Outside the car window, the light rain gradually turned into a downpour, pattering against the car with a muffled sound that made one's heart feel damp.
"I should probably be very grateful for this rain. Otherwise, after our last parting, I don't know when you would have been willing to talk to me," Mr. Vinse said with a smile as he drove.
Ji Nuan sat quietly in the car, a slight smile on her lips.
When she left the Shine Group office building just now, she was supposed to take a taxi back to the company. But she hadn't expected Mr. Vinse's car to be waiting for her outside.
At that time, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, and it looked like it was about to rain. She didn't have an umbrella, nor had she driven her own car. It was also the peak of rush hour, so it would probably be very difficult to get a taxi. Mr. Vinse opened the door and let her in. She didn't refuse and got in directly.
Not long after she got in the car, it started to rain.
"How did you know I was here?" she asked.
"Tomorrow is the weekend, and I wanted to ask you out. But I was afraid you were still angry, so I called Xiao Ba just now. She said you were here. I happened to be running an errand nearby, so I came over directly."
"Have you been waiting long?"
Mr. Vinse didn't answer, but from where he had parked and the other cars around, he must have been waiting for her downstairs for a long time.
And what he had been waiting for was more than just this little bit of time.
Three years was indeed long enough.
"Actually, you don't have to keep hanging on to me." Ji Nuan smiled faintly. "It's undeniable that you, Mr. Vinse, are charming enough to attract many women. But my emotional world has long been a pool of stagnant water. Wasting your time on me is not worth it at all."
Mr. Vinse just smiled and shook his head. "You should have heard that I'm a non-marriage advocate. It's just that I've rarely met a girl who has moved my heart. I won't force it. What happened last time was just a momentary loss of emotional control. I'm very sorry. I promise I won't be so abrupt again in the future."
In fact, he had only kissed her on the cheek that day, but it was clear that he had already apologized many times.
"You don't have to apologize. I've already forgotten about it. Let's just move on from this matter. There's no need to bring it up again."
Hearing her say that, he naturally wouldn't bring it up again. "I heard that your company has been having frequent dealings with Shine Group recently. Why are you even having meetings at Shine now?"
As Mr. Vinse spoke, he steered with one hand and took out a delicate pink candy box with glitter embellishments from the car's storage compartment with the other, handing it to her.
Ji Nuan glanced at it, took it, and replied, "It's a document issued by the government, requiring MN and Shine to participate in the project to rebuild the stadium. The final meeting venue was decided by the leader of the construction bureau. I'm just following orders. I've just returned to the country, and if I want to establish a firm foothold in Hai Cheng, I can't afford to offend anyone. When I have to be obedient, I can only be obedient."
"From what you're saying, it seems you're not very keen on going to Shine Group."
Ji Nuan fiddled with the candy box in her hand. After opening it and taking a look, she didn't answer his previous question, only asking, "What kind of gift is this?"
"A colleague from the company went on a business trip to Japan a few days ago and brought back various souvenirs. I only took this box of fruit candies. I put the candy box in the car, planning to let you have one every time you ride in my car. There are a hundred candies inside. If you ride in my car a hundred more times, maybe before the candies are finished, you'll already be mine." Mr. Vinse said as he glanced at her playfully.
Ji Nuan took a candy from inside, unwrapped it, and popped the pink heart-shaped fruit candy into her mouth.
"I can't accept other gifts, but since this candy looks pretty and tastes sweet but not cloying, I'll accept it. It's impossible to leave it in your car. Since you gave it to me, I'll just take it with me." Ji Nuan said as she put the candy box into her bag.
Mr. Vinse didn't stop her, just smiled with a hint of triumph. "It's rare, so rare for you to accept something I've given you. I've never heard that you like sweets before. It seems I don't know you well enough?"
"I don't really eat sweets, but it's not like I don't eat them at all. Everyone likes beautiful things. When I'm in a bad mood, eating one can restore half of my good mood."
"Why are you in a bad mood?"
Ji Nuan was silent for a moment, looking at the increasingly heavy rain outside the car window, and didn't answer.
Before Xia Tian went home for maternity leave, she had a deep conversation with Ji Nuan.
Xia Tian asked Ji Nuan if she hated Mo Jingshen very much when they divorced. Otherwise, why would she leave just like that, and so completely? If it weren't for Xia Tian being about to give birth, she wouldn't even have planned to come back.
Ji Nuan said that when she first left three years ago, she did hate him.
And true heartbreak wasn't as dramatic as others imagined, with wailing and thoughts of suicide. Instead, it was all calm. If she had ever been heartbroken, it wasn't something that was shouted out. Once a person's pain reached its limit, they would become numb, and from then on, they would walk alone.
Three years was enough time for her heart to become strong enough, and enough time to use a calm exterior to bear all the negative emotions.
She asked Xia Tian, have you ever heard the saying, a smile at a reunion can erase all grudges?
What Mo Jingshen did three years ago was just to remove her from their marriage, to seal off all her once-vibrant feelings step by step. The cruelest and most heartless thing he did was to take back all the happiness he had personally given her.
So even if they met again three years later, she could smile at him frankly, call him CEO Mo, be strangers, or sit in the same conference room and work. He was just a man in the same business world who couldn't be easily offended, not the person who once belonged to her.
Life doesn't have that many rules. Everyone is living in this world. Living too extremely would lose the joy of living.
So she didn't choose extreme rejection, but chose to get along smoothly.
But she still couldn't figure out what Mo Jingshen's step-by-step pressing after she returned to the country meant.
It couldn't be that she really didn't understand Mo Jingshen at all. Could it be that he just liked to play cat and mouse?
Even now, whenever that man looked at her, his eyes seemed to be written with the four words "reclaim lost territory."
Thinking about how she had planned to take a good nap just now, only to be domineeringly carried into the office by that man, he knew she was pretending to be asleep but didn't expose her, and she had to awkwardly maintain a stiff sleeping posture, she still felt sore all over.
It felt a bit like she was reaping what she had sown.
Ji Nuan raised her hand again to rub the back of her neck, while her teeth fiercely crushed the fruit candy in her mouth.
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