Chapter 1198: Workaholic

"Are you all crazy this early in the morning? Why are you staring at me instead of eating your breakfast properly? I am never getting married, and I am not looking for a relationship, so stop worrying about me."

Shi Ran stood up and left the dining room.

The company.

She deliberately suppressed the emotions in her heart and specifically took on a huge pile of work; even if it wasn't her job, she would take it over to double-check it!

Because of what she was doing, the company employees were miserable.

Shi Ran had strong work capabilities and high efficiency; usually, she would slow down her pace, and with one person handling the work of many, everyone could barely keep up.

Now that she had unleashed her workaholic mode, others couldn't keep up at all.

After witnessing the true work capacity of this beautiful president, everyone started looking for a way to solve the problem.

The most direct solution they could think of was to find Yun Qitian!

"Assistant Yun, please talk to the president. This can't go on. We are just ordinary people, not geniuses; we can't keep up with her work rhythm."

"That's right, we had to work very hard just to adapt to the previous pace, and we were already pushing our abilities to the limit. With the president's current work intensity, even if we were one person doing the work of eight, we still couldn't keep up."

Before Yun Qitian could speak, a cold voice came from behind: "Since you are too busy with work, how do you still have time to find someone to plead for you?"

"You went to find Assistant Yun to plead for you? What a joke. His workload is much heavier than yours, yet he can finish it, and finish it excellently. Do you want to learn from him?"

"President, I was wrong."

"I'll learn later, I'm going to work."

The employees who had just been complaining bitterly, seeing that they had been caught in the act by the person in question, immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

President Office.

The two of them closed the door.

Shi Ran instructed: "You should reduce the workload of the people below and put it all on me."

The desk was already piled high with several thick stacks of documents.

She had been working since arriving at the company and worked until very late; there was almost not a single minute where she was idle.

Even so, Shi Ran still demanded to increase her own burden—was she trying to kill herself?

Yun Qitian felt a pang of heartache and refused: "No, I cannot listen to you."

"You are going to get off work and go rest now, I will take you."

He didn't wait for an argument, grabbed Shi Ran, and started to walk out.

Shi Ran:...

She shook off his hand, astonished: "What are you doing? Are you the president or am I the president? How can you make decisions for me?" It wasn't astonishment that Yun Qitian was making decisions for her.

It was astonishment at never having seen such a forceful attitude from Yun Qitian before.

He had always been gentle and the type who was very easy to talk to.

No matter what she said or did, he would always say "Okay," "You're the boss," or "I'll listen to you."

But today, he was being "unreasonable and overbearing" in demanding she go home to rest?

She didn't want to rest; she didn't want to for even a minute.

How could Yun Qitian not know her true thoughts? He really wanted to scold her and wake her up.

But in the end, he couldn't bring himself to do it, and what came out was: "Do you still consider me your sister? Usually, I'm the one who lets you have your way, but today you must listen to me once, otherwise, I won't be your sister anymore."

If he wasn't her sister, there could be other relationships.

Unfortunately, as smart as Shi Ran was, she didn't understand the meaning of his words at all.

"Don't be angry, you will always be my good sister, but I am sad in my heart, I miss him."

"I can't be idle. As long as my mind is empty for a minute, I will think of him for a minute... Do you know? He contacted me yesterday!" Shi Ran treated him as a sister, so naturally, she told him everything.

She told Qi Tian about adding him on QQ in the middle of the night yesterday.

Yun Qitian was furious: "How can this Qi Heng be so shameless? He treated you like that before, and now he still has the nerve to find you? Block his QQ and tell him to contact you via drift bottle in the future... no, don't contact him at all!" He was very agitated, his eyes red with jealousy.

Shi Ran misunderstood once again, thinking only that Qi Tian was standing up for her.

There were some things she couldn't tell her parents, nor her younger brother, but she could tell Yun Qitian.

She told Qi Tian that she understood all these principles, but she just couldn't do it!

She and Qi Heng had grown up together since childhood, from ignorance to the first stirrings of love, it had always been this one person; her feelings for him were already fused into her blood, and it wasn't something she could just cut off.

Yun Qitian: "I am your childhood sweetheart too, you know. I've known you since you were six."

Shi Ran: "That's right, that's why you are my best sister, I am so happy."

Yun Qitian:...

He roared in his heart: "Who wants to be your sister? That's not what I meant!"

Shi Ran: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

His face was flushed red, and he was breathing heavily.

She thought he had a fever, so her soft little hand touched his forehead—it wasn't hot?

It was even a little bit cold to the touch!

"Ranran..."

He grabbed her hand and pressed it against his heart: "Let's... go eat barbecue! You still owe me many meals."

Shi Ran: "I want to drink."

Yun Qitian: "I'll keep you company."

And so, the two of them skipped work and left the company in the middle of the day to eat at a street stall.

As it turned out, when things aren't going your way, even drinking cold water can get stuck in your teeth.

There were no snack stalls on the street at noon; the urban management didn't allow street vending.

The two of them had no experience and didn't know this, so they drove the Maserati around looking for one but couldn't find any.

Shi Ran: "How about we go back to the company? There is still a lot of work unfinished."

Yun Qitian: "Not going back. If there are no street stalls, we'll go to a barbecue restaurant. Anyway, don't even think about welching on your debt; you still owe me many meals, and I'm going to eat them all back."

Shi Ran:...

The two of them didn't eat much meat, but they drank quite a lot of alcohol.

Don't drive after drinking, don't drink after driving.

After drinking, the two of them came out of the barbecue restaurant, walking arm-in-arm and swaying across the street.

Shi Ran slurred her words, singing an old song: "Of ten men, seven are silly, eight are dull, nine are bad, and there is one that everyone loves... Sisters, stand up, snatch him over, don't let him leave..."

Yun Qitian: "Don't let me leave!"

"Hahahaha..."

Shi Ran poked her slender finger against his forehead: "Wrong, you are a sister, not a man!"

Yun Qitian was also quite drunk, slurring his words: "Wrong, I am a man, not a sister. Only a ghost would want to be your sister; I only want to be your man."

Shi Ran didn't take it to heart, giggling and mocking him for being drunk.

Yun Qitian: "I'm not drunk. If you don't believe me, let's find a place to keep drinking. You'll see that even if I drink more, I'll still say the same thing; it won't change."

"Let's go then. Whoever doesn't go is a puppy."

The two of them walked arm-in-arm, swaying as they moved forward, completely unaware of a pair of burning eyes staring at them from behind.

Jiangzhou.

The countryside.

After Sheng Hanyu and Shi Youxuan left the home of Shi Yuke, the smiles on their faces vanished once they got into the car.

Shi Yuke and her husband did not know that something might have happened to the Ji Family; they had not been able to contact their father and Nianyin for more than a month.

Of course, they also did not know about such a big event as the disappearance of Shi Youxuan and her husband.

The two of them lived in the countryside, where information was very blocked; they knew nothing of what they should know, nor of what they shouldn't.