Tang Man didn’t hang up the phone. She was also quite bored alone, so she listened to Si Jiahe talk while eating the takeaway. Finally, when she looked at the time, the two had been on the phone for two and a half hours, and the phone was getting a bit hot, and the battery was running low.

But Si Jiahe still didn’t want to hang up.

He was reluctant. Only when Tang Man said she was going to hang up did he mumble hesitantly, “Man Man, can I come to see you tomorrow after you get off work?”

His voice was very low, as if he was afraid that Tang Man would feel annoyed by his suggestion.

Tang Man threw the takeaway box into the trash can. Now that the weather was getting hot, she was afraid of bugs growing.

So she directly put on a coat, picked up the trash bag, and was about to go out and go downstairs to throw away the trash.

At first, when she heard Si Jiahe’s words, she didn’t react. When she closed the door and heard the faint uneasy breathing on the other end, she reacted and directly rejected him.

Si Jiahe was a bit of a headache for her because he was too clingy.

It was also a manifestation of a lack of a sense of security, and his lack of security was different from Du Henian’s.

Du Henian would not show this uneasiness in front of her, only secretly finding out about all the people around her and becoming familiar with everything, as if giving her a certain space, but in fact, it was just a slightly larger cage.

While Si Jiahe wished he could stick to her side all the time, becoming an appendage to her leg.

For a person who needed personal space, it was also a burden.

She entered the elevator but found that there was a young man inside. He was quite handsome, wearing sportswear, and the contours of his muscles could be seen under the clothes. Late at night, it seemed he was going to exercise.

A bit surprised, Tang Man subconsciously glanced at the time on her phone.

It was almost ten o’clock.

So late? Going out for a run?

However, as mentioned before, Tang Man was not the type of person who was too curious. Moreover, the other party was not the type she liked. Her first attention to the opposite sex was focused on their figure and face. Basically, if she was not interested in someone, Tang Man would not invest too much energy.

She only glanced at the other party and withdrew her gaze, continuing to listen to Si Jiahe’s voice in her earphones. However, the signal in the elevator was not good, and there was no sound from the other end for a long time. She was about to hang up the phone.

But the man beside her spoke up.

“Excuse me, is there a supermarket nearby?”

Tang Man’s attention shifted and she looked at the other party. This was a basic social courtesy.

“There is no large supermarket, but there is a 24-hour convenience store across the street downstairs.” Maintaining politeness, Tang Man simply answered the other party’s question, without the intention of further conversation.

However, the young man was obviously interested in Tang Man. He had just moved here not long ago and had not seen most of the residents in this apartment building. People nowadays are like this. In a building, the farthest straight-line distance does not exceed one hundred meters, but most people may live for a year without seeing each other or saying a word.

He smiled and said, “I just moved here not long ago and I’m not very familiar with the situation here. I live on the sixth floor, just one floor above you.”

Tang Man nodded, made an affirmative sound, and did not react further, obviously very cold.

At this time, the elevator happened to open, the phone communication resumed, and Si Jiahe’s voice came from the other end, ready to ask what was going on with Tang Man, when he heard the unfamiliar male voice on Tang Man’s side, and it was clearly the voice of a young man.

The alarm immediately sounded in his mind. Before he could ask, he heard Tang Man say a sentence on the other end.

“Sorry, my husband is waiting for me upstairs. If I stay downstairs for too long, he will worry.” After saying this, Tang Man saw the man’s somewhat embarrassed smile and added, “If you have any more questions, you can ask the property management next door. The property management center is set up next to our building.”

“Married so young?”

The young man still found it a bit unbelievable.

Because Tang Man was too good-looking. This kind of good looks could not be described as beautiful nowadays. There was an indescribable temperament mixed in her body. She was the kind of person who could be recognized at a glance even if she was submerged in a crowd.

It was precisely because she was so good-looking that it was surprising that she was married at such a young age.

So the other party’s gaze subconsciously swept over Tang Man’s fingers.

But because the other party was holding something in her hand, the night was too dark, and the light in the lobby was not very bright, the woman’s hands were all shrouded in a layer of shadow, and it was really difficult to see clearly.

After saying that, Tang Man no longer paid attention to the other party’s reaction. She went out the door, threw the garbage in a few steps, and walked back. Then she heard the voice coming from the earphones.

“Man Man, who were you talking to just now?”

The boy’s voice was filled with uncontrollable joy. Only then did Tang Man remember that she had forgotten to hang up the phone.

Hearing Si Jiahe’s happiness, she also laughed, “So happy?”

Si Jiahe did not act coy, “Happy.”

He heard Tang Man say the word “husband”. Although he knew it was false, he still felt that the husband Tang Man was referring to was him, and he was so happy that he wanted to roll on the ground a few times.

Seeing Si Jiahe’s happiness, Tang Man did not mention again what the other party had said about coming to find her tomorrow, and pretended to have forgotten it, accompanying the little fool on the other end of the phone to be happy.

So, this phone call lasted for more than forty minutes, until Tang Man wanted to exercise by the window for a while to aid digestion, and decided to take a shower and go to bed before hanging up the phone. In the end, Si Jiahe still said a few intimate words reluctantly, dragging the call time to three and a half hours.

It was really a pot of phone porridge.

But perhaps because she had listened to three hours of nonsense, her spirit was thoroughly cleansed, and Tang Man slept very well that night, waking up at dawn after a good night’s sleep.

She arrived at the company at half past eight, and many people had already arrived. When Tang Man sat down and just turned on the computer, she saw a notice posted in the work group asking her to fill out a form to analyze and count bank deposits in detail, saying that the amount in the system was too large and there was a problem.

And the form had to be submitted before getting off work in the afternoon, so Tang Man could only end her idle time and spent the whole day reviewing statements.

Last week, it might have been to give her time to adapt to the financial software, but this week there was obviously a lot more work, and a large stack of various statements appeared on the desk.

This should indeed be the legendary life of an accounting dog.

In two days of work, Tang Man’s spirit was much more tense. Only when she got off work on Tuesday did she breathe a sigh of relief. After completing the work, saving it, and handing it over to the leader, Tang Man turned off the computer and clocked out.

The place Madam Yang had arranged for dinner that evening was a private cuisine restaurant, which was a bit far from here. It was estimated that she would not make it in time if she took the subway, so Tang Man directly took a taxi.

This private cuisine restaurant was a high-end restaurant, with prices not cheap, around 1,500 yuan per person.

She had been here a few times, basically all invited by Madam Yang, and each time she had dinner with a different man. Now Madam Yang had changed who knows how many boyfriends, but this restaurant had not changed much, even the chef recognized her, after all, she had come too many times.

It was a bit secluded here. Most of these high-end restaurants liked to be located in a relatively remote location, with the confidence that good wine is not afraid of the deep alley. However, the bosses behind these restaurants were not to be underestimated.

Tang Man got out of the car, looked at the time, and walked inside. However, as soon as she reached the door, she saw a young man who looked a bit familiar. She thought for a while but couldn’t remember.

The other party was wearing a gray hoodie with a jacket on the outside. He was very tall, wearing a mask, lowering his head and leaning on the side, playing with his phone, his slender and distinct fingers casually sliding across the screen.

The temperament was vastly different.

He was the kind of person who looked very good-looking even with a mask on. Tang Man glanced a few more times, but really couldn’t remember. In the end, she gave up. Her gaze swept over the other party’s long legs and she walked inside.

The waiter inside came over to ask, but Tang Man directly said that she had already booked a private room before and knew the place, so they didn’t need to guide her. Then she walked towards the inside.

After walking a few steps, she felt something was wrong. She looked back and found that the young man who had been standing at the door before was following her a few steps behind. When he met her sudden turn, he was a bit surprised.

At this time, the other party was still wearing a mask. Tang Man could only see the faint smile slowly seeping into those bright eyes, but he also looked at her with some puzzlement, as if asking why she had stopped.

Tang Man frowned.

She felt that she might be overthinking. How come she felt that this person was always following behind her?

She looked at the other party. He was probably only about twenty years old, with delicate features, clearly a handsome guy, the type she liked.

But Tang Man was sure that this person should not be one of her ex-boyfriends. Otherwise, those legs would also leave a deep impression on her, and she would not be unable to remember his name.

She waited for a while longer. Seeing that the other party was only standing a few steps away looking at her, and she really couldn’t remember, she felt that he might be someone she had seen before. So she didn’t take it to heart and walked towards the private room Madam Yang had booked.

She got off work a bit late today and there was a traffic jam on the way, so she arrived half an hour late.

Although Madam Yang might not be able to grow old together with that man in the future, Tang Man still didn’t want to leave a bad impression in front of him. This was purely a matter of basic courtesy.

When she arrived at the private room, Tang Man knocked a few times before pushing the door open and walking in. She saw Madam Yang and a man in casual clothes sitting together, talking and laughing.

Seeing Tang Man appear at the door, the two stood up together.

Madam Yang smiled and waved, motioning for her to come over. “The dishes have all been ordered, just waiting for you to arrive.”

Tang Man smiled at the two people at the table, turned around, and was about to close the door, but almost crashed into a human wall. She was a bit shocked, stomped on the brakes, and habitually took a step back, but was tripped by another foot and fell straight back.

Her hand also subconsciously grabbed something, which should have been the corner of the clothing of the person she bumped into. At the same time, she felt that her arm was also pulled by someone, so she didn’t fall to the ground.

Madam Yang, who was sitting at the table in the back of the room, let out a cry of surprise and quickly walked over.

The person in front also spoke up, with a very young voice, clear and clean.

“Senior, are you alright?”

The other party’s hand was still tightly holding her arm through a layer of fabric. The hand could easily wrap around her arm, and Tang Man did not let go of the corner of the other party’s clothes that she was pulling.

She had calmed down from the shock. She raised her head and met a pair of smiling eyes. At some point, the young man had taken off his mask, revealing a good-looking face with clean and delicate features, carrying the obvious youthfulness of this age.

When meeting her gaze, there was a clear look of concern and worry on his face.