Chapter 19.1

The seating arrangement in the venue for the get-together meeting was arranged in a S-shaped manner. The female lawyers had to sit still, while the male lawyers had to clockwise follow the S-shaped arrangement after every three minutes. Cheng Yao sat diagonally opposite Qian Heng in a counterclockwise direction, so three minutes later, Qian Heng moved a position a little farther away from Cheng Yao.

From this distance, Cheng Yao couldn’t hear the contents of Qian Heng’s chats. She could only see Qian Heng’s incomparably handsome but frigid face and his dashing suit. He and his female partner this time seemed to be not in the middle of a three minutes blind date, but a death interview…

Before she knew it, Cheng Yao also ended up chatting with several male lawyers.

Although this was a gathering for blind dates, everyone was in the same circle, so they all had come with the mentality of making more connections. Since Cheng Yao had no intention of finding a partner, she was in a relaxed state. She communicated with several male lawyers in different business fields and had long talks with them about their experiences. By the end of each round, they added each other’s WeChat accounts.

“Partner Qian Heng, I’ve been admiring you for a long time.”

When Cheng Yao heard someone mention Qian Heng’s name, she raised her head in excitement, only to realize that because of the S-shaped seating arrangement, Qian Heng was sitting not far from Cheng Yao again.

Opposite Qian Heng this time was a female lawyer with a completely different style. She looked like the delicate, gentle type of woman and also seemed to have a somewhat obedient, sensible, and well-behaved bearing. Cheng Yao swept a glance at her. Although the other party’s frame was petite, her figure was not bad. She was quite dressed in a literary style and the questions she asked were very alembicated….

“If you are in a relationship, where would you date your girlfriend?”

“Office.”

Cheng Yao never thought that Qian Heng was interested in the office taboo romance. The very thought of it was too stimulating!

Sure enough, the female lawyer blushed. “Then, what will you do in the office?”

“Work overtime together.”

“…”

“Since we lawyers are so busy, how often would you go out for dates to meet each other?

“Once half a year.”

“…”

Qian Heng thought for a while, and added, “You can send emails during your break.”

“…”

Before the three minutes could finish, the female lawyer opposite Qian Heng stood up…

* * *

However, Qian Heng’s handsome face was very deceptive. It was still beckoning and attracting butterflies from everywhere. In the next round, another female lawyer sat opposite him shyly and greeted him.

“Hello, Partner Qian, I really want to know how you are alone here….”

This time, the female lawyer who approached him also looked pretty and had a pair of long legs. The other party made some usual opening remarks, and then naturally switched to the part of choosing a spouse.

“I just want to ask, do you think you are an active person in your relationship?”

“No.”

“Then what will you do if you meet a very sensible person from the opposite sex?”

“Nothing. “

“What?”

Qian Heng said as if it was a matter of course, “I’ll just wait for her to chase me.”

“…”

The female lawyer again asked, apparently hoping to give Qian Heng a second chance.

“Although some people are excellent, they still have some shortcomings in their character. If you meet a girl who can accommodate all your shortcomings, will you cherish her?”

“I will not.”

“Why? “

“Because I have no shortcomings.”

“…”

Cheng Yao looked at the time – it had been one minute and thirty-four seconds. This time again, the female lawyer got up and left…..

Cheng Yao just watched several girls opposite Qian Heng come and go. At first, they all shyly approached him, but as time passed, they all eventually left with a dark expression….

Finally, the event almost came to an end. In the last round, Qian Heng sat opposite Cheng Yao.

“…..”

Cheng Yao looked at her handsome boss sitting opposite her. Her boss too was looking at her.

“Boss……”

Before Cheng Yao could finish her words, Qian Heng interrupted her mercilessly. “Don’t think that participating in this ‘get-together’ meeting means anything. Cheng Yao, you better control yourself. I’m against the whole ideology of marriage. Don’t have any wishful thinking. “

Cheng Yao had no doubt that if egotism was a crime, with Qian Heng’s severity, he would at least be sentenced to death!

It was a pity that Cheng Yao could only dare to slander him in her heart. Facing Qian Heng, she still asked respectfully, “Is it because you are against marriage that you deliberately answered those female lawyers’ questions like that?”

Cheng Yao thought in her heart surely such words would make any female retreat. After all, most girls participate in these kinds of events to find a partner and start their own warm family. Maybe Qian Heng didn’t want to waste their time and was embarrassed to reject them directly. So did he sacrifice his image to reject them in such a fierce way?

“No.” Qian Heng said arrogantly, “Except for the virgin-female part, whatever else I just said was true.”

Cheng Yao inwardly thought that if male chauvinism and egotism were criminalized, Qian Heng would certainly be punished for these crimes. If several crimes were to be punished together, she was sure even shooting him two hundred times wouldn’t be enough to punish him for the severity of his crimes.

Cheng Yao was convinced that Qian Heng wouldn’t find any companion in this life.

* * *

“What else do you want to ask?” Qian Heng snorted, “If you have any personal questions that you want to ask, take this opportunity to ask me. I won’t hold it against you.”

Cheng Yao waved her hand again and again, “No, I have nothing to ask.”

“Oh, then I’d like to ask you a few questions.” Qian Heng glanced at Cheng Yao. “How many male lawyer friends did you just add?”

“Huh?”

“You must have added around six or seven.” Qian Heng’s voice was calm, “Among them, there were mature and calm types, sunny and sporty types, lively and innocent types, gentle and elegant types, and also smiling tiger1 types. Cheng Yao, do you like collecting stamps?”

During the three-minute fast blind date in the previous round, Cheng Yao kept listening to Qian Heng’s chats with her ears erected but didn’t know that Qian Heng too had been unconsciously observing her from his side.

Qian Heng just watched Cheng Yao talking to each male lawyer with a smile. She was beautiful, young, and lively, and almost every male lawyer was very enthusiastic about her.

Qian Heng looked at her constantly scanning the code with the male lawyers and adding them on WeChat. He didn’t know why, but he felt a little irritated.

Wu Jun was right. Her femme fatal charm was really dangerous. How could a beautiful woman be a good lawyer? Qian Heng felt that he really needed to sort out this ‘special connection’2 from Junheng as soon as possible.

It’s just that he could have been quiet, but in the end, he still asked Cheng Yao this kind of improper question.

Qian Heng regretted it the moment he asked about it. This was not his usual self, but should he apologize?

But those two words did not exist in Qian Heng’s dictionary.

He just pressed his lips and looked at Cheng Yao.

While he was waiting for Cheng Yao’s face to turn red and show an offended expression, Cheng Yao on the other side excitedly said, “Boss, you counted wrong! I added eight! Because eight is my lucky number! Besides, what about you? How did you know that I like stamp collecting? I really like it! I have been collecting stamps since the first grade. I have a lot of precious stamps and even some very expensive ones! Normally I don’t tell anyone about it!”

“…..”

Footnotes

smiling tiger—outwardly kind but inwardly cruel person

He’s talking about how Cheng Yao came to Junheng through the backdoor