Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 2 Pei Yizhou

Pei Yizhou didn't arrive at the restaurant until seven o'clock.

The cold outside gradually faded away in the restaurant. When he entered the private room, he took off his coat and gave it to the assistant behind him. He pushed open the door and was greeted by the warm and lively atmosphere inside.

Xu Jiayan, who was feeling heartbroken at losing, saw him coming and threw down his cards and quickly fled from the table: "You're finally here. I thought you were halfway home and went to sleep."

Everyone else at the card table booed Xu Jiayan. He made a few casual jokes and then leaned closer to Pei Yizhou and whispered, "I know you don't like this kind of situation. I've almost finished talking to them while playing cards. You have to pay me back for the money you lost."

"Look for Ning Yi." Pei Yizhou didn't care about this little matter. He handed it to the assistant and brought the two bottles of wine he brought to the table.

When Xu Jiayan saw the two bottles of wine, his brows jumped.

The wines in the restaurant are recommended according to price. Although they are expensive, wine lovers basically don't look down on them, so many people bring their own wine to many drinking parties. However, Pei Yizhou does not love wine. He just gets drunk because he can't sleep at night. He wants to be unconscious all night and have a dream about the person buried in Antarctica.

Who dares to drink with him at night? If something goes wrong, it can't be solved with money.

Xu Jiayan took the wine away and sighed: "You can't sleep again recently? Drinking is useless, and you'd better not get drunk today, otherwise it's easy to be tricked."

He pointed inside and said in a low voice, "The project assistant you saw last time, who was very young, has been brought to the table this time."

Some people are very considerate and, for the sake of cooperation, are willing to take responsibility for Pei Yizhou's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Last time, Pei Yizhou saw a girl whose profile looked very much like Lin Lu in the other company. He stared at her in a trance for half a minute, and then she turned into a pimp with a blink of an eye. This time, she brought people with her and said that she was a project management genius that the company had not seen in eight hundred years, and wanted the other party to coordinate with Pei Yizhou throughout the process.

Pei Yizhou frowned and glanced over there calmly.

At the innermost part of the private room was the rest and discussion area. The ambient lighting was not very bright. The project manager was sitting there, sipping wine with his side face towards the door. The glittering green cocktail was reflected by the light, with some spots of light shining through her collar. When she lowered her eyelashes...it did look a bit like her.

But Pei Yizhou is a madman, not a fool, and has no interest in playing the substitute game. Lin Lu is Lin Lu, and no one can replace her.

He stopped walking in, put down his drink and chatted with a few partners. His attitude was indifferent and he didn't say much.

But it's not surprising since everyone knows what kind of personality he has.

Xu Jiayan has always been the "diplomat" of Linzhou Technology. Pei Yizhou is a big boss, but he is in charge of technical research and development. He only needs to show up at the last step to determine whether a business deal is successful. All the communication in the early stages only requires coordination with Xu Jiayan.

When the meal was almost over, everyone started chatting again, sitting together and talking about the past and the present. The project manager of Jinlian Company came over with his people and praised Pei Yizhou.

"Your Linzhou technology is going to take off this time. I heard that the detector you developed a few months ago found something good in Antarctica? Now you're starting to take on government projects. President Pei is young and promising!"

After that, he patted the girl's shoulder, motioning her to add more wine for Pei Yizhou, and said with a smile: "Our Xiao Qi is just like you, Mr. Pei. We are both technical talents who have switched to projects. I heard about your entrepreneurship and I admire you very much."

The girl was a little nervous. She quickly glanced at the man's face opposite her, then tentatively reached for his wine glass.

As soon as it touched the wall of the wine glass, another palm covered it, rejecting her kindness.

"Thank you, but that's okay." It was a cold voice, with a drunken hoarseness.

Then he withdrew his hand, and the watch on his wrist flashed a little light. As his movement was concealed, everyone's eyes followed his expression.

Pei Yizhou leaned back in his chair, looking at people with half-lowered eyes. His hair blocked some of the sharpness of his eyebrows, but the light from above his head made the shadow cast by his brow bone make his eyes seem somewhat gloomy and cold.

He looked at Qi Juelin and said, uncharacteristically, "Miss Qi looks a bit like my wife."

The current situation is not a compliment to Qi Juelin. A woman may be attracted to an affectionate and handsome widower, but she will not be interested in a hypocritical man who engages in workplace harassment.

Jinlian's project manager's eyes flickered, and he was about to say something to agree, but the next second his face froze at Pei Yizhou's words.

"If I was dug out of the Antarctic snow mountain wearing mountaineering clothes, I would be happier. I'm not interested in seeing her anywhere else." With his gloomy eyes, it seemed that he was going to stuff Qi Juelin into the Antarctic ice for processing in the next second. This is not workplace harassment, this is a life threat.

Seeing that they were stunned, Xu Jiayan quickly squeezed in and joked: "He is drunk, just joking, just joking."

Then he pulled the person away and recreated the atmosphere with a few words.

Pei Yizhou didn't even bat an eyelid, he just poured himself a glass of wine and drank it.

The dinner ended at nine o'clock, and the cold wind was howling outside.

Xu Jiayan and Pei Yizhou went back in the same car. The assistant was driving and had to pay attention to the situation behind from time to time, fearing that someone would vomit.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong, and Xu Jiayan was still clear-headed enough to ask about the product quotation for this military project.

Pei Yizhou calmly watched the night scene flashing by outside the car window, responded briefly, and suddenly said, "You and Ding Zitong will coordinate the matters after the quotation. I'm going to Antarctica next month."

All the alcohol in Xu Jiayan's body was gone in an instant, and he turned his head to look at him.

The colorful lights outside the car window flowed on him. He was obviously a lively man in his prime, but he gave people a sense of vicissitudes of life, as if he was about to die.

"You..." Xu Jiayan hesitated, and after a long silence, he whispered, "Is it really necessary? There are search and rescue teams and scientific research teams there all the time. If they find anything, they will tell you immediately. You don't need to go there in person. Although it is the warm season in Antarctica now, your condition is not suitable for going there again and again."

Pei Yizhou didn't listen: "She is still waiting for me."

"Waiting for you to go down and reunite? Yizhou, it's been seven years. We have used so many methods to scan and search, but we haven't found her body. Why are you still unwilling to give up? This is not a simple disappearance. No one can survive in Antarctica. Even if you believe in those weird legends, it's just a psychological comfort! Your mental condition is already very serious!"

Pei Yizhou couldn't refute it, but he didn't want to hear such remarks that denied Lin Lu's existence, so he asked his assistant to stop the car and let Xu Jiayan get out.

The assistant quickly winked at him, meaning that he should wait and the car would come back later to take him back.

Pei Yizhou watched coldly, but got out of the car outside the residential area. The assistant hurriedly drove back to find Xu Jiayan who was left behind.

After the car drove away, he entered the community as usual, but after his facial recognition information was displayed, he was stopped by the security guard and handed him an electronic visitor slip.

"Mr. Pei, are you Mr. Pei Yizhou? A lady came to see you just now and is waiting at the East Second Gate. Do you recognize her?"

"Who?" He said indifferently, taking the printed surveillance footage as if he were taking a flyer from the roadside.

It happened that the security guard had asked several people and knew Lin Lu's information by heart, so he immediately said, "Lin Lu, she said her name is Lin Lu, I don't have my phone with me so I can't remember your number, and I don't know where you live."

Pei Yizhou's expression suddenly turned ugly, and he lowered his head to stare at the unclear figure on the visitor list.

Over the years, he has often received various calls and invitations. The other parties all claimed to have first-hand information on the search and rescue of missing tourists in Antarctica. He was fooled every time, acting as a money-giving boy in exchange for some dispensable information.

But no one has ever dared to use Lin Lu's name or a face similar to Lin Lu to deceive him.

Seeing that he didn't react like the owner he was looking for, the security guard quickly apologized and took the visitor's slip back: "Isn't it you? Sorry, Mr. Pei."

Pei Yizhou didn't say anything. He handed the visitor slip back and walked into the stone path behind the gate.

But before the security guard had time to call the East Second Gate to inform them, the man who walked in slowed down his pace, stood on the gravel road for a while, then walked back and took the visitor's slip.

Let him believe it again, he thought. No matter who it is, he can't stand that person approaching him with a face similar to Lin Lu.

(End of this chapter)