Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman novel Chapter 76

Though Jean clearly knew what she wanted to say, she couldn't still speak it out. She remained silent for a long time before she finally left.

After she went out of the Qi Group building, she felt that her throat was choked on something. Thus, breathing required her extra effort.

Zed stood in front of the French window in the CEO's office and saw her thin figure walking away. His deep eyes eventually turned dark.

Jean returned to the company she worked in, but she didn't enter yet. As she saw the entrance of the company, she felt guilty and distressed for some reasons. She didn't know how to solve the problem. She didn't dare tell Sonny about it yet, either.

It had been half a month since Sonny left, and he would be back in about a week. If he found out what really happened, there's a chance that he would blame her for it.

"What are you thinking about? It seems like you're out of your mind." John said. He was standing behind her.

Jean trembled in surprise. She came back to her senses and immediately shook her head.

"Nothing so important." Jean didn't say anything about the problem. She didn't even know where to start if ever she would open it up.

John frowned as she saw that Jean seemed to have a distracted mind. Then John asked Jean, "You ran away without saying any word this afternoon, and now you came back here absent-minded. What on earth happened to you?"

Jean still didn't say anything and walked into the building instead.

It was already time to get off from work. She grabbed some of her things in her work space and immediately left.

Meanwhile, John was still waiting for her at the entrance of the building. As soon as he saw Jean going out, he walked towards her and said, "Let's have a dinner somewhere nearby."

She was a bit surprised after she heard what John said. She looked at him oddly and said, "Your friend said last time that you are often quiet. Then, suddenly you invite me to have dinner with you?"

"I just thought that it's not a bad idea to invite a friend to have a dinner." John felt a little embarrassed. Luckily, he managed to find a good excuse.

Jean hesitated for a moment. But after a while, she nodded and accepted his invitation.

She didn't have any appetite to eat. But since she didn't take her lunch, her stomach didn't feel so well.

They went to a restaurant nearby. It was so crowded there. They had been in the queue for a long time until they finally found seats for themselves. After Jean ordered for their dinner, she just sat on her chair; she was confused.

"What exactly happened to you? You seemed so distracted." John saw that Jean was acting so strange. He couldn't help but worry about her. Nevertheless, he didn't know since when did he start to care about her.

The waiter brought them two glasses of water. Jean looked at the scenery outside the window and kept silent for a while.

'I should tell this problem to John while Sonny hasn't returned yet. This might get worse if I try to solve it on my own.' Jean thought to herself.

"The Qi Group called me today and said... They said that..." She paused and didn't continue what she was trying to say. She really didn't know how to explain it to John.

John was so clever. As soon as he saw Jean looked troubled and heard her with a depressed tone, he already knew that there was something bad that had happened to her. He looked at her calmly and said with assurance, "Everything can be solved."

"They requested us to have a photo shoot again." She lowered her head and didn't dare to see John's face.

John startled for a second. Though he thought of many unpleasant things in his head, he didn't speculated what Jean said. He didn't realize that the problem was as serious as having a photo shoot again.

The calmness in his face was slowly replaced with confusion that time. Then he asked, "Why did they want us to have a photo shoot again?"

"It's my fault. They were not satisfied with the qualities of the photographs that I edited. So they asked us to shoot photos again." Jean got even more embarrassed. She didn't want to bring any trouble to the company. However, she screwed up. She didn't mean it though.

"If the photographs were not edited well, we can just edit them again. Yet, why did they want us to shoot again?" John put his glass of water down. His face looked so serious.

Jean didn't really know the answer to his question.

If she had told John that Zed did it on purpose just because he didn't like her, it would be more deliberate than her lame excuse which was about the not well-edited photographs.