Hu Qiang's Decision

Chapter 329 I Want You To Be My Boyfriend
Unknowingly, it was time to get off work again, but Hu Qiang didn't get off work and leave immediately.

It's not just because he has an appointment with Lisa's secretary today, in fact, even if there is no appointment, Hu Qiang will deliberately leave work late now.

It's not that Hu Qiang likes to work overtime and wants to set an example for the department, but he is now used to this way of coming early and leaving late.

It was not like this at first, but Hu Qiang used to drive to and from get off work some time ago, and he still drove a luxury car—the Hongqi H9 limited edition Magnolia version!

Although he didn't drive a luxury car for a long time, Hu Qiang developed a habit of coming early and leaving late.

Without him, he simply wanted to avoid the colleagues in the emergency department, and didn't want people to know that he drove a luxury car to and from get off work.

However, in actual operation, Hu Qiang found that this kind of early arrival and late departure also has an advantage, that is, it can avoid the morning and evening peak hours, and the road is not so crowded.

Therefore, although Hu Qiang returned the luxury car later, and continued to use online car-hailing to commute and occasionally ride shared bicycles, he still came early and left late.

It's easy to come early, mainly because the biological clock is used to it, and it wakes up when the time comes.

As for walking late, you can avoid crowds and walk more safely. At the same time, you can avoid being followed by people and not let people know where you currently live.

You know, the place where Hu Qiang lives now is no longer the old dilapidated apartment, but in a high-end community like Ode to Joy Community.

Ode to Joy Community is not far from Wanshou Group, no more than three kilometers, so there is no hindrance to walking a little later.

What's more, if he walks a little later, he can just catch up with the meal time on the way home, so he can go to the food street near the community to eat some delicious food first, and then go home, so that he can save money Meal and takeaway.

Cooking is too troublesome. As for ordering takeaway, no matter how good the takeaway is, it's better to go directly to the store to eat.

Especially for noodles, you have to go to the store to eat them. If you order takeaway, the noodles will be lumpy when someone delivers them.

If it is a super-first-tier metropolis, there are all kinds of conveniences, and the high-end communities in super-first-tier cities are even more convenient.

Let’s just talk about the food street near the Ode to Joy Community, there are all kinds of delicious food.

Whether it's expensive French food or Japanese food, or cheap Lanzhou ramen, it's all here.

In addition, there are many 24-hour fast food restaurants, which can be eaten anytime.

The only downside is that eating out is a bit expensive, but for Hu Qiang today, the consumption of food and drink is too much.

In this way, more than half an hour after getting off work, and after it started to get dark, Hu Qiang received a WeChat message from Lisa's secretary, Chrissy, saying that she was able to get off work and made an appointment to meet in the company's underground parking lot.

After receiving this news, Hu Qiang turned off the computer, packed his things and walked out of the manager's office.

As soon as I left the manager's office, I saw that there was no one in the entire big office. It seemed that everyone had already left work.

good, very good!

After nodding in satisfaction, Hu Qiang walked out of the emergency department, took the elevator again, and went directly to the second floor of the underground parking lot.

Then, Hu Qiang went straight to the address of the parking space that Chris had sent before.

Soon, Hu Qiang came to the place and found a white BMW MINI Cooper parked there.

There was already someone in the car, it was Chris.

Seeing Hu Qiang coming, Chris immediately flashed the car lights, motioning for Hu Qiang to get in the car.

This scene made Hu Qiang feel dazed for a while, with a sense of déjà vu.

At that moment, at this moment.

But soon, Hu Qiang put aside those thoughts that he shouldn't have, walked quickly to the side of the white BMW MINI Cooper, opened the co-pilot's door, and got into the car directly.

As soon as Hu Qiang got into the car, Chris put her hands together and apologized with a smile: "I'm sorry, Manager Hu, I kept you waiting for a long time. I really have a lot of work today, so..."

"It's okay." Hu Qiang shook his head with a smile, "Working overtime is normal in Wanshou, especially if you are Lisa's secretary, it's even more normal. Also, you don't need to call me Manager Hu in private, just call me Manager Hu." My English name is Qiang, that’s fine.”

"Okay, Qiang." Chris nodded with a smile.

Immediately afterwards, Chris said: "Then, without further ado, you fasten your seat belt, let's go eat quickly, I'm already a little hungry."

"Okay!" Hu Qiang nodded, and then decisively fastened his seat belt.

Hu Qiang didn't wear a seat belt before, so he wasn't sure if Chris would take him away. Maybe he changed his mind and didn't eat with him, but just talked about things in the car.

But now that Chris has said so, it means that this meal must be eaten, so of course he must wear a seat belt.

Fortunately, Chris drove very steadily, with a little bit of unhurriedness, and she looked like an old driver.

Since the two of them were not familiar with each other, they didn't chat much along the way, so they just said a few words about the daily life of the company, and then they stopped talking.

After driving for about half an hour, I finally came to a hot pot restaurant.

As soon as you enter the door, you can hear the authentic Sichuan-flavored Mandarin spoken by the waitress, reminding you all the time that even the people here are authentic Sichuanese, so the hot pot must also be authentic Sichuan-flavored hot pot.

Seeing that the restaurant is full of people, and there are people queuing outside, you know that the business here is good.

Fortunately, Chris had already made an appointment, and it was a reserved private room, so there was no need to queue up, just go upstairs to the private room.

After coming to the private room and taking a seat, Hu Qiang couldn't help but said: "The business here looks very good."

Chris smiled: "Yeah, this hot pot restaurant is very authentic. If I hadn't made an appointment in advance, and I often eat here, I'm familiar with the boss. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to book a seat at all."

At this time, the waiter who followed couldn't help asking: "What kind of pot bottom do you two want?"

Chris immediately said: "Qiang, you choose."

Hu Qiang smiled, thinking that it was his own treat, so he was not polite, took the menu and looked at it, and found that there were many kinds of pot bottoms.

After choosing and choosing, Hu Qiang said: "I want this classic mandarin duck pot, Chris, are you okay?"

Chris smiled: "Of course it's fine."

Hu Qiang nodded, and then flipped through the menu again: "For the set meal, come to this 666 set meal. If you don't have enough, order it again. How about you?"

At the end, Hu Qiang looked at Chris again.

Chris froze for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Okay, no problem."

Hu Qiang then looked at the waiter: "That's it, serve the food as soon as possible."

The waiter just nodded, said please wait a moment, and left with the order tablet.

When the waiter left, Hu Qiang took off his coat, hung it on the hanger, and looked at Chris again: "Aren't you hot? Even if it's not hot, it will definitely be hot when you eat later."

Chris blinked, then stood up suddenly: "Yes yes yes, look at me, I almost forgot."

When Chris took off her woolen coat, Hu Qiang stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me, I'll hang it up for you, so you don't have to come out."

Chris nodded to Hu Qiang with a smile: "Thank you very much."

After hanging up the coat for Chris, Hu Qiang returned to his seat and found that a cup of tea had been poured into his teacup, which was obviously poured by Chris just now.

With a slight smile, Hu Qiang picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then raised his head and asked: "Chris, there are no outsiders now, tell me, what do you want from me?"

Chris pursed her lips, and was about to speak, but found that the door of the private room was opened again. It turned out that the waiter came to serve the pot.

Seeing the waiter coming, Chris immediately shut up, and Hu Qiang was not in a hurry, and helped the waiter arrange the dishes.

Wait for the waiter to serve the hot pot and arrange the ingredients and dipping sauces before they file off.

As soon as the waiter left, Hu Qiang got up quickly and went to the dipping area of ​​the private room, prepared a bowl of dipping sauce for himself, and helped Chris make another bowl of dipping sauce.

When the dipping materials for both sides were adjusted and the hot pot started to heat up, Hu Qiang looked at Chris again: "Can we talk now?"

Chris sighed: "Can't we finish the meal first?"

Hu Qiang smiled slightly: "I'm rather impatient, you should tell me the business first, otherwise, this meal will not be delicious."

Chris clenched her fists and put them on the table. After a little thought, she raised her head, looked at Hu Qiang and said, "Qiang, I want you to be my boyfriend."

"Pfft!" Hu Qiang, who was drinking tea, couldn't help tilting his head and spraying out.

Soon, Hu Qiang put down his teacup, picked up two pieces of paper to wipe his mouth, and then looked at Chris with a surprised face: "What did you say?"

Chris smiled slightly, and said with interest: "I mean, I want you to be my boyfriend."

Hu Qiang stared at Chris in a daze: "Are you serious?"

Chris chuckled and winked playfully, "Of course I'm serious."

Hu Qiang tapped his lips: "Yes, but we are not familiar with each other, you, this is too sudden."

Chris covered her mouth and laughed, and then said: "Hahaha, don't get me wrong, I don't really want you to be my boyfriend, but I just want you to play a scene with me to deal with my parents."

Hu Qiang blinked: "Huh?"

Chris stroked her hair, smiled slightly and said, "It's like this, listen to me slowly."

After that, Chris briefly explained the situation.

It turned out that Chris, whose real name was Yuan Baijie, was from Luzhou, Sichuan, but after graduating from Shanghai, she stayed there, and it has been more than ten years now.

That's all, the point is, now that Chris is four years old, she is still single.

Although Chris herself feels nothing and enjoys this kind of single life, it does not mean that her family members also feel nothing.

In fact, after Chris's 35th birthday, her parents started urging her all day long, calling her every now and then, asking her about her personal relationship, which was actually urging her to get married.

Chris was too annoyed, so she had no choice but to shirk and say that she already had a boyfriend, but she was just getting in touch with her.

Before, Chris had been using this trick to evade, and finally she was clean for a while.

Then after waiting for a while, her parents called again, wanting to meet her boyfriend via video, she had no choice but to say they broke up.

In this way, in order to cope with her parents' urging marriage, Chris would get a fake boyfriend from time to time.

Then after her parents found out, it was fine if they didn't want to see real people via video, and that boyfriend could continue to exist.

But once her parents want to meet a real person, she will often shirk it first, and if she can't shirk it, she will say that she has broken up, and then she will be urged to marry after a while, and she will find a new fake boyfriend to block the gun.

Around the end of last year, in order to cope with her parents' urging marriage, Chris pretended to find a new boyfriend, and because her parents never mentioned meeting during this period, this fake boyfriend has always existed.

At first, Chris thought it was nothing, and thought that the seesaw would continue like this.

Who knows, just yesterday afternoon, her parents came to Shanghai suddenly, and they didn't notify her until they arrived in Shanghai, giving her a surprise attack.

Chris had no choice but to hurry to arrange accommodation for her parents, and then had another meal together, expressing her heart to each other.

Originally, this scene was quite touching, but her parents suddenly asked to see her boyfriend, which made Chris a difficult situation.

Chris realized that her parents came here this time and said that the trip should be fake, and they should have come to see her on purpose, especially to see her personal emotional life.

To be more precise, I want to see how Chris's boyfriend is doing, and see if Chris is lying to them.

Chris originally wanted to tell the truth, but seeing her parents' ardent expectations, she couldn't speak.

So after much deliberation, Chris thought of finding someone to pretend to be her boyfriend, and then found Hu Qiang.

"The story is a bit old-fashioned." Hu Qiang frowned.

Chris clasped her hands together, and said with some embarrassment: "It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's just because this kind of thing happens more and more realistically, so it's old-fashioned."

Hu Qiang nodded: "That's true."

Immediately afterwards, Hu Qiang looked at Chris: "But why me? It's all fake anyway. You just go online to find a fake boyfriend. Isn't this kind of service that spends money pretending to be a boyfriend everywhere?"

Chris smiled awkwardly: "That's what I said, but the fake boyfriends who spend money on the Internet are strangers after all, and I don't trust them very much, let alone..."

"What's more?" Hu Qiang asked.

Chris smiled awkwardly again: "What's more, I told my parents before that my current boyfriend is my colleague, so I have to ask you for help."

Hu Qiang was taken aback: "That's it, but even so, there are too many male colleagues in our company, why do you ask me to pretend to be your boyfriend?"

Chris blinked, and said a little embarrassedly: "There are many male colleagues in our company, but there are not many single men who are similar to my age, and most of the men who meet the standards are either bald or Fatty, there are very few... handsome and unrestrained people like you."

Hu Qiang couldn't help puffing out his chest and raised his head: "Well, it makes sense."

But soon, Hu Qiang said again: "It's not right, you can find younger men, there seem to be many single men in our company who are in their early 30s, right?"

Chris nodded: "In theory, yes, but this time pretending to be my boyfriend to lie to my parents, I need two more words."

"Which two words?" Hu Qiang asked.

"Reliable!" Chris said.

"reliable?"

"Yes, reliable."

Chris nodded and said: "The reality is not a TV show, it's not that easy to pretend to be a couple to lie to my parents.

First of all, my parents are not so easy to deceive, they have to look reliable.

Secondly, I don't want this incident to be spread, so I must find someone with a strict mouth.

Most young people in their thirties are not reliable enough. Let alone whether they can deceive my parents, if they are not strict after the incident and tell the matter, should I still be a human being?

You also know that this workplace is not very friendly to us women.

Especially those of us who work as secretaries for female leaders must pay more attention to their image.

If people, especially Lisa, find out that I asked a colleague to pretend to be a boyfriend to cheat my parents, then, what do you think Lisa will think?
Will she still trust me?Do you still think I'm reliable? "

"It makes sense." Hu Qiang nodded.

But soon, Hu Qiang thought of something, and suddenly looked up at Chris: "Wait, it's not because I am also Lisa's subordinate, and I am afraid that Lisa will be bad for me if she finds out. Tell Lisa about it, that's why you came to me?"

Chris nodded: "Yes, but, in fact, I didn't think it was you at first, I wanted to ask Lanny for help."

"Lanny?" Hu Qiang blinked, "Lanny Fu?"

Chris nodded: "Yes, Lanny has a higher position, and he is especially good at dealing with things. It is said that he is the best candidate for a boyfriend, but..."

"But what?" Hu Qiang asked.

Chris shook her head: "However, recently I discovered that Lanny is having a hot affair with a female intern, so I feel that this person is not reliable, and he may not be willing to help, so I don't want to find him. In order not to ask him but be rejected, it will be embarrassing to meet again."

"So you chose me?" Hu Qiang asked with a frown.

"No way?" Chrissy smiled.

Hu Qiang sighed, and then said: "Chris, thank you for looking up to me, but you never thought that I would reject your proposal?"

Chris blinked: "I'm Lisa's secretary."

Hu Qiang was taken aback: "So?"

Chris smiled slightly: "I have been with Lisa for six years, and I am definitely Lisa's confidant.

Although I usually don't give Lisa much advice, especially my colleagues, but if...

Hehe, Manager Hu, there are some things you should understand. "

Hu Qiang frowned: "Are you threatening me?"

"No, you misunderstood." Chris smiled, "I mean, if I say more good things about you, Lisa's sense of you will get better and better as time goes by.

Moreover, I have full control over Lisa's mood. When you go to see Lisa in the future, if you come to ask me in advance, maybe you can get twice the result with half the effort.

Also, in case Lisa has given you some mission and you don't understand it, you can also ask me in private.

As far as I know Lisa, I dare not say that she is number one in the company, but the top three must be me.

Anyway, as Lisa's secretary, I must be of great help to you, don't you think? "

Hu Qiang smiled bitterly: "Are you sure about me?"

"Don't say that!" Chris smiled and took the initiative to pick up the teapot and poured Hu Qiang a cup of tea.

"Actually, I was also forced to do nothing. I happened to see you, so I asked you for help temporarily.

Don't worry, after dealing with my parents, when they go back, I will thank you very much.

By the way, this meal is also my invitation, so thank you in advance. "

Hu Qiang looked at the food on the table, then at the bottom of the boiling pot, and sighed softly:
"Sure enough, there is no good banquet!"

"It's definitely not a good thing for a beautiful woman to come to me on her own initiative!"

(End of this chapter)