Huayu 2021: Isn’t he in the technology field?

Chapter 167 The Other Side: How Can a Person Be So Shameful?
At 5:23, the sun had just set.

The incandescent lights in the underground parking garage of JD.com's headquarters cast halos of light above Zhou Ye's head, and Zhang Li, the marketing director, personally opened the door of the nanny van for her.

"Teacher Zhou's live stream today was exceptionally successful, breaking all records."

"It's all thanks to JD.com's reputation; otherwise, how could we have achieved such great results?"

Zhou Ye wore a humble smile and bowed slightly.

"And everyone cooperated very well."

"Xiao Ye is right, Mr. Zhang is too kind. We had a lot of minor issues during today's live stream, please forgive us."

Li Xue stepped forward with a smile.

"Hey, Mr. Li, what are you saying? Teacher Zhou performed very well. I saw that everyone's feedback online was also very positive. They all think Teacher Li is adorable."

Zhang Li now finds Zhou Ye agreeable no matter what, so why would she blame her, especially since there's also the connection with Jiang Qing.

"Mr. Zhang, you flatter me. Our Xiao Ye..."

Li Xue continued to exchange pleasantries with her, while Zhou Ye stood by with a smile, watching the two of them chat back and forth.

It's clear that JD.com is genuinely satisfied this time.

About five or six minutes later, Zhang Li and her people left, and Zhou Ye finally smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

After two hours of continuous live streaming, she's completely exhausted and still has to maintain her image in front of others. She's so tired she's practically speechless.

Just then, a laughing male voice came from behind.

"Mr. Li, may I borrow one of your artists for dinner?"

Zhou Ye hurriedly got up, and his eyes lit up immediately when he saw the person who came.

Jiang Qing leaned against the wall with one hand, the sleeves of her shirt rolled up at her elbow, looking very casual.

At that moment, he was smiling and waving at her.

Li Xue smiled and handed Zhou Ye his handbag.

"President Jiang has arrived at the perfect time. We should take her to eat more; she said earlier that she could eat a whole cow right now."

"Sister Xing!"

Zhou Ye stamped his foot sheepishly.

Jiang Qing took the handbag and nodded to Li Xue.

"Don't worry, Mr. Li, they'll definitely be fed well."

"go Go."

Li Xue waved with a smile, showing no sign of nervousness that her artist was about to be kidnapped; in fact, she seemed to be hoping that Li Xue would leave as soon as possible.

"Goodbye, Mr. Jiang. Have fun, Xiao Ye."

Zhou Ye blushed and moved to Jiang Qing's side, waving gently at her.

Immediately, the two turned and walked away.

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Li Xue nodded in satisfaction.

that's nice!

The motion-sensor lights in the underground parking garage lit up one after another with the sound of footsteps. Zhou Ye stared at the elongated shadows of the two people and muttered to himself.

"Why didn't you say so beforehand? My makeup is all ruined."

Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Qing suddenly turned around and bumped straight into his arms.

Jiang Qing smiled and helped the staggering girl to her feet. A draft from the underground parking garage ruffled the stray hairs by her ears.

"Be careful, or you'll cry again if you bump into something."

"I won't!"

Zhou Ye hurriedly took half a step back, tilting his little face up to glare at him.

The sound of an engine came from afar, and Chen Duo drove his black minivan to a steady stop in front of the two of them.

As soon as the car door closed, Zhou Ye grabbed Jiang Qing's sleeve.

"What should we eat tonight? I ate something during the live stream earlier, so I'm not actually that hungry now. Sister Xue was just joking."

She looked at Jiang Qing, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, and the joy in her eyes was almost overflowing.

What we eat isn't important, as long as I can be with him.

"There are still Mr. Lei and other people from Xiaomi there tonight, so I couldn't refuse and came to pick you up."

Jiang Qing took her small hand in his palm and gently stroked it.

"Huh? This...this...won't President Lei and the others take this very seriously?"

Zhou Ye's expression tightened, and her other hand unconsciously crumpled the hem of her skirt.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lei is a very easy-going person."

Jiang Qing smiled and squeezed her hand.

"If all else fails, we can just turn on our phones and play his hit songs."

"Oh, you're talking nonsense!"

Zhou Ye patted his chest reproachfully, then burst out laughing at the thought of that scene.

Chen Duo caught a glimpse of the two playfully fighting in the rearview mirror and silently raised the partition.

Sigh... They killed the dog!

These past two days have been truly awful!

Since spending time with Jiang Qing on the "Beginning" set, he has gone from being shocked to numb, and can even occasionally play a supporting role in creating atmosphere.

Just two days ago, his boss was playing cosplay with another female celebrity, and today he's taking the innocent route with this teacher Zhou Ye. It's really unbearable for him to watch.

Pooh!Scumbag!

But... I won't be silenced for knowing too many secrets, will I?
No, I need to find a couple of escorts tonight to cleanse my soul!
In half an hour, they arrived at their destination.

The bamboo curtains of Wangjing Pavilion swayed gently in the wind. As the waiter led them through the corridor, Zhou Ye suddenly pulled Jiang Qing to a stop.

Did I smudge my lipstick?

She tiptoed closer to the palace lanterns under the eaves, the light and shadows dancing on her moist lips.

"It looks beautiful."

Jiang Qing smiled and praised her, then casually picked a sesame seed that had somehow gotten stuck in her hair.

Even better than during the afternoon's live broadcast.

"Mr. Jiang!"

Lei Jun's booming voice startled the girl.

Seven or eight Xiaomi executives wearing polo shirts were gathered around the koi pond, and they all turned around and waved when they saw them coming.

Zhou Ye instinctively shrank back towards Jiang, his fingers gripping the back of Jiang's shirt.

Lei Jun stepped forward with a celadon teacup in hand, his smile friendly.

"I was so hungry watching Teacher Zhou's live stream that I specially asked the kitchen to prepare sour soup beef."

"Hello, Mr. Lei."

Zhou Ye blushed and leaned out from behind Jiang Qing to greet her, his voice trembling at the end.

A group of Xiaomi executives looked at the reserved girl in front of them, and their eyes met with expressions of sudden realization.

So, President Jiang likes this kind of well-behaved and cute young girl!

The head of Xiaomi's ecosystem chain took out his phone.

"Ms. Zhou, can we take a photo together? My daughter really likes you."

"Ah! Okay, okay."

Zhou Ye nodded hurriedly and stepped forward with encouragement from Jiang Qing's gaze.

In the following time, other Xiaomi executives greeted Zhou Ye in different ways, which gradually eased her anxiety.

Everyone seemed easy to get along with; she had thought they would all be very serious.

The girl thought happily, and when she turned her gaze to Jiang Qing, she met his admiring look.

Hehe... It doesn't seem as difficult as I imagined.

Soon, they all took their seats at the table.

The atmosphere at the gathering gradually became lively.

A waiter dressed in Tang suits pushed over a food cart, and Lei Jun personally served Zhou Ye a bowl of mango pomelo sago, which she accepted with a sense of surprise and delight.

"I watched Teacher Zhou's live stream this afternoon. It was very interesting. Next time, Xiaomi will try to invite Teacher Zhou to come over. Please don't refuse."

"How could that be? Thank you, Mr. Lei, for giving me this job opportunity. I will definitely do my best to make our products a bestseller!"

The girl raised her little fist, looking very confident.

Everyone in the room burst into laughter. Jiang Qing propped his head up and looked at her with eyes full of doting affection.

As the squirrel-shaped mandarin fish on the crystal turntable came closer, Jiang Qing naturally picked up the fish belly and put it into Zhou Ye's bowl.

"Try this, it's better than the spicy beef in your live stream."

Zhou Ye poked at the fish meat with his cheeks puffed out, and when he heard Wang Hewei, the head of Xiaomi's voice team, asking about model iteration, he immediately perked up his ears.

Jiang Qing was focused when talking about serious matters, and her eyes lit up when she got to the important points, which made her momentarily lose her focus.

"Therefore, lightweighting the edge model cannot be simply about subtraction; it needs to be like..."

He suddenly turned to look at the girl beside him.

"Just like when you choose a script, you can't just look at the number of episodes."

The whole table burst into laughter.

Zhou Ye protested, biting the tip of his chopsticks.

"I've been reading serious drama scripts lately, okay!"

She secretly stepped on his leather shoes under the table, but her hand was grabbed by his palm.

Lei Jun suddenly stood up, holding his phone, and waved to Zhou Ye.

"Could you please take a picture for us, Teacher Zhou? We need to post it on Weibo."

Zhou Ye was peeling shrimp for Jiang Qing when he heard this and stuffed a shrimp into his mouth.

"Okay, Mr. Lei, I'm coming!"

Zhou Ye raised her hand gracefully.

Jiang Qing swallowed the shrimp whole and stood up with her, smiling.

"Jiang Qing, stand up straight, don't slouch."

"The two of you move a little closer, okay! That's it!"

"Mr. Lei, what do you think of this one?"

Zhou Ye jogged over, holding his phone, and handed it to him.

Lei Jun squinted and sized him up.

"It's good, but President Jiang's expression is too smug."

Jiang Qing shook his head and chuckled, then turned to glare at the girl who was secretly laughing, only to be met with a fierce glare in return.

It gives off the vibe of a completely baring-toothed puppy.

As dusk deepened, the courtyard was illuminated with twinkling lights.

Zhou Ye rested his chin on his hand as he watched Jiang Qing being pulled aside by Xiaomi's chief engineer to discuss the dialect recognition module. Others joined the discussion from time to time, and he would occasionally gesture with his hands.

She unconsciously pressed her knuckles against her slightly flushed cheek, her gaze following the trail of his fingers.

As you look at him, his wrist is pressed against the edge of the tablet, his fingertips drawing sharp arcs on the screen, occasionally bending his fingers to touch his chin when he gets stuck on technical terms.

This action reminded her of the pebbles splashing in the stream in the afternoon, their hard curves concealing a warm and smooth texture.

She noticed that whenever he got excited, the corners of his eyes would unconsciously slant upwards, like the lingering melody at the end of a zither string. Those technical terms, though obscure and difficult to understand, were more heart-stirring than folk songs by the campfire in the evening breeze.

When the waiter came to refill her tea, the girl suddenly woke up and realized that everyone at the table was smiling and looking at her.

"Our teacher, Ms. Zhou, listens to lectures even more attentively than reporters."

Lei Jun swirled his teacup and joked.

Zhou Ye hurriedly reached for the teapot, but the spout of the purple clay teapot was aimed at Jiang Qing's cup.

"It's the other way around."

Jiang Qing grasped her wrist and turned her towards his teacup, smiling as he reminded the flustered girl.

"Don't call me out on that~"

The girl pursed her lips and let out a dissatisfied hum.

Jiang Qing nodded seriously, but the girl couldn't suppress the smile on his face, so she angrily climbed onto his lower back. Luckily, he was prepared and grabbed her small hand.

The two's subtle actions couldn't be hidden from the shrewd people at the table, who all revealed ambiguous smiles.

Seeing Jiang Qing wink and give in to Zhou Ye, everyone was surprised to see this side of him and found it all quite novel.

Lei Jun took in the interaction between the two men and a vague idea began to form in his mind.

It was nearly 10 p.m. when the show ended, and the night breeze was a bit chilly.

When Lei Jun said goodbye, he repeatedly asked Jiang Qing to take Zhou Ye to visit the Xiaomi Science and Technology Park when he had time, and Zhou Ye readily agreed.

On the way back, Zhou Ye pressed his cheek against the car window to cool down.

The neon lights on the roadside billboards swept across her moist lips, causing Jiang Qing's gaze to drift upwards several times.

"So this is what your work is like."

"What kind?"

"It seems to glow."

She turned around and poked his chest, pouting her lips in dissatisfaction.

"But you're not allowed to smile so beautifully at female engineers anymore!"

Jiang Qing couldn't help but smile and reached out to poke her forehead.

"Other people's kids are already in high school, what are you thinking?"

"That won't work either!"

The girl angrily bumped her head against his chest.

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Chen Duo suddenly braked hard.

Zhou Ye cried out "Ah!" and fell into Jiang Qing's arms, hearing muffled laughter vibrating in his chest above him.

"Chen Duo, you really want to improve!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Jiang."

Chen Duo grinned at the rearview mirror and sensibly raised the partition.

"If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too!"

Zhou Ye lifted his small face from Jiang Qing's chest and voiced his discontented accusation.

She suddenly realized that Jiang Qing's skin seemed to have gotten thicker.
"Innocent, but..."

Jiang Qing lowered his head and whispered in her ear.

"Teacher Zhou, you must be tired today. Would you like to try my unique massage technique later?"

The girl's cheeks flushed bright red instantly, and when she turned her head, her lips were right in front of his, just a hair's breadth away.

Their breaths mingled instantly, and the atmosphere in the space suddenly became ambiguous.

"Gudu"

The silence was broken by the sound of the girl swallowing.

The two burst out laughing at the same time. Zhou Ye buried his head in Jiang Qing's arms, his face turning bright red with embarrassment.

Ahhhhh!
How could someone be so shameful!

The girl roared wildly in her heart.

(End of this chapter)