After coming out of Shen You's office, Gu Nanqiao walked all the way along the sidewalk.

The noon sun shone on Gu Nanqiao's body with a unique warmth, coating her with a layer of warm yellow faint light, and her fair skin seemed to have a translucent texture, even the fine fluff could be seen, which also made the tears that slowly fell more and more clear.

The traffic on the road is endless, and the car horns are mixed with the noisy flow of people, and there is no moment of cleanness. In the CBD, where every inch of land is expensive, everyone is busy, for the endless money and a bright future, they squeeze their heads to climb upward, trying their best to get ahead, for fear that a little mistake will delay the pace of continuous progress.

Everyone has long been accustomed to fighting bloody struggle, opening their eyes every day is fighting, closing their eyes is struggle, imprisoning themselves in a mechanized mode, and not caring about anything else. And for the indifference to feelings and the outside world, once it is branded as "for livelihood" or "for struggle", it seems to be no longer a matter of course.

In such a situation, there seems to be nothing wrong with putting love at the bottom.

Just when he put the noodles on the scumbag and turned around and walked simply, Gu Nanqiao just wanted to vent the evil anger in his heart, and said decisively in a chic manner, which had a bit of "Get out of your house". And now that it is gradually quieting down, scenes from the past emerge with it, and all kinds of memories that have been experienced with Shen You have also begun to play back like a slide, invading Gu Nanqiao's sensitive nerves uncontrollably.

Gu Nanqiao still remembers the scene when she first met Shen You, when she was still studying at the Academy of Opera.

After the restructuring of the old troupe, the life of the Fan family has not been very prosperous, especially the troupe that is burdened with spring gardens, which makes Fan Lingchu very poor, and his wallet is often tight. So after going to college, Gu Nanqiao didn't ask for the living expenses that Fan Lao saved for her, but often worked as a tutor or took on some commercial performances to earn some money to subsidize the Spring Garden.

When I met Shen You for the first time, it was Gu Nanqiao who took over the performance of Shen You's company's opening ceremony, and a temporary stage was set up in the bustling commercial street, and the host did not hesitate to make gorgeous rhetoric, hyping a bright future. The audience changed wave after wave, some stopped to watch the free performance when they had nothing to do, some applauded when they saw the excitement, and some casually glanced at it when passing by, and then hurriedly turned around and left......

Gu Nanqiao didn't care about this, she didn't expect these audiences to have an appreciation level, she just wanted to sing this play well, and she didn't care if the people below could understand it.

But Gu Nanqiao was still too young after all, and he was not wrapped in layers of human sophistication, and any emotions were written on the bottom of his eyes and eyebrows, which were easily revealed, whether he liked it or not, it was clearly expressed. She was only twenty years old at that time, more flamboyant and taller than now, and her arrogance came out of her bones, and she didn't know how to write the word compromise.

So when Gu Nanqiao sang tactfully on stage, he found that few of the audience were listening carefully, they were just passing by to watch the excitement, among which there were very few who knew Peking Opera, and it was even rarer to stop and appreciate it seriously, and I couldn't help but feel a little stunned. And when she found a rare appreciator in it, it was very much the illusion of mountains and rivers meeting bosom friends.

Completely different from the passers-by who watched the excitement, there was a handsome young man in the audience who always listened carefully, he leaned sideways on the trunk of the tree on the side of the road, his dusty white shirt reflected the mottled shadow of the tree, and the cuffs of the shirt were slightly pulled up by him, revealing his thin ankles, and the dial on his wrist reflected the sunlight when he applauded, dangling under Gu Nanqiao's eyes, like a faint star.

Probably since then, Gu Nanqiao has treated Shen You with a subtle difference, and it has continued for many years after that.

After getting off the stage, the Peking Opera actors and orchestra dispersed in twos and threes, waiting for the leader to settle the performance fee backstage. Gu Nanqiao took off the oil paint on his face in front of the simple makeup mirror, changed the heavy costume, and put on the casual clothes prepared in advance. When she went out, she saw the young man standing in the audience waiting at the door.

When he saw Gu Nanqiao, the smile in his eyes was obviously thicker, and then he handed over the business card, and on the black cardboard was the bronzing font of Long Feifeng Dance - the founder of Chenhuan Performance Company, Shen You.

"It's hard to perform today, wait for something, I'll invite you to a light meal. ”

This was the first thing Shen You said to Gu Nanqiao.

When he said this, his tone was natural and familiar, like greeting an old friend he met by chance, without the slightest crampedness and apprehension that a first-time accoster should have. Later, Gu Nanqiao recalled that Shen You even felt that Shen You was full of calm and relaxation at that time, as if he was not worried that she would refuse.

- Betting on what will happen between the two.

Shen You was the same when he confessed, with almost firm confidence, as if he was talking about something that should be taken for granted, and he didn't even have sweet words and warm promises, but just casually asked Gu Nanqiao if he wanted to be together.

And at that time, how could Gu Nanqiao refuse?

A young talent, a like-minded senior, and a soul mate who can be met but not sought......

No matter what level of identity, it is enough to make a girl who is just starting to fall in love be tempted, not to mention that Gu Nanqiao accompanied Shen You to run the fledgling Chenhuan, and survived countless days and nights.

Just like Shen You clearly saw the appreciation in the eyes of the girls on the stage, he almost exchanged contact information with certainty. He calculates people's hearts very accurately, especially in front of the girl he likes, and he is like a hunter waiting for his prey, showing enough patience - he does not hesitate to show his advantages in front of Gu Nanqiao, and uses a way that is almost like a drop of water to fill the favorability in Gu Nanqiao's mind little by little, and waits until the heat is enough to come up with a killer idea, in exchange for finally hugging the beauty.

Therefore, it is normal for Gu Nanqiao to agree to establish a relationship.

Shen You has never hidden his purpose, whether it is the initial acquaintance or the final breakup. This kind of accurate calculation and indomitable self-confidence were the reasons that initially moved Gu Nanqiao, but it was precisely this characteristic that created the final two people irreversibly walking step by step to the end of the road.

If there is a certain number in the dark, it may be so.

......

Emotions began to surge after realizing it, and Gu Nanqiao wanted to carefully reminisce about this relationship rationally, sweet, failed, hurt each other, and broken...... She wanted to dig deeper into the results, try to have a clear conscience, and then completely sealed up this failed experience and threw it in the trash without hesitation.

It's a pity that until everything was a foregone conclusion, Gu Nanqiao couldn't accurately say what went wrong, and in the end, there was only a sigh that was almost murmuring.

"It's obvious that you provoked me first......"

In fact, Gu Nanqiao knew that the differences between her and Shen You had been there for a long time. Shen You is an egoist who talks about business, and the benefits that cannot be exchanged for real money are meaningless investments in his eyes, and they are pure waste of time. But Gu Nanqiao is too idealistic, what she wants is never immediate benefits, but something more ethereal and even not necessarily fruitful.

Those things are called pursuits and dreams.

Gu Nanqiao wants to become a famous actor, and she wants Peking Opera to be seen by more people, she wants to be a pathfinder and pioneer, even if she can't leave anything in the end, she wants to try again. Such a drop in the bucket is a heroic effort, but in the eyes of the "majority of people" living in a high-speed society, it seems to be alternative and deviant, and can only end up with a stupid word.

Shen You is that kind of person, even more rational and cold-blooded.

Gu Nanqiao is not his ideal partner, Shen You knows this, but he still puts his feelings first once, and he has dragged on with Gu Nanqiao for so long. Of course, the original intention is love, but it only ends there.

Shen You knows that life is long, the pursuit of career is endless, he is a person who wants to climb to the top, and there is nothing that cannot be abandoned. This relationship with Gu Nanqiao is already Shen You's biggest exception, as for others, such as burdening Gu Nanqiao's excess energy and dreams, Shen You can't do it, and it is impossible to do it.

But is it really meaningful to have such a utilitarian life like removing the soul of all kinds of people, labeling them as conventions that are respected by success and recognized by the general public, and that success needs to be measured by money and fame and fortune?

Gu Nanqiao couldn't figure out these things, maybe there was no need to think about convincing anyone in the future.

After all, it's all over.

It wasn't until the phone rang that Gu Nanqiao came back to her senses from the chaotic past, she clicked on the lock screen of her mobile phone, and the new message was a text message, and the sender was "Angel Investment".

Su Yiyang's words were very concise and to the point, and even just looking at the words could make up his casual smile.

"I said Miss Gu, how did you think about it, the contract is only kept for one week, don't regret it after that?"

Unemployed and caught up with the loss of love, Gu Nanqiao was worried that the evil fire in his stomach had no place to vent, who knew that Su Yiyang took the initiative to find the door. Her slender fingers tapped a few times on the screen, and she quickly edited a message past.

"We will not sign this acquisition contract, Mr. Su, thank you for your concern, but I don't think there is any need to continue talking. ”

After a while, the mobile phone lit up again, and Su Yiyang, who didn't know the situation at all on the other side of the phone, continued to test on the verge of death, and continued to fan the flames and say cool things.

"I'm thinking about you, Miss Gu, you can't use two things, don't listen to the old man, and suffer a loss in front of you. ”

Gu Nanqiao said in his heart, Su Yiyang's mouth can really make people angry, but if he has a little emotional intelligence, can he talk like this.

Then she made a long list of scolding words in a fit of anger, and because of the identity of the other side of the capital, she forcibly restrained herself. After deleting the text message word by word, Gu Nanqiao didn't bother to reply again, and put away his phone angrily.

"What kind of investors don't have any vision at all, get out. ”

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