Break-up

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Tang Yi had never attended a charity reception, but he also knew that such a banquet was all for display and no one would really go there to eat.
He thought for a while and felt that he was not hungry yet, so he asked the cook to cover up the dishes, planning to wait for Zhou Hao to come back to eat together.

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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tang Yi did have the idea of giving it a try with Zhou Hao.
He and Gu Yanting were clearly separated.
The latter left without a trace.
Zhou Hao was a brilliant man who knew how to get along, and after two years together, there was no major conflict in their outlooks and habits.
It was really a great choice.

But after agreeing, Tang Yi couldn’t fully commit himself to it.
He had poured too much emotion in those three years; he had no reservations about his joys, sorrows, anger and happiness, but in the end he ended up parting ways.
While he felt resentment towards Gu Yanting, he also felt that this was the result of his own direction.
On the other hand, he was afraid that Zhou Hao’s momentary infatuation would not last.
Many times Tang Yi felt that it was better to forget it.
It was good to be alone.
But whenever there was the New Year’s holiday, he would be greedy to grab a little warmth, even if it was just someone, and to have a home for himself.

Zhou Hao didn’t return all night.
It was already noon when he came back the next day.
Tang Yi waited until very late the night before, and received a call from Secretary Zhao near twelve o’clock, saying that Zhou Hao was not feeling well and had already gone to rest in the room at the hotel where the banquet was held.

Tang Yi let out a sigh, didn’t hang up the phone and didn’t know what to say, so he was silent.
Secretary Zhao’s call was made privately, without Zhou Hao’s authorisation, but his intuition as a secretary made him feel that it was best to say something.
When he heard Tang Yi’s silence, he couldn’t help but worry that the other party had misunderstood something.

Fortunately, after a while, Tang Yi regained his senses and said with a low chuckle, “Thank you.
”

Secretary Zhao: “What is Mr.
Tang thanking me for? This is what Mr.
Zhou asked me to do.”

Tang Yi smiled and hung up after saying good night.
But Secretary Zhao inexplicably felt a chill down his spine and there was a kind of panic that Tang Yi would know everything through the phone line.

When Zhou Hao came back, he learned that Tang Yi was leaving.
The news came from the company.
Yan Ke somehow angered the Huayuan customers.
It took Tang Yi a moment to react before he remembered that Huayuan was the company where Gu Yanting worked.
He couldn’t help but be filled with suspicion and felt that there was a problem with Gu Yanting before he even asked.
Yan Ke had been in the business for many years, from project implementation to his current position, so how could he possibly go and offend the other side?

Soon Assistant Xiao Yang found out the cause of the incident.
The person in charge of Huayuan’s procurement this time was surnamed Chen, and Gu Yanting, who followed him, was just helping.
Huayuan was very secretive about Gu Yanting’s status, but that Mr.
Chen had explicitly asked for a kickback(1).

Originally, Mr.
Chen’s coming to T City this time was a bit personal.
One of his little mistresses was pregnant.
Afraid of being discovered by his wife, he hid his mistress in T City to give birth here.
The due date was this month.
Mr.
Chen took a business trip thinking about guarding the little mistress here.

He came urgently and was at the hospital for the past two days.
Gu Yanting made several appearances on his behalf, and the contract was almost negotiated.
Yan Ke originally received Gu Yanting’s mobile phone number and spent 120% of his mind on dealing with Gu Yanting.
He didn’t expect that when he was about to sign the contract, Chief Chen would pop up asking for a kickback.

It was really normal for the software industry to ask for a kickback, and the sum Mr.
Chen asked for was not too high.
So if they were talking about this step in the usual way, they would basically have a deal.
The only thing was that Yan Ke thought Chief Chen was just a minion and said a couple of words in between.
So a good contract was about to be scrapped.

Huayuan’s order was not small.
The OA system was just the front.
In fact, Huayuan’s order could be several millions if not more.
Therefore, ER’s competitors had already rushed from other cities to squat and wait for the opportunity to intercept the person in charge of Huayuan.

Grabbing orders in this industry was like grabbing a lifeline.
Tang Yi said that he didn’t expect Yan Ke, a smart man with so many years of experience, to make such a low-level mistake.
But it was precisely because Yan Ke’s qualifications and his position were high enough that with this incident, there was no one left in the company who could play the role of the good guy.

Once Huayuan’s order was lost, which old customer would introduce people here?

Tang Yi packed up and was about to go back to T City.
When Zhou Hao came back, he was about to leave.
The two ran into each other in the living room.
They were stunned for a while and both smiled helplessly.

“You go first,” Zhou Hao hugged him, “I’ll come later.”

There was naturally no need for Zhou Hao to come for such a small matter, and Tang Yi knew that he was talking about coming to keep him company, as a sort of compensation for last night.
He rubbed his brow and said, “You still have things to do here, so don’t run between places.
This is not a big deal, I can handle it.”

Considering that there were quite a few competitors who were eager to snatch people right here in T City, Tang Yi didn’t even go back home and resolutely asked Xiao Yang to arrange a dinner party for that night.

Mr.
Chen’s little mistress was his first love.
When Mr.
Chen was young, he courted this girl for two years, but as soon as he graduated, the girl thought he was too poor and kicked him away.
Later on, his rightful wife was introduced to him, and after they got married the rightful wife asked her father to haul in the connections to stuff Mr.
Chen into Huayuan.

Mr.
Chen relied on his wife’s family for his development.
At first, he lived and ate at his wife’s house.
It seemed that he was no different from the adopted son-in-law(2), but in fact, the children were still surnamed Chen and the family regarded Mr.
Chen as the head.
However, even so, it didn’t stop him from disliking his wife’s old age after his success.
When he again saw his first love who was as beautiful as a flower, he naturally couldn’t resist and fell in bed with her in a moment.

Tang Yi had been used to seeing such phoenix men(3), or rather peacock men, over the years.
He didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.
It was nothing to be embarrassed about to roll up his sleeves and have a meal and a drink with his customers.
Profit was paramount, and it was not for him, an outsider, to be angry about such things.

But when he saw that Gu Yanting was also at the banquet, a nameless fire burned fiercely in his heart.

When Gu Yanting knew that there was a banquet tonight, he didn’t refuse.
Mr.
Chen didn’t want to break up with ER completely, but considering that Yan Ke was the general manager of their major customer department, there were not many ways to smooth out the situation.
So Gu Yanting could only help him as a peacemaker.

Everything seemed to go as it should have but Gu Yanting didn’t know that Tang Yi was the one who set the banquet tonight.

He looked down, chatting with Mr.
Chen while being led to a private room, and then he raised his eyes and saw Tang Yi with a smile on his lips, facing the door.
Tang Yi didn’t wear glasses, his hair was a little mussed and he was wearing a light-colored shirt that he didn’t often wear but must have looked particularly good in.

The moment Gu Yanting raised his head and looked at Tang Yi, the only thing he felt was a blast in his head, leaving a blank after that.

an illicit payment made to someone in return for facilitating a transaction or appointment the one that lives with his wife’s family, in effect becoming a member of her family refers to a rural boy who marries a city girl (and has good looks) and cheats on her after the marriage