Soft-centered strawberry cake

Chapter 64 Miss, are you testing me?

Monday mornings are always busy; two days' worth of documents and reports piled up on Pei Ming's desk.

The sky outside the window gradually turned gray, giving the feeling that it was about to rain but the rain wouldn't fall.

There was a knock on the office door three times, and then Du Lian opened the door and walked in.

Sitting in his chair at his desk, Pei Ming looked up at Du Lian and asked, "You're back from the planning and sales departments so soon?"

"I have some gossip to tell you urgently, so I have to hurry back to find you." Du Lian said this with a rather amusing smile on his face.

"This is a company, why are you gossiping during work hours?" Pei Ming ignored Du Lian and lowered his head to continue looking at the reports on the table.

"What if I said this gossip is about you, Miss, and President Meng?" Du Lian knew that Pei Ming would be interested as long as he mentioned Ming Weiyi.

Sure enough, upon hearing that Ming Weiyi was mentioned in the gossip, Pei Ming raised his head again, "Then stop being so mysterious and just say what you have to say."

"Someone just told me that on the night of the Ming Group charity gala, President Meng and you had a private discussion about cooperation, and she realized that President Meng is interested in you..."

"You can't just say things like that." Sensing that Du Lian's words were inappropriate, Pei Ming immediately interrupted him and gave him a warning look.

"Of course I wouldn't make things up, but someone said that Miss Meng was also there at the time, and she also noticed that President Meng was interested in you."

After Du Lian finished speaking, he looked at Pei Ming with an expression of watching a show.

As Du Lian finished speaking, Pei Ming's expression changed from serious to surprised.

Could it be that Weiwei was nearby when I was talking to Mengran that night? Why has she never mentioned it?
"No wonder she keeps mentioning President Meng to me lately. Is it because she thinks President Meng is interested in me?" Pei Ming finally realized that Ming Wei had been intentionally or unintentionally probing about Meng Ran in front of him.

"What did she mention about President Meng?" Du Lian asked curiously.

Pei Ming recalled the questions Ming Wei had asked him recently, and then he answered the key points: "She always asks me how my cooperation with President Meng is going. Once she even asked me how old President Meng is and whether she is pretty."

"Damn! Miss is testing you! She wants to find out how you feel about President Meng and how far your relationship has progressed." Du Lian immediately understood Ming Weiyi's intention, while Pei Ming, the person involved, seemed like a fool.

Pei Ming expressed his confusion, "Testing me? But my relationship with President Meng is purely professional, and President Meng doesn't seem to have any romantic feelings for me as she thinks."

If it's not there now, then it really was there back then!

Du Lian immediately realized that there were indeed things he didn't know, but Pei Ming did. However, none of that mattered, since Pei Ming's mind was entirely focused on Ming Weiyi.

"You're usually such a smart person, how come you become as stupid as a pig when you're around Miss Pei? I'm starting to doubt if your academic credentials are fake!" Du Lian was now looking at Pei Ming as if he were an idiot.

Faced with Du Lian's self-criticism, Pei Ming gave Du Lian a look that seemed to say, "Do you want to die?" and asked, "Don't you want to quit?"

"Miss Meng doesn't know that he's no longer interested in you. Is she testing you and him because she's bored? It's because she cares about you being her husband."

Du Lian was speechless. He never expected that Pei Ming, who was usually so intelligent, would be so stupid in love.

"Really?" Pei Ming's eyes lit up; he liked what Du Lian had just said. "Since Miss thinks President Meng is interested in you, why don't you play along and test her too?" Du Lian couldn't help but chuckle mischievously, clearly having already devised a plan.

“I’m increasingly convinced that you’re truly a talent.” Pei Ming understood what Du Lian meant, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Du Lian was anything but modest. With his hands in his pockets, he smiled and said, "So, you should cherish me. What will you do if I switch jobs someday?"

Even knowing Du Lian was joking, Pei Ming wouldn't let him get away with it. He deliberately asked Du Lian, "Qi Fei told you about today's incident, right?"

"Besides her, who else can gossip about you with the young lady?"

Pei Ming looked at Du Lian with a meaningful expression and said, "When did you and Qi Fei meet? You two seem to know each other quite well."

Pei Ming's eyes and tone made Du Lian immediately understand what he meant. Du Lian quickly denied it, saying, "We're not that close, don't overthink it."

"Hmm...hmm..." Pei Ming responded perfunctorily, but his eyes still held that look of someone watching the drama unfold.

"I'm too lazy to talk to you about this boring stuff. I'm going to work." Du Lian knew that there was no point in saying more, so he turned around and walked towards the door without saying a word.

Watching Du Lian's departing figure, Pei Ming thought to himself with satisfaction: You think you can control me? You'll be the one controlling me in no time.

At noon, as usual, Mingwei and Qifei came to the cafeteria together. However, several pairs of eyes were watching them from a distance.

Passerby A: "I think Qi Fei, who came to our sales department this morning, is quite pretty. I wonder if she has a boyfriend."

Passerby B: "She's pretty, but she became famous in our sales department because of her explosive temper. Who could stand her!"

Passerby C: "So, I think the one next to her is more suitable to pursue. She's beautiful, has a good temperament, and seems to have a much better temper."

The two men who had spoken earlier looked at the last person who had spoken. Passerby A said, "Several men pursued her as soon as she joined our company, but she rejected them all."

Passerby B added, "You've only been with our company for a short time, so it's understandable that you don't know the ropes."

"Then I'll give it a try. What if they just didn't want to be in a relationship back then, but now that they're of age, they feel it's time to be in one?"

Seeing his companion's confident demeanor, passerby B decided to give him his support, "You're younger than us, and you're handsome too, you still have a chance."

“Yes, I’ll ask someone I know in the planning department to find out about her for you. If she’s single, you should go after her,” Passerby A agreed.

"Okay, then I'll thank you both in advance."

After saying that, Passerby C glanced at Ming Weiyi, who was eating. He thought that with his education and looks, pursuing a girl from the planning department shouldn't be a problem.

Ming Wei and Qi Fei, who were not far away, had no idea that they had been discussed for a while by several men from the sales department. They only knew that it was mealtime and they should gossip while eating.

(End of this chapter)