When Du Xueqi returned to the company again, she sent a resignation report to Shen Xingye in a dignified manner.

In duplicate, one in official English and one in hand-engraved Braille.

"Xueqi, you've decided to leave?"

Shen Xingye brushed his finger over the top title. Then he raised his head and followed the woman's suppressed sobbing voice.

"Well, I'll be gone next month...... Go to Lyon and do an MBA. ”

"It's good, go out and see the world. ”

The so-called 'world' is a pun, in addition to the career, but also emotional.

Du Xueqi knew Shen Xingye when he was a teenager, and the heart he made too early was not good if he didn't get the result.

"Hoshino ......"

Du Xueqi picked the corners of her lips and wiped the corners of her eyes that were about to faint with her thin fingers: "Next Sunday is Grandpa Shen's birthday, I ...... I guess I'm going to forget it, and I'm not going to go. I give ...... all the gifts."

"If you want to send it, it's better for you to go there yourself. I visited my grandfather because he has always loved you as a junior, and it is a filial piety to celebrate his birthday, not because of my face. ”

"I ......" Thinking of Grandpa Shen, Du Xueqi felt a little strange in her heart.

Thinking that Shen Xingye and Bai Luoya were like glue together, although Zheng Lixin didn't value Bai Luoya's background very much at first, Grandpa Shen didn't particularly object.

But then all of a sudden, I didn't know what was going on, and the old man resolutely did not allow Shen Xingye to marry Bai Luoya. even took her Du Xueqi out as an alternative, and once tried to match them.

Shen Xingye was probably helpless, so he decided to marry Bai Luoya Fengzi and cook raw rice into mature rice.

I didn't expect it to be at that juncture...... There was such an accident.

And in this whole process, the motive has been changed repeatedly-it seems that the old man of the Shen family is the only one.

Everyone knew that he had a particularly eccentric temperament and was moody. So no one dared to ask the reason for this, and they could only speculate wildly.

"Of course, you decide for yourself. I think it's okay to do anything. Shen Xingye put down the documents in his hand and stood up with his arms on the table.

"Well, I'll follow ...... I'm going to be there with my aunt, okay?"

"Xueqi, actually, I ...... Would like to give you a suggestion. Shen Xingye let out a long sigh, "You don't need to get too close to someone like my mother. In my impression, you are a very cheerful and honest girl. You have a good family background and the self-confidence that you don't need to compromise with anyone to gain from humble things. If you spend too much time with my mother, you will only be contaminated with the philistines and snobbery in her, can't you see that you are so smart at all--it is precisely because you have become more and more like her that I am more and more alienated from you? Listen to my advice, take care of your mood, and stop wasting time on me, and don't waste time with my mother anymore. No matter how good she is to you, it is only for the sake of your existence and the help of her two sons. And I can't bear to see you being taken advantage of. To be honest, today you told me that you want to leave your job and want to go to school, and I am very happy for you. I hope that your road will be wider and wider in the future, and I hope that the next time you go back to City A, I can see a very different you...... If I could see it. ”

Shen Xingye's words made Du Xueqi's tears that he could not hold back fill his eyes again.

She suddenly couldn't understand that the path she had been persisting in and insisting on for so long seemed to be because of Bai Luoya's unexpected departure, and suddenly became utilitarian and eager-

Shen Xingye is actually still the same Shen Xingye, but she Du Xueqi is no longer the Du Xueqi she used to be.

The first time I met him at that time seemed to be a family gathering when I was in junior high school.

Her first impression of the boy was locked in the category of a lifetime of mistakes, but she really didn't like his snobbish and swaggering mother.

At that time, her uncle was not a bank president, and her aunt was just an ordinary university teacher. My parents' business is not as good as it is now. So it is impossible for her to be an alternative to Zheng Lixin's daughter-in-law.

What Shen Xingye said is not bad at all, it is precisely because there are too many strange things mixed in the relationship that should have come naturally, that the road of the two people will become more and more not on the same plane.

If......

Later, when Shen Xingye was in high school, he did not meet Bai Luoya.

If, and only if.

After Bai Luoya died, she did not mix with Zhao Anyue.

So the woman standing beside him today, although she can't make him extremely tempted, but can definitely get love and pity - it should definitely be her Du Xueqi That's right.

Yes, the man was right...... How could she be willing? How could she give up and make a last stand?

Leaving Shen Xingye's office, Du Xueqi bumped into Zhao Anyue who was waiting outside with red eyes.

"I'm here to resign. ”

Zhao Anyue was holding the book in her arms and had been standing outside listening to it for a few minutes. Since that day in the sales center, she has never seen Du Xueqi again.

"You've decided to study abroad?"

"Yes. ”

"Well, come on......"

"Thank you. You too. Everyone has never stopped trying, and it's really not an easy task to want someone as picky as my aunt to recognize you as Hoshino's woman. Du Xueqi said softly, "In addition, leaving now doesn't mean that I really don't love him anymore." We're all young, and no one can say what the next few decades will bring, right?"

Zhao Anyue: "...... is so justifiably coveting other people's marriages, you are really honest enough. ”

"Zhao Anyue, you are wrong. The reason for a marriage that has a chance is always on the person involved. If you have the heart to guard against me, you might as well think about whether you can really last forever. Let's go. ”

It wasn't until the sound of Du Xueqi's high heels disappeared at the end of the corridor that Zhao Anyue took a deep breath and knocked on the door to enter.

"Aren't you out on a field job?"

Hearing Zhao Anyue's voice, Shen Xingye frowned slightly.

There's no need to question or guess. He estimated that Zhao Anyue should have been here for more than a while, and as for whether he heard the conversation between him and Du Xueqi, he was not interested in dwelling.

"Oh, I'm done soon. I glanced at Sister Yun in front of me, and then ...... For this book, I asked someone to get a hardcover translation of the first edition. ”

Zhao Anyue pushed the book in her hand up, "Look at it, is it okay to give this to grandpa?"

"What book, didn't you buy it last weekend?" Shen Xingye raised his eyebrows.

"Hmm...... It's the same Mark Bruch you are talking about, "The Odd Defeat". ”

Zhao Anyue bit down word by word, making sure that she didn't say a word wrong this time.

"I ran all over City A and didn't get the original French version, and now there are only some worthless reprints on the market, and the translations are also messy. This was the first translation in the 80s, and it is now out of print. I checked it on the Internet, and the price in the collection world starts at five figures......"

Shen Xingye raised his hand and gently stroked the book, the strong ink fragrance and the precipitated sense of the times made him fully believe in Zhao Anyue's intentions.

"Open it for me. ”

"Huh?"

"Wouldn't it be a shame to let you read it, if you make a mistake?"

"Oh. ”

Zhao Anyue leaned over, turned the title page, and started to read from the title-

"The Strange Defeat, by Mark Bu, translated by Wen Fan—"

But before she could read the first page of the text, she saw Shen Xingye's face suddenly change!

"What did you just say?"

The man's large hands were clasped tightly on the edge of the desk, and his whitish knuckles were intertwined with the green veins.

His teeth rattled, as if he had suddenly released a beast that had been sealed in his heart for a long time, so frightened that Zhao Anyue almost fell off the chair.

"I ...... I didn't say anything, I just read the title......"

"You say, you mean the translator?"

Zhao Anyue hurriedly lowered her head and recognized the standard printing font on it-

"Wen ...... Wen Fan. That's what it says?"

"Wen Fan ......" Shen Xingye suddenly grabbed the book in Zhao Anyue's hand and fell on her face without warning!

"Zhao Anyue, where did you get the bullshit book! Get out of here!"

"Hoshino!"

Unexpectedly, Shen Xingye would suddenly be as angry as crazy, and Zhao Anyue didn't know what he had done wrong.

The hard, hardcover corners poked near her brow bone, and a faint ache slid down her eyes with warm liquid.

"Hey! Hoshino!

At this moment, the door of the office was slammed open, and Ling Jue entered.

When he saw the situation in front of him, he was also stunned: "This, what's going on?" Zhao Anyue, are you ...... Does it matter?"

"I'm fine...... Zhao Anyue pressed her forehead with one hand, and then leaned down to try to pick up the book on the ground.

"And said it's okay, it's all bleeding!"

Shen Xingye's heart couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't know what the consequences would be if he missed for a while.