Original illustration: Meow Meow Xia, narrator: Li Xiang, male
01
Hello everyone, I'm Li Xiang.
The story of Yuan Mei and I is quite interesting.
She meant to tell me what she had done and persuade me to quit.
To be honest, I was a little discouraged when I heard it, and I felt that I couldn't break the person she couldn't love.
At that moment, I was crazy with jealousy, but on the surface I pretended to be light.
As a result, once in the hospital, I ran to the safety exit to smoke a cigarette and ran into my dad.
He is the brain surgeon at this hospital and the most anti-smoker.
I instinctively threw away the cigarette butt and covered it with my feet.
My dad got straight to the point: "Broken out? ”
Me: "Who did you listen to?" ”
My dad: "You can't do anything at work, and even if you can't, you won't use smoking to relieve your boredom." I can't think of anything else but feelings. ”
My dad's eyes were as sharp as his scalpel, and I had to confess honestly: "It's not a broken love, I didn't catch up." ”
My dad: "My son is a good person, and he can't be wrong." If the person is not a married woman, you will continue to chase. Don't be bells and whistles, in this year when IQ and EQ are excessive, sincerity works best. ”
After saying that, my dad left in a hurry.
This wise old man is so cute.
02
It was my dad's words that brought me out of a mess of emotions.
What I love is Yuan Mei at the moment.
And the current Yuan Mei is composed of countless experiences in the past.
So, I have to face the past.
So, I did my homework, just like I do every business war.
I consulted a Ph.D. in psychology who graduated from Peking University, and his words really pointed out the maze and made me overjoyed.
I later ran to Yuan Mei and said those words of salt on the wounds, which was actually a translation of the words of the doctor of psychology in my own words.
Indeed, she does not love the person she once was, but to whitewash those who used to be in the way that she still loves him.
For me, she's single, she's scarred inside, and that's the biggest good.
03
So, I listened to my father's admonition and be sincere.
For Yuan Mei, I do not hide my love and ambition at all.
It's like she asked me, "You really don't mind if I ever loved a married man?" ”
My reply was, "Mind me, but if I were you, in your early twenties, with such a charismatic boss, I would be a fawn." Therefore, I want to thank Lao Chen, a righteous gentleman, and your timely withdrawal, otherwise, there would be nothing to do with me. In time, I will be a different old Chen, but I am younger than him and single. The important thing is that I like you, seriously. ”
And love, the most important thing is action.
04
After I started pursuing Yuan Mei, I worked ten times harder than before.
At that time, I set myself the goal of benchmarking my performance against Yuan Mei's head office.
For this reason, it is almost all year round.
In addition, while cultivating the team around me, I also tested the waters to be a corporate training lecturer for individual brother units.
The consulting fee is one thing, but the important thing is that the process of lecturing is actually a learning process, which is of great help to correct errors and upgrade one's own business management.
Of course, I have another layer of selfishness.
Whether compared to Lao Chen or Yuan Mei, who once cultivated me with my heart, I am a little inferior.
It's just that after the ups and downs of the workplace over the years, I have slowly found a way to redeem myself: healthy inferiority is to compare myself with my ideal self, rather than competing with others in a senseless competition.
05
When I did the training for the third time, I invited Yuan Mei over.
Before she went, she just thought she was going to visit another company.
When I arrived, I realized that I was actually doing "private work".
That day, after listening to the whole training, she asked me, "What's going on?" ”
I asked, "How's it going?" ”
Yuan Mei said: "It's good. ”
I just smiled and said, "It's official, it's not like your style." ”
Sure enough, Yuan Mei took out her mobile phone and let me read the memo, which contained the records she made: "Oh, these are quite inspiring, very good." ”
That's her style.
Then, we went to dinner together.
She asked me, "Why do you want to come out and be a lecturer?" ”
I told the truth: "I was brought out by you, and the style of talking and running a company is very similar to yours." Coming out to be a lecturer, you need to constantly input new skills, I want to challenge, I want to be blue, I want to be your upgraded version, I think one day, I can also call you Mr. Yuan to call you Xiao Yuan. ”
Yuan Mei smiled: "Really, you can go to cross talk with this rhyme." ”
Me: "If you like, I can learn." ”
After that day, I privately called Yuan Mei "Xiao Yuan." ”
She also cooperated, calling me "Lao Li." ”
Don't underestimate this nickname, it's a big step in the progress of our relationship.
06
At work, Yuan Mei has guided me more.
And in life, I began to influence her quite schemingly.
I bought a pair of kitchen supplies, said it was a friend and gave it to her.
Delivered to her house, I will cook for her without saying a word.
In fact, when I was a child, my parents were busy, and since I was 9 years old, I often cook and eat by myself.
However, when I was cooking for Yuan Mei, I pretended to ask for advice, but I actually wanted her to participate in the fireworks life.
Just a dish of sour and hot shredded potatoes, she successfully learned her first specialty dish after Huo Huo had seven or eight potatoes.
For this reason, I posted a circle of friends: The teacher is famous.
Later, after renovating her kitchen, I added a lot of things to her "four walls".
Foster a tank of fish, because Yuan Mei once said that her biggest wish when she was a child was to raise tropical fish, but her parents were firmly opposed.
When there is a fish, it is often in the name of visiting the fish to visit the hostess.
During this period, I also dared to give her a double bed that was very expensive and I was not willing to use it myself.
Yuan Mei said: "Really, I've never heard of giving gifts and giving double beds." ”
I said, "Now you know, there are people like that." As for me, I am more practical, and those who can't occupy you should occupy your bed first. ”
In this way, I kept entering my "cronies" into Yuan Mei's house. ”
It also allows her to pay more attention to the present moment in her spare time, a bowl of vegetables, a fish with a head and tail, and a completely relaxed sleep......
07
Once, I was on a business trip to Nanjing and received a call from Yuan Mei in the middle of the night.
There was a distinctly nasal tone in her tone: "Li Xiang......"
I thought that if the woman could deign to call me late at night, it must be a very difficult problem at work, and it must be a big deal.
But I'm narrow-minded after all.
It turned out that when Yuan Mei went out in the morning, she forgot to close the window.
As a result, Beijing cooled down that day, and when she came home from overtime in the evening, the heat pump was not turned on, and the tropical fish that had been blowing cold wind for a day were hanging.
At the beginning of her description, she struggled to maintain her usual calmness.
But, as she spoke, her voice began to choke.
When she finally finished telling the ins and outs of the matter, she simply stopped pretending and cried completely.
沉默。
I've been silent.
Until Yuan Mei couldn't help it and asked me, "Don't you comfort me?" ”
I didn't just want to comfort her, if she was in front of me, I would not say a word, and take advantage of the situation to embrace her.
But I have a lot of eyes.
The distress is distressed, but what he said in his mouth was: "Yuan Mei, you owe me nine fish lives." ”
At the mention of fish life, Yuan Mei became more and more grief-stricken: "Li Xiang, are you so unsympathetic? ”
I said with a straight face: "Xiao Yuan, you have finally lived a little like a person." ”
Yuan Mei: "What do you mean?" ”
"I mean, before, your joys and sorrows were only for work, but now you can grieve for the fate of a few fish."
Yuan Mei: "Am I as ruthless as you say?" ”
Me: "It's not ruthless, it's a monotonous life." ”
08
Then, I rushed back to Beijing the next day.
Together with Yuan Mei, the fish were buried, and she was half an hour late for work.
After she arrived at the unit, she sent me a WeChat message: Li Xiang, I feel like I was tricked by you. After working for so many years, it was incredible that I was late for the first time because I had to hold a funeral for a few fish...... (Face cover meme)
I replied to her: "Xiao Yuan, to live, you need a little entertainment, be an adult in the wind and rain, and we will be children in the sun." At work, you be my mentor, and in life, learn from me slowly. You are welcome! ”
Yuan Mei replied to me: "Thank you." ”
09
In April 2022, I led my team to win the largest order in the company's history.
Even the president of the company, who has been away for many years, flew back from Switzerland and threw me a grand celebration.
At that celebration meeting, I confessed to Yuan Mei in public.
And this time, I was almost so tired that I vomited blood to take the order, in fact, it was also my resignation letter.
The company has a rule that employees are not allowed to fall in love.
Especially two executives like us, that is even more allowed, and it violates the taboo of the industry.
Therefore, while officially announcing my love, I promised everyone: "After I leave, I will change my career to do corporate training, and within five years, I will no longer engage in careers related to our company's business." Although I am a love brain, there are still at least non-compete rules and professional norms. Please rest assured of this. ”
At that moment, everyone's eyes turned to Yuan Mei.
As for me, I was actually ready to be rejected by her in public.
10
Who knows, she walked to the front desk generously and took the microphone in my hand:
"Thank you for witnessing, thank you to the company for letting me solve the problem of food and clothing for my career, and even let me be in my thirties and gain a sister-brother relationship. At this moment, I need a little blessed applause, can I? ”
That's great.
I joined everyone and slapped my hands red.
As a result, the boss reminded me: "At this time, you still need to applaud here, shouldn't you hug your beautiful sister?" ”
11
The matter between me and Yuan Mei blew up in the circle that night.
Her WeChat and phone turned into hotlines in seconds.
There was no way, so she had to forward a unified reply: Well, you guessed it right, I took advantage of my position to capture my younger brother and hug the handsome guy.
At the back, there are three roses.
I asked her, "Is that good?" ”
She: "It's very good, spread your own gossip, go other people's way, so that others have no way out." Hey, hey, hey......"
This, really Yuan Mei.
Later, I asked her, "When did you start accepting me from your heart?" ”
She replied honestly: "When you were in the hospital, when you poured salt on my wound, it hurt and refreshed. Later, that day, the doctor told me to walk on the ground and exhaust gas. I stopped by the bathroom and found that the corners of my mouth were raised in the mirror......"
At that moment, she said that she was sure that the person who made her laugh when she thought about it was love.
12
Before taking Yuan Mei home to meet her parents, I wanted to do some foreshadowing.
After all, for them, being seven years older, still needs a little psychological construction.
Who knows, I just said, "Mom and Dad, there is something I want to tell you", and my parents smiled mysteriously: "Finally I want to meet my parents, let's say, how big do you need a red envelope?" ”
Me: "How do you know?" Two people who still can't understand the joke have been discovered by you for such a big thing? ”
My mom couldn't speak.
She said: "In the past two years, you have worked and studied hard, the last time you worked so hard, it was still when you took the high school entrance examination, for the girl who had much better grades than you, what is it called......"
I...... (Don't ask me what happened to that girl, after I went to high school, she had a boy she liked).
13
Fortunately, my dad was empathetic and quickly interrupted my mom: "What your mother means is that as long as it is a girl that her son recognizes, it must be excellent and worthwhile." ”
My mother also realized that she was seriously off-topic, so she pulled the topic back: "Yes, in the past two years, seeing that you have lived so full and motivated, my parents know that my son must have met the right person." ”
When I saw that things were going so well, I directly threw out my own question: "Well, she is very good, I love her very much, she is seven years older than me." ”
My Dad: "As long as you think it's okay, that's not a problem. ”
However, my mother was silent in an instant.
I looked at her.
My mom thought about it and thought, "I have the same meaning as your father, but I want to find a better and more auspicious way to say it." …… Female Big Seven...... The seven female college students are good, two and a third of gold bricks. Hahaha. ”
My mom is really a primary school math teacher!
It is worth mentioning that when my mother met Yuan Mei, she talked deeply, and still told me about my high school entrance examination as a female student bully and my successful counterattack on key high schools.
As a result, I also have the title of "love brain" in Yuan Mei.
I was disrespectful and obeyed her statement: "Books are the ladder of human progress, and I am different from you human beings, love is." ”
14
As for the parents I met with Yuan Mei, it was much more serious.
I was asked to bring my tax certificate and police clearance certificate to my parents-in-law.
I later learned that they had done a background check on my parents in advance.
Really, this review is as detailed and cautious as the procedures before the company goes public.
Fortunately, I can still stand the test.
As lawyers, they are like this, the review stage, that is called a harsh, everything is guilty.
And once the assessment is passed, it is really necessary to protect the calves more than the calves, and even Yuan Mei asked me to quit smoking, and the prospective parents-in-law interceded from it: "He doesn't drink or gamble, what's wrong with smoking?" This is your boyfriend, not your employee, put away your domineering female president's face. ”
Yuan Meihuo: "Aren't you super against smoking?" ”
Yuan Mei's father: "Now that I'm older, I'm not so dogmatic." As the old saying goes, people have no habits and cannot make friends, and they have no affection. ”
Yuan Mei: "I'm afraid that lawyers are educated, it's terrible......"
15
On January 1, 2024, Yuan Mei and I got married.
After marriage, she continued to work in the original company as her vigorous and domineering female president.
As for me, in a new industry, I am slowly starting.
Seeing me start everything from scratch, Yuan Mei's conscience hurt a little: "If it weren't for me, you would still be the suave little Mr. Li now." ”
As for me, my ability is not long, but my face has become richer and richer: "I am doing corporate training now, and when you are pregnant, I want to enter the maternal and infant market and early education market." Anyway, with you, the president's wife, as a backer, I will slowly develop towards the field of super dad. ”
My words are true.
"Marrying" Yuan Mei, watching her constantly update herself every day, I have no pressure, only love.
I told myself that if I marry her, let her continue to be that wind-like woman, and I, to be the man who is as calm as the clouds, and under her leadership, combine my career with the baby.
She is outside the Lord, and I am in the Lord.
Yuan Mei asked me, "Aren't you wronged?" It's like you've been cutting your feet between us. ”
I replied to her in seconds: "Happy people give way first." ”
16
Now, Yuan Mei is 10 weeks pregnant.
We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of this little life.
Our goal is to actively respond to the national policy and strive to have three children within eight years.
Time is tight, the task is heavy, we will both work hard.
I hope to get everyone's blessings!
That's it, I hope that in a few years, we will have the opportunity to come here again and tell the story of having children in the family.