“You’re off duty, Dolly.”
Archie stared at Dolly and smiled.
“Well, just got off work.”
Dolly felt puzzled as to how she saw him again, but couldn’t tell what was wrong.
“How do you know my name is Dolly?” said Dolly, surprised.
“You were mentioned today when we were talking business and your boss told me about it.”
Archie pretended to know the boss well.
“Okay.”
Dolly didn’t think much of it; as an employee of the company, it wasn’t at all surprising that the man could know his name.
“What are you doing here now? It’s off duty already.”
Having met a few times, it wasn’t too much of a stranger, Dolly asked politely.
“I’m waiting for someone here, and now it’s here.”
Archie pretended to be elegant and snickered.
Dolly turned to look behind her, and after looking around and noticing that there was no one there, she realized, “Are you waiting for me?”
“Yeah, I was just waiting for you.” Archie laughed heartily.
“Why should you wait for me?”
Dolly is more puzzled, she has a good impression of the man, feeling that he is not the kind of superficial and casual people, should not be so deliberate to accost their own bar.
“This you do not know, today and your boss negotiated a business, but the specific details and contracts are not done, your boss said let me come and talk to you, so I thought I would wait for you to get off work, invite you to dinner, by the way to talk about business matters.”
Dolly always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn’t tell what the problem was.
“How come the boss didn’t tell me about it.” Dolly asked.
“Maybe he was too busy and forgot about it.”
Archie pretended to be relaxed, “Dolly, are you free now, I would like to talk to you about specific cooperation matters. It’s okay if it’s not inconvenient, I can come to the office tomorrow to see you.”
Archie clearly knows the art of conversation and said in a retreating manner.
Seeing that the man was looking for himself only on business matters, and that he did not have to make things difficult for himself, Dolly instead put her mind at ease and had no more worries.
After thinking about it for a while, Dolly still agreed, but said, “Then let’s talk about it now, but dinner is not necessary, I have to go home and eat with my boyfriend, so let’s just sit down somewhere.”
Dolly had agreed, and Archie had no problem with the location, so he happily agreed.
Dolly then sent a text message to Brayden: “Honey, I have to talk to a customer about business, I may be a little late coming home, wait for me for dinner oh love you.”
Then said to the man, “Let’s go then, there’s a milk tea store right next to the office, let’s go there.”
“Okay.” Archie smiled, “Let’s go then.”
The two walked side by side towards the milk tea store.
Dolly did not notice, just after they left, a mysterious figure flashed in the shadows, looked at the direction Dolly and Archie left and paused, then followed at a fast pace.
“Something to drink?”
Arriving at the milk tea store, Archie asked gently.
“I’ll have a red bean milk tea, and up front, the order is for me to buy it.” Dolly said with a smile.
“Why do you pay for it when you do? I’m a man surely I’ll pay.” Archie laughed too.
“No, you are our company’s guest, I must be the one to pay for it, and I have to get reimbursed by the company oh.”
Dolly is very clear between public and private, this time to the milk tea store, is running to talk business.
Seeing Dolly’s persistence, Archie didn’t push, smiled and agreed.
The two men sat down in turn.
“This gentleman, soon we will be working together, and I don’t know your name yet.”
Dolly sat down and got straight to the point and started talking about cooperation. Brayden was still waiting for her at home, and she didn’t have time to talk about useless things here.
“My name is Rhys Booth.”
Archie didn’t give his real name, had no intention of cooperating, and he himself had no ill will towards Dolly, so how could he leave his real name.
“Hello, Mr. Booth, so let’s get right down to business.”
Dolly has a businesslike look.
“Dolly, there’s no need to be in such a hurry, how can you enjoy life as much as you do work, why don’t we talk about something interesting and personal first.” Archie joked.
Too serious a topic is not conducive to follow-through, so Archie tries to liven things up a bit.
Dolly was helpless and felt that Archie was talking strangely.
Even if you are enjoying life, there is no need to talk to you a stranger. Not to mention their own personal matters, more than likely and you a stranger to say.
Although there is some dissatisfaction in his heart, Dolly still maintains a polite smile.
“Mr. Booth, we don’t seem to know each other too well, it’s still a little inconvenient to talk about personal matters, let’s just talk about business matters.”
Dolly politely declined, wanting to get to the point quickly.
“To tell you the truth Miss Dean, I am just very interested in you, but I know you have your own boyfriend, I do not have a chance, just want to see who is so lucky can have a girlfriend like you.” Archie said pretending to be spontaneous.
“Tell you what, let’s make a swap, I’ll show you a picture of my girlfriend, you have to show me the true face of your boyfriend’s hut.” With that said, Archie had stood up, took out his phone and walked over to Dolly, lowering his body to hold it out to her.
Dolly didn’t understand what Archie was selling, but she subconsciously refused, “No, Mr. Booth, I’m not very interested in your personal affairs, and if we don’t talk about business properly, I may not be able to stay here with you, I’m going home.”
Dolly said she was going to stand up, she didn’t want to waste time with Archie, she’d better talk about it tomorrow.
“Okay, Dolly, since you don’t like to talk about personal matters, we’ll leave it at that.”
Archie held Dolly down as she was about to stand up, slowly squeezed her shoulders to make her sit down, then returned to his seat and talked to Dolly about “business”.
And just now Archie crouched beside Dolly to show her cell phone, as well as the hands pressed Dolly’s shoulders, all captured in the camera by a person, it is the mysterious person who just followed the two.
Having gotten what he wanted, the mysterious man smiled smugly and left.
He has other things to arrange, as well as to complete Archie’s series of plans, an elaborate set-up for Dolly is quietly unfolding.
At this time, Dolly did not even notice that she was being filmed, and was talking with Archie about matters related to the collaboration.