The two parted on bad terms.
However, anger aside, Pei Kexin still had to go to work the next day.
On the way, she bought an egg-filled pancake and soy milk from a street vendor to eat at the office.
As soon as she sat down after entering the office, Zhan Jingchen arrived with the manager.
They glanced at each other without speaking. The manager greeted Pei Kexin.
"Good morning, President Pei, have you eaten?"
Pei Kexin pointed to the breakfast on her desk.
"Not yet, I was about to eat. Have you eaten?"
The manager said happily, "I have. My wife cooks for me every morning. It's very generous. I eat before I leave. You bought breakfast? What did you get?"
"Egg-filled pancake and soy milk? I haven't eaten these in a while. I wouldn't have thought of it if I hadn't seen you eat. Smells good, doesn't it?"
It seemed he was craving it too, but Pei Kexin hadn't eaten enough herself to give it to him.
"It smells really good. I eat this almost every day. It's on the way anyway. If you want some, I can bring it for you tomorrow."
"That would be great, thank you."
The manager smiled and went to his workstation.
Pei Kexin stopped talking. It was still early before work started, so she opened her breakfast and began to eat.
Zhan Jingchen saw that she was treating him like air, talking and laughing with others, and not paying him any attention, which made him even angrier.
He stared at her mouth as she took a sweet bite of the golden pancake, and a mischievous impulse struck him.
He suddenly walked over, snatched her pancake, and took a big bite.
Then, to Pei Kexin's utter astonishment, he picked up the soy milk, inserted a straw, and took two gulps.
"I haven't tried this before. Let me taste it. It's not bad. President Pei knows how to treat herself."
Pei Kexin's hair almost stood on end.
What kind of behavior was this?
The manager was still here, and he ate something she had already eaten? And drank her soy milk?
Shameless!
The manager was clearly taken aback by his sudden actions and stared at them both in surprise.
Zhan Jingchen, with a nonchalant air, took another bite of the pancake before returning it to Pei Kexin.
"Where did you buy it? I'll go buy two tomorrow to try. Don't worry, I won't eat yours for free. I'll eat one and give you two back, I'll buy them for you tomorrow."
Looking at the pancake in front of her, with the imprint of his mouth still on it, she suddenly remembered what he had said yesterday about kissing.
Feeling a wave of discomfort, Pei Kexin picked up the pancake and soy milk and pushed them towards him.
"I don't want it anymore. If you like it, you can have it all."
He disliked her?
After all that had happened, after their mouths had almost been bruised from kissing, he actually disliked her afterwards?
The dignified Young Master Zhan had never encountered such an insulting situation. Enraged, Zhan Jingchen picked up the pancake and stuffed it all into his mouth with a few loud bites.
Then he gulped down all the soy milk, lowered his head, and burped in front of her.
"Thank you for the breakfast, President Pei. It was delicious and filling. *Burp*."
Pei Kexin was utterly speechless and couldn't argue with him in front of the manager, so she secretly pinched his thigh underneath the table.
Zhan Jingchen winced in pain but couldn't argue with her in front of the manager, so he silently accepted the loss.
They began to work.
Since Pei Kexin and the manager had many things to discuss, and the manager's office hadn't been finalized yet, they were temporarily sitting together.
Zhan Jingchen had a vice president's office, but he found it boring to sit there alone. Not knowing what else to do, he kept wandering over to join the excitement.
Pei Kexin and the manager were chatting animatedly, their heads close together, planning endless tasks.
He paced back and forth, feeling awkward doing nothing, so he could only drink water cup after cup.
By the end, the manager even started to think he was focusing on his health.
"Does President Zhan like drinking water so much? Shall I have someone install a water dispenser in your office? It's troublesome to always run over here."
As he spoke, he picked up his phone to make a call, but Zhan Jingchen stopped him.
"No need. The company just started, let's save some budget. It's fine for me to walk a bit. Besides, you two are both here, it's lively with more people. It tastes better when more people are drinking."
"..."
Pei Kexin was so hungry.
She hadn't eaten well the night before with Fu Duoduo, and her stomach was empty in the morning, causing her to feel ravenous before ten o'clock.
Thinking she could hold on until noon to eat, she didn't try to soothe her stomach. However, as she endured, she started to feel stomach pain.
It was an old problem from the past.
When she first started working at Pei's, she always had to work overtime, eating irregularly, which made her stomach very fragile. Later, when she worked in sales, she often accompanied clients for drinks, and stomach ulcers became a common ailment for her.
It hadn't flared up in a while, and she didn't have any medicine in her bag. She didn't expect it to be so painful today.
As she spoke, seeing her pale face and sweat on her forehead, the manager asked her what was wrong.
Pei Kexin said, "It's nothing, just an old problem, stomach pain. It'll pass if I endure it."
"How can you just endure it? Do you have any medicine? I'll have someone buy it for you. You need to eat properly when you have stomach pain. You can't eat street food anymore. No matter how important work is, your health is more important. Otherwise, when you reach my age, it will be too late to regret it."
Pei Kexin thanked the manager and went to get herself some water.
Looking at her pale face and slightly trembling fingers, Zhan Jingchen felt a pang of guilt.
Could it be that her stomach pain was caused by him preventing her from eating breakfast this morning?
If he had known she had a stomach condition, he wouldn't have snatched her food, which wasn't worth much money.
Sigh.
Since there was nothing else to do, and Zhan Jingchen disliked owing favors, he quietly went downstairs, drove his car, found a pharmacy, and bought her medicine for stomach pain.
After buying the medicine, he checked the time, 11:10. It was time for lunch, so he found a restaurant, packed three meals, and headed back.
Just as it was time to get off work, the manager was asking Pei Kexin if she wanted to go to the cafeteria. He handed over the food.
The manager didn't stand on ceremony, and Pei Kexin couldn't say anything. The three of them sat together and ate in silence.
After eating, the manager said he needed to rest for a while.
There was a company-wide mobilization meeting in the afternoon that would last for several hours, and he still had to prepare his speech. He couldn't afford to be low on energy.
Pei Kexin didn't have the habit of napping and stayed in the office.
Seeing that she wasn't sleeping, Zhan Jingchen felt it was boring to sleep with another man, so he stayed in the office with her.
Pei Kexin prepared her speech for the afternoon, and he played games beside her. An hour passed in the blink of an eye.
It was time to get back to work, and the manager returned.
"I finished my draft yesterday. How are you doing? I plan to review it again. Shall we review it together?"
The manager looked at Pei Kexin's face as he spoke. Upon seeing her face clearly, his expression changed immediately.
"President Pei, what's wrong? Your face..."
Zhan Jingchen instinctively followed his gaze to Pei Kexin's face and was also stunned.