Chapter 22: Missed
"Happy cooperation!" Zheng Nguyen Ho and Li Xian Yan signed the cooperation agreement in a very formal way under the watchful eyes of both teams, and shook hands to congratulate.
Both of them relaxed, but both nervous. Although the work is done, what about the relationship between them? Say yes, there is not even a formal hand-holding, say no, they all admire each other. If they are separated like this, what will happen to them in the future? In the past, they could sit together to eat and chat under the pretext of work, but in the future, they will no longer find a high-sounding reason.
"Will you go back the day after tomorrow?" asked Zheng Ruanhao knowingly.
"Yes. Li Xianyan packed up what she had at hand.
"What about you, or stay for a few days?" he tried to keep her.
"If it's okay, I'll go back together. She still retains a hint of reserve, a hint of hope.
Zheng Ruanhao shrugged his shoulders and changed the subject: "There is a banquet in the evening, let's go together?"
Li Xianyan nodded, and she agreed.
The two of them have a tacit understanding, care, and there is still a distance. This distance is a test of a mature woman to a mature man, and it is also an exploration of a successful man to a successful woman, they are always testing and doubting each other, but no one has ever taken the initiative to bring it up, because they all have status, identity, and they are not too old, they have a variety of life experiences, they have long passed the stage of curiosity and innocence, but there is no emotional impulse.
At night, Li Xianyan wore a black off-the-shoulder dress, beautiful and dignified, and Zheng Ruanhao, who was holding it, was looking for various reasons in his heart, and kept telling himself that he should keep her, at least for a few days, and he wanted to stay with her for a few more days, he had to find a suitable reason, not to damage his face, but also to keep her, and then what?
Li Xianyan changed a lot of clothes, and finally chose this dress that she thought was a little revealing, she was a little resentful of Zheng Ruanhao's hesitation, but occasionally she felt relaxed, because she was not sure whether she liked him or not, she decided to give this relationship to God, if there was a chance tonight, she planned to make it clear to him, either go further or quit, she didn't have much time to waste with him, after all, she was in her thirties, and time was too precious for a woman.
After Zheng Ruan Hao took Li Xianyan around, they separated, they are not separate individuals, they still have careers behind them, so they have to be separated for a while, and also give both parties a chance to breathe, a chance to prepare, and a chance to make up their minds.
Li Xianyan finally had time to find Zheng Ruanhao, there was no sign of him in the whole hall, so she walked to the garden, where she could occasionally meet one or two people who came to the banquet, he might come out to breathe, it was too stuffy inside. She looked around, but didn't see him, and was about to turn back. An autumn breeze blew, and a coolness hit, and there were also a few whispering, very familiar sounds.
She walked through the garden, stood in the shadows, and saw two people sitting on the swing under the street lamp, two people hugging each other, and she squinted her eyes and tried to look, but she still couldn't see clearly, so she came closer.
"Don't pretend, men are the same. The woman sat on the man's lap, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him frantically.
The swing swings violently, and the man holds the woman.
She saw clearly that it was Bai Yue and Zheng Ruanhao.
Her brain exploded, and she felt that it was pitch black in front of her, and she hurriedly grabbed anything around her with her hand, but only grabbed the thorny rose, this pain, she was awake, there was nothing worth her nostalgia here.
She gave him opportunities again and again, but he gave up again and again, she thought that as long as she worked hard, he would always change for her, she was not faintly young, nor was Bai Yue sexy, but she was a woman after all, how could she turn a blind eye to his hurt like this?
Maybe he's been playing with her all the time, playing with her feelings, and even borrowing her wrong idea to make them cooperate, yes, in the beginning, he just had so many women, in the beginning, he just liked Yuyu, in the beginning, he just used her self-deception to promote their cooperation, he just wanted to cooperate, didn't he?
How could she be so stupid, how could she have the illusion again and again, thinking that he would also like her?
She was wrong, she was very wrong, her self-confidence, her conceit, her intelligence, her sensitivity, and she had too much, a woman like her can't get true love, so why bother expecting?
The dignity she worked so hard to maintain was ruthlessly trampled on by Zheng Ruanhao, she clenched her fists, and let the thorns of the rose pierce deeper, only in this way could she relieve some of the pain in her heart, she couldn't stand it anymore, turned around and left quietly.
Zheng Ruanhao pushed away the woman on his body forcefully, and saw Bai Yue in the hall, he was very surprised, out of politeness, he listened to her advice and went out for a walk, but unexpectedly, she pushed him on the swing chair and kissed him even more, this is also crazy, you know, such an action should be completed by him, but today he didn't have such a mind, he knew that he had changed.
He has changed since he met Youyou, and with Youyou, her innocence makes him know how to cherish it. And when he met Li Xianyan, he gradually realized that he was reluctant to leave her, reluctant to let her go, he couldn't think of too good reasons tonight, but whether he was better or not, he would tell her that if she didn't agree, he still had ten or twenty reasons, and he had thirty and thirty three hundred reasons, he must keep her, just to keep her, he wasn't sure that this was love, because the original chaotic life had paralyzed him for too long, and now, he just wanted to start from scratch slowly with her.
But where was she? Not in or out of the room, and at last the waiter at the door told him that she had left. He doesn't care, with the urge tonight, he wants to say what he wants to say, to do what he wants to do. He sped the car away and went straight to her hotel.
Coming to her door, he knocked hurriedly.
She opened the door and stared coldly.
Seeing her displeasure, he flinched a little.
He had come to deceive her again, and she didn't want to see him, so she decided to close the door.
He stretched out his hand to push the door, and when he saw that her brain suddenly short-circuited, he paused for a moment before he said solemnly: "Let's go in a few days." ”
She pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled.
What's the use of him keeping her, so that she can see him making out with other women? She frowned, suppressed her anger and asked, "Is there any work left undone?"
"No, I think there's something else I'd like to talk to you about, and there's a lot of nice views here that I want to show you around. Zheng Ruanhao only felt that his back was sweating, he felt that he was back to his youth, a naïve boy facing a girl who had been secretly in love for a long time, this was a pure emotional overwhelm.
"No need, I have something to do, I'll leave early tomorrow morning!" she didn't want to stay here for a minute.
"Tomorrow, isn't it the day after tomorrow? Why is it early?" his nervous blood boiled, and his inner desire to keep her became stronger.
She looked at him, his play was so good, she couldn't see any deception in his eyes, it was all sincerity. But if this look might have deceived her before, now it seemed to her only ridiculous, ridiculous for his shamelessness, ridiculous for her thirties to be deceived and believe it to be true. Looking into his eyes, her hatred intensified.
"Why? Why should I stay with a liar, I'm sick to stay any longer!"
Zheng Ruan Hao was stunned and hurriedly defended: "I didn't lie to you!"
Li Xianyan really smiled, laughing helplessly and desolately, "You didn't lie to me, did you?
She stared into his eyes and took a step forward, "Okay, let me ask you, was Yuyu your girlfriend when I came?"
Zheng Ruanhao thought about it, and was about to say no, but he didn't want to deceive her anymore, so he sighed and nodded.
Li Xianyan didn't wait for him to speak, took a step closer, and asked: "When I was on the beach, did you let the white dragon pull Youyou to give me the illusion that they were a couple?"
Zheng Ruanhao took a step back and wanted to open his mouth, but nodded weakly.
She went further, "Do you want to meet us as a bachelor, and use this convenience to make women have a good impression of you, so as to promote cooperation?" Li Xianyan said that the jade teeth in the back were about to be crushed.
Zheng Ruanhao took another step back, raised his head, and opened his eyes wide, but he thought that he really thought this way at the beginning, and only stared at her, not daring to nod or shake his head.
Li Xianyan smiled bitterly, retreated into the house, and slammed the door tightly, separating the man who made her annoyed and hateful.
Zheng Ruan Hao lowered his head and hung his shoulders, his previous heroic posture had long been thrown aside, he failed, he lost to himself, he had designed it for so long, so carefully, but he designed himself. It wasn't until the moment Li Xianyan closed the door that he realized that he really liked her, but he did deceive her and hurt her.
After the autumn wind, the autumn rain drifted away, but Zheng Ruanhao's heart could no longer burn a trace of warmth like this autumn wind and autumn rain.
He missed the third and most important opportunity.