“She says when she stops, she’ll remember sad things, so she keeps working. Now our floor is almost worn out from her scrubbing! There’s so much food we can’t finish, throwing away big pots every day… She says she’d better go out and work as a maid to spare our home from her.”
“I see,” Pei Jiale nodded knowingly, “but why is your sister so sad? What unfortunate thing happened to her?”
“She used to have a boyfriend, now she doesn’t, this is called… called…” The little girl scratched her head, unable to find the right word for a long time.
“Called ‘heartbreak’,” Pei Jiale answered for her.
“Oh, right, that’s the word. My sister said it many times, but I never remembered.” The little girl was delighted by her memory’s revival.
No wonder that bad woman’s face looked cold as ice – it was because of heartbreak, so she had no smile, right?
A woman who keeps doing housework to numb her pain from heartbreak, like a bird without feet that can only keep flying, unable to land… Such a woman made Pei Jiale’s usually cynical heart slightly tremble.
He had never truly been in love, but every time he saw someone hurt by love, he always felt immense sympathy, and even a bit of respect.
At this moment, whether because of the delicious pastry or his usual compassion, he suddenly felt that the “bad woman” wasn’t so bad after all.
“Brother, will you hire my sister as your maid?” the little girl tugged at his sleeve.
“Uh…”
Sympathy was one thing, facing the bad woman’s sour expression every day was another… He estimated that she, currently in heartbreak’s pain, wouldn’t have a smile for now.
He thought he probably wouldn’t deliberately cause himself trouble by hiring such a cold maid.
Green Qiao’s “The CEO’s Cola Lover”
Chapter 2
“Libeja, come back to work when you’re feeling better! That advertisement has been waiting for you, the client specifically wants you as the lead, and we have no choice.”
After two days without turning on her phone, as soon as she opened it, messages flooded in – all with the same content: the company urging her to return.
