Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 83: Get the job done

Renee is still waiting for my answer. After a short silence, I said to Renee, "The job thing has almost been settled."

"Oh, is it still at the department store?"

"No, it's a planning position at an advertising company. A friend introduced me."

"Oh." Renee just responded with a single sound, her mood seemingly a little low, as if she still cared that I had lost my job because of her.

I reassured her, "Actually, I'm really quite happy staying in Xuzhou. Let me tell you something quite new."

"Tell me,"

I smiled and said, "I recently went on a blind date for the first time in my life, but I liked her right away. Am I still attractive?"

Renee was unexpectedly silent for a long time before asking, 'Really? So do you love her?"

"I have a good feeling about her. It's been a short time, so it's a bit premature to say I love her, but that's how blind dates work. If both parties have a good feeling, they get to know each other better. Most importantly, our parents really like the idea of us getting together.' I explained with a smile.

"Oh, then I wish you all the best."

"Thanks. So you don't need to feel guilty about that incident anymore. I really feel more and more that returning to Xuzhou was the right choice."

"Whether you made the right choice is your business, and whether I feel guilty is mine. I don't think the two must be linked... It's getting late, I'm going to get some rest."

I couldn't understand what Renee meant for a moment, but she had hung up the phone very quickly.

...

I lay down again, feeling inexplicably melancholy. I lit a cigarette for myself in the middle of the night, and suddenly my mind was filled with the image of Renee, busy until late at night, returning home lonely. I knew that she didn't have many friends in Suzhou, and her own family was always trying to get her into trouble at work.

My mood grew more and more depressed, and Renee's beautiful, delicate face was deeply etched in my mind.

On a night when I should have been relaxing and enjoying my sleep, I was unable to sleep. As I tossed and turned, my mind went into overdrive, thinking about the Harlan and Natalie couple, my life in Suzhou, the scene from the other day when Robert and Brittany confessed their love for each other, and even the night I laid with Violetta in Hengdian. My thoughts became increasingly disturbed, and I finally fell asleep from exhaustion just before dawn.

...

I slept until almost noon. When I got up, my brain was still groggy from lack of sleep. After a quick shower, I hadn't even had time to eat a bite before I got a call from Daphne.

I answered the phone and yawned unconsciously.

"Lucas, did you just wake up?"

"Well, I just woke up a while ago. I couldn't sleep last night," I told Daphne.

"Then you need to get yourself together quickly. I've already shown your resume to Director Zhou in our company's planning department, and he wants to interview you this afternoon," Daphne said to me in a serious tone.

"Did he say what time exactly?"

"He'll be at the office all afternoon. You can set the time yourself. Just call me when you get there, and I'll take you to him."

"Okay,"

Daphne added, "You have to get yourself in shape. You should know that people in the planning industry are very serious and don't like loose people!"