Chapter 2270
But she hadn’t expected it to be either of those.
Duan Xi just looked at her with a calm, distant gaze, nodded at her as if he really didn’t know her at all, and that was it—nothing more.
Dan Chun herself had a naturally cool temperament, and Duan Xi was even more so. The two of them didn’t speak, didn’t even reach out to shake hands, just stood there facing each other like that, making the atmosphere inexplicably feel a bit awkward.
It was at this moment that Jiaojiao came into the conference room carrying her little cake.
She didn’t know if it was a woman’s sixth sense acting up. Earlier, when Dan Chun heard something about Duan Xi, that unconscious lift of her head had given her a sort of intuition. She felt she had to be here to see for herself, so the moment she finished handing out the cake outside, she came straight over.
As soon as she came in, Duan Xi’s gaze swept over. Jiaojiao grinned, "I won’t bother you guys, I’ll just sit over there and watch."
Ruan Bo naturally had no objections, and Duan Xi even walked straight over, taking her small hand in one of his, and taking the cake from her with the other. He led her to a desk at the side of the conference room, set the cake down, pulled out the executive chair behind it for her to sit, watched her sit there obediently, then lift a spoonful of cake to her mouth, and only then turned back.
This whole series of movements, whether to the people in the company or to Ruan Bo, caused barely a ripple. They’d seen it so many times they were used to it and didn’t feel there was anything unusual about it.
But Dan Chun’s eyelids couldn’t help twitching as she watched. She lowered her gaze and sat down amid Sha Yi’s enthusiastic greeting.
Dan Chun really was very accomplished. She’d grown up abroad, come back for a year in her junior year through an international exchange program, then returned again after graduation. Now she was majoring in animation.
Animation wasn’t a particularly prominent major in China at the moment. Duan Xi needed talent in this area, but after searching for a long time he hadn’t found anyone. For the company, Dan Chun really was a rare find.
Jiaojiao sat behind the desk at the side, eating her cake while listening to Ruan Bo’s introduction, and she had to admit this point.
There were even a few animated works she was very familiar with that Dan Chun had actually participated in producing.
Jiaojiao glanced at Dan Chun’s cool, stunning profile and couldn’t help letting out a soft sigh. You really don’t know until you compare—once you do, you realize you’re basically just here to make up the numbers in this world.
Thinking of this, Jiaojiao lowered her head and stuffed the entire piece of cake in front of her into her mouth in one go. After finishing, she propped up her little chin and kept watching over there.
Dan Chun seemed to be a girl who didn’t like to talk. She spoke very little when they communicated, and rarely looked at Duan Xi. Seeing how calm and distant she was, Jiaojiao felt her earlier intuition might have just been a misconception.
But she did notice that her brother probably really liked her.
The way he looked at her was gentle, with a kind of light in his eyes. That light was admiration, but even more, it was fondness.
Only, it was probably like Fei Xiaomiao had said—Dan Chun didn’t like her brother. Because Jiaojiao couldn’t see anything special in her attitude toward her brother; she was cold to everyone in the same way.
As Jiaojiao watched, her gaze gradually grew dazed, her thoughts drifting off as her mind wandered. She only snapped back to herself when, with her chin propped in her hand, her wrist suddenly went slack and her chin dropped downward. Just as it was about to hit the desk, she realized that at some point Duan Xi had already come to her side, his large hand cupping her little chin that was about to bump against the table.