Thirsty Skin - Chapter 4

Chapter 4 – How ambiguous!

The next day at work, Zhu Chizhou arrived on time as usual, but because he took his time parking his car and circled around the underground parking lot several times, he was more than ten minutes late for the company.

Well, he admitted that he was late on purpose because he didn’t know how to greet Lin Wan.

Everything that happened the previous day was too unreal. He got up in the morning and called Ji Xun, asking him whether they had gone to the swimming pool last night and whether they had really met his boss.

As a result, Ji Xun assigned him a task in a sleepy state: “Bring your director named Lin Wan to my company to be an artist, and I will give you dividends.”

‘…Lin Wan, it’s real.’

But Zhu Chizhou really found it difficult to connect the fragile, pitiful Lin Wan who was trembling while hugging him last night with the investment director Lin Wan.

How could such a magical thing happen?

That’s Lin Wan! Even Zhu Chizhou’s father knew that he was a ruthless person.

Lin Wan’s first project was to invest in an artificial intelligence company in the testing round.

At that time, artificial intelligence had already become very popular among investors, and the company he invested in was not particularly impressive in terms of its background, scale, or the resume of its founder.

At the investment decision meeting, Lin Wan convinced the investment committee with his in-depth market analysis and firm confidence in the technical team, but other institutions in the industry were not optimistic about this project.

Who would have thought that in just a few years, the company would rise rapidly thanks to their revolutionary technological breakthroughs, breaking the industry structure in one fell swoop. Today, its market valuation is as high as US$7 billion, making it a veritable unicorn company.

Lin Wan also became famous in the investment circle because of this project.

Everyone in the circle envies Lin Wan’s good luck, but only those within Gengyan Capital know what Lin Wan has done to make it possible.

It can be said that for the sake of this project, Lin Wan forced himself to become an artificial intelligence expert.

The investor circle is competitive, but there is no one as competitive as Lin Wan.

Zhu Chizhou thought of Ji Xun’s face that was drooling over Lin Wan. He could obviously make a living by relying on his looks, but he insisted on being a perverted devil.

And then this big devil, last night, in the swimming pool, hung on him like a koala for five minutes.

Zhu Chizhou was so confused no matter how he thought. Words like “It’s really comfortable to hug him” were definitely the nonsense he was talking about because he was scared of drowning.?

What he was worried about did not happen because Lin Wan did not show up.

Zhu Chizhou was absent-minded the whole morning, and he would look up whenever someone passed by in the corridor.

However, Lin Wan did not come to the office until the end of the morning.

At noon, he went to the company’s restaurant to eat with Zhou Yuang and Nie Xiaolan, and only then did he hear Nie Xiaolan say that Lin Wan had taken a leave of absence.

“I called the boss more than a dozen times this morning before he answered,” Nie Xiaolan said with lingering fear, “The company was waiting for a reply and said that if they couldn’t make a decision this morning, they would look for another company. You know how difficult it is to find such projects nowadays. I almost rushed to his house to look for him!”

Zhu Chizhou recalled Lin Wan’s overly rapid breathing and abnormal expression last night, and asked in a tone as natural as possible: “Is he sick?”

“No,” Nie Xiaolan squeezed lemon juice on the pan-fried salmon, “His voice was quite normal, as if he was in some open space and his words echoed.”

“Oh, I see.” Zhou Yuang looked around and said in a low voice, “He should have gone to look at houses. He said a long time ago that he wanted to buy a house to bring his grandparents over to live with him.”

Nie Xiaolan asked with interest: “Where did he buy it? Near the company? Doesn’t he have a suite here?”

“He rented it,” Zhou Yu’ang said. “I don’t know where he’s going to buy the house. He didn’t tell me in detail.”

Nie Xiaolan enviously said, “Ah, the housing prices in Shenhai are too high. When will I be able to afford a house?”

Zhu Chizhou lowered his head to eat and did not participate in their discussion about housing prices.

He could still go house hunting today… so there shouldn’t be any problems.

The next day at work, Director Lin put on his glasses and returned to his usual self. He ruthlessly pointed out more than a dozen mistakes in Zhu Chizhou’s research report and asked him to revise it and show it to him before he could leave work.

Zhu Chizhou returned to his workstation with mixed feelings, holding a report of dozens of pages.

Zhou Yuang poked his head over from behind and said, “Revising the report? Do you need my help?”

Zhu Chizhou saved his life last time, and he was ready to repay him in kind.

Lin Wan feels that as an investor, one should have sufficient independent thinking ability. When pointing out a problem, he will never tell you what the specific problem is or how to fix it. He will just roughly draw a circle for you and let you go back and think about it yourself.

This resulted in Zhu Chizhou often revising a report more than twenty times before it met the requirements. When he first started working, he was tortured by Lin Wan’s style of doing things and complained a lot to Ji Xun.

But times have changed, and Zhu Chizhou is now terribly powerful.

He had just heard the key points of the revision clearly in Lin Wan’s office, and all he had to do was type them down.

“No need,” Zhu Chizhou opened the document and started to show off, “Mr. Lin is right. As an investor, I should develop the habit of independent thinking. I can do it myself.”

Zhou Yuang was fooled by his pretense and reached out to pinch his neck, “You kid! Don’t come to me and cry if you end up staying up late to revise the report!”

Zhou Yuang’s hands were a little cold, and Zhu Chizhou was startled by them and touched his neck with his hand. Then he remembered the hot breath that sprayed on his neck the previous night, and his heart skipped a beat.

Lin Wan’s behavior today was no different from usual, but Zhu Chizhou still keenly noticed that Lin Wan was colder towards him than before.

Although it was quite cold before, it is much colder today.

Whatever, any adult would feel ashamed if they were seen drowning and scared like that, and it was normal for him to feel embarrassed when facing him. They were just ordinary colleagues, and Zhu Chizhou had never thought of being friends with Lin Wan, so he could just distance himself from him.

Zhu Chizhou typed a few words in the document and couldn’t help but look towards the director’s office.

Lin Wan was answering the phone, and Zhu Chizhou overheard that he was going to Rong City on a business trip tomorrow.

Zhu Chizhou suddenly turned his eyes away, staring at the computer screen and began to daydream.

Their family was one of the investors of Gengyan Capital. At that time, his father wanted him to come over to work and told him that after working under Lin Wan for a year, he could start his own business and his father would no longer interfere with his career choice.

But his father also said hello to Mr. Zhang of Gengyan Capital, and told Lin Wan to take Zhu Chizhou with him more often. So in recent months, Lin Wan usually took Zhu Chizhou with her on business trips.

If he wanted to go to Chengdu, it would take more than three hours by plane, and it would take at least two or three days to return. He will have to stay in a hotel in Chengdu, right?

When meeting with company management, he has to drink and socialize, right?

They drank together and went back to the room together, how ambiguous!

It’s not that it’s ambiguous just like this, they were like this before.

But, they had never had the “It’s so comfortable to hug him” situation before! How inappropriate!

Zhu Chizhou typed a few more words on the keyboard and said, “Well, forget it. I don’t want to embarrass Lin Wan. I’ll take the initiative to ask for leave and say I have something to do and won’t go tomorrow.”

But once he asked for leave, Mr. Zhang will know, and once Mr. Zhang knows, his father will know. He will have to make up an excuse to appease his father, which is troublesome.

The keyboard was tapping and pausing intermittently. Seeing that he was hesitating, Zhou Yuang rolled up a few sheets of A4 paper into a tube and poked him on the back.

Zhu Chizhou turned around with a worried look on his face: “What’s the matter?”

“If you have something to say, just tell me. Don’t be polite to me!”

“Ah!” Zhu Chizhou sighed helplessly, “You can’t help me anymore!”

While revising the report, Zhu Chizhou was also mentally preparing himself.

It’s okay. Lin Wan was just scared by drowning the night before yesterday. That wouldn’t happen under normal circumstances.

When people are extremely frightened, it is their instinctive reaction to hold onto something.

What’s more, he saved Lin Wan, so it is completely understandable that Lin Wan would hold him and refuse to let go!

As for saying that he felt comfortable in her arms, he was actually quite comfortable holding Lin Wan… He was just sighing a little in his heart, that’s not too much, right?

Business trips are also part of normal work. He just needed to get along with Lin Wan normally like before and there is no need to think too much about it.

By the afternoon, the report was almost revised, and after checking the modified data, Zhu Chizhou knocked on Lin Wan’s door with the printed paper version.

Lin Wan finished reading it, marked a few typos with a pen, and returned the report to him: “Okay, that’s it. Remember not to make these small mistakes next time.”

Zhu Chizhou took it and waited for Lin Wan to inform him that he would be going on a business trip tomorrow.

Seeing that he hadn’t left yet, Lin Wan raised her eyelids to look at him, but didn’t say anything. 【Anything else?】

Zhu Chizhou: “…”

Zhu Chizhou: “Okay.”

Why didn’t you inform him? Could it be that Lin Wan was also struggling?

Zhu Chizhou returned to his workstation and sat down. The electronic wooden fish on the computer screen saver was still tapping. He touched the mouse to activate the screen, and found the typos in the document and corrected them one by one.

You will be cut if you stick your head out, and you will be cut if you shrink your head, but the knife hanging over your head and not about to fall off is more anxious.

It was almost time to get off work. Zhu Chizhou slowly opened the drawer, took out the car keys and held them in his hand. Lin Wan walked out of the office and stopped behind the partition of Zhu Chizhou’s workstation.

Zhu Chizhou: !!!

Lin Wan’s voice, as clear as morning dew, came from above his head: “I’m going on a business trip to Rong City tomorrow.”

Zhu Chizhou lowered his head and flipped through documents on the desk, pretending to be busy.

“Zhou Yuang come with me.”

Zhou Yuang replied enthusiastically: “Okay!”