To be fair.
If the one knocking and coming in right now had been Xia Wuyou, that would have been a killing blow—just like back then.
But unfortunately, it was not. It was Jiang Chengcheng.
"...Come in, come in, come in."
Xu Shi smiled irritably, though it looked more like an act. He was not actually angry.
If Xia Wuyou had genuinely interrupted something good just now, then with Su Lin, he was simply teasing her on purpose.
That also showed that Su Lin was somewhat different from the others in his heart.
The main reason was that Director Su had been by his side for too long. From childhood to adulthood, more than twenty years... There was no novelty to be found in her, but in every other respect, she far surpassed everyone else. She was more like an inseparable family member.
That might be why childhood sweethearts often lost to unexpected encounters. Being too familiar took away that certain feeling. Besides, Su Lin was not a childhood sweetheart in the usual sense. Whether she was more like an older sister or a nanny, she had always played the role of someone who took care of him in every possible way.
Teasing her was fun.
But actually getting down to business was... well.
Even Xu Shi could not quite put it into words.
Su Lin, meanwhile, felt as though she had been granted a pardon. She quietly breathed a sigh of relief and slipped away without a word.
Her heart was in turmoil too.
She was Xu Shi's childhood sweetheart, but was he not the same to her? In the past, she had outwardly treated him as her master, as her young master, but to Director Su, Xu Shi had been more like an immature younger brother.
But now,