Outside the hotel, Luo Qi held up a parasol, put on sunglasses, and headed to the beach.

The laptop was in the boss’ room, and there was nothing for her to do for the next two hours except go to the beach to kill time.

Luo Qi turned her back to the sea and took two selfies. She didn’t have the habit of retouching pictures she took, and she directly posted it in her circle of friends, setting it to be only visible to the people closest to her. In this way, they would not have to worry about her current condition.

Luo Yu had just woken up from her sleep. She was lying on the bed playing with her mobile phone when she saw her cousin’s update. She turned over and typed on her stomach: [So beautiful (Star Eyes)]

[Older sister, aren’t you on a business trip? Why do you have time to go to the beach at this time?]

Luo Qi replied: [The boss is meeting friends and was considerate. He gave us two hours free time.]

Luo Yu thought that the ‘boss’ mentioned by Luo Qi was Jiang Yueru. She had never met Jiang Yueru, but she had heard a lot about her from her cousin in the past few years. 

Jiang Yueru took good care of her cousin and could be regarded as her benefactor. When her second uncle was seriously ill, it was Jiang Yueru who relied on her connections to find the most capable doctor in the field to perform the surgery.

She sent a private message to her cousin, asking: [Does your boss know about your recent state of affairs?]

[Yes.]

Luo Yu tried her best to comfort her cousin and cheer her up, [The boss is so kind to you, treats you almost like a daughter, but don’t let down your boss’ earnest wishes. Work hard until you are rich. Be filial to your boss.]

Luo Qi: “…”

She couldn’t help laughing—the misunderstanding was getting worse and worse!

[It’s not Director Jiang, it’s Director Jiang’s nephew, our big boss in Yuanwei. He is only thirty, so why should I be filial?]

[Hahaha.] Luo Yu couldn’t stop laughing as she lay on the pillow.

Luo Qi exited the chat box, smiling. Today’s happiness was courtesy of Jiang Shenghe.

She continued to walk along the coastline.

… …

Two hours later, when Luo Qi and Xiao Jiang returned to the boss’ suite, Qin Moling had already left.

Jiang Shenghe made coffee and brought two cups to the table. He gave one cup to Xiao Jiang and placed the other cup next to Luo Qi’s laptop. He had delivered coffee to Qin Moling before, and now he also delivered it to them.

After placing down the coffee, he went back to get his own cup.

“Thank you, Chief Jiang.”

Luo Qi couldn’t help but cast her eyes at Xiao Jiang. It was obvious that Xiao Jiang was accustomed to the boss making coffee himself, so he wasn’t surprised or felt any psychological burden. He directly picked up the cup and took a sip.

It seemed that Jiang Shenghe making coffee was a common thing.

She turned on the laptop and drank the coffee while it was hot.

Sitting across from her, Xiao Jiang could hardly swallow the coffee in his mouth, his heart burning with fierce pride. This was the first time he drank coffee brewed by the boss, and the boss even personally delivered it to him!

Even though he knew it was really for Luo Qi, he was still flattered.

… …

They stayed in Haicheng for four days and returned on the morning of the fifth day.

On the return flight, Jiang Shenghe didn’t deliberately sit in the same row as Luo Qi. This time, the person sitting next to him was Xiao Jiang. Luo Qi was diagonally in front of him, and he could see her when he raised his head.

He rarely chatted but still asked Xiao Jiang, “When are you going to get married?”

Xiao Jiang had a stable relationship with his girlfriend and both have met each other’s parents. “We will discuss the specific time, whether July or August next year, when we return home for the Spring Festival.”

Jiang Shenghe nodded and said generously, “There are a lot of things to do before the wedding, so if you need to take time off, feel free to do so.”

Xiao Jiang was grateful, “Thank you, Chief Jiang.” He couldn’t help but flatter him, “Maybe next year, like me, you will also start working on your wedding.”

Jiang Shenghe smiled and was in a good mood, “I’ll borrow your auspicious words.”

As he said that, he looked at Luo Qi in the row ahead. He would accompany her to try on all the wedding dresses that caught her eye.

… …

Luo Qi put on a blindfold and laid back in her seat to catch up on her sleep.

She hasn’t had a good sleep since the breakup, and she finally couldn’t hold on anymore, her body completely exhausted.

She slept deeply, and when she woke up, they had already landed in Beijing.

Jiang Shenghe left first in his own car, while Luo Qi and Xiao Jiang took another company car back to the city. When she arrived at the rental house, everything was still unfamiliar.

No one has lived in it for a few days, and there was a layer of dust over everything.

Luo Qi put down her suitcase and started cleaning the room. Whenever she was alone, she could only find something to do so as not to lose her mind. Every time she cleaned, she could always find something she had no use for. After a while, she put on her shoes and went downstairs to throw away the trash.

There were still three days of vacation left, and she was thinking about how to spend it. In fact, not just these three days, she would be very free for all the foreseeable holidays in the future. She didn’t have money to go shopping, let alone travel.

After throwing away the garbage, she saw that the older lady on the first floor was watering vegetables on the balcony, and her granddaughter was carefully watching the green vegetables and writing her observations in a diary.

Luo Qi suddenly thought that she could also grow vegetables since she had so much free time anyway. She has grown flowers before but, unfortunately, in the end they all died. Why not try her hand at growing vegetables this time?

After all, green leafy vegetables were refreshing and healing.

After entering the house, Luo Qi searched the internet on how to do ‘soilless cultivation’. After placing some orders, she began to clean up the balcony to make room for the planting equipment.

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T/N: Jiang Shenghe subtly making sure that Xiao Jiang is happily engaged and would soon marry 😂

I was fiddling with the site settings and accidentally reverted it to the original, narrow columns orz. I think it mostly just affects the laptop readers—but let me know if the old one works better for you, and I’ll try to remember what I did to get that widescreen text display.

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