Shen Ke smiles highly and then asks, "Exciting, isn't it?"

The scheduled measurements for the evaluation of the hydrologic storage and discharge system in the city park took place a week later.

At the site, the designers of the project team stood on the side and watched the contractor and Teng Sheng's staff and the staff of the water conservancy department carry out the field measurements and finally start the data accounting.

Lin Jian stood on the sidelines and watched with cold eyes, his heart already so calm that there were no waves.

The head of the contractor and the surveyor had made no secret of his eye-wind, and he had even anticipated the final result.

But Shen Ke said a while ago that emotions are too precious a thing to give to outsiders.

And, even if the end result is not satisfactory, there is always a way out.

At the end of half a day's field measurement, the group took a car to the conference room of Teng Sheng Company to analyze the data and calculate the results.

In the conference room, Mr. Zhang from Teng Sheng was in the main seat of the conference table, Lin Jian and the project team were sitting on the left side of the table, and the opposite side was the contractor's team.

The water department staff in charge of database analysis turns on the projector and prepares for the on-site calculations.

And at that moment, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked twice from outside.

The heavy glass door was pushed open in response to the sound, and everyone in the room raised their eyes to look over, and after seeing the person who came, Teng Sheng's side of the General Manager Zhang and a few deputies stood up from their seats as if they were under the instinct of a stressor, "dabbing".

The rest of the group didn't react as quickly, but after a few seconds, they followed suit and unconsciously got up quickly.

Assistant Xu holds the glass door with one hand, keeping the movement of opening the door unchanged, while Shen Ke walks in the front, followed by two vice presidents of the group, striding into the room.

Teng Sheng's Mr. Zhang took the lead and ran over to meet him, "Shen, Shen Chairman, why did you come all of a sudden?"

Shen Ke did not answer, walked straight to the edge of the conference table, Assistant Xu came up from the back and pulled open the seat for him, before answering in a flat voice: "The group's internal routine inspection, no notice was sent out in advance, and it just so happened to randomly arrive at Teng Sheng here today."

"...... Oh." Teng Sheng's General Manager Zhang barely managed to squeeze out a smile, "We're in the process of analyzing the data on our side, Chairman Shen You see ...... or else ......"

Shen Ke didn't look back at him, just scanned the legend summarizing the stage data on the projection screen and asked in a muted voice, "Analyze what?"

"Uh ......" Mr. Zhang stuck for a moment, glanced unnaturally at the staff standing in front of the stage who were half petrified at this point, stumbled and said, "It's that project in the city park, on, on the construction site and the design plan. There is a little discrepancy, it should not have a big impact, but for insurance purposes, we still summoned the person in charge of all parties, carried out on-site measurements, and analyzed before we could come to a final conclusion."

Shen Ke asked, "What's the discrepancy?"

Mr. Zhang hesitated and didn't dare to respond.

Shen Ke didn't care about his apprehensive and evasive attitude at the moment, and asked directly, "Are the designers and contractors there?"

The contractor's Mr. Wang heard the sound and immediately went around the seat behind him and walked away quickly towards Shen Ke's side: "In it Chairman Shen, I'm the contractor responsible for--"

Shen Ke didn't move, and only a stop sign from Assistant Xu pinned the man in place.

Shen Ke's eyes skimmed across the room, pausing briefly when they landed on Lin Jian, who also looked confused, before moving away and saying in a faint voice, "Give me the original design proposal."

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, a staff member immediately placed the design drawings in front of Shen Ke, who scanned the drawings with his eyes downcast and then raised his eyes to look at the projections, as if he had come to a quick conclusion, smiled a bit, and then closed the case by saying, "Is it the specification of the natural rainwater drainage system that is out of order?"

Although his sentence was a question, his tone was bland and certain, like a flat statement that one could not deny.

It was only at this point that all those present recalled with hindsight those scattered rumors in the streets--

It is said that Chairman Shen, a low-profile but high-profile person, graduated from a top international institution majoring in landscape architecture many years ago.

...... This big guy is a real industry expert.

Each mind a few road people face colorful unpredictable, wonderful, Shen Ke is still that calm and relaxed posture, standing in front of the stage of the water conservancy department staff lifted his chin, and then said: "then continue, I by the way to listen to learn a little."

The moment these words came out, the faces of Teng Sheng's General Manager Zhang and the person in charge of the construction party both changed slightly.

Lin Jian, sitting next to Fang Jingwei, was quiet throughout the whole process, and when he felt the gaze of a person on the other side of the room, he looked back at him faintly.

Fang Jingwei can not see what emotions in his eyes, a few times after the change, before hooking the corner of the mouth, inclined his head and asked softly, "Chairman Shen ...... people are you called?"

Lin Jian's eyes floated up a very light layer of smile marks, but fleeting, also lowered his voice back to him: "The leader of the group don't joke, I can't be so great through the sky."

Fang Jingwei could hear his slightly sarcastic tone and suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

Shen Ke came uninvited, at this time sitting on the scene, anyone who does not have the ability and guts to open their mouths under his eyes, originally just going through the motions of an assessment meeting, but really serious, fine and rigorous opened more than two hours.

At the end of the day, the water department's data manager compared the city limits' precipitation summary and city drainage system load data maps for the last few years, and checked them against the drainage and transfer system, which is now one-third dug up at the current construction site, and came to a conclusion with a quiver in his voice.

"Statistically, it does appear that during normal precipitation weather, the storage and discharge forces for the current width of the ring system flume are within normal limits, but, but if ......"

The staff of the water conservancy department glanced at the contractor, Mr. Wang, who by now already had a vegetable face, and then at Mr. Zhang, who was obviously self-conscious, and finally chose to be clear and concluded, "If there is a heavy precipitation weather, then it will be obvious that the load is insufficient."

For a moment, the venue was silent.

Lin Jian, however, breathed a little sigh of relief.

"Uh-huh." Shen Ke listened and nodded lightly, then threw the question to Mr. Zhang like a clinical test, "What then?"

Mr. Zhang smiled sarcastically and replied, "Then, of course, according to the original design plan, all backfill and re-excavate."

"But -" the person in charge of the contractor at this point is quite a bit of a dog in a hurry, regardless of the occasion to snatch a sentence, "so that the cost of labor and building materials for the depreciation is too high, I'm afraid it will exceed the budget. "

Shen Ke didn't say anything at that, but just very slowly dropped his eyes to Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang abruptly met a pair of calm eyes like that, and for no reason, a cold shiver ran through his heart.

That eye light was deep and warm, but extremely oppressive.

"Budget is not a problem!" Mr. Zhang immediately showed his attitude at this time, "The quality of the project is the most crucial!"

Lin Jian always sat quietly in a corner of the long table, at this time looking at the field in a few moments the situation of the wind and clouds, for some reason, suddenly want to laugh a little.

This concludes the evaluation session.

Shen Ke calmly got up, still not looking at anyone, took his assistant and a few vice presidents straight to the conference room outside, only to pass by Mr. Zhang's side, faintly left a sentence: "Summon your management staff, and convene a regular meeting of the inspection tour in half an hour."

--A meeting?

Mr. Zhang now hears the word "meeting" a little trembling liver, but in the end can only smile bitterly and nodded to comply.

A group of people came and left in a big way, Shen Ke never said hello to Lin Jian, and did not even look at him for a moment.

But looking at his back as he turned to leave, Lin Jian still narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth in a way that was hard to suppress.

The peaks and valleys of the world--

There was a sense of solidity in being in an isolated situation and suddenly being propped up.

*

Immediately after the evaluation meeting, Lin Jian returned to the construction site and worked with the project supervisor for a long period of time to monitor the progress of the project, and ultimately, the drainage system had already been corrected from the error, and was completely backfilled and rebuilt.

He was so busy on his side, and Shen Ke was so busy on his side, that they didn't see each other for a long time, except for an occasional phone call or a message late at night every day.

By the time I saw you again, it was late spring and early summer.

Lin Jian had been spinning like a gyroscope on the construction site for more than a month, and finally waited until all the outstanding deadlines had been caught up, and the progress of the project was on the right track, so he could take a normal vacation.

And as the second quarter is winding down on Shen Ke's end, it's only natural that there's more private time compared to the first quarter at the beginning of the year.

So on a Friday night, Shen Ke called and said he would come to the park tomorrow to pick him up and take him back to South City to spend a rare weekend together.

Lin Jian wanted to refuse, saying that he could drive there himself, but when he thought of his words, "If I like someone, I can't bear to have him come to see me," he gave in and finally said, "Okay."

The next day, Saturday, was a beautiful sunny day.

Lin Jian woke up in the morning, washed up and went for his usual run in the fitness park of the campus. He came early, and it was a Saturday, when the other social animals in the apartments of the campus were still sleeping in their dreams.

But after two laps, a footstep gradually caught up behind him.

Lin Jian hadn't paid any attention to it, but the footsteps came closer and closer, and eventually the frequency of the pace was the same as his as they landed on his side.

Lin Jian subconsciously turned his head, and saw Fang Jingwei, dressed in a casual sweatshirt, waving his hand with a wrist brace at him and greeting him with a smile, "Good morning."

Lin Jian was slightly surprised, after all, after running in the morning for so long, this was the first time he ran into someone he knew, he nodded his head slightly and answered, "Good morning, Team Leader."

"How many laps have you run?" Fang Jingwei smiled as she climbed into conversation with him.

"Two laps." Lin Jian's attitude was slightly more aloof.

"Not much." Fang Jingwei smiled and said, "Just right, run a few more laps with me."

There's no time for that--

Lin Jian mentally replied back, but basic workplace politeness made him keep the words to his lips.

He didn't say much, just secretly picked up his pace slightly.

I didn't realize that Fang Jingwei, who is over 40 years old, has good stamina and endurance, and after observing Lin Jian's secret acceleration, he even adjusted his pace to keep up with him.

There's no point in competing with older people.

Lin Jian does not matter, muffled run their own.

After ten full laps of four kilometers, Lin Jian stood in place and moved his ankles and wrists, bending over to relax his calf muscles to avoid lactic acid buildup.

And Fang Jingwei stopped beside him at this point, waiting for him to finish relaxing and organizing, and asked with a smile, "No more running?"

"Uh-huh." Lin Jian responded.

"Good." Fang Jingwei says, "How about breakfast?"

Lin Jian slowly turned his head, looked directly into his smiling eyes, and after half a second, refused in a faint voice: "No, make yourself at home."

With that said, he nodded slightly and headed for the apartment.

Fang Jingwei did not care about being rejected, and still stared at the young man's lean and straight back with a refined smile, and after a moment, left with him.

"Lin Jian," Fang Jingwei called to him again when he reached the bottom of the apartment.

"......" Lin Jian A not-so-subtle annoyance had set in on his brow, but he still turned patiently and asked, "Anything else?"

Fang Jingwei stood in place, his gaze unabashedly looking him up and down for a moment, and then took two steps closer and laughed, "I feel that ...... this time you seem to be a little cold toward me?"

Lin Jian calmly said, "You're joking, we are the upper and lower levels in the workplace, just a coworker relationship, it may not be appropriate to use the word cold to describe it."

"Just normal work interactions." Lin Jian added.

"Is that so?" Fang Jingwei smiled unabated, "But it turns out that at the Hong Kong City headquarters, when you first joined, you and I seemed to have a warmer relationship."

Lin Jian smiled very lightly and replied bluntly, "Because at that time, I still regarded you as a senior who guided me."

Fang Jingwei's heart tightened, "What about now?"

Lin Jian's smile was distant, his eyes were flat and scanty, polite but with a sense of rejection, "It's just a superior, so there's no need to be too close to each other."

From the initial "impromptu dumping" at the bid meeting, to the strong-arming him at the drinking party, to the most recent engineering evaluation meeting--

All kinds of examples superimposed in front of the eyes, so that Lin Jian in the eyes of the original that elegant and friendly senior image of a drop, as Fang Jingwei said, he is also essentially just a businessman, there is nothing different, and ......

Why was the natural water storage system for the City Park project discovered by Lin Jian when it was already one-third of the way through construction?

The first person in charge of the project's design was Fang Jingwei, who logically shouldn't have noticed it later than Lin Jian, and even more so, shouldn't have remained silent and let it happen after he saw what was going on.

Coupled with the ambiguity of Fang Jingwei's attitude when Lin Jian argued with the contractor's manager that night, all signs point to only one possibility.

--He knew it all along, but acquiesced and condoned it, and even ...... he may have been one of the masterminds of this "cost-saving" flag, but actually cutting corners.

But without evidence, Lin Jian naturally will not say more, but just doubly stacked disappointment, and ultimately to indifference.

"Lin Jian." Fang Jingwei's complexion at this point was much more tense than it had been a moment ago, and his gaze toward the youth burned with quality, "Don't think of me that way."

"It's not important." Lin Jian still had the same cold demeanor, but at one point when she wanted to turn around and leave, she was suddenly pulled by his wrist.

Lin Jian suddenly turned back, the disgust in his eyes no longer hidden, frowning coldly rebuked: "Let go!"

"Listen to me for a few words." Fang Jingwei immediately let go of his hand, but turned directly in front of him, blocking Lin Jian's way, "Just a few words, I'll let you go after I finish."

Lin Jian wrinkled his brows and kept quiet, the irritation in his heart gradually reaching its peak.

Fang Jingwei received all the impatience in his eyes and tried to melt the ice with a gentle smile, so he took a deep breath, replaced the smile and said in a warm voice, "I think that even if I don't say it explicitly, you should be able to see that I don't want to stop with you as a colleague in the upper and lower ranks alone."

He would suddenly say this, and so straight to the point, Lin Jian indeed did not expect, but this does not prevent him from being annoyed, so after a moment of stupefaction, Lin Jian frowned deeper, "Team leader, Duk Xing is careful with his words."

"What does it matter, a few words from the heart only." Fang Jingwei loosened up, "I've long wanted to talk to you, and what happened during this period of time obviously made you misunderstand me deeper, so I can't delay it any longer ...... You actually feel it too, right? Lin Jian, I appreciate you... ...No, not only appreciate, I ......"

"I like you a lot, and I mean sexually upwards, so you-"

"That's no coincidence." Lin Jian narrowed his eyes slightly and bluntly interrupted his later words, "You happen not to be the one I admire." He didn't even use honorifics, "And most unfortunate of all, if we're talking about sexually upward attraction, then I'm afraid I'm not as good as an ordinary coworker to you."

Fang Jingwei did not think that he would be so relentless and simply give a refusal, always love field traveled with ease, his face changed slightly, but then raw control of emotions, asked in a low voice: "So, you admit it?"

Recognize what?

Nothing more than liking the same sex.

"There's nothing I can't admit." Lin Jian hooked the corners of his mouth, but there was a bit more abrupt mockery in his smile, "And to make it clearer, I'm not single, so don't bring up words like that in the future."

"You--" Fang Jingwei froze completely, his voice rising involuntarily in shock, "You're not single?!"

"Yes." Lin Jian thought it was quite funny and smiled, "Can't you tell?"

He's also always felt that he's been labeled as a "hot guy".

"You ......" Fang Jingwei The expression of confession was rejected, and it was also rejected in such a way without the slightest delay, not even a little bit of friendship between coworkers, and finally showed a few points of exasperated impatience, he took a step closer and asked in a low voice. "Who is it? Headquarters staff, or project design team colleagues?"

"No comment." Lin Jian's dislike value peaked and he stopped pestering him, and when he finished, he was about to walk around the man and up the stairs.

"Lin Jian!" Fang Jingwei butted in again, grabbing his wrist once more, "You-"

Lin Jian abruptly broke away from the grip on his wrist, but before he could make his next move, a car siren suddenly sounded behind him.

The two men in the standoff both froze and both turned to look.

Not far away, Shen Ke sits in the cab of a Barbos, looking down through the front window.

Lin Jian's heart fluttered, not expecting him to come so early, and he just wanted to lift his foot to look for someone, but he saw Shen Ke turn off the engine and get out of the car, flinging the door shut with his back hand, and walking towards them.

Fang Jingwei didn't expect this gentleman to show up at this moment, but once he thought of what he had overheard, that he was related to Lin Jian, he took a deep breath, collected his emotions, and greeted him with a smile, "Chairman Shen, what a coincidence, are you here to see Lin Jian?"

Lin Jian frowned imperceptibly.

Shen Ke's quiet, calm gaze circled between the two men, and instead of responding to his polite courtesy, he only asked Lin Jian softly, "What are you doing standing downstairs?"

"Just finished running." Lin Jian didn't sound too good.

Shen Ke seemed to smile and added, "So why don't you go upstairs?"

"A dinner date."

"Confession."

Two voices rang out at the same time, the former from Fang Jingwei, the latter with obvious annoyance from Lin Jian.

Fang Jingwei was startled, and his gaze towards Lin Jian suddenly became somewhat incredulous.

Unexpectedly, the person being glared at was oblivious, or didn't care, and added two seconds apart, "It's been rejected, but it's kind of annoying."

Fang Jingwei: "......"

Shen Ke was also slightly stunned, but after that he obviously couldn't hold back a very ill-timed laugh that inclined his head.

"Don't frown." After laughing, Shen Ke's low voice resumed, "Go upstairs, shower and change, I'm taking you home."

"...... Good." Lin Jian seemed to be pacified by this "going home" and sighed, his face finally not so tight, but as soon as he lifted his foot, he heard Fang Jingwei greet Shen Ke again.

"Chairman Shen, can we have a chat?"

Lin Jian stops in his tracks and turns back around manically.

Only when Shen Ke heard him say this did he manage to shift his gaze, calmly looking at Fang Jingwei for a moment, and responding in a faint voice, "Go ahead."

"I heard Lin Jian mention before that he lived in your house for a while when he was a child, so I guess ...... you are probably his kindred elder?"

Shen Ke doesn't deny it, instead he nods his head with a bemused expression, "You could say the same thing, why?"

"Just now--" Fang Jingwei put his heart down a little, his smile becoming more and more elegant and warm, "I did make a not-so-successful confession, and was obviously rejected, and Lin Jian's reason for rejecting My reasoning was that he was not single."

Shen Ke stilled, his line of sight crossed Fang Jingwei and fell onto Lin Jian, whose face was already extremely ugly at this time, but he only slightly raised his eyebrows and said in a subtle tone, "...... Is that so?"

"Since you happened to stumble upon it, there is nothing I need to hide, and it just so happens that it is also considered to fall as a witness in front of his elders, so as not to let you have any misunderstandings about me." Fang Jingwei said nonchalantly, "Although Lin Jian is not single, I think ...... fair play is still possible."

"Fang Jingwei."

Lin Jian's face was completely gloomy, and already had the color of a storm coming, he heard the words and sprinted back, but was pulled to the side by Shen Ke.

"Don't get excited." Shen Ke pulled back the man with the cold gaze, and even said with a faint smile, "Instead, I'm a bit curious about how to play fair."

I didn't realize that Fang Jingwei is also a person who doesn't let water seep in, and smiled at this time and said, "That's between Lin Jian and me and that person, so I don't need Chairman Shen to ask."

"So." Shen Ke Surprisingly, there were a few regretful sighs in his tone, and after a moment, he nodded, "That's fine."

"By the way, is it convenient to ask?" Fang Jingwei smiled, "You are Lin Jian's ......"

"According to seniority, he called me a little uncle." Shen Ke replied in a warm voice.

"Oh, so." Fang Jingwei nodded in satisfaction after getting the general idea.

"But--" Shen Ke's voice turned, a slight pause, and then added with a smile, "That's a term of endearment for outsiders, in private, it's his boyfriend."

Lin Jian inclined his head to look over.

Fang Jingwei froze for a moment, his face abruptly becoming stunned beyond words.

"Sh, what ......" The man who had always been left and right froze and looked at Shen Ke, and for a moment he actually fought with his words, "You, it's you you, you guys... ..."

"That's why I'm curious, how are you going to compete with me fairly?" Shen Ke asked with a carefree demeanor and a light-hearted smile.

Fang Jingwei At this time has been shocked by this sudden turn of events to some of the human world in a trance, he sluggishly looked at the two people in front of him, half a long time can not say a word, stumbling for a long time, only to squeeze out a few words from the gap between the teeth, "You are not he ...... little uncle? "

"Uh, yeah." Shen Ke smiled highly, then asked, "Exciting, isn't it?"

Fang Jingwei: "......"

Lin Jian couldn't hold back and laughed very softly with his head inclined.

"Still competing?" Shen Ke asked warmly and courteously, signaling, "If we don t compete anymore, we go upstairs, his cousin ...... well, you can also call his little aunt, still waiting at home to call him a sister in law."

Fang Jingwei, bloodless, with trembling lips and terrified eyes, finally began to doubt the beautiful life.

"Farewell then."

Shen Ke smiled and nodded, then ignored the petrified people in the same place and took Lin Jian's shoulder and left in big strides.