4 When Chen Yi went to work the next day, she came out of the subway station and met her female colleagues, who stretched their necks and asked why her president-like boyfriend didn't drive her, she smiled, "I'm busy with work, how can I have time to send it every day." ”

After they accepted this answer, they asked why they didn't buy her a car, she explained that she couldn't shake the number, and the other party continued to ask in a sour tone, "Looking so rich, there should be more than one car at home, and it is not your turn to drive it yourself, so you have to have a driver to send you, right?"

Chen Yi said modestly, "It's not that rich, so many people come and go on the road in Beijing, no matter how rich they are, aren't they all part-time workers, earning a lot of food, earning a lot, just a little better eating, and having to work when they are full." ”

Chen Yi, who has a rich and handsome boyfriend, although she still gets the same salary as everyone, but faintly opens up the inexplicable class distance, such a sentence brings everyone's relationship closer, and the female colleagues are finally satisfied, and they all nodded in agreement, "That's also true, these days, no matter how much money you have, it's not enough to spend, and no matter how rich people are, they feel that they are poor." ”

At lunchtime, Chen Yi ordered takeout with her colleagues who didn't bring food, after learning that even if she drank sugar-free, she would still gain weight, she no longer called milk tea, and recently she could feel that her metabolism was much slower than when she was in her early twenties.

She looked through the messages on her mobile phone while eating salad, Liu Yatao asked her to have dinner together in the evening, she replied without thinking, "I made an appointment", and the other party asked: "Who is it?"

Can you manage it? She thought so in her head, but what came out of her fingers was: "My colleague's wine is not easy to push." ”

Liu Yatao insisted on meeting, he said: "Then I'll send you a box of Japanese dim sum, it's very delicious, this thing is too fresh, the shelf life is only a week, I have to give it to you quickly." ”

She excused herself again and did not reply.

Clicked on Bai Qi's avatar frame, Chen Yi thought about saying something, first typed "good afternoon", felt stupid, deleted, and then wrote "What did you eat" feel even more stupid, deleted word by word, tried a few words of greeting in succession and felt inappropriate, she missed him, but she didn't want to be too clear, she hoped that he missed her, and then she took advantage of the situation to think about him.

I don't know how long I held up the mobile phone, and suddenly saw a string of "the other party is typing ......" appeared above the chat box, Chen Yi sat up straight as if he had been shocked, Bai Qi didn't seem to hesitate like her, and said, "Let's have dinner together." "It was sent very quickly.

She counted for thirty seconds and replied, "I'll take a look at my arrangements for the evening." ”

And the other party's reply did not show any traces of "struggle": "Okay." ”

What is important for an English teacher? But she still has to struggle, she wants to make herself important.

5

After work, Chen Yi saw Liu Yatao who was already waiting in the hall on the first floor, he got up from the sofa and walked towards her with a box of snacks, like an envoy who offered treasure to the queen.

After Chen Yiqiang cheered up and greeted him, he still looked forward to seeing him, and couldn't help but pour cold water, wanting to end this encounter that shouldn't happen as soon as possible, "Mr. Liu——"

"It's good to call me Yatao, if you want to feel old-fashioned, it's okay to call Taotao. Liu Yatao interrupted her and said, "You can call it however you like, anyway, don't call it Mr. Liu, it seems to be raw, but I don't object to you calling me Mr." He was amused by his own humor, laughed for a while, and when he saw that Chen Yi didn't react, he embarrassedly restrained his smile.

Chen Yi continued with a look of embarrassment and exhaustion: "Mr. Liu, I don't think we are suitable, because seeing that you are also in a hurry to get married, I really don't want to delay your time, and we can communicate as friends in the future." ”

Liu Yatao was stunned for a while, and didn't know how to digest this hard rejection for a while, he smiled dryly, "Don't be in such a hurry to draw conclusions, we just know each other, and we haven't understood each other yet." ”

But I don't want to know you!" Chen Yi sighed helplessly in her heart, still politely responded, walked quickly to the door, and prayed in her heart that Bai Qi would appear soon and take her away from this boring and laborious dispute.

The silver sports car was like the royal car of the gods, and when it came into Chen Yi's eyes, it lit up the gray streets, and he actually came as promised, although this was a matter of course, she felt flattered.

After Bai Qi saw Chen Yi, he got out of the driver's seat, compared to the car, he is obviously more eye-catching, there are many beauties in the world, and the turbulent aura on his body is better than the infinitely perfect appearance, the aura he exudes is aggressive, and the character painting style is separated from the surroundings, like an iceberg quietly undulating on the sea, arrogant, cold, unreachable, unattainable, and filled with a prohibitive divinity.

All the people who passed by, under his comparison, exuded all the vicissitudes and despair of exhaustion, including Chen Yi, she was afraid of him, because his gestures were too light, and she was so heavy, no matter how prominent her eyebrows and eyes were, her temperament was also a mortal who was deep in the mud of the world.

Seeing Bai Qi, when Chen Yi looked back at Liu Yatao, the difference between cloud and mud was more obvious, and the feeling of weakness in the face of Bai Qi was swept away, and her expression couldn't help but become proud and contemptuous, fortunately, because of her gorgeous appearance, this expression was not disgusting, but quite commensurate with her, she was born to be as proud as a queen, she said to Liu Yatao, the "subject" who was prostrate at her feet, "I'm sorry, my friend came to pick me up." It was as if it was saying, "O people who are addicted to me, step aside." ”

As the saying goes, "good women are afraid of pestering men", Liu Yatao is ready to fight a protracted war, he is confident that on his terms, as long as he can endure the temperament to "grind", it will be a matter of time before he takes down Chen Yi, he sees that she is not young, and it will take less than a year to say that it is a protracted war, so no matter how indifferent she is, he will not stop fighting.

In nature, when a male animal can be told to give up the female he wants, it is often the other male.

If Bai Qi is a lion, his hair will be as fluffy as the sun's halo, and his limbs will be as thick as Roman stone pillars, but when he paces, he will be as light and silent as the light of the moon falling on the ground, he will be invincible and dominate the grassland when he is an adult, until he dies, the other male lions will wait for his breath to completely dissipate before they dare to approach the lioness who once belonged to him.

"Chen Yi, colleague?" Bai Qi walked over, his eyes were drooping due to the height gap, and he looked like he was going to search for living creatures in the rice, and looked at Liu Yatao condescendingly and asked, "I didn't hear that there are more people to eat together tonight?"

As a result, Chen Yi's refusal was not as good as Bai Qi's casual appearance, which made Liu Yatao even more discouraged, seeing such an opponent, before the war started, he announced his abstention and left the ring in a low land.

6

Walking into the restaurant reserved by Bai Qi, the waiter standing at the door bowed slightly, silently and gently took off his coat for Chen Yi, and another waiter led them through the quiet corridor densely covered with plants on both sides, the dining space carefully designed by the designer inside was very bright and staggered, the tall trees passed through the frame gap between the roof and the beams and columns, and the hanging branches and leaves shrouded each solid wood round table covered with white tablecloths, and the distance between the guests was kept just right, and when they whispered, they almost sounded like a stream, and the occasional burst of laughter was also dissolved into a splash of water that was not annoying by the spatial structure。

Flipping through the menu of Chinese and English, a glass of cheapest red wine on it is priced at 350 yuan, and a filet mignon is 668 yuan, Chen Yi can't remember the last time she ate at a high-end restaurant, she thought hard for a while, as if she was still an actor at that time, sitting between a few bosses with blushing faces and thick necks, listening to them boast with the foreign wine in their hands, this bottle is 3,000, that bottle is 8,000, the delicacies of the mountains and seas surround the Buddha jumping over the wall in the center of the table, I heard that the final bill for this table is more than 60,000 yuan.

It was a very expensive meal, but it was not a high-end dish, "very expensive" does not mean "high-end", "food" is not equal to "cooking", Chen Yi's memory of that meal is only noisy, and when Boss Zhang came to forcibly pour wine to herself, there was a strong smell of smoke in her mouth, she looked at Bai Qi opposite, they are also men, but not every man can be called a "male god", and some people can only be "honored" as a "boss".

Noticing Chen Yi's gaze, Bai Qi raised his eyes and smiled gently, "What to eat?"

"You order, I'm free. Chen Yi blushed, not for his smile, but for her own helplessness to feel shy, in that period of acting career, she learned to "fight wine", but she couldn't "taste wine", so this menu that needed to be ordered from appetizers to desserts, she couldn't understand.

Bai Qi then glanced at the waiter who had been waiting one meter away, the other party quickly took two steps, stood respectfully at the table and listened to him order, after he ordered, he looked at the wine page and said, "You recommend a red wine suitable for steak and a white wine suitable for seafood." ”

The waiter then crackled and spoke, and the only words that could be understood in Chen Yi's ears were "France", "Italy" and "grapes", and the other sentences were a little unintelligible, and finally Bai Qi nodded, nodded the two main ones, and added at the end, "Wake up and go again." ”

Chen Yi, who had listened to his agent popularize what "sobering up" was, finally regained a trace of confidence and straightened his slightly curled waist.

When the waiter brought a basket of pre-dinner bread, Bai Qi asked Chen Yi casually, "Who is that uncle today?"

"Uncle?" Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, and only after half a second did she realize that he was referring to Liu Yatao, and the hostility implied by Bai Qi's tone towards other men made her feel comfortable immediately, and a provocative feeling from between her eyebrows and eyes rippled gently, and she smiled, "What uncle, he is not a few years older than you." ”

"Really, it looks weird and old. Bai Qi snorted coldly, "He has a story with you?"

"Are you kidding?" Chen Yi pursed his lips in disgust, "It's just a blind date, I've already made it clear to him that it's impossible, and we won't meet again in the future." ”

"Blind date?" Bai Qi paused, and then let out a string of laughs that had been restrained, "You, Chen Yi, blind date, aren't you?" He raised his hand and touched his chin, tried his best to restrain his smile, and squinted his eyes at Chen Yi, "It's not like something Chen Yi would do, at least not the one Chen Yi I knew before." ”

She felt that she was "despised" by him, in fact, she herself also looked down on the fact that she wanted to enter the marriage relationship through a blind date, and her tone became provocative because of annoyance, "Is it? What was Chen Yi like before? I don't remember." ”

He took a sip of water, and there was tenderness in his eyes as he fell into a memory, "What a proud person you are. Seeing Chen Yi tilting his head in confusion, he asked, "Do you remember Xu Yidao?"

Xu Yidao is a bad boy surnamed Xu, he is called "a knife" because he always carries a butterfly knife with him, he and Chen Yi, Bai Qi is not the same high school, is a student of a nearby vocational high school, after a chance encounter on the road, Chen Yi fell in love at first sight, the scene of the confession day was very big, he brought hundreds of "brothers" at the school gate to block Chen Yi, many students waited to see the excitement and did not disperse, so the crowd at the school gate was dark, like a herd of cattle gathered at the drinking point, and the noisy sound of everyone gathered into a vague mooing sound.

Surrounded by his younger brother, Xu Yidao stretched his neck and yelled at Chen Yi: "Chen Yi, be my girlfriend, in the future, you will be the 'sister-in-law' of my one hundred and one junior brother, and in the entire Xiaguang City, no one dares to bully you." ”

Bai Qi walked out with Chen Yi, he had never seen such a lineup, and he was stunned in place.

Chen Yi looked fearless, her fearlessness was precisely because she had never seen such a battle, and the future she simulated for herself in her heart was a bigger scene, so the current scene seemed smaller than the stage she imagined.

"But no one dares to bully me now!" she replied with her chin raised, causing the onlookers to laugh.

Xu Yidao continued, "As long as you are my girlfriend, in the future, when you go to school and get out of school, I will have a hundred and one little brother to escort you!"

"Why do I want them to escort me? I go to school, not to fight. Chen Yi replied, "Don't keep talking about your one hundred and one little brother, as if I want to fall in love with them." ”

Because what she said was not unreasonable, Xu Yidao removed the superfluous words and emphasized the point: "Be my girlfriend!"

"Don't. Chen Yi decisively refused.

He didn't expect her reaction, the young and vigorous child often has the illusion that the whole world can be taken by him, and when he was in a hurry, he showed his knife, "If you reject me, I will die here today!"

Everyone present gasped, but Chen Yi frowned, "But...... I don't know you either, what does it have to do with me if you're dead?"

The atmosphere immediately became laughter again.

Even the little brothers around Xu Yidao couldn't hold back their laughter, where did he taste the taste of becoming a laughing stock, and immediately blushed and pointed the tip of the knife at Chen Yi thickly, and roared, "If you don't be my girlfriend, I'll scratch your face." ”

The people present screamed again, and his younger brothers were cheered up by the boss's majesty, and they all raised their hands in applause.

Bai Qi panicked, tugged Chen Yi's sleeve from behind, and motioned her to run, but she shook off his hand and said to Xu Yidao in a righteous manner: "If you can't get it, destroy it, what kind of hero are you? If you want me to be your girlfriend so much, I'll give you a way, let's get admitted to Tsinghua University first, you can bully me with a knife, it's much easier than being admitted to Tsinghua University, a man can't stand the slightest challenge, if you like me, you have to work hard for me. ”

After being silent for a while, Xu Yidao threw the folding knife on the ground, shouted "Okay!", turned around and waved at the younger brothers, "From today, the Yidao Gang will be disbanded!" and then pushed away the crowd and walked away.

Before everyone could react, the turmoil was easily resolved by Chen Yi.

After reminiscing, Bai Qi held his chin, his eyes were hazy, as if he was reminiscing about Chen Yi, who was wearing a school uniform and a ponytail high, and he said with a smile, "Later, although Xu Yidao was not admitted to Tsinghua University, he also became a good student who studied seriously, he should thank you for helping him correct his life path." ”

"It seems that there is such a thing...... Chen Yi gently scratched his cheek with his fingers and said in a daze, "I don't remember very well." ”

There were too many things happening around her at that time, Xu Yidao was really not worth mentioning, she was a huge vortex in the wind, messing up and shattering all the people and things around her, and sucking them into her inner circle, the charm exuded by the girl Chen Yi back then was more like the aggressive Bai Qi now.

Bai Qi said: "I remember very clearly, I was so infatuated with you at the time, and your every move made me like it badly." ”

Chen Yi smiled weakly, "Don't you like what you said now?"

Bai Qi didn't answer, just lowered his head and smiled, and Chen Yi didn't ask.

7

After eating, Bai Qi took Chen Yi to watch a French stage play "Notre Dame de Paris", he bought a VIP seat in the front row, at first Chen Yi heard that the duration of the whole play was four hours, and when she thought that she would have to wash up after going home, she would have to go to work tomorrow, and she couldn't sleep for a few hours, so she showed a lack of interest, but she really came to the scene, and after entering the play, she watched it with great interest, and her eyes were shining.

After the crowd dispersed, Chen Yi let out a long sigh at the empty stage, and then walked out slowly with Bai Qi and came to the street, Bai Qi didn't go to the parking lot to pick up the car, and he didn't ask Chen Yi's reaction, he directly reached out and took her hand, stuffed it into his coat pocket, and walked around the road and said, "Let's walk casually." ”

Bai Qi's palms were dry and thick, like the front paws of some kind of large animal, Chen Yi did not resist, because this touch was very familiar, like touching warm water at twenty-eight degrees in winter, it was a comfortable feeling wrapped in a duvet.

"Thank you. "When I was a child, I thought I was going to watch 'The Stranger in the Clock Tower' — that's what it was called at the time — and it's only the first time I've seen it when I'm middle-aged." ”

"I remember. Bai Qi nodded, and even his breath was sweet because he fell into the memories of the past, "At that time, you finished reading the world classics recommended by the Chinese teacher, and there were some heavenly books that I couldn't understand at all, what Nietzsche, Russell, Freud ......"

"Actually, I didn't ......understand it," Chen Yi smiled embarrassedly, "but I was very hungry and thirsty, and I wanted to know what the world of 'I don't understand' was like, and I longed for something profound at that time, and wanted to explore the unknown." ”

Bai Qi turned his face sideways, stared at her affectionately, and said, "At that time, you were something esoteric to me, an unknown territory. With that, he couldn't help but lean over to kiss her.

But Chen Yi subconsciously avoided it, she just felt that the person he wanted to kiss was not her.

Bai Qi frowned, let go of the clenched hand, Chen Yi knew how proud he was, quickly held his hand back, turned around and stood in front of him again, and inserted the other hand into the pocket on the other side of him, forming a face-to-face appearance of enclosing him in her arms, she stood on tiptoe and kissed his chin.

So he was immediately amused, "You're pretty good at coaxing people now." ”

She asked, "Haven't I coaxed you before?"

"I used to coax you. Bai Qi said, "It's time for you to coax me in the future." ”

Chen Yi withdrew his hands and replied with a twist, "Why? I'm not one of yours." ”

"Aren't you my girlfriend?" Bai Qi pinched her hands, dragged her back, and lowered his head to ask, "Don't you like me now?"

Chen Yi pursed her lips and didn't want to speak, she still remembered how obedient he was to her before, and she only cared about running forward, but now she has become a chaser, this change makes her feel uncomfortable and aggrieved.

Bai Qi saw through her thoughts, and smiled even more proudly, "Say, I want to hear you say it." Chen Yi bowed her head and was silent, so Bai Qi kissed her hot ear, "I can see that you like me." He hugged her tightly and said firmly, "Yiyi, you have no reason to reject me, you and I are a natural pair." ”

"But you won't marry me. Chen Yi sighed leisurely.

Bai Qi chuckled and let go of her, "You're really going to be disappointed." ”