Chapter 10: The Silent Parting

I sat down on the couch across from Angel for a long time, the smoke diffusing from our fingers, and there was no sound except the sound of rain!

Angel snuffed out the cigarette butt in her hand, lifted her purse and wanted to leave.

"Is it okay to listen to me?"

"There's not much more to say between us."

"Don't you think that such a chance meeting is due to fate? What should we say, or do! I got up again and approached Angel.

"It's just you Zhang Yixi who believes in your fate."

"That's right, I believe in my fate, two years ago, I should have believed in my fate, otherwise we wouldn't be as powerful as we are today......." I said sadly!

Isn't it fate? If I had established a relationship with Angel a few months earlier, she would have been the first time I brought back to face my family, and there would have been no more entanglements and displacements....... Life is only one step off the track, and it is so foggy, which makes people fall and make people sad!

My words seemed to irritate Angel even more, and she pushed me away and walked out the door again, knowing that I couldn't keep her in this state.

She coughed as she walked, and I heard a cough just when she was in the bathroom, as if she had a cold.

"It's cold at night, and it's raining heavily outside, don't catch a cold anymore, I'll go."

I left the house before Angel, and it was I who should have left, and I was no longer entitled to live in this house that was once our marriage room, because I betrayed love.

.......

In the dead of night, it was raining again, and when I left the community, I couldn't even see a taxi, so I huddled under the eaves of the community communication room, sheltering from the rain, which was a gloomy night for me.

I couldn't see a car for a long time, and I seemed to be suddenly not afraid of the cold rain that was falling, and on this cold night, I walked alone along the bleak street.

In the cold, I had the illusion that I was once again incarnated as the black dog, chasing the illusory light that was shining, but every time I wanted to touch it, the light was not far or near....... I never knew if the light was shining from my heart's desire, or if it was a greedy desire?

Maybe one day, I can catch up with this piece of light!

......

After several stops, the occasional taxi passing by, and no longer taking passengers, just when I thought I was going to indulge in this rainy night, I finally found the hotel on the street, and the whole city seemed to be lightened by the unexpected appearance of this hotel.

Outside the hotel, a man handed the woman a train ticket, and they whispered something I couldn't hear clearly, but I knew that they were going to part for the night.

The street lamps reflect a yellow ....... I stared, hoping that the rain would keep the smile they had when they parted.

.......

The next morning, before the pharmacy opened, I walked down the street to find a 24-hour clinic and bought fever-reducing medicine, cough and cold medicine, as well as Angel's favorite egg tart and a hot milk.

I went back to the room where we used to be married, and I wanted to give her what I bought, not to please or deliberately make up for it, but purely instinctively.

When I opened the door, the first thing that caught my eye was the key and room card on the coffee table, I had a bad premonition, and after putting the things I bought on the coffee table, I went to knock on Angel's door, and no one responded for a long time.

I twisted the handle of the door, and it was unlocked, and the room was empty, not even the clothes hanging in the cupboard were goneβ€”she left, took everything with her, and she would never have anything to do with it again.

I sat on the sofa and looked at the only keys and key cards that Angel had left behind, a kind of wordless parting....... The sorrow of a thing or a person permeates my heart...... In fact, in the past year and a half, I occasionally think about what kind of life would it be if Zuo Lan hadn't left, if I were married to Angel now?

I ate the breakfast I originally bought for Angel, and silently put the medicine in the drawer, I picked up the room card and key on the coffee table, and looked back at the room that had been carefully arranged by Angel, I thought: I will not come again in the future, the meaning of the existence of this house is just a good memory.

.......

As soon as I left my accommodation, I called Zhang Chuang, who took me to the airport, and in the evening, I was back in Jinan, while the prince and Han Feng had been waiting for me for a long time.

We started communicating in the office of "Sea View Coffee".

The prince took the lead and said: "Yixi, according to reliable sources, the coffee shop of Mr. Wu and the boss behind the scenes will open next month, and the two business themes, the end of the sky and the corner of the sea, the marketing strategy is obviously aimed at us, and we must come up with measures to deal with it in a short time." ”

Han Feng nodded and said, "The prince and I have an idea, and we need to talk to you. ”

"You say."

"In the past few years, you have been keen on public welfare, privately funded many poor college students and disadvantaged groups in society, and led a large number of once poor mountain people to become rich and promote the development of the local economy, so we want to do public welfare marketing to increase consumer recognition of our brand...... I have already contacted some media friends, and we will focus on packaging your personal image through your public welfare activities in the past few years in the next stage, so as to increase the reputation of Seaview Coffee...... You know that our consumer groups are very high-end, and consumption in a brand like ours that is keen on public welfare is also an indirect embodiment of the value of life for them. Han Feng said to me very seriously.

I barely thought about it and immediately refused: "I don't agree, once public welfare is linked to interests, it loses its original meaning, and I don't need such a marketing method." ”

"At this time and that time, you don't have to be obsessed at this time, the cost of such public welfare marketing is very low, and it can be clearly distinguished that the essential difference between us and them is also a powerful response to their strategy of clinging to management!" Han Feng's tone was slightly excited.

"Don't say it, this is my principle, I help those people, I never thought of asking for anything from them, using public welfare for marketing, I can't agree!"

The prince's words were also excited: "We are merchants, and we are businessmen...... If it was before, you didn't agree, we wouldn't be reluctant, but now it's about the life and death of the company, and you still adhere to the so-called principles, it's too unreasonable! ”

I waved my hand and refused: "If you have to insist, I can only exercise the power of the largest shareholder and veto this proposal!" ”

"You're a weird guy...... Ask the entire business community, there is such a ...... Is there a boss who doesn't know how to consume resources so much? The prince's words were even more agitated.

I was silent, but my eyes were more resolute!

Han Feng grabbed the prince and shook his head: "We are business partners, but also brothers, at this time we should unite together, not infighting....... Let's think of other options! ”

The prince sat back in his chair, and finally chose to remain silent.