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On Monday, Jiang Yuan went to the company to resign.
She went very early and Zhong Ze had not arrived yet so she was waiting for him at the elevator entrance.
It was almost nine o’clock when the elevator door opened with a ding. Zhong Ze was stunned when he saw her. He controlled the wheelchair to get out of the elevator and asked, “What are you doing?”
Jiang Yuan walked over to him and helped him. She pushed the wheelchair and said, “I have something to tell you.”
“What is it?”
Jiang Yuan paused, “I want to resign.”
Zhong Ze looked back at her for a while then turned his head back, “Let’s go to my office first.”
Jiang Yuan pushed him forward.
The two of them entered Zhong Ze’s office.
A large part of the office was now filled with Zhong Ze’s paintings these days. The paintings were all on easels and each easel was covered with a layer of white cloth.
Zhong Ze pointed to those and said to Jiang Yuan, “Open them all.”
Jiang Yuan walked over and took off the covers revealing the paintings one by one.
She looked more and more amazed as she looked at them.
When she reached the innermost painting, Zhong Ze stopped her, “The last one is not finished yet, don’t lift it up.”
“Oh.”
Jiang Yuan carefully looked at the finished paintings one by one.
Although she didn’t know how to paint, from the perspective of an ordinary person, she thought that the paintings were done very well.
Most of his paintings were based on oppressive dark colors but there was always a splash of bright color in a corner.
For example, there was a painting of a stormy night. A little boy in a raincoat was walking in the wind and rain. He was holding a small potted plant in which was a small bud that had just broken through the soil and the color was bright green which looked young and cute.
There seemed to be a touching sad story hidden in each of his paintings.
But in that grief, warmth and hope could be found again.
She stood there, shocked and moved, Zhong Ze was really a deep and strong man.
It was just that she said that she was going to resign and he showed her his paintings which meant that

Zhong Ze saw the doubt in her eyes and said, “I need you here. Besides, you said before that when I save more paintings, you want to help me hold an art exhibition and that you thought I would become a great painter, and now it doesn’t count?”
Jiang Yuan was dumbfounded.
She just flattered him casually and now he was asking her to honor it?
“Vice President Zhong, I can still help you with your art exhibition but I really can’t stay here any longer—”
Zhong Ze looked up at her, “Because of Ah Jing?”
Jiang Yuan was stunned, how did he know? He stayed in the office all day drawing so she thought that he didn’t know anything about it.
She was a little embarrassed, “
Yes.”
She wanted to leave, not only because of Zhongjing but also because the marriage between Zhongjing and Xuan Lu was set. She was described by everyone as a toad who wanted to be a swan. When everyone joked and laughed at her, she had no face to stay here.
Zhong Ze raised his eyebrows and said, “With Ah Jing’s temper, he won’t pester you after you two broke up, let alone embarrass you. As for the other people, you don’t need to pay attention. If someone bullies you, I will protect you. ”
Jiang Yuan: “
”
For a moment, she was speechless. Zhong Ze had arranged everything for her in just a few words.
She tried to struggle a little more, “I really don’t want to see him again.”
Zhong Ze: “Then just hide, come to work early and leave late after work so you won’t see him.”
Jiang Yuan was shocked, how could she do this?
At this point she didn’t know what to say. She even wondered if Zhong Ze had foreseen her and Zhong Jing’s ending and had prepared this speech to keep her.
Originally, she made the decision to resign today but now she hesitated.
Her family was still in debt and they had to pay back the money from Zhongjing as well as the money from relatives and friends. She had a high-paying job with good benefits. If she resigned, not only would she not be able to help her family but she would also have to go home to eat with her parents and it would be a loss however she thought about it

Okay, her pride was nothing, the cruelty of reality was what she really had to face.
She gritted her teeth and agreed: “Okay.”
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Later, Jiang Yuan really didn’t appear in front of Zhong Jing again.
By going to work a little earlier and leaving work a little later, not only did she not meet Zhong Jing but she also perfectly avoided the women in the company who wanted to kill her. The fact that they occupied the entire fifth floor was an advantage. They used to feel lonely and deserted but now they just feel more at ease and comfortable.
She had left all those messy things behind.
When she needed to deal with other departments, she usually sent out emails to solve the problem. If she really needed to communicate with them face-to-face, she called them first to make an appointment with the other party and went quickly without delay.
Zhong Ze didn’t let her bring food anymore but went to eat with her. With Zhong Ze was with her, no one dared to make trouble with her. As for the behind-the-scenes arguments, she ignored them.
As time went on, she was able to void the “See, I told you, she’s just a plaything” mockery.
People gradually stopped talking about her, the little invisible staff.
The protagonist of the gossip group was still Zhong Jing but the other protagonist had been replaced by the Xuan family’s eldest daughter.
She didn’t hang out with Linda and the others now so the gossip didn’t reach her ears. The reason why she knew that was because Zhong Ze left work early one day and she was left alone and in the elevator, she happened to meet Deng Yuantong, who had fought with her last time and two female colleagues from the same department, she stood behind her and deliberately said to her:
“Hey, when Ms. Xuan came over today, did you see the blinding diamond ring on her hand?”
” Yes, yes. It’s really big and beautiful!”
” Mr. Zhong and her are a perfect match made in heaven unlike some toads who don’t know their own place and used some despicable means to sleep with men and even try to climb up the ladder to become phoenixes. ” It’s ridiculous!”
“Exactly!”
After hearing this, Jiang Yuan said indifferently, “The toad still slept with the white swan anyway which is better than those who can’t and have to envy the toad.”
Just when the elevator arrived, she lifted her foot out of the elevator leaving the two women in the elevator, blushing and stomping their feet in anger.
——The real estate agent called and told her that there was a buyer and the house payment would be paid in one lump sum. Jiang Yuan made an appointment with the other party and signed the sale contract. The agent told her that she would be able to get the money in a week.
The house was sold for exactly 600,000 yuan.
Jiang Yuan thought that if she paid back the money to Zhong Jing, she would have nothing to do with him at all.
After she said goodbye that night, she also told Zhong Jing that she would pay him back but he didn’t answer her and hung up the phone without saying a word.
He was probably “disappointed” with his disobedient pet.
Xuan Lu came to Sheng Yuan more and more frequently. At first, she was worried that she would come to trouble her. Later, she realized that, in Xuan Lu’s eyes, she was just a little insignificant thing for a man to play with before marriage and she was not worth the trouble.
Besides the two of them had some friendship before so there was no need to tear them apart and if she upset Zhong Jing, she would lose more than she gained.
Jiang Yuan herself was becoming more and more aware of her position. She was a match for an ordinary person, not high-level people like Zhong Jing.
Brother Ren suddenly called her out of the blue, he first chatted with her for a while and then said: “Xiao Jiang, I told you last time about my nephew that is working abroad but it’s almost the New Year so he’s coming back for vacation, I think you two are very suitable, do you want to meet him?”
It had been three months since this happened but Brother Ren still remembered it all this time. She was just excusing herself but she didn’t expect him to take it so seriously.
Seeing that she didn’t answer, Brother Ren added: “Oh, don’t feel pressured, you young people can meet and have a meal. If you hit it off, it’s good but if you don’t, you can just become friends. Don’t worry about it.”
Jiang Yuan thought to herself that she had to move on anyway and she couldn’t push it anyway so let’s go and meet him.
“Okay, Brother Ren.”
“Okay! I’ll send you his WeChat and you can contact him yourself, okay?”
“Okay, fine.”