Jiang Shenghe didn’t delay wearing his glasses and handed the case back to Luo Qi.

While they were passing the case to each other, He Xu glanced at Luo Qi twice.

“What is Director He busy with recently?” Jiang Shenghe asked casually, turning back to chat with He Xu.

He Xu calmly looked away from Luo Qi’s direction and smiled, “Same as before. Work, play golf, swim.” Plus dates. His second uncle and second aunt divorced when they were young due to personality differences. His second uncle never remarried, but he always had a girlfriend, and each took what they wanted from the relationship.¹

This one goes, another one comes.

His second uncle’s two children were already grown up and married, and have never interfered with his private life.

After chatting for a few more words, He Xu went back to his seat.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

The signing ceremony lasted until 4:30 in the afternoon. Jiang Shenghe wore glasses the whole time. In fact, he didn’t need the glasses and had no intention of watching the big screen. But Luo Qi handed it to him so he just looked at the big screen for a while.

Yuanwei signed three major projects this time. Jiang Shenghe and the CEO of the partner company came on stage to sign the contract. Luo Qi sat in the audience; she took a few photos, then recorded a video.

Jiang Shenghe looked up and saw Luo Qi filming the stage. There were more than a dozen media present at the scene, but she still recorded this moment for him.

After the signing was over, Jiang Shenghe chatted with a few acquaintances. Qin Moling was also there.

Jiang Shenghe took off his glasses while talking. Luo Qi was not far away. He turned to look at her and said nothing, just held out the eyeglasses to her.

Before she could get closer, he already turned back to talk to an acquaintance. He didn’t look at her again, his hand remaining in the same position as before.

Luo Qi came over in a few quick steps and carefully took the glasses from his fingers.

Jiang Shenghe retracted his hand and put it in his pocket.

When Luo Qi walked away again, Qin Moling asked, “You can’t see without glasses now?”

“I can.”

Qin Moling didn’t understand, “But you wore it.”

“You won’t understand.” Jiang Shenghe didn’t intend to poke Qin Moling’s scars, but it was what it was. “If you understood these things, you wouldn’t be stood up by Jian Hang.”

Qin Moling: “…”

The audacity of this guy just left people breathless.

One should not expose people’s shortcomings in emotional matters. Jiang Shenghe touched Qin Moling’s glass of water with his own to express his apology. Jian Hang was the daughter of their primary school teacher. His family had arranged for her to have a blind date with Qin Moling, but she failed to keep the appointment and left Qin Moling hanging out in the coffee shop by himself.

Qin Moling, like Jiang Sixun, never took feelings seriously, so naturally he didn’t understand the feeling of liking someone, and Jiang Shenghe wouldn’t be able to explain it to him.

“I’m heading back.” Jiang Shenghe put down the water glass and went to find Luo Qi.

… …

Luo Qi was busy wiping his eyeglasses. After wiping them carefully, she put them back into the case. The next time he took them out, the boss could wear them directly.

Jiang Shenghe watched everything, from her cleaning the eyeglasses to putting the glasses case in her bag.

Luo Qi looked up and saw that the boss was already here.

Jiang Shenghe said to her, “Let’s go back to the office.”

“Isn’t there a celebration banquet tonight? You won’t be attending?”

“I have other plans,” Jiang Shenghe said as they walked. “You don’t need to go.”

“Okay.” She can get off work on time again today.

Luo Qi confirmed his plans, “Chief Jiang, how long will you stay in the company? There are several documents that you need to sign today. I have already prepared them.” The papers were just waiting for the final signature from the boss.

As for that, he only intended to bring her back to the company and didn’t plan to go down anymore.

Jiang Shenghe said, “I’ll sign it for you on the way.”

The driver drove the car, and Luo Qi acted like the competent assistant she was and chose to sit in the back seat this time for the sake of work. It was inconvenient to communicate with the boss if she was in the passenger seat.

Jiang Shenghe unbuttoned his suit and took it off before getting in the car. He usually put the suit on the armrest between the two seats. Today Luo Qi was sitting in the back seat with him. He put the suit on his side, careful not to let the hem of the suit cross the boundary to her side.

Occasionally, he could ask her to help him carry his suit, but as a boss, he couldn’t not have a sense of boundaries.

He turned on his laptop, and Luo Qi also turned on hers at the same time. In order to save the boss’s time, she told him the key points of the first document. “Chief Jiang, please focus on the second small point of Articles 3, 5 and 6.”

She has checked the other contents and there were no problems.

Jiang Shenghe turned to those articles and scanned them again.

It was only the second day that he had cooperated with her, and their tacit understanding was no less than that of Secretary Ju who had been working with him for three years.

It took twenty minutes to complete the process of going over several documents.

Luo Qi crossed this item off her to-do list. At this point, all the work for today was completed. There was only one small thing left, which was to send a copy of the photos and videos taken at the signing ceremony to Xiao Jiang’s mailbox.

Before going, Xiao Jiang specifically told her that the signing ceremony was of high standard and other entourage members could not enter. Only she had an admission pass, and she would need to take some live photos of Chief Jiang.

Jiang Shenghe had been thinking since earlier how Luo Qi had taken pictures of him at the signing ceremony, and now he had time to talk about it. In the past, he never had any interest in photos of himself attending events, but today was different.

He turned to her and said, “Did you take any photos this afternoon?”

“I took some.”

“Send me a few useful ones.”

“… Okay.” Luo Qi opened the photo album.

In the past, she accompanied Jiang Yueru to many important events, and occasionally she was responsible for taking photos for backup, but Jiang Yueru never looked at them herself. It seemed Jiang Shenghe was different. 

She picked out a few photos with good angles and sent them to Jiang Shenghe. There were no photos of him alone; they were all important moments when he signed the contract with the CEO of the partner company.

After sending it to her boss, she sent all the photos and videos to Xiao Jiang’s mailbox.

Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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FOOTNOTE:

¹Each took what they wanted from the relationship—it’s a pretty euphemistic and practical way of calling a relationship that will not lead to marriage. It’s in contrast to the phrase ‘dating with the intention of marriage’. This is the same phrase used when Jiang Shenghe told his team that he was pursuing Luo Qi—he didn’t want them to think they would only have that kind of relationship so he mentioned inviting them to front row seats in their wedding ↩︎

T/N: She keeps misunderstanding his intentions, it’s almost comedy 😅 Now Luo Qi probably thinks Jiang Shenghe has a habit of looking at his own photos 😂

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