Yintai Center, Glimmer Coffee flagship store, back-office area. Xie Shuyu held her slightly warm phone as she listened to Tang Song's earnest question.
A delicate blush instantly spread across her fair, composed cheeks.
"Hello? Shuyu-jie, are you listening?" Tang Song's voice came through the phone again.
"Mm—well." Xie Shuyu cleared her throat, forcing her voice to sound as calm as usual. "I still have work to handle here. Where are you now? I'll have Xiao Min drive over to pick you up."
As usual, she used work to conceal her helplessness.
"No need. You handle your work first. I'll pack up my things here, and when you get off work tonight, I'll come straight over to find you." "All right, then—see you tonight. Bye bye."
She hung up.
Xie Shuyu let out a long breath and unconsciously touched her burning cheek with the back of her cool hand.
Tang Song's figure inevitably surfaced in her mind.
Then she thought about them staying in the same room that night.
She was a genuine workaholic. Every breakthrough she achieved in her career gave her an immense sense of satisfaction.
Because of that, she had always habitually ignored her emotional needs.
And her friend Meng Ran's reminder had indeed awakened her, making her realize that the overly "platonic" relationship between herself and Tang Song was not normal.
That was why she had taken the initiative to step forward, inviting Tang Song to live with her like a normal girlfriend would.
But she had not expected that guy to be so direct.
Hearing his suggestive teasing, she still found it a little hard to take.
Perhaps it was because no one had ever spoken to her like that in all these years.
She sat there lost in wild thoughts for quite a while.
"Ring,