“What was I thinking?”
“I don’t understand why you helped me for no reason,” Li Ze said, “You’re running the investigations office, which normally the client should pay for the services rendered. Instead, you helped me without accepting any payment. In my opinion, there are a lot of customers who are in the same trouble as me. Could you give them free work every time?”
“I have told you, I hate unfaithful women.”
“The key point is that most male customers ask for your help because of their wife’s cheating, don’t you take their money?” Li Ze said, “I know the price is decided by your husband, but it’s you who is in charge of this matters. What’s more, you decided to reject my price after you came back from Beijing, I guess that your abrupt transformation was related to the Beijing trip.
Li Jiaxue widened her eyes after hearing that.
Of course, Li Ze didn’t notice her terrified expression because she was sitting in the swivel chair with her back to him.
After calming down, Li Jiaxue said, “If it weren’t that your wife tricked me, I wouldn’t have gone to Beijing. I’m going to win back the dignity I lost when she tricked me. It seems to me that if I find her evidence of cheating and watch her pleading in front of you, then I will be the winner. Ze, this is a competition between the two of us. You won’t understand it like a man. Even if you don’t take back your money, I must win it”.
“Should we leave?”
“Well, I am shutting down the computer,” Li Jixue pressed the button, “I originally planned to recover the deleted design materials, but I felt it’s unnecessary. Tomorrow, Liao Junchao will be taken away by the police with the hard drives. The police will recover it fully”.
“Let’s go and have seafood chicken pot later,”
“Seafood chicken pot? I haven’t heard of it”.
“Seafood with chicken”.
” there is no harm in trying”.
As she shut the computer, they walked out of the office.
They then called Liu Mi and left the company.
Then, Li Ze drove them to the restaurant.
Li Ze ordered a pot worth two hundred yuan while Li Jiaxue ordered a fried bullfrog, Liu Mi ordered a braised eggplant. Because they weren’t fond of drinking alcohol, they also ordered a bottle of orange juice.
In fifteen minutes, the pot was finally served.
There was chicken, nine sections of shrimp, lotus roots, potatoes, pimps, fish balls, and squid …
Looking at this tasty seafood chicken pot, Li Jiaxue and Liu Mi simultaneously picked up their chopsticks.
Putting the chicken into her mouth, Li Jiaxue said, “Mm, that taste good”.
Liu Mi also agreed after eating the fish balls, “It’s really tasty. It looks like I will bring my colleagues here.”
Li Ze finally felt relieved upon seeing that the two were satisfied.
He didn’t really like to treat someone to dinner. It wasn’t because he is stingy, but because he was afraid his guests wouldn’t be satisfied. As long as one customer was not satisfied, the atmosphere would become very awkward. Last year, he invited some teachers to celebrate his birthday. A teacher criticized him saying the beef was not fresh, the birthday party became somewhat embarrassing.
After dinner, Li Ze drove Liu Mi home, while Li Jiaxue called her husband to pick her up.
He slowed down before the traffic light when it turned red.
Looking at Liu Mi playing with her cell phone, Li Ze asked, “Do you know Zhao Min well?”
“The one sells logo?”
“Right,”
“Not that much, but I’ve seen her at the dinner”. Liu Mi said, “Her aura is quite impressive, she’s an articulate woman I guess. Maybe it was because her company had just started, she had carefully introduced the company’s operating pattern. In order to get our agreement, she also asked us to help introduce designers to her. Since you’re an art teacher, I introduced you to her. What’s wrong? Have you been cooperating?”
“At the beginning,” Li Ze said, “Anyway, I have a lot of spare time, so it’s nothing to take some time off my spare time for extra earning.”
“That’s right,” Liu Mi said, and famous designers would have an extremely high salary. Just like the costume designer, a normal one might get paid about ten thousand yuan, but it’s more than tens of thousand for those famous designers. Li Ze, if you become famous I hope you won’t forget me, right?”
“After the first salary, I’ll treat you to dinner”.
“Remember it!”
“Alright”
When the traffic light turned green, Li Ze continued driving.
After driving Liu Mi home, Li Ze left.
He returned home after eight o’clock.
As soon as he got home, his daughter rushed over and grabbed his thigh.
After picking up his daughter for a while, he looked at her painting and felt that his daughter has improved and kissed his her several times. Despite the conflict between him and his wife and the thought of divorcing her one day, his love for his daughter had not changed but had even increased. He also thought that as long as he had the evidence of his wife’s cheating, she would never obtain their daughter’s custody. In that case, he had at least the confidence of giving his daughter a good future.
Li Ze let wife to bath his daughter because of the smell on her, while he kept himself busy with some designing works.
Li Ze went to take a shower after finishing up the designs.
After the bath, Li Ze sat in front of his computer and continue the designs he started.
At nine o’clock, his wife came in.
“Hubby, what happened?” Ding Jie saw that her husband was still busy designing.
“It’s almost done,” Li Ze stared at the screen, ” But I feel like this logo is not complete”.
“Let me see it,”
She put her hands on her husband’s shoulder.
Staring at the trademark for a minute, Ding Jie said, “Hubby, the mark is somewhat too structured, that have a difference to their company model. If you change the square to leaf, the visual effect might be better. I’m a layman anyway, it’s only my opinion and according to what I saw. It depends on you”.
“I’ll try it”.
“I am going to make you coffee”.
“I won’t drink it, I’m afraid It will stop me from sleeping later.”
“Right.”
For the next half hour, Li Ze modified the trademark according to his wife’s opinions.
He felt that the final result was much better than before, which was, of course, thanks to his wife’s advice.
He saved the vector files, sent it to Zhao Min and shut off the computer.
Li Ze hugged his wife, “The last work is pretty good due to my technology and combined with your aesthetic experience”.
Being praised by her husband, Ding Jie felt elated.
Li Ze kissed her face, “There’s something I’d like to ask you”.
“Say it”
“The reason Liu Mi suspected you had an affair was simple, that she heard groans from Liao Junchao’s office, and afterward you came out of his office,” Li Ze said, “You have already explained this to me. I believe you because you’re my wife, but Liu Mi doesn’t believe you yet. She’s your subordinate, and I think you need to convince her otherwise. I saw that video in Liao Junchao’s office today, tell me your experiences. As long as your experiences are similar to what I have seen, then your words must be the truth. She won’t have to suspect you, right?”