenjin kept thinking this, but he never expected to return home one day after working outside and find Ding Muyu gone.
A letter was left on the coffee table in the living room. It turned out she could no longer tolerate living such a life with Sheng Chenjin. For her future, she had agreed to the path chosen by her family and decided to study abroad.
Leaving a letter as a final farewell, Sheng Chenjin couldn't believe it. Had their years of commitment amounted to not even being able to say goodbye in person?
He chased her to the airport, but he had no idea which flight Ding Muyu was on. He caused a scene at the airline's front desk and was taken to the police station.
Later, Ding Muyu's parents came and bailed him out. As they left the police station, Ding Muyu's parents warned him to stay away from their precious daughter. Although their daughter wasn't from a major corporate family, she was still their treasure, and they absolutely couldn't allow her to be with a poor, unaccomplished young man like him.
These words certainly didn't deter Sheng Chenjin's determination to win Ding Muyu back. However, one sentence from Ding Muyu's mother completely crushed him.
"Child, I can only advise you to give up. If there was love between you, we wouldn't have been able to interfere successfully. If Xiao Yu liked you, no matter how favorable the conditions, she wouldn't have left you. So..."
Sheng Chenjin didn't hear anything else she said. All he heard was that one sentence: "If Xiao Yu liked you!"
That's right. How could he have forgotten the most important point? The Ding family was initially worried that Sheng Chenjin wouldn't let go, and even prepared a large sum of money for this purpose. But before the money was even handed over, Sheng Chenjin had already left by himself, abandoning the Ding family.
He had always thought Ding Muyu loved him, which was why he endured her tantrums and genuine anger every time.
But he never expected it to end like this. He vowed to make a name for himself and enter high society. But deep down, he would no longer accept Ding Muyu and didn't want to believe that there was anything worth clinging to in a woman who waited with him.
However, Ding Muyu didn't think that way. When she first went abroad, she listened to her parents and stopped thinking about her ex-boyfriend. She focused on her studies, diligently pursued knowledge, and no longer accepted any news from home.
As she gradually forgot Sheng Chenjin, she started paying attention to domestic news and discovered that Sheng Chenjin had already become the chairman of an international company at a young age.
There was very little reporting about him. Apart from discussions about Sheng Chenjin's business miracles, there were no reports about his personal life.
There could only be two possibilities. One was that no media outlets in the country cared about such matters, which was impossible.
Therefore, it had to be the second possibility: Sheng Chenjin had never married and had no girlfriend. In Ding Muyu's eyes, this was a position he deliberately kept for her.
When they were poor, no matter how much she threw a tantrum, Sheng Chenjin always indulged her and let her be angry without ever saying no.
And now, he had finally proven his capabilities to her parents with tangible results. From a poor boy to a self-made chairman. Now, her parents would surely not object to them.
And his remaining unmarried meant he was waiting for her to return home. So, when Ding Muyu expressed her desire to return to the country, the Ding couple didn't obstruct her too much.
Although the elders had looked down on this young man back then, he was now the chairman of an international group. According to their daughter's analysis, the position of the chairman's wife was also likely reserved for their daughter.
Once back in the country, their daughter could marry into such a good family and never worry about food or drink. With such excellent conditions, what did it matter if their pride was hurt?
At worst, the elders would go and apologize to Sheng Chenjin again, the two children would reconcile, and everyone would be happy. Wasn't this a perfect ending?
Thus, Ding Muyu began packing her luggage with this conviction. However, while waiting for her resignation procedures to be approved, Ding Muyu saw news from China that Sheng Chenjin had already announced Shi Xinxin as his fiancée.