Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Accidents and Coincidences

Destiny makes the best use of chance and necessity, using a slender rope to pull two people together, which is simply superb. On the way back, Qiao Xining asked the driver to turn up the air conditioner to the maximum, and said to us: "Compared with the previous interviews, it feels like a layer of skin has been peeled." Sister Min glanced at him, "It's not enough to rely on her family background to make the show so successful, she naturally has something unique." I asked, "What's the background of her family?" Sister Min laughed, "It's rare that you don't know something. Usually you just move your finger, and the truth will come to light."

I muttered: "There is no background introduction of her on the public website, so I don't need to look it up." Sister Min raised a finger, "Most of the five-star hotels in this city have An's shares." Qiao Xining snorted, "No wonder he is so powerful, he dares to ask anything during the interview." I also suddenly realized.With such a background, it’s no wonder that there is almost nothing about her origin and family on the public Internet—I didn’t find anything when I searched roughly, and I wasn’t attached to it, and the keywords were always aimed at her hosting style.

Although it is the information age, it is not too difficult for someone to deliberately conceal their information.For example, there are quite a few companies like this that specialize in helping people clear their personal information online.This is the height of magic, and the height of Tao. Where there is demand, there is a market. We ate on the way back to the record company. I really couldn't stop. During the meal, I reminded Qiao Xining of the important meeting in the afternoon-this meeting was about the positioning of his new album.The record market is sluggish, not only in China, but also in the world, but releasing records is a singer's job.With records, there are concerts, commercial performances, advertisements, etc.

I don’t need to be present for this kind of meeting. I report to the director first when I go back. After getting Qiao Xining’s itinerary for the next week from him, I entered the plan into the computer and forwarded it to Qiao Xining’s mobile phone, and went to the tea room to make a cup of coffee. It was afternoon tea time, and there were many people in the tea room, which was very lively. Where there are many people, there will always be a lot of talk, and all kinds of rumors are flying everywhere.It is said that 70% of the rumors in each company come from the tea room. Although I have not calculated it scientifically, I am convinced of it.

In the past two months or so, I followed Qiao Xining on tour in major cities. I didn’t have much time in the company. When I heard them talk about various artists, I felt that there was nothing to talk about.Qiao Xining was very popular and in the limelight, and many assistants inquired about the news with me. Sister Min said before that you don’t need to pay attention to them, and she taught me how to pretend to be deaf and dumb, but I still struggled to cope. I returned to my seat leisurely with my coffee in hand, turned on the computer and browsed the technical forums I often go to, and seriously thought about resigning.

Until my elder brother's phone call woke me up from thinking, he said to have dinner together at night.He has reserved a table at the restaurant. I pretended to be happy and smiled obsequiously, "Brother, you are back from a business trip? You have worked hard." He ignored my greetings, looked at me for a moment in the video, and said with a wooden face, "I'll introduce you to a friend tonight." "Eh? What kind of wind is blowing?" My eyes were filled with gossip, "Girlfriend?" His expression changed. I wowed, "I'm going to have a sister-in-law."

"It's still early." Although what the eldest brother said was a negative sentence, it was a tacit attitude—this is really rare.He actually wanted to introduce a woman to me. My half-brother, Du Zhe, who is ten years older than me, is thirty-five years old this year, with a gleaming resume.Six months ago, he took over his father's accounting firm and became the largest partner and CEO of Shengxuan Accounting Firm. He has a rigorous attitude towards life, and when he sets a goal, he will find ways to accomplish it—eighteen hours of the 24 hours a day are dedicated to his career.Other than that, other activities are almost zero, no movies, no TV, no time-wasting books.The eldest brother has insight into the current situation of global finance and is familiar with the operating mechanism of various industries. He has made friends with leaders of large companies in various industries and can accurately predict the trend of the global economy, but the marriage has been delayed until now.

My mother, who is traveling around the world, said the most common sentence: Obviously your father and I love to talk and laugh, why did you give birth to a wooden face like your elder brother?Alas, I can't even find my wife. I think my mother worries too much.With a talent like my eldest brother, why can't you find a girlfriend?When I first returned to China last year, I went to Shengxuan to assess the company's network security situation. After the end, my eldest brother's assistant handed me a fashion magazine mysteriously.This magazine made a ranking list of the city's diamond kings and elder brothers, and the eldest brother ranked eighth, ten out of ten golden bachelors.

I got to the hotel on time - my older brother hates being unpunctual. The eldest brother is like a father, and his existence is similar to that of my father to me. At the entrance of the hall, I checked my clothes in the mirror before entering the hall.It was time to eat, and people came one after another in the lobby of the hotel, but fortunately, the dining tables were far apart and separated by the indoor courtyard, so the environment was excellent. I greeted my eldest brother with a smile, and he asked me to sit on the third sofa next to the table.He was wearing a dark gray suit and a striped tie, which set off his imposing eyebrows.

I turned my face away to look at the woman opposite him, who was also dressed in business attire, with light makeup on, and a black and white handbag on the sofa.The facial features are very beautiful, although she can't be called an all-powerful beauty, she is still pleasing to the eye. When she smiles, her eyes bend into crescent moons, and there are shallow pear dimples.That's right, she is the type that my elder brother likes. It doesn't matter if she is beautiful or not, but she must be well-educated, intelligent and approachable. The eldest brother introduced to us, "My friend Yao Yao and my younger sister Du Li."

Since she is my eldest brother's girlfriend, she is likely to become my future sister-in-law, so it is necessary for me to establish a good relationship with her now.So I smiled and called her: "Sister Yao." "Oh, your mouth is so sweet, it's not the same as your big brother." Yao Yao smiled, "I'll call you Ali just like your big brother, okay?" "no problem." She took a look at me and said to my elder brother: "Du Zhe, you brothers and sisters... how should I put it, they look different." That's right.My elder brother looks like my father, with a standard face shape and regular features; while I have completely inherited my mother's baby face. Although I am twenty-five years old, I am often regarded as a high school student.During the years of studying abroad, every time after I finished programming, I went out to drink with the seniors and juniors of the same school. I was always the only one whose ID was checked. The situation in China is much better-of course, I think this is also related to my long-term stay at home. The waiter handed Yao Yao and me the menu, and I immersed myself in studying the menu. My elder brother asked me: "How is your work recently?" I said vaguely: "It's okay." I dare not tell my eldest brother that I plan to resign.Three months ago, my eldest brother said that the job of a celebrity assistant is not easy to do. If I can do it for three months, he will be greatly surprised.He sees me very accurately, but I must never let him know that he is right, and then he will definitely laugh at me again. But my ambiguity is already the answer for the eldest brother.He pushed Tang towards Sister Yao, "I don't think it's very good." I couldn't hide it, so I pouted and muttered, "I can't hide it from you." Yao Yao ordered, and asked, "What does Ah Li do?" The eldest brother put a blank face, "Ask her." I smiled embarrassingly, "Oh...it's a celebrity assistant..." She chuckled, "Follow who?" I said dryly, "... Qiao Xining." She yelled, and said with a face: "Really? I like him quite a lot. He sings well and dances beautifully. His two recent records are really good. No wonder his popularity is getting higher and higher." Thankfully, she didn't scoff at my career and let me find a little sense of professional fulfillment.I have a great impression of her.My sister-in-law naturally wants such a considerate person. "Being an assistant is very tiring, especially for a popular celebrity. It's hard for you to do this job." Yao Yao smiled and sighed, "However, you are so outstanding and a young lady, don't you think you are overqualified?" Alas, this thing is simply my heart hate. After I received my Ph.D. degree last year, I suddenly felt that it was not very interesting to stay on campus all the time, so I joined the R&D department of Nove, one of the largest software companies in the world.I have done an internship here before, and I got along well with the company during the internship, and they kindly invited me to join them.It has been less than a month since I officially started working. When I analyzed the system, I found that the latest computer assigned by the company had actually been implanted with a very hidden monitoring plug-in. There is a small file that is not noticeable that will secretly record your keyboard. Every operation is fed back to the terminal—I am furious, I have always monitored others, how can I tolerate being monitored by others? Then I found out that everyone in the R&D department has this plug-in in their computers. I informed the colleagues in the R&D department of this amazing discovery. No programmer can tolerate this kind of thing. Everyone revolted and went to the vice president. The vice president talked to me personally, and first praised me for being excellent: I am the first person to discover this secret in such a huge company with nearly 50,000 employees all over the world.But no matter how good I am, I will inevitably be dismissed. I fully accept the dismissal. I didn't want to work here anymore, so I just packed up and went back to China. After the eldest brother learned the truth about my resignation, he severely criticized me, saying that I was too naive, and the first reaction to such a thing was to consult with him.He felt that I should pretend to be deaf and dumb, and quietly negotiate with the boss with evidence to get a bargaining chip for a salary increase.And I chose to disclose the secrets to the public. This is the most taboo thing for Boss. I really lack work experience. If there is a lack, then there is a lack. I don't want to look for a job anymore. When I returned to China, I stayed at home happily as a Soho family. Most of my work was introduced by friends who had cooperated with me when I was studying, and part of it was introduced by my senior Xiao Yang. I mainly do security assessments for government departments, banks, and large companies.Generally speaking, they have extremely high requirements for the confidentiality of computers, and often require experts to do security assessments. My job is to find every loophole in databases, firewalls, identity authentication, and access control protocols, so as to prevent hackers from taking advantage of them. opportunity. This job is quite free and the income is very considerable.It's just that the working hours are not stable. When you are not busy, you can sleep all day long. When you are busy, you can kill half your life. I have lived like this for more than half a year, and I feel that my life is very nourishing. But my brother doesn't think so. One day two and a half months ago, my eldest brother suddenly kicked open my door uninvited and gave me a surprise attack - he had just taken over my father's company and had a lot of work, so he usually wouldn't take the initiative to bother me.At that time, I had just finished an important case, so my image was not very good.The house was in a mess, there were some leftover boxes on the dining table after eating takeaways, I didn’t eat and only drank water for two full days, I was dressed in pajamas, floating around the house like a ghost. The eldest brother was furious, his eyes almost made a hole in me, he slapped the table and shouted: "You are like this, it is not surprising that you die at home anytime!" In order to save the unhealthy and depraved me, he made a unilateral decision-I need a stable job from 9 to 5. On the second day, he told me with a blank face that he had arranged an office for me in Shengxuan, and I commuted to and from get off work with him every day, and ate together—so that my three meals were at least guaranteed, and I would not starve to death . Go to Shengxuan to work! ?I froze for a second and then flatly refused.I don't know anything about accounting work and I don't want to know it. Why occupy an office for nothing? My argument was very reasonable, and my elder brother agreed, and said that if I don't want to occupy an office for nothing, I will work in Shengxuan's information technology department. My face turned into a bitter gourd.Since my father discovered the computer talent in me, in the past few years, I have been doing system security assessment for Shengxuan to ensure the security of their database and network environment - so I know the working environment there very well.After all, a programmer is only a marginal figure in a financial company, and it is not important. The only thing he can do every day is to repair the computer and install software, which is useless.The most important thing is that being watched by the big brother every day is not fun at all! Qiao Xining appeared at this time and saved me from the fire and water. After all, we have been friends for many years. We will contact each other every month, and it is usually he who asks me for help.This time I complained to him, and he had a flash of inspiration and gave me an idea, "Why don't you come to work here? I just need an assistant." "what?" "My former assistant is about to get married and needs a new one urgently." He said, "As my assistant, the working hours are flexible. As long as I rest, you can definitely rest. By the way, don't you like Zhang Wei'an very much? He has five relationships with our company." Zhang record contract, come to be my assistant, you can often see him in person. And I promise, I will never abuse you!" Zhang Wei'an, the leading composer and soundtrack master in China, plays the piano well, and his albums are classics.I like him very much. When programming, all his piano music flows from the stereo. So, I was tempted and thought silently, "Anyway, my brother will let me find a job." So I became Qiao Xining's assistant—at least I chose this job, didn't I? I would rather do a job that has nothing to do with computers than go to Shengxuan.Of course, this idea cannot be told to the elder brother anyway. I hid my slander against Shengxuan, and told my future sister-in-law implicitly about this experience, she was overjoyed, "I see. Du Zhe, you are really kind to Ah Li." The eldest brother said with a wooden face, "I only have one younger sister." After all, my elder brother still cared about me the most, and I nodded like a chick eating rice. He glanced at me, "Your current job is not a long-term solution after all." He's right, and I agree.But what to do next, I have no idea.The eldest brother is a traditional person, and always feels that everyone needs a job. The eldest brother looked at me, "Do you have any plans?" I hesitated for a moment, "Well, I haven't made up my mind yet. I don't think any job can lift my spirits, and it doesn't feel fresh or challenging at all." My elder brother asked me: "What do you think is fresh and challenging?" "I can't say well..." Yao Yao said softly: "Let Ah Li think about it, don't be in a hurry. With Ah Li's ability, any company will open the door to welcome her." With a soft word, the eldest brother's expression eased, and he did not mention it again. this topic. I think the eldest brother really likes her. A meal was enjoyable.Yao Yao is really an interesting person, well-informed and knows everything. When we were eating fruit, I exchanged contact information with her. I took her business card and studied it, "Is sister Yao a lawyer?" "Yes," she nodded, "my law firm has cooperation with Sheng Xuan." I sipped the pineapple and asked, "How did you and Big Brother meet?" "Yeah," she laughed, "that's a year ago." I opened my eyes wide and listened intently to the story. Two years ago, when my eldest brother was on a business trip abroad, he met Yao Yao in a hotel who was still studying law at a nearby university. The elevator broke down, and the two adults were trapped in the dark elevator. They happened to be compatriots, so they got acquainted; A year later, the two met again by coincidence at the airport and exchanged phone numbers, but neither of them seemed to be in touch deliberately; and recently, one month ago, the law firm where Sheng Xuan and Yao Yao worked formed a partnership. Partner. Even I thought the process of this encounter sounded very romantic.A year ago, the two of them knew nothing about each other, but fate cleverly played the chance and necessity to the fullest, using a slender rope to pull the two people together, which is simply superb. I said, "Brother, the process of your acquaintance is simply a mathematical miracle." Yao Yao opened her eyes wide, "Mathematics?" I said: "Yes. There are seven billion people in the world. It is a small probability event that you meet in the same elevator; and then you meet in the same airport. This is also a small probability event..." I took out my notebook, " Let me do the math." The eldest brother shook his head, "Okay." So I stopped forgetting, and concluded: "I think I can only use the word 'fate' to describe it." Yao Yao pursed her lips and smiled, "I was muttering at the time, why is it always him?" The eldest brother glanced at Yao Yao, with a slight smile on his face.I sighed with emotion: Big brother actually smiled, really rare to see.This kind of fate that has lasted for several years, even a wood like my elder brother, I am afraid that he will be moved by his thoughts. I'm by the window, so I can see the corridor.The waiter opened the door, and a man and a woman came in. I was taken aback immediately, thinking how could it be such a coincidence today—it was Shen Qinyan and An Lu. Both of them are tall and slender, dressed in plain and casual clothes, and they look like a real couple.It's just that the clothes they are wearing are not the same as what I saw during the day. Without looking sideways, they walked towards the corner dining table in whispers. Shen Qinyan opened the chair for An Lu to sit down, then took her coat and handed it to the waiter, and sat down opposite her.I could just see his broad back. Afterwards, the waiter respectfully handed Shen Qinyan the menu, he gently waved his hand away, said something casually, the waiter understood and bowed to leave. "Know those two people?" My elder brother asked me. It was only then that I realized that I had been watching them for too long, so I quickly came back to my senses and explained: "Yes. She is a well-known host named An Lu, and Qiao Xining accepted her interview this morning. I didn't expect to see her again now, what a coincidence." The eldest brother returned to China not long ago and rarely watched TV or movies, so it's not surprising that he didn't know them. The eldest brother glanced over there, then looked back. "She is indeed very powerful, with super quick reactions," I said, "Even though we had prepared before, Qiao Xining was covered in cold sweat when asked." The eldest brother nodded. He has never been interested in entertainment figures, so when he heard that I was going to be Qiao Xining's assistant, he disapproved. He felt that the job was not suitable for me at all, so he objected repeatedly.Probably because of my firm attitude, he figured it out after two days, and said to me: "Well, being a celebrity assistant requires dealing with a lot of people, and it's okay to learn how to communicate with people. In short, it's better than staying at home for a month. It's better not to go out." I could only laugh at that. Yao Yao looked away, then put down the glass again, "Since we're done eating, why don't we leave?" We all agreed with this point of view, the eldest brother settled the bill, and we left the hotel together. That day my elder brother took me home first, and I encouraged him and Yao Yao to go to another place to play for a while in the car, but he stared at me several times. Yao Yao and her elder brother were sitting in the front seat, she smiled and turned to me and asked, "Does Ah Li live alone?" I nod. The eldest brother glanced at me from the rearview mirror, "She originally lived at home, but shortly after returning to China last year, she secretly bought a house and moved out." Yao Yao laughed, "Secretly?" I solemnly said to Yao Yao: "Sister Yao, you understand the generation gap between parents and children." At first I kept the matter from my eldest brother, but not my parents, about my moving out.I have long been used to living alone. After returning to China, I am not used to living with my parents. Especially in terms of living habits, I have been repeatedly criticized by my mother.When I was abroad, my father once bought me a small apartment near the school. I sold the small apartment and used the money plus the money I saved in the past few years to buy a high-rise hotel-style apartment in the city center. A small house moved over.My room is on the 50th floor, about 150 meters from the ground, and the air view is very good. Yao Yao really understood, she said approvingly: "A Li is really independent." "Sister Yao, what about you?" She shrugged, "Actually, I also live alone." "It's half a catty." We looked at each other and laughed. I knew she understood me. Every woman in the society is smart and capable, and has a successful career. Why do I need a man to accompany me when I come and go?It must be a rare fate for eldest brother to meet her.