Chapter 144 [Marriage Without Love]

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Yang Chen had already guessed that the matter would not end so easily, but he didn't expect that Lin Ruoxi would ask to see her so soon, and brought Zhao Hongyan with him, so he couldn't help but feel uneasy. Although he didn't really have anything to do with Zhao Hongyan, he kissed and hugged her, and he couldn't wipe it off. Clean your mouth and say nothing!

Giving the nervous Zhao Hongyan a relieved smile, the two left the scene together. As for the two brothers of the Yu family, although they gritted their teeth angrily, there was nothing they could do.

Five minutes later, Yang Chen brought Zhao Hongyan to the CEO's office on the top floor. Yang Chen came to this place for the second time. Although Zhao Hongyan had been in Yulei for three years, she had never been here before. There were still tear stains on his face, and he didn't care about anything at the moment, looking around curiously.

"Don't be nervous, just sit there."

Lin Ruoxi, with a calm expression, came from the water dispenser at the side of the office, holding a glass in his hand, which contained steaming green tea that had just been brewed. The color was delicate and fragrant, and the natural tea fragrance could be smelled from a distance. .

Before Lin Ruoxi could put the teacup on the mahogany tea table in front of the sand, Yang Chen smiled and stepped forward to take it.

"It's so embarrassing, the president makes tea himself, and I will do it myself..."

Lin Ruoxi ignored him, and directly skipped Yang Chen, letting him go in vain, and went straight to Zhao Hongyan, and smiled at her slightly, like the snow on the first day, and the net warming.

"This is the new West Lake Dragon Well Tea this year. You are a person who knows tea, so I drink it for you. I am not willing to give it to ordinary people." Lin Ruoxi blinked at Zhao Hongyan, and put the teacup in front of her.

Zhao Hongyan stood up flattered, her pretty face was blushing, she didn't know whether it was agitation or shyness, "Boss Lin, you are welcome, I... I will be embarrassed..."

This scene made Yang Chen a little depressed, why couldn't this woman smile brightly at her husband?

Lin Ruoxi walked back to her seat with lotus steps, and sat down leisurely. She didn't seem to be in a hurry to ask what happened today, but looked at Zhao Hongyan with a smile, and asked, "Hongyan, if I remember correctly , You have been with the company for more than three years, right?"

Sitting on the soft sofa, Zhao Hongyan heard Lin Ruoxi's question, thinking of saying that she was "a person who understands tea", her eyes were filled with disbelief, "Boss Lin, do you know me?"

"As long as they are employees of the headquarters, I know everyone. Although it is impossible to communicate with you often due to work reasons, as long as they are my employees, I will recognize them." Lin Ruoxi said softly.

Not only Zhao Hongyan, but also Yang Chen who just sat down were stunned for a moment. You must know that there are at least four or five hundred employees in Yulei's headquarters. Lin Ruoxi actually recognized them all under the circumstance that she hardly had contact with them. Look at her. The way she treats Zhao Hongyan today is not what Ruan said. It seems that the inner thoughts of this woman are far more terrifying than imagined for being able to control such a fashion carrier at such a young age.

Zhao Hongyan was obviously very excited. Like most of the other female staff, she also had feelings of admiration for Lin Ruoxi. At this moment, she found that her idol could even call her own name, and knew some of her background, just like the excited bird Like a bird, the gloomy mood just now was swept away, and he showed his face and said: "I didn't expect Mr. Lin to recognize even a small employee like us. It seems that there is nothing in the company that can be hidden from Mr. Lin..."

"You are quite special. In fact, I met you before you joined the company," Lin Ruoxi said.

"Before joining the company?" Zhao Hongyan obviously couldn't remember.

Lin Ruoxi hesitated for a while, and then said clearly: "The glutinous rice balls made by your father, Mr. Zhao, are delicious. I used to buy them often."

Zhao Hongyan suddenly looked dazed, but at the same time felt unbelievable, "Mr. Lin, you... like making gods and eating glutinous rice balls?"

She didn't expect that the beautiful and refined female president would like snacks like Zaoshen.

"Your family runs a glutinous rice ball shop?" Yang Chen also asked in surprise.

Zhao Hongyan nodded, and said with a little pride: "Our meatball shop has been passed down for several generations, and the taste is very authentic. It can be regarded as a time-honored meatball shop."

"Mr. Zhao is also a master of traditional tea art. I have drunk Huangshanfeng and Biluo net brewed by him. His techniques and skills are the most orthodox tea ceremony. In fact, this is almost extinct in China, but it is reserved in Japan. It's relatively perfect. It's a pity that people nowadays only pay attention to those ostentatious tea arts, and don't know how to appreciate the most authentic tea ceremony. " Lin Ruoxi said with admiration and regret.

Zhao Hongyan became more and more excited, "I didn't expect President Lin to know so much about our family, even about my father..."

"That was many years ago. Speaking of which, I was two years younger than you. When I went to buy meatballs, I was still in high school. Because high school was very close to your meatball shop, I often went there to eat. After I'm here, your father will still make tea for me. Occasionally I see you and help in the store. It's just that you must have lost the memory, but I always remember the pictures in your store. I think your family is very happy, father , Mother, daughter, boy, that should be your younger brother, they are all helping to make and sell meatballs in a store, enjoying themselves and feeling good." Lin Ruoxi's eyes showed a bit of longing, and the words were clear. Soft and real.

Zhao Hongyan was also somewhat nostalgic, Tian smiled, "Yeah, I was still in college at that time, so I would go to the store to help out when I was free, and then I didn't go back much after work. In fact, I kept complaining about my father at that time, I obviously don't know how to make meatballs, but he insisted on me learning, now I think about it, I'm really happy."

Listening to the two women talking to each other, Yang Chen had no choice but to admire Lin Ruoxi's conversation skills. At this moment, Zhao Hongyan had obviously let go of the tense nerves just now, and began to say something heartily.

"How is old Mr. Zhao?" Lin Ruoxi asked casually.

A trace of sadness appeared on Zhao Hongyan's originally bright face, and she forced a smile and said: "It's not very good, I've been hospitalized since last year."

"Hospitalized?" Lin Ruoxi was thoughtful, "Can you tell me in detail, I haven't seen him for a long time."

Zhao Hongyan picked up the teacup on the table, took two sips of hot tea, and said: "My father was found to have kidney failure and has been undergoing dialysis treatment. His health is very bad. Because of that, the family's business is all given to my younger brother who is working on it." Reason, business is not doing well.”

"I'm sorry." Lin Ruoxi said apologetically, and subconsciously looked at Yang Chen.

When Yang Chen saw it, he spread his hands, expressing that he didn't know about it before, and didn't mean to ask her to ask such a sad topic.

Lin Ruoxi thought for a while, and asked: "Hongyan, today is on the first floor, is the person here your husband?"

"Yes, Boss Lin." Zhao Hongyan nodded sadly.

"What was his reason for doing that?"

Zhao Hongyan sighed, and recounted what happened in the bar last night, but naturally concealed the part of being harassed by Afterglow. Although it was not her fault, it was not honourable.

After Lin Ruoxi finished listening, she asked Yang Chen, "Yang Chen, is that so?"

Yang Chen nodded of course.

"But why did you kiss Hongyan?" Lin Ruoxi immediately asked again, it was actually "ěn", but Lin Ruoxi was ashamed to say that word.

"Uh……"

Yang Chen was at a loss for words for a while, and Zhao Hongyan beside him also blushed. Being asked such a topic face to face, she felt hot on her face, but at the same time, she was looking forward to Yang Chen's answer.

Lin Ruoxi's gaze was as cold as a scalpel that cut through people's hearts, as if telling Yang Chen, "Don't lie to me."

Obviously, Lin Ruoxi was very dissatisfied when Yang Chen kissed Zhao Hongyan in front of everyone, but she didn't show it too excitedly.

Yang Chen laughed embarrassedly, "That Yu guy insisted on me admitting that I had that relationship with his wife, and he didn't believe me when I said it was okay, he was so determined, he gave my wife generously, I can't say that I really don't want it, isn't this a blow to Hongyan's self-confidence? It's a beautiful girl, husband doesn't want it, and I don't want an unnecessary lover, how hurtful!"

"So you just kissed her, have you ever thought about it, what will you two do in the future after everyone saw that scene!?" Lin Ruoxi was about to go crazy, this man came here with such a rascal reason!

Yang Chen glanced at Zhao Hongyan, who was blushing and dripping juice beside him, and said to the back of his head, "What else can I do, her husband already said that he wants to divorce her, so I can't say that I want to divorce her too, can I?"

"You..." Lin Ruoxi held her breath in her throat, but she didn't know what to say.

Yang Chen smiled narrowly and said: "Boss Lin is so concerned about my love life, I'm really flattered, on behalf of my wife, thank you Boss Lin for your love."

He did it on purpose! He was mad at me on purpose!

Lin Ruoxi's bare hands were clenched into fists, trembling constantly, if not for Zhao Hongyan's presence, she really wanted to pick up anything on the table and smash this man to death!

"Yang Chen, don't talk to Boss Lin in this way, she is doing it for our own good." Zhao Hongyan suddenly persuaded, and then looked at Lin Ruoxi with a complicated expression, "Boss Lin, I think all of this is my fault. I shouldn't have gone to the bar, I lied to my husband beforehand, otherwise this wouldn't have happened."

Yang Chen asked in bewilderment: "I've always been curious, why can't you tell that guy when you drink with your colleagues at the bar?"

Zhao Hongyan was silent for a while, and said: "Actually, you also saw it today. Yu Guang is a very conservative and decent person. In his eyes, places like bars, nightclubs, and kTVs are all so-called 'social moths'." , People from the Yu family are not allowed to enter the place where '1ang men and women' go."

"Isn't his brother here?" Yang Chen frowned.

Zhao Hongyan said with a sad smile: "Yu Hui is his own younger brother, and I'm just the daughter-in-law he married back home. According to the Yu family, I'm just the daughter of a small shopkeeper with a humble background. They let me in because they treat me Thank you, how can you tolerate me going to nightclubs?"

Yang Chen couldn't help but feel ridiculous, "I really didn't expect there to be such a type of people in this society, why do I feel like I've regressed to a feudal society."

"Yeah, when I first married him, I was also very uncomfortable. I felt like an ascetic. When I got home, I felt that the atmosphere was overwhelmed. It got better over the past year, but always I was very afraid to go home, and felt that I couldn’t get along with their family members, and there were too many things between them.” Zhao Hongyan said disappointedly.

"Then why did you marry him?"

Lin Ruoxi gave Yang Chen a blank look, "It's for your father, as far as I know, kidney dialysis is not cheap."

Zhao Hongyan was silent and nodded awkwardly, "Yes, my father and Yu Guang's father are friends. When my father entered the hospital, although he had insurance to pay a certain fee, it was still not enough. Yu Guang's mother took a fancy to me at that time and wanted to Let me be the daughter-in-law of their family... maybe other people are unwilling to marry their daughter to Yu Guang, and they don't like the good-looking ones, so they chose me in the end and promised me, Helped my father pay most of his medical bills."

The truth of the matter seems simple and sad, a young and beautiful woman Taobao women's clothing Tmall Taobao mall Taobao women's winter coat m married to an old-fashioned, stubborn man for the medical expenses of her father.

"Do you love him?" Lin Ruoxi asked suddenly.

Zhao Hongyan froze for a moment before thinking of who she was asking, and said with a sad smile: "Boss Lin, Yu Guang and I have never been in love, or even had an affair, so I married him. I don't know him, he doesn't trust me, How could I love him?"

Marriage without love?

Lin Ruoxi quietly glanced at Yang Chen, and it happened that Yang Chen was also looking at her. Lin Ruoxi's heart beat faster, she hurriedly turned it aside, and asked Zhao Hongyan: "What are you going to do next?"

Zhao Hongyan shook her head blankly, "I don't know, actually I divorced Yu Guang, I've thought about it a long time ago, we are people from different worlds."

"But what about your father's illness?" Lin Ruoxi asked.

Zhao Hongyan bit her tongue, "I discussed with my brother, mortgage the store at home, and get a loan from the bank. The loan should be hundreds of thousands. It should be barely enough to do a kidney replacement operation for Dad."

"If I say, advance your salary and bonus for five years, and ask you to work here for another ten years, would you accept it?" Lin Ruoxi asked again.

Zhao Hongyan raised her head abruptly, her moist eyes were full of disbelief and surprise, "Boss Lin...you mean..."

Lin Ruoxi turned around and pressed a red button on the desk, and said into a delicate microphone: "Wu Yue, come in."