BXBX NOVEL Chapter 297 - Xu Moyan Could Not Believe That Wei Zilin Added Her As A Friend
They waited until Shen Zongyi left before surrounding Zheng Yuntong like cattle. Even the male colleagues could not resist coming over for some juicy gossip.
“What happened? Hurry up and tell us!”
In a hesitant tone, one of the two male colleagues that she had previously bumped into at the elevator asked, “Yuntong, Assistant Shen has always been a strict guy. Don’t tell me you were forced to agree because you’re scared of him?”
The other colleague who witnessed the incident nodded too. “That’s right. In the elevator, it didn’t sound like Assistant Shen was very in love based on the strict tone he used with you. Relationships aren’t something to fool around with. You shouldn’t carelessly agree to be in a relationship out of fear. What’s most important is your own feelings.”
“...” Zheng Yuntong was speechless.
The sort of things they came up with!
It was true that Shen Zongyi was rather popular among the female colleagues. However, due to his strict demeanor, they would only ever express their interest subtly for fear of being too conspicuous. They tried to get close to Shen Zongyi by advancing at a slow and unnoticeable pace.
Nevertheless, Shen Zongyi had always returned their affection with coldness. The moment they got close to him, Shen Zongyi would take a step back, keeping their interactions purely work-based—nothing more. Needless to say, this often did the job. His impartiality seemed to always effectively discourage any newfound motivation in the interested parties.
On the opposite hand, his relationship with his male colleagues was not as good. His austerity made him a very strict man. When the male colleagues were joking around or hanging out, he rarely joined them. To say he was alienated by his male colleagues would be an overstatement, yet he was not close to them either. If you wanted to be specific, it seemed that the only relationship he had with his male colleagues was one of mutual respect.
Moreover, due to Shen Zongyi’s popularity and the belief that similar poles repel, his male colleagues were not exactly chummy with him.
However, Zheng Yuntong disliked the manner in which everyone was describing Shen Zongyi, even though she knew they had nothing but good intentions. Thus, instead of getting angry, Zheng Yuntong became slightly protective.
Even before she was officially in a relationship with Shen Zongyi, she was already protective of him. The only difference being the fact that she did not want to appear too obvious back then for fear of being too obvious with her feelings.
Now, however, she could speak of it openly. “It’s not what you think. I agreed to it on my own accord. I... I’ve liked him for a while now, and I was really happy when he confessed to me. Also, he didn’t pressure me just now; he spoke rather gently. So, please don’t talk about him this way.”
Zheng Yuntong had no rivals when it came to love in the Public Relations Department. On the other hand, Hu Yuesha had a crush on Wei Zilin and could be considered Xu Moyan’s rival in love.
Females were scarce in the field of public relations as it was often associated with a certain type of profession. The phrase ‘public relations’ often left a bad impression on others, easily causing misunderstandings in those who were clueless.
Due to this reason, public relations had always been a favourite topic to bring up among half-witted gossipmongers. Thus, young ladies often thought long and hard before choosing to enter this field.
This was the reason that their department only had a few female colleagues.
After her explanation, Hu Yuesha teased, “You’re already defending him now, eh? It’s so hard to believe that you managed to get ahold of Shen Zongyi. Not bad. Now all the little ladies in other departments will be pissed outta their minds.”
Zheng Yuntong was not angered by this. She simply scratched the back of her head and returned a goofy smile.
It was almost time to start work, so the crowd could not stay any longer around Zheng Yuntong and thus started to disperse.
Zheng Yuntong went to the computer and worked for a while before remembering to check her phone where she saw that Xu Moyan had sent her a message. Feeling embarrassed and guilty, Zheng Yuntong replied, “You... You’ve heard?”
At the same time, Xu Moyan was drawing up her business plan. While racking her brain, she heard the brief vibration from her cellphone. She scratched her scalp tiredly and picked up her phone to read Zheng Yuntong’s reply.
She blinked. Something seemed odd with Zheng Yuntong’s reply.
“What? You’ve had some progress with Guan Zexi? Then, what about Shen Zongyi?” Xu Moyan asked, shocked.
If this was truly the choice Zheng Yuntong had made, then she would respect and support her friend, even though she herself had been biased towards Shen Zongyi this whole time.
“What does this have anything to do with Guan Zexi?” Zhen Yuntong was confused by Xu Moyan’s question.
She raised her head and scanned her surrounding before getting up from her seat. Then, she headed toward the lounge with her phone.
There was no one in the lounge. After making sure of this, she tapped the recording function with a blushing face and recorded a message for Xu Moyan. “I... In the afternoon just now, Shen Zongyi ... confessed to me. So, we’re now a thing. I thought... tou were asking me about this.”
The message sent horrendous chills racing down Xu Moyan’s back. She almost dropped the phone in her hand.
“You guys are finally together!” Xu Moyan excitedly texted in reply.
Zhen Yuntong was about to reply her when she received Shen Zongyi’s text through Wechat.
“How’s everything at the Public Relations Department? Are any of your colleagues giving you a hard time?”
The corners of Zheng Yuntong’s lips curled up involuntarily. Recalling the fact that it was not break time, it was inappropriate for her to stay in the lounge too long. Therefore, she walked toward her office with her phone in her hand.
Warmth emanated from inside her heart, similar to the warm glow on her small, blushing face. With a sweet smile plastered on her face, she replied, “Nope. They’re all very kind. They were concerned that I was forced into agreeing with you because I was scared.”
Shen Zongyi read Zheng Yuntong’s reply with a raised eyebrow. Before he could respond, another message from Zheng Yuntong quickly followed. “But I’ve clarified with them that I didn’t agree out of fear, but because...”
The message trailed off.
Shen Zongyi was about to ask her what came after ‘because’ despite already knowing what her answer was. He just could not help resist teasing her.
However, at this instant, Wei Zilin suddenly pushed open the door and walked in. Seeing Shen Zongyi with a beaming face, Wei Zilin’s eyes squinted. “Lemme guess—progress with Zheng Yuntong?”
Shen Zongyi stood up. With a straight back, he attempted to adjust his already immaculate tie. “Thanks to Mister Guan in the afternoon today, I was given the opportunity to speak my mind to Zheng Yuntong. From now on, she’s my girlfriend.”
“...” Wei Zilin said nothing.
With a darkened expression, Wei Zilin huffed and left.
Shen Zongyi could absolutely relate to the pain Wei Zilin was experiencing as a single dog and simultaneously decided not to press Zheng Yuntong about what came after ‘because’. Therefore, he retyped his message. “Do you have anything on tonight?”
Zheng Yuntong stared at the message Shen Zongyi had sent to her and rubbed her burning face before replying, “Nope.”
“I’ll go get you from the Public Relations Department after work.” Shen Zongyi replied plainly.
This made Zheng Yuntong think about how nice it was for both of them to be working in the same company. Of course, this posed its own inconveniences, but at least they could see other more often.
Exhibit A—he could pick her up from her department instead of in front of the company’s front door.
...
It was one of those very rare occasions where Xu Moyan did not need to work overtime. She went home on the metro and received a call from Zheng Yuntong, informing her that she would be out with Shen Zongyi on a date.
Thus, without anything pressing to do, Xu Moyan went to the supermarket to replenish the groceries at home and kneaded around a dozen wontons for herself.
Once she was free, she scrolled Weibo all the way to the end and then decided to stalk Wei Zilin’s profile. She chose the option of “following anonymously” for Yu Linling as Wei Zilin knew her personally and she did not want to be too conspicuous.
The last time Wei Zilin posted something on Weibo was on the day they ate together. Suddenly, she noticed that Wei Zilin’s Weibo—that had been inactive since a few days ago—had been updated five minutes ago.
“My single-dog-for-a-millenium of a colleague is now in a relationship, while here I am, still trying to get into a relationship. I thought that I’d be a step ahead of him.”
For some inexplicable reason, Xu Moyan sensed that Wei Zilin had not finished talking yet. He probably wanted to continue on to say—”because I have a better personality.”
An image of Wei Zilin’s proud face popped up in Xu Moyan’s mind as she chuckled to herself.
She tapped on the ‘comments’ section to read what fascinating comments would have cropped up.
“My Sovereign One really wants to be in love.”
“Ah, spring is coming. Do I hear a mating call?”
“It seems like the Sovereign One already has a target, T.T, I’ll soon lose him, so sad.”
“I just went through my idol’s
YP
incident. My heart has been broken once already, and now I have to experience my Great Lord being in a relationship? There is so much pain in my heart.”
“I have a feeling that the Great Lord’s target is none other than that lady who cooked the last time.”
When she read this comment, Xu Moyan’s face burnt up in embarrassment.
Xu Moyan did not dare to dwell on the idea, so she turned off her Weibo and missed everything that happened after that—the comment received a like which propelled the guy who gave the comment into excitedly reposting the comment, saying, “OMG, this isn’t a dream, right? The Great Lord liked my comment! Doesn’t this mean that I guessed right?! Oh god, I’m having mixed feelings right now I dunno what to do!”
When Xu Moyan revisited her own Wechat page, she saw that there was a friend request in her ‘Contacts’ section.
She expanded it and found herself looking at Wei Zilin’s friend request. The friend request even came with a message that said, “I’m Wei Zilin.”
Xu Moyan could not believe that Wei Zilin had added her as a friend.
How did he get ahold of her Wechat?
With a trembling finger, she tapped the ‘Add’ button, scared out of her wits that her finger would slip and press ‘Ignore’ instead. If that happened, she would not know what she would even cry about.
After accepting his friend request, Xu Moyan wondered if she should say something to him. After all, having no response at all after adding each other as friends sounded rather cold and would make things awkward.
YP stands for yue pao, which means “hookups’ in Mandarin.