He Wenjie did not mention to Liu Jing that he had been out drinking with Wang Jichong. Perhaps preoccupied with her restaurant, Liu Jing had no heart to come back and share female gossip with He Wenjie. Even when they returned home now, the topic they discussed most was the restaurant—why they couldn't recruit suitable staff, procurement matters before the opening, the choice of dishes, and so on. Every single moment after coming home, Liu Jing was busy plugging the gaps for the grand opening of her new establishment.
Fang Xin had also been living under a great deal of emotional suppression during this period. Without He Wenjie's harassment, she felt not a sense of relief, but rather a profound sense of loss. Assuming this was merely an emotional fluctuation brought on by hormones, she wanted to use heavy workloads to quickly forget this phase. In reality, however, she was even more idle than when everyone had been ostracizing her. Previously, she at least managed to pick up some leftover tasks, but now, when liaising with older client companies, she found they had already completed the work ahead of time and had no need for any guidance from He Wenjie whatsoever.
In truth, the reason she could remain so idle now was not only because the contractor companies did their jobs thoroughly, but primarily due to her own attitude. If He Wenjie were in her position, even if a contractor performed quite well, he would still pick at insignificant flaws. If there were zero problems at …
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