The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 165: Bottom lines are meant to be lowered, principles are meant to be broken

"I plan to promote you to director of the investment department."

"First, you are totally worthy of the position of director... Second, putting aside other emotions, I really admire your ambition and ability. At the same time, I also understand your predicament, so I really want to do something for you."

After activating the extraordinary vision and hearing in "Na Jun's Sensing", Na Jun stared at Lu Jie not far away, listening to what he said word by word.

Then he repeated it in a sarcastic tone to the confused Li Xiaoyue.

"Juanjuan, what are you talking about? It's so weird!"

"Show you something exciting?"

Na Jun said to Li Xiaoyue with a smile, and when he saw her about to turn around to look for it, he immediately stopped her.

"Don't look back. It's at your four o'clock position."

Na Jun handed her the phone: "Use the front camera and zoom in a little bit."

"..."

Li Xiaoyue's face was full of confusion, but then she stared at the screen of her mobile phone and indeed found the familiar person.

"Sister Meilan?!"

Li Xiaoyue cried out softly, and Na Jun raised his finger and said, "Shh, keep your voice down and just watch the show. Remember to hide your phone when a waiter passes by."

Na Jun's thoughtful reminder made her nod, and then she asked curiously:
"Who is she having dinner with? Isn't she pregnant? That person is not Shen Lei!"

"Well, it should be her boss, an ordinary colleague. Okay, don't ask yet, just watch it while eating. I'll broadcast it for you. I can lip read."

"..."

Just when Na Jun was pulling Li Xiaoyue to watch the drama together, the drama here also began.

After Xie Meilan listened to her boss Lu Jie's words, she lowered her head and remained silent for a while before she slowly spoke... The imitation master Na Jun also slowly spoke:
"I want to ask what you just said, putting aside other emotions...what do you mean?"

The old innocent scumbag Lu Jie took a deep breath before explaining:

"Meilan, you are a smart person. Actually, when talking to smart people, there is no need to be so obscure. But I am afraid that after I finish speaking, you will misunderstand that I am forcing you or even threatening you. So, I don't want to make my words so clear. Uh... Actually, I noticed you when you first joined the company. The way you do things and the angle you look at problems are especially compatible with me!"

Xie Meilan looked a little unnatural after hearing this, so she had to reply first:

"You have always been my best colleague and friend."

"But I don't want to be just a colleague or friend to you...that's the other emotion I just mentioned."

After Lu Jie finished speaking, Na Jun also finished broadcasting, and the righteous girl Li Xiaoyue immediately widened her eyes and exclaimed:
"This, this, this... What Sister Meilan's boss meant by saying this is..."

"What do you mean?"

Na Jun asked curiously, and Li Xiaoyue rolled her eyes at him. What is this bastard man pretending to be?

And she didn't know her boyfriend could lip read before!

I have to examine him carefully when I get back. Also, last time they went to play pottery, he didn't know anything at first, but he turned around and made a jasmine flower for himself. Is it true that this nerd can learn everything quickly?

Li Xiaoyue went through all these contents in a flash in her mind, but none of them were urgent. What was urgent was the current situation.

So she whispered, "Is this man the boss of Sister Meilan that Shen Lei complained about when we had supper last time? His name is, Lu what?"

"Lu Jie." Na Jun added for her with a smile.

"Yes!" Li Xiaoyue suddenly remembered, and then she asked anxiously, "He hasn't given up yet?"

Na Jun looked at his girlfriend strangely: "Why should he give up? It's because he didn't get it that he can't forget it."

"But Sister Meilan is pregnant!" Li Xiaoyue frowned and gave this reason which she felt was very powerful.

However, Na Jun was dismissive: "What's wrong with being pregnant? Can't other men pursue you if you're pregnant? Can't a woman have the right to pursue a better life and be pursued by a domineering boss if she's pregnant? Isn't having a little angel in the belly a plus? Marry one, get one free! And you can even go on blind dates if you're pregnant! You can't discriminate against pregnant girls!"

"..."

Li Xiaoyue was dizzy from Na Jun's combination of punches and didn't know how to refute for a moment!
But since she couldn't refute it, she simply didn't refute it and reached out to pinch and scratch the bastard.

"What the hell are you talking about!"

Then she picked up the shrimp she had just peeled and stuffed it into the man's mouth: "Shut your dog mouth!"

Na Jun did not resist. He quickly swallowed the shrimp in his mouth and raised his index finger to silence Li Xiaoyue.

"Hush, they continue talking."

On the other side, Xie Meilan and Lu Jie didn't know that someone was broadcasting them live. After hearing what Lu Jie said, she was naturally deeply moved.

She had already forgotten the idea of ​​living like this with her husband Shen Lei, but when she subconsciously covered her stomach, she immediately came to her senses.

She forced a smile with a look of loss and regret on her face and said, "Why do you have to say these things, Mr. Lu? I already have a child."

Lu Jie had anticipated the problems that Xie Meilan was worried about, otherwise he would not have brought her to this meal.

However, he did not directly express his attitude towards what Xie Meilan said. Instead, he smiled freely and then took a long breath and said;
"Haha, I just want to say something from my heart. I've been holding it in for so many years, and now I finally say it. I'm very happy! Don't worry, I will definitely respect all the choices you make. But for me, life is so short, so don't hesitate when it's time to make a decision. We should listen to our hearts, right?"

Right?

Right?

"That's right!"

Li Xiaoyue glared at Na Jun, causing the other party who had just finished the broadcast to immediately spread his hands to show his innocence.

"That's not what I said, that Lu Jie said it!"

"I know, I was scolding him!"

Li Xiaoyue was still a little angry, no, she should feel disgusted.

"This Lu Jie is so disgusting. What does he mean by saying such things? Does he want Sister Meilan to abort the child and then follow him, or does he want to be the child's stepfather?"

Na Jun shrugged and indicated that he didn't know. That's what people said in the original drama, but the same sentence was said in different situations, so the meaning naturally implied was different.

Who knows whether the other party said this at this time because he hoped that Xie Meilan would abort the child, divorce Shen Lei, and then follow her heart with him, or whether he wanted to take both the person and the child?

Some thieves may think that it is a plus point for a woman to be married, while some others may think that it is a plus point for a woman to have given birth to children.

Maybe Lu Jie is a heavyweight thief who thinks the more points he gets, the better?
Anyway, Jun didn’t understand, but it wasn’t too strange.

At this time, he pretended to propose a solution: "How about we go over and scold Lu Jie, or call Shen Lei over?"

"no!"

Li Xiaoyue, who has high emotional intelligence, immediately rejected the method proposed by her boyfriend, who has high IQ but low emotional intelligence, and then explained:
"What's the point of going over here to mess things up now? Besides, we didn't hear it with our own ears after all. What if there's something wrong with your lip reading broadcast or they don't recognize it? As for asking Shen Lei to come over, his wife and Lu Jie are just having dinner right now, not having an affair. He can't catch them cheating even if he comes."

"Then what do you think we should do?" Na Jun asked humbly.

"..." Li Xiaoyue held it in for a long time, and finally said helplessly, "I don't know either."

She has never experienced such a thing!
But when she saw the grin on her boyfriend's face, she asked back, "So what do you say we should do now?"

"Just let it go!" Na Jun spread his hands. What could he do about this situation? He couldn't just run over and say, Xie Meilan, you can't cheat on me, you can't let Shen Lei down; or, Lu Jie, it's immoral to seduce a married woman, she's pregnant; or call Shen Lei and say winter is coming, your hat will be here soon, right?
Is it cheap?

"Let's continue watching the fun." So Na Jun made the final decision without forgetting his original intention.

After Lu Jie finished speaking, he silently waited for the other party to respond. Anyway, he felt that he had already expressed his feelings.

And he certainly didn't want to be a stepfather or raise a child for Shen Lei. He didn't want to try something that even Dorgon couldn't do.

Anyway, saying this kicks the ball back to Xie Meilan. Should she give up her wealth for Shen Lei's child?

Xie Meilan stirred the plate in front of her with a fork, and for a moment she didn't know how to respond.

Although I, Xie Meilan, want to be with a rich man and have a big car and a big house, I don’t want to bear the stigma!

I am not Pan Jinlian!

So after struggling with her thoughts for a long time, Xie Meilan looked at the plate in front of her and smiled faintly: "I can't hear you clearly, but as long as my current situation doesn't change, I won't do anything out of line."

After a pause, she looked into Lu Jie's eyes and added:
"This is my principle and my bottom line!"

"..." "Juanjuan, it's over now. Shen Lei is probably really out of luck. Doesn't Sister Meilan's words mean that she is completely dissatisfied with her current life with Shen Lei and can't live with him anymore?"

Li Xiaoyue on the other side was anxious at first, but now she was no longer anxious and just sighed.

Na Jun asked curiously, "How can you be so sure? Didn't Xie Meilan say that she wouldn't do anything out of line? This is her bottom line. We should trust her!"

"You really..." Li Xiaoyue glared at him unhappily. Now she really doubted whether he really didn't understand or was pretending not to understand?
But she still explained: "Sister Meilan means that the situation between her and Shen Lei is already at the bottom line. She didn't say that she would do something out of line after she got divorced. The bottom line or not, doesn't it only take an excuse to raise or lower it?"

Seeing that the other party was getting more and more excited, Na Jun said, "You mean, Xie Meilan's bottom line is fake? Did she just say that on purpose?"

Li Xiaoyue nodded with certainty: "How can this bottom line be said in advance? Is a stated bottom line still a bottom line? She must be using this to deliberately control Lu Jie and pretend to be reserved!"

"..."

Na Jun now looked at his girlfriend in surprise. He didn't expect that she could talk so clearly and convincingly, and that it was almost the same as the original drama.

Didn’t Xie Meilan move into Lu Jie’s big house after she had a fight with Shen Lei?

Moreover, they had not divorced at that time, and they only divorced at the end of the film. At that time, she also drove a Porsche. If she had not slept with Lu Jie in those months, Jun felt that she could have become a nun.

So, the bottom line is like a diary...

But now Na Jun was still a little curious and asked: "How did you guess it?"

Li Xiaoyue shook her head proudly: "Humph, of course only women can guess what a woman is thinking!"

"Really? Then why do you seem to be less anxious now that you guessed it right?"

"What's the point of me being anxious? This is someone else's marital crisis. If Xie Meilan could still be saved, I might be anxious, but since she is like this, there is no need to worry about it. She and Shen Lei are destined not to go back."

Li Xiaoyue began to eat the food slowly and no longer called Xie Meilan "Sister Meilan".

Na Jun nodded in approval. She was indeed his girlfriend and they had a consensus on this aspect.

But he still asked: "So what do you say we should do now? We watched the whole show, so we should just pretend we didn't see it?"

Li Xiaoyue frowned and thought for a while, then said hesitantly: "Call Shen Lei now?"

Seeing that her boyfriend didn't respond, she hesitated again and said, "How about we mention it again later?"

"You can give it a try and remind him to put on an extra hat when it's cold."

"..."

……

Shen Lin has been very busy lately, looking for a job.

Ever since her husband Na Wei got into debt of 800,000 yuan, she has become more and more anxious. She had already started to get anxious after she gave 200,000 yuan to her younger brother to buy a cemetery.

Although her husband said he would not pay back the 800,000 yuan, it did not eliminate her sense of urgency. Even if her husband did not have to pay back the money and had not been fired for the time being, this was an unstable situation after all. Qin Lingling might fire him at any time.

The family can't just sit there and eat up all the money, right? Besides, the house is just a small mound at best.

After Na Wei confessed to her that night, she settled an account with her family.

The mortgage, the nanny fees, the children's expenses, the BMW's fuel and maintenance costs, the family's food, drink, defecation, and all other expenses, including social events, the family spends at least 30,000 yuan a month.

I can't sustain myself on Na Wei's salary!

So she fired her nanny, Ms. Zhang, and saved eight thousand yuan.

But even so, it can only be considered as cost-cutting. If we don't increase income, we will still end up eating up all the savings. Finding a job is imminent.

Two years ago, before she gave birth to Zixuan, she was the human resources director with a salary of 20,000. Now, after asking around, she found only jobs with a monthly salary of 6,000, and her boss was her former subordinate.

It is certain that there is a huge gap, but she has no choice.

In addition, the matter between her brother and Xie Meilan also made her feel troubled.

I don’t know if it’s because our family has offended Tai Sui, or if there’s something wrong with the feng shui of the new house that was recently built in my hometown. In short, since the day I went back to my hometown to celebrate the completion of the new house, my whole family has been having bad luck.

Well, except for Na Jun, nothing happened with Na Jun. It might be because they still have some relationship with the Shen family.

But fortunately, things have stabilized a little. My husband didn't lose money, his job is temporarily stable, and my brother's child and marriage are also stable. There is still hope for the future.

However, when she talked to Na Wei again about her brother's marriage with Xie Meilan before going to bed that night, her husband's words aroused her vigilance.

"As for Xie Meilan, let me be frank. She is using her mother's matter as an excuse. She has found a new boyfriend outside!"

……

The next day, after get off work, Na Jun asked Shen Lei to go to a barbecue stall for a midnight snack. Li Xiaoyue did not come because she was still working overtime at her company.

After meeting Shen Lei, as Na Jun had expected, the other party was in a bad mood.

"What's wrong? Lei Zi, are you in a bad mood?"

With a wait-and-see attitude, Na Jun asked directly.

After Shen Lei heard this, he picked up the beer and took a sip, then nodded silently, but then shook his head.

"..."

Na Jun was stunned for a moment, not knowing what was going on.
So he asked tentatively: "Is it because of your wife Xie Meilan?"

Shen Lei still nodded and shook his head.

Although he is in a bad mood because of his wife's affairs, he also has his own reasons.

Ever since the last time he complained to Na Jun on WeChat, he thought of starting with his rival Lu Jie’s marital status.

Normally, there is no way to know whether someone is married or not, and he can't just go to the door and ask. What would his wife Xie Meilan think of him then?

So he had to check it out himself.

It’s just that other people’s marital status is personal privacy and generally cannot be checked.

But fortunately, Shen Lei is not an ordinary person. He is also a regular employee, but his unit is too idle and he has no power. But that doesn't mean there is no way out.

The archives department he works in is responsible for historical documents. Archives on marriage relationships and other matters have nothing to do with him, but they are archives nonetheless. He can think of a way to use personal connections and use the back door to solve this problem.

Well, it’s actually a little illegal.

Unfortunately, Shen Lei is not a person who likes to use connections to get things done through the back door, but the current situation is that he needs to do so, so this is what he is struggling with.

And now he had no way of telling Na Jun about this non-compliant matter.

But even though he didn't say it, Na Jun knew it must be related to the incident between Xie Meilan and Lu Jie.

So he "hesitated" for a long time before he stammered, "Leizi, I have something I don't know whether I should say it or not."

"Just tell me!"

Shen Lei, who was drinking to drown his sorrows, didn't pay much attention to Jun's words until the other party took out his mobile phone and opened the photo album.

"Leizi, I saw Xie Meilan when I went to dinner with Xiaoyue yesterday."

To be honest, Na Jun's behavior is not that of a mean person. It would be a problem if you found out that your friend's brother's wife was dating another man and didn't tell your friend.

As for a more tactful approach...

Na Jun thought about it, picked up the menu and said to the barbecue waiter:

"I want two more servings of leeks, green beans, okra, cucumber slices, broccoli, and green peppers."

This hint should be quite obvious, right?

On the other side, Shen Lei's eyes suddenly became red when he saw the photo of his wife and Lu Jie clinking glasses while having dinner on his phone.

My wife is pregnant! How can I drink alcohol?

At this moment, Shen Lei's bottom line of not wanting to take the back door also dropped.

(End of this chapter)