win or lose game

When Shao Yigui walked to Xiang Cheng's desk, the latter raised his head unexpectedly.

"I hope your previous invitation is still valid." Shao Yigui paved the steps for himself, then walked down the steps as if nothing had happened and sat down opposite Xiang Cheng.

Faced with Shao Yigui who came uninvited, Xiang Cheng put down the tableware, wiped his lips slowly, then looked at the former and said bluntly: "I never talk about scenes, so, Mr. Shao, please cut to the chase."

"In that case." Shao Yigui nodded cooperatively, and he opened the door, "Although I have invited some colleagues for the trial operation of Haixia Hotel this time, the nobles are busy, so I didn't expect Mr. Xiang to come in person. I think Let me ask you a question, isn't Mr. Xiang just here for vacation?"

"It's true that I'm not here for vacation. This is my interest. I wanted to participate in the Haixia Hotel project from the beginning."

Shao Yigui smiled hypocritically: "Mr. Xiang, you just said that you never talk about scenes, and now you just say something?"

Xiang Cheng shrugged and said indifferently: "This sentence is the truth. This is my interest—Tang Lin's question is my interest."

"He has already left the 'Tang Dynasty'. As far as I know, he will definitely not go back. What else is Mr. Xiang interested in?"

Shao Yigui asked that on purpose, Xiang Cheng could hear what he meant, he smiled slightly, and returned the ball calmly: "I think Mr. Shao should know the answer, otherwise, you wouldn't invite Mr. Tang to witness this The success of the project'." He used Shao Yigui's previous rhetoric in answering the media, but what he expressed was obviously not literal.

"I do know the answer." Shao Yigui said, he could sense the vague hostility from the other party, which made him a little stronger unconsciously, "However, if Lin Wen was already someone else's boyfriend, I would definitely not come to Shanghai today. Get down to the hotel and invite him to dinner."

After listening to Shao Yigui's provocative remarks, Xiang Cheng calmly said, "It is not necessary to own a painting to look good. Those who know how to appreciate it can see it in art exhibitions. Speaking of which, if I Having a boyfriend, I don't pretend to be in front of people just asking him to witness the success of a project."

Xiang Cheng, who claims to never talk about scenes, is indeed honest enough, and a single word is so rude that it can make people angry.However, Shao Yigui, who never accepts being rude, didn't get angry at all this time. On the contrary, he couldn't help but be grateful to the other party because he suddenly understood that Xiang Cheng was complaining about Tang Lin from just now.

"Is this the reason you came out publicly?" Shao Yigui asked following the other party's topic.

People who are used to being outspoken don't hide it: "I never planned to hide it, but I confessed to the media at that time to let Tang Linwen know."

The truth that Shao Yigui wanted to verify was already very clear. He was about to leave, but in the end he couldn't hold back his curiosity. Given the person in front of him who dared to say anything, he simply dared to ask anything: "With your character , shouldn't you just say it directly? Why didn't you tell him at the beginning?"

Finally, Xiang Cheng paused for a moment before speaking. He always spoke the truth, but his eyes never showed a trace of sincerity. At this moment, there was a vague sincerity in his eyes. "With Mr. Shao's character, would you mind your lover being coveted by others?"

In this world, there will always be someone who can make you do things that go against your nature.

Shao Yigui silently listened to Xiang Cheng's affectionate confession. To be honest, he didn't even feel moved. He didn't know how Tang Lin, as the person involved, felt when he heard this sentence.

"I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Xiang." With that said, Shao Yigui got up and left Xiang Cheng's dining table.

He just got up from the dining table when a reporter he knew greeted him.

"Mr. Shao, just now our reporter used an aerial camera to take a panoramic view of the hotel, and found a very wonderful thing. I think this should not be a coincidence, and the Haixia Hotel is designed in the hope that people will discover this secret. I don’t know Mr. Shao, can you answer me a few questions about this secret?”

Shao Yigui knew what the other party was talking about. In fact, he didn't want anyone to discover this secret, but then again, he had made a complete plan for someone to discover this secret.

"I haven't had lunch yet. I'm almost crazy hungry, let me fill my stomach first? I will accept your exclusive interview in Conference Hall 6 at two o'clock in the afternoon, is that okay?"

Shao Yigui quickly dismissed the reporter, walked to a place where no one was around, and took out his mobile phone that had been on the phone all the time.

"Lin asked?"

"it's me."

"...I know it's you. You should answer me 'eh, dear'."

Faced with Shao Yigui's daring molestation, Tang Linwen definitely came to a conclusion: "It seems that you are already hungry and crazy."

Shao Yigui thought about the business: "You must be hungry too? Shall I ask the front desk to deliver the food directly to our room?"

"It's been delivered, and you can still have some leftovers when you go upstairs."

Shao Yigui deliberately said pleasantly: "You also specially reserved food for me?"

Tang Linwen had to notice something strange, usually Shao Yigui was not so "lively".

"what happened to you?"

Shao Yigui finally revealed a little bit of his actually depressed mood. "Do you think I have an advantage over Xiang Cheng?" He asked in a low voice.

Tang Lin asked quickly and affirmatively: "This has always been a game between you and me. The outcome is only between us, and it has nothing to do with Xiang Cheng."

Tang Linwen was always right about the most important things. After hearing this, Shao Yigui unconsciously lowered his head and chuckled at himself. "That's right, if I lose, I will lose to you, not to Xiang Cheng."

And I am willing to lose to you.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Shao Yigui, who had just finished his sumptuous lunch—not the legendary leftovers—came to the arranged small meeting room on time.

The reporter of "New Charm" is already waiting in the room.

They first conducted some procedural links and questions. After that, the reporter took out his tablet and showed Shao Yigui the top view of the Haixia Hotel's unigrass garden taken from the air at noon.In fact, Shao Yigui knew what it was without looking at the photo.

"That's a head." The reporter pointed out, "On the ground, the rocky flower beds with high and low potholes make it impossible to imagine that they would form a head when viewed from a high altitude. Mr. Shao, does this have any special significance?"

"That's right. This head portrait was drawn by myself after studying sketching for two months, and then I hired a top designer to design this garden based on that sketch. It's a pity that my level is limited, and the drawing doesn't quite look like it."

"Mr. Shao put so much thought into it. The owner of this avatar must be someone very important to Mr. Shao, right?"

Shao Yigui replied without hesitation: "That's right. That's my sweetheart."

The well-informed reporter was startled, and he tentatively said, "This avatar looks like a man?"

"Yes."

Shao Yigui didn't talk eloquently about the purpose of these rocks. After tens of thousands of years, as long as there is sunshine, he can still keep his heart in full bloom for a long time.After the vicissitudes of life, the only thing remains unchanged.He just stated the facts with the simplest two words.It's not that Xiang Cheng's coming out made him act impulsively. He had no intention of hiding himself from the beginning, but because he knew that Tang Linwen didn't like to expose himself, earlier, when the media surrounded Tang Linwen's identity At that time, he used the most official rhetoric to clearly distinguish the relationship between the two.

He would not hide his desire to announce to the world, but as long as Tang Lin had no intention of asking, he would definitely take every possible care to protect the latter's privacy that he did not want to disclose.

However, now that Shao Yigui is out in the closet, the reporter can easily think of Tang Linwen who was invited by Shao Yigui to Haixia Hotel.

After being stunned by Shao Yigui's act of making a big move as if nothing had happened at first, the reporter quickly came back to his senses. He naturally had some guesses. That person, please don't ask who he is."

The reporter tried to get more information, he said: "I think, Mr. Shao announced his intentions in such a high-profile way today, everyone can't help thinking about it?"

"But I believe that 'New Charm' will not make random hypothetical reports, which is why I chose your agency for an interview."

After all, Shao Yigui was facing a financial reporter, not an entertainment reporter. He didn't put pressure on it, but he can guarantee that whenever the media tries to gossip, he will have a way to make the other party regret it.

Faced with such a domineering Shao Yigui, the reporter wisely chose to retreat. He sighed softly with a smile, "Mr. Shao's affection for the owner of the garden can be seen from this strict protection."

Shao Yigui smiled as if nothing had happened, and kept his sighs to himself: "I think the protagonist of today's interview is Haixia Hotel, not my sexual orientation. Let's get back to the topic..."

As the lowest altitude hotel in the world, its topicality should not be underestimated.Even if it is a trial run, it cannot be justified without a grand ceremony.On the first night of all invited guests' stay, the hotel held a semi-public dinner.

As the largest shareholder of the hotel, Tang Hexiao also specially attended the dinner with his fiancee that night.

Speaking of which, when Shao Yigui cooperated with Tang Hexiao to achieve the plan to contain Tang Linwen through the Haixia Hotel project, Tang Hexiao promised to transfer the shares of Haixia Hotel to Shao Yigui after the completion of the project.Afterwards, Tang Hexiao kept his promise and invited the company's lawyers to meet Shao Yigui, but in the end, Shao Yigui himself rejected the so-called free lunch.

Afterwards, as a partner of this project, Shao Yigui gave full play to his master's attitude and took care of almost all the big and small matters in the project by himself.Today, he was finally able to bring Tang Linwen to this hotel.Perhaps, this is not the hotel that Tang Linwen hoped to build when he was interested in the deep pit of Xilin, but at least, this is a gift presented by Shao Yigui according to what he thinks Tang Linwen likes.

This was supposed to be a celebration banquet for Tang Linwen alone.Just four years ago, this land had only pits and rugged rocks, and the only life was the unigrass growing tenaciously from the cracks in the rocks. At that time, Tang Linwen stared at the bright black and gray in surprise. , he became the only person who was injured here in the past four years - all because of his words.At that time, Tang Linwen knew that he was about to leave the Xilin project. He had already decided to completely let go of "Tang Dynasty", but he took special care of Shao Yigui. The development of the Xilin project was based on safe production.

When Shao Yigui faced the original blueprint of the undersea hotel, his first thought was that no safety accidents should occur in this project.

There are many things like this in this world-you may have spent a lot of thought and paid a lot of money, but all the efforts are in places that others can't see.When you choose to remain silent, no one will know what you have done.

Shao Yigui once thought that what he did for himself was a waste of resources.But now, he would rather rejoice in silence.

For this dinner, he didn't even invite Tang Lin to ask.

All the people staying in the hotel will be personally sent invitations by the room manager of the hotel. Generally speaking, since the trial operation is here, everyone will attend the dinner.However, Shao Yigui responsibly informed Tang Linwen of the possible risks of attending the banquet.

"I'm so above board, I just came out earlier today. If we got too close at this point, you'd probably be out too."

Shao Yigui has thickened his skin recently, mainly because he feels that if he is not thick-skinned, and with Tang Linwen's slow temper, it may take 111 years for the two of them to get acquainted enough to hold hands and secretly blush, but having said that, Well, what he can do with a shy face doesn't include coaxing Tang Lin, who doesn't want to expose himself in public, to ask him to go to a banquet with him.

He did think about it, maybe Tang Linwen didn't know the possible consequences if he showed up at the dinner with Shao Yigui, so he dropped by to attend the banquet with him.He struggled in his heart, repeatedly asking himself whether he wanted to clarify his interests, or cook raw rice out of conscience.

——Facts have proved that he thought too much.

"I will go to the banquet with He Xiao." Facing Shao Yigui's remarks, Tang Linwen told him without hesitation, "Our uncle has made some moves recently. He Xiao and I must clarify that there is no discord between brothers."

Even though he didn't dare to have any hope at all, he still didn't feel faintly disappointed. Shao Yigui concealed his inner emotions and changed the subject as if nothing had happened: "Speaking of which, I wanted to ask a long time ago. Your uncle should have made small moves more than once. At that time, you 'Tang Chao', you can keep him indifferently, but He Xiao can't control your uncle like you, why didn't you think of letting your uncle leave 'Tang Chao' when you left?"

"I heard a story when I was a child. It said that there were 66 Hongya sheep in a place. Everyone knows that the natural enemy of Hongya sheep is the snow leopard, and there happened to be two snow leopards in that place. The population of sheep has always been unable to grow, and it will always be around 66. Then one day, in order to protect the red cliff sheep, someone hunted the snow leopard away. After the snow leopard was gone, the number of red cliff sheep increased rapidly, but the number increased As a result of resource shortages and internal strife, the population of Hongya sheep dropped sharply, almost to the brink of extinction. In order to solve this situation, the snow leopard was released again. With natural enemies, Hongya sheep reunited and vigilant, and finally , and restored the balance of 66 red cliff sheep and two snow leopards." Tang Linwen was choosing the dress for the dinner while telling the story patiently. He hesitated between the two ties and took the time to look up and tell Shao Yigui "It's not that He Xiao is a Red Cliff Sheep, but many things come down to the word 'balance'."

Shao Yigui sighed when he heard the words: "I see this world is full of games that must be won or lost, but when you look at this world, it is a game of finding the ultimate balance. In this regard, I am far inferior to you. "

"Then, in your game of victory and defeat, I won."

Tang Linwen's merciless announcement was a further blow to Shao Yigui who was feeling frustrated, but for some reason, it made Shao Yigui's heart flow again with warm vitality.

"But there is one thing I will definitely win against you." Shao Yigui joked and pretended to fight back, "That is aesthetics—these two ties of yours don't match your dress at all. Your dress doesn't match you at all either."

Usually, Tang Linwen's extremely monotonous choice of clothing colors keeps his color vision difference from normal people from being too exposed. Now that Tang Linwen chooses outfits with his own eyes, Shao Yigui can understand how wise this person's usual old-fashioned dressing style is. It saved his abnormal aesthetic from being exposed.I don't know why people who can draw are so ignorant of color matching. As for styles, Shao Yigui doesn't expect much.At this moment, he was teasing the other party's clothes, and his intention was to be a kind reminder, and he was going to help the other party order a dress that would meet someone tonight. Unexpectedly, he just said that, and usually he can calm down when Mount Tai collapses in front of his eyes People actually got angry.

Shao Yigui is observant, he can judge Tang Linwen's emotions, especially when the other party suddenly walks out of the room without saying a word and with a straight face.

"I said it casually, you won't be so stingy, right?" Shao Yigui quickly grabbed the other party, and after listening to the words he blurted out, he felt that he couldn't express his meaning well, and quickly added, "I was wrong. "He said it sincerely and pitifully.

Tang Linwen's face softened a little, but he made up his mind to go.

"I have something to do with He Xiao."

So, Shao Yigui just watched Tang Linwen leave.The latter never returned.

Shao Yigui couldn't figure out why Tang Linwen was so petty and naive, so he didn't Tang Linwen at all. To be honest, he felt that he was both innocent and wronged.

——However, there is no blue sky in the world.

In the end, Shao Yigui wore a red dress, a pink shirt and a green tie, and arrived at the banquet under the strange eyes of everyone.

The man in strange clothes who counted on his clothes to dispel his anger stood low-key in the corner of the hall. What made people depressing was——Tang Linwen was actually dressed quite decently or even perfectly.

Shao Yigui believes that there is a reason why people need clothes, and now he sees real examples.And just like that, he was dressed like Christmas itself, looking foolishly at his mate, who was simply radiant, from a distance.And beside him is a normal aesthetic person who stares blankly at him.

Tang Lin asked slowly walking towards him at this moment.

Shao Yigui dared to swear that the other party's outfit was done by Tang Hexiao, maybe even the clothes belonged to the other party's younger brother who was similar in stature.

But he didn't dare to expose it.Facing the person who finally seemed not so angry, he smiled flatteringly: "Tonight you finally found a rare set of clothes that match your incomparable temperament."

The first dance music of the banquet sounded at this moment.

Tang Linwen stretched out his hand towards Shao Yigui, which was a standard invitation to dance. "Can you dance women's steps?"

Shao Yigui was stunned.He knows what that means.What does this first dance music mean at this reception with so many media reporters.

Tang Lin, who didn't wait for Shao Yigui's answer for a while, didn't take it seriously, and added, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how, I can walk."

(Finish)