Lin Li dreamed of the car accident two years ago.

The windshield of the car shattered into a spider web, and the pungent smell of aromatic gasoline permeated the cramped space.

She gasped for breath, her vision was bloody, her body stuck and unable to move.

The body lì, passing little by little.

All the cries, all the cries for help, all suffocated in the throat.

Fear and despair intertwined, eating away at reason and splitting the will, making her feel like she was about to run out of power.

Time and space are frozen, and she is isolated, forever trapped at the scene of a blood-drenched and shattered car accident.

It's a dream, it's not a dream.

I want to wake up, but I can't wake up.

……

When Lin Li woke up, he had a splitting headache.

She lay stiff, and after a long time, she remembered that she had just finished her night shift in the emergency department and took her best friend Guan Yi's hitchhike home.

The night shift was sad, and she fell asleep after getting in the car.

Lin Li took off his headphones, adjusted the passenger seat, and sat up.

At half past eight, the morning rush hour, last night's heavy rain made the city of Shanghai almost "on the sea", the road was waterlogged, the road conditions were congested, and all the vehicles were extremely difficult to move forward, slowly approaching the entrance of the Central Viaduct.

Lin Li twisted his stiff neck, and glanced at Guan Yi, who was in control of the steering wheel: "If it is blocked any longer, I will be late, right?" ”

"No, the real estate agent asked you to meet at 9:30, and it's only 8:20." Guan Yi retorted with a smile, "Even if you are late, it is natural for the agent to wait for the landlord." ”

Guan Yi's car is a huge SUV, the advertising slogan is "supreme domineering, the first choice of the king", and it is quite tall and tall on the highway. However, at this time, the road conditions are congested, and the agility of the SUV is obviously not as good as that of the small and delicate hatchback, and the car in front starts slightly, and the car on the side immediately penetrates the gap and inserts it.

The SUV moved around and finally pulled into the entrance. When the road became smooth, Guan Yi decisively seized the overtaking lane.

She glanced over with her peripheral vision and noticed that Lin Li's face was slightly ugly. "Motion sickness?"

Lin Li shook his head.

"It's still more than a dozen kilometers away from your house, you close your eyes and sleep for a few more minutes." Guan Yijian said. She didn't know that Lin Li's sleep quality in the past two years had been very bad, either she had difficulty falling asleep or she woke up with frequent nightmares. Ordinary people need eight hours of sleep, but Lin Li can sleep five hours a day is already a luxury.

Lin Li still shook his head and said calmly: "There were too many patients who came to the emergency department last night, and the cerebral cortex is still very excited and can't sleep. ”

Guan Yi and Lin Li's undergraduate majors are both clinical medicine, but they have different developments in the same major.

Guan Yi's father is one of the shareholders of Merrill Lynch Pharmaceutical Company, Guan Yi joined Merrill Lynch Pharmaceutical after graduation, and hung up the title of pharmaceutical R&D consultant.

After graduating, Lin Li went to a private hospital, passed the guò professional title exam, and became the attending doctor of the emergency department, often turning around.

Guan Yi raised the speed of the car to seventy yards, passed several cars smoothly, and turned his face to catch a glimpse of Lin Li's left wrist wearing a string of amethyst bracelets.

"The bracelet is beautiful." Guan Yi praised from the bottom of her heart, "Your wrist is very thin, suitable for wearing this kind of multi-chain and multi-circle amethyst." ”

Lin Li changed the topic and said: "I received a German visa, and I will go to Munich in two weeks, will you go?" ”

Guan Yi didn't give a letter, but teased: "You are selling your house and going abroad now, and your small life is quite nourishing." ”

Lin Li smiled faintly, neither denying nor clarifying.

She had already submitted an application to the hospital to join the medical aid group to the poor areas of Vietnam, and considering that it was very likely that she would be too busy to find the north in the future, she decided to travel to Germany temporarily.

Guan Yi suddenly chin at Nunu, a black private car in front of him: "That car, is the license plate number Shanghai A?" ”

Lin Li looked ahead.

It was a Mercedes-Benz seven-seater luxury business car, and the model had not been seen in China.

Lin Li said "um" lightly.

"Okay, sit down." Guan Yi stepped on the accelerator sharply, and the speed of the car instantly increased to 90 yards.

Lin Li looked sideways: "The speed limit in Central is eighty, what are you going to do?" ”

Guan Yi sighed: "When you meet a big person, you naturally catch up and say hello." ”

When the words fell, Guan Yi unceremoniously turned into the overtaking lane, changed two lanes in a row in a big Z-shape, and chased towards the black Mercedes-Benz at a gallop.

Lin Li, the continuous lane change guide, had to hold on to the handle above his head to stabilize his body, "Don't be like this, if you are photographed by the electronic police, you will be deducted points." ”

"It's rare to meet big people, and it's worth deducting points."

Guan Yi picked up speed again, and the instantaneous speed was close to 100 yards. Lin Li watched in amazement as she overtook three or four cars.

Finally, the SUV and the black Mercedes go hand in hand. Instead of slowing down, Guan Yi lowered the window and stretched out his left hand to gesture a scissor hand at the Mercedes-Benz.

"Hi-" The sound of the wind was mixed with the sound of greetings.

The Mercedes-Benz did not respond to Guan Yi's enthusiasm, took the initiative to slow down, and fell behind the SUV.

"Don't mess around, you should slow down too." Lin Li urged with palpitations.

Guan Yi slowed down and waited for Mercedes, but her SUV occupied the overtaking lane, suddenly slowed down, and the vehicle behind it followed too closely, hitting the rear cover of the SUV directly.

The SUV deflects abruptly and merges into the right lane.

Fortunately, the black Mercedes-Benz on the right braked in time, otherwise Lin Li in the passenger seat would have suffered.

Guan Yi called out "oops" and immediately jumped out of the car to check.

Lin Li sat stiffly in the passenger seat, his eyes widened in horror, and his whole face turned pale.

Obviously not very strict zhòng car collision, but her limbs were paralyzed, her ears were ringing and dizzy, and she was so uncomfortable that she could barely breathe. It took a few minutes for the symptoms to subside.

Lin Li turned his head to look for Guan Yi and saw Guan Yi and the owner of the rear-end car negotiating.

It shouldn't have been discussed, Guan Yi pulled his face and approached the black Mercedes-Benz and knocked on the second row window.

The windows are lowered.

Guan Yi bent down and talked to the people in the car.

At this time, the SUV was blocked in two lanes, Mercedes-Benz was forced to stay in place, the Central Elevated Highway was quickly blocked, and it was the rush hour for work, and the vehicles behind were impatiently honking.

The sound of vehicle horns stinged her eardrums one after another, Lin Li was a little breathless, and it happened that Guan Yi turned her head and beckoned to her: "Lin Li, you take a Mercedes-Benz car home, and I will stay here and wait for the traffic police." ”

Lin Li didn't understand.

Guan Yi walked over and whispered in her ear: "Go ahead, you take the big man's car, which is equivalent to me owing the big man a favor." There is a debt and a repayment, and the gift is still exchanged. ”

Lin Li choked. is so hot, Guan Yi still doesn't forget to get close to the big guys.

The car behind her was so urgent that she was forced to get out of the car and walk briskly to the second row of the Mercedes. This location is the heart of the business sedan, where the so-called big guys sit.

"Sorry to interrupt." Lin Li thanked him and looked at the man in the car.

The dark blue haute couture suit with tie, the placket including the bust and shoulder line is meticulously cut, and the curved gemstone cufflinks show off its refined taste. All the details are integrated, and the first impression of this "big man" in Guan Yi's mouth can be summed up in four words: atmospheric and steady.

Lin Li couldn't help but want to take a look at his appearance, and his gaze moved up, to his Adam's apple, his chin, and finally, his face.

A face with three-dimensional facial features and a well-defined outline.

Lin Li was stunned for a few seconds.

If memory serves, she once saw him on the cover of the financial magazine The Banker.

He is German-Chinese, an investment banker, and seems to have shorted Hong Kong stocks?

She didn't remember his long list of German names, but she remembered his Chinese surname "Xiao" well, of course, thanks to his grandmother's will.

"Anyone who meets someone surnamed Xiao will not associate with him."

Lin Li came back to his senses and smiled at the investment banker, but unfortunately, the banker was answering the phone, his deep gaze swept over her face, and his expression was faint.

Lin Li looked at the third row of the car.

In the third row sat a man and a woman, holding thick papers in their hands, both dressed in formal attire, who were supposed to be senior assistants to bankers.

Lin Li smiled at them.

The two men didn't react.

Lin Li didn't think much about it, walked to the front row, and opened the front door of the passenger seat.

Instead of rushing into the car, she lifted her woolen dress and sat in, knees together, and tucked her legs into the car. The whole process is very calm, avoiding the situation that the center of gravity of the car falls at the moment of getting on the car.

Lin Li fastened his seat belt, communicated with the driver about the driving route home, and then sat quietly, sat for a while, and suddenly realized that something was wrong......

Although her back was to the back row, she knew that the "big shot" had finished the call, and strangely, he did not speak, and the two senior assistants were too silent.

A subtle feeling appeared in Lin Li's heart, she didn't seem to be welcome?

Guan Yi's SUV had already moved out of the middle lane, the Mercedes-Benz started up, and Lin Li couldn't get out of the car.

She was confused and could only sit silently.

The female assistant suddenly broke her silence, not speaking Chinese, but interspersed with Japanese in German to communicate with the "big guys".

"Xiao, why didn't you refuse that Chinese woman's rude request? She claims to be a member of the International Union of Economics and Business, but you and I have never met her. ”

"She has a bad habit of driving, and her every move is frivolous and uneducated."

Lin Li has learned German and Japanese, and she understands all the negative/face/evaluation/price of Guan Yi by the female assistant.

"The lady was also rude. You haven't invited her into the car yet, and she actually took the initiative to sit in. ”

Lin Li was a little surprised, she thought that the "big man" had a great friendship with Guan Yi, but she didn't even think that she was an ordinary friend.

At this time, Lin Li was sitting on pins and needles.

At the same moment, a deep and moist voice sounded, and it was pronounced in pure German: "Michiko, don't talk about this lady behind her back just because she doesn't know German." ”

An indescribable feeling flowed through his heart, and Lin Li raised his eyes and glanced in the rearview mirror. She couldn't see the "big man's" expression, only his neat jaw, and his lips.

She stared at him for a moment before she looked away.

Gentle, tolerant. This was her second impression of him.

The female assistant did not continue to complain, and changed the topic: "Xiao, Australia's economic growth in the third quarter was lower than expected, and the exchange rate of the Australian dollar against the US dollar fell sharply yesterday, refreshing the lowest level in six years. ”

"Although Australia's economy has not been in recession for a long time, market confidence is fragile at the moment, and I am in favor of continuing to be bearish on the Australian dollar."

The female assistant was analyzing the trend of the Australian dollar's foreign exchange market, and the male assistant also joined in the conversation, and the complex and esoteric financial terms were thrown out one after another, Lin Li became more and more incomprehensible, so she could only remain silent, trying to avoid disturbing the people who were dealing with work affairs.

Looking at the elevated road stretching out of the car window, she couldn't help but sigh, the more than ten kilometers of the way home seemed to have become long.

The mind is fluttering.

She quietly took out her phone from her backpack, clicked on the browser, and typed keywords based on her vague memory.

Soon, there were search results.

"Hermann Joseph Hsiao (Chinese, Xiao Huai), Managing Director of Deutsche Investment Bank in China, Quantum Hedge Fund Manager, Advisor of the International Federation of Economics and Business."

Lin Li browsed down unhurriedly and saw another paragraph in bold letters.

Xiao Huai, a German-Chinese, has been a banker for four generations. Great-grandfather Xiao Zhengfu, a Jianghuai person in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and a guest of honor of Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, ministers of Westernization in the late Qing Dynasty, successfully persuaded German banks to lend loans to the Qing government in 1903 to build railways, opening up a new era of foreign banks' business in China, and was the second comprador of the Shanghai Deutsche Commercial Bank. ”

After reading Xiao Huai's family background, Lin Li changed the keyword and searched again, and then she saw the evaluation of him by The Banker magazine.

"Hermann Joseph Hsiao, whose investment strategy is like his old Chinese surname 'Xiao', continues the elegance of his famous family."

Under his leadership, the Quantum Hedge Fund has repeatedly profited in the international currency market with strong financial resources and a positive and steady style. Deutsche Investment Bank has also greatly expanded its business in China with an average annual return of 35%. ”

Lin Lin suddenly understood Guan Yi's actions. Indeed, Xiao Huai can be called a big man.

However, in Lin Li's opinion, Xiao Huai is just a stranger.

Just like now, she was sitting in his luxury car, she had her back to him, and he ignored her; He owns his empire of money, she belongs to her ordinary world, and it is absolutely impossible for the two of them to have any intersection.

Lin Li put down his phone and let his mind go away.

The car drove down the Central viaduct, and the female assistant threw out a stern question: "Xiao, why don't you continue to be bearish on the Australian dollar?" ”

Out of curiosity, Lin Li couldn't help but turn his head, waiting for an answer.

It was a wonderful and fun experience, and no fourth person knew about the decision made by a famous investment banker before she did.

After a brief silence, she heard Xiao Huai say, "BergundTalkommennichtzusammen, wohlaberdieMenschen."

This is a German proverb: mountains do not meet mountains, people and people always meet.

"I see." The female assistant sighed, "I will follow your opinion and pause the conclusion that I am bearish on the Australian dollar." ”

Lin Li didn't understand what "bearish" was, and he didn't understand the proverbs Xiao Huai said. She has not been in contact with German for several years, and now when she hears it, she inexplicably has a trace of emotion - German, one of the most rigorous languages in the world, if you roar excessively and excitedly like Hitler, it will be like a dog barking, but if you narrate it calmly like Xiao Huai, it is very atmospheric and very good.

She was so engrossed that before she knew it, the Mercedes-Benz drove into the central area of old Shanghai and stopped at the intersection of Zhenning Road.

Lin Xiao was relieved, quickly unbuckled his seat belt, turned to the three elites in the rear area and smiled, and said in Chinese: "I arrived, thank you." ”

The passport accidentally fell out of her backpack, revealing the page of the visa.

Lin Li bent down to pick up her passport and put it back in her backpack, straightened up, and found that the two senior assistants were staring at her.

The female assistant's expression was slightly unnatural, and she said in blunt Chinese: "You understand German?" ”

Lin Li thought for a moment and replied modestly: "I can only understand simple words, and my spoken language is poor. ”

She spoke German, and the female assistant was stunned: "You ......"

"Your pronunciation is good, very authentic." A deep voice took over the topic, not in tough German, but in fluent Chinese.

Lin Li's reaction slowed down, and then he turned his face to look at the big man in the core area, Xiao Huai, an investment banker with a prominent family.

She met his eyes.

The bright and warm eyes, like a stream slowly flowing in a mountain stream, are calm and indifferent, which is really not like the sharp gaze that a legend should have.

People all over the world are bustling and tense, either longing for popularity or profit.

But he is out of the dust, gentle, and relaxed.

Lin Li smiled politely and replied, "Thank you." ”

She turned to the car door, opened it, stretched out her right foot, and lifted her hip out of her seat. Her rhythm is still well controlled, avoiding the shaking of the body at the moment of getting out of the car.

Xiao Huai unconsciously glanced at her more.

In December, the weather is already cold. She wears a long coat with a woolen skirt with slender legs underneath the skirt and a pair of dark red-soled high heels.

She stood beside the car, her eyes lowered, and she whispered to express her gratitude, and the whole person looked soft, low-key, and unassuming.

Xiao Huai's first impression of her changed.

She and her friends have completely different personalities.