Chapter 1409: What’s Your Relationship

“What are you still dawdling for?

I’ve been waiting for you so long, where are you?”

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t speak immediately.

She walked to a quiet place, holding her breath for a long time, and when it burst out, her tone was quite bad, “Do I look like I have a light bulb for a brain?

Why would I come up to find you?”

Pei Dongshi inexplicably shrank his neck, “You’ve been wronged and didn’t come to me; do you think I can’t stand up for you?”

“It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you during work hours, but what if someone sees us!”

“Nobody dares to loiter outside my office.

Come up.”

“I won’t!” Nan Jiaojiao stubbornly refused, “Don’t make it sound like we’re having an affair.

You protected me in the meeting room, and I haven’t even figured out how to distance myself from you yet!”

Pei Dongshi often got angry at her coarse words, but he hadn’t heard them for some time and found he actually missed them.

“What do you want to eat tonight?

Let me know, and I’ll have Qiao Shan pick a restaurant.

We’ll speak freely then.”

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t really want to have dinner with Pei Dongshi.

He’s getting old and his taste is almost like that of an elderly person’s—bland to the point of death.

She’s afraid a table full of dishes would just go to waste.

But Bo Yanching isn’t around, and she still has to figure out dinner on her own, so thinking about it, going for a free meal is not bad.

After work, she drove her own car, following the navigation.

The restaurant Qiao Shan picked was far from the company.

Nan Jiaojiao had just arrived when Pei Dongshi showed up, and she reached out her hand, “Give me your phone.”

Pei Dongshi happened to take off his suit, holding the clothes, and fished out his phone from his pocket to hand it over to her.

Nan Jiaojiao used his phone to scan the code and order food.

“It’s as if you owe me a meal or two; you’re so stingy!”

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t say a word, focused on finishing the order, and the phone was left at hand in case there was a need to order more.

“What’s your relationship with that Qin Qing?”

“Cough…”

Pei Dongshi had just taken a sip of tea and didn’t swallow it, completely choking on it, “What kind of relationship?”

Nan Jiaojiao pretended to hold her arms in a serious manner, squinting her eyes to scrutinize, “I say, you’ve lived so many years, increasingly developing into an empty-nest elderly, and I thought no one was truly around you.

Turns out you have someone at the company.”

“What nonsense!”

Pei Dongshi looked around, finding nothing handy, so he took the napkin folded into a flower in the cup, crumpled it, and tossed it at her.

“Little brat, your mouth is more and more unrestrained; how come you dare to say anything!”

“Isn’t it?”

Nan Jiaojiao caught the napkin, unfolded it, and tossed it up and down playfully on her fingers, “Then why does she hold so much hostility toward me?

When you were protecting me today, just her look alone almost tore me apart.”

So she doesn’t blame herself for thinking in that direction.

Add to that being seen by Qin Qing in Pei Dongshi’s office before, though it was smoothed over at the time, she later paid great attention.

Coupled with Pei Dongshi going on a business trip the same day, they hadn’t had contact since.

Even if there was hostility, it shouldn’t be that of a love rival type.

Pei Dongshi also found it amusing.

Qin Qing asked him his relationship with Nan Jiaojiao, and now Nan Jiaojiao was asking him his relationship with Qin Qing.

Are these women’s minds only filled with matters of love?

“Qin Qing is someone I hired for a hefty sum.

She had a marriage, divorced the year before last, and has no children; everyone in the company knows.”

Nan Jiaojiao was stunned: “You’ve become so empty that you’re going after divorced women now!”

Pei Dongshi practically spat out blood: “When you were little, why was I not smart enough to strangle you!

Letting you grow into such a menace, constantly vexing me!”