C5 The Value of Man

Yes, there was a special car.

Not to mention that it was a luxury car.

Yu Lian grabbed her big backpack and threw it into the back seat. Under the driver's strange gaze, she casually got into the car.

She tried to find a conversation with the driver in the car, but the driver was very competent. He was so competent that he did not even want to reward her with a word.

She looked up to see if the company's lettering was gold, but at the driver's urging she resigned herself to carrying her bag.

Like all novels, the highest level was on the highest floor. Sometimes, Yu Lian couldn't help but wonder how the people in the office would climb up the stairs if the power went out on the entire floor.

She ran all the way to the 50th floor and stood in front of the door marked with the chairman's office. After a while, she knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

A clear and polite voice came from the other side of the door.

It was not the male voice from yesterday. The man's voice was colder and more...

Yu Lian pushed the door open and walked in.

In the somewhat empty office, a man sat in a chair, a file in one hand, frowning slightly, while the bespectacled young man standing next to him pointed at it.

The one sitting should be Director Pei. The bespectacled man standing beside him was probably his assistant or secretary.

The assistant, who had been standing, looked up first at her entrance, and then, as if in a trance, with his fingers motionless on the papers, the young man in the seat brushed his hand away, and when he looked up and saw her, he was taken aback.

As soon as their eyes met, Yu Lian recognized the man sitting in the chair. It was the same man she had seen at the meeting.

Awkward.

Guilt.

The day before yesterday, she had hugged that man and confessed. She had almost kissed him, but now, she was caught.

"Excuse me... Are you Yu Lian?" The bespectacled assistant pushed up her glasses and pushed them up again.

This tomboy-like girl and the one in the video last night were clearly two different people! It was two different people! The bespectacled assistant wanted to find the cloth he had lost and wipe his glasses.

He looked carefully.

Short hair that reached her ears, a loose long robe with letters printed on it, loose casual pants, a pair of shoes on her feet, and an old black bag that was half the size of her. The bespectacled assistant once again suspected that he had found the wrong person.

As for the tomboy-like girl, she was acting very reserved... No, rather than reserved, it was more like she was feeling guilty, embarrassed, and had other emotions.

Yu Lian suppressed her embarrassment and said, "Uh... I am. Excuse me... You were looking for me...?"

"I'm looking for you." The man sitting on the desk placed the documents on the table and interrupted her intermittent reply.

Although she felt guilty, she still straightened her back and waited for the other party's next words.

"Yu Lian," he said, addressing her by name for the first time. "I remember I crushed your camera."

Yu Lian's heart skipped a beat. This man was too straightforward. He was so straightforward that she wasn't even prepared for it.

Yu Lian forced a smile.

"Ahaha... These kinds of machines usually have a storage card in them. Didn't you push me to the ground? Then I took the opportunity to pick it up."

It was such a simple answer, but it made the face of the man behind the desk turn cold.

"That's it?" The man asked.

"Yes!" She forced herself to answer, but it sounded weak in other people's eyes.

A familiar sneer came out of the man's mouth, giving Yu Lian a bad feeling.

"Alright, let's talk about the Dance Remix newspaper."

As soon as the man said this, the bad feeling in Yu Lian's heart deepened.

"What do you want to talk about?" Yu Lian tried her best to keep her composure.

This uneasy feeling made her build a wall in front of her. She recovered from her guilt and embarrassment and became polite and steady.

The bespectacled assistant standing on the side couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and look to the side.

"How did those people react?" The man casually flipped through the information on the side and asked indifferently.

Yu Lian really wanted to look up at the sky. This man's words were too blunt.

"Thanks to Director Pei, at least there are no positive emotions." Now, she could be considered to have sorted out the relationship between them. Hsu Qing was an A-list actress, but since she debuted until now, she had never done anything too forceful. But this time, Hsu Qing seemed to have changed into a different person. She was strong from the beginning to the end. Just by thinking about it, she already had a backer.

"It's already been agreed in the circle that nothing related to Director Pei is to be reported. You don't know it yourself, so you can't blame anyone." The bespectacled assistant spoke calmly.

Yu Lian's eyes widened.

This man was quite good at making people agree with each other. But if what he said was true, then it really was a problem on their side...

However...

"I apologize to Director Pei here and hope to make amends. However, I am the one who started this, and I hope Dance Remix will not be implicated."

Yu Lian said seriously. She hoped that the damage caused by this matter would be minimized.

To her surprise, the man did not discuss this matter with her. Instead, he took a different approach.

"Why are you so serious today?"

Eh?

Forcing down the strong urge to choke, Yu Lian gave him a gentle and decent smile. At first glance, she looked a little like the elegant woman she had been the night before. "Of course I have to be serious when it comes to serious matters."

"All right then, how are you going to make it up to me?" The man looked at Yu Lian with interest.

Yu Lian swallowed her saliva. "Excuse me... Does Director Pei have any good ideas?"

The man had a smile on his face, and there was a hint of evil on his handsome face, making him look even more attractive. "I remember last night... You made a very intense confession to me?"

At this moment, not only was Yu Lian stunned, but the bespectacled assistant beside her was also stunned.

The assistant had caught a glimpse of Yu Lian when the man had suddenly asked for the surveillance footage of the garden, but he had no idea what was going on inside.

Now, it seemed that the content was a little explosive!

Yu Lian felt that the wall she had built in front of her was not thick enough. At least, at this moment, she did not have the courage to stand still even if Mount Tai collapsed.

She patted her face.

Her skin wasn't thick enough.

Yu Lian blinked her eyes, "Director Pei, you must have drunk too much yesterday and remembered wrongly, right?"

Her bright eyes blinked again and again, just like yesterday when she tricked him into thinking that the necklace was his grandmother's legacy.

The bespectacled assistant burst into laughter - this person didn't even make up his mind when he was lying in front of Director Pei.

He couldn't help but remind her, "Miss, there are independent surveillance and recording devices in the garden. Regarding this, we can talk about it with evidence."

Damn.

Yu Lian, who had been slapped in the face, laughed dryly and said, "I'm sorry. I must have forgotten about it because I was too drunk yesterday."

The assistant was stunned. How could this be?

The bespectacled assistant suddenly saw the man sitting beside him raise his eyebrows at him. The meaning in his eyes was obvious - Look, this woman is interesting, isn't she?

"Then do you want Miss Yu to remember it again?" The man sitting in the chair had a faint expression on his face.

Yu Lian took a deep breath. She had finally regained her composure.

"Director Pei, no need to trouble yourself. Forgive me for my offense, but I would like to know what my rudeness yesterday has to do with the compensation that Director Pei mentioned."

There was a short silence.

But she felt that this moment of silence was intentional.

With a chuckle, the man finally spoke, but every word he said stunned her. He was sitting, looking up at her, but his eyes were full of pride, as if he didn't care about anyone.

"Yu Lian, since you said you love me, I'll give you this chance."

Although the man was smiling, his expression was as if he was giving charity to a beggar. There was pity in his kindness, but there was also a trace of disdain.

Yu Lian put her right hand behind her back and gently rubbed her index finger and thumb together, thinking about what the man in front of her meant.

The man didn't give her much time to think. He immediately said, "Give it to me and I'll help you once."

It was not the tone of cooperation or poaching. The man's eyes were as naked as knives, like the sudden flash of interest and possession when you see something you like on a shelf.

The bespectacled assistant frowned slightly. When he heard Yu Lian's question, his brows furrowed even more tightly.

Yu Lian subconsciously asked,

"A boyfriend and girlfriend?"

The man's smile answered without a sound.

Yu Lian had nothing to say. She felt as if a bucket of dog blood had poured down from her head to the soles of her feet.

They weren't boyfriend and girlfriend.

However, there were many ways to address this kind of relationship. It could be called a lover. It could also be called a companion in bed. However, if it was more realistic and more societal, a lot of people would belittle it as love...

"Are you surprised?" The man asked.

Once again, Yu Lian thickened the wall in front of her. It was so thick that she could smile directly at the two of them, revealing two sweet dimples. She should have done this from the very beginning, to counter the man's intentions.

The bespectacled assistant paused for a moment and pushed up her glasses: the girl in front of her was still wearing an alphabetshirt and slacks. She looked like a tomboy.

Yu Lian smiled and said, "I'm quite surprised. Some people said that a person's value was no more than seven pieces of soap, nine pencil points, a nail, 2,200 match heads, and about 27 francs. I never thought that I would be so valuable. "

The man ignored Yu Lian and looked at his watch. "I'll be flying to S City in three hours."

"Is there no other way?" Yu Lian carefully confirmed again.

The man's eyes were filled with mockery. "Yu Lian, do you really think you can help Dance Remix out of this predicament by yourself?"