MAPF Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Attraction

Chapter 32 Attraction. Little did he know that the look in his eyes at this moment could be described as gentle…

“Yes, that’s what we all call him,” Qiao Mu praised Xie Shiwei, “Little Xie always doesn’t stand on ceremony, he told us to call him that.”

Xie Shiwei provocatively glanced at He Qin: “Right, it sounds so much more intimate, unlike you, everyone calls you President He all the time, not approachable at all.”

Qiu Chen couldn’t help but interject: “But President He’s name is only one character, if we don’t call him President He, we have to call him by his full name, who would dare to do that?”

Xie Shiwei put his hands on his hips: “I dare to.”

Everyone fell silent again.

He Qin, with his back to them, slightly raised the corners of his mouth: “Alright, let’s go, let’s go to the meeting room.”

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The person in charge at He Xin Technology values efficiency. In the meeting, they got straight to the point, explaining the basic activity flow plan and promotion plan. Xie Shiwei felt that it was generally acceptable, but some areas needed improvement, so he listened and wrote down some of his own ideas.

The group discussed the division of labor. Xie Shiwei volunteered to communicate with the welfare institutions. After selecting the welfare institutions to participate, the detailed activity flow would be jointly finalized by the two companies. The fund control and publicity arrangements would be handled by Group Three, and finally, He Xin Technology would be responsible for forming the project proposal, with Group Three supervising the execution.

After the meeting, Amy excitedly said, “Can we stay and work here today?”

Qiao Mu tapped Amy on the head with a pen: “Give me a break, only Shiwei needs to stay today, we’ll go back to the company to connect with the foundation first.”

Amy and Qiu Chen watched Xie Shiwei enter He Qin’s office with their own eyes, the gossip flames burning fiercely, before being ruthlessly dragged away by Qiao Mu.

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In He Qin’s office, assistant Lin Ying brought Xie Shiwei a new laptop: “Mr. Xie, please sit at the desk next to President He.”

Xie Shiwei nodded, sat down in the ergonomic chair, swaying his feet on the ground, and looked around.

The office was the same as the last time he came, with simple decorations and a calm atmosphere. However, the few paintings hanging on the white wall were very eye-catching. He didn’t pay much attention last time, but now, after taking a closer look, he intuitively felt that these should be from Bai An.

He Qin happened to enter the room, took off his suit jacket, and hung it on the hanger: “What are you looking at?”

“These three paintings are quite nice, are they Bai An’s works?”

He Qin followed Xie Shiwei’s gaze and nodded: “Yes, they were hung up a long time ago, back when he was just being,” He Qin paused, changing his words, “just being sent abroad, he was always calling me and crying. In order to distract him, I told him that my office had just been renovated and needed three beautiful paintings. Only then did he have some motivation to study, and he brought back these three hanging paintings after his first semester.”

He Qin regarded Bai An as his own younger brother, and was always proud of him.

Xie Shiwei exclaimed, “These aren’t his recent works! So Bai An is actually quite talented in painting, he was able to paint so well in just one semester.”

Xie Shiwei was telling the honest truth, the three paintings on the wall were brightly colored, with bold lines, and had a very avant-garde feel.

“Indeed, that’s why I didn’t interfere with his studies. If he hadn’t been painting well, I definitely wouldn’t have let the former you mess around and bring him back to the country.”

Xie Shiwei wasn’t stupid, he realized that He Qin was deliberately distinguishing between the former him and the current him.

But He Qin didn’t get to the bottom of it, so he could continue to play dumb, and just get through each day.

Xie Shiwei asked again: “By the way, what is Bai An busy with now, is he graduating soon?”

He Qin replied: “He’s graduating this June, and he’s currently looking for inspiration for his graduation design. He’ll probably be back at school in May.”

“Will you go to his graduation ceremony?”

“If there are no accidents, I will go, Wang Gugu is going too.”

The corners of Xie Shiwei’s mouth uncontrollably rose.

Seriously, He Qin knew everything about Bai An so well, and he was also Bai An’s motivation for learning to paint, sigh, as expected of the official couple, entangled with each other just right!

He Qin asked suspiciously, “What are you smiling about?”

“Nothing, nothing,” Xie Shiwei coughed twice, putting away his smile, “It’s getting late, let’s start working.”

He Qin glanced at the time, nodded and sat down, instantly entering work mode. Xie Shiwei was infected by He Qin’s focus, his mood slowly calmed down, and he clicked the mouse to download the welfare institution information provided by the foundation.

There were fifteen registered and formal welfare institutions, with a detailed introduction for each one, each with about a hundred pages.

Xie Shiwei made calls one by one, asking the people in charge whether they were willing to participate in the event and cooperate with publicity, first filtering out the two welfare institutions that were certain not to participate, and then printing out the remaining information and binding it into booklets, flipping through them one by one.

The information was provided by the welfare institutions themselves, the formats were not uniform, and although there was a lot of content, it was messy. Xie Shiwei had no choice but to pull up an Excel sheet, and summarize the situation of each welfare institution according to a pile of indicators such as establishment time, funders, and number of children.

The clock on the wall went from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the azure blue sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows turned into a deep blue night, and the moon’s reflection hung upside down in the sea.

Except for going to the bathroom, Xie Shiwei didn’t leave the office for a second. During that time, He Qin asked him to have dinner, but Xie Shiwei waved his hand and said he wasn’t hungry, focusing on work, until now that he felt a pang of hunger, and asked He Qin if he had anything to fill his stomach.

He Qin asked: “Fill your stomach? Are you planning to continue?”

“Yes, we must confirm the partners as soon as possible, so that we can advance to the next step.” Xie Shiwei was very firm.

In his previous life, he was an excellent corporate slave, and he would never delay anything handed to him, but unfortunately, he didn’t meet a talent scout, and instead became a horse worked to death.

Habits are not easily changed, if Xie Shiwei wants to do something, he must do it to the best of his ability within the possible range.

Seeing that Xie Shiwei was very insistent, He Qin asked Lin Ying to send over a simple meal. Xie Shiwei finished it quickly and continued to work hard in front of the computer.

He Qin finished his own work, pulled a chair and sat next to Xie Shiwei, letting Xie Shiwei send him a copy of the Excel sheet, and the two divided the work and handled the remaining data together.

While flipping through the documents, He Qin’s peripheral vision occasionally swept across Xie Shiwei’s profile, and he was uncontrollably attracted to this side of Xie Shiwei. He gradually slowed down, and at some point, he completely stopped flipping the pages, only staring at Xie Shiwei.

The office would play a piano piece every night at 10:30 PM, reminding He Qin to prepare to leave work.

The melodious major key slowly rang out at this moment, but He Qin was still looking at Xie Shiwei, and little did he know that the look in his eyes at this moment could be described as gentle.

Xie Shiwei was about to finish organizing the information in his hand when he suddenly noticed that there was no sound of turning pages on He Qin’s side. He turned his head to remind him not to slack off, and his eyes met He Qin’s.

His breathing paused for a second.

He Qin was half an arm’s length away from him, his sharp features were particularly soft at this moment, and his deep, narrow eyes reflected the light, as if he had shed all his usual aloofness. Accompanied by the soft piano sound, he was so handsome and gentle that he could hardly breathe.

No way!

He can’t have a crush on He Qin again, what if he really falls in love with He Qin?!

Xie Shiwei warned himself, shaking his head violently, shaking himself awake, and also making He Qin realize his gaffe.

In just an instant, He Qin’s expression returned to normal, calmly looking away from Xie Shiwei’s face, without the slightest reluctance.

Xie Shiwei blinked at the air, thinking that everything just now might have been his illusion, and quickly looked down at the documents, whispering: “Sorry for making you wait so long, I’ll look faster.”

“It’s okay,” He Qin said.

Xie Shiwei mechanically flipped through the pages, his heart was still beating a little fast, and his mind was also messed up by He Qin.

Seeing that Xie Shiwei had only turned one page after a long time, He Qin lowered his eyes and pulled the information from Xie Shiwei’s hand: “I’ll read it and you fill it out, that’ll be faster.”

Xie Shiwei nodded.

He Qin read quickly, constantly reporting the data that needed to be filled in to Xie Shiwei, and Xie Shiwei also typed on the keyboard quickly. When the clock hand reached 11:00 PM, He Qin finished the last page and calmly said that it was done.

Xie Shiwei’s mood also returned to normal during the work process, no longer entangled, and he excitedly reached out and high-fived He Qin.

The two tacitly packed up their things and went home, and no one mentioned the half-minute in the piano music, which seemed like a slow-motion scene in a movie, infinitely slowed down and stretched out.

On the way, Xie Shiwei looked at the traffic outside the window and yawned five times in a row.

Even though he was tired and sleepy, he felt very happy.

The few hours of crazy work made him feel particularly fulfilled.

He used to dream of escaping such a life, but now, here, it seems that only in this way can he approach the past that he can no longer return to, and be the real Xie Shiwei again.

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Xie Shiwei’s mission wasn’t over yet, so he continued to go to the company with He Qin the next day.

When they arrived at the company, Lin Ying reported today’s work schedule to He Qin, which was basically full of meetings and outings.

He Qin looked at Xie Shiwei waiting outside the door, reached out and crossed out the two meetings in the morning, and said: “Notify the departments that this week’s meetings are canceled, and the bi-weekly results will be reported at the same time next week.”

“Received,” Lin Ying left.

Xie Shiwei followed him in: “Is today’s time convenient?”

He Qin’s expression remained unchanged: “It’s convenient, I have nothing to do in the morning.”

Xie Shiwei then began to discuss with He Qin which welfare institutions to choose.

He spread out the form he had organized: “As of now, these six welfare institutions marked with crosses have made it clear that they will not participate, and the remaining nine have said that there is no problem. I have looked at them carefully, and their qualifications, personnel, and venues all meet the requirements.”

He Qin said: “Our plan is for five, so we have to screen out at least six more.”

Xie Shiwei was silent for a moment, and asked: “Can we go to all of them? Yesterday, these welfare institutions all said on the phone that they were very interested in the event and wanted to fight for it for the children, and their scale is generally not large, and the amount of equipment needed is not too much. I can apply for more funds from the foundation, they will understand.”

“It’s not a matter of funds, but that we only need five.”

“What do you mean?”

He Qin called the project manager.

The person in charge opened the computer and said to Xie Shiwei: “Last night, I initially connected with your side on the publicity plan, and used models to make calculations. The communication effect of the event is best when it involves no more than two hundred people and covers the four main mountain areas of Jiangcheng. Any more will result in diminishing returns, which is a waste of resources.”

Xie Shiwei listened with his head lowered, his heart chilling inch by inch.