In winter, the sky is lit up very late, and it is often completely lit up after seven o'clock. In Beijing, the nights are even longer and more terrible, and when it is late at night, the sky will turn into a pitch black that cannot be seen by a single light, as if it will never see the dawn.

Ai Xin held the hot coffee, leaned her head against the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looked out the window at the black sky and colorful neon signs, and her eyelids drooped weakly.

Not far from him, there is Tao Li, who has been sleeping soundly, he doesn't snore when he sleeps, but he often talks about his dreams. Sometimes, Ai Xin felt that his dream words were more valuable than what he usually said.

"Raw...... Raw ......"

Tao Li lay on the sofa and popped out a few words in a daze.

"What is it, what is it?"

Ai Xin scolded with a smile, and thought that Tao Li couldn't hear what he said at all, so he shook his head with a wry smile and looked back out the window.

"Raw...... What joy is there in life, what joy is in death, what joy is in death......"

Tao Li rolled over, fell off the couch, and finally uttered a complete dream sentence on the carpet.

Alas. Ai Xin sighed silently, Tao Li would only be so cultured in his dreams...... It seems that the knowledge from childhood to college has all been suppressed in the subconscious.

"Little Sister Ai!"

Meow Meow pushed open the door and excitedly shouted Ai Xin's name, but suddenly found Tao Li on the ground, immediately lowered his voice, took a step forward, stopped again, and looked at Ai Xin.

"That...... Young Master......"

"Carpet, it's fine. Ai Xin waved his hand to dispel Meowmeow's concerns, "Hurry up, it's good news, right?"

"Well, someone has been found. Meowth nodded, her face full of joy that she couldn't hide.

"So fast?" Ai Xin was quite surprised, she thought it would take a few days to find Lao Zhao, but she didn't expect it to be less than 24 hours.

"Mmmm, I asked my friend to ......" Meow Meow seemed to want to say something, hesitated, and sat down next to Ai Xin.

"It's nothing, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, just find someone. ”

Ai Xin didn't turn her head to look at her, and asked, it wasn't what she liked to do.

"That's not what you mean...... Meow Meow lowered her head, "I, I knew a ...... when I went out with the young master before Like, do you know gold?"

"Kim?"

Ai Xin was obviously very impressed by his name, and they had met again not long ago, so naturally they remembered it quickly.

"Uh-huh, it's him. He likes to play with the young master, but the young master doesn't seem to like him very much, so I don't usually have much contact with him...... If you're looking for someone, I think, he still has some connections, right?"

"Look at you. Ai Xin suddenly laughed, "Calm down, your mind will begin to clear." ”

Meow Meow smiled a little embarrassedly, and felt a little guilty about her previous irrationality, so even if she didn't want to, she had to have a glimmer of hope to ask for help from Xiaojin. Fortunately, Xiao Jin is very reliable in this regard, and quickly found someone for her.

"Shall we ...... Are you going to find someone now?"

"Don't go. ”

Ai Xin held the coffee in her hand and replied without hesitation.

"Not going?"

Meow Meow was stunned for a moment, obviously surprised by Ai Xin's answer. She thought that Ai Xin was in such a hurry to arrange herself to find Lao Zhao's whereabouts, it must be to recover the missing public funds as soon as possible. Besides, isn't this kind of thing more likely to be solved the longer it drags on?

"Meow, let me ask you, do you think Lao Zhao seems to be a person who would do such a thing?"

Ai Xin suddenly put down the coffee in her hand and turned her head to look at her.

"This ......"

Meow Meow must be very angry at Lao Zhao's betrayal of Tao Li and damage to the interests of the company. But after calming down, reason returned to her brain, and she felt that Lao Zhao had no reason to do such a thing.

Yu Li, Tao Li's treatment of Lao Zhao is very good, even one of her assistants has been receiving the average salary of middle managers for so many years, she doesn't believe that Tao Li will be mean to Lao Zhao.

In love, Lao Zhao and Tao Li's friendship is not shallow, she is sure as an outsider, if Lao Zhao really has any difficulties, Tao Li will definitely find a way to help. One million is not a small amount, but it is not a large amount for Tao Li, although the company has not been doing it for a long time, and the liquidity is indeed not much, but Ai Xin will definitely help.

So for this matter, Meow Meow still has her own doubts in her heart.

"You didn't answer because you didn't think about it?" Ai Xin looked at the hesitant Meow Meow and laughed.

"Who else...... Sister Ai, do you think so too?"

"I'm not, but Tao Li should be as entangled as you. It's just that he has a big heart, so he can sleep on the ground at such a time. ”

"No, the young master is not big-hearted. ”

Meow Meow sighed, turned her head and looked at Tao Li, as seriously as if she had made up her mind.

"Sister Ai, let me tell you the truth, the young master has been really hard in the past few months. Not to mention before, he almost didn't sleep in the past two weeks, and we have less money to invite fewer people, and many things in the company are arranged by the young master. But the young master...... You may not really know how tired you are, you may not know how tired you are...... This incident hit him hard, he was really struggling, and it was probably because of this that the young master couldn't bear it, I haven't seen him go to bed before two o'clock in the middle of the night for a long time. ”

"It's okay, let's solve these later, let me tell you, why don't you find Lao Zhao in a hurry." Ai Xin nodded, looked at her again and continued, "If Lao Zhao was instructed to do this, then the other party is probably not for money but to bring down Tao Li, so this money will not be moved, and when the matter is over, the responsibility will be much less." But if Lao Zhao is really obsessed with his own ghosts, or if he has any difficulties and has taken a crooked path for a while, then I am afraid it is impossible to recover the money now. ”

Meow Meow listened to Ai Xin's words, and then nodded suddenly in understanding, feeling very reasonable. But after thinking about it for a while, she was a little strange: "If that's the case, why are you in a hurry to let me go to him?"

"How do I know that you will ask someone else for help, my original intention, I originally wanted you to analyze his information to find out his location, and exercise your logical thinking. But I didn't think that you would directly ask someone to help, which is very similar to Tao Li. Ai Xin quipped, "It seems that you don't want to be inward in the future, you can consider developing outward." ”

"Little Sister Ai!" Meow Meow glanced at her a little shyly and said rather complainingly.

"Don't tease you, I want to know where he is, mainly to know if there is anyone behind this. What did Xiao Jin tell you, is he still in the city, and he is staying in a hotel?"

“......”

Meow Meow opened her mouth but couldn't speak, and looked at her in surprise, and it took a long time to come back to her senses.

"You...... Little, little Ai, how do you know...... Or did you find out a long time ago and just wanted to see how long it would take me to find out?"

"No, it's just a guess. Ai Xin shook his head, frowned again, and thought deeply, "If that's the case, it's really hard to do......"

"Why?"

Meow Meow couldn't help but ask, but as soon as she finished asking, she felt like a fool again.

"It's nothing, you go to sleep in the lounge, there's a lid in the cupboard. Ai Xin looked at her apologetically, "My current brain is not suitable for driving, and I don't worry about you going home by yourself when it's too late, if it's inconvenient, just wait for dawn to go back." ”

"I—I'm nothing. Meow Meow glanced at Tao Li, who was sleeping on the ground, still worried that he would catch a cold like this.

"Oh. Ai Xin looked at the direction of her eyes, immediately understood, and stood up from the ground, "I'll go to another room to sleep for a while, and then think about things, if you wake up early, call me up." ”

"Hmm. Meow Meow didn't know that her heart had already been seen through by Ai Xin, and her eyes still fell on Tao Li and refused to take it away, until Ai Xin came out of the office.

Ai Xin looked at the empty office area, and her heart was full of emotion. In the past, it was said that people went to empty buildings, but now that the people in the company have gone, everything is still there, which is really a conscience of these employees.

She opened the door of the reception room, and the leather sofa inside was still ordered by herself at that time, after all, many orders were brought back by her hard work, and a perfect reception room was her most basic requirement for the company.

Compared with the number of orders that many sales fancy to sell, she pays more attention to the quality of each order, and instead of running day and night to break her legs, she is better at making every order she pulls.

Not to do useless work is the purpose of her life. But looking back on this time, it seems that she has been living a life contrary to her purpose.

Now she will never understand some of the things that Tao Li often tells her.

In many cases, useless work is also a very important part of life. There is a lot of time in a person's life that is wasted. Desertion is the greatest respect for that time.

Her life is like clockwork, she is in a state of extreme tension anytime and anywhere, and once she relaxes, she will feel bottomless and depraved.

But Tao Li is too relaxed, and his mood and body are extremely relaxed. Even once you decide what you want to do, you use too much force. Once you try a little harder, you will feel like you have given it your all.

Ai Xin glanced at his phone, it was almost five o'clock, not only did he not feel sleepy, but he felt that the thoughts in his head were getting more and more chaotic, just like watching the street vendors make maltose when he was a child, there was a stick constantly stirring in his mind, so the thoughts became more and more and bigger, inextricably linked, and he couldn't figure it out anymore.

She lay on the couch, staring blankly at the blank ceiling, but the picture in front of her gradually became clearer.

At that time, Ai Xin had only turned 15 years old, and the summer had not yet passed, and the air was still sultry.

In that final exam, she did better than usual, and she was usually in the top three in her class, but she became the top ten in her grade. Because of such proud results, she was successfully admitted to a key high school from the top class of a key junior high school.

Since childhood, what Ai Xin has heard the most is "This child is really a genius", "This child is too smart", "This child will definitely be able to achieve great things in the future" and so on.

The knowledge in school was too simple for her, and her parents almost never had to worry about her grades. Whether it is Chinese and mathematics, or English, which many children struggle with, she can quickly enter the learning state, and her extremely fast reading speed and super memory also make her stand out among her peers. Even physics and chemistry, which she had just come into contact with, couldn't understand it at first, so she found a lot of workbooks and came back to study them, and soon found the trick, and rushed from the edge of passing to the top.

But even so, Ai Xin almost never heard a few words of praise from her parents.

She thought that maybe her parents were very good, so they had high requirements for themselves, so she was still working hard and never slackened at all; perhaps, she had always been excellent and had not made much progress, so her parents felt that there was nothing to praise; or it could be that her parents were just not good at words, although they did not encourage them in their mouths, they were very proud of themselves in their hearts.

No matter what the reason is, it must be because of their own shortcomings, great love is speechless, even if you can't feel it, but your parents must love you deeply. At that time, Ai Xin always had such an idea and greeted every day with the best mood.

And that summer, she was in a better mood than usual, because before the exam, her parents had promised that she could meet one of her requirements by being admitted to the top class of a key high school.

When she got the report card, Ai Xin's mind had already drifted to a distant place, and she could already imagine that she was holding the newly released album, and after a long queue, she finally met Tong Yu and got his autograph......

However, when Ai Xin came back to his senses, the mother in front of him was already furious.

"Impossible!" Ai Jinling angrily threw away the report card in her hand and pointed at Ai Xin's nose, "We are so dedicated to cultivating you just to let you chase stars?"

"I'm not chasing ......"

"What are you not chasing stars? How old are you, when you grow up, you have time to do this, the age when you should spend the most time studying, you want to run to chase stars?"

"yes. Fang Jun also accosted on the side, "Mom and Dad promised you, you can buy whatever you want, why do you have to run so far? Besides, how can we have time to accompany you?"

"I can ...... it myself"

Before Ai Xin finished speaking, Ai Jinling had already stood up and knocked down the gold-rimmed floor-to-ceiling mirror in the living room.

"Boom-click-"

The loud bang shattered Ai Xin's dreams and her glassy heart. The ground was sprinkled with glass shards, and in front of him was Ai Jinling, who had lost control of his emotions, and Fang Jun, who looked indifferent next to him.

Ai Xin stood cautiously in the center of a pile of broken glass, not moving, keeping her head down and waiting for the impending storm.

"I'm telling you, don't even think about it until you're an adult—"

"Okay, okay, what are you doing with such a big fire with a child?"

Fang Jun comforted Ai Jinling, and at the same time secretly glanced at Ai Xin: "Why don't you hurry back to the room?"

"But, but I ...... it."

"Don't say it, your mother is angry, let's talk about it later!"

Fang Jun blocked her words, and helped Ai Jinling again: "Don't be angry, the child is not sensible, and he didn't mean it, who will take care of her when you are angry......

"You're not human, why do you have to take care of my child? Isn't that your child?"

Ai Xin walked up the stairs while listening to the constant stream of complaints and noises in the living room. She went back to her room, turned off the light, lay down on the bed, and quickly began the one thing she liked the most - sleeping.

Only when you fall asleep can you get rid of all this as quickly as possible, and only in your dreams can you have true freedom.

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