The next day, Anna casually asked Fang Tingting to go shopping and eat. In the dining room, Anna, who had been talking and laughing, suddenly stopped talking, and after a while began to sob, and her eyes became red. Fang Tingting noticed that something was wrong with Anna, "Anna, what's wrong with you? ”

"Sister Tingting, I know who the woman Li Xiaoran fell in love with. She stopped sobbing and her eyes were fixed on Fang Tingting, Anna knew that the showdown had finally arrived. She said word by word, "That woman is you." ”

When Anna said this, Fang Tingting only felt her head buzz. "Sister Anna, how is this possible? Don't speculate, I just treat Li Xiaoran as my own brother, how could he fall in love with me, this is impossible. She was starting to panic.

"Sister Tingting, in fact, I'm really stupid, I thought that the relationship between the three of us was really so simple and pure, but now that I think about it, Xiao Ran rarely gets along so well with girls of the opposite sex, in fact, he should not have been in close contact with other members of the opposite sex except for me. And just after he graduated from college, he often called me and mentioned you in my ear, and it was the only woman he mentioned, and he said that the parting essay you wrote in your senior year touched him very much, and he felt that you were a talented woman. Although it was only a few words, he mentioned it a few times when he was inadvertently living abroad. From this point of view, it is indeed my negligence. In addition, Li Xiaoran, who has never been tired of being with women and feels a little annoying about women, can actually pick you up and drop you off work every day, and he has done a lot of things for you. Colleagues in your unit, don't you also call you fairy couples?" Anna looked at Fang Tingting with a playful and extremely self-deprecating expression, and now, after Zhang Jiang, she had obtained more information from Li Xiaoran's employees.

"Sister Anna, don't listen to their nonsense, I told them a long time ago, it's not like that at all, what kind of fairy couple? We can be called fairy sisters and brothers at best, the two of us have more time in contact, but I never thought that I would treat Li Xiaoran as a man of the opposite sex, or a man who has developed a relationship with the opposite sex, I think we are more like sisters and brothers, more like best friends. Anna, believe me, I haven't thought too much about Li Xiaoran, and I haven't done anything beyond the love of my sister and brother. ”

Looking at Fang Tingting's anxious and sincere expression, Anna said calmly, "I believe in you, but I don't believe Li Xiaoran, obviously, the things I heard in my ears have shown that his feelings for you are already very deep, so deep that even I am jealous and envious to death." What is practicing samba for pursuing foreign girls, these are all excuses for him to get close to you, and he can make him lie for a woman, do things that he once hated very much, and things that he felt very vulgar, can only show that his love for you has been engraved into the bone marrow. But despite this, I still can't give up on him, because I love him as much as he loves you, and without him, my life will be meaningless. Anna is very honest, although she feels that Li Xiaoran's love for Fang Tingting is so deep that she can't accept it and makes her miserable, but she still chooses to say it to Fang Tingting without concealment, she wants to see Fang Tingting's reaction, and use this pressure to see what she will do next.

"Sister Anna, what do you want me to do? I can do anything for you, okay, now I will choose to completely disappear from your life, you can rest assured, I will never be with Li Xiaoran, because there is a secret, I have not told anyone, but now I will tell you. Fang Tingting learned a lot of truth from her mouth, she knew that Li Xiaoran had done so many unusual things silently for herself, she knew that her previous guess was right, at this moment, she felt like she had just woken up from a big dream, feeling a kind of warmth and happiness that she had never felt before. But she knew that everything from now on would never belong to her, and she had no other choice but one way to go.

Anna looked at Fang Tingting with a puzzled expression, she really hoped that the reason Fang Tingting said could make Li Xiaoran return to her side again.

Fang Tingting calmed down for a while, and then said to Anna, "Because I am a mid-stage cancer patient and an experimenter of new anti-cancer drugs. Although the drug initially inhibited the spread of my tumor and gradually improved, recently, there was an abnormality and the cancer cells began to spread rapidly. Obviously, I can't give Li Xiaoran any promise when I don't know where my life is going and when it will suddenly end, and of course I won't give him any chance. During this time, in fact, I am still very grateful to Li Xiaoran, his appearance has brought a lot of joy to my life, although I have not regarded it as a manifestation of love, just as a kind of family affection, but, no matter what, he has paid a lot for me, and what I can do for him and for you is to stop bothering you, no longer affecting you, and disappear as soon as possible in your world. ”

"Sister Tingting, when did you find out? Why didn't you tell us? Does Li Xiaoran know?" This answer obviously shocked and sudden, she had completely forgotten that the other party was her rival for a while, because, from the bottom of her heart, Anna recognized Fang Tingting and liked her as a person.

"I think he knew, maybe it was after I fainted in Turkey that he took me to the hospital, where the local doctor examined me, and I thought maybe the doctor thought he was my relative and told him about my condition. Looking back now, I feel that after that time, he seemed to be different from before, and he once told me that he would take care of me and make me happy in the future, which also frightened me at the time. And after I sternly rejected him, he put on a hippie smile and funny look, which made me feel like he was playing tricks on me. So, I didn't take his words to heart at the time. I'm so sorry for the impact I have caused you, rest assured that I will not have any contact with him from now on, rest assured, I will disappear into your world. ”

Knowing all this, knowing that Fang Tingting would soon disappear from Li Xiaoran's side and from her own life, however, Anna was not happy, but a little sad.

Fang Tingting left quietly, she canceled her original contact information, and this time even Liu Xiaoqian did not notify her, and started her long backpacker journey. In the case that she doesn't know how long she has left, she plans to travel all over the southwest of the country, to Yunnan, Qinghai, and Guangxi, where she once longed for, to experience a different style of life.

In the Guanhai B&B in Erhai Lake, Dali, sitting on the balcony, surrounded by flowers of various bright colors, Fang Tingting looked at the calm Erhai Lake, the indigo lake surface and the blue sky and white clouds are integrated, and from time to time there are birds flying into her field of vision, she feels very comfortable. All the way to Yunnan, the majestic Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna, and the marriage customs of the Mosuo people have left a deep impression on her, she quietly recalled the experience of this trip, it seems that everything is so beautiful, however, she always feels that there is something missing? groping for memories, she found that what was missing was the company of a person, the figure that had been around her for a long time, "Are you okay?" she picked up the diamond ring, muttered, and then fell into deep thought.

Li Xiaoran frantically searched, but Liu Xiaoqian didn't know Fang Tingting's whereabouts, every time she went to a place, she just used the public phone to report her safety, and she couldn't be contacted again. Li Xiaoran went from the initial madness to slowly calmed down, and the first thing he did was to completely break off with Anna. When they broke up, Li Xiaoran was so resolute.

"Xiaoran, Fang Tingting is gone, she will never come back, she has never loved you, she doesn't even have the idea of loving you, why do you want to break up with me? You can't be together, she may have time running out, and she may soon disappear forever in this world? Then why, do you want to break up with me?" Anna's face was full of tears.

"I'm sorry, Anna, I can't be with you because, I've realized that I don't love you anymore, I don't want to lie to you, and I don't want to lie to myself. Being together without love, that's something I can't accept, and I'm sure it's what you don't want. Li Xiaoran looked at Anna with a lonely expression, he knew that he was cruel, but he didn't want to have any more mud and water, he wanted to wait for Fang Tingting to come back alone, even if it was her cold corpse, he also wanted to be qualified to bury her with his own hands, place his pure love beside her, and accompany her to sleep.

"Xiaoran, I don't care, I just want you, as long as I'm with you, whether you love me or not, I don't care, please don't leave me, it's meaningless for me to live without you. Anna shook her head frantically, crying and pleading.

"I'm sorry, my heart is dead, it's not fair to you. It's my fault, let me go!" Li Xiaoran, who was affected by Anna's actions and was emotionally uncontrollable, actually knelt down for Anna. Yes, he knelt down and begged Anna to let him go.

What a conceited man, in order to leave himself, he lowered his proud head and lowered his noble knees. This is Li Xiaoran, whom Anna has never seen, who is depressed, decadent, cowardly, and has lost his former brilliance. Looking at Li Xiaoran like this, Anna knew that Fang Tingting had taken root in his heart, and it was very deep, beyond her imagination. She smiled dejectedly, turned to leave, she wanted to forget this scene, Li Xiaoran should not be like this in her heart, stumbled, she returned to the hotel where she was staying.

Borrowing wine to eliminate sorrow and sorrow, at this time, Anna can only numb herself with a glass of red wine, flashing pictures of the past in her mind, the energetic, handsome and dashing Li Xiaoran beckoned to her, rushed to her, and the two of them walked on the street hand in hand abroad, and had a candlelight dinner together. However, it seems that everything cannot be turned back, the man kneeling in front of him appears, "That's not him, that's not him", Anna smiled wryly as if enchanted, "I can't live without you, can't." Without you, I'd rather die, yes, die, so that you will always remember me. "Anna is crazy, at this point, she's really crazy.

She lay in the bathroom, filled with water, and gently cut her wrist with a fruit knife, the pain of the cut made her expression ugly, but she still forced a smile and completed the action, putting her arm in the bath and feeling the slow passage of life.

"Xiaoran, is Anna with you?" At this time, Anna's mother dialed Li Xiaoran's phone.

"No, what's wrong, Auntie?" Li Xiaoran was surprised when she received a call from Anna's mother.

"Then why doesn't this kid answer so many phone calls? Every day at this time, the two of us talk on the phone, but what did she do today? Why didn't she answer the phone? She doesn't have any friends over there? Are you arguing, she doesn't feel like she's in a good mood these days? Anna's mother said on the phone, a little anxious.

"Auntie, don't worry, I'll go find her, don't worry, I'll notify you as soon as there is news. Li Xiaoran obviously sensed that something was wrong, he hung up the phone in a hurry and hurried to Anna's hotel.

Fortunately, Li Xiaoran arrived in time, Anna was rescued, and in the hospital, Li Xiaoran made a phone call to Anna's mother, "Auntie, Anna is fine, I didn't hear the phone call with my friend K song, don't worry!"

In front of the hospital bed, Li Xiaoran looked at Anna with a pale face, very guilty, she who was once lively and lovely would do such a stupid thing, he blamed himself very much, everything was because of himself, hurt such a woman with a pure nature, he stroked her forehead, and made a decision in his heart.

When Anna woke up, Li Xiaoran looked at her with a distressed face, "Why are you so stupid, your life is your own, you can't bear to leave like this, not afraid that your parents will be sad?"

Looking at his actions and listening to what he said, Anna shed tears, this is Li Xiaoran, who she once knew, he came back again, and when he saw the small red box in his hand, an irrepressible excitement appeared on Anna's face, "What is that?" She quickly snatched the box and opened it to see that it was a diamond ring.

"Let's get engaged, I decided to take good care of you, let him pass everything in the past!" Li Xiaoran said firmly to Anna.

"Really? Xiaoran, isn't this my dream? Is it that I'm already dead? This is what I expected to happen in the other world?"

"Nonsense, it's all true. I feel that I should make you happy, and I have a responsibility to make you happy. Li Xiaoran muttered, however, speaking of this, he remembered another scene, the scene in Turkey, and suddenly his expression darkened a little.

Anna didn't notice any of this at all, she was already completely immersed in happiness, "It seems, everything is worth it." She tightly protected Li Xiaoran.

At this time, Li Xiaoran was still in his own contemplation, but a thought was churning painfully in his heart, "Maybe this is what you want to see, I hope that I am holding Anna in my arms! Where are you?"

Fang Tingting has been out for more than three months, thinking that she hasn't been in contact with Liu Xiaoqian for a long time, so she found the public phone of the inn and dialed Liu Xiaoqian.

Liu Xiaoqian, who was on the other end of the phone, heard Fang Tingting's voice, and immediately shouted, "Tingting, why are you so annoying?" Just called me, and said that if you disappeared, you won't say the reason, where are you now? Hey, let's not talk about this, do you know that our junior brother Li Xiaoran is already engaged, you said that the relationship between the two of you is so good, and you can't come back to participate, it's a pity." Tingting, when are you coming back?" Liu Xiaoqian on the other end of the phone didn't wait for Fang Tingting to speak, and began to chatter.

"He's engaged to Anna, that's great, I'm pretty much done here, I'm going to go back in a few days, they're engaged, they're a natural couple. Although Fang Tingting happily expressed her blessings to Liu Xiaoqian for their engagement, she didn't know why she had a sour feeling in her heart. She knew that now that everything had settled, there was no need for her to hide in a different place, but after going back this time, she still had to try to have as little contact with them as possible, no, it should be no contact, so as to avoid bringing waves to their lives.

Fang Tingting packed her luggage, booked a plane the next day, and prepared to go home. She was really a little homesick, she was going back to see her parents, she hadn't seen them for a long time.

After coming back, Fang Tingting lived in Liu Xiaoqian's house again, obviously, Xu Peng was also very generous, and lived in the bedroom next door, so that the two sisters could enjoy being together and express their sisters' affection, "Xiaoqian, help me find a house tomorrow, I don't plan to rent the original house, I want to find a place to live as soon as possible." ”

"What's the matter? Isn't Tingting's place to live very well? And don't you go to work at Li Xiaoran's? How convenient is it for him to take you to and from work every day?"

"No, I quit my job three months ago, and I want to find something new and try it. Fang Tingting found this excuse and replied to Liu Xiaoqian.

"You two can't be anything unpleasant, shouldn't you, forget it, don't think about it. It happens that tomorrow is the weekend, so I'll accompany you to find a new home, and it would be better if it was closer to my house, so we can be together often. The naïve and optimistic Liu Xiaoqian didn't see Zhang Tingting's complicated emotions at the moment.

At the same time, after two years of leisure, Ouyang Rui has come out of the grief of his deceased wife, and with the encouragement of his daughter Ouyang Yumi, he slowly cheered up and is ready to return to the company soon to take charge of the overall situation.

On this day, Ouyang Rui seemed to remember something, so he made a call to Fang Tingting. Obviously, Fang Tingting deactivated her original phone number after divorcing Qian Haiping and replaced it with a new number. didn't get through Fang Tingting's phone, Ouyang Rui was very surprised when he arrived, so he made a call to the editor-in-chief Chen Keying and made an appointment to have a meal together in the evening.

"Editor-in-Chief Chen, has it been published in your Economic Times this year? If so, please find someone to send it to our company next time when it is convenient, I want to see it." In addition, why can't I get through to Fang Tingting's phone?" Obviously, seeing Chen Keying this time, Ouyang Rui was most concerned about Fang Tingting's disappearance.

"Ouyang, don't you know? Your company stopped cooperating with us last year, and it didn't sponsor us here, Fang Tingting had already resigned, and then I heard that it seemed to be divorced, and her resignation had to say that it had something to do with your cessation of sponsorship. Chen Keying was so smart that she obviously already knew Ouyang Rui's main purpose for asking her, so she explained everything he wanted to know very succinctly.

"Why did you stop sponsoring, Fang Tingting resigned, what is going on?" Under Ouyang Rui's inquiry, Chen Keying told Ouyang about the cause and effect, probably because Fang Tingting had no sponsorship, and under Li Yali's exclusion, she resigned from her job in a fit of anger, and later heard from her colleagues that Fang Tingting was divorced.

"Well, it's all up to me, if I had been able to handle it better, things wouldn't have come to this point. In fact, I like Fang Tingting very much, if I had insisted on it at that time, maybe these unpleasant things that happened to her later might have been avoided. Chen Keying said with some self-blame.

Ouyang couldn't help frowning, "The cooperation was suspended without my consent! Don't worry about this matter, I will ask about the situation when I go back, and if it is convenient for you, help me inquire about Fang Tingting's whereabouts or have her contact information, you tell me as soon as possible." I think she had a lot to do with her resignation and what happened badly, and I need to give her an explanation and apologize to her. ”

Then, the two of them briefly talked about some inconsequential things, and the dinner ended quickly.

When Ouyang Rui returned home, he first called the director of the planning department, "Lao Zhao, I will go back to the company soon, but before I go back, I have something to figure out." Why was our cooperation with the Economic Times cancelled?Who made this decision?Why didn't you inform me?" Ouyang Rui came up and asked a series of questions, which made Director Zhao shudder.

"Chairman, that ......" Director Zhao wanted to speak and stopped.

"All you have to do is tell me the truth of the matter. If you don't, then I'm sorry, and I'll probably have to remove you from your position as director for not doing my job properly. I might as well tell you that because of your dereliction of duty, one of my best friends lost his job, and a series of unpleasant things happened later. It's impossible for me not to pursue this matter, and if you want to tell the truth, then you will be responsible for it. Ouyang Rui didn't want to ink with him anymore, and threw the worst result directly at him.

Hearing this, Director Zhao was a little scared, because Ouyang Rui, who had always been kind in his eyes, had never seen him say such heavy words, and he had always had a tolerant heart for the company's employees, obviously, this matter seemed to have touched his bottom line, and that friend seemed to be very important to him, and he decided to tell all the truth and discernment, "Chairman, this decision was made by the vice chairman, and soon after you left the company, he decided to cancel the cooperation." I was going to give you a big phone call to inform you, but I saw that the phone had not been able to get through. And in this incident, your help Xiao Liping seems to have played a role in fueling the fire. When you are in charge of the overall situation, they all look to you one by one, but after you leave temporarily, they begin to occupy the mountain and win over their own people, and all those who do not enter the circle of the vice chairman have been taken by them to take a cold attitude, and they have to stand aside for big and small decisions, as well as important meetings. Obviously, in this case, Xiao Liping joined the camp of the vice chairman. I heard from others that he came up with the idea of canceling the Economic Times, and the vice chairman also listened to his suggestion before canceling the sponsorship of the Economic Times. However, instead of decreasing, the cost of publicity has increased exponentially, investing in an unknown website. And everyone knows that website, that is, the vice chairman spends some money to find someone to build a small website, and he himself is the boss behind the scenes, and the sponsorship money invested there is equivalent to going into his pocket, two or three million a year. After saying this, Director Zhao let out a long breath, "Chairman, you are finally back, and now the company is in chaos, just waiting for you to come back and set things right!"

Ouyang Rui put down his phone and called his assistant Xiao Liping to his home. Xiao Liping is a cronie brought out by himself, although from Director Zhao's mouth, he heard a lot of unfavorable words against Xiao Liping, but he still decided to give him a chance to explain. Because Ouyang Rui has always trusted him, Xiao Liping has been to Ouyang Rui's house many times.

Xiao Liping came to Ouyang Rui's house, and heard that Ouyang Rui was coming back to preside over the overall situation, so he expressed his excitement to Ouyang Rui excitedly.

Ouyang Rui looked at him, and there was no change in his expression, which made Xiao Liping a little confused, Ouyang Rui began to ask around the question he was most concerned about, "Why was the cooperation with the newspaper canceled." ”

Xiao Liping wanted to speak and stopped.

"If you have any secrets, you can tell them, otherwise, I will personally go and find out one by one. Ouyang Rui was still expressionless.

"Chairman, I believe that you have a preliminary understanding and grasp of many things before calling me here, so I won't hide it from you, I will wait for you to come back and bring the company back on the right track. Let's start with the Economic Times. Chairman, I know what sponsoring the Economic Times means to you, because there is a person there that you have always valued very much, and I know all of this, but knowing this, I still want to muddy the waters in it, because I hope that when you come back, this matter can become a fuse, so that you can thoroughly investigate what the vice chairman has done over the years. You should also know that the vice chairman embezzled money into the accounts of his own small company. And just after your wife became seriously ill, he began to get involved in the company's business, and he made small moves in private, and he got a lot of the company's business into his own hands, and he began to disrupt the company's operation before he grasped the overall situation of the company. His cronies are doing tricks in our green products, shoddy, and making a profit. Although the matter has not been pierced yet, according to my investigation, some companies have begun to question our products, and each batch of products must now go through strict inspection again before entering the market. There are many more things like this, and you have to check them one by one. The reason why I will take refuge in him and become his dog-headed military advisor is mainly because I hope that before you come back, I can master everything he does, minimize the loss, and then report to you about him when you come back. Xiao Liping explained the cause and effect in one breath, which made Ouyang Rui gasp.

And what annoys Ouyang Rui the most is that he trusts the vice chairman so much because he is his brother-in-law, and his wife dotes on him very much, and he is also very capable. Obviously it is his own industry, why would he destroy it by any means and seek personal gain, is it not enough for him to spend hundreds of annual salaries every year?

He tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and let Xiao Liping leave. Then, after pondering for a while, he called several company directors and explained the matter briefly.

At the next day's meeting, he convened a board meeting, at which the decision to remove the vice chairman from his post was unanimously approved. Vice chairman, that is, Ouyang Rui's brother-in-law, he never thought that Ouyang Rui would be dismissed on the first day he officially took office.

After the meeting, he came to Ouyang Rui's office, "Brother-in-law, for my sister's sake, give me another chance, I know I'm wrong." ”

Ouyang Rui looked at him with an angry face, "You have betrayed your sister's trust in you too much, and you have betrayed my trust too much, because of the affection for your sister, I reused you, and in the early days of the company's establishment, your performance was also quite good, but I didn't expect that you would put your own interests above the interests of the company, which I absolutely cannot tolerate." You can leave, there will be no place for you in this company in the future, but those shares in your hands will have no problem paying for your rich life in the future. I don't evaluate your character, your sister has also left us, okay, let's have less contact in the future, and for all the things you do that damage the interests of the company, I will not pursue it through legal channels, it is already the greatest tolerance for you, you go out. Obviously, Ouyang Rui's words were absolutely true, and the vice chairman had no face to say anything more, and left quietly. And he didn't know that he was discovered so soon, and the fuse was actually because of a woman named Fang Tingting.

The vice chairman walked out of Ouyang Rui's office like a lost dog, he regretted everything he had done, if he wasn't too greedy, if he wasn't too attentive, he raised a third and fourth child outside, and his financial power was in the hands of his daughter-in-law, unable to cope with excessive expenses, he would not have come to this day, and obviously, he was also very clear about his future, without additional income and the support of money, he would have become worthless and useless in the eyes of his lover......