Twenty-nine. The days after the breakup
It's been a hectic time.
It's been a while since I broke up with Hua Ruoquan. Chang Xing didn't calculate how many days had passed, she just went to work as usual, got off work as usual, ate as usual, slept as usual, everything didn't seem to have changed, as if it was just an operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in life, and Hua Ruoquan was missing.
Chang Xing was unknown in the company, like warm and light water, and no one noticed what had happened to her in the past period. Just like no one knew about her relationship with Hua Ruoquan at the beginning.
Chang Xing's life is still two points and one line, but she put an end to all news related to Hua Ruoquan, and also avoided Hua Ruoquan and people related to him.
At the beginning of the breakup between the two, Hua Ruoquan called her several times, but she didn't answer. She also saw him a few times outside the office when she got off work, and each time she went around the back door to leave.
She didn't understand, since she had broken up, what did Hua Ruoquan do when she came to her? She had already let him go, why didn't he go to Jiang Jinchen?
Is it because of guilt, or do you have something else to say to her? Chang Xing doesn't understand Hua Ruoquan's current thoughts, and he doesn't want to know more.
Probably looked for her several times to no avail, Hua Ruoquan never came to her again, after all, he is not the kind of man who will entangle people. And Jiang Jinchen returned to the UK the day after she broke up with Hua Ruoquan, and called her a few times, Chang Xing always looked at the number and pressed the hang-up button.
It doesn't matter if she's running away, cowardly, she just doesn't want to see them for the time being, she wants to let herself heal quietly, she is really not so generous, she can restore friendship with her ex-boyfriend immediately after breaking up, and she can't face a friend who has cheated on her for a long time.
It looks fine on the outside, but her heart is not uncomfortable, only she knows how deep her feelings for Hua Ruoquan are, and every inch of her mind has left Hua Ruoquan's figure, and how she can erase that person without a trace in a short period of time.
How deep you love someone, how deep the pain is when you are hurt.
During the Chinese New Year, the company took a seven-day holiday, and she went home to spend the New Year with her parents, and hurried back. She worries that her weak self will collapse in the eternal love of her parents, and let the suppressed pain break the embankment.
She is an adult, and there are some things that she should take care of alone.
I don't know if Xu Weining noticed something, but he often called her. occasionally asked about her and Hua Ruoquan's situation on the phone, but she was also vaguely asked. Chang Xing knew that Xu Weining had been involved in a bunch of chores recently, and he didn't want her to worry about it more, so he concealed the news of his breakup with Hua Ruoquan.
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Chang Xing, who rarely participates in company gatherings, has not escaped this time, the company has just pulled a big business, and the boss is happy, so he invites all the employees of the company to have a dinner together.
Her company is very small, and there are not many employees, so the high-spirited boss ordered that no one should be left behind at the dinner party that day. After getting off work, Chang Xing was not good to leave alone, so he could only participate with the crowd.
The old man is always a drunkard, after a few glasses, he swept away the majesty of weekdays, and pulled every employee to toast a few glasses, Rao is Chang Xing, who hid in the corner as soon as he entered the table, did not escape the boss's persuasion.
Chang Xing didn't know how to drink, and in the past, when someone persuaded her to drink at class reunions, Hua Ruoquan helped her block it. Today's drink made me seven or eight points drunk.
At the end of the scene, the male employees sent the female employees home, often forgetting who sent herself, only knowing that she got off at the place outside her community where the taxi could not come in, politely thanked the person who sent her, and turned back into the alley.
Chang Xing's wine is very good, and there is no difference between drunk and normal days, but his movements are a little slower, and he is uncomfortable inside.
Walking a little swaying in the silent alleys. Since the robbery in the alley that day, some patrols have been deployed near this community, and some demolished old houses have begun to be rebuilt, and there are no more homeless people staying, and the security of the community is much better than in the past.
Chang Xing unconsciously glanced up when he passed by a house. As usual, it was pitch black, and she knew that the old building had begun to be demolished, and the man who had helped her a few times, but she had forgotten to ask his name, had already left.
Chang Xing retracted his gaze and lowered his eyes slightly. That person was just a chance encounter in her life, and she didn't think about having more intersections, but she was a little sorry for not thanking him.
Chang Xing raised her hand and rubbed her throbbing temples, she hadn't drunk much, and it was the first time she had tasted drunk, she didn't expect it to be so uncomfortable.
But perhaps because of the drinking, she can't recall some things she doesn't want to recall so clearly.
It seems that wine is not useless.
Chang Xing shook her head and smiled, but before she could react, she tripped over something, and the sky spun around, and she lay on the ground in embarrassment. The nerves paralyzed by the wine, even the pain came a long time later. After enduring the dizziness and nausea, Chang Xing sat slowly against the wall when his vision slowly returned to clear.
Ignoring his soiled suit and indecent posture, Chang Xing only felt that he was so tired, and he just wanted to sit quietly like this for a while and blow a cool breeze.
I don't know how long I sat down, there was a crisp "pop" sound next to me, in the quiet of the night, the sound of the can ring opening was very clear, Chang Xing didn't expect someone nearby, and he was suddenly startled, and the wine was also scared by this scared by three points.
Chang Xing turned his head to look to the side after realizing it, and saw a person sitting not far from him, one foot straight, the other foot bent at will, obviously it was this silent man who tripped her up.
The man's figure was hidden in the shadows that the street lamps couldn't illuminate, no wonder she didn't notice it.
Getting up in a panic, Chang Xing subconsciously avoided the strange man in the middle of the night. It's just that she drank too much wine, so that her movements were slow and sluggish, and her limbs didn't listen to her brain at all, so she just got up, and sat on the ground without standing firmly.
The two embarrassed outbursts made Chang Xing's already red cheeks even hotter. The man just glanced at her nonchalantly, then lifted the can in his hand, shook it, and brought it to his mouth.