Chapter 33: It Was You All Along!

  As soon as Zhang Ziheng entered the house, he was attracted by the clean and tidy environment inside. He had never seen such a beautiful house before. From the living room to the bedroom, and then to the kitchen, everything seemed to be in order, neat and tidy, feeling not like a home for one person, but more like a perfect work of art.

  Seeing Zhang Ziheng's stunned expression, Director Xu chuckled and said: "Don't stare blankly, sit down. Want to drink something? Juice or cola? My home only has these two kinds of drinks."

  "Huh? Oh, just Coke is fine, I like drinking Coke." Zhang Ziheng carefully sat down and smiled, afraid of polluting this clean environment.

  Xu smiled and nodded, taking out two cans of Coke from the refrigerator and placing them on the coffee table. Then he said: "You sit down first, I'll go change into a set of clothes."

  "Ah, thank you Sister Xu." Zhang Ziheng nodded and smiled.

  Before long, Director Xu changed into a set of white home clothes and appeared in front of Zhang Ziheng, looking like an angel, and couldn't help but stun Zhang Ziheng.

  "What are you looking at? Don't you like it?" Xu smiled and said.

  "It's not that it's not good-looking, it's just too good-looking. Sister Xu, I found out that you look great in whatever clothes you wear." Zhang Ziheng said sincerely.

  "Really? Thank you." Xu smiled happily.

  "Xu Jie, are you living alone now?" Zhang Ziheng asked.

  "What's wrong?"

  Zhang Ziheng shook his head in disbelief and said, "It's really unexpected. You live alone and yet the house is so clean, it doesn't quite look like a single woman lives here. Xu Jie, do you like doing household chores?"

  Xu smiled and said, "Actually, I'm very lazy and don't like doing household chores at all. It's just that I'm sensitive to dust, and as soon as my nose detects it, I start sneezing nonstop. So look, I've placed two air purifiers in the living room and another one in the bedroom."

  "Oh, I see. Right, Sister Xu, I've come to you, won't I be disturbing you?" Zhang Ziheng asked with a smile.

  "Haha, how could that be? I'm thrilled and it's not enough. Do you know? It's been a long time since friends came to my house. Every day after work, as soon as I come back, I feel empty. The whole house is just me, without even someone to chat with. During holidays, it's even worse, don't know what to do with myself, isn't that miserable?" Xu shook his head and smiled.

  Zhang Ziheng nodded and continued: "Then Xu Jie, don't you usually go out with friends? For example, shopping, eating, dancing and so on?"

  Xu shook his head and smiled, saying: "To be honest, I don't have many friends left except for you. When I was with Song Fan before, he had a lot of friends, so my friends were also his friends, and the others were just some classmates. But after that incident happened, I cut off contact with them, maybe because I was afraid of getting hurt again, haha."

  "Sister Xue, don't worry, I will always be your friend and never hurt you, I promise." Zhang Ziheng said seriously.

  "Hehe, thank you. By the way, what would you like to eat? I'll make it for you, my cooking skills are still pretty good." said Xu.

  "Really? Well, thank you for your trouble. I'll eat anything, so just make something simple." Zhang Ziheng said with a smile.

  "This is what you said, so I'll just do as I please." Xu said as he walked into the kitchen.

  Half an hour later, Zhang Ziheng stared at the dishes on the table with wide eyes and was stunned. The originally not very small dinner table was now filled with all kinds of dishes, he carefully checked them one by one, a total of ten dishes and one soup, really couldn't believe how Xu Jie could make so many.

  Looking at his dazed expression, Director Xu chuckled and said: "Come on, give me the bowl, I'll serve you some rice."

  Zhang Ziheng nodded and mechanically handed the bowl to her, saying: "Xu Jie, you... what are you doing? Is this what you meant by 'do as you please'? This is a feast! Even if it's just the two of us eating, we won't be able to finish it in a day."

  Xu smiled and put the bowl full of rice in front of him, saying: "To be honest, although I cook for myself every day when I come back, I'm not happy at all because it's always just me eating alone. Now that you're here, I'll treat you well, so just humor me and eat a bit more, okay?"

  Zhang Ziheng shook his head and smiled, feeling that Xu Jie's current appearance was quite cute, like a little girl. "Okay, I'll try my best. Hmm... let me see, what is this? Looks pretty delicious."

  "This? This is the Ants Climbing a Tree dish I made, try it and see how it tastes." Mr. Xu said as he opened a bottle of red wine, about to pour some for Zhang Ziheng.

  "Ah, Sister Xu, you..."

  "Oh, sorry, sorry. Look at my memory, I get excited and forget. You can't drink alcohol. Okay, I'll drink alone, but you have to eat more dishes." Mr. Xu said as he poured himself a glass.

  Zhang Ziheng smiled and nodded, then looked again and said: "Sister Xu, do you like to eat mushrooms very much? Why are there mushrooms in four dishes?"

  "No, this is specially made for you. This mushroom has a lung-cleansing effect. I see that you always smoke, so I made a bit more. You must eat more of it." Xu said with a smile.

  Zhang Ziheng looked at the table of dishes and suddenly felt a sense of home. Seeing Xu Jie's happy expression, his heart was also very happy. This meal took a long time to eat, during which the two chatted and laughed, having a great time. Xu Jie was so happy that he drank a bit too much, while Zhang Ziheng took charge of eating, finishing most of the dishes on the table. In the end, he really couldn't eat anymore, his belly bulging out, looking like it was about to burst.

  Looking at his slightly comical appearance, Director Xu's face turned slightly red as he smiled and said: "How is it? Are you full? Is it delicious?"

  Zhang Ziheng patted his belly and sighed, "It's not just that I'm full, I'm about to burst. Sister Xu, I really can't eat anymore, I've tried my best."

  "Haha, thank you, go sit down and take a rest for a while, I'll clean up." said Director Xu.

  "Let me help you now, I didn't assist when you were doing it earlier. Now let me clean up." Zhang Ziheng said as he stood up.

  "Never mind, you don't have to do it. These are things women should be doing anyway. Why don't you go online in my room instead? There's a computer there." With that, Director Xu walked into the kitchen with the plate.

  With Zhang Ziheng's personality, he must be willing to help, but he really ate too much and didn't want to move anymore, so he listened to Xu's words and went online.

  Twenty minutes later, Director Xu finally finished collecting his things and walked into the room with a slightly swaying body. He saw Zhang Ziheng surfing the internet and smiled as he walked over, saying: "Hmph, it seems my capacity for liquor has decreased. In the past, I could drink two bottles of red wine without issue, but today I only had one bottle and I'm already feeling a bit drunk."

  Looking at Xu Jie's appearance, Zhang Ziheng smiled and said: "Xu Jie, it seems like you're in a good mood today."

  Xu sat down and smiled: "You don't know what it's like for a divorced woman to live alone, just like I said before. When you're alone, it can be really lonely. Actually, my requirements aren't high, as long as there's someone to accompany me and chat with me, that's enough. So every day after work, I go online and chat with others, which makes things a bit better."

  "Really? What's your QQ number, Sister Xu? I'll add you, so if you want to chat with someone, you can find me." Zhang Ziheng said with a smile.

  "Alright, wait a minute, I'll log in to QQ." Mr. Xu smiled slightly and logged into his QQ account.

  Zhang Ziheng took a look and found that there were more than 200 friends, divided into six or seven groups. "Xu Jie, you have quite a few friends," he said as he opened Xu's QQ personal profile and looked carefully, stunned for a moment. "Jiajia? Xu Jie, your net name is Jiajia?"

  "What's wrong?" asked Director Xu.

  "Oh, nothing, just feels like I've seen her somewhere before. Ah, I remember I have a net friend also named Jiajia, I chatted with her before." Zhang Ziheng said as he opened his QQ and found the female net friend from his group list, "Hey, Xu sister look, she's still online."

  Sister Xu took a look, was slightly stunned for a moment, then looked carefully again, and exclaimed in surprise: "You're the one who's been with me my whole life?"

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Ziheng said, opening the female netizen's personal information again. After a closer look, he found that it was exactly the same as Xu Jie's information, and he was also stunned.

  "Really?" The two looked at each other and said in unison.

  But Zhang Ziheng still didn't dare to believe it, so he sent a QQ smiley face expression to the female netizen, and Xu's QQ immediately reacted. He opened it and found that it was indeed his own QQ message.

  "Xu Jie, are you Jia Jia?" Zhang Ziheng asked incredulously.

  "Ah, it's you! My god, this...this is too coincidental!" Xu Zong was now quite sober and stared at the screen in disbelief.

  Zhang Ziheng chuckled and said, "Alright, Sister Xu, you deceived me. You actually said online that you're the boss of a clothing store, and even said it was women's clothing. I totally believed you."

  Xu smiled awkwardly, then seemed to think of something and continued: "What about you? Didn't you deceive me too? You said you worked at a real estate company, and that you had a crush on..." Xu suddenly stopped talking, remembering that Zhang Ziheng had told her on QQ that he had a crush on the manager of his department, and at that time, he was still in the design department, which meant that the person he liked was actually herself.

  As soon as Xu saw the general, he suddenly stopped speaking, and Zhang Ziheng also thought of it immediately, hurriedly turning his head to dare not look at her. The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, with neither of them daring to look at each other, as if once they made eye contact, something would happen. At the same time, Zhang Ziheng's heart was beating non-stop and getting faster and faster, his emotions were extremely tense, and his face turned red.

  Seeing him like this, Xu Zong didn't know why, but he also felt his heart beating faster, and at the same time, he felt a little happy.