Chapter 58: I'm hungry.

"Minqi'er?"
Upon hearing this familiar yet cold voice, Minqi'er finally recognized the person, "Wu Shi!"
Instantly, he felt like grabbing onto a life-saving straw and let out a sigh of relief.
"What are you running around for?" Wu Shi's hair in front was disheveled, with obvious signs of being pressed backward, as if he had just woken up after sleeping on the desk.
"Min Qi was panting, still trying to calm down his frantic heartbeat. "You... why are you here too?"
"Overtime." There was no fluctuation in Wu Shi's eyes.
This was the first time Minqier had seen Wu Shi in the past few days. Actually, she had long stopped being angry with Wu Shi, but she just didn't know how to face him.
Wu Shimai walked to the door and pushed it, but it didn't budge.
"The door is locked," Qin Minqi said softly, avoiding eye contact with him.
Wu Shimai nodded and calmly searched the front desk, but couldn't find the security phone number.
He took out the company group on his phone again.
Before he even typed a word, he realized that asking the company group would be futile. For the sake of the company's security and the confidentiality of various documents, only security guards and a few top executives have keys to the company's main entrance.
Although Wu Shi has the key, the lock is on the outside of the door and his hand cannot reach outside of the door.
Moreover, it's already late at night, who would be willing to make this trip? Even if they see the message, they would pretend they didn't see it and apologize the next day, saying they fell asleep and didn't see it.
Min Qier looked at Wu Shi, who was holding a metallic key in his hand. She thought about throwing the key outside so that a passerby could open the door, but at this moment, not to mention passersby, there wasn't even a stray cat in this area with no power.
Order takeout? It's all dark and deserted here. We have to scare away the delivery guy!
"I'll ask Min Lie and see if he's asleep," Min Qi'er spoke up.
She placed all of her hopes on Min Lie and silently prayed in her heart: Min Lie, Min Lie, please don't fall asleep!
But nobody answered the phone.
While Min Qier was making a phone call, she saw Wu Shi walking towards the stairwell.
She hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and said, "Don't go!"
Listening to the trembling in Min Qier's voice, Wu Shi didn't know why she had been so panicked since just now, but he still answered softly, "I'm not leaving."
Her panicked and disoriented eyes were so much like an injured little fox, making him instinctively want to protect her.
His heart softened, and his voice became softer, as he spoke to her in a coaxing manner, "......I'll go upstairs to the personnel department and see if there is a contact number for security personnel. Will you come with me?"
"Hmm." Min Qier nodded heavily, his hand despairingly hanging up the unanswered phone, while the other hand still tightly gripping Wu Shi's sleeve, his eyes full of grievances. "It seems that Min Lie has fallen asleep."
"It's alright, someone will come and open the door once we find the security phone number," Wu Shi said as he walked slowly ahead. "Let's go."
However, when they arrived at the entrance of the Human Resources department, even that door was locked.
However, it is also true that the HR department contains the personnel files of the company employees. To be on the safe side after work, we also need to lock the door.
"So what should we do?" Minqier muttered quietly. In this spacious building, the only remaining heating had long been gone.
She doesn't wear much because there is air conditioning in the car, at home, and at work.
She sneezed several times.
"Are you feeling cold? Let's go to my office first, where there is a heater," Wu Shi said calmly but with great concern.
However, this is exactly the legendary fox entering the house, and the rabbit entering the mouth of the fox! But he didn't consider these.
At this moment, Min Qier also had no other choice but to follow Wu Shi to his office.
……
The door of Wu Shi's office was pushed open.
In the darkness, everything lost its original color, only the eternal flowers on the shelf, still showing off their eternal vitality.
It is so beautiful, but it cannot withstand ruthless attacks.
Min Qier stared at it in a daze, it is still as perfect as when Min Qier first saw it, the broken glass cover has been cleaned up and replaced with a more sturdy glass cover, guarding it.
The wind, dust... nothing in the world can invade it.
Seeing this eternal flower at this moment, she finally relaxed. The eternal flower is not damaged, and that's good.
Following Min Qi'er's gaze, Wu Shi also looked at the eternal flower.
He couldn't help but feel a rush of emotions when he recalled the man's voice he heard on the phone that day.
"You should not be lacking in people who send you flowers, right?" he said coldly.
It was a sentence that seemed like an affirmation but also like a question, spoken without any filtering through his brain, just uttering it without thinking.
Hearing the displeasing sound echoing in the air, he startled himself.
"Huh?" Min Qi snapped out of it and looked at Wu Shi with a sour expression on his face. "...What do you mean?"
"..." Wu Shi slowly pulled down the hand that Min Qi had been tightly gripping his sleeve. "I mean... let's go over there and turn on the heater to warm our hands."
As he spoke, he pointed to the heater that had been placed in a hidden spot and had not been used for a long time.
"You clearly said something else just now!"
“……”
"What? You want to give what you gave me to someone else?"
Wu Shi raised an eyebrow and gently curled up his mouth. Can't Minqi understand what he said?
That's fine, the item was originally meant for her.
"...Didn't you see the words on it?"
"Words?" Min Qier took another look and realized he hadn't noticed before - next to the grey music box base was a metal plate engraved with "sagittarius".
Min Qier smiled and said nothing, but his heart immediately understood.
Their relationship is like this immortal flower, lost and regained.
……
Min Qier blew the dust off the heater and placed it on the coffee table with a "whoosh" sound.
Connected to the power bank, switched on the button, the fan of the heater slowly starts to rotate. Although this heating device is compact, it is quite practical. In no time, she feels warm all over, as if basking in a spring breeze.
She sat down on the couch, finding a comfortable position. It seemed like tonight, going out was out of the question.
The couch beside her sank down, and she glanced sideways to see Wu Shi sitting there.

He placed his hands in front of the fireplace for a while and said, "I'll warm up for a bit and then leave. You can sleep on the couch later."
"You're not allowed to leave." Min Qi'er hurriedly said, and moved closer to Wu Shi's side.

Min Qier's words made Wu Shi feel stunned, but also had a inexplicable feeling of happiness, but he remained sober and said: "...I won't leave, I'll stay at the door and guard you, okay?"
He couldn't help but look into Min Qier's eyes, even though his common sense told him it was wrong.
"Okay," Min Qier obediently replied.
"Guru guru" -
At this moment, Min Qier's stomach grumbled again, "Oops." She underestimated it lightly.
Wu Shi couldn't help but laugh, he lowered his head and chuckled, but then it seemed like he remembered something, and his smile immediately froze on his face.
He raised his head, only to see Min Qier also slowly raise her head. The pitiful and helpless look in her eyes was gone, replaced by an excitement akin to that of a predator about to hunt its prey --
"I'm hungry," she said softly.