Chapter 180: Call Xie Qin and go out for a meal?

Shen Li walked out of the coffee shop after paying the bill.

The wind in March carried the fragrance of grass and trees, and the sunlight passed through the gaps in the leaves, shattering into gentle light spots falling at her feet.

The two walked together, and Zhang Zixin said a few words to her: "His studio isn't big, specializing in making some small program games. A few people have struggled from university to now, not relying on their families, but all relying on their own solid achievements. Staying up late and working overtime is a common occurrence, it's not easy."

"Back then, for Xie Qin to score that 690, you can't imagine how crazy he pushed himself." Zhang Zixin turned her head to look at her, her tone complex, "Don't know who he was competing with."

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Noon, 11:45.

Dingfeng Technology.

Xie Qin had just woken up, wearing a black jacket, the zipper loosely pulled to his chest. He lit a cigarette as soon as he walked in, his face full of sleepiness, the shadows under his eyes were heavy, and his expression was indifferent. But this didn't diminish the playboy temperament on him at all.

He walked straight to a girl in the art group. The other party was still lowering her head to draw the composition, and she felt a black shadow pressing down beside her, that uncontrollable aura making people feel a strong sense of oppression.

Xie Qin was handsome, and many girls joined this studio mostly for his face.

But the girls in the studio rarely saw him smile; he was too cold.

His work requirements were so strict that no one could stand it, and he was always losing his temper, with a terrible, stinking temper.

Xie Qin tapped the desktop with his knuckles, dropping cold and hard words: "Give me the character composition I asked you to change yesterday."

The girl lowered her head, flipping through the folder beside her slowly.

Xie Qin frowned, pursing his lips.

He waited patiently for her to find it.

After finding it, the girl's hand trembled as she handed it over.

Xie Qin took it, looked at the line draft, and then looked at her, "What did you change?" His tone was as cold as quenched ice.

The girl didn't dare to breathe.

She whispered: "I... I'm sorry. I had something urgent last night and forgot to change it."

Xie Qin threw the line draft on the table and laughed coldly: "Hired you to come here, do you think this is school for slacking off?"

The whole studio was oppressive because of Xie Qin's appearance, and others also lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

The main person in charge of the studio was Zhang Shanfeng, and Xie Qin was a technical shareholder. There was never a set working time for him in the studio, and even if he came late, no one dared to say anything.

It was just that this time the project Xie Qin was responsible for involved designing original characters, and the previous drawings didn't fit the character image, so Xie Qin needed to modify them and find her to connect the progress.

Just then, Zhang Shanfeng led Xu Zhouyuan and others out of the glass-partitioned conference room after the meeting.

As soon as he looked up, he saw the low pressure around Xie Qin, scolding the employees of the art group.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingyu hurriedly stepped forward: "Just woke up at noon, no need to lose such a big temper, talk nicely, don't scare the little girl."

This meant don't bring yesterday's temper to work.

Zhao Zhouyuan followed closely, her eyes falling on the line draft on the table, and she instantly understood the reason, speaking to smooth things over: "I arranged urgent work for her yesterday, I have the message record here, she should have... accidentally forgotten what you gave her."

Xie Qin didn't look at them, and said coldly: "I'll give you one day, if you can't change it well, get out!"

Zhang Zixin led Shen Li over, and heard Xie Qin scolding employees at the door, quite irritable.

Xu Zhouyuan was the first to catch a glimpse of the two figures at the door, and blurted out: "Wife!"

After the words fell, he saw the person beside her and choked, bursting out a low curse: "Holy crap..."

Hearing the sound, Xie Qin's fingertips holding the cigarette paused.

He slowly raised his eyes, looked past the crowd toward the door.

The coldness and hostility around him just now quietly faded when he met those clear and quiet eyes.

The surroundings instantly became weirdly quiet.

Shen Li watched the somewhat angry Xie Qin, seeing that he only looked at her once.

He turned and went into the office.

The door was closed with a bang.

It looked like he didn't want to pay attention to her at all.

Shen Li's chest felt like it was stuffed with a ball of cotton, a bit stuffy, and she lowered her eyes in disappointment.

Zhou Mingyu reacted first and invited them to the reception room.

Shen Li sat on the sofa and took the tea poured by Xu Zhouyuan, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Xu Zhouyuan sat on the opposite sofa, hugging Zhang Zixin's waist.

Zhou Mingyu stood by the sofa and asked: "Here to find Xie Qin? Shall I call him out for you?"

Shen Li looked through the glass window at the tightly closed door.

When she came, she noticed that this studio wasn't big, with only a dozen people, all looking like they were doing their own jobs, seeming quite busy.

Xie Qin had just lost his temper.

His attitude...

Was also obvious enough.

He probably didn't want her to pester him.

Shen Li didn't want to cause him trouble either.

However, Zhao Zhouyuan went into his office and hadn't come out yet.

Did she come at the wrong time?

Should have said something in advance.

Come back when he's in a better mood.

Shen Li withdrew her gaze faintly, "No need, I just came to see on the way, I'll leave after a while."

"Ah... I see." To be honest, this made Zhou Mingyu quite awkward. His relationship with Shen Li was only because of Xie Qin, and they could talk back then. It had been so many years, they weren't as familiar as before, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he just chatted casually: "It's not a disturbance, usually there's nothing to do, quite free."

"How about I take you for a tour."

Not busy? This was said modestly.

Zhang Zixin couldn't help but complain: "Such a small place, what's there to see."

"Xu Zhouyuan, is it almost your lunch break?"

"Call Xie Qin and go out for a meal?"

Xu Zhouyuan was stunned for half a beat, then reacted, "Ah~ ah! Right, it's almost twelve o'clock, it's indeed time to eat."

"I'll go call him."

"No need." Shen Li didn't even drink the tea, stood up, "I have a class at 12:30."

"If there's time, I'll come again next time."

"I'll... leave first."

She dropped this polite sentence and left as she said.

Whether it was an excuse, everyone was an adult.

It wasn't like they couldn't hear it.

Seeing her really leave without looking back, Zhou Mingyu and Xu Zhouyuan were stunned.

Just like when she broke up with Xie Qin back then, she broke up as soon as she said so.

Zhang Zixin didn't know what was wrong with Shen Li either.

Didn't they agree to come over and talk clearly.

Shen Li just got off the elevator and left the building.

She received a message from Zhang Zixin, a big: 【?】

Shen Li thought for a while and replied to her: 【He should be very angry now, he doesn't want to see me.】

She sent her a 'knocking on the head' emoji.

A feeling of hating iron for not becoming steel.

A few seconds later, another sentence came: 【You are too cowardly.】

To be honest, Xu Zhouyuan and the others didn't want to get involved in their business.

After all... because of Shen Li, Xie Qin almost lost his life in a car accident back then.

And was played like a dog.

Besides, after Xie Qin recovered from the car accident over these years, he didn't seem to have lingering feelings for her.

He was quite fond of studying.

Recently, this dog thing even wanted to take the postgraduate entrance exam.

Shen Li's arrival didn't seem to cause much of a ripple for someone.

Just like usual, doing what he should do.

The Dingfeng Technology team had few people, and they were indeed busy.

Recently, several program games were about to be launched and needed testing.

Once Xie Qin's office door closed, he would code until late at night.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, the office building was still brightly lit.

Zhao Zhouyuan didn't leave either, ordered late-night snacks for everyone in the studio, specially took out a portion, and tapped the door lightly.

"Come in."

Pushing the door into the office, a heavy smell of smoke rushed toward her.

The ashtray was piled with extinguished cigarette butts, and the smoke floated heavily in the air.

An empty cigarette box was thrown in the corner of the table.

Xie Qin lazily rested his legs on the edge of the desk, his fingertips flying across the keyboard, his dark eyes staring heavily at the code flowing on the screen, his whole body soaked in a bit of cold fatigue.

Zhao Zhouyuan looked at the overflowing ashtray, her heart sank, and she hesitated to step forward.

She put the porridge she was carrying on his desk, "You haven't eaten anything all afternoon, eating greasy food on an empty stomach will make your stomach uncomfortable, I ordered you some porridge."

Xie Qin's tone was indifferent: "No need, I'm almost finishing up here."

Seeing the person who hadn't left yet from the corner of his eye.

Xie Qin raised his eyelids and looked at her lazily, "Anything?"

Zhao Zhouyuan managed to pull a faint smile, her tone softening: "Still... eat a couple of bites, it's not good for your health like this."

Xie Qin stared at her for a few seconds, and let out a low laugh: "You're quite persistent."

Zhao Zhouyuan couldn't hide her humbleness, lowering her eyebrows.

Xie Qin didn't look at her, got up, picked up his jacket, and left: "Remember to lock the door."

Zhao Zhouyuan's gaze followed his back: "Okay."

The night spread on the street, and the drizzle fell on the street, dense and cool.

Wuchuan is a city without nightlife, and it is even more deserted in the middle of the night.

The drizzle wrapped in the night wind, there were no pedestrians on the street, only sporadic vehicles occasionally passing by the road, crushing shallow water light.

Xie Qin walked out of the office building in the dense drizzle.

When his cigarette addiction came up, he took out a cigarette box, took one out, held it in his lips, blocked the wind with his hand, lit it with a metal lighter, the flame illuminated his brows, and he spat out a puff of white mist that was blown away by the wind.

Walked for a while.

Suddenly, he noticed a figure following him not far or near from the corner of his eye.

A cold edge flashed across his eyes instantly.

Calmly, he turned into the shadow of the street corner to hide his figure.

When the person caught up, he suddenly turned sideways and stepped out, blocking the front steadily.

Shen Li didn't stop her steps, and suddenly bumped into his solid and warm chest, the tip of her nose lingering with a faint smell of smoke, mixed with the clear cedar scent on his body, and soaked with a bit of the unique cool dampness of the rainy night.

When she slowly raised her head, she met Xie Qin's dark and cold eyes. ===== CHAPTER 181 =====