After separating from Lin Su, I drove home alone, thinking about what she said, as well as her state, her expression, as if I saw her standing up from the rubble and hugging her daughter tightly. The ruins were her mortal or dead marriage, a mess, but she wouldn't go unless she could take her daughter with her.

Xu Yijing and I were worried about what choice Lin Su would make, after all, she looked so weak. We thought there were no more than two options about going out of the rails, stay or leave, but we were all wrong. We thought that our worldview was not black and white, but it turned out that we still thought it was as simple as we thought. Maybe as we get older, more and more things that we didn't understand when we were young can be understood slowly.

The choice for adults will never be so simple.

In the evening, Lin Jiangnan called me and asked me how I met Lin Su today. My mood was immersed in some kind of indescribable shock, as if I couldn't find a sentence to summarize Lin Su's current state, so I had to say that everything was fine, and she had no plans to divorce for the time being.

"For the sake of the child?"

"Well, for the sake of the kids." I said, but I didn't think it was so precise, "It's for herself, too." Maybe for Lin Xu, if she loses her child, she will never be a complete self again. ”

"But the child should be an independent individual."

"Of course, children are independent individuals." I also very much agree with this sentence before today, I think that marriage is marriage, children are children, and all parents who mix their children with their own marriage are wrong. But today's words made me have another layer of thoughts about this matter, and I can't simply cut it all and say that it is right or wrong.

Lin Su also hopes that the child can be independent and confident, and she understands. But...... How can the marriage of parents be completely stripped of their children? Especially when her child is so young. I don't know, I can't tell. After all, I don't have children, so I can't feel that feeling. I smiled, "It's really not convincing for us to talk about it." ”

"Indeed." Lin Jiangnan also smiled, "Oh yes, I'm sorry, I may not be able to go to Tanzhe Temple tomorrow." ”

"What's wrong?"

"My sister is coming to Beijing." His voice sounded like a hint of pressure. I remember he said that his sister is a bit like Xu Yijing, and if he deduces it like this, it is normal for him to be under pressure.

"It's okay, you can get busy with yours first. I'll make an appointment when I'm free. ”

I was a little helpless when I put down the phone, I don't know when I will find out what happened six years ago. Actually, it's not impossible to ask on the phone, but I always want to take it more seriously.

The beginning of my fate with Lin Jiangnan was pushed from last autumn to six years ago, the lowest time period of my life, I really want to hear what I was like at that time in Lin Jiangnan's eyes, and I also want to know why Lin Jiangnan, who was eighteen years old at that time, had an intersection with my frustrated eldest sister.

Isn't he annoyed?

After a free weekend without Xu Yijing and Lin Jiangnan, I officially started a new career - to work in Defeng.

After reporting to the HR department, I got my badge and employee handbook, and then followed the department assistant who came to pick me up and went to the office area of the marketing department. Dong Pingyue greeted me happily when he saw me, "It's here." Is the road blocked? ”

"It's okay, it's quite smooth to get from my house here."

"By car? After a while, let Xiao Jin give you a parking card, and our company's internal employees will park for free. He said to the department assistant who brought me up, "Xiao Jin, you take Su Mi to the workstation to clean up first, and we will have a meeting later." ”

Xiao Jin told me that the recruitment of Defeng has not yet ended, so the training of the administrative department will be carried out uniformly after most of the people have joined the company.

"Are there exams for employee training?" I asked Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin smiled when he heard this, "That's not necessary, don't worry." ”

The office area of the entire marketing department is an open type, only the director's office and the conference room are separated, Xiao Jin took me to the workstation, this workstation is against the wall, in this open office area is a relatively private corner, not bad, the partition nameplate reads 'Design Manager', my position.

The beige office desktop is clean and sleek, with an Apple computer and a phone on it, and nothing else. Xiao Jin left for a while and then came back with a bag and handed it to me, "You clean up first, Mr. Dong has a phone now, and I will call you when the department has a meeting in a while." ”

In the bag were office supplies, folders, staplers, pens, pen holders, and other things, and I took them out one by one and put them in my proper place, and then took out my phone and took a picture.

"A new start, a new journey." I posted a circle of friends with pictures very seriously, but I didn't expect that the first person to like it was Dong Pingyue, and then I heard Xiao Jin say: "Manager Su, have a meeting." ”

The style of the work meeting is often closely related to the personal personality of the top leader present in the meeting. Therefore, the atmosphere of Dong Pingyue's work meeting is quite relaxed, and I, a newcomer sitting in a precarious position, is a little out of place.

Dong Pingyue's subordinates all call him Brother Dong, full of Jianghu atmosphere, as if Hong Xingshe is in a meeting.

He spent twenty minutes summarizing and arranging last week's work progress and this week's work plan, and then handed over the rest of the time to the people below to introduce themselves one by one.

Defeng's sales department and marketing are separated, marketing here is more focused on planning and publicity, and the sales department is a horizontal cooperation relationship, so there are not many people, there are two designers and an audio-visual editor under the design department in charge of me, and there is a planning department parallel to me, that is, the department where Lin Xu is going, there are currently four people, plus Xiao Jin, the assistant of the department, is roughly all the personnel of the marketing department.

After the meeting, Dong Pingyue called me to his office and asked me, "How do you feel?" ”

"It's good." I nodded, and said this from the bottom of my heart, which sounded like a good deal.

Dong Pingyue said with a smile: "We are not so complicated, we are busy when we should be busy, we should do the work well, and I don't have so many requirements for the rest." ”

"Okay." I nodded obediently.

"Look, you're still quite nervous."

"No, no." I nervously denied it.

"It's okay, it's okay slowly. I asked about personnel in the morning, and there should be no problem with Lin Su's side, it depends on when she can arrive. Dong Pingyue said: "Let's have a meal together at noon in a while, and give you a pick-up." ”

I hurriedly said, "I'll please, I wanted to invite you to dinner last time, give me a chance." ”

"No, I have a meal card." He moved his meal card out again, "This week, you hurry up and connect with Party B and the supplier, I told Wu Liang in your department, and let him cooperate with you to familiarize yourself with the work as soon as possible." You can ask Xiao Jin for anything else, and if you can't solve it, feel free to find me. ”

After returning to my desk, I swiped my phone, and there were already a lot of replies and likes in the circle of friends, Xu Yijing sent me several messages asking me how the new company felt, how my colleagues looked, and how the office environment was. Lin Xu said that she received a notice of entry from Defeng Group and had submitted a letter of resignation to Chengmei.

What surprised me was that Lin Jiangnan didn't move. He didn't reply when I posted it in the circle of friends, and he didn't send a message in WeChat, which is very different from his usual style.

Maybe it's because you're busy at work?

The rest of the day I was immersed in my new job. Party A's company is different from Party B, I used to change jobs, and I only need to take over the projects that I need to do at that time, but this is different, the design department here only serves Defeng, so I need to go through all the past information.

In addition to the design of this part, there is also the structure of the company that needs to be familiarized, as well as the reporting process, the approval process, the progress of the project, and who are the parties working with us, what are they doing, who are the suppliers, and what are they responsible for......

In short, if you don't look at it, you will be confused.

This is more than double the scope of my previous job responsibilities, in the past I just got the project and then did it, at most it was just to follow Lin Su to make a proposal report, or communicate with the printing factory about the printing process, in this it has become a one-stop upstream and downstream all have to ask.

It's stressful.

"Why is the work of Party A's company so complicated!" I sent a message to Xu Yijing, wailing.

"Resign, I'll support you!" Xu Yijing replied to me.

I'm going to her, there's no point in crying to her. My fingers shook over Lin Jiangnan's name on WeChat again, and finally gave up on the idea of seeking comfort from him.

I buried my head in work like this, and it wasn't until half past five in the afternoon that the designer He Yuanyuan next to me knocked on my partition, and I realized that it was already off work. He Yuanyuan had already put on her coat and bag, and said with big eyes obediently, "Manager Su, if it's okay, I'll leave first?" ”

"Okay." I nodded to her, and then I stretched my neck and poked my head out, and found that the entire office area was walking out, and even Dong Pingyue walked out of the office with his bag.

All off work?

Dong Pingyue looked over to me and said from afar: "Are you still busy?" Let's get it tomorrow. ”

Everyone was talking and laughing and walked out, and I sat here alone looking stupid, so I quickly got up and turned off the computer. Xiao Jin walked out with me, and after she glanced back, she turned off the lights in the office area.

I looked at the office area, which was already dark just after half past five, and I almost cried with excitement. I think I'm going to have to do a good job, and I'm going to stay in a company where everyone thinks it's normal to leave work on time!

When I got home, there was still no news of Lin Jiangnan in the circle of friends, and there was no news in WeChat. I fed the lonely pigs, and then cooked some quick-frozen wontons for myself, and ate them while watching the drama, and when the time came to nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Jiangnan still didn't move.